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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
An attractive and Character

An attractive and character
istic feature of The Worlds
Work for January is an article
by Henry Harrison Lewis,
describing "A Days Work on
a Snow Plough, as it is to be
witnessed on the mountai II
division of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. How man and
the machine combine to do sue
cessful battle with the great
storms which yearly sweep the
Rockies is set forth in graphic
fashion
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

The PHILIPPINES must have
thought there was a large
chu k of grim humor in McKin
ley when they learned that he
had said; The whole structure
of our government is peace"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Ship Subsidy Steal.


Senator Pettigrew. who is a
bitter enemy of Mark Hanna.
will close his senatorial term
with a heroic effort to defeat
the ship subsidy bill. He says
he will make this his specia |
business, and so will demo.
cratic and fusion senators.
Senator Pettigrew said to The
Times correspondent today:
Il want to say that the sub.
sidy bill is nothing more than
an attempt to steal $4,000, 900
per year for the purpose of
paying the campaign debts of
the republican party, IF it is
absolutely necessary TO get the
bill through as job to enable
Mr.. Hanna to pay back the
cash loaned to re-elect Mr.. Nc
Kinley then 1 want it done at
an extra session of congress, so
as to invite attention comp etc .
ly to it and show to the
country who the president in
that would call an extra SEES.
sion when Mr.. Hanna snaps
his fingers.
COUNTS ON EXTRA SESSION.
II want this great republican
leader to compel his president
to call a special, session, that
his campaign pledges may be
made good. 1 want every voter
in the United States to watch
the progress of the proposed
steal, I want every man to read
and understand the bill and to
know the reasons why congress
is called in extra session. This
should be enough to prove
every charge of corrupt deal
ings made by the democratic
party in the late campaign. Il
am absolutely certain that the
bounty grab will not go
through at this session. 1t
won't if 1 can help it. Senator
Allen aid Senator Butler have
formed a plan with me to de
feat action on the bill, and we
will fight it in every way pos
sible. We have enough on our
side to do this. You see, there
are but tifty-one Legislative
days left in this session. There
are -four teen great APP.
preparation bills to be consider
ed with the reapportionment
bill. Giving a week to each bill
and this can easily be done
we would be compelled to have
an extra session to complete
them.
1--WE intend to do all we can
to push legislation if the re-
publicans will stick to their
necessary measures, but if any
attempt is made to bring up the
unfinished business we will
fight and delay everything. If
an extra session becomes neces-
sary it will be because of the
attempt to bring this theft be-
fore the senate. l don't think
the opposition to the army re.
organization bill is very strong,
and there will be no disposition
to delay action on it if the ship
ping bill is kept in the back
ground"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Toes UD.

After brief struggle of nine
weeks with the trials and
tribula tions of the world, the
expenses of a print shop and
the promises of some republi.
cans of big things and 500 sub
sCribers, the Rails County
News "turned its toes to the
hence" last Thursday. We feel
sorry for Hamilton, poor fell
low, for a paper can't run on
promises, and he lost close to
5000 on the deal. We think this
will be the last attempt to run
Republican paper in Rails
county.-Ralls County Intel
ligencer-But just the same the
News continues to spout abou t
Nc and Marks prosperity while
it is hustling for a place under
the sod so it can turn toes up to
the daisies and keep out of the
clutches of the Paper Trust,
Type Trust, Ink Trust. etc.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Silver may advance in price
and the existing price may be
altered as a result of a trust,
the deadliest thing the friends
of silver ever fought.
The final details for the alb,
sorption of the Guggenheim in,
terests by the Smelling Trust
were arranged in Wall street
yesterday. The directors de
cided to ask the stockholders of
the American Smelling and Re
fining Co. to increase the stock
from $55, 100000 to 800, 900, 900.
The additional capital is re,
quired to buy out the Guggen'
helms, who are the largest in
dependent smelters of silver in
this country.
The new trust will control
about so per cent of the silver
output of the United States and
Mexico and nearly one-half of
the entire silver production Of
the world.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
CITY OFFICIALS.

