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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05
AS pLUcKY AS A BOY.
How an Art Student Earned Her Way
Through School.

through school.
The ways and means 10y which
a clever Maine girl earned money
for her studies in art are briefly
sketched in the New York sun.
One summer she worked with a
cOmrade in an imprOvised labora-
tory, where the two made jellies,
sweet pickles and preserves for
sale. They made them out of
fruit and berries which they
picked themselves. After they
got a start, they employed the
neighbOrhOOd boys and girls to
pick for them. The art student
alone worked up enough trade to
keep her at the art school in New
York through the winter.
The next summer, when she
went home, she set up in the vege.
table business and sold the pro-
ceeds of her garden patch to hotel
and clearinghouse keepers in
the vicinity. Her truck farm paid
well, but it involved much hard
work and not very congenial
going about.
The next year the indefatigable
girl thought of another plan for
raising funds. She had secured
a prize scholarship in the art
school, but there were still many
expenses to be met. Everybody
who is familiar with the islands
along the Maine coast knows how
necessary the private ferry is to
the convenience of the tourists
and cottagers. Many of the small
islands contain summer homes, or
are occupied by camping parties,
and visiting is constant. A man
In the art students neighbOrhOOd
owned such a ferry, which he had
tired of tending. The girl per-
suaded him to sublet it to her.
She ran the boat successfully
all that vacation time, and made
a most picturesque, as well as
capable, ferrywOman in her short
skirt, shirtwaist and sailor hat.
Once it got out that her venture
was for the sake of art and not for
n%OtOriety, many people quartered
in the various summer colonies
thereabOut made it a point to
patrOnize her ferry whenever pos
Sible on their outing excursions.
Some formed the habit of coming
to the ferry merely to take a ride.
The toll she took that summer ex-
ceeded by a considerable sum the
revenue from either jelly factory
or truck farm.
The girl has now attained a
definite place in her New York
career. Her work is decorative
design. But she declares that if
her eyes or hands or ideas give
out, she intends to start another
passenger ferry up among the
Maine islands.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05

G~uuenbury Lodge, \ q. ss-lst and Srd
Wednesdays in each month.
HID Gelzer. Noble Grand
C C Ludwigs. Secretary.
AOUW.
Harmony Lodge, No 81. AOT w-Seoond
and Fourth Tuesdays in each moi.l.
HG Gezer. 81 ".
FCT B~rightweI, Becorder.
KNIGHrs or PYrHsAs.
Lexington Lodge. No l57 X + meets every
Thursday night at their hail 10 Sriehn build
ing, sojourning knights ocrti lily invited.
Thomas Wedge, &C.
Elias Spruce, X OF r anJ Z.
ELKs.
Lexington Lodge, B , & No T9-Meets
regular on the end eiG 9TH Friday nights in
each month at thelr aJme, corner Main aud
sth streets Home pen at all times.
J Chinn, Exa'ssd Ruler
s Thorntc -. Secretary.
EAGLEs.
Lexington Aerie. F o & No 2ii-Meets End
and 4th Wednesdays Of each month at X Of P
hall.
James oonners Worthy President,
Ernest Fegert, Secretary.
ANCIENT ORDER OF PYRAMIDS.
Meets every Friday night in each month.
NJ Cahin, MP.
W W Curtis, RFR
GAR.
Mulligan Post. No l1-Meets every lst and
Srd Friday nights at their hall at 10th and
Main streets.
NIL %Studdard, Commander.
o B Burris, Adjutant.
UDC.
Meets LIST Wednesday in each month at the
homes of the members.
Mrs Stephen N Wilson, President.
Mrs ] H Campbell, Secretary.
SONS OF VETERANS.
Meets second and fourth Monday night in
each month in G A X hall, IOand Main.
Faed J Kohlman., Captain.
Chris Walk, LIST Sergeant
wOoDMEN.
Lexington Camp, No 1879 Woodmen Of the
World meets LIST and Srd Monday nights in
each month.
Pearl r Smith, Consul Commander.
Fred Xix, Clerk.
MAOABEEs.
Has an Organization but no regular meet
ing time or place.
Frank Nicholson, President.
John schoield, Secretary.
mi
Meet at Turner's Hall once per week.
Julius Winkler, president,
@ H Schaefermeyer, Secretary
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05
K WITH A
How the Signal Corps Plays Part in
Modem Warfare.

