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COURTS of Warrensburg, Mo,
was fined $500 by the
supreme court for contempt in a pub,
lished article egticising a decision
of the court. Attorneys for Shepherd
argued that it was an invasion of the
constitutional rights OF the defendant
to punish him for criticism of the
courts action. The court declared
that the matter was abuse, not crit
icism that came within the liberty of
the press.
Gov. Davis, the chief officer Of the
coult of Arkansas in every speech he
makes. and for no other reason than
that the court does not construe tne
laws according to Davis view. It
matters not how contrary to the con-
stitution an act of the legislature may
be. if the act happens to be one of
TIE governors pet measures, the SUI
preme court judges must declare the
act constitutional JUS because the gov
e:nor desires it, and if they fail to
do so, then, according to Gov. Davis,
the judges are corrupt, and are un-
der the control and influence of the
trusts.
When the supreme court construed
the present antitrust law, declaring
it constitutional, Gov. Davis, who
was then attorney general, dismissed
239 prosecutions under the antitrust
law. for the alleged reason that the
construction put upon the law made
it impossible for him to make any
convictions Gov Davis has no de-
sire to hurt the trusts, and his excuse
for dismissing the 239 prosecutions
was made for political purposes only.
He is the best friend the trusts have
in the state. His abuse of the SUI
preme court does not possess the least
semblance of criticism and is done
only to catch the untiinking voter.
He is subject to fine for contempt OF
court but to fine him would only give
him another lever for securing the
support of those who do not give the
matters OF government serious
thought, but accept the snoutings OF
demagogue like Davis as patriotic ut
terances in behalf Of the lear peo
pie"
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that he has never been i'll day in
his life. He has forgotten the taste
of water Judging from the amount
of "booze" they take into their tanks,
Pine Bluff has a few people who
lave f,7"gotten the taste of water.
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John L. Rosso, OF New Brunswick

John L. Rosso, OF New Brunswick,
n. j., has not had drink OF water
since 1862. For the past forty years
he has drunk nothing but whisky
wine and beer, always in moderation.
Mr. Rosso is now seventy-eight years
old, is strong and robust, and says
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their lack of early development that
life does not yield them one tenth OF
what 1t might had their intellectual
and aesthetic possibilities been un-
folded in youth. In social life, on
public platforms, in debate, in the
higher fields of the worlds work, en-
joyment, and progress, they ae con
stantly baffed, embarrassed and
Handicapped by the limitations of ig-
nCraEue.
young women are working to-day in
inferior positions because of their
lack of mental culture Conscious Of
dormant powers which they cannot
get control of, many of them fret and
chafe under the restraints imposed
upon them by their own ignorance.
They are in the position of the Chin
csc and other non progressive peoples,
who have great mineral, agricultural,
and other natural resources, which,
however, do not yield them a hun
q edith part of their value because they
20 not know how to utilize them In
tie ae$ midst OF potential wealth and
vast possibilities, these people live in
poverty and degradation. just as an
uneducated man or woman, who has
never developed his or her mental
wealth, is dooma; 10 perpetual ig1Or-
ance and its consequences.
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RENTING PROPERTY

Is my exclusive business. I do not
sell, rent nor trade; so by devoting
my entire time to renting property,
can better take care Of your inter.
est. o. w. BOYCE.
Aug. 8.
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TIE HANDICAP 'lhe Success
OF LACK for August con-
OF EDUCATlCN. tans a very in
tsresting article
on the subject OF "Ihe Handicap OF
Lack of Education.' 1t says that
many men of wonde full natural en-
dowments are dwarfted and hampered
in their life work because Of their
.ack of education. How often do we
see bright minds in responsible posi-
tions, serving on boards of directors,
as trustees of great business houses
or banking institutions, men who con-
troll the affairs of great railroads and
manufactures, who have good judg-
ment and great natural ability, but
who are SO stunted and cramped by
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RESULTS

