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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-08-10
HiggInsville.

Will Black came ia from Higbee to
spend Sunday.
Mrs. Buchanan, of Mayview, was in
town Wednesday.
H. Z. SEWN, of the Thalbote, was In
Concordia Monday.
Paul Wilson, of Corder, was Sun.
day visitor in our city.
Miss Lizzie Belt, of Kansas City, is
here visiting her mother.
Clinton Blank, of Kansas City, spent
Sunday here with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Winn, of
Dover were visitors here Tuesday.
Miss Kate Belt is visiting Miss Alice
Welborn, near Aullville, this week.
Frank Stewart, of Lexington, made
a business trip to this city Wednesday.
MIR. Thos. Fowler, of the Boston
store, was In Kansas City part Of this
week.
Mrs. james Evans, Of Sweet Springs,
visited the family Of Philip Beamer
Tuesday.
Miss Stella Hickman returned from
two weeks sojouru near Blackburn
Wednesday.
Miss Clara Cook has returned to her
duties at the Cash House after two
weeks vacation.
A large crowd Of young people from
here will attend the August meeting
at Dover Sunday.
Miss Florence Smelzer returned
home Sunday evening, after weeks
visit in Concordia.
A. L. Kleine, supervisor Of eastern
DIVISION OF g. q a, A,,spent Sunday
evening IN this city.
Mr.. Sydnor and family will shortly
leave for Cincinnati, where they will
take up their residence.
Miss Lima johnson has returned
from q visit to relatives 10 Everest,
Kas and Plattsburg, Mo-.
Mr.. aud Mrs. j. T. Prigmore and
guest, Miss Edna Blanc, Of Alma, were
visiting friends here Monday.
johnson & Butler, contractors oi
Sedalia, arrived here Monday to begin
work on the NJ. Z. church, south.
J, T. Willis, proprietor of the Cast
House, left Monday with his family fol
a months visit to relatives in Ohio.
Miss Mamie Breckenridge returned
Thursday from visit to friends IL
Smithville, Platte City and Kansas
City.
Mrs. L. E. Hartman returned Wed
nesday morning from Corder. wher'
she has been visiting her daughter
Mrs. l.. w. Groves.
Misses Kate Freeze and Mabel Can
terbury, accompanied by Will Semmle
and Frank Rouse, attended the moon
light picnic at Alma Friday night.
Ned Asbury and Miss Mayme Sydnor
a popular young couple of this city
surprised their many friends by goini
to Lexington Tuesday and beint
married.
Geo. Roberts and daughter, Mis-
Pearl, have returned from three
months stay in Mexico, where the.
have been for Mr.. Roberts health
which is much improved.
O. Ellifrit and wife, of Kansas City
who have been visiting Mrs. Ellifrit'
parents at Mayvlew, attended oan'
concert here Friday night. They LET
Tuesday for Denver, COL, where the,
will reside IN the future.
johnson & Kelley shipped car Loaf
of hogs to Kansas City Tuesday
Breipold shipped car load OF hog
Tuesday; Senator Vandlver car loa'
: of cattle Monday; Max Lyons shippe'
} three car loads Of cattle this week.
, Mr.. and Mrs. j. P, Downing @
! Kansas City, visited Mrs. DIS parents
Mr. and Mrs. l. W. Whitsett, severa
! days this week. They leave Kansa
}. City Monday for Washington D. T.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-08-10
|G BUSINESS FOR BANKS
Aoss at LawtOn Are Rushed,
though Currency Must Be Hauled
Thirty Miles Overland.
We 10 GET MORE FREE LAND,

..ruo,nted Homeseekers want the Three
reserves which Were Set Aside in Law
ION District, and Composed of 53s,5OO
Acres, Thrown Open for settlement
To Make Fight for Free Homcs."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
Gree1ex,s A,yfu1 writing.