Modern Warfare.
The signal corps plays a very
important part in modern war.
fare-so important that army and
navy officers say they could not
possibly do without it, in spite Of
the fact that great campaigns
were carried on and great battles
were fought before it was ever
dreamed of.
There are several systems of
signaling in use by the army and
navy, the simplest of which is
that commonly called "wigwag.
ging," a term that was invented
for it. Nearly everyone knows,
perhaps, that the signaling is
done by means of small flags, but
a brief description of how the
flags are handled to convey a
message, says the New York Her
aid, may not be without interest.
The system is an adaptation Of
the Morse dot and dash telegraph
alphabet, the different move
ments of a flag taking the place
of the dots and dashes. By the
Morse alphabet the letter a is rep
resented by a dot and a dash, the
b by a dash and three dots, and
the letter c by two dots, a space
and a dot. The other letters are
represented in a similar way.
In the army system waving the
flag to the right means a dot; to
the left a dash, and dropping it
directly in front of the operator
means a space. If, therefore, the
operator waves the flag once to
the right and once to the left he
makes the letter a; if he waves It
once to the left and three times to
the right he makes the letter b,
and if he waves it twice to the
once down in front and then
once again to the right he makes
the letter C.
This reads like slow work, but
1t is anything but slow, for the op
orators are so skillful and quick
in the use of the flag that they can
give and receive the letters al
most as fast as a telegraph opera
tor can give and receive the clicks
CT his instrument.
The use of a strong field glass
enables the receiving operator to
read the signals at a great dis
lance. When it is necessary to
signal at night a torch is substi.
tuted for the flag.
Wigwagging in the navy is
done on the same general princi-
pie, but the numerals 1, 2, 8 are
used instead of dots and dashes.
The letter a by this system is
made by the numerals 2, 2; the
letter b by 3, ., l, .; the letter c
by l, 2, /; the letter d by 2, 2, 2,
and so On.
Waving the flag to the right
means l, to the left means 2, and
down the front means 8. Two
waves to the left, therefore, make
the letter a; two waves to the left,
one to the right and one again to
the left make the letter b; one
wave to the right, one to the left
and one again to the right make
c; three waves to the left make d,
and so on.
The navy also Uses a fashlight
and the steam whistle in combi-
nation with the numerals. A
short fash or a short blast of the
whistle means /; two short
flashes or two short blasts mean
2, and a long fash or a long blast
means 3.
Provision is thus made for sig.
mailing by day, whether the air be
clear or foggY.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05
A New Alloy.

A new alloy for bearings sub
jected to heavy loads, such as
those of railway axles, is de-
scribed by G.. A. Clamer as con-
sisting of GA parts of copper, five
of tin, 80 of lead and one of nickel.
The metal casts well and is cas-
lily worked. It's large proportion
Of lead greatly reduces its wear,
and when used as a bearing for a
journal 80 inches in diameter by
81 long, run at $50 revolutions per
minute and loaded to 1000
pounds per square inch, the loss
in weight was but a fifth Of a
grain in 100000 revolutions. Un-
der the same conditions, the wear
of gun metal of varying proper
tions of copper and tin was from
81 to four grains.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05
Some Men.

Some men are SO busy reform.
Ing everything in general that
they haven't time to reform any.
thing In particular. - Chicago
Daily News.
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One Difference.

There is this difference between
q house and a woman: A coat OF
paint improves the house.--At.
Gibson Globe.
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po as LAttle as Poaaibla.

1t is strange how many men
there are who are just on the
verge of being loafers -
ton 1a.) Democrat.
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SANTA FE ROUTE.