ALDERMEN First Ward-J. 5. Scott ii
Grady:
Third Ward-A. Boulware, D. D. Nelson
Secret Societies.
MASoNIC-MonroeLodge No. GA, A. F.
& A. M, meets first and third Satur-
day nights of each month,
onroe City r. A. Chapter, No. 104
meets fourth Monday nights in each
month.
ODD FELLows-Monroe City Lodge
No, 268, meets every Thursday night.
SUPREME COURT OF HONOR. Mon
roe District Court No. 467 meets
every Monday night.
A. o. U. w. M onroe City Lodge, No
1863, III is first and third Friday
nights OF each month.
MODERN WooDMEN-M onroe City
Camp, No. 2236 meets eveny Thurs
day night.
The r. N. of AS meet 1st, and 3rd-
Tuesday evening in the M. w.
A. hall.
P. e. o. Sisterhood, Monroe City
Chapter II. meets the second and
fourth Saturdays in each month.
MASONIC, Colored. Advance Lodge
No. 8, meets first and third Tuesday
nights in each month.
BETHLEHEM CHAPTER No. Al meets
lst Thursday in each month.
VIRGINIA COURT meets LIST Thursday
in each month.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Court Directory.
MONROE COUNTY.

MONROE COUNTY.
Circuit Court-Meets at Paris third Monday
in April and fourth Monday in October.
Probate Court-Reguiar 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.
Hannibal Court OF Rommon Pleas
second Monday in January, first Monday in
May and third Monday in September.
RAILS COUNTY
Circuit Court-Meets at New London, third
Mondays in March and August.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
City DIRECTORY.
Churches.

LIST. Notwithstanding every Sun
morning and evening Sunday
school at 9:45. B. Y. p. U. $50 p.
m. Sunday. Prayer meeting We'd
nesday evering Deacons meeting at
2 p. m. the last Sunday in each
month. I. H. Reed, Pastor.
GRACE BAPTIST-At 1. o. o. F.
hall. Preaching every Sunday 11:O0
a. m. and 1880 p. IN. Sunday school
$40 a. m. b Y. p. U. 6:l5. Prayer
meeting Wednesday night at 1870 p.
M. Business meetipg Wednesday
night after LIST Sunday at 1880 p. m.
Choir practice every Saturday
at 1880 p. IN. w. Nj. U. Devotional
Meeting Friday after End Sunday
at 2:30 p. IN. Sunbeam S. Devotional
meeting Saturday after End Sunday
at 2:3O p. m. j. II. Rife, Pastor.
CHRl STIAN-Services even y Sunday
at IL a. m. and s p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening. Sun
day school at I. Y. P. S. C. E.
meeting at 2 p. m. Sunday. r. B.
Briney, pastor.
M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH-Services
every Sunday morning and evening.
Sunday school at $50. Epworth
League at $50 Jr. Epworth League
at 230 p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting
Wednesday evening. Womans
Home Mission Society 3 Thursday
in each month. Womans Foreign
Mission Society Thursday in each
month 2:3o S. S. Mission collection
1st Sunday in each month. Official
Board kleeting 1st Tuesday 100 p.
m. Church Conference End Tuesday
1880 p. IN. Lords Supper LIST Sun
day in each month. Business Meet
ing Epworth League 4th Tuesday
1880 p. m. Rev. j. A. WALES, pas
tor.
ST. JUDE'S EPISCOPAL-S
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.. E. meeting 600 p. m.
Sunday. Mid-week prayer meeting
at 500 Wednesday evening. J. E.
Travis pastor.
CATHOLIC-Servlce at 500 and 1000
a. IN. second and fourth Sundays in
each month. Father D. F. Sullivan,
pastor.
End. BAPTIST, Colored.-Services the
first Sunday in each month. ] B.
Hawkins, pastor
Court Directory.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
j. W. ROUSE
Mexico Mo.

Hon. w. S. McClintic,
through force of habit spent
Jan. LIST in Jefferson City.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

become to active will cause
them to take the diarrhoea and
bees on any kind of food if
confined to the hive by cold
weather too long at a time will
yerish from the same cause as
they do not void inside the hive
unless compelled by disease and
then in that case they must
have a chance to get out of the
hive very soon or they are sure
to perish.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
personal.