IN newspapers two men
"diyine healers' are to
be prosecuted at Chicago for obtaining
money under false pretenses, in that
they have accepted fees from invallds
whom they have failed to cure.
Is theie not precedent in this
action which may result unpleasanty
to professors of the healing art who
do not claim divine aid. If it is false
pretense on the part Of the divine
healer to take money without effect
ing a cure, is it not equally false pre-
tense for a drug healer to do the same
thing?
It NAV be said that the regular ply
sician exercises his skill to the utmost
and that he ought to be paid, wheth-
er he succeeds or fails, but is not the
same thing true of the "divine heal
er /" Doesn't he pray his hardest and
is not the laborer worthy of his hire
whether he happens TO be homeo-
path, an allopath or a psychopatn?
In other words, if lesults are to
constitute the standard by which rhy'
sicians are to be judged, will it not
h., necessary to send lot OF the
drug doctors to joi( to keep the "di'
vine healers" ccmnaL.
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office: Corne. 5raraGue and Chest
nut Streets.
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Hot-beds are not needed for sweet
potatoes, for plants can be grown
and ready for transplanting before II
is safe to plant in the field with a
simple bed similar to cold-frame,
but without the frame. Dig up and
ditch bed three feet wide and az
long as needed, throwing it up five
or six inches above the general level,
and having it well drained. There
should be layer of rich soil six
inches deep, over this two or three
inches of loose, fine soil, into which
the seed potatoes are to be pressed
and then covered two inches with q
top layer of fine, sandy soil. Over
this spread a good layer of hay or
straw or cotton-seed hulls. which can
be removed when the potatoes sprout
As vine cuttings give better results
than slips from the seed bed. it is
well to plant a few rows on rich soil
to make vines for the main crop
Sweet potatoes can be planted on oat
stubble with good results. Now is a
good time to be getting the seed bed
ready to plant after the 18th of Feb
ruary, or week or two earlier in
south Texas. 1t will take about four
weeks to develop good, well-rotted
sets.-Farm and Ranch.
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PEANUTS ON THE FARM.
riculture Amounts to I'm the
United states.

Agriculture continues to be the par
amount industry of the United States.
We read of strikes affecting 10000
miners, or 100000 laborers in textile
factories, or $4,000 or more railway
employees, and we wonder at the ex-
tent of these figures. There are more
people engaged in farming than in all
other gainful industries combined,
and more than one-third as many as
are engaged in all other occupations.
Over half the American people reside
on farms, and these farms have to-
tai value of nearly $1,000, 900, 900. ex-
elusive of farming implements and live
stock, which, if included, would add
$1,000, 000, 900 more. According to the
latest census report the fixed capital
of agriculture amounts to $20,000,-
o0o, 900, or four times as much as in
vested in manufactures of every kind.
The annual value of farm products
reaches nearly s5,0OasOo0, 900. Let us
see some of the items which make up
this grand total: Corn, $s2s, 000, 900;
hay, $4s4, ZOO, 900; wheat, $3.50, 1000, 900;
oats, $217, 1000, 600; cotton. 1924. 900 900;
animals sold and slaughtered, $780,
100000. Those who are inclined to
sneer 1t farmers and farming don't
know . big thing when they see it.
Agriculture is the life of the nation,
and anything government. state or
national, can do for its promotion is
of the nature of self preservation.
Our legislators should look into this
matter and accumulate some infor-
nation to guide them in their acts
when measures affecting the interests
Of agriculture come before them.
There are chumps everywhere You
will ind them on farms doing but
little good to themselves or their
eountry. Like the poor, they ere IL
Wayq Wjth ~ These ere but bor1ae)es
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NEW CON GAME IN MAINE.
sharp Trick That IL Played upon
People with the Aid of q Clam
and . Five-DolIar Gold Piece.

