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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-24
Promise to Surrender.

Manila, May 14.-In a conference
with Gen. Funston, Gen. Lucban, of
the province of Neuva Ecija, prom
Used to surrender with his entire CON-
mand within a few days.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
ESy
ncnts Of these comparatively

dry gouuS dealers, gr0CCrs. agents, etc. and
III II few instances as II premium for subscrip-
lions 10 papers.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Christmas with his parents at
Shelbina.
w. j. Mcleod and daughter,
Miss Josie, attended court in
Paris Thursday and Friday.
Bernie Sanditer made flying
trip to Paris Thursday night
and returned Friday.
Mrs. John Ryan, of near
Woodland. and Mrs. Frank
Thomas spent Thursday with
their aunt, Mrs. Mike Sullivan,
near Clapper.
Frank Thomas made a bust
ness trip to Palmyra Friday.
H. |. Lear made business
trip TO Hannibal Friday
Sam Sandifer, of Monroe, is
spending a few days with his
parents. Joe Sandifer and wife.
Mrs. John Ryan and son visit
ed her son, Charley and family,
near Philadelphia from Satur-
day till Wednesday.
Lawrence and Frank Bono
are visiting relatives near In
dian Creek.
Miss Maggie Bono is on the
sick list
Miss Ollie Baxter, Of Palmy,
ra, is visiting her friend, Miss
Daisy Hanley.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Hatch.

Mrs Alice Whltecotton and
accomplished daughter, Mat
tie, of your City spent the first
of this week with the ia mily of
]. j. Kendrick.
One of the SWEETEST dancing
parties of 1900 took place at
John Haden's Friday night.
Music was furnished from the
Bluff City. An elegant supper
was served and their many
friends will always have a
warm place in their hearts for
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Ladies' Listen.

When the Burlington r. r.
officials had the H. & st. Jos
eph depot remodeled they made
a nice clean warm waiting room
for your special benefit and to
incidentally give the gentlemen
a chance to be by themselves
and to use the old waiting room
as a smoker. The door to the
ladies waiting room is just be
You'd the bow window. The
Burlington people ought to put
up sign at both doors so their
patrons can take advantage of
what has been provided for
their comfort.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

1900 is now gone, it is folded
as fabric and laid away in the
archives of the past for the in.
speCtion of the future. 1901 is
now in the loom and the cease
less SHUTTLE Of time clicks with
undated monotony, weaving
the good and i'll together with
the same Indifference that the
tates piled their skill in spin.
ming and clipping the threads
of human destiny"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Reprint Dictiona

phOiotNpc copies of hnn!, at E. 49,, .,
years ago, which in it~duy wuSsuld fsruh...
S.W, ana which was much superior ia lII e.
print, ana binding 10 these limitations bean
then II work of some merit instead OF uic
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
that delightful time.

that dellgnttul time.
Ed Cambell and wife, of St.
Louis. are here on visit.
Telephone fever has struck
this place, on with the line to
Monroe City.
The Garnett-Floyd, wedding
Christmas day was most
brilliant affair. We congrat.
ulated the IN.
Mrs. j. G. Farrell and
daughter, Mamie, in company
with her son Joseph spent last
week here from Marshall.
Mrs. Ann S. Elliott, of your
city. is here visiting relatives.
Quite a number of tax payers
went to New London Monday.
All who attended the grand
Huntington ball report most
delightful time.
Ties by the wagon load are
being rushed from this vicinity
to your city.
Thanks to the DEMOCRAT
for favOrs during 1900.
w. j. Kendrick and wife
spent last week in New London.
Mrs. John Simms, of Center,
is here visiting re latives.
Tom Bell and sisters, Virgie
and Laura, are at home from
State University at Columbia
until the latter part of this
week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Insult Farmers.

