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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
A Newspaper Pirate.

The COURIER believes that
there should be honor among
Journalists as we'll as other
professions.
We have no objection to any
newspaper helping itself to the
choice gems and interesting
new items that are found in the
COURIER from week to week,
but we don't like to have our
labor stolen and our thunder ap-
propriated from right under our
nose without line of credit or
single grunt of gratitude.
For several weeks past the
COURIER has been going to press
a few hours in advance of it's
local contemporary, the Signal,
and while we have suspected
that many Of our news items
furnished valuable tips for the
that paper in compiling its local
news columns, proof positive of
the Signals being a newspaper
pirate was lacking until last
week.
Jas. F. Taylor, a prominent
farmer and stockman of 2 1-2
miles southwest Of Keytesville,
called at the COURIER office and
kindly gave US an item concern
ing his purchase of three year.
ling Shorthorn cattle, one male
and two females, from W. H.
Stephens of Bunceton, Mo.
The COURIER, through an
error, gave the total samount of
the purchase as $3.50, when it
should have been $500.
But alas! the Signal made use
of the item, error and all.
Our readers will, therefore,
please excuse us for smiling at
the Signals expense.
Well take spiked lemonade,
gentlemen.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
Coming to the Eldorado.

w. S. Boze, the hustling land
dealer, came in Friday from Iowa
and went to Illinois last night to
meet party of seven farmers
who are anxious to buy lands in
sGrand Old Missouri. He will
be through here Monday with
the party and expects to sell them
land in Charlton county.-Mo.
berly Democrat.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
Public Sale.

My father, j. T. Swain, hav-
ing gone to make his home with
my sister, Mrs. w. L. McCamp-
bell of near Rothville, | will have
a public sale of household and
kitchen furniture, garden tools
etc., at my residence in Keytes-
vile, Saturday, July 18, 1903
beginning at 1 o'clock p. m.
LYDIA SWAIN.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
A Temperance Blunder.

In accordance with its previous
announcement, the Keytesville
Signal of last week published
the names of those of our citi-
zins who signed W. P. Thrash s
petition praying the honorable
county court to grant Mr.. Thrash
a license to keep a dramshop.
If the names of the petitioners
were published as ''news," then
the names of the demonstrators
were as much an item of "news"
as were the names of the petit
toners.
If, in the estimation of the Sig
nal, the petitioners were all devils
were not the demonstrators all
angels?
Why then publish the bad and
omit the good?
Then, too, the petition was
never, in reality, considered
by the court, for the reason it
was proven to the satisfaction of
that august body that Mr.. Thrash
was not a fit person to run a
saloon, and he was knocked out
before the legality or illegally of
his petition was passed upon.
The fact that Thrash was flat
ly refused dramshop license
before his petition was even
considered, made that document
as dead as Hector.
To resurrect it under the cir
cumstances was like exhuming
a corpse, and if its publication
was "news" it was unquestion-
ably "dead news.
That the Signal had a perfect
right to publish the petition we
are not in the least disposed to
question, but when the petition
ers were published the remon-
strators should have also been
made public. We are equally
frank in saying, however, in view
of Mr.. Thrash's s record as dram
shop.keeper, we don't see how
anyone could very we'll get their
consent to sign his saloon petition.
If the saloon petition at
Keytesville was ''news," why
were not those at Salisbury and
Brunswick equally as interest
ing? Why didn't the Signal go
the whole hog?
The truth is that after the
COURIER had taken the lead and
moulded sentiment against
Sunday saloons, and which
brought about the fight and the
refusal of the court to grant
Thrash a dramshop license, the
Signal made up its mind to do
something, and that something is
summed up in these words.
''Behold how the mountain
has labored and brought forth a
| cfi1lhopp y,o,,,,ooI,,
The American people are a
people that are jealous Of their
, liberty, whether it be their legal
right to sign saloon petition or
do any other lawful act.
And while they may be per-
suaded and argued into de-
sisting from doing things that
their fellows may regard as i'm
proper, and even immoral, the
American citizen will not be
driven, kicked or bulldozed
iato the acceptance of the views
of others. By adopting the brow
beating method of publishing the
names on a deceased saloon pc
tition the indications are that the
Signal has hindered rather than
helped the cause of temperance.
| Dnh1io Cola
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
The Palace Drug Store.

