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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

The Lafayette County Fair is an
Institution which ought to grow from
year to year 10 Importance to the
interests which are the sources of
Lafayette county S wealth. 1t ought
to be and doubtless will be more and
more from year to year an institution
from which will go out influences 70,
improvement in agriculture and kin.
dred arts. A good county fair is a
Stimulant to interest IN an occupa.
tion which engages the attention of
The great body of citizens of the
county. 1t promotes comparison Of
methods and results, and should serve
TO increase the sense of the impor-
lance of the work of producing the
most elementary forms of wealth.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

August Busch, son Of the st.
Louis Brewer, proposes to erect a
country house on part OF the old
Dent farm near st. Louis, the former
home of General Grant, which is xe-
pected. to be the handsomest country
home in America.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

Governor John S. Brady, OF Alaska,
who is now in this country says that
potatoes sell at Dawson City for fif-
teen cents per pound. He tells of a
young man who raised eleven tons on
two acres and sold them at Da wson
for 81, $40.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

less statement, "The Missouri rive
is here u stay" IL would have beer
more accurate to have said that the
Missouri river is hereabouts probably
TO remain 10 this vicinity. The
people of Lexington, Brunswick, and
other towns are prepared to testify
that the Big Muddy is more dlstin.
guished for several other things than
for permanence of location. The
vagrant disposition OF the river is,
however, IN argument in favor Of the
attempt which the Herald suggests
rather than against it.
The announcement by the last con.
greSS Of its intention to abandon the
Missouri river appears on the whole
TO be a good omen. The treatment
required by the Mississippi and the
other rivers Of the West is so different
from that Of the rivers of the East
that the longer attention to them is
deferred the greater the probability
Of the start being made right.
Already the time honored and absurd
levy system is being applied to the
lower Mississippi, and in time it will
bring the results always and every
where observed Of becoming too diff
cult to maintain and impossible to
abandon. The bottom of the Pc
river in Italy is seventy feet above
the surrounding county, and the
water flows to the sea between
cemented barriers Of masonry. At
New Orleans the street level is below
the mean water level In the river.
Where the soil is sandy, as In the
case OF the river bottoms OF the West,
1t may at this time seem too expensive
a plan to adopt effective measures to
prevent the caving Of the banks and
to deepen the channels by keeping up
the work of dredging; but when it is
considered that under these circum-
stances the valley Of the Missouri
could be made to sustain half the
present population Of the United
the cost seems entirely reas.
The difficulty Of carrying
any effective measures Of this kind
into execution will be found to con-
siSt rather 10 the constitutional limita-
tions respecting methods of taxation
tnan 10 any engineering difficulties
which the case presents. Such i'm
provements would enormously enrich
private owners along the banks espec-
tally at or near great cities, and under
Limitations of our federal constitu-
ticn there is no way of compelling
those who would be directly and i'm
nediately benefited to pay their
proper share Of the expense. There
Ire no engineering impediments to
prevent the improvement of the
Mississippi so that the largest ocean
steamers could land and unload at st.
louis. The deepening of the Clyde
made what was practically little more
han a sickly village the second city
II the British empire. III
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

In Germany eggs are kept fresh for
@uy ieDg'h Of time by simply miners
'ug 'nem IN a temper. cent solution 81
s''lCa'e Of soda, commonly called al
~" g'aSS' This produces the forma-
ton of a coating which renders -
' Vsg' perfectly alr-ught, The eggs 81
many months. ioi
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

In Russia when a body OF men go on
strike, the military go around the
strikers and beat them with whips
and clubs, till thsy go back to v ork.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
Gle MISSOURI RIYER pR0RLrM

An editorial in the Columbia Herald
on "Ihe Missouri River as an Eugtu-
eering Problem" opens with the reck.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

Democrat-Ne it is believed, can be
depended upon to steer clear Of the
yery appearance Of %coDsOrting with
the latter. And such a course is not
inconsistent with a warm and sincere
advocacy OF the claims OF Mr. Folk.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
Brigham Young in 1880