Circumstances often ma Ike
queer bedfellows. but not one
half so queer as the tariff
theory of the brazen Republican
high tariff theorist prove to he,
To protect the coal, coal oil,
steel and other barons a pro
tectivc tariff for the benefit OF
the farmer was placed on
cereals. The tariff on wheat is
only 25 cents per bushel, but
when the Kansas farmer wants
to import fresh strains of wheat
for seed he is told by the Ag-
ricultural Department at Wash
ington that it will cost him
81. rs per bushel laid down in
Kansas. That is the true
status of the tariff on this side
of the ocean and yet in spite of
that fact the Kansas farmer
either ships his wheat to Eu
rope or sells to the miller who
ships his flour to Europe and
after paying freight to the
seal ord and then ocean tran.
sportation and European tariffs
is compelled to undersell the
European products. The Kans.
an receives so or 30 cents per
bushel for his wheat, now allow
80 cents for transportation, %
cents (eXact amount) for tariff
and that leaves $500 for the
importer to this country, there
fore the claim that it benefits
the Americad farmer is an
insult to him for the difference
between so cents and $2.OOI
would be three (3) times what |
the Kansan receives for his |
wheat and that being the case
it is worse than folly to say
that wheat at $3.50 per bushel
would or could compete with
the home product, 1t is a sop
that is the purest of sophistry |
and one that ought to make the
'armer who swallows it blush
or the shame OF it, because it
S an Insult TO them.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
COOperSVille.

Mrs. Hanley and son, Crews,
visited relatives at Monroe
City from Saturday till Thurs.
day.
Clarence Mcleod came in
Monday from Kiowa, Kansas,
to visit his parents, w. j. Nc.
Leod and wife.
Ernest Buchanan, of Monroe.
and Miss Pearl Luck, of Clar-
ence, visited Miss Josie Nc.
Leod Thursday and Friday.
Lon Hanley, Dave Gosney,
Misses May Lear and Daisy
Hanley attended the Christmas
tree at Union Valley Monday
night.
Arbra Spalding, Ivan Yates.
George and Harry Yates, of
Indian Creek, spent Friday with
their cousin. George Mcleod.
Will Gosney and family spent
Christmas day with mis- parents,
Fred Gosney and wife.
George Burns visited friend S
at Spalding Springs Monday
and Tuesday.
Bernie Sandifer and Miss 10.
sic Mcleod visited his sister,
Mrs. Potterfeld, at Ely. Tues,
day and Wednesday, Mrs.
Potterfeld accompanied them
home to visit her parents, Joe
Sandifer and wife.
Charley Lear, John Tulley,
George Mcleod, Lon Hanley.
Crews Hanley, Dave Gosney.
Ernest Buchanan, Bernie Sandi.
fer and Misses May Lear, Ollie
Baxter, Daisy HanIey, Pearl
Luck and Josie Mcleod at
tended the entertainment at the
Stone school house Thursday
night.
H. l. Lear and family spent
Christmas day with Mrs. Lear's
parents, Mr.. Eberly and wife
at New Market.
Wentz See and family spent
Christmas day with his mother,
near Monroe.
Yancey Byrd is spending
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Agents wanted
IN every county
land township. A
splendid oppor-
tuhity for those
wanting employ.
manf L,.i. -
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Ardmoreite: Qndian TER
ritory) "T. L. Reed of Loco is
the owner of a remarkable
freak, 1t is a two-headed pig
having nine legs and thirteen
feet, four of which are on leg,
1t is apparently in perfect
health and bids fair to reach
full development. Mr.. Reed has
refused an offer of $50 for the
pig from a Cincinnati concern. :
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Storms Raging.

London, Dec 31.-A severe
snowstorm, deluging rains and
furious gales have created
havoc in the United Kingdom.
In many parts of the country
there have been disastrous
foods, landslides, washouts,
much stock drowned. railways
and highways blocked, build
ings and bridges carried away.
Overlooking streams have in
undated miles of country, while
streets in many towns are three
and four feet under water.
At Coventry a number of
factories have been flooded.
Hundreds of inhabitants are
imprisoned in the homes.
The town of Bath is endang-
cred by the rise of the Avon,
which is now ten feet above
normal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
AGENTS WANTED
For an American Com
mOneP, OF the Life and
Times OF Richard
Parks BLAND.
EArH9 8LGnUo

A book of ever 400 pages, containing 100 illus
lrations, beautifully printed, edited by William
Vincent Byars. the distinguished author and jour
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