4ue 1dldce OIuS oCOTe
The poet wrote: GA thing of
beauty is joy forever, and the
lover of the beautiful has been
applauding the sentiment ever
since.
And it is true. The advanced
intellect is mindful of the de-
mands Of time, and is apprecia-
tive Of the tastes and require
ments Of this, the Goth century.
The merchant, who is up-to- date
and appreciates his trade, and
who has pride of self and home,
is ever watchful that time leaves
no scars on his business or dust
on his mart.
This is an era of progress, en-
terprise and pride, and the busi-
ness or professional man who
wants to keep in the procession,
must not slumber or grow weary.
Every day brings new ideas and
new demands. The trading pub
lie is growing more exacUing and
more aesthetic, and the enter
prising merchant who realizes
this fact and meets the demands
is wise.
Keytesville's business men are
probably as public spirited and
righteously proud as those Of
any town in the state. The i'm
provements during the present
summer afford good proof Of
this. The several new buildings
and Handsomely furnished stores
indicate the spirit of progress
that evidences true worth. Pro-
badly one of the prettiest and
most completely appointed drug
stores in this section of the state
now adorns Keytesville, and is
called "The Palace Drug Store"
1t is in the room just occupied by
O. B. Anderson & Son. The dec
orative artists have been busy on
this room for several weeks, and
have made it truly handsome
home for Anderson & Sons bus
mess. The fixtures are Of the
very latest designs and were built
especially for this store. The
ceiling is of stamped steel, paint
ed and shaded with that harmony
of blended colors that gives to
the room palatial appearance.
The shelving is up-to- date. The
east side, where the drugs proper
rest, is so arranged as to give
the best effect, while the west
side, containing proprietary rem
edies and sundries, is finished
with an eye TO the beautiful.
Six large and handsome glass
basin counters, each filled with a
fresh stock of all kinds Of drug
gist's sundries, glisten along the
y,,ain ai,1o and attract tho visitor
as he enters the door. These
counters are embellished with
clear glass show cases dazzling
with jewels, perfumes, toilet ar
ticles and hundreds of other
things pertaining to first class
drug store. The prescription de-
partment of this store is not its
least feature of merit. It is
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
Notice..

We have engaged temporary
quarters in E. B. Kellogg's real
estate office, and respectfully
request all who are indebted to
us on livery account to please
call and settle at once.
PHILLIPS & Son.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
Proba BILE Change of Venue.

The May, 1908, adjourned
term of the Charlton circuit court
will convene at Keytesville next
Monday week, July u, and
at which time the cases
of the state against Wn4.
G.. White, charged with the mur-
der of Chas. c.. Coleman in Key
tesville the night Of April p, 1903,
and Frank Gamble, charged with
burglary and larceny from Jos.
Miles store at Dalton, have been
set for trial.
We are reliably informed that
change of venue will be asked
for in the White case, and that
defendants attorneys will re-
quest that the cause be sent out
of this judicial circuit on account
of prejudice, which, it is alleged,
will prevent White from obtain
ing a fair trial.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
IN JAIL AT ST. LOUIS.
Edward Hyde, a Keytesvllle Youth,
Arrested on Complaint Of His
Sister

