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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26
Roy Mcfarland took in the
hamlet of Ely Tuesday.

hamlet of Ely Tuesday.
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Look at Levy's Black Suits
that he is selling for $40, worth
Sl3 So
DR. Lee r. Bell made a bust.
ness trip to Vanoalia the first
of the week.
L. 9. Jackson, pt SuarpSburg
is moving into the Evans place
on First Street
Jeff Burns, Frank Proctor >
clerk, is the proud papa Of a
dusky little girl.
Highest prices are paid for
poultry and eggs, hides, etc, d
-BALZER & DIRIGO'S.
Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs
for sale, 80 cents per setting
MRS. OLLIE WILSON.
Century Club will meet with
Mrs. Thomas M. BouIware at
2:3O p. m. Wednesday.
Mrs. j. r. Parsons is visiting
her mother, Mrs. r. Douglass,
in the Little Kingdom OF Ra lis.
If you want anything in Oil
Cloths, Linoleums or Rugs or
Mattings Levy Will save you
money.
DR.. Agnes Mcneil has been
Called to Paris to attend Mrs.
Wordsworth, who had been in.
jured by a fall.
Look around aud if we don't
save you from 81 to So on a
Suit of Cloths. then buy of the
other fellow.-LEvY'S
Misses Allie and Title Nevins
were business visitors in Quin-
cy Tuesday. Next week they
will ia e in the fuss and feath-
ers of the Future Great.
Miss Nellie Landers, one of
Monroe's charming young Ia
dies, a student in Palmyra,
spent Saturday and Sunday in
the city with the homeIolks.
George D. Biggs, State Bark
Examiner, was in the city Tues
day. As the banks here are
managed by conservative safe
men, he found everything O. K
Mrs. George A. Hawkins has
been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Dimmit, in Shelbina. Mrs.
Dimmit had so far recovered as
to permit her mother to return
home Sunday.
Miss Davella Hendricks, who
is teaching school near Palmy.
ra, spent Saturday and Sunday
with the homefolks. She was
accompanied by her friend,
Miss Jennie Banks.
JACKS FOR SALE.
Three Jacks, $40 years old. They are
good ones. Apply TO II. W. Ely.
Phone ITO. 2.26
Photographs
20 AT -
Belle Johnson's Studio
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

Hess's Stock and Poultry food
is STANDARDIZATION Bros.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

WiIliamson's shoes will give
you good wear. TRY a pair.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

Highest prices are paid for
poultry and eggs, hides, etc,
-BALZER & DIRIGO'S.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

White Silk Flour is the best
flour. buy it at Williamson's
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs
for sale, 30 cents per setting
MRS. OLLIE WILSON.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

U ~ On y
* W. G. WILL
VSSS> ~
Some Suits at ! price.--LEvY.
Don't forget Levy's on Mat
things.
Our line of White Waistings
is hard to equal.-LEvYS.
Miss Apnle Ragland has been
visiting Sheibina friends.
White Silk Flour is the best
-four, buy it at Williamsons
Hess's Stock and Poultry food
is eed.-WOOD Bros.
WilliGmson's prices on Gro
sCeries is the Lowest in town.
Try Ground Oil Cake for your
Horses and Cattle.-WOoD
. Bros.
"a. Brack Bristow was a business
visitor in the Gem City, Satur.
day.
We have something special in
the Clothing Line this week.
LEWIS.
John Hollandsworth made
business trip to the Bluff City,
Saturday.
Mrs. M. A. Wieshart spent
the first of the week with Quin-
.cy friends.
G. M. Lasley was business
visitor in the Future Great the
first of the week.
Mrs. William and Miss Alice
Prentice were business visitors
in Quincy, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Boulware
spent the first of the week with
relatives in Perry.
Miss Maud Ertman, of Wood
land, has been visiting her
friend, Mrs. G.. A. TAFT.
For Sale Bills, Dodgers etc. 60 to the
DEMOCRAT OFFICE and for Jim Dandy
Auctioneer see Col. W. 7. YOueT.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gosney
spent the first of the week in
Marion's Capital with her kins-
people.
Mrs. William Patterson and
children spent Sunday with
friends at the Saccharine viii
lage up the road.
w. Verdner Carson, knight
of the grip, spent Sunday nd
Monday in the city with the
homefolks and friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