Messrs. j. j. Fitzpatrick, H.
Keudrick, Fl. Jarman, Joe Mont
gomery, william, Charles and
Ernest Buchanan, L. and G.
Handley, and Misses Bush,
Sadie and Mary hagan, Bessie
Hardesty and Annie and Fan
ME Finks attended the ball at
HunnewelI, Friday night.
Enoch Ragland and family,
left Saturday for Shelbina to
spend several days with the
homefolks.
A small portion of the goods
stolen from the Milton Strong
Dry Goods Co. a few weeks ago
have been recovered from some
women in Quincy, Dutch"
Hess who is under arrest in
Quincy has been identified by
Dick Strong, one of the mem,
b9rs Of the firm as the man who
was looking at the goods the
day before the night of the
burglary.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
DON'T Be DUPED

'nrrc lnvC been placed upon the market
scVrlri & cap reprints of an obsolete edition
Dt ~ cu,tcr'S Dictionary" They are being
offered under various names at a low price
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03
Worthless

reprints nrc very misleading; for instance.
they are advertised to he the sIhstnut IN!
realty, 50 Tar rs we know ana |Wl.u 't
arc all, from 4 to H.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-03

HalIbI, IT contains the
public addresses Of Mr..
Bland and a thought.
full and entertaining
history of the inpoT.
tant period in which he
figured-some thirty
years. Every Nilsson.
rian, every student OF
politics and economics,
every citizen Should
have a copy.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
The Village Kubbersnlith.

| Under the spreading blacksmith sign,
Inc village blacksmith sat;
lie heard The chuf-chuf-chuf and said,
Where rs my business at?
The road is Tull of horseless things,
And bikes and such as that"
The smith was deeply in the dumps;
An that was plain to see.
His Wink-eye winked a knowing wink
Up at the chestnut tree;
And then he said: These horseless things
lave put horse on ME"
And through his crisp and curly hair
His snewy hand he ran,
Says he, I'm get some different tools,
As well rs any man
III mend punctured rubber tire
III charge Whate'er l cam"
Week in, week out, from morn till night
His bellows blows no fires,
Instead 1t feeds . rubber tube.
That blows up rubber tires.
He has ii tank of gasolenc,
And cement, pipes and wires.
And children coming from school
Rubber in the open door,
They rubber at the rubber tube
A-rubbering round the floor.
They rubber at the ruhbersmth,
Who rubbers tires that tore.
He can't go Sunday to the church,
For that's his busy day.
Some city chaufeurs III the lurch,
And here Is work-and pay.
The chauffeur buys some gasolene
And chuf-chu on his way.
But never mind, his daughters there,
Up In the choir stand;
And as she holds the hymnbook high,
Shows diamonds on each hand;
For daughters buying iewelry
And Dad Is buying land.
Repairing and pumping and mending,
Onward through life he goes,
Each morning sees some tire break
Each evening sees 1t close.
Something mended, something done,
Puts money In his clothes
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
On the lesson III mediate.
All must at times get different tools,
This world will never walt;
If we would live the strenuous life,
We must keep up to date
j. N. f. In New York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
A CURIOUS DEFENsF.

That is a curious defense to a breach
of promise suit which is made by a
young man of Bowling Green, Ken
lucky. The young woman wants $4,000
for her lacerated heart, and the young
man declines to pay it on the ground
that when he asked the plaintiff to
marry him, which was eight years ago,
she weighed 125 pounds, and now she
weighs 49,
We do not believe this defense will
go. 1t certainly ought not to, 1t is
worse than idle for the young man to
say that he only promised to marry
125 pounds. A promise to marry, like
marriage, is for better or worse, for
more or less. If the young man hadn't
waited so long he wouldn't have been
confronted by 319 pounds. And if he
had truly loved 1875 pounds, 319 pounds
ought to have seemed to him more of
a good thing than 1875 pounds did. He
ought to be made to pay the $1,000 and
as much more in the way of costs as
can be tucked on to him. The i'll
treated young woman has been very
moderate in her estimate of damages.
1t looks as if she reckoned on the 1876
pound basis when she ought to have
used the 319- pound basis.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27

will have many expensive bridges and
tunnels. There are to be thirty-one
tunnels, of an aggregate length of 49,
700 feet, and 2O,500 feet of bridges, one
of them 1,400 feet long. The gauge Is
the American gauge. American pine is
to be used as Korea supplies no tim
Der and the Japanese timber is too
costly. The chief object of Japan in
constructing the road is, of course, po-
litical 1t is to be a means of quickly
throwing troops into Korea, and thus
holding that country against Russia.
Fusan is separated from Japan by
comparatively narrow portion of the
sea, so that, as respects Korea, the
Seoul Fusan railroad is full answer
to Russias Siberian railroad. Most of
the trade Of Korea is already in the
hands Of the japanese, thousands of
whom reside there. The railroad will
insure Japan's possession of the Korean
market and at the same time complete
her political predominance at Seoul
In view Of TIE national interest in the
enterprise the Japanese government
will guarantee per cent. interest on
the cost of the road for fifteen years.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
MEG ESS ar Y.