1t is interesting to recall the fact that
Horace Greeley left behind him a very
frank criticism Of the legibility of his
own chirography. Being up town in
New York one day, and wishing to
send telegram and also to get shaved,
he entered a hotel and sent his dis
patch. Then. passing into the barber
shop, he sat down in a chair and (ac-
cording to custom) was soon sound
asleep.
Meantime the telegram had created
a decided sensation, Mr.. Greeley hav-
ing thrown it down hastily on the desk
and neglected to translate it. Nobody,
from the manager down, being able to
supply a legible equivalent for the
mysterious characters, a messenger
was sent into the barber shop with the
screed.
Waking with a start, and supposing
that the boy had brought an answer to
his dispatch. Mr.. Greeley took the
paper, scanned 1t for moment, and
then, with look of deep disgust, piped
out: "What blamed idiot wrote this?"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
THRIFT VERSUS MEANNEss.
Young People Should Save Money
but Not Too IndustriOusIy,

Young People Should Save Money,
but Not Too IndustriOusIy.
Most young people are not willing to
save money. As it costs them little or
nothing they are lavish in spending it.
This is great mistake. All should try
to save money and never spend it with
out a reason or without getting some
thing worth what they pay for. They
will not always have parents to take care
of them. As they grow up they will need
money. Young men need it, and young
women need it. Persons should rarely or
never marry unless they have some mon
ey saved or are receiving so much for
their labor that they can take care of
themselves if they should for awhile be
sick. Those who do not marry and save
nothing are in a pitiable condition when
old age overtakes them or sickness pre-
vents them from working or leaving their
homes.
Once in great while youth is found
with a morbid desire to hoard. Personal
ly we have known but few such, but in
them the habit grew until they became
notorious for meanness. A story is told
of celebrated bishop who grew so mean
that one day when he cut his finger with
a penknife and no court plaster could be
found a clergyman standing by brought
out his cardcase and took from it 3
cent stamp and gave it to the bishop to
use to stop the flow of blood. The bishop
accepted it gratefully, placed the cent
stamp in his own cardcase and then took
out cent stamp and pasted it over the
still bleeding wound. This seems almost
too much to believe.
But celebrated minister in New Eng
land was offered hat by halter who
was friend of his and who admired him
In most respects. He asked him if he had
another kind. "Yes," he said, Though
not quite so good as that" He said he
would like to see one and asked what the
price of the first one was and was told
So and of the second So. well" said
he, "as you offered me the first one, If
should take the second would you give
me the difference in money! A young
person should not be spendthrift, nei-
Their should he be stingy.-Christian Ad-
w0oa<n
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Some Ridiculous Names.

According to Lippincott'S, Maurice
Thompson was no admirer of Ameri
can nomenclature. mo poet" said he
''ever got chance to redeem the crudi.
ties of our nomenclature. 'Mocking
bird Is bad enough, but thrasher' for
mountain thrush! Doesn't it preclude
all prospects of competition with a
nightingale, though ours may be the
superior vocalist? And those postof-
fee names! Nature has lavished all
her favors upon some of our southern
mountain parks, but 1t takes an adj
mirer with strong nerves to get his mail
addressed to Pignut Cove or Greasy
Greek.
"The very Tartars could do better
than that. 'Tengris Kahn the 'Specter
Prince they called their grandest peak
on the Chinese border. It's probably
nothing but bleak, treeless crag, and
we have a much prettier sovereign
close by here, cleaning with white
cliffs and glorious In its crown Of ever
green pines. But they had to spoil 1t
and call it the Great Hogback noun.
TAIN"
''They should have stuck to the In
dian Names" laughed our Georgia land
lord.
Eyes, in this neighborhood anyhow"
said the euphonist. Human speech
of that sort does become little more
musical as you go farther south. From
Oshkosh to Tallulah is long step In
the right direction"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
CARDLAND.
The Games That Were Played In the
Eighteenth Century.

