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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

Misses EVA Powell, Minnie
Finks, Viola Leake Sadie Hagar
and Geo, Moessner took in the
Quincy carnival yesterday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

william Patterson was Il bus.
mess visitor in Quincy Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21
Briggs Medcalt and Node
Green were hea ded circuswards
yesterday.

Good dressers, ladies and
gentlemen should read "One
Day Only" adv in another col
umn, and take advantage of the
opportunity offered. ~ 4
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

John READ, of Rock Island,
H.. spent the latter part of
last week in this city with his
brother, Rev. DIR. |. w. Read.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. T.. o. Steele
spent Saturday with Hannibal
rela tIves.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

All trimmed hats go at re-
duced prices this week at
MISS TUDIE SWINKEY'S.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

Mrs. Ed Lake and Miss Effie
Baxter, of Huntington, were
shopping in the city Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21
Strayed.

Black or brown horse 154
hands high, Western horse
branded. Wire mark on front
foot, Report to DEMOCRAT
Office.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

George Gose was circulating
among old friends in the city
Saturday.
Charles Bush, Ambrose and
Marion Nolen have been fishing
at Keys Ford. They got wet
and claim to have caught 90
pounds of fish.
After a months visit with her
daughter. Mrs H. Goens, south
of the city, Mrs. Rose McAllis.
ter returned to her home in the
Gem City
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21

OMrs. James McGlassou, of
Kansas City, has been visiting
her friend. Mrs. Edward Har.
desty.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-21
EYES, EYES.

You can have them we'll tested for
lenses and very reasonable.
R. Manning Walker.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
THE GOLDEN ROSE OF VIRTUE.

Victor Smith, in the New York Press.
How many women received from Pope
Leo XIII. the Golden Rose of Virtue? In
1868 he gave 1t to Isabella of Spain in
reward of her faith, justice and chart
ty," and to "foretoken the protection of
God" to his 'well-beloved daughter
whose virtues make her a shining light
among women" The Empress Eugene,
the Comtesse d'Eu the queen regent of
Spain and Queen Amalie of Portugal also
received 1t. Did the Princess Ferdinand
of Bulgaria, the Duchess Albreeht of
Wurtemburg and the Queen of the Bel
gians receive it? It was understood sew
eral years ago that they were likely to
be thus honored. Perhaps there are 9TH
ers.
The Golden Rose of Virtue is a cluster
of roses and rosebuds growing on one
thorny stem, all of the purest gold, CHS
eled with exquisite workmanship. In its
cup, among its petals, the pope, at every
benediction he pronounces upon 1t. In
serts few particles of amber and musk.
It is blessed on the fourth Sunday in
Lent, and bestowed during the ecclesias-
tical year on the royal woman whose zeal
for the church has most shown itself by
pious deeds or pious intentions. The
prince who has best deserved of the holy
see has the blessed sword and cap sent
him. If no one merits the gift it Is laid
up In the vatican.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
The ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Our TranscontInental Road.

By its agreement or coalition with
the Frisco the Rock Island secures in
the near future ample terminals both
at New Orleans and in Texas, and now
its annexation, SO to speak, of the Sea
board gives the great system outlets
on the Atlantic ranging all the way
from Norfolk to st. Augustine and
even Cedar Key. 1t thus becomes en-
dowed with the best of South Atlantic
ports.
This coup leaves the Rock Island
managers free to complete their sys-
TEN to the racific. At present their
lines extend to Eel raso in New Mexi-
co. on the Southern Pacific railroad,
and to Denver on the Union Pacific.
The gap between these points and the
Pacific will assuredly be filled, and
the Rock Island wifi then stand forth
as the greatest railroad system in the
land. 1t is, perhaps, now entitled to
that distinction. Its mileage exceeds,
at any rate, that of any other sysem.
When a conductor in our union sta
ton calls out, All aboard for Frisco"
then the Rock Island will be what its
managers plainly intend it shall be
the first of American railroads The
extensions from Denver or Ell Paso
will not be long delayed, now that
Gulf and South Atlantic terminals
have been secured. The more difficult
part of the huge task has been accom-
plished, and it is beyond reasonable
doubt that SO great a system will not
rest content until is own rails are laid
to the Pacific. 1t will then be in ex-
cellent position to carry goods to all
great waters, be they the Great Lakes,
the Gulf of Mexico, or the two seas
that bound our great country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14

