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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-25
wheels running under it.

wheels running under it.
To Il person who has never
ridden in a vehicle under thos
peculiar circumstances, can
truthfully say that it is a rare
treat.
There was no noise except
the football of the horse. The
Ell tire absence of jar was some
hing particularly pleasant.
According to my way of think
ing it was an ideal method of
locomotiOu.
Strange as it may seem, | no
longer had any fear of the fit
ting thing of the air that how.
cred alongside the horse, and i
decided once more to break the
ice of conversation, and called
out; "A pleasant evening
stranger.
AT this he turned, and, float.
ing up to my side, brought his
face so close to mine that | felt
his breath.
1t came to me like blast
from the KlOndilze, and seemed
to freeze me to the bone. l re-
GREETED that 1 had spoken for he
sent his icy eXhalation thrice
into my face and each time it
seemed colder. | tried to de-
tect the charnel house smell
that always goes with a ghost,
but feel bound to say that pc.
Culiar odor was absent. l will,
however, state for the benefit
of the reader, that | was suffer
! ing from Il bad cold, which to
some extent may account for
my inability to detect it.
While | was wondering what
would happen next, it happen.
ed before | knew it, | sudden
ly found myself on the other
side of the big gate that bars
| the road about a quarter of a
mile from my house. The gate
is always kept shut, and it is a
great bother to open it, but on
this occasion, just as l was
about to halt to unfasten if,
found that l was already
through. The fact Of being or
the other side of gate
was something altogether nov
ell to me, and no one who has
not had the actual experience
can possibly get any idea o.
the extraordinary sensatisn oil
being on the other side OF d
gate when you are quite
we'll assured in your own mind
that you never got there
! Rather than involve myself
in d maze of complications OF
contradictions 1 will consider
the gate incident closed, anC
pass on to the other eXtraordi
nary things that happened be
tween the gate and the house.
J Before proceeding a hundred
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-25

yards | became aware of the
circumstance that the various
parts of the harness were melt
ing away. The collar and
names dissolved Into nothing
ness, the bride was whiSked in
to space, the tugs followed suit
and the traces did not even
leave their own name behind.
Yet in spite of this the vehicle
moved right along as before,
and turned up the winding
path toward the stable as we'll
us if everything was in its nor
NAL condition and my own hand
was guiding the lines.
When it came to halt under
the shed l got out and went to
bed quietly, not mentioning the
events Of the night to my spouse
as | did not care to harrow her
feelings with such uncanny sub
jects.
In the morning, however,
while the matter was still fresh
in my memory, l told her every
thing that had happened, and
expressed my determination to
write a full account of the same
and forward it over my sigma
ture to some scientific journal,
that these strange happenings
might not be lost to the world.
Her only reply was to inquire
the time of my arrival home
and my retirement to bed.
definitely fixed the hour at one
o'clock, which she disputed at
once, and 1 dropped the subject,
not caring for Improbable con
troversy with woman ]
! knew in my own mind, however,
the absolute correctness of my
statement regarding the hour
as | distinctly remembered
having heard the clock strike
one no less than four times ii
| succession. So satisfied Was ]
that such a plain mathemtica
demonstration wonld be lost
upon her, being but woman
as l have before remarked.
did not mention it.
Later on she called my at
tention to the fact that the
harness which 1 had described
as having vanished into the
night was in reality piled a
the foot of the bed, and tina
my clothes were hanging on a
peg in the stable. This was in
deed to my mind strong cor
roboration of my story. but
she did not so regard it. and
was unkind enough to sugges
that when 1 sent my account Of
it to a scientific journal should
mention also that I had attend
ed a banquet the evening be
fore, given in honor of tn,
election of a United State
senator from Nevada, wher,
more than so cases of cham
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-25

payne had been consumed prior
to the time that | had been cal.
led upon to toast. | mention
the circumstance as requested,
although the connection be.
tween it and my strange ex-
perience OF the lonely moor is
not apparent to me.
In revising my manuscript |
notice that it mentions the re.
moval by the ghost OF five
separate wheels from the buggy,
which may be regarded by some
as an inaccuracy. A gentle.
man for whose opinions / have
always entertained the highest
regard has suggested to me
that, for the sake of lending
greater plausioiIity to my mar
rdllNe. L omit all mention of the
appearance-or, moae properly
speaking, the disappearance of
the fifth wheel | must decline,
however, tie do this. My chief
object in making this statement
is to tell the thing as it really
occurred, and not to fall into,
the perniclous habit. too COM
mon, regret to say, with many
writer's of the present day, Of
sacrificing essential details in
order to deceive the reader with
a fictitious showing of pIausibili-
ty.-Chicago Daily Record.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-25
A Ghostly Experience.
BY Sam Davis.

