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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

AT Waterbury, Connecticut, a few
days ago, an "Uncle Toms Cabin"
company was stranded, and twenty
negro s.ham-actors' left on the town.
And that town made a roarl IL did not
want these negroes! just think of it,
the state Of wooden nutmegs and the
town Of The Waterbury watch, kicking
over a score Of colored American citI-
zens settling in their town. The Yankee
love Of the negro Is well illustrated in
this incident.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

1t seems to us that about nine.
tenths Of our extradition laws are a
nuisance, and should be repealed. Why
should the United States wish to pro-
tect a Canadian thief or a Mexican
thief? Such scoundrels do not make
good citizens, and we can see no good
reason for protecting them from being
taken back to Canada or Mexico and
punished. If other countries wish to
harbor American thieves, that is their
lookout.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The Kansas City packing house,
which furnishes meat to the Missouri
penitentiary, has been trying to work
off some embalmed beef on the con-
victs, but the stuff would not pass
This shows that Missouri takes better
care of her convicts than a republican
administration took of our soldier
boys. And this is not much Of a COM
pliment to the state either.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14
Presidents Speech.

ORNNSAf
President Roosevelt has been
severely criticised for his decoration
day speech. The following extract
from his speech shows that he de-
served the worst that has been said
of him. The ''sand lot" orator sell
dom falls below this level:
"There were abuses and to snare
In the civil war. Your false friends
then called Grant a "butchern and
spoke Of you who are listening to me
as %mercenaries, as "Lincoln's hire
lings." Your open foes-as in the
resolution passed by the confederate
congress in October, lS62-accused
you. at great length, and with much
particularly, Of ''contemptuous dis
regard of the usages Of civilized war;"
OF ~subjecting women and children
to 'banishment, Imprisonment and
death;'' of murder, Of "rapine, " Of
"outrages on women" Of "lawless
cruelty, of Nperpetrating atrocities
which would be disgraceful to savages;"
and Abraham Lincoln was singled out
for especial attack because Of his
Esprit Of barbarous ferocIty. "
Verify, these men who thus foully
you have their heirs today
In those who traduce our armies in
the Philippines, who fix their eyes on
individual deeds Of wrong so keenlv
that at last they become blind to the
great work of peace and freedom that
has already been accomplished.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Somebody presented the editor Of
the Fulton Telegraph with one hun
dred dollars, in cold cash-that is, the
editor says SO. And yet he did not
fall dead If Wallace Williams were a
republican we could pass this as a Joke.
but we do not approve of the practice
OF Ananias creeping into the demo-
cratic ranks.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The loop-the-loop at one Of the
parks in Kansas City, is the liveliest
kind of fun. The loop is made in one
second, the passengers being held in
the car by the force of velocity, on
the same principle that a bucket Of
water may be swung wei your head
without splitting.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The Marshall Republican has a long
editorial headed: 1.-THE Republican
Party's Best Policy" The article
says: "Never before were the republi-
can party's prospects of carrying
Missouri so bright. Never before was
the disgust of the people, owing to
the corrupt and unconstitutional ad-
ministration of the state government,
so ~deep-seated and so widespread .
We would advise the republican news
papers to quit lying, and would
advise the republican party to try to
be honest. This would be the best
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Senator McLaurin, of South Caro-.
lima, who boasted of his simon pure
democracy while consorting with
republicans, has received his reward.
Republicans always reward a renegade
from democracy.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Kansas City continues to steal land
from the Missouri river, thus forcing
the water to the north side. Some of
these days the big piers of the Winner
bridge Will be on the south side OF the
river.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The democrats of johnson county,
on Monday Of last week. instructed
their delegates to the state convention
to vote for Bronaugh, Knott, Val
liant, Woodson and Alexander Graves.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Farmers are cutting swathS around
their wheat fields, and some have
begun harvest in earnest. Missouri
will produce a big wheat crop this
year, and the prospects are excellent
for a big corn crop.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