year before have we exceeded the winter
wheat harvest of 1909.
All of the other large crops are, at the
present indication. just little below last
years total but all of them except bar
ley. well above the totals of 1901 and 1900,
the promise being for increases of from
to per cent over 1901 in rye, oats, pota-
toes, buclkwheat, timothy and clover.
Without exception they are above the
average of the decade. The American
farmer is assured of his due, without re-
sort to any such international combina
lions as a fanciful London newspaper pro-
fesses TO have discovered to be afoot be-
tween ''3S, 600 American agriculturists' and
the Russian minister of finance and agri'
culture.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
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VALUE OF VACATIONS.

From the Boston Globe.
After all. the principal benefit OF the
vacation custom Is not the rest which 1t
affords, but the instruction and the in
SEPARATION which 1t offers. 1t takes the
inhabitant of the man-made city and in
PRODUCES him to the God-made country. 1t
rescues him from the city, which is the
degenerator, and brings him into the coun-
try which is the regeneration of the race
Vacations are indispensable to our eivili-
cation. Without them and without a con-
slant recruitment from the country these
huge cities of our time, with their com
pick, artificial life. would quickly cease
to have any root whatever in the soil
Wherefore no one in New England
should permit either the eceentricities of
the weather or Wall street to defeat or
curtail his customary pilgrimage into the
realm of Nature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
New Cotton Fields.

The effete east is persistently en-
feavoring to grow cotton elsewhere
than in this country. England is push
ing her colony of Antigua in the West
Indies to cultivate high-grade cotton.
She has sent gins and presses there,
and she proposes to gin and pack cot
ton for the seed alone, and the Royal
Mail Steamship company offers to car
ny to Manchester cotton free from all
charges for freight and handling. -Four
hundred acres have been planted un-
der such promises.
The French merchants are encour-
aging and promoting the growing of
cotton in the GASES of Southern Al
geria, employing for irrigation pur-
poses artesian wells, and palms as
shelters from the high winds of the
desert A German society is urging
colonists in Togoland and other prov
pHC65 III AlIlCd " give every pOSSlhlS
aid to the growth of cotton, Russia
is offering bounties to her cotton
growers in Turkestan, and England
is, of course, bravely working to en-
large the Egyptian crop.
These various efforts will lead to
the production of some cotton, but
outside of Egypt the amount viii be
uncomfortable. Cotton is the net re-
suit of a mingling of sunshine and
moisture and in no place are they
commlngled in right proportions eX-
cept in the southern states of this
country. This is why these states
cannot be deprived of their privilege
! to grow the Commercial crop of the
world. Otblr districts may send in
email contributions, but this country
will continue to produce the great
bulk Of the worlds annual product.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14

which is to be returned in payments
extending over so many years that
they are really smaller than the rents
the tenants have been paying, In or
der to meet the demands of the land
lords which the tenants cannot afford
to meet the government viii contrib
ute as a gift 100000, 900. Decreased
expenses in governing Ireland will
make good this gift.
King Edward is warmly interested
in perfecting this solution of Irish
troubles, and he is backing up Mr..
Wyndham's bill at every stage. He
did much towards facilitating its pass
age in the house of lords. If its OPP
Grafton brings to Ireland agricultural
and industrial peace, the king will as
suredly gain much popularity through
out the island that has SO long oeen
narrowed by alien landlords.
As soon as the bill becomes law
steps will at once be taken to put it
into operation. Once secure in pos
session of their lands the Irish people
still left In ireland will be peaceful
and it is believed content, ami com
nara fiuaIv -four Of thor, will 1oava Ira-
land. The population has been great
ly reduced by immigration, and the
island can readily support all who now
live on it. With peace and content
ment will after a while come home
rule, and then there will be q New
Ireland as prosperous as the Old Ire
land was full of trouble and distress,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14