at is an error to allow automobiles
cycles"
still, to whirr is human. '-Philadel-
phia Times.
DE man dat allus speaks de troof,"
said Uncle Even, deserves a heap o
credit But he wants to be kyahful not
to talk any mo- dan is absolutely nee
essary. "-Washington Star
do you think person who finds q
four-leaf clover is necessarily lucky?"
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne ANY
one who can go hunting four-leaf Glow
ers is lucky to be able to pass the
time thus instead of working, Wash
ington Star.
Breaker-That young man you intro
duced me to must be a millionaire the
way he spends money.
Surfton-Not at all; but you see he
has to get rid Of his years salary at So
week in five days vacation.-Colum-
bus (Ohio) State Journal.
Mrs. Cawker-I am so glad that my
little boy went to the head of his class
this morning. How did you come to do
it, Tommy?
Tommy-rhe rest of the fellows had
guessed all the other ways of spelling
the word.-Leslie's Weekly.
Mistaken.-"Did you say those folks
who Just moved into the neighborhood
We're socialists 2" asked the woman who
was leaning over the back fence.
Yes" answered the next-door neigh
Dor.
well, I suppose you see by this time
you are mistaken. We have had four
socials since they moved in and they
haven't been to one of them. Wash
ington Star.
An Appreciative Patron.-"Did you
my predecessor on the bench as
much as you have annoyed me?' in
CURED the Judge Of the frequent Of
fender.
mo, Judge" said the tough one, Il
always thought so much of you that
just as soon as I heard you was elected
I made up my mind to give you all my
legal businessman I've done it,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
THE URGH 1RI1I.

| The Fosburgh trial came to its inev-
liable end yesterday in the prompt ac-
quittal of the young man charged with
killing his sister Not particle of ev-
idence was introduced during the trial
to show that he did the deed of which
he was accused. And not a particle of
evidence was introduced to show that
there was ever any reasonable ground
for his indictment. The law officers
who made the accusation and thus made
terrible trouble for the Fosburgh fam
lily did a wrong for which there ought
to be some redress, but we don't sup
pose there is any. The chief of police
who has been so active and so mysteri-
Gus in the prosecution has made a rep
utation, but it isn't exactly the kind
that he will like when he comes to
think it over His testimony was so
weak and pointless that it made every
that he was on the trail of a strange
and hideous crime or accident, or what
ever he thought it was. The judge said
the chief had tried to do his duty, but
the general opinion will be that he
didn't try very intelligently.
After the curious and futile legal per-
Torrance the fact remains that Miss
Fosburgh is dead, and that somebody
killed her. In spite of the attempt that
has been made to make a mystery out
of the crime it is quite possible that it
was just the simple and brutal affair
that the Fosburgh family said it was.
They gave straightforward and coher-
ent testimony, and while truth is some
times stranger than fiction 1t is not al 4
WAYS so,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
NOT so GIORF0 US.

Future wars wont have as much
"pomp and circumstance" as the old
wars had, but they will be more bust
ness like. Lord Dundonald, the we'll
known British cavalry general, has
been giving his conclusions drawn from
his experiences in South Africa. He
said that the ideal mounted man Of the
future would be one who was skilled in
reconnaissance and outpost duty, could
attack position and defend a position,
and was, above all, a good shot and
able to walk many miles without ia
tigue to ease his horse. AS to the re-
tention or not of the sabre, he thought
the ordinary cutting sword should go,
and some light weapon be substituted
that could be utilized at the end of the
rifle or for thrusting. The future was
with the mounted rifemen. The day
of shock action and of the sabre was
over. Smokeless powder and fiat ira
jectory and magazine fire were too
much for it, to say nothing of light
machine guns. A few lancer regiments
might still be of use on special occa-
sions if their horses We're kept fresh,
but for general use the rif1eman was
the man. The unfortunate part of 1t
was that the qualifications which made
soldiers Of real use to the country were
not those which brought down the APP
plause of the gallery. The man who
could walk twenty miles a day to save
his horse and enable'a general to carry
out a great turning movement without
killing his horses, the man of accurate
way anywhere and send back his in
formation correctly and concisely was
the man who was wanted. He might
not look like a soldier, but he would
have to be judged, not from his looks,
but from what he could do, and he was
the man by whom the battles of the flu
ture would be won.
How would it do for hostile countries
to have lot Of automatic weapons
which could be arranged in a proper
field and set going against each other,
to perch on the side whose
weapons did the best work?
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
FLYING SQUIRRELS,

