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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18

Oi Ling anu evening Sunday
school at 9:45.
b. Y I. U. Up. m. Sunday.
Prayer meeting Wednesdayeve
Deacons meeting at , p. m. the last
sunday in each month.
klSTiAN-Services eve, y Sundav
Ut ii a. m. and 8 p. m. PRAYER
meeting Wednesday evening. Sun
day school at :. Y. p. S. c. E.
meeting at , p. m. Sunday. NJ. T.
Nicoson, pastor.
NJ Il. CHURCH., SOUTH-Services
every Sunday morning and evening.
Sunday school mt $3.50. Epwortb
League at ESQ Jr. Epworth Leapue
at p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting
Wednesday evening. Rev. ]. A.
Wales, pastor.
ST. JUDES EPISCOPAL-Sundav
school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at
HOO a. m. and 700 p. m. Sunday.
Evening prayer meeting 500 p. m,
Friday. Rev. w. A. Hatch, Rector.
PRESBYTERIAN - Services second
and fourth Sundays morning and
evening. Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Y. p S. c. T.. meeting 700 p. m.
Sunday. Mid-woek prayer meeting
$500 Wednesday evening. j. E.
Travis pastor.
CATHOLIC-ScrvIces at 500 and 1000
u. m. second and fourth SUNDAYS in
each month. Father ID. Il. Sullivan.
pastor.
BAPTIST, Colorcd.-Services the first
Sunday in each month. J. b. Haw-
kins, pastor
Court Directory.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18

10 ', ~ OuIIUH!' VIntTb DULY.
JAS BARKER, G. p. eta.
st. Louis. Mo.
L. b. SPAHR, Agen
The following Wabash trains
over the Katy now stops here
Tor passengers. No. 9, AS y.
m to Kansas City. No. 8, 1852
p, m. to Chicago.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18

David Hardesty, of st. Louis,
spent Sunday in the city with
his parents, Edward Hardesty
and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18
Court Directory


Circuit Court-Meets at Paris third Monday
in April and fourth Monday in October.
Probate Court-Regulart terms at Paris, second
Mondays in February, May, August and
November.
MARION COUNTY.
Circuit Court-Meets at Palmyra, second
Monday in February and first Monday in
September
Hanni.al Court Of Rommon Pleas-Meet
second Monday in January. first Monday in
May and third Monday in September.
RAILS COUNTY,
Circuit Court-Meets at New London, third
ordays in March and August.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18

Harry jackson and John
Settle spent Sunday with a
pair of the fair damsels of the
city of Flowers.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18

There is nothing small about
the Burlington Route. Not
long ago near hurry one of the
Burlington's fast freight trains
killed a team of horses belong
ing to an emigrant family. The
railroad company paid the man
for his team, loaded his wagon
and contents into box car,
billed it through to its destina-
tion and gave every member of
the family transportation to
Council Bluffs. Brookfeld Ar.
gus.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-18
J. L. LYON, Agent
Monroe City, Mo
BLIZZARD IN NEW MEXICO

Alamo Gordo, Jan. Is. De.
tails of the blizzard which
swept over Southwestern New
Mexico Tuesday and Wednes.
day indicate that it was the
severest storm ever experienced
in the region. There were many
fatalities, Many range riders,
sheep herders aud freighters
were frozen, The loss of stock
will aggregate over 100000.
Bills are pending in the New
York Legislature to abolish
common law marriages.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
INSPIRED BY JEALOUS HAITI.
Reports of n Rebellion in San Do
mingo Denounced as False.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-President Juan
Isidro Jiminez. of San Domingo, denies
in the following cable despatch the re-
port received here from Cape Haytien Of
a rebellion in the Dominican Republic:
Reports OF rebellion absolutely false.
Entire country is tranquil"
Oscar Huetfnger. of 1O1 Pearl Street.
who received the message, has large in
terests in San Domingo, and is a per
sonal friend of President Jiminez. He
had sent a cable enquiring to Jiminez
According TO these statements, the al
legged uprising was heing led by Vice
President VasqueZ and Gen. Ramon Ca
ceres, OF The State OF Santiago. After the
assassination of President Heureaux a
year ago and the fall of his Government,
General Vasquez assumed control await
ing the arrival of General Jiminez from
Cuba He had at that time, it is said,
ample opportunity to declare himself
President had he SO desired. A friend of
his said today that he has no ambition
for the presidency, and is one Of General
Jiminezs best friends.
The reports of strife in the Dominican
Republic which are from time to time
received here from Haiti, are, the Do
minicans say, sent with the purpose of in
juring the country, as the two Republics
are not on very friendly terms.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
REBUILDING OF GALVESTON.
Sayers Praises the Energy
of the Citizens.

AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. Ex-Governor Say
ers returned this morning from Galveston.
where he made a thorough inspection of
the situation as regards the conduct Of the
relief work and the rehabilitation OF the
city. He said this evening:
Il never heard a respondent word spoken
during my stay in Galveston. Everybody
is working 20 rebuild the city and their
homes, and on every hand the sentiment
that the city shall be restored to its former
greatness is encountered. The people OF
Galveston have shown that they are worthy
Of the sympathy and the contributions Of
money, food. and clothing that have come
10 them from every quarter of the State
and country. and from foreign nations.
have never witnessed or heard such an
exhibition of energy. self-reliance. and de-
termination upon the part of any people
under such circumstances as have sur
rounded that city for the past two weeks
and that now surround il.
The work Of cleaning up the city OF
Galveston is a gigantic task, but Ii will be
accomplished There are now about 1900
men employed in the work. 1t will. in my
judgment. take 5000 men, in addition 20
another 500 or 1000 men with carts. thirty
days to remove the debris in the city
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
The ASS of the Season.
lFrom the sueeessiul American.


Harry Lehr, of Baltimore, who has attracted
more attention than any other individual at New
port this summer, is the only person ever talked
about for evidently no reason whatever" said a
New Yorker, who has lived long enough TO observe
many figures that from time to time have come
into notice here, land seems TO prove that a
man may become conspicuous merely by doing
what is merely silly nowadays. Berry Wall had
the reputation, Shen he was so much in the
public eye, of dressing WELL and whether he really
did or not he tried to live up to that dis
tncton.
'Mr Lehr is not well dressed and has a fat,
dubious figure that would prevent his looking
well dressed under any circumstances. He is
soft and effeminate in manner, and so shrinking
physically that when he battles in the ocean
at Newport he puts in foot at a time and
sinks into the water gradually to avoid the shock.
Mr.. Lehr is neither good-looking, athletic, rich,
nor bright. nor does he come OF an aristocratic
family His nearest approach to any business
occupation is his effort TO boom certain brand
Of champagne No other quality than this has
ever been revealed by the most talked-of young
man in Newport today"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
The Commonplace.