By order Of the president our stand
ing army has been reduced from
77,2S7 to 66,497 men, a reduction Of
10, 100. Thanks for this large favor.
It means a saving Of over ten million
dollars to the taxpayers.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Some years ago the Kansas City
Safe Deposit Company failed, and it
was found to be a rotten concern, and
thousands of poor people lost all they
had. Has anybody heard Of any pros
ecutlons? or has anybody heard of any
settlement OF the affairs OF the com
pany?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

1t is announced that Walter Will
liams will go INTO the ministry when
he gets home. and become pastor of
the largest Presbyterian church in
Columbia. Whatever he undertakes
will be well done. He is a bralny,
eloquent man.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Webster Davis, of Kansas City, will
move to New York, where he has an
offer of a job with a salary of s25, 900
per year.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

During a thunder storm at Corder,
Wednesday Of last week, three houses
were struck by lightning, and several
persons considerably shaken up, but
no one seriously hurt.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14
Trigg and Eaton wllI Moue

About the first Of July Trigg s.
Eaton will remove their stock OF
groceries to the Taubman building,
now occupied as a coal Office by Mr.,
J. g. McGrew, opposite Fredendall
y Wilson's. 0.I4-3b
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

J. G. Railey, who was murdered at
Kiowa, |. t., a few nights ago, was
a brother Of Mrs. A. P. Wilson, of
Sweet Springs. He leaves a wife and
five little children.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

A mar named True, 10 years of age,
in Galloway county, while gathering
%mulberries, fell from the tree and was
killed. Mulberries are not fit to eat
any how.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Prof. w. f. Bahlman, of the War
r%ensburg Normal school, has been
released at his own request for one
year. He will travel in Europe. He
was formerly principal of the public
schools Of Lexington, and has many
friends here.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The Marshall Republican is talking
about an 'honest count Itmentions
no names, but probably refers to
'thOnest Count Rodman."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

About eight couples Of young people
enjoyed a delightful moonlight picnic
at 1.-THE point" Thursday night.
The party started before 5 O'Clock
aud after the usual picnic supper they
spent the time in wandering about
AID enjoying the view. All report a
good time.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

In the French chambers, last week
a deputy exclaimed; eyes, you repub-
licans are swindlers and traitors, and,
in a way, foreigners, and your presi-
dent is a thief. Then the fight took
place, in which several deputies got
their hair mussed up and their cravats
out Of shape. A challenge was sent
to the deputy who made the speech.
He treated the messenger with con
tempt; the messenger says he slapped
the deputy's face; the deputy says the
messenger is a liar, and there you are.
This scene is worthy of a Kansas or
Arizona legislature.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Congressman John D~ougherty, Of
the third district, was renominated
as a candidate for congress, at PlattS-
burg, Thursday, on the 413th ballot.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

It having been reported that VIM.
]. Bryan would be a candidate for
governor Of Nebraska this fall, Mr..
Bryan says the rumor is untrue.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The 17-year locusts are beginning
TO appear in Indiana, Maryland and
other eastern states.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

The republican prosecuting attor-
ney, at Kansas City, was very free
with his charges of corruption at the
recent election in that city. We have
not read of his prosecuting anybody.
Wonder why he don't 90 ahead?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

st. Louis has sold SIS, 0OO, 900 of her
fair bonds. They brought par, and
one cent additional on each 81, OOe
bond.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Alaska has a volcano in eruption,
and at night the flames look to be
''miles high"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

It is reported that "Bossie"
Francis has been captured in the
Indian Territory.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14
wELLINaroN AND YIcINrr,
tBY LEALMA.)

