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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25
NATURE IS WONDERFUL.
There 10 Reason for the Special shape
and Texture for Every Leaf
In Existence.

Even the most Cursory observer of
vegetable life must have been struck
with the various forms OF leaves. why
they should be SO v%ariously formed does
not. however. often suggest itself. though
there IS a reason for the special shape
and texture of almost every leaf In exist
ence. Plants, such al grasses, daffodils
and others which usually grow In clus-
tiers. have generally narrow leaves grow
Ing upright. SO as not to overshade n
another. Other plants of isolated habits
have arrangement of foliage which Sc
cures to themselves the space of ground
necessary for their development. The
daisy. dandclion. shepherds purse
which may mostly be seen in pastures
are examples of this. A circle of broad
leaves pressed against the ground, form
ing wha! Is known as the rosctte growth,
'fectualiy bars the approach OF any 9TH
err plant, and keeps clear from all other
roots the space of ground necessary to
its own nutriment. Floating leaves and
leaves of marsh plants are usually of sim
pie outline, for, having no competitors.
they are not liable to get in onc another's
liEht. Submerged plants have mostly
leaves of narrow s~oGmcnt-the reason
for which Is not very we'll understood.
although 1t is assumed by naturaliGt3
that 1t is for the purpose of exposing
as large n surface az possible, in order
to extract the minute proportion Of car
bonic acid dissolved in a vast bulk OF
water, Leaves on the boughs of trees
are often much divided. so as to fold
easily, TO prevent their being rent and
torn by the wind. while the glossy sur
face Of ovorgrcens is intended to throw
off the rain and dew, which might freeze
on item, and so cause injury TO the it's
sues. Wonderful are the ways Of Ma
turc. and tho study of her strange Sc
crets neutrality-suspicious. Epitom-
ist
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25
FLAX Seed for cattle.

Prof. Henry, who has made such ex-
tensive experiments in feeding, says:
"StuCkmcn who have fed flax seed to
horses and cattle report satisfactory re-
suits from its use. Frequently some
flax seed Is left in the straw, which in
crcases its value. There seems no f0un-
datiOn for the statement that the fiber of
flax straw forms balls Of indigestlble
matter in the stomach of farm animals"
We would suppose that in order TO secure
the most nntriment In the straw 1t should
be cut about the time the pods are of full
size, but before they to
ripen-Itural World.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25
HANDY MEAT SMOKER.

for the barrel, Bore auGcr holes
through the box under the bar
rel to let the smoke through. Make
a hole in the ground under the front
end Of the box, so that the fire made on
4 piece Of tin could Lr showed under the
box. a hair head Of a barrel can be
crowded down by the end of the box,
closing the fire hole. All creviccs must
be banked with dirt to keep the smoke
IN. Drive strong wire nails neal the
top OF the barrel to hang the hams on.
Place a strong paper or canvas over the
top of the barrel and add enough bags
or blankets to keep the smoke in-i'arm
and Home.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25

signed a book, and the driver jumped
OF his wagon and went away, an, of
curse. the children seen the bundles
an nothin' would do but they must open
EN-. That's all. sir; we didn't want to-
! nope you don't think we'd steal EN-"
She was out of breath now, and he
two c~hildren-the boy, II sturdy lad OF
ton. had come in-wcre staring, fright
ened, at the colonel. He looked at them
a moment and then at the mother.
81 don't understand you, madam" he
said, 81 called to look at the house. It's
for sale, you know"
He saw the look of anxiety pass from
her homely face. The children. delight
ed with the reprieve. ran back 10 their
splendid toys. lie made d show OF look.
ing through the stuify rooms, and when
he was going gave each OF the little
n lei n coin,
"Good-by. madam" he said to the
mother, you have two fine children "
And when he was In the cab again he
stroked his gray mustache and
chuckl4d:
ut NAs n lucky blundcr, af-er all. IN
60 down to the store in the morning and
tell 'em It's all right."-Chicago Record.
Herald,
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25
HOME-SMOKED MEATS
When Properly Cured They Are SUI
perior In QuniIty To the Product
of Packing Houses.