denly exposed to the pressure of water
at that depth he would be compressed
to the thinness of paper. diver at the
depth of 10000 feet would have weight
upon him equal to several hundreds of
the greatest and heaviest locomotives
There are depressions very much deeper
however, and soundings have been made
establishing depths of more than 22.00O
feet near the island of St. Thomas, in
the Atlantic, and of almost 1900 feet
near the japanese coast.
Great forests OF seaweed cover the bot
tom of the ocean and reach from the
greatest depths to the surface In the
forests there is life more diversified than
in the primeval forests of the tropics
Spiders and worm-like animals of enor-
nous size. infusorae, crabs, sea urchins
shells. crustaceans, starfsh, turtle and
millions of other living things of all'kinds
find their food in the equally varied plant
life of the deep sea.
Deep sea fish have been brought up in
the deep sea dragnet invented by Prince
Albert of Monaco. A curious circumstance
connected with deep sea fish is that none
OF these has ever been brought up alive.
Recent deep sea explorations reveal the
fact that the ocean still contains immeas-
urabe treasures which await develop
ment and utilization by human invention.
The most fertile acre of cultivated land
is a sterile desert compared with one
acre of the surface of the deep sea bot
tom.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
THE "cITY OF cRlcKETs."

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
San Antonio ought to be called the
city of crikets." said man who has Just
returned to New Orleans fro Texas, flor
I never have found as many crickets any
where on earth as l found out there. The
streets are literally filled with them. 1t Is
not simply a case of the cricket on the
hearth. 1t is case of the cricket every
where you go. l have been trying to fig
ure out why 1t Is that these insects are
so plentiful in the Texas town in ques-
ton At night they swarm around the
electric lights like the bugs we are fami-
liar with In other places. II is impossible
to walk along the streets without step
ping on them. And there is just a bit of
poetry about the situation In San An
tonic with respect to cricket life there.
1.-THE people generally look upon them
with a feeling of affection, and 1t Is a
rare thing to see a citizen show any sort
of indifference to the members of this
interesting family No man would think
of treading on a cricket. They take par
ticular pains not to do anything that
would in any way injure the lives or
limbs of crickets l was speaking of the
poetry of the situation. 1t is a fine thing
to hear the crickets grooming early In the
evenings. They chirp as cheerily as ii
they hid away In the weeds of some ro-
mantle hedge or on the hearth which has
been immortalzed in verse and song.
Men hurry along the streets; women
brush along with their musical skirts,
and all the while the crickets keep on
grooming their little love songs just as
IL the pulses of humanity were not beat
ing about them. It is interesting pic
turesque, poetic and, If I had my way l
would christen San Antonio the City of
Crickets' l think the name would add
color to city already romantic In its
rich coloring."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
HARVESTS ARE ABUNDANT
ON AMERICAN FARMS

Fromthe New York Mail and Express.
o many records have been broken
~ by the American farmer in the
- last decade that the country has
come to expect him to break them with
each recurring harvest. Only in the light
of this exuberant but exacting expecta
ton is there anything In the August
crop reports to qualify the satisfaction
that all men feel in Astounding yields,
and that this country is wont to manifest
In the demonstration of its own enviable.
and In the aggregate stupendous, fertil-
ity. The cereals of 1903 are already so
far garnered or matured that it is pos
sible to forecast with some accuracy
the amount of staples that ere long will
be stored in bins and barns and eleva-
tors, and later moved East and West and
North and South to supply our cities and
make up the DEFICIENCIES of Europe and
even Asia 1t may now be said without
qualification that this has been a good
year in American agriculture-a year so
good that it only misses being great by
comparison with its immediate predeces-
sors.
Corn is the king of American cereal
crops, four-1fths of all the maize of
the world coming from the burrows of
the republic. This year it will again be
our best crop. The indication is for
harvest of 2.245OO0.OoO bushels or about
three times the size Of the wheat har-
vest This is nearly 100000 600 less than
the actual corn yield of last year; but
except for 1902 and 1896, when the yield
was 2,2S3, s75, 165, it is the greatest crop
in our history. This years indicated to-
tai is more than satisfactory, particularly
in the south, which has done better per
acre than the west.
The west again-that is the far north
west, the spring wheat states-has not
quite held up its average In wheat. The
estimated winter wheat crop, from the
central west and the lower tier of the
prairie states, is almost exactly that of
last wear. or 410, 900, 900 bushels, as against
nearly 412. 100000 for 1902; there was, how
ever, a greater acreage this year, and
the average yield per acre is 12.4 bushels,
as against 10 bushels last year. There
has been a slight decrease in the acreage
of spring wheat and considerable but not
serious shrinkage in the yield-from 25S,-
274,S42 to 239,s72,0O0 bushels. The total in
dicated crop of spring and winter wheat
is 65OS99,0OO bushels, as against 67o,OeS.0 COS
bushels last year. The crop nearest to 1t
in magnitude, the Russian. will probably
not be more than two-thirds its size. Four
different years we have done better with
spring wheat but only last year and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
Formulation Of Jefferson.

