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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09

John goods in the Friend store build
ing last week let on to be offended be-
cause we alluded to him as fakir.
We supposed his epidermis was SO
thick he would not notice little thing
like that. He left Monday. We will not
pursue the subject further except to
say that in our opinion those fellows
are mostly frauds. 1t pays better to
stand by our home dealers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09
Golden Wyandotte Eggs.

/ have eggs from full blood. Golden
Wyandotte chickens for sale. Sl.00
per setting. l2w4 GEO. T.. BROWN.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09

Bert Leamon, of Extra, was in town
between trains Monday while on his
way to Carroll where he and John
Harrison have Il contract to paint and
Daper hotel.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09

Agnes Wolfe commenced teaching at
No. ), Oakfield. township Tuesday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09

Next Sunday at the Bethel NJ. E.
church will be held the third quarterly
meeting of the charge. Rev. w. O.
Allen the presiding elder will be pres.
ent and preach the sermon. Every
body is invited to attend. 10 a. m
Sunday school. II a. IN. preaching
followed by the communion service.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09

Mrs. hurry, mother of Mrs. Geo.
Brady and of James hurry, died last
Sunday at 9 Il. IN. She was IS years
old and was we'll known here to the
old settlers. The funeral was from
the Catholic church Tuesday forenoon.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
EDUCATIONAL APPROPRIATIONS.

The special committee charged
with the investigation of the needs OF
the state university and normal
schools have recommended that the
sums asked for by these schools be
heavily discounted. 1t would be a
pity for the state of Missouri, rich In
every natural resource, out of debU,
prosperous beyond all previous ex-
perience, to take a backward stem in
the matter Of education. The state
university and the state normal
schools should be supported to the
utmost limit of the public demand
for what they legitimately have to
give. But the people should iusist
upon not paying for the same thing
twice. They should sinthqsedoni u
abolition of high school courses at the
university and upon the rejection Of
all candidates for admission to the
normal schools who do not expect to
be teachers. Let normal school stu
dents give their notes for tuition, to
become void after service fer a cores
ponding number of years as teachers
IN the schools of the state. 1t NAV
be some source Of pride to be able to
say of a state institution that it is
the biggest, but 1t ought to be a
source of still greater pride to be able
to say that we have no institutions
which are masquerading under false
pretenses. Such a policy would serve
to build up and dignity the local high
school as well as to save the tax
payers money.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
THE VERY LATEST.

A new captor has been found this
week for Jefferson Davis. John
Camm, Of the First Ohio cavalry,
says he was the mar who did it. His
story sounds tishy. 1t is defective in
all the fine, savory details. He even
denies the hoped skirt and bonnet
establishment, without which the
tale Of Mr. Davis capture is as tame
as the story Of Moses after the higher
critics have done with it. He goes
so far as to admit that he has con.
fessed to get the government reward
of l 1900, which is still in Washington
awaiting claimant.
Private Camm seems never to have
heard that one sc. M" of Kansas
has the 'original photograph" of Mr..
Davis in hoped skirt and bonnet,
"taken before he was allowed to
change his clothes. He seems never
to have heard of Sergeant PETIT, of
Pennsylvania, who nov has the hoped
skirt and bonnet IN possession, or
of that company of Michigan cavalry
which stuffed these garments with
straw and burned them 10 the pres
Of the captive, before daylight
on the morning Of the capture. The
government should pay no attention
to Private Camm's pretensions, should
set its seal of disapproval upon the
introduction Of realism into history,
should rebuke the iconoclasm which
would rob us Of The fine Nick Carter
10 the annals Of our works
aud days
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
Death Of MIR. James.

Died, Sunday afternoon at 1870
O'Clock Of heart disease, after an
illness of several months, Mr.. Thomas
james, aged about IS years,
Mr.. James came to Missouri from
Indiana about twenty-five years ago,
and Lexington has been his home
during that period. He was never
married and has no relatives 10 the
state. The funeral occurred from
the residence Of Mr.. Nick Haerle in
East Lexington Monday afternoon at
two O'Clock conducted by the Knights
of Pythias lodge, Of which he was
a member.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
educate THE WORKERS."