Trains arrive at North Lexington.
No. 2S daily. ......... ............. s:25 a. m
Trains leave North Lexington;
No. 20, Express daily ............ $3.50 {. m
Main line trains pass Lexington Junction
Thesriver Bus leaves Lexington 7.4O a m
daily to connect with train at north Lex
ington. Leaves lexington daily except
Sunday at $3.50 a m and 2 o'clock p m and
goes through to connect with tire hs at Lex.
lngton Junction.
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Died from Old Age.

0ficial returns show that dur
ing last year no fewer than 26O
persons died in stepney, Eng,
from old age.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05
Strenuous.

FauIt-hnding friends are more
strenuous than the praise singing
ikind.-Chicago Daily News.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-05

MAsoRs.
Lexington Lodge, No. ll0, A F & N
Third Monday in each month.
Henry Sinauer. W M.
H W winsor. secretary.
Royal Arch Chapter, No lO-Flrst Monday
In each month.
Fred Wilson, II P.
INV Wlnsor, Secretary.
DeMolay commaudery, Nos, x T-Fourth
Monday in each month.
Oscar Andreen, Eminent Commander.
II W winsor, Secretary
I. c. o. r..
Orion Lodge, No 45-2nd and lth Tuesdays
IN each month.
SIP Coen, OP.
Itaska Encampment No 9th Monday in
each month.
Up Coen, JrCP,
Q G Ludwig, Scribe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-28
Feminine Duplicity.

A young man visited his girl west OF
town on Sunday evening. After they
had talked several hours he declared
his intention Of kissing her. She was
apparently indignant. and said she
would tell her father. Remembering
that faint heart never won fair lady
the young man was not dismayed, and
succeeded in planting kiss behind her
left ear. To make good her threat the
young woman arose hastily and
walked to the kitchen. Papa" she
said innocently, Mr.. NJ. wants to see
your new gun" call right! All right!'
said the old man, delighted with a
chance to show it. Taking it from the
rack he stepped into the parlor. The
young man broke four window panes
in getting out, and when last seen was
still running bareheaded up the road in
the direction Of toWn.-Gardner Qll.)
Chronicle.
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An Improbable Convert.

In Burmah the drum major OF an
infantry regiment, noted for his steadi-
ness, good humor and constant atten-
ton to his duties, one day suddenly
disappeared from the barracks at Ran
COON. At first 1t was supposed that
he had gone on a spree in the town,
and he would turn up when his mad ut
was over, but as day after day passed
and no news came of him it was ut last
assumed that he had gone off in one or
the American ships which called at
tnat port, it being no unusual thing
for soldiers at Rangoon to desert IN
this way. About eight months after
ward a native Burmese came to the
barracks one morning and by means
of the reglmental interpreter made it
known that he had been sent by.
phoonghee NATIVE priest from a neigh
boring Buddhist monastery in the for
est to say that there was an English
soldier there whom they wished to get
rid of. An escort was despatched and
brought back no less q parsonage than
the absentee drum major. The only
explanation he had to give was that
the spirit of adventure seizing him one
day, he had taken fowling piece and
gone into the jungle to shoot. Com
ing across the monastery, the phoon-
ghees had behaved Hospitality to him,
and had allowed him to sleep there,
that night. During the night the fancy
seized him to become Buddhist, and
making known his desire to the com;
munity next morning he was acceptedI
For a few months all went we'll. He
remained quietly indoors absorbed In
the study of Buddhist mysteries, which
had q peculiar fascination for him.
But after a time the demon of unrest
began to stir him up again. He made
repeated incursions into the jungle
and each time returned laden with
game. The taking Of any form Of AMI
NAL life is contrary to the principles OF
Buddhism. and the phoonghees expos.
tulated with him, but without avail;
so, finding him an improbable convert,
they got rid Of him by communicating
with his regiment.-Golden Penny.
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The doctor cogitated. "Have you got
the $500 you robbed him off" he asked.
mo, honest, Doc, 1 amt. Sam got
the hull of it."
"a man should not do for his broth
er what he would not do for mankind
Mt large" mused the doctor. He went
to his study. took $500 in bills from a
recess in his desk. put it in huge en-
velope with a slip Of paper, on which
he wrote in a disguised hand:
Here's your money. I didn't know
you was q preacher. My father was
one-Snaky Sam"
The doctor saw to it that his brother
got the money next day. The patient
over the summer kitchen improved
rapidly. Day by day he would repeat;
$50 the parson is your brother. You're
good, game one, Doc
In q week the burglar was gone
Three days later DR.. Jim received a
package. It contained 5000 and n let
ter which said: 81 met Sam. got the
money back. and then raised some
more: no matter how. The extra hun
dred is fer Professional services. You're
q good, game one, Doc. Lanky Ben"
The next night Father Tom and DR..
Jim were sitting smoking together
"Jim," said Father Tom. "if I'd hit
that burglar I shot at and he'd come
here, what would you have done with
him"
tom, my boy. the time has come tc
talk of other things" - Edward B.
Clark, in Chicago Record-Herald.
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match, as shown in figure 1. If q
man wished to perform relatively equal
labor he would have to raise beam
241s feet long by 141a inches square.
The earwig Of figure 8, harnessed to a
small chariot, drags without difficulty
eight matches, which for a large per.
cheron horse would mean dragging
$50 beams as long and thick. as him.
self. The man who leaps the 300 me.
ters Of the Eiffel tower Is merely re.
peating the action of the flea which
can leap 200 times its own height.
Finally the Hercules in figure 5 is
obliged to raise eighty large locomo-
tives to equal the relative strength of
an oyster, which in closing Its valves
exercises q force of fifteen Kilograms,
Thus it is a much more simple thing
to calculate the strength Of insects than
to equal it, and our modern athletes
have yet long road to travel before
they can compete with animals occu-
pying very humble positions in the
living world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-28
TIE GREAT STRENGTH OF INSECTS
lated and Condensed For
Public Opinion.