OF. J. Schaoerg went to Kansaso,,
Tuesday.
Dick Stricken had business in
ington Monday.
Fred Kreitz went to Kansas Citv
business Thursday,
William Brewer had business
Lexington Tuesday.
L. B. Seitz and wife were don,
from Kansas City Sunday.
W. B. Warren, of Waterloo, tran.
acted business here Tuesday.
Wheat harvest commenced 10 hi,
neighborhood Tuesday morning.
F. G. Waller and wife and Mi,
May Nelson were at Odessa last Sat-
urday.
Mrs. J. L. Rider, of the SUNSHINE
vicinity, was in town shopping Wed.
nesday.
Mrs. White Lockheart is spending
this week with Mrs, F. f. Moeller, in
Napoleon.
Miss Bertha Crews, who has been
very sick for some time, is slowing
improving.
The third Sunday tomorrow is the
regular preaching day at the NJ. E.
church, South.
Mrs. NJ. W. Flournoy, Of New
Mexico, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
johnson, south of town.
Cleveland Jarvis, OF Kansas CITY,
Kas., is spending a few days with the
family of John S. Slade.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Simmons
returned home one day last week from
a visit to friends in Cooper county.
Miss Bette Slade left Saturday
morning for an indefinite stay with
relatives and friends in Kansas City.
W. B. EmiSon and George Hackley
shipped three carloads of live stock
Monday, and II. III, Potter one m
Tuesday.
Misses Ollie Carter and Jessamon
Vivion, of Kansas City, spent Satur-
day and Sunday last with the Misses
Strodtman.
A. N. Lockhart, Of Oak Grove,
crossed the river here last Saturday
en- route to Richmond on business.
He returned Sunday evening.
The city council met Wednesday in
special session and dramshop licenses
we're granted to Limberg & Denton
and Gausman & BueEeman for six
months, from July lst.
Mrs. Lavinia Price. who has been
with her daughter, Mrs. Joe
Crutsinger, for some time, and her
granddaughter, Miss Ethel Cox, Of
Sherman, Texas, who has also been
visiting there for several days, left
Thursday for a visit with relatives in
the eastern part Of the state.
Mrs. 0. @. Kinkead received a tele-
gram Sunday afternoon announcing
the sudden death from apoplexy, of
her mother, Mrs. William Purcell, at
her home in independence. Mrs.
Kinkead went to independence Mon
day morning. The remains were in
There Tuesday. Mrs. Purcell
lived for a long time in and near
wellington and had many friends here
who deeply deplore her sudden
and whose hearts 60 out in
iympathy to her loved ones.
H. w. Carter & Co. have just COM
'leted two Of the largest road wagons
,ver constructed here or most likely
n the county. These, with thirteen
yet to be put up here, are for
fred Engerer, Of 10 South James
treet, Kansas City, Kas., and are to
'e used in delivering coal. The boxes
re Of u in. oak, axles 81 in. and the
omblned weight of the two now fin-
shed is 5000 pounds, with a load
apaclty Of 5000 pounds. The work
done in a neat and substantial
that speaks we'll for Messrs.
and Vogle.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Beef cattle sold at $3.50 per hun
bred in Kansas City, Thursday, Of last
week.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Hon. Edward Robb has been re-
nominated for congress from the thir-
teenth district of Missouri.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Fourteen couples of young people
were assembled at the home Of Mrs.
G. W. Fredendall Thursday night in
honor of Miss Daisy Fredendall.
Of Elton, Colorado. The time was
spent in listening to music and play
Ing dominos. At the end Of the
game it was found that Messrs. Dow
Xix, Earl Sitter and Walter Peak had
lied for the g~eutlemen's prize, a book,
while Edith Powell and Maud Gain
tied for the ladies' prize, also a book.
Mr. Dow Xix aud Miss Maud Gafln
we're the successful ones. Light re-
freshments we're served and all were
sorry when the time came for leaving.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Quite a sensation was created in
Washington, Wednesday, by B F.
Thurber, who testified before the
senate committee on Cuban affairs,
that Gen. Wood had authorized the
expenditure OF IS, 900 Of Cuban money
60 promote reciprocity between Cuba
and the United States. He also said
Hayemeyer, Of the sugar trust, had
contributed $500 to the scheme.
Roosevelt is excited. He considers
himself entitled to all the honors
won by Gen. Wood, and holds himself
responsible for Woods actions. Let
the investigation proceed.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-14

Mrs. Ada B, Carter, accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Ollie Carter,
went to Kansas City Friday morning.
Rock Island Argus., 1902-11-08
COOKING HINTS.