Arrested on complaint OF HIS
Sister.
The st. Louis papers of last
Friday report the arrest in that
city of Edward Hyde, a former
Keytesville resident, and whose
family now reside here. The re-
port says:
cat the instance Of his sister,
who, in the role of detective, fol-
lowed him from Chicago, Edward
Hyde, aged Fl years, was arrest.
ed at Twenty first and Olive
streets Thursday, charged with
the theft of two diamond rings
and pair of opera-glasses all
valued at $3.50. The sister. Mrs.
T. M. Ward, who lives at 5404
Indiana avenue, Chicago, told
the police that the boy had pawn
ed most of the jewelry stolen, and
when searched at the station
pawn tickets were found on his
person. The sister said she had
given the boy a home for several
years past. The boy admitted
taking the rings and said he had
pawned them to raise money
enough to come to St. Louis.
He was locked up at Central sta
tion.''
1t is sad, indeed, when young
man proves so ungrateful and
so unworthy of pity, and deserves
the penalty that will probably be
measured out to him.
Edward Hyde is the same
young man who stcle a couple
of 2-year-old mules from his
father, H. G. Hyde, few weeks
ago and sold them to j. D.
Cunningham.
Lightning's Work.
Lightning played several
pra nks in Keytesville during the
heavy rain and thunder storm
Saturday evening. 1t struck the
roof of the house, owned by j.
O. Richardson of Salisbury, and
occupied by M. S. Walther, w.
D. Vaughan's timer, at point
near the base Of the flue, tore up
several shingles, slivered part
of the saddle board ana then
jumped about 40 feet, where it
struck a1d knocked a hole
through the Dashboard of the
fence. Mr.. Walther and family
were eating supper at the time
and were all more or less shock
ed, but no one of them was Sc
riously hurt. NADIA, a 10-year-
old daughter, was knocked down
and in under the table. Vivian,
aged "A, was seated at the table
with the baby in her lap, and
lodged to one side when the light
ming struck the house, and de-
clares that she saw a ball Of fire
Immediately in front of her.
Her mother, quick as a flash,
reached over and grabbed the
baby, when Vivian rose to her
feet and fell back against the door
facing where she stood stonestill
for about 10 minutes before she
was able to speak. Mr.. Walther
says that he felt the electricity
frolicing through his hair, was
conscious of taste Of birthstone
in his mouth and has resolved to
be better man.
At H. G. Miller's, cashier Of
the Farmers bank, a corner
board at the southwest corner of
his residence was partly demol-
ished. and a hole torn through
the gutter.
The stable Of Hugo Bartz, Sr.,
also came in contact with the
electric fluid, and quite a hole
was rent in the roof and
some joists splintered.
Nofiaol
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
LIE, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JULY y. 1909.
Keytesville " ins Again.

Inc 'IaSeOdll season Is IN 1ull
sway and several interesting
games were played sine the last
issue of the COURIER. The Key
tesville boys went up to Bruins
wick last Friday and once more
more ''took the boys down the
line" This was the second tilt
between these clubs and both
teams were up for game-and
got it. The feature of the game
was the splendid field work on
both sides. Each club had one
score at the finish of the third
inning; then Brunswick famed
our boys out and added five to
their score. Right here is when
slugging commenced, but during
the next five innings the home
team got no more runs, while the
Keytesville boys added eight to
their score. The attendance
was good, and the Brunswick
"rooters" were on hand in large
numbers and with strong lungs.
But it takes ball playing to defeat
Keytesville players, who are not
easily ratified. While Bruins
wick "boosters'' were splitting
their lungs the Keytesville boys
kept their heads and rolled up a
count that won the game by the
following score:
innings. l 3 Z s 9-rotal
Brunswick 30 o 5 0 0 0 0 o.
Keytesvlle 20 3 0 o. 9
A happy feature of this friend
ly contest was the reception
rendered the keytesville toys by
their Brunswick adversaries. Af-
ter the game, refreshments and
entertainment were provided and
our boys were so Hospitality
treated that they almost wished
they had lost the game.
OTHER GAMES.
Moberly witnessed good
game Sunday between a home
team and a Hannibal nine. Each
club had an Indian and several
protest. onals, and a hard sJrug-
gle ended in a victory for Mo-
berly, by q score Of 4 to 1.
A Kansas City team came to
Brunswick Sunday and were de-
feated by score of II to 8.
Brunswick players usually put
up gooi game and easily de-
feat a Kansas City and many
other clubs; but when they go
up against Keytesville, then
we'll, its different.
THE INDIANS ARE COMING.
The Keytesville club has just
arranged game with the Ne
braska Indians to be played on
the home grounds Thursday,
August 6. The Indians have
been touring the states and are
considered crack players. Peo-
pie Of Keytesville and vicinity
are assured of some fine sport
that day, further particulars of
which will be announced next
week.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
Have You Seen It?

The most popular skirt on the
market-the sunburst pleated.
j. w. WAYLAND.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17

Have just received a carload
of Bradley buggies and surreys
and Peter Schuttler wagons.
Call and see them.
A. L. SHooP,
Rothville, Mo.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
puarant0GO

have just received a carload
of Mexico flour. 1t is the very
best. T.. l.. WHITE.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1903-07-17
Notice!