About the year 1880, Brigham
Young and family settled in Port
Byron. says the Rochester Post
Express. 1t was then known as
Bucksville and boosted of 100 inhabi-
tants. There was no canal or rail-
road in those days, and the settlers
had to hew down trees in order to
make clearing in which to build
house. During the first few years of
Young's stay he made his home with
Squire Pine, who lived in the corner
of Pine and South streets. The Pine
house is now about 100 years old. It
is now owned and occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. James d. Dixon.
Brigham Young was a carpenter,
and old residents of Port Byron say
that he was an expert at his trade,
but work was scarce and he was
always hard up. 1t was a long time
before he saved money enough to
buy lumber to build his own house.
II was his intention to build himself a
fine house, but it turned out to be a
very ordinary frame structure. 1t was
built soon after the Erie canal was
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
Many Uses for Potato

To-day Germany fairly rivals Ire
land with its potato crop and out
does most other countries. Fully an
eighth of the arabic land of the en-
pre- is planted to this nutritious vege-
table. Half the large yield is usee
directly as human food; a considerable
other portion is given over to fatten-
ing stock. There still remains an
enormous surplus after that, however.
and 1t is the success with which the
Germans have met in turning this
surplus into manufactured products
that is most remarkable.
Among these manufactured PRODUCTS
are starch, glucose, potato flour. dex-
trim and starch sugar, each of which
appears prominently on the list of
German exports, all together contribute
ing large sums every year to the
profits of German manufacturers and
exporters. But the alcohol which the
Germans make from the potato is the
most valuable and wonderful product
OF all. This as light producer fairly
rivals the electric current, it is said.
The apparatus for its practical use
includes lamps, chandeliers, street and
corner lights, in which alcoholic vapor
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17

is burned like gas in hooded fame,
covered by a Welsbach mantle. So
used, potato alcohol is described as
burning with an incandescent flame
elualirg the electric light In brilliancy.
Indeed, we are officially told now by
our consul general at Berlin that DO
tato alcohol is competing with gas and
electricity with increasing success ev-
cry year.
In the problems of heat and power
production, too, the lowly potato has
been brought into use, and the alcohol
from it has been applied to warming
ard cooking stoves, to steam locomo-
biles, to thrashing, grinding, fuel cut
ting and other agricultural and me
chanical appliances. The advantages
said to be found in its use are imme-
date readiness for operation; dispens-
ing with coal, water and fremen; free
dom from doors and danger of fire and
greater economy of maintenance. Pos
sibly there is some exaggeration in
these claims. But figures given plain
ly show that the potato as cultivated
In Germany has produced a real com.
petitor for at least benzine and petrol
cum for motor purposes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
HOUR GLASSES FOR CHILDREN.
How Ingenious Mother Kept Her Oar
lings at Work.

How Ingenious Mother Kept Her Oar
lings at Work.
A clever mother recently gave hour
glasses to her three children. They
were timed to run out at the end of
an hour. half hour and fifteen min
utes respectively. The little girl who
before had dawdled through her piano
practice, after watching the sands of
time run out so visibly in her hour
glass, at once brought a new zest to
her practice. The boys would there
after time themselves on their evening
chores" and hurry back to see If
they had been beaten by old Time. as
symbolized by the hour glass.
1t was very good way of teaching
them the value and economy Of time.
II the experiment is tried, however,
mothers must be careful not to allow
their children to carry it to excess at
first, and so grow weary of it as of
WORKOUT toy
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
on the Siberian Railway.

Think of the snap the railroad lunch.
counter privileges would be at Irkutsk,
Jakutsk and the other Siberian points,
Even on the dining cars ice cream
could be served the year around with.
out the use of refrigerators, especially
through Siberia. Simply b. stopping
the train occasionally to milk a musk
OK one could obtain all the ready
favored ice cream necessary to hui
man happiness. And then it would be
so pleasant to hear the brakeman sing
out: "Behring, Behring! Change cars
for the north pole, Pearysville, Wal.
rus Beach. Nansen's Ford, Melville
Island and all points north. "--Balti.
more American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
Chose Crooked camps