The Games That Were Played In the
Eighteenth Century.
After the advent of the house of Han
over the favorite games at court were
"Quadrille," an improvement Of 'om-
bre," and Commerce" The gains and
losses of the kings and queens were, as
a rule, restricted to 100 guineas, but on
Twelfth Night it was customary for
thousands to change hands. On one
occasion Lady Cowper, lady in wait
ing, refused for the sake of her chill
dren to take part in the game, as none
sat down to the table with less than
f2OO.
About the year 174O a rage for
"whisk," or whist, set in, but at first
it was considered too wise game for
ladies to join in. Hume, the historian,
never went to bed without his whist,
and even the great Johnson regretted
that he had not learned to play cards.
In 1912 Horny Walpole finds it abso-
lutely necessary to learn ''whisk,"
"having waited in vain for its being
left off" We find him in another let
ter threatening to build an altar to
"Pam" to commemorate the escape of
his charming Duchess of Grafton, who,
it appears, had been playing cards in
Rome when she ought to have been at
cardinals reception, where the floor
fell in and all the monsignores were
precipitated into the cellar!
Cards were so very much in evidence
in his time that even invitations were
frequently issued and notes written up
on the backs of playing cards, which
on that account were usually plain,
without any design. The chevalieTs
famous order to retreat at Culloden
was written on the back of the nine Of
hearts.
A fresh attempt was made in 1889 to
remedy the state of gambling in Eng
land by passing an act which provided
that "any person keeping a house or
other place to game in forfeits f200,
half to the prosecutor and half to the
poor of the parish" whereupon two
ladies of title, Mordington and Casselis,
who keep open houses for gambling,
claimed their privilege Of peerage in
order to intimidate the peace officers
from doing their duty and suppressing
the public gaming houses by them
Longmans Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
Quite Proper.

"Mr. Untidy." began his talented
young wife one night as she stood knee
deep in a bowl of dough, 'can you tell
me one thingT
81 certainly can," grumbled the ambl-
tious husband, who was standing In the
corner peeling some of the apples which
had been sent to them by his mother-in-
law up In Podunk.
"Tell me, them" continued the good
woman, pulling off a small piece of the
pasty mixture for Wilfred to play with,
''the proper season of the year in which
to pick apples"
Lets see." scowled Mr.. o., didn't
Eve pick them just before the fall?"
And Immediately after this utterance
q frightful noise evolved from the parlor,
where WiIfred was trying to take the
temperature of the cats ear with piece
Of dough. despite the feline's unceasing
skirmishes.- New York Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02

'"The small size of the screw" says a
boiler maker, lis not due to the percep-
ton Of any inventor Of its greater eff
feet as compared with larger one, but
purely to accident. When first engag-
ed in the machinery business, screws
for steamers were made as large as
possible, it being the theory that the
greater the diameter the higher the
speed. A vessel was placed on Lake
Erie with screw so large that it was
deemed best to cast each blade in two
parts and then weld them together.
During a storm all these blades of the
propeller broke at the welding, reduc-
ing the diameter by more than two
thirds.
ITO the surprise of the captain the
vessel shot forward at a speed such as
had never been attained before. Engi-
neers then experimental with smaller
propellers and discovered that they
were much more effective than large
ones. Had it not been for that accident
we might have gone on using large
blade screws to the present day."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02

her, she didn't realize her own weari-.
ness. But once at home, exhaustion over
came her. If a woman were thoroughly
robust, without ache or pain, she could
not keep this work up without under
mining her health. What shall be said
then Of those women, who are not strong,
who suffer from headache, backache,
bearing-down pains, and other conse-
quences of diseased condition of the
womanly organism? And these women
are in the great majority. There are
few women who are free from diseases
peculiar to their sex.
BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS.
That expressive saying not only sug-
gests the most rapid form of waste but
also the most foolish. When woman
overtaxes her strength in any cause,
whether in the enjoyment OF social
pleasures, or In the service of church or
charity, she is rapidly fastening to the
end of her public activity.
The proof of this is found right at
home Young matrons who are not
dancing any more, church workers who
are no more active these have not step
ped aside because of loss of interest but
because of lack of strength.
There is not weak woman who would
not like to be made strong again. There
is not sick woman who would not like
to be made we'll And there is not the
least reason, in ninety-eight cases out of
every hundred, why women should con-
tinue to be weak and sick. The first
step to the re-establishment of the gen
eral health is to establish the local
womanly health.
81 feel that it is only my duty to send
you statement of my case" writes Mrs.
Mary E. Wilcox, of Emo Rainy River,
Algoma Co., Ont. 0 II suffered untold
misery for many years with uterine
trouble, until I commenced taking DR..
Pierce's good medicine and used the
local treatment as advised. took two
bottles of 'Favorite Prescription and
two of Golden Medical Discovery
also sent for one box of your Antiseptic
and Healing Suppositories. I have only
used two and that was two months ago.
Have not had to use any since, but !
shall keep them in the house. would
advise every woman who suffers from
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
CULINARY cAPERs.
If parsley is wrapped up in piece Of
wet cheesecloth, it can be kept for some