Every one in general way knows
Of the astonishing muscular power en-
ployed by insects, and Of the real
tours de force which they execute
either in the pursuit Of prey or in de-
Tending themselves against their enc
mics. At the same time one rarely
has q precise idea Of the strength of
these insects because there are few
standards Of comparison, although
nothing is simpler than to make cor.
rect valuation of their strength. ..
The wing strength Of insects Is
known because of the work of Felix
Plateau and De Lucy, who Showed
that these little creatures could not
raise q weight much heavier than
themselves, no matter what the sur
face Of their wings. During the course
Of these experiments very interesting
fact was discovered, namely, that the
size Of the wing decreases as the
weight and size Of the animal in
.creases, a fact which explains the slow
heavy fight Of the beetle and the
swift, light movement of the gnat.
The, case is entirely different, how.
ever, where the creature moves on a
solid surface where its six feet may
obtain points of support. In this case
we can approximately calculate the
force exercised. Take, for example, a
fly by the wings. leaving the legs free
so that they may seize and raise a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-28
Gum Chewing and Lunacy.

Who would have thought that doc.
tors would countenance the practice OF
gum chewing? Yet here is the news
from st. Paul that the Minnesota State
Board of Control includes chewing
gum in the list Of supplies for insane
aSylums, as its use Is often found to
have excellent effect upon patients,
soothing them during violent spells,
and enabling them to concentrate their
minds upon various forms Of work.
Doubtless it is the muscular, not the
secretory, activity that produces the
beneficial result. The secretory activ-
ity may deplete the sallvary glands,
and thus prove prejudicial to Gges-
ton. Insane people are nervous. and
almost every one inclined to nervous
ness has discovered that there are
forms Of fdgeting which enable him
to relieve the tension upon his nerves
and help him to concentrate his atten-
ton.
Many q lawyer and many an orator
would be at loss in speaking II he
could not twiddle his watch chain or
twirl bis eyeglasses. Many travelling
man and many politician would lose
his reputation for ease Of manner in
conversation If deprived Of the cigar
he gracefully puffs in the intervals OF
his talk. And the fan! What mistress
Of coquetry would be willing to sur
render her fan?
But while gum chewing may relieve
the fldgets in the case Of those who do
the chewing, the sight Of it is likely
to give the fldgets to other people
obliged to look on.(filwaIkee Even
ing Wisconsin.
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From the i,r-lDa:or cellar, the small
chickens are taken to what is known
as the nursery" which constantly
shelters about 60O0 young chickens,
ranging in age from one to thirty days.
When the chickens have attained the
aged Of thirty-one days, they are low
cred by an elevator to the ground
floor and put in the U-snaped part OF
the building, which is divided into
sixty pens. The chickens advance
one pen each day, so that at the end
Of two months they have completed
the circuit and are ready for trans
ference to the shipping department. 1t
may be noted in this connection that
the U-shaped portion Of the building
is constantly tenanted by about $1,000
chickens, ranging in age from thirty
to ninety days. The egg house at the
Sidney plant is 537 feet in length, and
similar in construction to the building
