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mother, his sister, Mollie, and
brother, Julian, who had been
here on a months visit to Key
tesville friends and relatives,
Mrs. Collins being a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.. Vandiver
and a sister to the editor of this
paper.
She and the three children
named reached Champaign about
4 o'clock Sunday morning, Aug.
80.
Monday, Aug. 81, Charlie was
taken sick after supper. A ply.
sician was called the next day,
and found the lad had appendi-
citis, but the doctor did not oper-
ate until Wednesday evening, the
patient having first been taken
to Julia T. Burnham hospital.
The awful disease had so
prostrated the little fellow that
he was unable to survive the
shock of the surgeons knife and
died at 3 O'Clock Thursday morn
ing, Sept. 3-a little more than
4S hours after he was taken sick.
He rallied for a time subse-
quent to the operation and it was
thought he would recover, but,
alas! vain hope, he soon began
sinking and peacefully breathed
his last.
His remains were turned over
to an undertaken and prepared for
burial and from the undertaker's s
establishment were taken to the
family residence where beautiful,
tender and consoling funeral SER
vices were held Friday afternoon
at 2 o'clock by Rev. w. M.
Smith, pastor of the M. E. church
at Champaign.
The floral offerings were love-
| ly and completely covered the
spotless white casket, while the
ministrations, courtesies a n d
] sympathies of kind friends and
neighoors were lavish and help
ed to dispel the gloom that sur
rounded the dear ones who
mourned.
| Charlie Collins was boy o1
much promise. He was bright
and energetic, possessed a
sunny disposition and made
| friends of all he met. 1t seems
hard that he should have hin
taken, but God had marked him
for his own and took him unto
Himself.
| Interment was had at Mt
Hope cemetery, Rev. Tryon con-
Quoting services at the grave.
The sorrwing parents, sister
and three surviving brothers
have the sincerest sympathies Of
Keytesville friends in their hour
of grief. May God give then
grace to sustain them in theil
sore affliction is our devou
wish.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-09-11

gro girl, in Keytesville the night
of the 18th of last month.
Same VS.. Claude Knowles, fe-
lonious assault; defendant tried
by a jury, and found not guilty.
Knowles is the young man over
about Salisbury who carved
Elmer Firing with a knife the
10Th of last month.
CIVIL CASES.
John Riechert VS.. Jacob
Leutcher ct al, suit to decree til
tie; trial by court, interlocutory
judgment, heretofore entered of
record, made final, and judgment
awarded plaintiff according to
the prayer of his petition; plain
tiff adjudged to pay costs.
John Howard VS.. unknown
heirs of Luther Shivers, same; !;
same.
Geo. Williams ct al VS.. Wilke
A. Williams ct al, partition; con-
tinued to await sheriff's final re-
port.
B. F. Moore VS.. estate of G.. G.
Dameron, suit on note; nonsuit
with leave to withdraw note sued
on by leaving copy.
Peter Witt VS.. Wabash Rail-
road Co., No. 1, damages; dis
missed by agreement at defend
ants costs.
Same VS.. same, No. 2, same;
same.
T. P. Schooler We. A. F. Ar.
rington, damages; judgment fol
defendant on demurrer, ano
cause dismissed; defendant -,p.
peals to the Kansas City court OF
appeals.
Ed. L. Forrest VS.. Continenta
Casualty Co., suit on policy
Inonsuit.
w. H. Verify, assignee, VS.
Geo. N. Elliott, suit for account
ing; answer filed by leave as pc
stipulation filed, and cause trans
ferred to circuit court at Keytes
vile.
w. A. Dawkins VS.. Jos. G
Griffin, ejectment; transferred t.
Keytesville as per written stipu
lation filed.
Henry Clay ct al vs.. Nathal
O. Tate ct al. same; same.
| Julia A. Ladd VS.. s. S. Forsee
same; continued by agreement.
Henry Clay ct al VS.. j. W
| Nichols ct al, certiorari; con
tinued.
! j. w. Wolf VS.. J. w. Nichols
ejectment; continued by agree
ment.
| w. T. Rice VS.. N. o. Tate
debt; nonsuit.
! T. j. Eny cart ct al, trustee, We
A. G. Kennedy, ejectment
Seneca D. Taylor and Sarah J
Perkinson made parties defend
ant with leave to answer in 8
days; plaintiff given 30 day
thereafter to answer, and caus
referred to A. w. Johnson h
to report at next term of thi
court.
/ Henry A. Harmon VS.. Zett
Harmon, divorce; trial by court
defendant divorced and adjudge'
to pay costs.
i Chas. Cravens, administrator
VS.. National Life Insurance Co
of Mt. Pelier, VT, suit on policy
petition and bond filed, and caus
transferred to the U. S. circui
court at Kansas City.
Death and Funeral of Charlie Collins
| AS stated last week the edito
of the COURIER left Thursday af
ternoon for Champaign, Ills, t
attend the funeral of his nephew
Chas. P. Collins, the 12-year-o oil
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-09-11
kEYTEsvl-LE, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1903.

CIRCUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Regular september, 1908. Term at
Salisbury.
Court met Monday, Sept. Z,
1908, with all the officers present
as follows:
Hon. John P. Butler, Judge;
L. N. Dempsey, prosecuting at
torney; F. M. Veatch, sheriff;
Miss Quinn Shannon, reporter,
and 2. T. Lamkin, clerk.
Action was had in cases as
follows up till yesterday morn
ing:
CRIMINAL CASES.
State of Missouri vs.. Jasper
Coleman, murder in first degree;
defendant valves formal arraign-
ment and pleads not guilty; cause
passed until Monday, Sept. "A. at
2 o'clock p. m. Jasper Coleman
is the ex. marshal of Dalton who
shot and killed Rufus Cox at
Dalton Aug. 8, 1908.
Same VS.. Mary White, same !;
same; cause passed until Friday,
Sept. II, at II o'clock. Mary
White is the woman who is
charged with being accessory to
the murder of Chas. G.. Coleman
in Keytesville the night OF April
q, 1908. VIM. G. White, the
principal in killing Coleman, is
Mary Whites husband. He, il
will be remembered, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter at the
May adjourned term of circuit
court at Keytesville July q.
1908, and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for 80 years.
| Same VS.. Perry Keith, felon-
Iious assault; motion to forfeit
| bond filed which, with the cause,
is continued at defendant
costs. Keith is the man who
cut VIM. Musick with knife
near Brunswick, Aug. J., 1908
The defendant is sick and was
unable to attend his trial at the
| present term of circuit court.
i Same VS.. Alex Biswell, grand
larceny; defendant valves form.
al arraignment and pleads guilt!
and is sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. Biswell il
the young man who stole a hors'
| from Mrs. Rebecca Twyman o.
near Prairie Hill the 10Th of las
June.
Same VS.. Ira F. Oldham, rap,
l-carnal knowledge of femal,
over IA and under 18 years o
age: nolle prosequi. Oldham il
the young man who was charged
with carnal knowledge of Rowen'
Walden, a 16-year-cld girl of nea
Westville, July Is, 1902. W.
understand that there was lack
of disposition on the part of tn
Walden girls mother to prose
cute Oldham.
Same vs.. Geo. Boggs, same
defendant valves formal ar
raignment and, by consent o
prosecuting attorney, plead
guilty to common assault AM
J is fined 500 and costs; execution
stayed on condition that defend
, ant pay costs in three month
and fine and costs before frs
} day of next term of this court
) defendant discharged from pres
ent custody. Boggs is the negr
, who got into trouble over at
tempting to rape Delilah Allen
; coll, of near Keytesville at Sal
: isbury May 8, 1908.
Same against James Ewing
} Aaron Martin and Taylor Starks
rape; nolle prosequi as to Jane
/ Ewing; Martin and Starks wer
< tried severally by a jury, an
Martin found guilty of commo
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-09-11
Missouri W orld's Fair Commission Met

At the Southern hotel in ST..
Louis last week, the Missouri
Worlds Fair commission held its
monthly meeting. Reports from
the five departments now
actively in the field are highly
promising of the states exhibits.
Missourians over the state are
not only in sympathy with the
move to place the state upon
proper plane before its visitors,
but are cordially cooperating
toward making exhibits.
H. j. Waters, superintendent
of agriculture, reported that L.
600 punches of we'll preserved
grasses and grains in the straw
had been collected for exhibit in
his department. Mr.. Waters has
also visited a number of leading
farmers in the state and has se-
cured representative photographs
and exhibit material over large
area.
L. A. Goodman, in horticul-
ture, reports that 1s50O.i jars OF
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-09-11
Highest
Cash Prices

paid for eggs, butter, old
hens, spring chickens, roost-
ers and turkeys. Bring them
in.
Fruit jars, tin cans, etc., for
putting up fruit. Prices right.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-09-11

