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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30
wig Is Ground for Divorce.

The widow of wealthy landowner,
who married an impoverished count,
has obtained a legal separation at
Berlin after three weeks of marriage
on the novel ground that her husband
wears wig. She received such a
shock at the sight of his bald head
that she cook a violent antipathy to
him and appealed to the court for a
separation, pleading that if she had
known the count wore "a wig she
never would have married him. The
Judge held that the plea was valid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

The house is built of frame and
veneered with buff pressed brick. OF
course no one ever builds a house with
the thought that it is certain to be
ugly; everyone wants a house to be
pretty. Nevertheless the fact remains
that most houses are ugly. But it is en-
tirely fair to make the general state
ment that there is no excuse for an
ugly house. Good proportion costs no
more thar bad proportion; ugly details
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30
THE DESERTED FARMHOUSE.

The burdock crowds against the walls
Where clematis has been;
The catbird on the threshold calls,
The rabbit frisks within
The quail her brood of nestlings rears
Beneath the sagging gate;
In ali the countrys side appears
No place more desolate.
The sun, unchallenged, bold surveys
The bare and dusty floorl;
The breeze through hall and chamber plays
AS free as out-of-doors.
At night the bat and owl pursue
Their flight frcsn side to side;
While sSeet and rain and sun and dew
SEEK entrance. IDdsnisd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

The people come, the people go,
Along the winding road;
Falr' golden fields stretch far below
With health and plenty sowed
And, tho the old house stands aloof
A ruin Ger the lea,
Still dwells beneath the tattered roof
A goodly company.
When springtime weaves a mantle green;
When summer luils to sleep;
Wnen fall strews bounty on the scene;
When winter SHOWS are deep;
By day by night, come guest on guest
The thoughts of those who roam.
But fain again would know the res,
And peace of this old home.
Edwin L. Sabin. Ia Farm Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30
for dishes and victuaIs.

for dishes and victuals.
Upstairs five bedrooms and bath
room are shown. The front stairs land
in a front hall, and in the rear hall is a
landing from stairway coming up
from the kitchen.
The outside indicates an attempt to
get something which is picturesque, in
teresting and altogether attractive at
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

a hall into a very desirable and very
satisfactory reception room-a vesti-
bulc. The plan which goes with this
shows how this may be done. There is
the vestibule into which one may en-
ter and take off his wraps, straighten
up n neclltie and walk into the recep-
tioE hall The mere placing of these
articles outside of the reception hall
gives it proper place; it adds one
more room to the serving capacity of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

the building. One can 60 from this hall
into either the parlor or sitting-room,
and from the sitting-room into the din
ing-room. The passage from the din
ing-room to the kitchen is through a
large pantry which is well fitted with
shelves and cupboards. There is also
large china closet between the dining
room and kitchen, which opens on
either side, furnishing passage through
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

The men sat in the smoking room
that night for long time discussing
the mock trial
LA Verne isn't such a bad actor
either" one of them was saying. "He
plays joke out to the end, too. I lust
met one OF the Chinese boys a moment
ago carrying lot of legal looking pa
pers that La Verne had given him down
to Martins room, keeping up the joke.
you know, about the $4,000 fortune"
Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

Y0VNLY a short time ago everyone
thought he must have a house
80 with a reception hall. The re-
ception hall idea was overworked
until it was not reception
hall, but was simply large
room with stairway in it, hat rack
and some bric-a-brac-bu certainly
not the place to receive anyone. Only
one thing is necessary to convert such
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30
E. A. PAYNE.