One OF the comforting thoughts vouch-
safed to the observer OF modern life is
that the beauty OF the commonplace is
coming to be recognized. 1t was Lincoln
who said that the Lord must have loved
the common people or ne would not have
made so many of them, and though hero
worship will probably never cease in
the world, people are beginning to under
stand that the heroic is not always the
exceptional, and that the plainest and
most ordinary lives may have heroic quail
tiles. In time past a great deal of heroism
was overlooked and unappreciated. because
ii did not wear a romantic guise; but III
fiction and in common conversation there
is nowadays less and less disposition TO
strive for the stilted and the extraordinary.
The American in his emancipation from
Old World traditions, has sometimes gone
to one of two extremes. If Of a romantic
and ambitious temperament, he has adopted
false finery OF expression, high sounding
language. and cheap limitations OF unat-
tainable luxury. At the other end of the
scale We find the plain man who holds all
the refinements of life IN supreme con-
tempt and delights in making himself
seem even commoner than he naturally is.
We need a standard which shall involve
neither false culture nor illiteracy, but
frankly recognize the dignity Of labor and
the usefulness Of beauty. Here and there
in the country, in communities or indi-
viduals, this ideal may be realized. There
are American farmers and workingmen in
whose households a gentle grace OF living
exists, as truly refined as anything in an
aristocrat's palace; and there are villages
in which such families have set a standard
to which a whole neighborhool has been
brought to conform. The commonplace, in
such families and communities, has been
infested with a daintiness and refinement
which is not of convention or education,
but OF thought. The people are not bril-
liant, but they are intelligent; they are
not rich, but well-to-do; they may not be
educated-though the natural tendency OF
such people is toward books and beautiful
things-but they have tactfulness and
ideality Among the women this refine
ment expresses itself in a certain native
taste In dress and household appointments
and In delicate neatness OF housekeeping
and personal habits; among the men 1t is
evident in chivalrous consideration for wo-
men. children, and old people, and sturdy
self-respect combined With thorough re-
spect for worthy traditions and characters.
Such people are far better material for
the building of the Commonwealth than
brilliant but unbalanced temperaments
would be. The world needs. to keep 1t
going in the right path. generous
amount of what we call common sense. by
which is meant the healthy. wholesome
disposition to disregard fne-spun theories
and judge things by the light of nature.
One reason why America has progressed
so fast in the last hundred years is the
prevalence OF just this quality in her peo-
pie. unhnmpered by traditions or circum
stances.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
THE GALVESTON HURRICANE.
Reports From the Forecast OmciaI
to the weather Bureau.

J. NJ. Cline. local forecast official ae
Galveston. has made an official report to
the Weather Bureau on the Galveston
cyclone. He reports that on September
the city was visited by a hurricane. The
lowest reading Of mercurial barometer
was 1883, the lowest ever recorded in
this country. The readings were taken
by John D. Biagden to check the baro-
graph. There was a total fall of one
inch CT rain in eight and cGe-half hours.
The usual premonitory signs heralding
the approach of a hurricane were absent.
Brick-dust sky was nos observed. At
a. m. on the Sth he noted the heavy swell
Of the gulf, and telegraphed Washington
that the lower portions of the city were
being flooded, and that such high water
with opposing winds had never been
noted before. The water mounted steadily
In the face of the wind. Dense clouds
and rain prevailed during the afternoon OF
the Sth. with the wind steadily increas-
ing until it reached a storm velocity
about a. m. An hour later 1t was blow
ing eight-four miles an hour for a four
minute stretch, AM, at O'Clock was blow
Ing 100 miles hour. The barometer
blew away and the velocity OF the wind
I
1t then shifted from northeast to south
| east and blew harder than ever.
Mr.. Cline says Mr.. Blagden looked after
the instruments heroicaliy until they were
all blown away. The storm warnings were
timely and received wide distribution. not
only in Galveston. but all along the coast.
Giving the high tide and storm signals
kept one man busy at the telephone on the
sth. People were warned that the wind
would go by east to south and the worst
was yet to come.
As a result thousands moved away from
the beach section to the centre OF the city
and thus were saved. Fifty persons took
| refuge in Cline's house and all but eighteen
| are killed, including his wife. The water
rose steadily from 3 p. m. to 1880 p. m,
| when there was a rise Of four feet In four
seconds. The total rise a the tide was
twenty feet. Cline's house was very sub
stantial, but was finally wrecked. He
fioated about for three hours but was
blown into shore and saved. Accompany
ing the report is a carefully prepared map
OF the city, showing 1886 houses destroyed.
The property loss is estimated by Mr..
Cline at s30,o0o.oo0 and the deaths at over
5000.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
The strenuou. Life.