men Of seeming intelligence
could deliberately sit down and
write ghost stories merely as a
literary diversion and for the
sake of narrowing the feelings
of the reader.
A ghost story, no matter how
entertaining it may be, II a
pure fabrication has no bust.
ness in print for the world is
full of people so credulous in
disposition that the most abb
surd things, if told with Sc
rious air, are apt to be accept
ed as the truth, and the gross
est errors, foisted upon the pub
lie by careless invention, be
come perpetuated as establish
ed facts
make these observations
that the reader may become ac.
Quainted with my views upon
subjects supernatural at the be.
ginning of the narrative
The time was winter, and the
scene OF the manifestation Il
lonely moor lying between the
city OF Carson, which is the cap.
ital Of Nevada, and the small
farm where for some years past
have raised hay, cattle and a
small family.
A political function had kept
me out rather late, and | was
driving home after midnight.
The night was clear and star
lit. with snow on the ground
and the air somewhat nipping
in its disposition.
When about half way home
having still two miles to go
| gradually became aware that
something had happened to my
buggy. for it seemed TO run
with less noise than usual. In
Nevada the wheels of vehicles
shrink from the drynesS of the
atmosphere, coupled with the
Indifference of their owners and
mine were no exception to the
rule. There was always more
or less space between the tire
and the felloe, and the wags Of
the city had a way of saying
that my approach was always
heralded by an Internal Clatter
which betokens a careless man
with all his buggy wheels out
of repair.
1t seemed to me suddenly that
something like % per cent of
the usual CHATTER of the vehiC lie
had ceased, and | was at a loss
to understand why. The feel.
ing came over me so strongly
that something unusual had
transplred that | heSitated to
ascertain the cause. An i'll de.
fined feeling of dread was upon
me, and. | blush to confess it,,
| reaIly feared to look around.
Finally, by Il strong effort, l.
summoned my courage, and,
glanCing back, was astonished
to discover that the off hind
wheel of my buggy had disap-
peared.
What was more, the vehicle
did not seem to mind it, but ran
as level as ever. The cessation
of the clatter which that wheel
always produced was now eX-
planned, but the continued level
running of the buggy was not.
An awful creepy feeling now
came over me that almost
amounted a to pain, and in
the midst of my wonderment
the noise of another wheel stop.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-25


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II. L. WOODSON, Lawyer.
Will practice III all courts in the
state. Office over Caldwell's Res
taurant, Monroe City. Mo.
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AGNES MCNEIL, D. 0.
Graduate OF American School Of osteopathy
Kirksville. Mo. Diseases both acute and
chronic are treated. Consultation nee.
Once Main st. Proctor Building.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-25

E. E. WEBB. Auctioneer.
Money is made In selling goods at good prices
and II takes a first class auctioneer TO DO that.
Give me the work and 1t is done as the people
ofthe state OF Illinois will know. 1 have sold
many thousand of dollars worth of goods across
the river, Enquire at the DEMOCRAT Office.
The bee., 1901-12-05
When a Locomotive Blow, Up.