One Of the most interesting person
alities in Russia is the famous Father
John, the handsome priest whose piety
Is so great that he is supposed to have
the power of performing miracles. He
is devoted to his religious work at
Cronstadt, where he often greets Eng
fish travellers, and he distributes large
sums of money intrusted to him by the
wealthy Russian mobiles among the poor
Of the neighborhood 1t was Father
John who was called to pray at the
bedside of the late Car, and he pos
sesses many tokens of royal favor.
How many persons who daily eat
sandwiches are aware that it is to an
ancestor of the Earl of Sandwich that
that popular form of food owes its
name? The story runs that the earl
in question was very fond of playing
cards, and in order TO prevent having
10 stop to eat he used to have slice
OF meat put between two slices of bread.
and eat these as he played This got TO
be called a Sandwich" but gradually
the inverted commas were dropped as
the'word became an accepted one in the
language. The present earl became col
onel of the Grenadier Guards in 1881.
He was once military secretary at Gil
oiloir anu ildS Oeen attached TO SDe
cal embassies to various capitals of
Europe.
A story is told oil, a former Duke of
Hamilton. who invited one Of his neigh
bors, a plain spoken laird, to stop at
mis- palace for luncheon after the CON
clusion of a business transaction. The
laird was not used to the luxuries of
hte' and watched with an impatient
eye the Fittings about of the liveried
servant who seemed to be everywhere
at once, anticipating the laird's wants
IN a way that struck the rustic as posi-
lively uncanny. At last the guest turn
ed deliberately about in his chair and
addressed the servant in a tone of con-
siderable irritation: What are ye
dance, dance, dancing about the room
for, MANI" he demanded; "can We no
Draw in your chair and SIT doom? I'm
sure there's enough on the table for
three"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29

A Northern man stopped at the home
of an Alabama planter of the old school
and was cordially invited to Light,
sab. and be welcome" says the ST.,
Louis Post-Dispatch. He "Ht," and was
forthwith invited to take a toddy, in
accord with the Alabama rules of hos
pitality. Why" he said, II saw a nice
bed of mint back there. Suppose 1 get
some of it and make mint julep, in
stead of a toddy."
"A what sah?" said the planter.
"A mint julep. Haven't you ever tried
them?''
mo, sab. nevah; but I'm willing,
sah.''
They did try the fascinating bever-
age, not once, but many times, and
the Northern man went away next day
with reluctance. Two years later his
business took him there again. At the
gate he was met by the old colored
butler, on whose hat, as he dotted it,
was seen a band of Grape.
Where's your master, sir?" he in
quired of the old darkey.
He's Dead sab; died yistiddy."
Dead I'm shocked. What was the
cause?"
why, sab, bout two years ago one
o. dem Yankees cum down heah and
showed old marse how to drink weeds
in his red liker, and he nevah stopped
tNielI he died FUN it,"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
THE old man got the pig"
and the TaiIor's Btu.

A gentleman in Pennsylvania has a
queer document which came into his
family's possession many years ago,
and shows an interesting phase of An
glimpse of the simple times of his pres
idential term, says the Youths Com
panion.
It appears that a clerk in the State
Department contracted tailor's bill
for s54.50, and the tailor. finding him
self unable to collect the amount. laid
the matter before the President in an
appealing letter.
Jackson promptly decided that this
was a matter to which he must attend
personally; 50 he transmitted the tai
lor's letter to the Secretary of State,
with this strong recommendation:
Referred. to the Secretary of State.
If on inquiry the fact stated be true,
unless the clerk pays UP his debt let
him be forthwith discharged.
The government would become a
party to such swindling provided it
permitted its. officers to become indebt-
ed for necessaries and not see that
they paid their debts out of their sal
aries.
Honest men will pay their debts;
dishonest men must not be employed
by the government. A. j."
This case is referred to Amos Ken
dali, Esq., on $40 per month being
secured to c. E. Kloff, Mr.. Gooch to
be oontn&ed in his office. A. j."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
TEACHERS AND THE TRUTH.