If parsley is wrapped up in piece Of
wet cheesecloth, it can be kept for some
time.
Nutmeg is much used by the Italians
when cooking spinach, as it is said to
bring out the flavor of the vegetable.
Two or three leaves from a rose gera-
mum added to crab apple jelly while it
is cooking will, 1t is said, impart de-
licious flavor
A pinch of powdered ginger added to
cranberries in cooking will bring out
the flavor. They should not be stewed
to jam, but kept separate, looking
more like candied cherries.
For vegetable PURGE either young
turnip tops or even young fresh nettle
tops are recommended. They are cook
ed in the same -boiled-rubbed
through sieve and added to cream.
Satisfy (oyster plant is excellent if
soaked in vinegar and water, then
dipped in oil, sliced and heated in white
sauce. Bake in shells, having sprinkled
grated cheese and bread crumbs over
the top.
Italian dried peas are popular still in
Great Britain under the familiar name
of peas pudding. The vegetable is
soaked overnight, then boiled, rubbed
through a sieve and sent to the table
with the addition of a little thick
cream.
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called az she turned the corner, "or any
other day"
So / went out. feeling triumphantly
foolish.
Next Thursday called, and she wasn't
the table between US.
''Look here, Mary" / began.
"Miss Montague, if you pleased"
81 don't please. 1t is quite natural to
call friend by her Christian name"
''Ye-es: but people might misunder-
stand, we agreed, and so"-
I'm not going to pander to other peo-
pies stupidity" l said Indignantly, "and
l don't consider that friendship should
have to be weighed and measured in ex-
act words" | had prepared this remark
beforehand.
"No-o; perhaps not" l knew it would
score. "Still, there are bounds to friend
ship" She shut her little mouth decis-
lively.
''If you mean last Tuesday,
81 don't want to talk about it" she in
terrupted. 'Have you considered about
the stories"
eyes; have reasoned out my position
most carefully-Mary." She frowned,
but passed the familiarity.
"And your conclusicns?"
care in verse;"
"Oh, how nicev' Women always like
a fellow to run to verse. l suppose it is
because he is sure to give himself away.
''Let me see it,"
"On condition that you read it aloud
She looked objections. Il want to hear
if I have got the swing"
So she acclaimed softly. think said
that she had a pretty voice.
TO MARY.
/ made me tale OF the tempest at sea,
Full of thunder and lightning above,
And the terrors that be when the storm winds are
free
But the end Of the story was Lowell
sang song of a raid in the glen,
With Tilt of the pipers who played,
''Strike again, strike again and die fighting like
menl"
And the struggle was over a maidi
planned me play of a monarch OF fame
And his courtiers in silken attire
And his statesmen, who came like moth to the
fame,
For pair Of bright eyes were the fret
paaned the praise of hero so calm
And so strong in the tumult to stand,
When found me the charm that had strengthen
ed his arm;
It was only the touch Of handi
And II II my heart for a moment be strong,
Tiny tale for page ring sincere,
Or II merits belong to the play or the song,
They are only your echoes, my deari
When she came to the last line, her
voice was very soft and just little tear
full. / put my hand on her shoulder, and
we stood looking silently at the paper for
a minute. Then / drew her gently to me
the way the stories end!-Black and
White.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02

4n nlCCC Was lEOuDlSu
with female weakness for about four years
before asked for your advice" writes
Mr.. ]. w. McGregor, of 62d Street and
Princeton Ave, Chicago Ills. vYou
advised her to take DIR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription which she did faithfully for
nine months, and now we must acknowl-
edge to you that she Is a nell uomaN.
We cannot thank you enough"
YOU CAN BE CURED
by vFavorite Prescription if your dis
ease is durable by medicine; and the
facts show that only two women in every
hundred who have given e Favorite Pre-
scription fair and faithful trial have
failed of complete cure. Women who
have suffered for years and have had the
advantages of the most skillful medical
treatment, have at last tried cFavorite
Prescription and been cured. Women
who had been pronounced incurable, and
given up to lifelong suffering, have been
perfectly and permantly cured by the
use of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult DIR. Pierce, by letter, free All
correspondence is held in sacred secrecy
and the written condolences of women
olO SA1AoSA Liz ~oAAS SUM- PAOACD-
sional privacy observed by DIR. Pierce in
verbal consultation with sick women at
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-
tute, Buffalo, N. Y. Address DR.. R. ".
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Accept no substitute for cFavorite
Prescription" though the dealer says that
it is ujust as good.' If he told the whole
truth he'd say the substitute was better
not better for you but better for him,
because of the little more profit paid by
the sale OF less meritorious medicines.
ARE YOU II?
Then at the expense of one-cent for
each year of your life you can pay the
expense of mailing free copy of DIR.
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser,
in paper covers. This great medical
work contains more than a thousand
large pages and over 700 illustrations,
and is sent absolutely free on receipt Of
stamps to pay expense of mailing only
Send II one-cent stamps for the book in
paper covers, or thirty-one stamps for
the c1oth-bound volume. Address DR..
R v. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02