81 am one of the very few per-
sons who ever saw a locomotive
blow up," remarked an old rail-
road man to q reporter of the
Sun the other day. "Generally
the men who witness the explo-
sion of a steam engine are so
dead when the smoke has cleared
away that they are never able to
give an account of the disaster.
"Like many other accidents,
the one + saw =:-as theresult of
carelessness-low water in the
boiler, for the engine had just
come from the shops and was in
complete repair. 1t was on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in
West Virginia a number of years
ago. / was on a locomotive some
distance behind the one which
exploded, and was looking ahead
out of the cab window, so that
the ill-fated engine was immedi-
ately before my eyes. Suddenly
| saw the machine rise in the air (;
it seemed to me to be about as
high as the telegraph poles be-
side the track, which, as you
doubtless know, are not so high
as telegraph poles in the city.
Then came a cloud of dense black
smoke and dust, which hid the
engine from view, and almost
simultaneously | heard the roar
of the explosion.
"Both the engineer and the
fireman were killed, and the 10
comotive was fit for nothing
much but the scrap heap when it
fell to the ground. The crown
sheet over the firebox had blown
out.
"The strange thing about the
explosion was that no white
steam was seen. You know that
perfectly dry steam is invisible,
being like the air, and before it
had time to condense it was
probably smothered by the cloud
of smoke and dust raised by the
bursting of the boiler. '-Balti-
more Sun.
The bee., 1901-12-05
The Pratt Case.

The decision of the Court of
Appeals in the Pratt case is
merely a return to well-establish-
ed Democratic principles. The
new election law in most of the
disputed points conforms to the
original contention made by the
Republicans. These contentious
the courts set aside, but the Leg
islature affirmed them. The new
election board is appointed by
the Governor vacancies are filled
by the Governor and it has no
judicial powers. 1t is pleasant
to see the legislative and judic-
iary departments in such sweet
accord. Evening Post.
The bee., 1901-12-05
FsIand Contests.

John Feland, of Christian coun-
ty, late Republican nominee for
State Senator from this district,
on Monday filed notice of contest
against Senator-elect d. S. Ed
wards, and went to Madisonville
for the purpose of having the pa
pers served OH him.
Mr.. Feland gives six reasons
for his contest, and claims that
he was himself legally elected by
10 votes instead of Mr.. Edwards
receiving majority of four
votes, as the election board de-
cided.
The bee., 1901-12-05

and are not there for the defense of
their rights or property. They have
no grievance against the mine opera
tors, except that the latter will not
permit them TO run their business
and say whom they shall employ and
whom they shall not employ, and are
bent on assailing hard working men
who are satisfied with the wages they
are getting, the hours they are re-
quired to work, and the treatment
they have received and are receiving
from their employers, without the
aid or interference of union. Work
has been suspended by the actions
of these intimidators, troops have
been called out at great expense,
and the entire neighborhood terror
lied by men who il they do not de-
sire to work themselves, should at
least permit those who do, to work.
1t is reported that the miners are
preparing to resist by force of arms
the mandate of the court to dis
perse, and If they do they will for
felt what little right they ever had
to the sympathy of a law-abiding
people.-Paducah Sun.
The bee., 1901-12-05
FATALLY CUT.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Dyer Wounded by
Jacob Syars in an Alteration
at CaseyviIle.

Sturgis, KY, Nov. 29.-W. G..
Dyer, ex-constable and deputy
United States Marshal, was prob
ably fatally stabbed at Casey
vile in an alteration with a
young man named Jacob Syars.
Both men live In Dekoven and
are in the employ of the Ohio
Valley Mining Company. Dyer
was taken home. Dyer was
stabbed three times, the most
dangerous wound being across
the abdomen.
The bee., 1901-12-05
Law Must Be Enforced.

The same firmness now exhibited,
il exhibited months ago, would have
put a stop to this unfortunate condi-
tion of affairs, and prevented the
loss of life and of wages and the vio-
lation of law which have made that
county notorious not only in Ken
lucky, but over the Union. 1t would
have been of infinite benefit to the
strikers. Every days delay has
been of harm to them and to their
cause; and this is true always. The
prompt enforcement of the law is of
infinite advantage to the law break
er. 1t is, indeed, more to his ad-
vantage than to that of any other
person. All paltering with him and
his violation of the law is of harm to
him. In the end the law must be
administered and lawlessness must
be suppressed. There are certain
forms of lawlessness of which this
may not be true-sporadic violations
of the law; violatisns of the law by
combinations with the officers of the
law; conspiracies to violate the law
entered into by those whose duty it
is to execute the law may Temporal
rily seem to be successful; may have
forawhile an appearance of triumph;
but even in those cases in the end
the retribution of justice is apt to
overtake the violators of the law
w. G. p. Breckinridge in the Lex
ington Herald,
The bee., 1901-12-05
Spacious Arguments.