absolute alcohol, and upon being
dried resembles varnish, keeping
It's dangerous powers for years. 1t
is at the same time poison to the
blood and poison to the nervous
sNetem.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

cost quite as much as attractive details.
The effect of this whole house is chaste
and pleasing to people of refinement.
If so desired, house of this general
design might be built entirely of frame
and make very neat appearance.
Built as shown. of brick veneer, heat
ing. and bathroom complete, it would
cost about $1,000.
E. A. PAYNE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

colOred and showing "brick-dust-lke
deposit. Urination is infrcquent, too
frequent or excessive. You should
heed these danger signals before
chronic complications set india
betes, Dropsy, Bright's disease. Take
Doan's Kidney Pills in time and the
cure is simple.
j. f. Wainwright, of the firm of
Bones & Wainwright, painters and
contractors, Pulaski, Va. says: -Four
or five times a year for the
past few years l have suffered
with severe attacks of pain in my
back, caused from kidney trouble.
During these spells l was in such
misery from the constant pain and
aching that it was almost impossible
for me to stoop or straighten, and it
really seemed as if the whole small
of my back had given away. At
times 1 also had difficulty with the
kidney secretions which were dis
colored irregular and scalding. and l
was also greatly distressed with
headaches and dizziness. | used
number of recommended rene
dies but I never found anything so
successful as Doan's Kidney Pills.
When l heard of Il EN- I had an at
tack and procured box of them. In
a few days the pain and lameness dis
appeared, the trouble with the kid
Eey secretions was corrected and my
system was improved generally. L
have every confidence in Doan's Kid
ney Pills"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
rey medicine which cured Mr.. Vain
wright will be mailed to any part of
the United States on application.
Address FOster-NLilburn Co.. Buffalo,
N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price
sc cents per box
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

Prof, Meunier, of the French Acad-
envy of Science, announces that VOL
cano is forming under the Place Re.
puSlic in Paris.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30
TWO SIGNALS.

There a re
{ wo serious
S ign a s of
kidney ill s.
The first sig
nal CO m e S
from the back
with nuner-
Gus aches and
p a in S. The
second signal
coHes in the
kidney secre-
ito $, t h e
urine is thin
and pale or
too !, ! n, I, I y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-30

will be paid to anyone who
can disprove this statement.
Because w. l.. Douglas
isthe largest manufacturer
he can buy cheaper and
produce his shoes at a
lower cost than other con-
Germs, which enables him
to sell shoes for $3.50 and
$500 equal in every
way to those sold else IA
where for 81 and $500. I$
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
JUDGE COONEY.

With the close of the second term
Of the i%fty-seventh congress, March
4, Judge James CooneY, of Marshall
retires to private life. His retirement
comes as an incident of the redistrict-
ing Of the state and in no way can ii
be taken as an expression Of dissatls-
faction on the partof his constituents
On the contrary Judge Cooney is held
in the highest estimation by the
people whom he has served. The con
gressional election happened to
coincide with a state election, and
interest in candidates for other Offices
in a measure weakened his hold upon
his new constituents. Judge Cooney
is not a man to sulk or repine at an
incident Of public life so common.
The people of the district hold him in
the highest respect and confidence.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

AAOACooOA ANVIL ohh Va eA'
Berlin University has expressed the
opinion that the Monroe Doctrine II
an "empty p%retension." de goes or
to say: Scarcely could such a doctrine
be forced upon a conquered people
after extraordinary victories. II IL
only the divisions of European polite.
that explains why Europe, why Ger.
many even, takes this pretension into
consideration.
1t is evident that Of European
states Germany would especially like
to make some Of the South American
republics colonizIng ground for its
surplus population. Tt is also evident
and perfectly natural that the mother
country should wish to keep up the
family connection with such colonies
as a reserve dependence in time OF
need. And it is not even strange that
Europeans who exert themselves to
look at the matter ACCIDENTALLY fail
10 see in the Monroe Doctrine any
thing more than arrogant assumption
The Monroe Doctrine does not mean
now what it once meant. When 1t
was first proclaimed it expressed the
jealousy Of the people of the United
States for their own republican insti-
tutions and their fear that the acquis-
ition Of territory by European Mon
arches and the political colonization
Of any part Of the western hemisphere
might threaten those institution
That day has past. Our institutions
would not be threatened il all South
America were a crown colony of the
worst ~despotism in Europe. The men
who are most clamorous DOW for the
maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine
car very little for constitutional
government and r at heart jealous
only Of trade encroachment.
The Monroe Doctrine now means
that South America is our game aud
that Europe may as well hunt else
where. 1t means that as we grow
able We will take the part Of the
South American republics against
foreign aggression and take our pay in
special trade concessions. 1t means
that 10 fifty years we will have them
tied like Cuba so that they can neither
engage In war mol make treaties with
out our consent. 1t means that we
will extend our unsought pr~otectorate
over them for the sake Of commercial
advantage and then ascribe great
credit to ourselves for defending an
exclusive market. This is a fair state
ment Of the modern imperialist's
Monroe Doctrine. The old doctrine
is another matter.
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
THE RACE QUESTION.