In 1899 there were 1886 persons of
school age in Jefferson county; now
there are 4S,680! These figures were
not obtainable by guess or estimate,
but they are the actual returns Of cen
suses made in pursuance of the school
law
The increase in four years is Is, 334
children, which is very nearly 30 per
cent. 1t lacks but 1929 of so per cent.
The increase in school children is
Indicative of like increase in pop
ulation. In 1900 the population of the
county was no. 20, and the increase
of children between 1900 and 1903
must be held to have been about 40
per cent, because 1t was nearly 30 Ter
cent between 1899 and 1903. An in
crease of 40 per cent would be 56,16S,
which total added to 140,420 shows
that the present population of Jeffer-
son county is 196,5S8.
These figures are not presented for
the purpose of misleading any one,
or for the purpose of distressing our
esteemed neighbors in Georgia or
tennessee. They are presented to
show the steady growth of Greater
Birmingham, or Jefferson county as
some prefer to call it. The censuses
of the last three years show these
numbers of school children In Jefser-
son county:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
A WALK WITH THE WIND.

BY Edwin Markham.
Come with me to the open road
And let the woodland write the ode
Come, for the hill-wind takes my arm
And laughs away the hearts alarm,
Drawing me on from ridge 10 ridge.
BY field and forge and frosty bridge.
Down from his wide tree-darkened hall
The gray old owl sends his Saga call.
And here a field mouse leaves his home,
His labarynthian catacomb,
And prints the snow with little tracks.
Like hackings of an elfn axe
1 see a spider by a stream
Bridge his small Nile with swaying beam:
See on my path bold ant dare
His Chimborazo hung in air.
I pass an old decaying fence.
Turned to a rare magnificence,
For gold of lichen and green OF moss
Have paid with beauty all the loss
Ha, Landlord Fox. alert and 1.-THE,
Is out to get his morning 1.-THE.
With thrifty eye to oversee
His unstaked principally
Circling the high crows swing and cav,
Poised by the same impartial law
That traced the orbit of the star
Wide wandering on the dark afar.
The SHOWS are heaped along the ground.
Bright kingdoms builded without souad,
The cleansed air tingles in my blood,
The joy pours through me like a flood!
I tread on Hellas as l go.
Wrecking her Parthenons of snow;
I sweep across imperial Rome,
Wasting her glories dome by dome.
And yonder at the winds football
Crashes a jeweled Tai Mahal.
An irised miracle of white,
Built by what spirits of the night
And yet those sl1ut-in mortals choose
To peer into the Press for news,
Thinking the, great events are hurled
On lightnings round about the world!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
Result Of earnIshee HabIt.