Since the above was written it is
reported that some of the strikers
have returned and re-established
their camp upon the site of the old
camp, and announce their purpose to
remain and to return as often as the
camp is dispersed. We fear that
these strikers have been ill-advised
both as to their legal rights and as
to their wisest policy. There can be
no serious doubt of the proposition
that no set of men have right to
establish and maintain an armed
camp under the pretense that the
camp is their residence. This may
sound plausible at first blush and
the argument in its favor may seem
catchy and impressive; but when
ever the case is presented to court
such trivialities will be swept aside
and the bald proposition be an
nounced that in a peaceable COM
munity no set of men have a right to
menace the public peace by estab-
fishing and maintaining an armed
camp; and the specious arguments
in its favor will be held about as
IA
The bee., 1901-12-05

The mine operators prefer nom
union labor to union labor, and
it is a privilege no one can deny
them, and also a matter that
gives no man the privilege of
shooting at their workmen and
destroying their property. = =
The strike in the Western Ken
lucky coal fields has been moth
ing more nor less than a reign of
terror. The union seems to be
composed of lawless set who
have left nothing undone to ter
rorize and intimidate the hun
dreds of men who were satisfied
to labor for their daily bread
Pembroke Journal.
The bee., 1901-12-05
REV. GEO. F. pENrEcosT.
The Noted Evangelist, to Begin a Series
Of Revival Meetings at Our Sister
City Of Hopkinsville Soon.

Rev. Geo. +. Pentecost, d. D., Of
Yonkers, N. ", on December will
begin a series of revival services at
the Union Tabernacle at Hopkins
vile and will continue the meetings
for about two weeks, services being
held at 2:30 p. IN. and 1880 p. m. of
each day.
Rev. Pentecost is noted evange-
list, and about year ago delivered
an impressive and instructive ad-
dress at the Tabernacle at Hopkins
vile on Christianity in the Twen-
tieth Century. DIR. Pentecost began
his work in the ministry in this part
of the State and Kentucky is justly
proud Of him. Quite an effort is be-
ing made to have the singing of the
best quality.
The good people of Hopkinsville
cordially invite the citizens of the
neighboring towns to attend these
services. The Bee trusts that much
good may be done and the cause Of
Christ thereby much advanced.
The bee., 1901-12-05
No DalIying.

The situation in the Kentucky
mining region, which has so long
been tolerated in its lawlessness,
has reached such a crises as to
leave Gov. Beckham no shadow
of excuse for ignoring it or dal-
lying with his duty in the prem
ises. People who want to work
peaceably and honestly have a
right to work, and it is so clearly
the duty of the State to protect
them in this right, there is no
possible plea or argument to the
contrary.-Nashville Banner.
The bee., 1901-12-05
MINERS PASSED THROUGH
En- Route to NortonviIIe Ie--Said They We're
Going Down There to Get
the Scabs."
lHenderson journal, Nov. 29.l

About fifteen miners landed in
Henderson on the early morning
trains, on their way to join the
union camp at Nortonville. A
Journal man interviewed them,
and was told they were going to
Nortonyille to ''get the scabs,''
and when asked where they were
from they replied they came from
the upper part of the State.
The bee., 1901-12-05
ONLY ONT SIDE
For More Than Year IntoIerabIe Condition Of
LawIessness Has Existed.