Chocolate is greatly improved by
adding n teaspoOnful of strong coffee
Just before serving.
In adding flour to gravies, always
use n flour dredger and there will be
no Jumps in the gravy.
Some housekeepers vary the flavor Of
potato salad by boiling the potatoes for
it in stock, or, if it is more convenient,
in the soup kettle.
In using sour milk the proportion for
gingerbread, biscuits. cake or almost
any dough or batter is one teaspoon of
baking soda to two cups of sour milk.
If making a gelatin dessert on n hot
or a wet day, add little more gelatin
than the recipe requires, half as much
again if you wish to mold fruit into
the jelly.
Eggs Ia ranigote is made by boil
ing eggs three and a half minutes, roll
in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs,
fry in deep fat; when brown, drain on
paper, garnish with parsley and serve
with ranigote sauce.
To make q small shortcake take
pint of pastry flour, rub in lard the size
of an egg, teaspoonful cream of tartar,
half teaspoonful soda, salt, and mix
with sweet milk. Bake in quick oven,
split and butter and add fruit.
Rock Island Argus., 1902-11-08

With much pomp and circumstance
and brave show of rich jewels, gilded
chariots and gaudy trappings the city
of London has annually for over 500
years inducted its lord mayor into Of
flee. Since 1853 and probably before
that time. although there is no definite
record of it. Nov. o has been celebrated
as lord mayors day. 1t is the great
day in the city, and most of LOndon's
519 mayors have observed the tradi-
tions of the occasion.
SO. conforming to ancient custom, the
new lord mayor, Sir Marcus Samuel.
will array himself in the gorgeous
robes and. bearing the jeweled mace,
ride on the time hOnOred day from
Guildhall to the palace of justice to
take the oath Of office.
The London over which the new
mayor will preside for twelve months
as chief magistrate comprises only
very small part of the great metropo-
lis. 1t is only a square mile in area,
and it's actual residents number only
10000.
Although he has no more authority
than any one else outside of his square
mile of territory, the lord mayor of
London is in many ways the most i'm
portant mayor in the world. His little
city in the heart of the great metropo-
lis is the center of British commerce
and while practically deserted at night
more than million people do business
there in the daytime. British troops
may not march in its streets without
the permission of the corporation, and
the king himself may not enter it with
out the permission of the mayor.
Sheriff Samuel, the man for whom
these honors wait, was elected on
Sept. %, Michaelmas day, just as all
of his predecessors were elected before
him. To become lord mayor of London
citizen must first be elected a mem
ber of the board of aldermen by the
ratepayers. There are but twenty-six
aldermen, and they hold office for life.
Once an alderman, further promotion
comes from the liverymen, who are
members of the city guilds.
Each year the liverymen elect two
of the aldermen sheriffs. The sheriffs
hold office for only one year. The
mayor is chosen from among those
aldermen who have not passed the
chair"-that is, been lord mayor-but
who have served as sheriff.
On the day of his Inauguration the
mayor elect is arrayed in his gorgeous
robes of office, and around his neck is
placed a golden collar, to which is at
tached diamond mounted jewel esti-
mated to be worth 100000. and for
the safe keeping of which and the city
plate. worth million, he is required
to give n heavy bond before he is
sworn in. He then ascends5 the coach
Rock Island Argus., 1902-11-08
TROUBLESOME SECT.
WHY CANADA WOULD LIKE TO BE
RID OF DOUKHOBORS.