It is not probable that any Democrat
will arise to defend or justify the roughs
who broke up the Roosevelt meeting at
Victor. The chain gang should claim them
without delay. But let it be remembered
that they were hoodlums dealing with a
hoodlum, according to their lights, and
his. 1t is all in the strenuous life.
Orators of the Roosevelt stripe don't
reason With them the only effective ar
gument is abuse. Democrats" yelled
the Rough Rider at st. Paul, what are
they? They stand for lawlessness and
disorder, for dishonesty and dishonor, for
license and disaster at home and cowardly
shrinking from duty abroad
1t is conceivable that remark of this
sort would not meet with enthusiastic
approval il repeated in State which gave
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 161 600 votes of the
1S7. 900 cast. But Roosevelt owed it to
himself to repeat the remark at Victor.
and divers rough miners from Occur
d'Alene owed it TO themselves to respond
with stones and brickbats--the retorts
courteous in the strenuous life.
Roosevelt escaped on a special train.
That was bully" he sighed as the last
brickbat flew into space and the attend
ing surgeon set his jaw. But the lesson
has spread over the land. When nat
ural- born hoodlum tno matter how highly
placed fares forth on a campaign OF edu-
cation somebody is bound to be edu-
Gated In the case under discussion, we
think it has been the hero of Kettle Hill.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
GOMEZ ON CUBAN CONDITIONS.
A Stable Government to BE Founded
by the ConstitutionaI Convention.

HAVANA, Sept 27.-Gen. Maxine Co
mez has published a letter written by hinl
to friend In San Domingo regarding the
situation in Cuba. He says that soon the
flame OF war In Cuba Will be extinguishsd
forever and the banner of peace will b.
majestically raised on the building where
the constitutional convention will meet.
There will be definitely formed in the con-
vention two political parties. in which ali
Cubans will be able to find a place. With
the convention the work Of the revolution
will be terminated
General Gomez adds that many Cubans
have found fault and taken umbrage at
what they call the slowness of the Amer
leans in solving the problems in Cuba. He
declares that so far there has been no rea-
son to distrust the Americans Not one
They are carrying out their own pro-
gramme. II they have been slow the fact
is due to the Cubans who have created OBJ
stacles. After the frank declarations made
by Secretary Root II would not he right to
doubt American good faith
General Wood has published the military
report for the year ending September 10.
He speaks very highly of the conduct OF
the officers and troops. and says that the
good conduct Of the latter is proved by the
few complaints made by the people against
them. The officers have proved most able.
General Wood recommends mounted troops
for service In Cuba as infantry cannot
stand the hard service without bad results
He speaks very highly OF his staff F.
Steinhart, chief clerk Is mentioned for
valuable aid in the conduct OF civil official
business
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
HARVARD STUDENTS ASSEMBLE
New buildings in Progress of Erec-
ton mt the University.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Sept. 27.-Har-
ward University opened today IN all its
departments. In the academic department
all the courses met at their regular hours
this afternoon, and the entire educational
and administrative machinery of the uni
versity is in full operation. The IRE
liminary work was completed this fore
noon, all students, except freshmen and
dropped students. registering between the
hours of and 1 O'Clock. On Saturday
every student must hand in his list of
courses. properly endorsed and approved.
Similar work Is going on in the law
school and the other departments. The
opening exercises of the divinity school
will take place in Divinity Chapel tomor-
row morning at s:45 o'clock. and at 9
O'Clock Prof. Emerton will deliver an
address in the same place on Present
Aspects of Historical Theology" after
which the students will have an oppor-
tunity to consult the professors.
The returning students find remarka-
BILE change in the appearance OF some
parts of the college yard and It's vicinity
During the summer rapid progress has
been made on some sections OF the pro-
posed class fence which will eventually
enclose the yard. Everywhere are signs
of the sudden impulse of building at the
university. At the northeast corner of
the yard. near Sever Hall, and facing
Broadway, considerable progress has been
made on the new architectural building,
and the first two floors will be laid within
a week or two. AT the other end of
Quincy Street rapid progress has been
made on the building of the Harvard
Union, the foundations being completed.
At Holmes Field a part of the founda-
ton of the new engineering building mas
oil work
nended at present, and in the rear of the
University Museum ground has been
broken for a large addition 20 the build
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28