When Mrs. Judson gave Mr.. Judson
MS ante-prandial kiss she shifted
audibly.
"oh, dear" she said, again? How
many this timer"
Only one" said Judson, "and that
was tiny fellow. l stopped in to see
man around the corner and took
Just one thimbleful for Appearances
sake"
Mrs. Judson sighed. "And you
promised so faithfully" she said.
1T seems as if you never can keep
your word"
Judson stalked toward the dining
room Indignantly. What's the sense
In raising a row about a little thing
like this?" he said. THAT one swal-
low couldn't hurt a fly"
But it has hurt you" retorted Mrs.
Judson. ut has gone to your head. 1
don't believe you know now what
you are saying"
Judson groaned.
Presently, under the influence of a
good dinner. he restrained his i'm
patience and began to talk socially.
Did you ever notice. Nary" he
said, how confoundedly crooked the
street lamps are in this town"
Mrs. Judson gasped. "Crooked?"
she said.
YES" said Judson, 'T never MOTTO
ed 1t till tonight. At the first corner
we struck after got in the car
saw that the lamp was doing its level
best to turn itself upside down. After
that | kept a close watch on all the
Broadway lamps, and 1 found that
nineteen out of the twenty-five we
passed were tip-tilted over in the era
ziest positions imaginable. They
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
Highly coIored L,vperbole.

The other night the colored pastor
of the Wheat Street Baptist church Of
Atlanta, Ca, spoke a welcome to Book
er T. Washington. Pastor Bryant is a
regular ''rousement" preacher. In the
course of his speech he said he could
imagine the angels leaving the bat
Elements of heaven to kneel at the
foot of the throne and beg for fur
loughs to perch on the stars outside
and hear Booker Washington speak
ing wisdom and patriotismi" The
crowd cheered and laughed at the re-
markable suggestion-and then Pastor
Bryant Joined heartily in the uproar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
CHANGE WAS ron THE WORSE
Mr. Herllhy Could See No Improve.
ment In Photoqraphv-

mr. Herlihy Could See No Improve.
ment in Photography.
Mr.. Herlihy looked at his lstas+
photograph taken In his SUNDAY
Clothes and his gaze bespoke Keen
disappointment.
ord never "a had this tuls ~ n
hadn't been for thin children telling
me about the improvements in photo.
graphlng!" he muttered, holding the
card upon which his likeness was
mounted farther and farther away.
Improvements, is it? Ord loike TO
snow this picture besoide wild the wan
vi mad twinty years ago, and lave It
10 anybody which o. thin two made
the better man o. me. There's an old
anxious, toired-out look to this new
wan that was niver in the other.
There may be improvements in
photographing," said Mr.. Herlihy az
he deposited the cabinet-sized card
race down in his table drawer. but
ofVe yet to see thin. YOUTHS Com
panion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
ART OF REST.
May Be Acquired and Used With
Great Benefit.

May Be Acquired and Used With
Great Benefit.
Complete and restful poise of the
body and mind is an art not easily
gained.
Perhaps nothing brings one as
much content, comfort. happiness
and pleasure as those conditions OF
easy, restful, resc1Teeful and well
balanced mind and body, that make of
work pleasure and the daily life
happy and peaceful
The nervous housewife busy with a
hundred duties and harrassed by child
rem; the business man, worried with
the press of daily affairs, debts. etc.
cannot enjoy the peace and restful
repose and healthful nervous balance
unless they know how.
There is way. First and foremost
the stomach must be consulted. That
means leaving of coffee absolutely.
for the temporary stimulant and the
resulting depression is sure ruin to
the nervous system, and the whole
condition of health and happiness
rests upon stomach, nerves and mind.
Start with the stomach, that is the
keystone to the whole arch. Stop
using things that break down its
power, upset its nervous energy and
prevent the proper digestion of the
food and the consequent manufacture
of healthful blood and nerves. brain
and tissues.
When you quit coffee take on Pos
tum Food Coffee. That is like stop
ping the payment of interest and
starting on a career where you are
loaning money and receiving interest.
The good results are double. You
stop poisoning the system with coffee
and start building up the broken down
nerve, cells by powerful elements con-
tanned in Postum. These are pure
food elements ably selected by ex-
perts for the purpose of supplying
Just the thing required by Nature to
perform this rebuilding.
These are solid substantial facts
and can be proven clearly to the sat
isfaction of anyone, by personal ex-
perience. Try the change yourself !
and note how the old condition OF !
shattered nerves and worried mind
changes to that feeling of restful poise
OF well balaRced nervous system.
The managing physician of hygi-
enic sanitarium in Indiana says that
for five years in his practice he has
always insisted upon the patients
leaving off coffee and taking Postum
Food. Coffee with the most positive.
we'll defined results and with satisfac-
ton TO the most confirmed coffee
topper
The Doctors name viii be furnish
ID by the Postum Co., Ltd, Battle
creek, Mich
Look in each package for copy Of
he famous little book. The Road to
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
q soy,s slcto. Y.