Many of the farmers in the east cure
am for home use. The quality Ia
much better than the product sent out
by the packing houses. Set a clean
sugar barrel on n box four feet
long. one foot high. and wide enough
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25

The muscles of a horse used for
heavy work become used to heavy
strain. but are not accustomed to quick
motion. Remember this when tempted
to drive fast
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25
Not tho Christmas Rl.s,

It IL not the rainy-day stocking tia,
es0 hung up 1t Christina -JmdsA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

ton of one or two Of it's colleagues
suggests some pertinent reflections
upon so-called deliberation in q
Legislative body. In the very nature
Of the case it is far better fitted to
the performance Of that function
that is the house Of representatives.
But it is we'll to bear in mind
what deliberation is, or perhaps,
rather, what it is not. Delibera-
ton implies investigation argument,
consideration in which processes
there is not only a posi- bility but
reasonable probability of efecting
change Of mind for the better, or at
any rate of transforming uncertainty
into coviction. Deliberation is not
mere talk, talk, talk, just for the
sake of talking. It is not damn
able reiteration" of wornout phrases
by tongue incapable of persuasion
to ears incapable Of change. The
halter of parrot, the baying of a
dog at the moon the clatter and
whir of mill wheel, are not
deliberation. Neither is the in
terminable speechmaking of even
the most eloquent orator and the
wisest statesman when it is done
not with the hope Of producing
conviction but for the sake of mere
obstruction.
With all due respect for the
venerable and learned senator who,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

thing happened to our ancestors i'm
the way of sickness which could not
be accounted for in any other way
it was always laid to ''too much
bile in the sysem.' In the spring
the fancy lightly turned to thoughts
of bile. We should not be SO very
tar out of the way now. either if
we took more stock Of the results
of a winters diet OF nice hot cakes
with maple syrup in counting up
the full harvest offspring influenza.
1t is a comfort to reflect that con-
sumption has decreased 80. S per cent
in it's death records since 1910.
Pneumonia may be more devastating
or not; but it can never have the
dread to it's name that consumption
has had. For pneumonia is a
disease which usually yields to-
treatment and the resist
ance Of a good constitution, but
consumption is t'1re's worst
treachery to humanity. The battle
has been long against it. but the
results show at last.-Mipneapolis
Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

Ex-Gov. Larrabee puts the saloon
proposition in a light that will be
likely to startle business men. The
governor is a total abstainer, but
he discovered one day that he was
the heaviest contributor to the
saloon of any man in town, and this
is the way he found it out: II used
to think years ago so long as left
the saloons alone they would leave
me alone But 1 was engaged in
business for 20 years, during which
time I PERMITTED several thousand
dollars worth of accounts to &C
cumulate on my books. When I sold
out and attempted to collect these I
found they we're worthless, and
that nine-tenths of my debtors
would not have been So bad off if it
had not been that they were spend
ing their money for strong drink
while I was keeping their families
in provisions. It was therefore
apparent that as matter of fact I
had been the greatest patron of the
saloons in our community. I had
really contributed more to the
saloonkeeper than any person in
town. All of US no matter how
temperate we are, will some day
find that we are directly concerned
in the saloon traffic. West Union
Gazette.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

Minneapolis is not the only city
whose death rate has been unusually
high during February. The health
records of Chicago hold that more
people died in that city during last
month than in any February since
the health department was organic
ed. All diseases seemed to share in
the increase though influenza was
the most epidemic. In the total
there were 2, $50 deaths in February
with 713 added for the first week Of
March.
The health commissioner of
Chicago, Arthur R. Reyolds, has
an article in the Journal of the
American Medical Association on
the topic of the spread of pneumonia
which he says has more than quad
rupled it's mortality in the last fifty
years. "Since 1900 this disease has
caused more than one eighth of all
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