The Chicago Record Herald publishes
Prof. Triggs of the University of Chi
cago, as follows: 1.-THE public should
understand that a teacher in the pri-
vacy of his classroom may state a
thing playfully, paradoxically, with
that exaggeration that belongs to good
pedagogy, and so leave the class to
discriminate the true and the false.
A teacher is not required at all times
to tell the truth. A class is under
obligation at all times to investigate
and discover for themselves the truth"
Since this is an extract from a let
ter written by the Professors own
hand and signed with his name. 1t cam
not misrepresent him. either in gram
mar or moral philosophy. And it may
be asserted that the latter is as faulty
as the former. Under certain circum-
stances it may be permissible for a
teacher to enlarge upon a subject, to
exaggerate to a limited extent for the
purpose of impressing the youthful
minds under his tutelage with the im-
UOEldHIC VI IL DuL OH SuCH
occasions the teacher should, without
exception. let 1t be understood that his
speech is figurative and not to be
taken as cold fact. A teacher is no
more justified in telling falsehoods ''in
the privacy" of his class room than
a preacher is in making false state
ments 'in the privacy" of his pulpit
or an editor lin the privacy" of the
circulation of his paper for the pur-
pose of creating an impression on re-
ceptlve minds.
Prof. Triggs is the educator who as
serted only short while ago that
most hymns were only doggerel and
poorer literature than the average dime
novel. In recent lecture, also, he
intimated his belief that bad people
do better literary work than good peo-
pie. and that the bad characters in
books and plays are better done than
the good characters. Thus he insti-
tutes comparison between the good
and the bad to the advantage OF the
latter. In short, he evidently wishes
people TO think of him as an icono-
elastic and very original free thinker
equally ready to upset an 'deai or
throw mud at an idol. His as ertions
and conclusions. however. are in such
opposition TO those of persons of we'll
balanced minds that the majority of
sentiment with respect to him will no
doubt be that he is a shallow sensa-
tionalist. charmed with the sound OF
his own voice.
The wonder, by the way Is, why the
University OF Chicago employs such
freaks as Prof. Triggs and his CO.
startler OF the faculty. who compares
John ID. Rockefeller with Shakespeare.
and says the American people would
become Indians u II were not FOR the
foreign immigration.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
sized Him Up.

distinguished Florida lawyer some
times tells the story on himself and
sometimes on one of his brethren at the
bar. This time he made himself The
victim.
II was young lawyer and had come
from the university with a diploma and,
besides, medal for oratory. In those
days l wore the medal proudly on my
watch-chain and sometimes fingered it
loVingfy-aii unconsciously,- of course.
Il had a case or two given me by
my kim and had been pretty success
full in them. There We're bigger law
yers than / then, just as there are now,
but I didn't know it. Here's how
found il out
"One day I was employed in a little
case before a justice of the peace 10
miles in the country. / went on the
appointed day in a borrowed top buggy
and a frock- tail coat. All the neigh
borhood was there; they had heard of
the trial and wanted to hear me speak.
Most of them had known me from my
childhood; they expected much of me,
and l looked forward to a Ciceronian
triumph. Indeed, / wasn't so sure |
couldn't have done up Cicero, and l
think 1 must have yearned for him to
appear in the flesh SO that 1 could show
MIN WHAT real elOQu6uCS WdSs
My speech was what is called In
atter-day vernacular a Jim Dandy.
| was pleased the audience was pleas
ed, and | sat down confident that the
verdict was mine. Only razor back
was involved.
Then came the reply. A tall. lanky,
sallow- faced, stoop- shouIdered, be-
whskered old cracker. who was the
plaintiff, uncoiled himself from around
a split bottomed chair, arose, and with
a slow, serious, creepy sort of drawl
addressed the court. This was his in
Productions:
EFF it please yer 'onner, I'm
moughty sorry haint got no lawyer In
this case. The fax is that I expected
to employ my young frien' thar. be-
kase he was raised in this neighbour
hood, and yistiddy I went up to the
cotehouse ter git him. But I never
had but Is cents to pay a lawyer with,
and when got up thar was told that
he was the only lawyer in town who
would take the case fer a quarter. and
he was done employed by the tother
side, SO Eve got to plead the case fer
myself.
''rThe old man pot fine MIG
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
The Correct Expression.

Thanks" said the tragedian; many
thanks for your good opinion. al
ways study from Nature, sir. In my
acting you see reflected Nature her
self"
Try this cigar" said the admirer of
Nature, reverently, says Tit Bits.
Nov, where did you study that ex-
preston of intense surprise that you
assume in the second act?''
From Nature, sir. from Nature. To
secure that expression I asked an in
innate friend to lend me IS. He re-
fused. This caused me no surprise. l
tried several more. Finally / asked
one who was willing to oblige me. and
as he handed me the note | studied in
a glass the expression of my own face.
/ saw there surprise, but ii was not
what / wanted. 1t was alleged with
suspicion that the note might be a
bad one. / was in despair"
"Well?' said the other, breathlessly.
Then an idea struck me. re-
solved upon a desperate course. I re-
turned the note to my friend the next
day, and on his astonished countenance
saw the expression of which was
in search"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
rELEPHoNEs o, THE FARMS.