A new confidence game has beef
introduced to northern Maine by a
man who passes for drummer for
a New York firm which deals i'm
cigars. The arrangement of the
Maine saloons affords excellent OPP
portunities for working the game,
which is done with the aid of a
five-dollar gold piece and a clam,
says Houlton (Me.) report.
Most of the Maine barrooms are
eating houses on the front next to
the street, the liquor being dispensed
from a dark room in the rear. The
drummer enters to sell cigars, but
soon begins to talk about the loss
of five dollars in gold. Then he pro-
duces roll of bills and offers to
give six dollars for gold coin to
replace the one he has lost; assert
ing that he could never hope to have
luck without gold in his pocket.
If none of those present has any
gold a man is sent out to buy the
coin. When it is produced the drum
mer expresses fear that it may be
a counterfeit. To see if it is genuine
he carries il to the front of the
shop and holds it aloft over the pile
Of cold-storage oysters and clans
which always lies near the window
for advertising purposes. Here, in
full view of the people he bites the
coin, throws it down on the counter
and losses it in the air.
All at once the coin slips from his
fingers and falls among the clans.
There is long hunt, during which
the d hummer processes to be very
sorry for the accident. and offers to
pay full value. He also treats all
hands and promises to come back
after dinner and renew the search.
OF course, the owner of the coin,
feeling sure that the lost money will
be found, refuses to take pay and IS
satisfied with the free drink.
On reaching his hotel the drummer
takes clam from his pocket, opens
it with his knife, and removing five
dollars in gold from the inside, swal-
lows the contents of the shell with
keen relish. Knowing that clans
open their shells when kept for any
time from water. and. feeling sure
that CLAIMS as far away from the
sea as Houlton must feel uncomfort.
able, he dropped the coin into the
open jaws of clam on top of the
heap, and the clam, feeling the touch
of foreign substance, Immediately
closed its shell with snap. The
shut case informed the drummer
where the gold was, after which he
secreted the clam in his pocket and
allowed the hunt 70 60 on
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on the hull of the ship that impedea
its progress. But the real farmer, he
who farms his farm and is proud of 1t.
and of his ability to make it do his
bidding, Is the best specimen of
American manhood. He can justly
feel an independence unknown to men
in any other calling. He fears no
strike and submits to no lockout. He
has no boss to placate, for he knows
none. His employment is sure, and
he can work 12 hours a day if he
wants to, without the fear of walk
ing delegate; or he can refrain from
work If he so desires. The business
he is engaged in is the greatest on
earth, and the richest and the best.
lt is the fountain of life for all the
people. and will be as long as people
eat and wear. An intelligent, indus
trious farmer is worth more to the
country than a regiment of average
politicians.-Farm and Ranch.
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HERE AND THERE.

sr "A good way to fight boil weevils
is to destroy them with hogs. This
can be done by raising hogs and let.
ting the weevils starve.
The German emperor has advised
German farmers to take lessons in
scientific farming from American
farmers. and then they will need no
government aid.
One of the most frequent causes
of lameness and sweeney in horses is
bad shoeing. Any blacksmith can nail
on a shoe. but very few of them can
nail one right.
During the year 1902 there were
marketed at Chicago alone 251.747
calves. The calf crop was very short
TO begin with. and therefore the crop
of yearling steers must. of necessity
be unusually short the present year.
There is an affinity between the
hog and the earth that should not be
ignored. Floors are all right to feed
on, but hogs confined on floors are
in an unnatural position and win not
do well. Floors are especially repug-
nant to brood sows. both before and
after narrowing.
"A good resolution that ought &c
have been made by every farmer on
or about New Years day was that
during 1908 he would pay cash for ev-
erything he buys, contract no debts.
burden himself with no interest and
for once in his life, De free eR6 In
dependent citizoR
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An important Discovery.