Under the above caption the Kan
sas City Star some weeks ago made
an editorial plea for technical schools
and incidentally for the American
public school system. 1t twas a
capital editorial and bad the merit
attributable to but few unqualified
pleas Of being more than half true,
The editor traced the growth Of
our wonderful industrial development,
which he attributed largely to the
greater effort put forth in this cOun-
try to secure the education Of the
masses He showed that the progress
in material things 10 the various
sections Of the country had been 10
the ratio Of the stress laid upon
popular education. Hence the plea
for the education Of the workers, 1t
is strange that this should be a new
doctrine in the world, and especially
since the very expression "inyolveS
the circle"-none but the workers
can be educated in any orthodox
acceptation of the term. The nom
workers car be trained only for play.
They are insulated. Cut off from
intimate contact with things, they
can never know the worlds great,
stark realities face to face. The
reason why none Of the worlds really
great men have derived any
benefit worth mentioning from schools
Is because the schools as a rule have
adapted their instruction to the
needs and comprehension Of the idle
classes. The bald truth of things is
sacrificed to localities and to a spirit
Of dileJtantism, The worlds really
great men, like Franklin, will in the
future come from the polytechnic
schools or from no school at all, as in
Ihe past, and they will come as they
have ever come from the class Of the
workers.
The so-called learned professions
been suffering a gradual loss Of
prestige in the last half century.
The great achievements in that time
nave come from other quarters. In
stead of a predatory idle class, from
which these professions have largely
'ome in the past, we have now a
predatory producing class. In the
asst quarter of a century the captains
industry have taken the place of
The robber barons Of the Middle Ages.
Education of the modern type will do
or the workers what gunpowder did
or the serfs. In this conflict,
Of the old type finds little
'lace. Hence the decline Of the
Learned professions. Under these
conditions a new culture is developing
"a culture having a more intimate
connection with real things, into
which the workers may enter as
PARTICIPANTS, instead Of merely dream
I FROM afar.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
G00n ROADS.

The Journal Of Agriculture from
week to week is giving editorial aid
and comfort to the bill Of Congress-
man w. P. Browulow of Tennessee,
which provides for assistance by the
federal government in the construc-
tion of rock roads throughout the
United States, the amount of the
assistance to be fifty per cent of the
cost OF construction. The mention
Of such a measure suggest to memory
the words of old Thaddeus Stevens
when he arose to speak on one OF the
jobs proposed in congress just after
the war. 'Sir, he said, addressing
the speaker, "This is the most in
famous bill Of all the infamous bllls
of this most infamous congress He
got no further Tho speaker rappt d
him down, and the house voted that
he must apologize, His apology was
as follows; ''Slr, | humbly regret
that | was not permitted TO proceed
until until my words had proven their
own iustiica'lo ion
Perhaps Mr.. Brownlow is 90 wolse
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
Ex. Senator Dawes Dead.

Ex-United States Senator Henry
Dawes died at 5;l5 O'Clock Thursday
morning at his home in Washington,
d. G. lie was SO years old. Mr..
Dawes had been i'll since Christmas
night, when he contracted a severe
cold while driving. The cold deveI-
oped into the grip, which Undermined
his system. Since last Sunday night
he has been unconscious.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
H KINEALY BILL.

The Kinealy bill, aimed at tele-
graph companies, requiring them to
furnish to anybody who will pay the
price any telegram Of public or semi
public interest Is possibly a well
meant but mistaken measure. The
purpose is to break up the monopoly
OF the Associated Press news bureau.
1t Is not at all likely that the courts
would sustain such a measure if il
were to pass. Much as it is desirable
to have the service Of this concern
for al the newspapers Of any CITY. Il
must be remembered that the Asso-
ciated Press has as good right 10
furnish exclusive service to preferred
customers as Touring mills and cigar
factories have to do the same.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07

The statehood contention presents
an interesting parliamentary situa-
tion. Quay plainly has a majority,
but ~ consists Of discordant elements.
1t may crumble under a long assault.
On the other side is a majority OF
the best parllamentarians and de-
baters-old time stalwart republicans
II the minority opposition holds out,
II the majority cafnot force a vote
then 90 strictly party issues what is
to prevent the democratic minority
frpm blocking any legislation it may
see nt 70 oppose? And If Aldrieh,
Lodge s. Gu. successfully contend for
minority RIGHTS 10 the statehood con-
test, will they not be estopped from
denying minority rights 10 partizan
which constantly arise.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
THEATRICAL
The Many Photographs Sold Go Most
ly to Collectors of Such Things.