Students of sociology have for some
years been much perturbed by the drift
of population from the country TO the
city. Man, naturally a gregarious ami
NAL. has found the farm lonesome,
tiresome and uninteresting in its linz
tied social and intellectual atmosphere.
1t has been his desire and ambition,
therefore, TO leave the farm at the
earliest possible moment and go to the
city, where there is life. activity and an
abundanc of companionship. How to
make farm life attractive and thus sat
isfying to the youth of both sexes is
a problem the solution of which VIII
do much for the happiness and pros
perity of both the individual and the
country.
Modern inventions-the trolley car,
the telephone and the horseless We
hicle-and good roads no doubt offer
a partial solution of the problem.
With quick communication between
farms and neighborhoods by means of
the automobile, or with the animal
drawn vehicle, over good roads, ana
with the farmer put within speaking
distance of all his neighbors and the
postoffice and village stores by means
of the telephone, the isolation of the
farm is destroyed, and each family en-
joying these advantages is put in touch
with every other family of the COM
munity equally fortunate. No matter
what the weather may be, business AMI
social intercourse is kept up, and the
folks of the farm house feel that they
are in the busy world and of it, not
stuck off to one side" to vegetate.
Out West, especially in Indiana and
Kansas, the farmers are making large
use of the telephone, now that the
monopoly in instruments has been
broken and very good ones can be pur-
chased at reasonable prices. In Mont
gomery county, Indiana, there are up
wards of 5000 telephones in use con-
Meeting farm houses with each other
and with some forty villages. The
farmers have built the lines themselves.
and find that their expenses are not
much over So per year for telephone
service. They have no elaborate ex-
changes, and do all of the installation
and repair work themselves, requir-
ing expert assistance very seldom. In
some instances an operator is required
at a central switchboard. In such cases
the subscribers charge fees to non
subscribers, and thus realize enough to
pay the operators salary. In Kansas
many farmers make use of their barb
wire fences for telephone connections.
The barb-wire is very good conduc-
tor and by turning the fence into a
phone line the expense of wire is
saved.
In the sparsely settled farming COM
munities of the South the rural tele-
phone might be more expensive than
in Indiana and Kansas, but We hope
the day is not far distant when Geor-
gia farms generally will have the ad-
vantage of permanently hardened pub
lie roads and good telephone lines con-
Meeting them with their neighborhoods
and the village postoffices and stores.
The amount of time and money to be
saved and the pleasure to be derived
from such conveniences can hardly be
estimated.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-29
BRIGHT BITS.

Realistic THAT canvas of mine
that I cali Sunset on the Jersey Mead
nws' is the most realistic thing 1 ever
s;agnant pool in the foreground? Well.
sir l had to sprinkle crude petroleum
all over it to keep the mosquitoes off,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
impartial. --Tess-"I never see Miss
Spinner out wheeling that Mr.. Wheeler
and Mr.. Sprockett are not with her. ="
Jess-"Yes, she's got them both on her
string The girls are calling her Miss
Tandem Tess-"But she rides an
individual wheel" Jess-"Yes. but
she's bicycle maid for two "-Phii-
adelphia Press
The Latest Fad.-Mrs. Nebb-"I
am going to an observation party this
afternoon, dear" Husband-"An OBJ
splVation party? What sort of a par
ty is that?" Mrs. Nebb-"Mrs. QUIZ
GERS next door neighbor Is moving. and
Mrs. Quizzer has invited a few friends
TO watch through the windows and see
what they have. Boston Traveller.
Hard to Teil.-'T see your names
in the papers a good DEAL" comment
ed the old friend. II suppose you're
really IN soeiety now" MY wife
thinks we are" replied the man who
had become suddenly rich but some
times have my doubts" How so?''
We'll, when there's swell charity en-
tertainment to be given, with boxes
quoted at 5000 and $500 or more the
evidence seems to indicate that we are
very much in society, but when some
exclusive private function takes place
there seems to be nothing but what
you might call negative evidence. ]
think possibly 1t might be correct to
say that our money is in society, but
we are not. Chicago Post.