deliberately and officially waging war on
tho civilized nations represented In the
Empire.
Administration Consistency" consisted
in ignoring the official reports of Minister
Conger, afterward corroborated by Special
Commissioner Rockhill, and in sticking
to the original contention that the out
RACES and atrocities were committed by
"Boxers' against the imperial authority,
instead of under it, as the whole world
knows. On July the American position
was further explained as follows:
1.-THE purpose of the President is. as it has
been heretofore TO act concurrently with the
other powers first in opening up communication
with Pekin and rescuing the American officials.
missionaries, and other Americans who are IN
danger; secondly in afording all possible pro
lection everywhere in China to American life
and property; thirdly, in guarding ana protect
ing all legitimate American interests, and fourth
ly, in aiding TO prevent spread of the dis
orders to the other provinces of the Empire,
and recurrence OF such disasters
1t will only require few words to show
how the foregoing and the other state
ments of principles have been adhered to
! in practice. Instead of holding the guilty
authors of the outrages upon the United
States and against international law and
humanity, to the ''uttermost accounta-
bility," Mr.. Mckinley has purposed con-
doning their crimes, bringing them back
| to Pekin under safe conduct, and ncgo-
tiating with them for peace.
Instead of protecting American lives.
property, and interests, he has ordered
his troops, who have been waging execu-
tive war for him, to retreat from China.
Instead of aiding in the suppression of
disorders, and to prevent their spread to
other provinces" he has scuttled out of
the Empire, after breaking the concord of
the powers, and has left the American
Legation and such citizens and their prop
erty as may have survived massacre and
arson, to the protection of the nations
whose concert he has abandoned, together
with the cause and prestige OF the United
States in China. This is the sum total
of the CONSISTENCY of which the Admin
istration has the face to boast in the pres
ence of a situation for which 1t is re-
sponsible, and is just object of con-
tempt.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
Imperial Crusading.



The Alexander Hamilton theory Of government
is asserting itself with more force in this cam.
paign than ever before. 1t is not advocated in
plain words, except by few indiscreet persons
like Speaker Henderson and Senator Beverage,
but il ia the animating spirit Of the Mckinley
Administration and Of the Republican party man
agement at present. English policy English
methods, and English example the models
which obviously commend themselves to Mr.. Nc
Kinley and his managers as in the highest de-
gree worthy OF admiration and imitation. Senate
Beyerldge tells us we could not do better than
follow so splendid an example Of government, and
the President and the State Department evidently
believe the same thing, is shown by the for
eign policy which they have forced upon the
country and by their efforts to place the United
States in tow Of the British ship of state. The
Alexander Hamilton theory Of government has
captured the present Administration, and II it
goes unrebuked, it will not be long before it
will make itself apparent in form as well as in
substance. The question is whether the people
are prepared TO endorse the substitution of the
Alexander Hamilton idea for the democratic idea
embodied IN our Constitution.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-28
RUSHING WORK ON wARsHIPs.
Atlanta for the South Atlantic, and
Kentucky for China.

NEW YORK, Sept. IA communica-
ton from the Bureau OF Navigation of the
Navy Department at Washington was re-
ceived at the navy-yard today, asking
what was the earliest possible time tnat
the cruiser Atlanta and the battleship
Kentucky could be prepared for sea.
Rear Admiral Barker at once replied that
the Atlanta would be fully equipped TO
leave the yard in ten days, and the Ken
tucky in three weeks. The Atlanta is
needed In the South Atlantic station to
SUNNY the place of the Wilmington,
which has been ordered to China, and the
Kentucky will be added TO the Asiatic
fleet.
The request OF Capt. Francis T. Bowles,
Chief of the Department OF Construction
and Repair, to Secretary Long for per-
mission TO employ 200 new men for the
necessary work on the cruiser Atlanta
and the battleship Kentucky was returned
approved today. The men will be taken
on Immediately by Captain Bowles, as the
orders for the repairs to the two vessels
call for the greatest expedition possible
The cruiser New York. the flagship OF
the North Atlantic Squadron, arrived mere
from Newport, X. l.. today. She made IN :
trip under full steam. as all the SHIPS OF
the navy are required to do once year.
she will be followed by the Massaehu-
sets. Indiana, Kearsarge. ana SCORPION