Crossroads, Tenn, Sept. l4th.-Or-
bra Young. the ten-year-o!d son of Les
ter Young of this place, il a bright
boy and one who is very well liked
by all who know him.
For some years Orbra has suffered a
great deal with form of Kidney Trou-
BILE which was very annoying, and
which made him miserable all the
time. He had to get up three or four
times every night, almost all his life.
His father heard of a remedy called
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and bought some
for the little fellow with the result
that he is now completely cured OF
the old trouble. He says:
"Dodd's Kidney Pills soon gave me
great relief and now l can sleep all
night without having to get up. We
will always praise Dodd's Kidney
Pills"
There are many children suffering
from Kidney and Urinary troubles.
These disorders should oe promptly
corrected. Dodd's Kidney Pills is a
safe and sure remedy for all such de-
rangements.
Master Orbra Young conquered his
troubles and made a well boy of him.
self by using Dodd's Kidney Pills, and
any one may do the same by the same
means.
Parents should see to it that their
children are given a fair chance in
life, and there is nothing that can
undermine the health of a growing
child as much as Kidney and Urinary
derangeme
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
ELEPHANT HAD ITS REVENGE
Got Even With Painter for Systematic
Deception.

oot Even WIN Fainter for Systematic
Deception.
There was once painter in Paris
who wished to make a picture of an
elephant So he went to the Jardfn
des Plantes in that city along with a
boy and big bag Of apples. In order
that the animal might assume a strik-
ing attitude the lad was to throw n
an apple now and then, so that IL
might hold its trunk aloft- But TO
prevent the supply Of fruit from being
used up too soon, the boy was told
to make-believe to throw an annie
occasionally. The elephant said moth
ing at the time. When, however. the
apples were all done, the creature
walked to the tank as If to ouencb its
thirst, took up in its trunk a store OF
water, returned and deluged the paint,
er and the picture, wa hing out nearly
all the work. AS it walked round the
enclosure, it was plain that it had de-
hberately planned this revenge.-Idt-
tie Folks.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
ONE woMAN's CLEVER IDEA.
Put the Burden of Fibbing on Inqulsi.
tive Friends.

Put the Burden of Fibbing on Inqulsi-
tive Friends.
II think it is foolish fashion that
so many women indulge, that of tell
ing their age wrongly" said woman
with prematurely gray hair. 81 can
honestly say that I never practice it
myself"
MOP" said her friend, with many
meanings in the monosyllable
WELL" said the first speaker, with
q smile-she was a woman with a
sense of humor; "the fact is, l don't
have to. have a way of making my
self out younger than am, if l wish
to, without telling fib at ALL"
''Really?" inquired the other, curl
ously; lin what way?"
II put the burden of the fb all upon
the questioner. You see. when one
of my dear women friends-it is
always women who are curious on
this point-asks me how old | am,
say, oh, I'm year or two older than
you, you know, my dear-at least a
year older. Let me see, now, how old
are your And then she always
knocks more of my age than should
ever have the nerve to do myself"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
school Of mInlno.