IL pounds best granu- q
NJ lated sugar for. 49,. p
Crystal High Patent Flour
per sack. ........S l ]
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-09-11

positions, gentleman, and clear
the deck for men who will do
their official duty fearlessly and
impartially. AS matters now
stand you are making mockery
of the law ana are holding your
selves up to public scorn.
To particularize we will say
that the editor of the COURIER
has several times directed
Marshal Vears attention t. the
throwing of potatoes, apples,
tomatoes and other missiles on
our streets. One lady was
struck by potato not long ago,
an apple was smashed against
the jam of the front door of the
COURIER office, several window
lights about town have been
broken and only last Friday
night several tomatoes were
hurled into the COURIER hallway,
smearing the stairway and wall
where they struck.
The editor of the COURIER was
not at home at the time, and we
have been unable to learn
definitly who the hoodlums were
that threw the tomatoes, but we
want to warn these ruffians that
unless we are given official pro-
lection in the future from such
outrages in the wanton damage
to our property the editor of the
COURIER will take it upon him.
self to even scores with the next
dirty whelp that defaces our
property in any manner what
ever.
This is a case wherein further
forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue.
We believe a man has a right
at all times to protect his proper
ty from vandals and, SO believe
ing, we intend to do it.
While we are not looking for
trouble, we do not intend to be
troubled by toughs without de-
Tending ourself and our property.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04

fore remarked, my wisdom lacks prop.
er direction. 1t is like ill-directed
energy, and that, you know, counts for
nothing. I once knew a fellow that
expended enough energy in epileptic
fits to have made hin a fortune. He'd
fall down and kick and paw-a regular
engine of industry, but It was all vast
ed. But he had a brother, a lazy fell
low, and he conceived the idea of a
sort of gear for him, so that his jerk
ings and kicks operated a patent
churn. So, If only had some ingen-
ious fool to harness me l might do
something"
why" sand the Major, 81 wouldn't
have you otherwise than what you are.
Suppose you were to become what
might be termed a useful citizen,
truthful and frugal"
Hold on, john" Gid broke in, hold
ing up his hands. "You distress me
with your picture. When l hear of a
frugal man l always imagine he's hun
cry. Yes, sir. But let me tell you,
~ be a mar of affairs when l come
back from New Orleans. You may be
assured Of that. I'm going to scatter
money about this neighborhood. Why
every lout within ten miles square. II
he's got fifteen dollars, holds his opin.
ion above mine. All, by a lucky chance
| see that your demijohn is in here,
And now just fill up this bottle he
added, producing a flask as If by a
Straightforward trick, "and l will bid
you goodnight"
(To be Continued.)
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
THE KING SNAKES PRoWESs

A. w. Rolker in July McClure's.
The most relentless exterminator of
reptiles is a member of the family
itself-the beautiful, 1.-THE, yellow and
black king snake, the friend of man
and the awowed enemy of any thing
that creeps or crawls, regardless of
size Of poison fang. A native of our
own South, the kingsnake is between
5 and s feet long and NO thicker
around than a mans thumb. Built in
every muscle and bone for spped and
tremendous constructing power, there
is not another snake on earth that can
withstand his assault. He Is i'm
mune to the poison of the cobra and
of the RATHER alike. and the strength
of a 80 foot python has no terrors for
him. Within five minutes from the
opening Of the fight, the kingsnake
could kill the biggest python that ever
lived. Ferocious as the little construct
err is toward his own kind, toward
man he is friendly and rarely tries
to escape when met afield.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
THE UNION.
Rules on Various Subjects, Especially
the Girl Visitors.