The Many Photographs Sold Go Most
ly to Collectors of Such Things.
Many an ardent theater-goer is
wont to ask; 81 read Of an enormous
sale for portraits Of actors and
actresses, yet / never buy one, andI
wonder who the buyers are?"
The answer, resulting both from
strict inquiry and personal knowl-
edge, is that, quite apart from the
hosts of people who buy such things
merely to adorn their rooms, there
are a great number of others who are
serious collectors of every new speci-
men Of theatrical photo that they
can lay hands on. The order books
Of professional photographers and
sellers contain long lists of people
who give a standing order for a copy
Of each new portrait issued.
Most of these collectors have some
particular cult and fancy; one will or
der everything pertaining to one Civ
en- actress, whilst another will only
look at dramatic groups or musical
celebrities. A Yorkshire gentleman
living at Sydenham happenedto have
a perfect set Of the character por-
traits Of a great actress hailing from
the same country, the late Adelaide
Nelson, and these he sold lately to an
admiral, agreat collector of theatrical
for 30 guineas. The buyer
has over 1900 separate theatrical
portraits, more than 100 of these be-
ing Of one actress.
Of course, there are rarities in this
sort Of collecting, and one of these is
a photograph Of Mrs. Kendall as a
boy" as she appeareda at
a Bradford theater under the man
agement Of Blackstone and Wilde. A
copy Of this was sold by a Bradford
publican for e5,-London Tit-Bits.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
Nj. Barnes Dead.

Mr.. William Morris Barnes died at
his home on Twenty fourth and Main
streets Tuesday morning at 8 O'Clock
OF pneumonia, after an illness of only
one week, aged As years. Mr.. Barnes
came here from Wellington about
three years ago. He is the son Of
Mr. Ira Barnes and the family is
well known and highly esteemed in
lafayette county. He leaves a wife
and i've children.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
IT CURED Elm.
ne Husband Who Nc Longer Stsys
Out Late With the Boys.

he Husband Wn0 NO Longer Stsya
Out Lats with the Boys.
Two married women who are very
intimate friends, and talk about the
skeletons in their respective closets
without reserve, were chatting to-
gether recently, says London Tit
Bits.
"I'm going to ask you," said the
younger, chow you cured your hus-
band of staying out late at night.
Pve eoaxed Frank, reasoned with him.
and scolded like a termagant, but it
has done no good. Heseems to think
if he's home for breakfast | have nc
right to complain"
''You can't expect, dear, that what
will cure one man is a remedy for all.
but this is how l dealt with Robert.
Despite all protests he had been stay
ing out very late, but one night he
came home before IL. l kept the
door double-locked and bolted, and al
ways let him in. This night l asked
him who was there, and he answered,
brusquely enough.
"You're Mistaken l replied.
Mr.. Latem never comes home this
early. You initiate his voice very
fairly, but he never speaks so plain
ly at night. Ifyou don't go away III
call the policeman
"'0pen the door, he shouted.
You know well enough who it is.
Don't make fools of both of u.s.
"F0h, dearp l exclaimed in a voice
of assumed terror, what shall | do?
Then | ran to the window and called
for the police"
"NoP"
eyes, / did, and Robert heard me.
He banged the door once or twice,
swore several hundred words, and
then hurried down the street. When
the police were there, and quite a
crowd had collected, he came up as
though he had been pushed for time,
eagerly inquired what was the matter,
and congratulated me on getting rid
of the untimely caller. Even after
we we're in the house he had the au-
dacity to keep up the fiction of a
strange man at the door; but he had
the grace to say that his business was
so arranged that he would not be de-
tanned at night any more, and would
be home to protect me. It was a
brazen pretence he made, but he has
kept his word"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07