1
| Copyright 1901. by Ernest Harold
| Baynes.)
| I first made the acquaintance of the
flying squirrel many years ago, when
lived in a frame house in what is now
Bronx Park, New York. Up under the
caves was a small knot hole, and one
evening, at dusk, was looking at it,
when ! saw what thought was rats
head sticking out Presently a little
animal leaped out OF the hole. and in a
very unratlike manner sailed down.
ward at an angle of about forty-five
degrees to the trunk Of an oak tree per-
haps fifty fleet away. 1t quickly ran to
the top. and after pausing for a mo-
ment, as if to get its bearings, it sailed
to another tree a little further on.
looked back at the knot-hole, and there
was another gray animal coming out
This one sailed away and then came
another and another, until a dozen or
more had flown out into the gathering
gloom. OF course my curiosity was
aroused and on inquiry learned that
these curious rats were flying squir-
rels Boy-like, I wanted to have one
alive, and began to devise ways and
means to capture one ! fastened the
top of a wire bird-cage to the end Of
long lole, so that it looked something
like stiff crab-net. Just before dusk,
l stood with the pole in my hands,
holding the mouth of the cage over the
hole under the caves. l had not long to
wait before, to my great delight, a
squirrel leaped into my trap. With the
aid of the pole, / drew the cage care
fully down the side Of the house, but
before I could bring 1t within reach, my
prisoner slipped out sideways between
the bars and got away. then learned
for the first time, that a flying squirrel
Is something like a sheet of cardboard
very broad one way, but quite narrow
when viewed edgewise.
On cold March day last year, I was
walking through a wood, searching the
trees for owls and raccoons, when I
spied a hole which had been made by
downy woodpecker in a decayed sap
ling about five feet from the ground.
AS I looked at it the gray, whiskered
face of a flying squirrel was whisked
out for an instant and then withdrawn.
| stepped up quietly and blocked up
the hole with my pocket handkerchief;
then with a big jackknife I knocked
down the decayed stump, put it on my
shoulder and started for home On ar
irving I put the stump into a large box,
tackled some wire netting in front and
took my handkerchief out of the hole.
At first the squirrel was very restless
and for half an hour tried hard to es-
cape After that she hook her impris-
onment quite philosophically and went
to bed in the fine cedar bark of which
she had made her nest. The box was
placed in a corner of my bedroom
and that night I could hear her chsel-
ing the hickory nuts which had been
given to her.
A week later, four young flying SPUR
rels We're born, and so anxious was the
old one for their safety that it was
with great difficulty that / could get
even a glimpse of them. They were
blind and naked, and looked a good
deal like small caterpillars In three or
four days l tried to take one of the
out, to have good look at
it. When l put my forefinger into the |
hole in order to reach one, the loving
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-27
J.lP4N'S NEW R4YLRO4D

Japan doesn't mean to be behind
other countries in the matter of a
strategic railroad. A japanese syndi-
cate is about to begin the construction
of a railroad from Fusan, a point on
the southern coast of Korea, to Seoul,
the capital Of Korea, distance of PSF
miles, at a cost of $12,500,000 The
first two hundred miles, from Seoul to
Remain, is over a level country and
presents no difficulty, but the remain
ing eighty-seven miles are to be
through mountainous country and
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Tell me-" he sighed, "tell me, beau-
teous maiden what is in your hearth"
Miss Henrietta Bean, of Boston
gave him a look of icy disdain and
then vouchsafed the nonosyllabic re-
ply:
Blood. Baltimore American.
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