The Emporia Mothers Union met
Saturday and transacted some impor-
tant business. 1t was decided that
hereafter a radical change will be
made in entertaining girls visiting
Emporia. Heretofore mothers have
had to do washing and ironing not
only for their own girls, but for visit
ing girls, and visiting girls often
bring highly ruffled p%etticoats which
require more attention than the petit
coats Of the home girls. The Mothers
Union decided hat anything more
than two gauze shirts a week and a
pair of black stockings a week will be
sent to the laundry and the bill
stuck in the mirror of the visiting
girls room every morning until it is
paid.
The mothers also decided hat it
will be considered proper for visiting
girls to do the Dishes" Heretofore,
because a home girl has company, she
has considered it proper to get up and
entertain her company after meals,
but the Mothers Union demands that
the fiction that the dishes will wash
themselves be abandoned. In the mat.
ter of cooking for picnics the Moth
ers' Union made this rule: All chick.
ems bought for lunches shall be
charged to the visiting girl, and If she
has any new ways of making potato
salad she shall put on an apron and
make it herself instead of giving the
mother the recipe.
There was a long debate at the
meeting yesterday over the matter of
parties. Many mothers held that if
they gave a party for the visiting girl
it would enable their daughter to get
into a little better social set than
otherwise, as often the visiting girl
had other friends in town who were
the real thing. But the majority OF
the mothers held that the union
should stand only for informal par
ties, where the invitations are sent
by telephone and the refreshments
consist of ice cream, lemonade and
cake, served on the porch. 1t was de
cided by a unanimous vote to make
rich cousins either pay board or bring
presents for all the family. Fans
don't go.-Emporia, Kan, Gazette.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04

annual. yield Of these states of 4S0,-
000, 900 bushels.
On the big Funk farm at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, Prof. Holden's. theory. was
carried out last year. Several thou
sand acres we're planted with seed
sorted by hand, through planters ad-
justed to drop the proper number Of
kernels.
Previously, the best yield was So
bushels an acre. Last year the aver
age was ~ bushels. OF the gain,
Prof. Holden estimates 80 per cent
was due to the stand and 20 per cent
to the excellent terminating power of
the seed. In the experimental fields
under Prof. Holden's control the
yield has never been less than 90
bushels since 1896.
Inc owner of 1000 acres of corn
ground at Odebolt, Ia, this spring
bought six corn planters and put
them to work hurriedly. He has tx
amined his field and found a stand Of
1914 stalks to each hill. He estimates
his loss at $20, 1000. He has told that
hereafter he will plant according to
the Holden method.
Jaw, that isn't practical" objected
a farmer in one of Prof. .Holden's
meetings. "The idea Of my sorting
grains of corn by hand. | have some
tDlng better to do"
"All right" answered Prof. Holden.
We will say that you have the work
done by a man to whom you pay 81 a
day. He will sort at least a bushel Of
shelled corn every day.
"That bushel will plant v acres
of ground. The fact that it has been
sorted will add at least ten bushels to
the acre yield. At an average price of
80 cents a bushel that would mean a
return of $21 for the 81 you invested
in having the cor sorted.
But you can do it as well on win
ter evenings when 1t will have cost
you nothing"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
NEW METAL, SELlUM.
Lighter and Stronger Than Alumni
mum and Costs Much Less.

washington dispatch 1.-THE dis
covery in Germany Of a new metal
called selium by Edward Mollard, a
II renchman, is reported to the state
department. The d~iscoverer asserts
that selium costs only one-twelfth as
much as aluminium and is lighter and
stronger. 1t does not rust and Is
therefore suitable for shipbuilding,
for the manufacture of pipes and for
railroad construction.
1t is asserted also that, as it Is cap
able of taking a fine polish resembling
nickel, it would be desirable for cook
ing utensils. Its hardness is not quite
equa. to that of iron, but is greater
than that of lead or zinc. Its power
of resistance is said to be greater than
that of iron, but less than that Of
steel.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04

a man adventurous in his talk when
a more systematic training might hold
him down with the clamps Of too much
care?"
eyes, might inlict him with the
dullness of precision" the Major sug
gested, smiling upon his guest.
That's it, and for this reason half
educated men are often the brightest
l read a book-and I reckon Ina as
fond of a good book as any a
without bringing to bear any criticisms
that scohlars have passed upon it. But
with you it is different"
"Gid, you ascribe scholarship to me
when in fact you are far more book
ish than | am. You sit in your der
all alone and read while I'm shut up II
my office going over my accounts
From care you have a freedom that
car never hope to find"
John, in comparison with me, you
don't know what care is"
The Major leaned against the man
tel-piece and laughed.
"It's a fact, John. Why, l have care
enough to kill a statesman or strair
a philosopher. Look at me; I'm ole
and don't amount to anything, ant
that is one of the heaviest cares tina
can settle down upon man. Wise
Oh, yes, wen grant that, but as / be
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
- Sioux City Philosophy -