single handed, is delaying the ratifi
cation of the canal treaty with
Colombo that is a fair characterize.
ton of his recent utterances. He
knows perfectly we'll that there is
nothing new to be said upon the
subject. All that can be said in
favor of Nicaragua and against
Panama he has already said. He
long ago tried to persuade the
senate that the Panama undertake
ing is mistake, and failed. He
knows now that he cannot do So.
His daily speeches are not convinc-
ing. They do not after by a hairs
breadth the convictions and the
determination of the overwhelming
majority Of senators. We do not
suppose the senator himself expects
them to do so. He knows that his
colleagues are in favor of Parma
beyond any power of his to change
them. His present efforts are not
really directed toward changing
them. He is talking, not in hope
of winning a majority to his side
rather in hope of being able, through
shrewd manipulation of the rules
of the senate and by virtue of a
scarcely less than marvellous
pertinacity, to tire out and dis
hea1ten the majority and defeat it's
will without convincing it's Judge
ment.
That as we have said, is not
deliberation. In suffering it the
senate is not showing itself to be a
deliberative body. Rather is it con-
Tossing itself to be an impotent
body. 1t is the constitutional duty
of the senate to vote upon the
ratification Of the treaties now
before it. It may ratify them or it
may reject them. The choice is en-
tirely within it's option. But it has
no moral option on the question of
voting. It must vote, one way or
the other or else be false to it's con-
stitutional duty. 1t can vote, too, if
it wills to do so, and that, we
imagine without any revolutionary
of its rules. If one
senator can use the rules for his
purposes, the other eighty-nine
can do the same. If he can resort
to mere physical endurance to
delay a vote they can resort to the
same to compel a vote. It is i'm
possible to avoid the convict on
that if the majority leaders of the
senate we're as energetic and |
resourceful in doing public bust
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

deaths, one third more than con-
sumption and about half again as
many as all other infectious and
contagious diseases combined. -
This statement indicates that Mr..
Reynolds believes pneumonia con-
tagious, at least-if not infectious.
There has been conflict of opinion
on this point for some time, but
most physicians seem to concur now
in accepting the contagious theory,
while few believe it directly in
fictitious as are scarlet fever and
measles.
The relation between the influenza
and pneumonia is now SO we'll
settled that the probabilities are that
a good many deaths from ''lung
trouble' in old days, before the era
of health records, we're really the
result of this same indefinite
grippe, ''infuenza or ''bad
cold." We need not be unduly
alarmed, therefore because pneu-
monia is now said to have passed
consumption as cause Of death.
Our nomenclature for disease has
only changed decidedly. It is not all
a question of new disease germs that
man must. light in addition to the
old ones for we are a stronger,
longer lived people than we were.
A rose by any other name we have
heard about. It is quite likely,
though not so poetic an idea, that
the bacillus of pneumonia worked
it's will fifty-even seventy five
years ago under the protection of
such old fashioned terms as inham-
nation of the lungs, lung fever, or
even bilious fever. Whenever any
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

The immigration bill which was
passed by both houses of Congress
and awaits the signature Of the Pre-
side1lt is not 50 drastic a measure as
was advocated by some but is pro-
badly better OH that account. It
does not contain the proposed edu-
cation test, but provides for exclusion
of the idiots the insane, or those
who have been; paupers or those
likely to be public charge; persons
afflicted with contagious or loath-
some diseases; persons who have
been convicted Of crime or m1sde-
meanor involving more turpitude,
as we'll as polygamists and anar-
chists. sweeping provision of the
bill imposes upon all immi grants
tax of 50 per head, to be paid by
the master or owner of the vessel
bringing them over. This tax will
not be levied on aliens in transit
throu III the United States and will
not be collected a second time from
individuals who have once paid it.
Masters of vessels will have their
responsibility very materially in
Gre 'sed in several ways. For in
stance, if within two years after
arrival any immigrant shall become
a public charge owing to causes
that existed prior to landing he shall
be deported and half the cost shall
fall, if possible, on the person or
persons bringing him here. The
encouragement of immigration by
advertisements in foreign news
papers offering employment to
aliens on their arrival is forbidden |
under the law. Had this prohibit
ton been in force during the past |
twenty years, it would have made a
difference in the character of the
population in the mining regions.
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

ness az two or three senators have
recently shown themselves in delay
ing it, the public business would be
done, done promptly, and done
we'll.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-20

New York Tribune: The report
that the majority of the senate is at
loss to find a way of transacting
public business against tho opposi-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-12
"TwENTY YEARS Ago.