Ask to see the Rugs az SO rs
LEWIS.
w. o. Foreman spent Monday
with relatives at Ely
DIR. Grow, Monroe County's
Collector, was in the city Tues
day.
j. B. Thomas was a business
visitor in the Bluff City Tues.
day.
New Corless and Coon collars
re ceived this week at William.
sons.
Miss Mamie Losson spent the
first of the week in Quincy with
friends.
The p. E. O's. will meet with
Mrs Carl Jaeger at 2:3O p. m
Saturday.
Ira Lanham has moved to the
Robt. Rouse farm southeast of
the city.
Albert Kendrick, of Shelbi-
ma. was in the city Tuesday
with friends.
Miss Eva Powell spent Sun
day in the Gem City with her
sister, Mrs. r. L. Turner.
John SaCkman and Gus Roth,
OF Moberly, were the guests of
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-26

la M SON. y
- ~ >SW
Buy your Shoes at William.
sons.
M. A. HornbacK was a Pal
myra visitor Friday.
Try Ground Mussel Shell for
your fowls.-WoOD Bros.
WiIliamson's shoes will give
you good wear. Try a pair.
j. G. Piersol was a business
visitor in Shelbina, Saturday.
If you need a suit remember
that we will not be undersold.
LEWIS.
DIR. W. w. Ritchey's address
is 2710 Prospect Ave, Kansas
City, Mo. If
The best SOC and 100 Shirts
in town will be found at Will.
liza mson's
Ladies' Muslin Underwear 10
to 30 per cent cheaper than you
ever saw.-LEvY's.
Mrs. M. B. Carson spent Fri
day with relatives in the CAPT.
tai of Marion County.
W. L. Cranston. of East st.
Louis, spent the first of the
week in the city with relatives.
Miss Mary Nickel, of the
Blu If City, has been the guest
OF her sister, Mrs. #. M. Boul.
ware.
''hrnn CHnrn 81
typhoid at Cornell University
has caused a panic among
students and professors.
Just received a new line of
Mems and Boys Suits which we
are selling at less than you can
buy them for elsew here.-LEvY.
Misses Bessie and HELEN
Gosney spent Saturday and
Sunday with their grandparents
Prof. and Mrs. j. M. McMurry.
at Palmyra.
The Clifton Hotel, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was destroyed by
lire at 2 a. m. Friday. Ten
people were lncinerated and
twenty badly burned.
Misses Annie and Fannie
Finks lett for 81. Louis, Mon.
day to spend several weeks IN
the wholesale millinery houses
before the spring opening of
fuss and feathers.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
4 DIPLOMATIC Cnbid.


1T pays to be pleasant" said Cupid
Danforth a few days ago during a lull
in the marriage license business. "A
kind word and a cheerful smile to a
man or woman about to launch their
craft upon the sea of matrimony sort
of puts them at their ease and makes
the task of getting license-a dread
ed task to most of them-a simple
matter. Some people call my pleasant
remarks hot air. Well. may be they
are, but they are appreciated just the
same.
why. just to show you that little
pleasantly is good at such times, I'll tell
you a little incident that happened here
some weeks ago. A woman consider
ably over 35 years of age came in here
and asked for a license. She was ac-
companied by good looking man, con-
siderably her junior, and l could see at
a glance that he was the man of her
choice, though he took no part in the
proceedings. In my most pleasant
manner 1 asked her her name and
the name of the prospective groom and
the other usual questions. Then l asked
his age, and she gave ii to me as q.
And your own?' 1 said to her.
81 The same was her reply.
Well, WELL L said gallantly, you
do not look it,
with that I handed her the com
pleted license and the pair went out
Five minutes after the young man re-
turned, called me over to the end of
the room and, slipping a So bill in nv
hand. said in a whisper she told me
to give you this.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
Berkeiey's Minutemen.

over there in classic Berkeley they
turn their plowshares into swords and
their pruning hooks into edged
weapons with a facility which is be-
wildering. Their policemen forsake
the furrow to WELD the fasces upon
the first call from outraged justice.
Under the efficient direction of A.
l.. Bolton, manager of grounds for the
University of California, there has
been organized valiant band of min
utemen to patrol the college campus
and preserve the classic dignity which
broods over the hallowed sanctuary of
wisdom. Ready are they to leap from
the plow at the first sign of disorder
and hail the offender. But it is only
recently that the university police
force could demonstrate it's efficiency.
Not many days ago there wandered
into the classic precincts a gentle-eyed
old man, who was cOncealing some
spirituOus liquors about his person.
So ourdensome was his package that
his manifest distress became evident
TO one of the hawk-eyed college pO-
licemen. Promptly he was taken into
custody by the uphOlder of academic
dignity and hailed into the puissant
court of the Town Justice that
charge of drunk and disorderly might
be lodged against him.
But long and diligently did Justice
Edgar thumb the ordinances of the
town fathers and at last was prone to
admit that there was no law in the
gentle town of Berkeley making
drunkenness a misdemeanor. Then
the light which sprang to the eyes of
that gentle old man with the package
was soulful and he shook day-day to
the hawk-eyed college policeman.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
FRUIT JoBBERs AND GROWERS.