Since Governor Dockery recon-
mended the submission OF a constitu-
tional amendment authorizing coun-
ties, townships or school districts to
tax themselves for the purchase of
text books for the free use of pupils,
the interest in the free text book
question has abated materially. By
local taxation the people would not
think they were getting something
for nothing.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07

than a shallow enthusiast, but it is
painful to reflect that a measure 50
radically the reverse OF the historic
position Of the South upon a funda-
mental constitutional question should
have had its origin in that quarter.
No one at all acquainted with the
history OF the past thirty years will
for a moment deny that the powers
most influential in our government
today would be delighted to take up
this matter, IL they thought the
people could be deceived into favor
ing II, Like the proposed federal
aid to education, it would absorb
surplus revenues aud insure a long
lease Of life to the tariff rates through
which predatory wealth is now rob-
bling the farmers under form Of law.
If the farmers Of Missouri would con-
tribute annually for macadamized
roads as much as they pay into the
pockets of the protected interests
(about 40 per cent of everything they
buy there would COR be 40 dirt
roads in the state.
Road making is a local matter; the
responsibility Of 1t, and the means by
which it is to be accomplished are
problems to be worked out locally, as
a part of local experience aud local
education in good citizenship. The
difficulties and discouragements Of it
are to be faced and fought out along
this line if it takes a hundred years.
We may as we'll get it out Of our
heads to begin on that there is any
way Of getting something out OF
nothing. Whether the roads are
built by federal or state or county
or township taxes, we will have to
pay for them. 10 some states the
people have already built their rock
roads. Do we want to see them taxed
TO build ours? Dishonest Sinking of
local obligations furnishes the first
excuse for Capitalization.
The INTELLIGENcER is in favor of
rock roads, in favor Of rock reads for
Lafayette county, in favor of making
a beginning now. But the INTELLI-
eENcER is not in favor of issuing any
bonds. Pay as you go is as good a
rule for counties as for individuals.
There Is an organization rapidly
crystalizing in the land devoted to
the promotion of rock road building
through bond issues. The organiza-
ton is not so much interested in the
roads as in the bonds. Lafayette
county road bonds would not be a bad
investment for idle Eastern capital,
and idle Eastern capital is beginning
to explain to us how much we need
the roads. ~
The plan most approved by the
experience Of other states is the
levying Of a reasonably light township
tax to be expended annually upon
that road In the township the patrons
Of which are willing to make the
cash subscription. This
method is not as slow as it would
seem to be. Let a few macadamized
roads be started out from one of our
towns and see how quickly the Others
will meet the competition. No move
nent is so contagious as rock road
building. Nowhere car you find a
that has tried it and given
t up.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
The GIee CInb.

The M. S. q. Glee Club has come
and gone. It was a fine, FOSTERING
lot Of fellows. There are some capital
voices in the club, especially in the
Oa's section Lexington audiences
nave a warm appreciation Of college
OOys and girls, and Wednesday night
Testified to their enjoyment by hearty
applause.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
Plea for the wooden Shoe.


We have wisely taken to wearing
sandals. | hope that before long we
will learn the advantage of the
wooden shoe, or sabot. Doyou know
that a great many diseases are due to
leather shoes-due to the wearingall
day long Of tight leather that is often,
IN bad weather, water soaked? And
do YOU know that by the wearing Of
wooden shoes, which keep the feet
dry and which do not "draw," all
those diseases might be avoided?
have several pairs Of sabots, and 50
have my wife and children. They
cost about 80 cents a pair, and keep
the feet dry, without cramping them
Or making them unhealthy tender
1 belleyethat the wisest thing Ameri-
cans could do would be to take upt the
sandal and the sabot, discarding alto
the hoe Of leath r.-PhiladeF
Dhia Record.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07