Following is the famous song written by
A. ]. Gault, who died at Clinton, Iowa.
6. few weeks ago. 1t was immensely
popular in the late Sos and early SOS:
I've wandered to the village, Tom,
I've sat beneath the tree,
Upon the school house playing ground,
That sheltered you and me;
But none were there to greet me, Tom,
And few were left to know,
Who played with US upon the grass
Just twenty years ago.
The grass is just as green, dear Tom;
Barefooted boys at play,
Are sporting just as we did then.
Their spirits just as gay;
That coated Ger With snow.
Afforded us sliding place,
Just twenty years ago.
The spring that dubbed meath the hill,
Close by the spreading beach,
Has grown so low, twas once so high,
That we could almost reach,
And kneeling down to get a drink,
Dear Tom, I started so
To see how sadly l had changed,
Since twenty years ago.
Near by the spring upon an elm,
You know, l cut your name,
Your sweetheart's just beneath it, Tom,
And you did mine the same.
The grapevine swing is ruined now
Where once we played the beau,
And swung our sweethearts, pretty girls,
Just twenty years ago.
Some now are-in the churchyard laid,
Some sleep beneath the sea,
But few are left of our old class
Excepting you and me.
And when the time shall come, dear Tom,
That We are called to go,
I hope they'll lay us where we played
Just twenty years ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-12
ORATORAL ATTACK UPON
BRITISH WAR OFFICE
Lord Roberts Accused and Broderlck Re-
plies In Anger.