Having been appointed as
agents for the popular firm of
the Dorm & Cloney Laundry Co.
of Sedalia, Mo-, we would be
pleased to have you bring us all
your laundry work. Satisfa ction
guaranteed.
Hooker & BURNS,
KeyteSville. Mo.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14

in the papular stage, one in the puru-
lent stage and two at the end of the
prodromal period.
The vaccinations were made twice
daily, three scarifications being made
each time, and were performed in the
two patients that entered during the
prodromal period only after the rash
had fully set in. The test was, there
fore, directed solely to find the value
of repeated vaccinations in the adj
vanced stages of smallpox, not in the
early part of the disease. OF the
eight patients, two had mild form
of the disease from the start, the
others severe form. In general the
use of repeated vaccinations gave more
or less favorable results. In the
severe cases the improvement was ap-
parently connected with the use of
repeated vaccinations, yet it is diff
cult to say whether the cases would
have taken just such course if no
vaccinations had been made. The
author concludes that, in smallpox,
repeated vaccinations should be used,
the earlier the better, and that the
largest usefulness could be expected
from this treatment IN the earlier
stages of the disease. A larger num-
Der of cases should be observed to
determine its value in the later stages.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
His Buckles Broke.

Atkins Lawrence, in recalling his
appearances with Mary Anderson
when she was a youthful aspirant for
theatrical honors in the east, says:
Il was getting little stout in
those days, even though | was a
young fellow, and as Claude Melnotte
l had vest that l had supplied with
three buckles in the back. These
would draw as tight, as possible to
make myself slim. One night / had
just finished my description of my
palace and knelt down to say:
'Likest thou the picture, Pauline?'
when suddenly all three of the
buckles gave way with snap that
set the people in the orchestra tit
tering. What's the matter, Atkins? ?
Mary Anderson said. in stage whis-
per. My vest buckles have broken.
I answered That's all right, she
replied, I was afraid it was your sus-
penders.' Detroit Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
DAILY VACCINATION.
Frequent Application of Virus Cures
Severe Cases of Smallpox
In Short Time.

Smallpox is by no means an inno-
cent disease, though the ancient sta
tistics of mortality have been long
since done away with. Yet mortal
ity of from Is to is per cent. is not
rare, even in vaccinated persons, and
various complications are often me
with, says the New York Medical Jour-
nal. Hubert (1s99) found that repee.-
ed vaccination was useful in the trea :
ment Of smallpox, but only in the
prodromal stages of the disease.
Kotowschikoff went further than this.
He found that repeated vaccination,
performed daily for number of days,
had a marked significance upon the
course of smallpox, not only in the
prodromal stages, but also in the be-
ginning of the disease. Since then
various authors have written on the
subject. In order to test the thera-
peutic value Of repeated vaccination
in smallpox, the author tried this mode
of treatment IN eight cases. The ma
jority Of these patients entered with
smallpox rash fully deyeloped-five
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

After going around with a broken
skull for Is years, the Kentucky wom-
an who owned it has just had it re-
paired.
Prof Dali Osso, inspector of the Mu-
scum of Naples, has just published an
article in which he affirms that re-
searches and excavations prove that
there existed Pompeii nine centuries
before our era.
To announce to his musical friends
the birth OF son, Welsh musician
has sent card simply bearing four
bars of music. They were recognized
as from 'The Messiah: Unto us a
child is born, unto us son is given"
According to Mrs. Frank Armstrong,
of Nevada, Mo-, Cole Younger, the not
ed bandit recently pardoned from the
Minnesota 'penitentiary, was great
Bible student during his youth and
committed large portion of the New
Testament to heart.
King Edward daily shows increasing
desire to rely upon men of mature
years for his.companions. Young men
seem to be rather trial to his rotund
majesty, and it is rare that courtier
under 80 attains position among his
more intimate acquaintance. AS a
whole. the Edwardian court is very
little, if any, more youthful than was
that of Victoria dozen years ago.
An eccentric bachelor in a Bavarian
town left the bulk of his fortune,
amounting to 10000, to his two nieces,
on condition that they should spend a
year as common servants. One of the
girls, his sisters daughter, accepted
the conditions; the other, his brothers
daughter, has brought suit to contest
the will, on the ground that the testa-
tor was of unsound mind.
The fact that the birth of Marconi
has been found registered in Bologna
has cut short the claim of other Italian
towns to this distinction. Florence,
however, has discovered that the in
ventor went to school there between
his sixth and tenth years. There has
also been discovered an aged lady, Sig
nora Luisa Cavallero, who taught
young Marconi how to read, and she
says that she was obliged to punish
him many times because he was very
naughty, and since he has become a
great mar her conscience has severely
reproached her. Fancy Furnishing a
genius!" she exclaimed. ''At the same
time," she added in extenuation, che
was never able to learn anything by
heart. That was impossible with him. y
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14