Granton, Okla, Feb. 9th.-Aftr ten years
E. IL. Gosney of Granton has at last found
a cure for Kidney Trouble. Mr. Gosney
suffered very severely with Kidney Com
plant and some ten years ago made up his
mind to find cure if one was to be had.
He has tried and tried and experimental
with every kidney medicine he could hear
of. Although he was always disappointed
he kept on trying till at last hisperseverence
was rewarded and he found complete
cure.
He is well man to-day and explains it
as follows:
Everything failed to cure me and was
growing worse and worse till tried new
remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills and ]
had not taken many of them before ]
knew that / had at last found the right
thing. / am entirely cured and / cannot
say too much for Dodd's Kidney Pills"
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Gentlemen" recently said q German
professor who was showing to his students
the patients in the asylum, this man suf.
clan. 1t is well known that blowing brass
instrument affects the lungs and throat
in such way as to create a great thirst,
which has to be allayed by persistent in
diligence in strong drink. Hence. in course
of time, the disease you have before YOU"
Turning to the patient the professor asked:
"What instrument do you blow?" and the
answer was: The violoncello." Cleveland
Plain Dealer
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SOIL FERTILITY PROBLEM.
Every Farmer Must he an Expert
menter and Every Farm an
Experiment station.

Many farmers think that If the,
could have their soil analyzed tina
they would know then just what I,
apply in the way of commercial fer
tilizers. Soil analysis would show tha
in the surface eight inches of soil o.
every grass field there are some 2,
600 pounds Of nitrogen, some 400
pounds of phosphoric acid, and any
where from $4,000 to $1,000 pounds o.
potash. These amounts are far in ex
cess OF what would be needed to pro
duce crops for many years to come
and the information obtained from
having the soil analyized is really YER,
slight, because the analysis does no.
tell how much of this plant food i.
available for, the plants use.
Every farmer must be an expert
menter, and every farm an expert
ment station. The farmer who ha:
not the spirit of investigation, and
who can not learn for himself the
treatment best adapted to his soil
will not make a success at farming.
Our experiment stations have con.
Quoted fertilizer experiments year aft
er year. They have found that Ger.
tain fertilizers upon certain soils in
certain seasons are best for corn OIL
for oats, or for other farm crops, but
these results are Of little value to
the farmer so far as giving direct in.
formation as to the needs of his farm
They point in a general way toward
better methods of treatment which
will probably prove advantageous. IT.
as the result of many experiments. /.
is found that the soil in any portion
of the state responds to an applica-
ton of phosphoric acid. then the
farmers living in that section may
suppose that phosphoric acid is the
element in which the soil is deficient,
and that a fertilizer containing phos.
phoric acid is the one they should
apply.
The problem of soil fertility is not
one of plant food alone. We are learn.
ing every year that bacteria play far
more importance in the production
VI tfOPo VIC uc0 SuPROSCQ
Alfalfa does not seem TO thrive in
Connecticut. Those who have tried
it almost invariably report that il
does not grow here. The tests made
upon our college farm show that il
does not thrive. i have recently dug
up some plants which were attempt
ing to grow upon the college farm
The roots contained no nodules what
ever, while clover which was growing
near was abundantly supplied with
nodules. This indicates that the spe.
cific bacteria required for the growth
of alfalfa are not present in our soil
Certainly the plant food supplied 10
abundant, the climatic conditions are
favorable, and we must look to BAG
terra if we expect to grow alfalfa sue
cessfully in Connecticut.-Americar
Agriculturist.
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DEERFrEr.D. IND" When / sent for
the trial box of Doan's Kidney Pills / had
been afflicted for two months with pain in
my back so bad that ! could not get from
the house to the barn. 1t was called
rheumatism. l could get no relief from
the doctors. ! began to improve on taking
the sample and got two boxes at our
druggists, and. although So years of age,
am almost new man. Twas troubled q
good deal with my water = had to get up
four and five times night. That trouble
is over with and once more / can rest the
night through. My backsche is all gone,
and thank you ever so much for the
wonderful medicine, Doans Kidney Pills. :"
-JNo. II. HUBER, President Ridgeville,
Indiana, State Bank.
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me X. 6. 5. Almanac Tor 1905.