When a man loses his head his best
friends will o turn out to help him
find 1t.
When a man is turned down there
are many people who think they
should stop and sit on him.
When a woman cries a man will
give up quickly, for he cannot stand
the way she looks.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04

When the shopkeeper has made an
error in the change against himself
it will please him to make correc.
ton.
Heat from the mind angers the
stomach.
Prejudice against red tape has
made other colors popular.
1t is good policy to keep away from
the nan who has a bone to pick.
Men who are looking out tfor them.
selves stumble over many others.
When a man is real bad he likes to
Join a mob.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
Will Increase the Corn Crop
PROF. BALDWIN'S NEW IDEA OF RAISING CORN

(Sioux City, Ia, letter.)-"Let
every farmer in the seven great corn
states give a few wi. er evenings and
4S0,0 900 900 bushels will be added to
the annual crop of the corn belt"
In these words Prof. P. G. Holden
of the Ames Agricultural college sum
marizes the results to be expected Of
the campaign instituted by himself
and the Iowa Corn Growers associa-
ton.
1t isn't increased acreage that Prof.
Holden wants; it is better results
from the present acreage. 1t is not by
and artificial culture that he would
bring about these results. He promis-
es that they shall be realized if the
farmer does the simple thing of put
ting a hundred live kernels of corn
in every 80 hills.
Entirely new in agricultural work
Is the experimental work Of Prof.
Holden, and throughout Iowa he has
convinced meetings of farmers that
for once a professor in an agricultur-
al college has a reform that is thor
oughly practical. In a word, his plan
requires only the sorting by hand of
corn planters in such a way as to
drop the required number Of grains
OF corn in each hill.
To find how much the farmers of
Iowa are losing each year by not
properly planting corn, Prof. Holden
last year sent 1000 letters to all parts
of Iowa asking the number of stalks
in each hill in corn fields.
He found that the stand was but
rs per cent. of what he has demon
strated will produce the largest yield,
and last years corn crop was gener-
ally considered a good stand. The
other day he himself inspected "a of
the best corn fields he could find.
81 found" he reported to a meeting
of the Iowa Corn Growers associa.
tion in Sioux City, from SO to S6.2
per cent of a perfect stand. The aver
age loss was 2S.7 per cent.
81 do not mean by this hat the field
that a five stalks in each hill is
hills OF six stalks are better than hills
OF five. l have found that the best re-
suits are obtained from an average
of about three and a third stalks to a
hill.
Il have found one stalk to a hill
Wa. produce but one-third as much
corn as a proper number of stalks,
two stalks th~ree-fourths of a yield and
five stalks ,Aree.fourths of a yield. In
making my tables / counted either
three or four stalks a 100 per cent
stand.
For ten years the average yield
of corr in Iowa has been approx
mately 35 bushels. A yield of IS
bushels with a 20 per cent stand,
wnlch is the average found in a mum
Der of years, would become SO bush
els with a 100 per cen stand"
The acreage planted in corn in the
seven states growing v 100, 000,-
900 bushels of corn in 1902 was: Hi
nois, 1923, $50; Iowa, 1902, 6SS; Ne.
braska, 7~,S17,962; Kansas, 7,451 ,693;
Missouri 6,755,19 Indiana, 1920,
937; Ohio, 3,200,2 24.
The combined acreage was about
$4,000, 900. A gain OF ten bushels an
acre, or a 80 per cent stand, which
Prof. Holden thinks is easily attain.
able, would mean an increase in the
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04

A difficulty with ~sleepless nights is
the knowledge that the sun will gel
up at the usual time.
1t Is a weakness with some women
that they act upon the presumption
that any old buds will do for home.
Because a man has his head full Ia
no reason why he should run his legs
on.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
Short Bits Of Wit and HuMor
Which Needed It Most9

He-I knock against something in
that sitting room every night when
pass through there in the dark. l think
l had better take out an insurance pol
Icy.
Sheen your life or the furniture?
-Yonkers Statesman.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04
Ii Was.

at this a good place for trout?" in
quired the angler who had just arrived.
ut seems to be-" replied the other
who had been fishing there patiently
for hours. They don't appear. to be
disposed to leave it.'-Detroit Free
Press.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-09-04

A man who thinks he is the who'll
thing is incapable of reverence.
The best way to get ready to die Is
to keep on getting ready to live.
1t Is the fnancier who can AFFORD to
speculate on a vacation.
II people do not know the good you
have done 1t Is a waste Of time to tell
them.