TT HE Eastern fruit obbers the actual distributors Of
the CROP have organized with the intention of
seeking direct with the growers of Cali
ornia and Oregon. The president Mr.. Francis, says
they want to if the producers out here have been
completely seweb up by the wholesalers who have so
long had them in clutches.
Those who have started an investigation into the
market conditions of fruit have been led suspect
that the producers feel under of duress, for
it has been very difficult any information from
them that will aid in improving their condition 1t may
well be that strong jobbers association will the
unlocking of much information that now seems to be
locked up.
The avowed purpose of President Francis to nvesti-
gate here suggests natural thing that there be made
at Producers Association covers the whole
State, and ailiates every grower, with facilities for
knowing correctly the condition of the crop various
stages in its growth and able to estimate the output of
every section correctly approximately the crops
OF wheat, corn and cotton estimabe Such
caton be in immediate touch with the jobbers the
distributors, whose business will be know approx
mately, the demand in every Eastern locality. Then,
equipped with such knowledge of the supply and the
demand, the two associations will have the material
upon which to base judgment to prices.
About this there is need Of sorcery conjuring.
1t easily within the reach of grower and distributor
When reached it may not eliminate the wholesaler, but
it will put curb upon his rapacity and check him in
the OF methods which have heretofore injured both
producer and consumer.
AS we have ceaseessy insisted the producer cannot
with safety to himself be longer only pro-
duce and then surrender all control of his property
others and take what they choose to give him. He
must study the in his property and be mer-
chant We have the best and intelligent fruit pro-
ducers in the world. In all matters relating to orchard
and vineyard they equipped with skill and scientific
knowledge. 1t should be easy go one step further
and be skiul in They know all the
insect and fungus enemies of and vine the different
systems OF pruning and packing and shipping But when
all this knowledge is applied the destrucveness of bug
and fungi is nothing to that wrought by the parties
who take charge of the fruit Surely the revelations
made in the examination of the affairs of Porter
Bros Company should spur every producer activity
and move them all to meet the jobbers half way.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
Al For a Baby.

"Br-r-r-r-r-r-r,' sharply shrilled
through the foggy gloom. startling Po-
liceman Jim Mulgrew out of his early
morning reverie as he plowed through
the lonesome street. Responding to
the call the bluecoat ran upon an ex-
cited young man. Stammering, ne
cried:
Quick, officer, come with me-
Following his guide, Mulgrew. with
pistol at hand. headed up the long
stairway to the top floor of a lodging
house. Into a room rushed the dis
heveled guide, the policeman right be-
hind.
''Therel" almost screamed the man.
pointing to a bed. Mulgrew looked
there" and he saw a mite of feebly
wailing babe.
What's all this?" queried the po-
liceman.
Listen" commanded the man. II am
just out of hospital. For three
nights my wife has been gone all night
at her home, leaving me this baby to
care for. The little one is only
months old. L cannot give the infant
necessary attention. For Gods sake.
officer, help mel" pleaded the unhappy
man. My wife is gone and 1 am
helpless. That's why l blew the
whistle. I didn't know which way to
turn
Hard luck. wasn't it." quoth the
policeman as he reported the case at
headquarters.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
BnIling Sanerkraat.

Important news comes from Phila-
delphia to the effect that there IS
strong bull movement in saUerkraut.
The sauerkraut bears are on the run,
and December sauerkraut is now quo
ted in Philadelphia, the sauerkraut
center of the country, at $50 ton, hav-
ing rapidly gone up from 50. Ihls
sudden soaring Of sauerkraut dOesn I
appear to be the result of a corner. 1t
is, according to direct information from
the sauerkraut exchange, due to
scarcity of raw material. One OF the
sauerkraut bulls in an interview with
a Philadelphia Press reporter said:
Cabbage has become extremely
scarce and the best stock has ad-
vanced in a short time more than 300
per cent, and as a consequence the
sauerkraut market, which has here
tOfore been dull and featureless on ac-
count OF the mild and open weather,
is becoming unusually firm. and West
ern sauerkraut by the barrel in car lots
is going up in price, with prospect
of. very high values when the demand
is good"
People who have been caught short
Of sauerkraut are naturally fastening
to cover, and there is really no telling
how high the bulls will send il before
being satisfied. Philadelphians have
been pretty hard hit by the slumDs in
steel and Pennsylvania railway stocks.
and it is barely possible that they will
try to get even on sauerkraut. If they
do the man who has a barrel or two
of sauerkraut in his cellar now may be
able to purchase himself a titled SON.
in-law by next spring.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