LONDON, March 11.-There were I'M
usual stormy scenes in the house of COM
mons tonight on the discussion of the
case of Lieut.. Col. Kinloch, of the Gren-
adler guards. who was placed on half pay
for permitting the hazing of junior Of
ficers in his regiment on the motion Of
Mr.. Pirie, Liberal. to give officers dis
missed from the army the option Of de-
handing a court-martial.
Col Kinlochs brother-in-law, William
Bromley-Davenport, Lord Hugh Cecil and
other Tories violently attacked the war OF
fee, accusing Field Marshal Earl Roberts
Of being improperly influenced. Several
such remarks as the foregoing were with
drawn on War Secretary Broderick's de-
mand. The Nationalist members yelled
and shouted with delight, especially when
Winston Churchill vainly attempted to
speak Mr.. Broderick, in wratnful
speech, defended Lord Roberts and the
war office, denied that aristocratic pres
sure had been used to procure Col. Kin
lochS dismissal, and in stormy sentences
asserted that pressure was exercised on
the other side in tina ttiteloppedeahlap
threatened every prominent member of
the war office. Mr. Broderick charac-
terized this pressure as terrorism.
An incident in the debate was the re-
fusal on Mr.. Broderick's part to submit
the papers on the subject to the house.
He was violently assailed by Lord Hugh
Cecil and then promised to give the pa
pers. Finally Mr. Prizes motion was re-
jected 1876 to 81.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-12
FAT AND THIN
LIVING MODELS
Rare Exhibition Given at the
New York Dressmak-
ers Show.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Stout Wom-
en-, women afflicted with unmatched
hips or shirt-Waistedness, take ?otlce:
Miss Elizabeth A. G. White, president
of the Dressfnakers' Protective Asso-
citation of America, gays woman's fig
ure may be perfect if her corset and
garters be naccordance with the ideas
of Miss White. Best of all, Miss White
will enlighten women whose ngureS
are not Satisfactory if they VIII can
upon her in the Ma sonic Temple, at
Sixth avenue and Twenty third street
Miss White madez these reckless prom
ises at a"corset demonstration Win
living models" yesterday. When the
full meaning of her words mad SUNK
into the minds of her hearers there was
a rush for the platform. In fact, the
president almost was mobbed by the
eager visitors who wanted little less
buXomness and a little more straight
frontedness.'
Slender women cried out for their
desire for a well-rounded form, and
several women climbed upon the plat
form in their anxiety to consult the au-
thority on the corset garter comb1na-
ton. Miss White says she does not re-
mold bad figures for personal gain, but
rather as a gift to her sex.
Everything 1 know about corsets
and building up the shape l am going
to tell you without holding back, said
she, because l think every woman can
have as swell a figure as Lillian Rus
sell. 1t isn't the gowns either-take my
word for that. The corsets the thing,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-12
WALK NEARLY 100
MILES ON SNOW FIELDS
Masters of Imprisoned Herring Yes
sells Reach ST. Johns.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 11.-Nor-
man Ross and Frank Carter, masters
of two vessels of the American herring
fleet which is frozen in the ice foes in
the Bay of Islands, arrived today, after
having trudged ninetysix miles across
the snow fields in the interior. They
were four days on the march, and were
accompanied by three other travellers
and two guides, who dragged a sled
with their stock of provisions. They
reached the railroad on the morning of
fifth day footsore and weary. They had
to adopt this eXpedient to return to
Gloucester, Mass. The Bay of Islands
and the whole western slope of New
foundland are blockaded with Ice foes.
The travellers report that there are
immense snow drifts in the interior and
that the traffic on the western division
of the railway has been abandoned for
the past month. It is also difficult to
clear the track owing to the trouble of
pushing forward supplies for the work.
ing parties.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-12
COUNTERFEITERS ARE
EXTREMELY SCARCE
Yet United States Uses More Paper
Money Than Any Other Country.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March IL
The remarkable exemption, when COM
pared with the records of other coun-
tries in which paper money is in gen
eral use, of the people of the United
States from counterfeit currency and
false coins is in great measure due to
the activity of the secret service diVis-
ion of the treasury department. The
arrests by agents of this division in
the last fiscal year numbered 573, of
whom 253 were convicted, 106 are
awaiting the action of the United
States grand jury, 60 awaiting action
of court, SO acquitted, So ignored by
same number dismissed by United
States commissioners.
-Four hundred and thirteen of those
arrested were natives of the United
States, IS Of Italy, "a of Germany, Is
of Ireland and the others of other ma
tionalities. New York state takes first
place. with IS violators; Missouri, Az
lucky, %; Texas, 20; Ohio, 81; Georgia,
20; South Carolina, 20; Alabama, 16;
North Carolina, IA; Tennessee, IL;
Massachusetts, 9, and with smaller
numbers for the other states.
The character and amounts of alter
ed and counterfeit notes, counterfeit
coins and imitation money captured
money and $19,828. At of coins. In ad-
dition to these there were vast piles of
miscellaneous advertising matter, con-
sisting of facsimiles Of Confederate
notes, labor exchange notes, Tennessee
state warrants, Missouri defense bonds,
prints of United States coins, old state
bank notes and other flash" notes.
The United States has more paper
money in actual circulation than any
other country in the world, and yet
counterfe1tlng Is not carried on to
very great extent, though the facilities
are great. One of the most annoying
features which the secret service force
has had to deal with was the circula-
ton of counterfeit pennies. This Is a
phase of petty counterfeiting which
has affected the principal Eastern
cities almost exclusively. Nearly year
of patient work on the part of the
agents in the New York and Boston
districts was finally crowned with sue
cess, and a skilled coppersmith. who
had been responsible for probably 80
per cent Of these counterfeits circulat-
ed in the last four years, was arrest
ed, prosecuted and sentenced to a term
Of years.
While the makers Of spurious small
coin give the secret service men a great
deal of trouble, 1t is the we'll executed
bank note bobbing up in different parts
of the country which causes them to
spend sleepleSs nights shadoWing sus-
poets. 1t is generally men of intelligence
who place these on the market, and
they are careful in covering up their
tracks. The ignorant, unlettered coun-
terfeiter is an easy mark for the agents.
One of the most perfect hand executed
counterfeit bills was made by a green
Georgia farmer named w. G. Bonnell,
being On composition of six shinplas-
terS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-12
letters which were received

numerous letters which were received
and sent by the committee to the diff
ferent lodges and officers of the organi-
cation, none of which letters is set out,
and all of which should be shown in
order to arrive at full and proper un-
derstanding of the proceedings.
The same complaint is made in re-
gard to the record of proceedings of
the general grievance committee, which
is also made a part of the answer.
The same complaint is made in regard
to letters referred to in the record of
proceedings last referred to-
There was also q motion filed asking
that rule be entered requiring the
defendants to produce, on the hearing
Of the motion to dissolve the injunction
next Tuesday, various letters referred
to in the answer filed by the defend
ants, it being claimed that the con-
tents of such letters should be known
in order to arrive at full understand
ing of what was done and, the purposes.