Important developments are taking
place in the school of mining CON
nected with the Birmingham, (Eng)
university. Prof. Redmayne, head OF
the school, has arranged this year for
the students to visit the ironstone
mines of Cleveland, the coal, hema.
tite, and lead mines of Cumberland,
and the coal mines of Northumberland
and Durham. He also proposes to es
tablish at the new university build
ings at Bonneville large mining
laboratory on the lines of the leading
American universities. A model coal
mine will be sunk and equipped. so
that students may become familiar
lied with practical conditions on the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
TOO MUCH FOR rom REED.
Speaker Was Unable 70 Entertain Of
fered Resolution.

fered Resolution.
Congressman William E. Lowering
Of Massachusetts, told this story Of
the late Tom" Reed the other even.
ing:
1T was one of those long night ses-
sions in the House when the Dingley
tariff bill was in the conference com
mittee. and we were all worrying lest
the debate on the measure. when it
should emerge, would pass all the
bounds of our strength and patience.
Il went to the Speakers desk at one
stage and asked Mr. Reed if he would
entertain a resolution to the effect
that no one should be allowed to
speak on the tariff unless he had
something new to say. Mr.. Reed gave
me one of those quizzical looks of his
and drawled out:
Mr.. Lowering, tyrannical as / am,
thoroughly depraved and bad as I am.
/ have not yet reached the point of
heartlessness where can condemn
this House to a silence as profound
as that resolution would entail /
will not entertain it. sir."-New York
Times
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17

/ looked disreputable. 1t would be a
good thing, / think, now that the city
is agitating the street lamp question,
not only to get new ones, but to
straighten up the ones we already
have"
Mrs. Judson looked across the
table in CHASTITY Representatives,.
We'll" she said, "if the subject YOU
chose for a conversation isn't a dead
give away! You are even worse than
l thought you were if you see the
street lamps stand on their heals"
Again Judson groaned.
Mrs. Judson worried over the un-
conventional attitude of the city's
lamps all the evening. The next
morning after Judson had gone down
town, still in spirit of depression,
she began to feel that she might pos
sibly have been too hard on him.
'The lamps may be crooked on
their posts after ALL she said "The
city, and not that one glass, may be
to blame for Harry's topsy-turvy Wis
ion"
Having once argued herself in
that charitable mood Mrs. Judson
set out to try to vindicate her hus-
band. She went clear down town for
that purpose. She Travelled over the
same route that Judson had Travelled
over the night before and studied the
street lamps as he had studied them.
Judson was right. Nineteen out of
twenty-five lamps were crooked. Mrs.
Judson's conjugal soul was moved
to fearful repentance.
Il was unjust she said. 1.-The city
is to blame. l will never find fault
with Mr.. Judson again if he says that
every lamp in town is turning somer-
saults."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17

When the great Episcopal cathedral
OF St John the Divine. In New York
was projected, about twelve years
ago, the promoters did not fix any
definite date for its completion. II
is TO cost about $4,000, 600 and is ranh
with St Peters at Rome. both In size
and architectural splendor Although
work has been going on steadily for
the last five years, only one of the
four great arches that are to support
the central dome is completed, and
the contractors say that the whole
structure may be. finished in another
half century.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
Wanted Them to Re seen.

A family in the South had coal.
black cook named Sarah, whose hus-
band was suddenly killed in a quarry
accident. For the time being her
grief was allayed by the preparations
for an elaborate funeral, and on the
day Of this event. so dear to negroes
VINO desire to show their Importance,
she appeared before her mistress In
deepest black, but on her hands were
a pair of white gloves such as sol.
diers wear at dress parade and guard
mount why, aunty." exclaimed her
mistress, what made you get white
gloves?" Sarah drew herself up TN.
dignantly, and said in the ehiIliesr
tones: Don't you spose l wants dem
niggshs to see dat Use got on gloves?@
-Lppincott's.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17
COSTUMES FOR AUTO DOCS.
MlIady's Pet is Well Protected When
He Rides.

MiIady's Pet is Well Protected When
He Rides.
Milady with the pet dog appendage
takes his royal highness automobiling
these days in "auto-togs" as up-to-date
as her own. His eyes are screened
by chauifeur's goggles, his siIken coat
is protected from the dust by linen
OF silk covering made like bag, but
with Sits for his legs to come through
so that, should there be an accident 70
the car, It would be possible for him
to land on his feet A hood of linen
or silk is put over his head to match
the body covering.
Some dogs might resent this eos
tune. but milady's pet is so accus
toned to the delicate attentions of his
mistress that he takes kindly to bis
"auto-togs" and wears them with an
appreciative air.