nent in such a way as TO prevent him
from using his arms"
The first Of the list is the simple
arm clinch. Let US suppose your Cp-
pOnent is attacking. He is close 70
you and has you ''smOthered" Cn
such q position that YOU cannot ef-
fectively lead or parry)- You are too
near wall To jump back out Of reach
and too close to your opponent 10 be
sure Of making an effective side step.
Throw forward both your arms,
with gloves held open. Place the palm
Of each hand on his biceps (right
hand on his left biceDs. left hand on
his right biceps) as low down toward
the elbow joint as possible. Do not
grip him with your fingers in doing
this. but simply let your thumb and
fingers go around his biceps in the
same gesture your fingers would en-
plOy in picking Up some object as
large around as his arm.
Stifen yOur arms as you do so, hold
ing him back. and by keeping his BIZ
ceps by his sides prevent him from
leading. Then { rec him backward un-
III you are in a position where you can
sidestep or jump out of reach or else,
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

after thus blocking further immediate
attack on his part. get cut of reach
and on guard ia the easiest possible
manner.
more frequent clinch occurs when
one or both men are rushing, when
they get tangled in a mix-up or when
each, is afraid TO step back for fear OF
receiving a blow while doing soy As
a natural result the man thus hard
pressed throws his arms about his ad-
versary IN such q way as to preclude
punishment The left arm holds his
opponents right arm pinioned. and his
right arm or hand forces back the 9th
er's left. The face should be close to
the antagonists body in order to avoid
q short arm blow in case one of the
pinioned arms should be wrenched free
IN clinching never yield to the temp
tation 10 hold" your opponent. In
other words. don't grip him with either
hand. That is not allowed When you
place your hands on his biceps do so
without contracting the fingers Never
be guilty OF the unfairness Of holding
him with one hand while hitting him
with the other. 7 have seen boxers do
this unconsciously. Tt is a foul. and
the man who does ii should Jose the
decision. In like manner never catch
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
''Dry" To7rns in South.

An enthusiastic member OF the
White Ribbon Band of Hope presents
the following interesting statistics:
In Tennessee on September L there
were eighty-four dry counties and
but twelve in which liquor could be
sold. In Arkansas seventy-five conn
ties are dry and forty-three wet:
in Georgia the proportion is 137 to
103; in Mississippi, sixty-five to ten.
In ten Southern States the voters have
the opportunity to cast their ballots
against licensing the manufacture or
sale or liquors and In one-South Car
olina-it is a State monopoly. That
the South is fast becoming prohibi-
tionist is attributed to the suppression
of the negro vote"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
Extremes.

Let those living in California praise
God daily upon shawms and Iutes for
the blessings that are ours. Read this
and be convinced:
The coldest place on earth inhabited
by man is Verkhoyansk. above the Arc
tic Circle. in Northeastern Siberia. The
thermometer there drops to 90 degrees
below zero in January, but sometimes
rises to S6 degrees above zero in the
shade in July. dropping, however. to
the freezing point on the warmest sum-
mer nights The hottest place in the
world is in the interior of the Great Sa-
hara Desert in Africa, where the ther-
mometer rises to 122 degrees. The wet
test place is Greytown, Nicaragua,
where the mean annual rainfall is 260
inches The place of least rain is Port
Nolloth, in South Africa. where less
than an inch sometimes falls in year"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
The Wheat Song.

Brothers. brothers. 'tis dark down
here
Brothers. brothers. o feel the sun"
Whispers the wheat beneath our feet
In the glow of life begun.
Brothers. brothers. the light is good
Brothers. brothers, my sap runs
strong"
Murmurs each blade by the warm wind
swayed,
In an endless whispering song
Brothers, brothers, I'm fair and
strong
Brothers. brothers. I'm crowned with
gold,'
Whispers the wheat with its task com
plete,
And the tale Of it's Iabors told.
Brothers, brothers. the earth was dark:
Brothers, brothers. the world is fair
But we struggled on and we gained a
crown
Which each of us may wear"
Elmer B. Mason. in The Reader.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
"CEnch7 IN Boring.
by ALBERT PAYsoN TERHUNE.