The Kansas City Southern Railways
Almanac for 1903 is now ready for distribu-
ton. Farmers, stock-raisers, fruit-grow-
ers, truck gardeners, manufacturers, mer-
prices, can obtain reliable information con-
corning southwestern Missouri, the Cher
okee and Choctaw Nations in the Indian
Territory, western Arkansas, eastern Texas,
northwestern Louisiana and the Coast coun-
try, and of the business opportunities Of
fered therein. Write for a copy of the
X. {. s Almanac and address, S. G. War
ner, G. P. A, K. c. S. Railway, Kansas
City. Mo.
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Smarticus-Well, how are you?
Spartacus-Poorly, poorly. Got an awful
cold in my head.
well, well, that's comforting"
Comforting! Explain"
What joy it ought to be to you after
years of uncertainty on the subject to be
assured definitely that you really have
something in your head."-Baltimore
American.
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S0crates called beauty q ehort-lived
tyranny, Plato . privilege Of nature,
Theocritus . delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus silent cheat, Carneades
. solitary kingdom, Homer glorious
gift Of nature, Ovid favor Of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters Of racom-
mendation In the world, and yet none
Of these distingui shed authorities has
left M even q hint Of how beauty 10 to
be perpetuated, or the ravages Of age
and disease dened. Time soon blends
the lily and the rose into the pallor of
age, disease dots the fair face with
crtaneous designations and crimsons
the Roman nose with unsightly fiushes,
moth, II not rust, corrupts the glory
of eyes, teeth, and lips yet beautiful by
defacing the complexion, and ILLS the
sensitive soul with agony upspeakable.
II such be the unhappy condition Of
one afflicted with slight skin blemishes,
what must be the feelings Of those in
whom torturing humors have for
years run riot, covering the skin with
scales and sores and charging the
blood With poisonous elements to
become q part Of the system until
death2 It Is vain to attempt to por-
tray such suffering. Death in many
cases might be considered blessing.
The blood and fluids seem 10 be Inn
pregnated with fiery element which,
when discharged through the pores
upon the surface of the body, infames
and burns until, in his efforts for relief,
the patient tears the skin with his
nails, and not until the blood flows
does sufficient relief come to cause him
TO desist.
Thus do complexional defects merge
into torturing disease, and piqued van
ity give place to real suffering. A
little wart on the nose or cheek grows
to the all-devouring lupus, patch of
letter on the palm Of the hand or on
the limbs suddenly envelops the body
in Its fiery embrace, . bruise ON the leg
expands into gnawing ulcer, which
reaches ont its fangk 20 the sufferers
heart in every paroxysm OF pain. .
small kernel In the neck multiplIes into
. dozen, which eat away the vitality,
great pearl-like scales grow from little
rash-like indammations in such album
dance ~ to pass credulity; and 90 on
may We depict the sufIerings to which
poor human nature il subject, all of
which involve great mental distress
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California-Low Rates.

Beginning February 18th, the NJ, X. 4
T. Ry. will sell Colonist Tickets TO Cali
fornia at very low rates, viz: st. Louis,
5000; Kansas City, $500. Tourist Car
through to San Francisco leaves st. Louis
each Tuesday at 1872 D. m. Ask any Katy
Agent or address James Barker, Gen1 Pass.
Agent, M. X. & I. Ry., 202 Wainwright
Bldg, St. Louis.
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BELDNG, MICH, Jan. IA, 1907 re-
ceived trial box of Doan's Kidney Pills.
They did me lots of good. can now 60
to bed and lie on my right side - the pain
there is all gone, also the stomach distress
and belching of gas is all stopped, with
the use of two boxes. p Mrs. E. g. BEEN,
r. F. d. No. 2, Reading, Mich.
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Proof is again afforded Of the beneficient
wisdom of nature. A professor in the Uni.
versity of Michigan has discovered that
the hearing of girls is more acute than that
of boys. This greater sensitiveness doubt
less exists that the faintest whisper of the
fateful question may not escape the listen
ing ear.-Youth's Companion.
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Uncle Reuben says: Pm realizin' dat
hasn't created no pertickler commoshun in
dis world, but as an offset 1 am consoiin'
myseld wild de reflection dat de world has
bin none de worse for my Twin in it. II
/ haven't helped, haven't hurt.-Detroit
Free Press
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First Lady Passenger ION elevatedt -
THAT is the first gentleman I've seen in
"What did he do? First Lady Passenger
-"Offered me his strap."-Town Topics.