The father of all the gambling
games was a game which still is the
national game Of Corea under the
name of nyout. 1t is played with q
board marked out with series of
circles. The players use four slaves
which they throw as dice are thrown,
and, according to their throws, they
move counters around the board.
The counters are called men in
Corea, as they are called in practi-
cally all the world. The name orig
mated with the ancient Chinese, who
were as inveterate gamblers then as
they are now. Nyout is the proto-
type of all the modern games known
as fox and geese, game of geese,
steeplechase, snake game, and the
scores of others that are based on
the same principle. The old Hindoo
game of pachesi also is based on The
game of nyout. The University Of
Pennsylvania has collected the games
Of different countries all based direct
ly on the game of goose and indirect-
ly on the game Of nyout. A popular
Corean form of the game that is
played much to-day is tying-kyong-to,
in which five-sided stave is used in
stead of cubical dice.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

It was SO cold in Chicago recently
that pickpocket who happened to
touch $40 gold piece Immediately
froze to it.-Chicago Daily News.
Universal Belief.-Wife during the
spat)-'I believe you only married me
for my money" Husband-"What a
querr coincidence. All my friends be-
lieve the same thing. Chicago Daily
News.
Not Paradox.-Brute-"T is a
man whom l envy; and. curious as it
may seem, he envies me-" Friend
SLOW can that be?" Brute-"We were
both after the same woman--and l
married her. IN. Y. Weekly.
Gussie-''Cholly says he met you and
-aw-that you wemarked he was a
puzzle to you." Miss Pepprey-"Yes;
he reminded me of the average puzzle
the moment he was introduced to me,
so simple when you know it. Phil
adelphia Press.
Perfectly Safe.-A tourist in a re-
mote part ef Ireland, having stayed the
night at wayside inn not usually fre-
quented by visitors, informed the land
lord in the morning that his boots,
which had been placed outside his room
door, had not been touched. "Ah.
shure,' said the landlord, .'and you
moight put your watch and chain out
side your room door in this house and
they wouldn't be touched. The King.
A Gentle Hint-"Yes," said the gen.
tleman of business to the caller who
had just entered, leaving the door
swinging, II am quite phrenologist." !"
Indeed? And you can tell what bumps
and knobs mean on peoples heads?"
81 can do better. can tell what they
mean on inanimate things. For in
stance, the knob on that street door in
dieates a frank disposition. but to be a
success in life it must not be so open"
And he got up and remedied the palpa-
BILE defect in the doors character.-Bal-
timore News.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
A KINGS REQUEST.

If I am king, as you say 1 am,
With courtiers to command,
Why am I not treated with due respect
And kissed upon the hand?
It's a terrible thing to be king,
Even without a crown;
You are mussed and munched, crowed over
and punched,
And joggled up and down.
Your stomach wee is flooded with tea,
Made of the catnip leaf;
And as like as not you are kept too hot,
And fianneled beyond belief.
l should like little fresh air. II you please
And some rights of my own.
A few of the minor courtesies
Are appropriate-near a throne!
If am king, as you say am,
Please heed my timid request,
And I'll be as good as little lamb,
Or a birGs in it's mothers nest.
-Ethelwyn Wetherald, in Good House
keeping
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
As to Gossiping.

my DEAR" said Mrs. Cawker to her
daughter, when you are at Mrs. Cum
SOS this afternoon ! hope you won't
think of repeating that bit of gossip
about Mrs. Gilfoyle that Mrs. Fosdick
told us this afternoon"
why, mammal"
"Well, because it would be ungener-
Gus and unkind, and / don't think Mrs
Gilfoy1e would like it told; and, be-
sides, I want to tell it to Mrs. Cumso
myself"-Smart Set.