or around the union camps, or
anywhere in the vicinity of the
strike regions will be forcibly
.disarmed, arrested and impris-
oned."
In your issue of the 1st inst.
he refers to this plan as a plan to
restore law and order in Hopkins
county, proposed and published
exclusively in the Courier-Jo Jour-
nal, and says that such a plan
meets with the hearty approval
of certain citizens, and so on.
His error lies in the assumption
that there are two aggressors,
when there is but one; that the
mine owners and their represent
atives have no right of self-de-
fense; are without the right to
arm themselves to defend their
persons and their property
against those who are unlawfully
armed to do violence to both.
This distorted view has been so
widely disseminated that many
people who have given the sub
ject but little consideration are
impressed with the idea that
there is warfare in that territory
in which both sides are at fault.
The mine owners and their rep
resentatives are simply armed in
self-defense. The union miners
are armed for the sole purpose
of interfering by violence and
intimidation with the rights Of
other citizens. The obvious
course is to disperse those un-
lawful aggressors. 1t can be
safely assumed that the defen-
sive measures will be abandoned
as soon as this unlawful and
menacing aggression is COM
pletely st an end.
1t was a year ago last April
when certain mine operators, op-
Grating with union labor, seem
to have been forced into an in
famous contract, whereby they
offered TO the organization
known as the United Mine
Workers of America a premium
or bribe to close the mines op-
Grated by nonunion labor in
Hopkins and adjacent counties.
For more than a year past an IN
tolerable condition of lawless.
ness has prevailed, which has in
fiicted, and is inflicting, incal-
culable INJURY upon the State.
1t is time for every law-abiding,
self-respecting and patriotic cit
izen to openly denounce these
conditions, and to help to en-
courage the officers of the law to
re-establish the peace and quiet
that formerly existed in that
part Of the State. | remain,
Very respectfully,
MILTON H. SMITH.
The bee., 1901-12-05
JUDGE HALLS ACTION
ENDORSED BY PRESS.
Newspapers Of Kentucky and Other States APP
plaud His Action Disbanding Union
Camps

The "Battle of Nortonville"
will go down in history as by far
the most bloodless and at the
same time almost without ex-
ception the most talked of one in
all history. Todd County Times.
The bee., 1901-12-05
Twas Ever Thus.

s"~~ @-'~s s's@@s
They had been married only
two months and had just started
to housekeeping; he was start
ing down town to his days work,
she followed him to the door,
threw her arms around his neck
and murmered, Darling do you
think the day will ever come
when we will ever part in an
ger?"
"Why no, my little puss, what
makes you ask?"
Nothing dearest, l was only
thinking how perfectly dread
full it would be if we should
ever speak an unkind or harsh
word to each other"
"Well don't think of such
wicked improbable things any
more sweetheart for you and 1
will never quarrel. We love
each other too well."
81 know it darling, of course
we will not; well goodbye you
sweet boy-oh wait a minute, /
forgot, here's a note | wrote to
mother, can't you run by and
take it to her as you go to the
Ioffice?n
"Yes dearest, certainly / will
if l have time"
"If you have time, oh Char
leyl"
what is it little girlie?"
"Oh, to think you would say,
if / have time, to do the very
first thing l ever asked you to
do for me-.
"Well my dear, you know l
am so very busy now and l
thought | might"
'Too busy to take a note for
your wife-oh, you cruel man
you hurt my feelings"
"Why my dear child"
"Don't dear child me, l am
no child / thank you. / am a
married woman"
'But Bulah, do be reasonable
and don't act SO silly"
"Oh Charley, to think you
would speak to me like that, you
will break my heart. -
"Stuf and nonsense"
"Oh now, know you don't
love me, and never did,
"This is rank folly. What is
the matter with you anyway"
81 will go home to my mother,
l know she loves me if you
don't.n
"You must be going crazy, l
haven't said l did not love you"
"Oh, yes, say am crazy
that's right sneer at me-make
fun Of me. l am your wife who
you promised to love and protect
only two months ago, probably
you will strike me next"
The poor man shut the door
with slam and rushed off to
the Office muttering to himself
that of ali queer creatures wo-
men were certainly the queerest.
OF course, they will make up
when he comes home at night
and in the years to como they
will have many such tiffs as this
one, and after they have lived
together forty-five years they
will tell their friends, "Oh no,
we have never had a cross word,
or fuss in all our married life. "
-TDrMIE.
4
The bee., 1901-12-05

Only by the aid of troops is there
comparative quiet kept in the mines
in the "strike region" This strike
is serious thing in Kentucky and
will take wise and immediate action
np-the part of Governor Beckham.-
Guthrie Graphic.
The bee., 1901-12-05

The st. Bernard Coal Company
has surrendered it's Kentucky char
ter and become incorporated under
the laws Of Delaware. The COM
pany's reason was that the laws Of
Kentucky did not afford them pro-
lection. A sad commentary on Ken
lucky law.-Elkton Progress.