1t isa matter for serious reflection
that OF all the wordy talk on the race
question INDUCED 10 lately all over
the country, Booker T. Washington
has said the best and sanest things.
For years he has held consistently to
the opinion that the negro cannot be
and should not want TO be maintained
in an unnatural position by mere
authority of law. He insists that
the negro must win for himself the
place to which he is properly entitled
and that no legislation or official
recognition a possibly maintain
him in an artificial station. He
urges his race to make itself useful,
to connect itself actively and heartily
with the industrial development OF the
section 10 which it abides, to acquire
property, to cultivate habits of thrift
and industry, to take no thought Of
race equality or inequality, to seek no
social recognition whatever except
within its own race lines, to prefer the
trades to the professions, TO become
lard owners or at least independent
tenants,
1t will be seen that Booker Wash.
ingtou's programme for his ace take;
account Of a condition as 1t is anc
does not consist in lurid proclama.
tions Of what should be or may be.
Whether right or wrong it is a sug.
g%estion Of something TO be done a4c
not empty mounting about the gray.
ICY Of present conditions or vain pre-.
dictions OF worse things to come.
He believes that when his race comes
toown property and to he engaged in
It's own affairs, when It's Interests and
It's industries become an important
element in the business and GUNNER.
eial well-being Of the South, it viii
readily be accorded the recognition
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
Mr.. COwHERD.

1t was a fine sense OF personal and
official responsibility which has made
Congressman Cowherd regard him
self as the representation of Lafayette
county up to March 4, and this with
out %trespassing upon Judge Cconey's
territory to rob him Of any credit due
him. The situation of Lafayette
county was peculiar in that it was
taken away from Mr.. Cowherd's dis
trict and added to Judge Cooney's
district in the middle OF a congress
sional term. The people had voted
for Mr.. Cowherd and regarded him as
their congressman. He had continued
to answer their letters and to attend
their wants without ever complaining
or reminding them that he now be-
longs to another district.
The people Of this county are warm
ly and strongly attached to Mr. Cow
herd and he has given evidence IN more
ways than one that he reciprocates
the sentiment 10 p most unselish way
Mr.. Cowherd is not ooly a nan who
Is growing 10 influence and reputation
In congress but is growing 10 favor
aud popularity throughout the state
On the floor OF congress he is a capita
debater aud on the hustings, a finS
campaigner, but these are among th)
smallest Of his virtues. He is q hare
working, p~ainstaking man. Of ih'
Judgment, Of uufailing courtesy, o.
scrupplous integrity, not self-seekfng
willing to work anywhere, aud irt al
thugs considering party advantage
over personal gain. There is a fur 6rt
fthfMr. Cowherd He is young and
10 quarter horse, One OF these
lh1fe will be a bigger place FOL
herd aud he will fill IL.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

it deserves and the only recognition
It has any right to want or expect.
II is painful to reflect that the
relation between the races has become
more strained 10 the past thirty years
than in two hundred years Of slavery.
One can hardly escape the conclusion
that this result is due more to the
negroes fUOl-friends than to them
selves or the people among whom
they live. Certain it is that this is a
matter which should not be permitted
to become one Of party politics. Laws
have had no effect in determining the
negroes status and will not have.
Booker Washington's ideas on this
question are far more nearly right
than those of any party leader from
Sumner to Roosevelt.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
CRIMINAL COLONIES.