Who They Are and why They Emil
grated From Russia to Canada.
Cause of Their Present Unrest and
FanaticnI Conduct.
1t was with much enthusiasm that
the Canadian government three years
ago welcomed the 5000 Doukhobors
who had been practically eXiled from
Russia. The people were known as a
harmless, industrious class of religious
enthusiasts who had been relentlessly
prosecuted by the car because of their
refusal to enter the Russian army and
to recognize the established Russian
church. The Dominion government re-
ceived them with open arms and set
aside for their use large tract of fer
tile land in Assiniboia, some 200 miles
north of Winnipeg.
But now the Canadians wish the
Doukhobors We're somewhere else.
They wish the sect had settled in the
United States, in Mexico, in Pata gonia
anywhere, out of the Dominion. Yet
the Doukhobors are just as harmless
as before. They are, however, indus
rious no longer. Always deeply reli-
gious, they have abandoned work alto
gether and are now devoting them
selves entirely to the mad business of
religious fanaticism. Stirred by n sud-
Rock Island Argus., 1902-11-08

London tubes" or underground sys-
tenn of transportation, involving invest
ments of something like 100000, GOO.
The contestants were two Americans,
J. p Morgan, the most famous. and c..
T. Yerkes, the most daring financier in
the world, each leading an army of
lawyers, engineers and railroad and
electric experts.
The story of the contest is long
one, involving many shrewd and far
reaching financial and political maneu-
vers and intrigues, but the end came
at last, and the powerful and hitherto
supposed unconquerable king of Wall
street found himself vanquished by
his daring and resourceful rival.
In all the world of finance there has
been no career more spectacular than
that of Yerkes He was born with tai
ent for speculation, and his ability was
only exceeded by his desire. 1t is said
that when he was only ten years old
he wandered away from his fathers
middle class home in Philadelphia one
day and strolled down among the
docks. In an obscure cross street n
sheriff's sale was in progress. A little
soa1maker had failed in business and
Rock Island Argus., 1902-11-08

even a hundred, but when 5000 to
5000 individuals leave their homes and
go wandering about on Il vague and
fanatical errand the problem becomes
complex.
The Doukhobors came from the Rus
sian Caucasus, to which they We're eX-
lied by the Russian government early
in the present century.
For years all the horrors known to
Russian officialdom, from the knout to
Siberian Punishment, were applied to
crush out the religious beliefs of the
DOukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers, and
to make them enter the czar's army.
Commiseration was excited both at
home and abroad. Count Tolstoi and
other philanthropists espoused the
cause of the martyred sect. The Douk-
hobors themselves peStioned the en-
press, mother of the czar, for either mil
itary exemption or permission to leave
Russia. Granted leave to emigrate, they
looked to coreligionists in Great Brit
ain and the United States for means
to be transported. Thanks to the gen.
erosity of the Society of Friends IN
both countries and to the efforts of
Count Tolstoi, funds were supplied
When 5000 of them had been settled
in Assiniboia, when they had begun
to gather herds and till the land and
make themselves comfortable, it was
thought that the troubles of the Douk-
hobors were at an end. Months ago,
however, it was noted that the col
onists were becoming restless. The
fervor of their religious meetings in
creased and their interest in crops di-
minished. Then, from some part of
Russia, probably from Siberia, came an
eloquent fanatic with special revela-
ton" He appeared barefoot, unkempt
of hair and in coarse garb. He was
wild eyed and strong of voice. He in
stituted q series of weird ceremonies in
which he harangued the credulous
Doukhobors. He told them it was not
enough for them to live the life of nom
resistance. He warned them that be-
cause of human sin the whole creation
groaned and that the dumb animals
were especially i'll used. He urged
them not only to abstain from eating
meat, but to abjure all animal products
and labor.
The Doukhobors heard and believed.
Aney turHeu ioose thelr noiseS anu
sheep and cattle. They harnessed
themselves to the plows and to the
wagons. They cast aside furs and
woolen clothing because animals had
died or been robbed to produce it.. And
finally, leaving their homes, they set
out to find the Christ.
Now, the fall is not the proper time
of year for pedestrianism in the north
west provinces, even. under the most
favorable circumstances; especially is
it not the season to roam about in cot
ton clothing and without shoes. The
Doukhobors have been suffering. per-
ishing along every mile of their pill
grimage; hence the frantic efforts OF
the Dominion government to drive
them back to their settlements.