by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE.
athletic Expert New York Evening World,
Author OF Muscle Building, etc)
Copyright. 1903 by Joseph B. Bowles)
You remember the old catch ques-
tiOn, What would happen If an ire
sistible force should collide with an
immovable body?
Some one has answered, There
would be nothing left to happen -
But in boxing the answer is, "A
clinch."
The clinch comes in handy in
many different boxing crises. If two
men get into a miX-up and are at such
close quarters that one or both can
not get out Of reach TO avoid punish
ment they run into a clinch.
II a man is hard pressed, cOrnered
or dazeds he saves himself by clinch-
ing. If a boxer Overreaches or fails
10 land his blow and is carried on by
his own impetus he clinches.
These are but a few Of the count
less times that a clinch is useful
Practice and intuition viii in time
teach you to employ it.
The best definition OF a clinch. per
haps is The act Of seizing an Oppo-
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

not in close touch with the White
House, Just as Dewey was out Of reach
by cable at Manila The american
troous crossed the border. The Mex
leans made trouble and Taylor went
ahead and the victories OF PalO Alto
and Monterey were won. In the fam
Gus battle in which Bragg was told
TO load youe cannon with grape, sir
Davis, who was then under command
of Taylor, went ahead and won noI-
able victory in a certain part of the
field. When he returned Taylor
grasped his hand cordially and, after
congratulating him, said: Let me tell
you, sir, that you displayed better
Judgment in the selection OF a hus-
band for my daughter than 1 did my
SELF
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
Egyptian Shorthand.

Shorthand writer's should be inter-
ested in the recent discovery Of
papyrus which throws some light on
the state of stenography in Egypt in
the third century. The document found
is a contract between a shorthand
school and a man who wished one OF
his slaves to acquire the art. The fee
was 12O drachmae, 40 down, 40 at the
end Of a year and the balance on
graduation. How long the course
lasted is not stated, but evidently the
art of the stenOgrapher was not an
easy one, and it was practiced chiefly
by slaves.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
THE LADY AND THE GUN.

~ EADERS of Monday mornings paper must have
R been struck that the ladies held the center of the
L stage gun in hand.
1t began with Iowa lady living in Des
Mones, with the forid and quite horid name Of
Klinkenbiel Old Kinkenbel clinked the cannican too
much, to the inebriate asylum and madam
detached herself from his by divorce Escaping
he attacked her at the midnight hour Whereupon gun
hand she elected herself to the police force
him escape from lawful durance and marched
to the police staon the road he resisted and she
promptly shot him for resisting an officer Under the
law, any arrest person found COMMITTING a
criminal act and the party making the arrest has all
the rights of officer. Therefore Mr. Klinken and tbe
rest OF it. must take his leaden medicine. His Spartan
ewife said that she would have killed him in the natb
of duty if it had been necessary to bring him in
The next lady before the fooghts and shooting was
who lacked the training in war that is ACQUIRED IN
matrimony. She is Miss Roxburg telegraph operator
IN railroad signal tower at Thacker, in West Virginia
An outlaw in that interesting region climbed into the
tower on teonous purpose bent and she perforated him
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
Jeff Davis' HoOing.

Senator McCreary of Kentucky is an
authority on historical incidents of
the Mexican war. of which he has
been an interested student. Here is
a tribute to the courage of Jefferson
Davis he is fond of relating, says the
Baltimore Sun:
''It was during the Mexican war"
he said. CAS- you know. Jefferson Da-
Wis had previously eloped with the
daughter of Taylor, who was then in
command on the Texan border and
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

The War Department is pleased to announce that
Jolo that glorious possibility OF South Sea dominion
is ohce happily peaceful 1t may amiss to
observe connection with this that four
hundred more NIoros killed just before the War
Department again pointed with pride" Dead Moros
to make peaceable subjects of the republic
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
lird and Market Streets, s. F.

neatly with four holes with her revolver AS tower
operator killed within fortnight by out
law who got into the tower to rob him, make no
effort to conceal appreciation of Miss Roxburg
We recall past occasion which two OF the
genter have vndicated their title defenders of
morality and law did Mrs. Knkenbel of Des
Moines and Miss Kate Roxburg of Thacker. May
ladies burn powder with less provocaton less
Skill for neither of them got scratch
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

An Eastern critic, cynical in mood of the opinion
that Christian minister to be successful be blonde
and blue-eyed, with peach-like complexion and hair
parted in the middle This observer seems to be par
tcuarly unknd in his conclusions We know of nothing
in the field of ministerial that bars brunettes