A bill has been introduced in the
legislature providing for the care Of
the habitual criminal. Although II
has been practically abandoned by the
civilized nations Of the world, it is
worth while for this country to con-
slider anew the once approved plan OF
cOlonizing criminals. Not all GRIM
inals, for some may be readily reclaim
ed by properly conducted reform in
Stitutions and some should be hanged
or otherwise punished at home. But
it is a peculiar phenomenon Of civili-
zation that hsbitual criminals Of GER
tain classes increase at an ever accel-
Grated rate in highly organized social
communities. 1t is the penalty that
must be paid for the artificial condl-
lions in highly civilized governments.
Criminal colonies by restoring
natural conditions 90 far toward
restoring the offender to sanity, The
drawback to the plan as a permanent
policy has proven to be that in time
criminal colonies become highly
respectable communities and object to
being longer inflicted with the out
casts Of the parent state. We have
islands in abundance now, some Of
which might be put to a worse S
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
ANNEXATION OP CANADA.

1t is not likely that the people will
take seriously Mr.. Diamonds prop
osition to negotiate with England
for the purchase Of Canada. In the
first place the imperialist and the
expansionist do not want Canada.
They are not seeking new territory
which may serve to receive u over
flow population when that dis
tant time shall come in which we
may have a surplus population.
What they want is a market which
we can control market into which
our goods may enter free and from
which the goods Of other countries
may be excluded. They want terri
tory whose natural resources may be
exploited by our capital, under the
protection Of our laws, and exempt
from the restrictions and regulations
Of an intelligent local government.
They want territory inhabited by
alien races, speaking an unknown
language, so far away that the cries
Of our oppression may never reach our
ears.
Canada would not serve this pur-
pose. The Canadians are our own
flesh and blood. We could not palm
off on them a deprecated currency.
We could not impose upon them
tariff regulations by which we should
be profted and they be plundered.
What we want, that is, what the i'm
perial wants is a country which must
buy from US at such price as we may
fix and sell to us at what WI may
choose to pay. Some old fashioned
people have qualms Of conscience
about this sort Of thing. Some are
even strongly convinced that it is
morally wrong. To these the imper-
ialist tells Of carrying TO them the
gospel and the splendid elements Of
western civilization. There is not
an imperialist in the land who would
not rather have Borneo than Canada.
Besides the Canadians have no de-
sire TO join us. Thirty years ago
there was an active party in that
country seeking to accomplish this
end, but times have changed. The
people of Canada are disguised with
the infamy Of u protective tariff as
a domestic policy and with the bru-
tality Of 1t as a foreign policy. They
do not care to cast their fortunes
with a people who are foolish enough
to denude their Scanty forests rather
than to trade iron and steel for lum-
Der with their northern neighbor.
They have less faith now than at
any pervious rime 10 the moral pur-
poses and final destiny Of the United
States
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07
LEGISLATURE.