OH. ellison Gardner, a Washington
correspondent, says that the reason
SO much fuss has been stirred up over
Roosevelt's negro appointments is
that the trust interests have seized
upon this to inaame the country
against Mr.. Roosevelt, whom they
fear more than 40 army with banners
Mr. Gardner has doubtless gotten his
facts mixed. 1t is the bears and
mountain lions that live in such
shivering dread of him.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07

1t looks darker for Oklahoma state
hood now than at any time in years.
A bill has been introduced In the
legislature requiring the railroads to
furnish separate coaches for whites
aud blacks THIS is proof to Beyer.
idge That the territory is get too
barbirous for statehood. 1t might
'urnish Two heather democratic
senators.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07

The Kansas City Journal in an
editorial on "Fire. Eaters" says;'' II
was Kllgore, OF Texas, who kicked
his way into the house of representa-
tiyes and the gallant Joe Wheeler, Of
Alabama, who wanted to fight
B~outelle, OF Maine" The Journal is
mistaken about the first Of these
assertions ana might have explained
the mitigating circumstances 10 the
second. Kllgore did kick his way out
Of the house Of representatives once
when Gar Reed had ordered the
doors locked while he counted a
quorum. Mr.. Kilgore probably did
not like the company he was in and
he may have even questioned the
OF the car to turn jailor.
AS for the case Of Joe Wheeler, the
man who could look at Boutelle and
not want to lick him must either be
d~isembodied spirit or a knave,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
THE CIGARETTE.

The house Of representatives at
Jefferson City is being deluged with
petitions asking for the passage -
the bill to prohibit the sale Of cigar
cites aud cigarette papers to minors
10 Missouri. The cigarette is demor-
alizing, unnecessary, and eradlcable
Because OF the cigerette boys learn to
smoke from five to ten years earlier
than they otherwise would. The
cigarette may be no more injurious to
adults than any other form of smoking
tobacco, but it has more sins to
answer for than any other form. II
is hard to conceive OF any good reason
why this bill should not pass.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-07
DurnO Was Excellent.

Maglcians' entertainments are
olten the raokest Of frauds. Not 81
WIN Durno' who was at the New
Grand Thursday night. Nothing a.
'ne KIND at all equal to Durno,s
entertainment has been seen in Tey1
l ,us'on. II he ever comes again IL
an audiences
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-06-12
OHANITKVIILR.

Mr.. Edwin Farnum's house is beins
repainted.
Miss Hsttis:Olnsy has returned from a
visit to Hope.
Mr.. Geo. Dorr has moved Into Mr..
Geo. Olney's house.
Mrs. Mckenzie, OF Pine Hill 10 confined
to the house by illness.
Mr.. Geo. Whippls 10 working at the
X. /. Locomotive works.
Luther Barnard attended the Brown
Penn ball game Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. whippls visited
relatives in Lime Rock Tuesday.
Contractor John Coushlin 10 maLins
extensive repairs to the barn Of DE-. G. A.
Barnard.
The graduating elass of the Granite,
Vile school will take their examinatios
to enter High School.
Mr.. o. r. Robinson 10 having his lane
cleared and graded In front oil his hou.,
on the Geo. Waterman Road.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-06-12
NeItn's NOW Theatre.

Keith Theatre patrons will next week
be treated to the first farce Of the stock
season, and as the Albee Stock Company
has always been exceedingly well.liked
and successful In this form OF attraction,
there is no doubt but that large crowds
will witness the performance during the
week Of June 18th. The farce selected Is
"The Man from Mexico undeniably one
OF the funniest plays ever produced on
American stage. by II. A. de Souchet.
author OF my Friend from India"
That wel.known comedian, William
Collier, now Of the Weber & Field forces.
and his talented wife, Louise Allen
Collier, formerly appeared In "Thc Man
from Mexico" and everywhere won
praise and fortune In this fnnny play.
Daring the past season. the Keith stock
company, with which several of the
members Of the Albee Company were
connected, produced this play and II
proved one OF the biggest successes OF
the entire season. 1t abounds in amut.
Ing dialogue and laughable situations,
and the complications begin with the
rise of the first curtain and are not
cleared until the final line.