"Since the passage of the national
bankruptcy law in July, 1898. there have
been 1882 petitions In bankruptcy filed In
the United States court at Birmingham"
said a government official.
There are only two states in the un-
ion, New York and Illinois, in which the
number Of petitions filed exceeds that of
Alabama. The great bulk of the cases
in this state come to the southern divi-
sion of the northern district and the
greater part Of those filed in the local
court are from Birmingham proper
I'm other words, Birmingham is among
the foremost cities In the United States
in the number of bankruptcy cases. This
is true, leaving out of consideration all
questions of population. It ranks right
along with cities having a population one
hundred times as great
Alabama is one state in which the new
bankruptcy law is good thing. It real
ly gives a poor man chance for his life.
The great trouble in the state Is with the
garnishment laws. Nine men out of ten
who file petitions In bankruptcy have
previously had their wages garnisheed
and their only recourse is to go into
bankruptcy.
IF man is willing and anxious to paw
his debts and has a spell of sickness or
something which throws him behind in
his accounts, his creditors can garnishee
bis whole salary and actually deprive
him of a living. Something should be
done to improve our state garnishment
laws"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
THE DEMAND FOR "cHANeE."

There is over $100,OOo0OO in half dollars,
quarters, dimes, niekels and cents in cir
culation, about Ss0OOO,OOO in silver dol
lars s75,OOOO0O in one-dollar bills and
s45,000,0OO In two-dollar bills. And still the
cry is for change, change. In New York
the street car companies instruct conduc-
tors to refuse anything larger than two
dollar bill for fare, owing to the imprac-
ticablity of carrying enough change to
break UP the fives and tens that would
be forced upon them. A majority of fares
are paid in nickes; then come, in the
order named dimes, quarters. halves and
pennies. There is an occasional dollar
and now and then a two-dollar bill
Women are responsible for most of the
paper money that goes into the pockets
of conductors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
The Great Railroad Deal.

while persons familiar with the rail-
road situation understood the statement
in the Associated Press dispatch that
attention is called to the fact that with
the diseontinuance of any further con-
struetion by the Seaboard AIRLINE the
value and the properties are greatly en-
haneed many who are not were misled
by It," said a financier.
THE statement meant that by the com
bination of the Frisco and the seaboard
AIRLINE the latter would be saved the
expense of pushing its road through to
the Mississippi river It had no reference
to the Seaboard's construction into Biz
mingham. The object in the Frisco &C
curing an interest in the Seaboard was
to get an outlet to the Atlantic. Con-
tractors are pushing the work on the link
between Birmingham and Coal City on
the Seaboard's East and West road and
the link between Atlanta and Rockmont
on the East and West. The Birmingham
end will be completed by January and
the Atlanta end next spring. But just as
soon as the Birmingham-Coal City link is
finished the Seaboards through trains
will be operated into this city. 1t is un-
derstood that arrangements will be made
by the seaboard to run its trains over
the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern from
Atlanta to the East and West until the
Seaboard's Georgia link is completed.
THE Rock Island Frisco-Seaboard sys-
tenn is now a fact and it is such a stu
pendous thing that 1t fairly takes ones
breath 1t means much for Birming
ham,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
A man has a lot more friends on his
pay day than he has on theirs.
A woman likes to have her husband get
mad and swear. so she can give thanks
she is a devout Christian.
It's mighty queer how a bigamist can
fool all his wives when a man who has
only one can't come within a million
miles of fooling her.
The man who can invent a harmless
kind of smallpox to keep in ones house
when his relatives want to visit him will
make more fortunes than he knows what
to do with.
When a girl says she is unhappy for a
young man who wants to marry her and
says he can't live without her she looks
as unhappy as when she is having an ice
>ream soda.
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ST. Bernard.

Never have the grounds about st. Ber-
nard looked so beautiful as they have
this summer" said a man who visits
the noted college frequently.
The lawns and the gardens and the
groves are well kept, and every year adds
to their beauty. I never see st. Bernard
that l am not impressed with the wis
dom of good Abbot Benedict in locating
his institution in so healthful a county
as Cullman, and in spot so enchanting
in its natural surroundings.
THE college was well attended last
session, and there is promise of enough
students next month to test its dull
capacity"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-08-14
A BIT OF A LAUGH
Called.

From the Commercial Tribune.
The Car of all the Russias sneezed
thrice. 1t was a good. resounding sneeze,
and it echoed through the quiet palace
for several moments .'Acschzikistivitch
-ohlutchskiodnskw Ere the last eci;o
had died seventeen palace officials were
lined up before him. Did you call me,
your Majesty" they asked in a chorus.
1t is a wise Russian who takes no cham
ces when his name is mentioned.