A glass cutter can easily be made
with an ordinary mapping pen and a
small piece of carborundum, or carbide
of silicon. Cut off part of the nib to
form small tube. Fit crystal or
part of one of carborundum into the
tube, take it out again and dip one end
in seccotine or any other cement and
replace it. Next wind piece of fine
wire tightly around the tube and part
of the handle and fix it in a notch cut
in the latter. Put it aside for a day to
allow the cement to harden. A glass
cutter made thus will do It's work as
we'll as the expensive diamond and
great deal better than the ordinary
wheel cutter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
Church Lights and
Social Leaders.

Every community. however small, has
its group of energetic women, who lead
and light the way in every local enter
prise. If it is charity, bazaar, a church
fair, or any other benevolent undertake
ing, they work day and night to make it
success. They are not the women who
neglect their homes to serve the public.
They simply do double service. Many
a husband knows what 1t is to bring his
wife home from fair or bazaar near the
hour of midnight and see her drop, in
sheer exhaustioA, into the first chair she
comes to. While the lights were bright
and the talk and laughter were all about
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-02
FROM A FIRE OF APPLE WOOD.

Through wind swept sheets Of driven rain
The ancient orchard shows forlorn,
Like brave old soldiery half slain,
With gaps to tell the losses borne,
And fragments of the fallen trees
Burn on the hearth before me brighti
The fire their captive spirit frees;
Musing, watch it take its fight.
How swift the flames Of gold and blue
Up from the glowing logs aspirel
There yellow bird and bluebird flew
And oriole. each with wings Of fire.
Now in the hearth light, on the trees,
Stirs something they and l have heard.
All, is it not the summer breeze
Come back to US with sun and bird?
Poor summers, born again-to diei
Quickly as they have come they go.
See, where the ashes smoldering lie,
The orchard floor is white with snow.
M. A. DeWolfe Howe in Atlantic.
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mo, / never shall forgive him." said
old Mr.. Slimington, referring to the
young man with whom one of his daugh
tiers had eloped THE die is castp'
But" said the friend who had gone to
intercede in behalf of the lovers, you
must admit that his character is good,
that he stands high in business circles
and that his habits are excellent. Most
men would be proud to have such SON
in-law."
81 admit all that. Still, l shall never
forgive him."
"Why notr'
Because he took the youngest and
prettiest one in the bunch. Why didn't
he run off with one of her older sistersY'
Chicago Herald.
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Travel or Stav at Home.

Whichever is done, four things are necessary;
First you may sprain an ankle, your feet may
sweaty or offensive, Bunions may develop. For
these troubles you will need Rough on Bun
ions, which is the only real cure for bunions,
and for sprain, bruise or mash it is incompar-
ably, surprisingly effective, and for aching,
sore, tender, tired feet it beats the world. Sec
ond, you may be bitten by dog or other ami
may be cut or lacerated by an injury, sores OF
eruptions may develop, cleansing, antiseptic,
healing injection may be needed, for all of which
you will need Wells I" Miracle of Healing y
Powder, which is convenient and marvel of
healing. Third, painful, distressing stomach,
bowel or uterine conditions may arise, for
which Wells Stomach Elixir will be indispen-
sable. Fourth, it would be well, if you read
carefully of the merits of Rough on Corns;
Rough on Toothache; Rough on Headache;
on Bronchitis Tablets; and note what is claim
ed for Laurelle Oil Balm, as an elegant quick
acting cure for chaps, abrasious, chafes, rough
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