The Missouri legislature has been
in session now for two months. 1t
began in a business like manner and
gave promise IF attending promptly
to state appropriation and other nee
essary matters and then Of getting
out Of the way. 1t has disappointed
the expectations aroused at first. 1t
has subsidized into Its usual habits and
is now wreaking all its mighty energy
upon such subjects as the changing
Of ground hog day from the second to
the fourteenth: amending the usury
laws In the interest Of trust COM
panies, nonresident tax dodgers, and
pawn shops; encouraging the farmers
to raise more game for the gun clubs;
and providing that all state printing
shall bear the union label.
1t is not the positive iniquity but
the ilane triviality and reckless
ignorance Of the legislature which
makes its sessions dreaded as a pesti-
leDce by every business interest in
the land, great or small. 1t is not
altogether the fault Of the individual
legislators. A large majority Of
them are good, we'll meaning men.
A large majority Of them are men Of
more than average intelligence. Few
OF them, however, have any special
fitness or training for the work they
have TO do except 10 matters Of local
legislation. I
The Legislature is too large. Elected
from small districts, the representa-
tiyes naturally are chosen with refer
ence to local interests. These they
represent admirably. Their knowl
edge Of such things is intimate and
first hand. AS a rule they would
make admirable county judges. Few
Of them, however, have any knowl-
edge Of general matters. When they
come to such problems as the reform
Of the revenue laws they must have
recourse to a commission Of special
lists. They ought to be specialists 10
such matters themselves. 1t is for
this reason that the legislature is
beset with Hobbies good and bad.
The legislators have to De shown.
Fhe fault is in the system. II
th6Fe were only two Legislators to
eacAcongressional district, we should
see bome prospective congressman
ruphing for the Legislature. With
only two men elected at large Within
districts corresponding precisely to
The congressional districts, we should
nave them rivals for public favor and
I public service They would keep
close watch on each other. The i'm
portance Of the Office would make II
sought after by those who are am
bilious IL greater things. It would
go far toward putting a stop to mere
local legislation, which is the bane Of
state government today.
The foregoing remarks are general.
They apply TO the other states with
Us much force as to Missouri. Men
never resign a seat in congress now
toNSrun for the legislature as they
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

Mrs. s. P. Silver, daughter, Mary
Ellen, and Miss Georgia Gilkeson left
for St. Louis Wednesday morning for
a visit with relatives. S. P. Silver,
who will investigate lands 10 different
sections Of Alabama, Arkansas and
Indian Territory, accompanied them
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

Mr.. and Mrs. j. R Moorehead left
for st. Louis Saturday, where they
spent Sunday and then went on to
Washington, where Mr., Moorehead
goes as a delegate to the National
Wholesale Lumberman's Association
from the Southwestern Lumberman IS
Association. They viii be gone
about ten days and will visit Mr..
Moorehead's old home in West vir-
GINA before returning.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

The German postofice department
has ordered in the United. States 1O,-
900 hand fire extinguishers. The chem
zeal hand grenade is almost unknown
in Germany.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

Cards are out announcing the mar
riage Of Mr.. John E. Wahrenbrock and
Miss Emma Felth which will occur at
the home Of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Fieth, neal Higginsville
on Thursday, March 4, 1908, at 400
O'Clock in the afternoon Advance.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is to
have a cotton mill. The machinery for
it must be carried on the backs Of
mules to an altitude of l 5000 feet in
the Andes in sight of Chin borazo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

on the Chickamauga battlefield, in
commemoration Of the services of
Maryland's soldiers, union and CON
federate, in the civil war. The unveil-
ing will take place on July %.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-03-07

sometimes did 10 the past. Henry
Clay once did it. And yet the happi-
ness OF the people and their most
important privileges and rights are
in the custody OF the state govern
ment to a far greater extent than in
the national government. The pro-
lection OF life and property are in the
hands Of the state government;
courts, education, the are OF the
poor, the insane, and the detectives;
the Incorporation OF bushes assOcia-
lions, the construction OF public roads,
the regulation OF public health and
public morals, marriage, Inheritance,
the charteTing Of cities and towns,
and thousands of other things which
intimately concern the daily lives Of
the great and the small. In all the
states the care of these important
interests is i~ntrusted to men elected
from small districts, paid trihing
salaries, and chosen without reference
to special training and education in
the work expected to be done.
There is small prospect that the
people would approve of such a
change. The INTELLIeENCER is
utterly opposed to a constitutional
convention, because it does not be-
lieve that any Of the real, funda-
mental evils under which we are nov
laboring would be relieved and certain
new evils would almost certainly be
introduced. But II it could be shown
that the one radical error mentioned
above would surely be corrected, the
other objections to a constitutional
convention might be waived.