above described. 1t is bisected length
wise by a four-foot aisle. on each side
of which are thirty pens containing
fifty hens apiece. The 1000 high grade
Leghorn fowls produce daily 200 doz-
ems of unfertile eggs for culinary pur-
poses. The eggs for the incubators
are produced by 900 high grade Plym-
outh Rock fowls.
AS indicating the proportion Of loss,
it may be stated that out of every $50
eggs which go into the incubators, an
average Of 800 perfect broilers are OBJ
tanned. Connected with the egg house
is an egg washing and marking room.
where the date is stamped upon eacn
egg sent to market
One Of the notable advances which
have been made by the scientific poul-
try farmer of the present day is found
in the practice of herding chickens.
Instead of allowing the hens to run at
large MS formerly, mingling freely and
picking their food from all kinds of
refuse, they are now divided into col
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-28
THE NURSERY FOR NEwLY-HATCHED CHICKS.

find no more significant criterion than
the recent marvellous development Of
the incubator industry. The centre Of
the incubator manufacturing business
is found in the middle West. and one
town in Illinois turns out more than
$4,000 incubators every year. 1t is
estimated that not less than 100000
incubators are now in use in the
United States. Many o. the large poul-
try farms have incubators with ca
pacity of 1000 eggs each. and from
which there may be hatched 10000
chickens a year, the loss varying from
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sanitary feature of this apparatus ex-
lists in dispensing entirely with the use
of cups and glasses. The general de-
sign of the fountain Is shown in the ac-
companying cut. The flow Of water
is regulated by convenient stop-cock
and the person desiring to make use
of the fountain leans over the font
and manipulating the stop-cock causes
flow of water to be projected up
wards into the open mouth above. The
overflow falls back onto the top Of the
fiat surface below, thereby maintain
ing this in 4 cleanly condition and re-
moving all possible infection near the
source of supply. AS the nozzle through
which the stream is projected Is COW
cred, it precludes the possibility OF
anyone drinking directly therefrom.
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spread beyond the one reservation
without detection; and thus there Is
obviated the danger from epidemics
such as have frequently in the past re-
suited in serious loss to poultry rails
ers. Another new adjunct is found in
the automatic nest. which preserves
the eggs free froln the taint of incuba-
ton. No degree Of incubation Is pos
sible. because, by means Of these new
nests, the egg is removed Immediate
l. after it is laid. The automatic nest
has q hole in the bottom, beneath
which is a revolving disk that receives
the egg as soon as it Is lid and moves
it away from the nest.
The growth Of the poultry business
as conducted on a large scale, could
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-28
A Relic OF the Paris Siege.

There has just been added to the
Army Museum in Paris a very inter-
esting memento Of the Franco -Prussian
war. It is the first and perhaps the
only number Of newspaper called
The Ballon Poste, dated Sunday, Octo-
Der 80, 1870 The paper, folded to the
size of letter, was dispatched from
the city by balloon, and q four-cent
stamp was attached to each copy so
that it might be posted to the subscrib-
er. The Ballol Postc was intended to-
keep the provinces informed Of what
was happening inside Of Paris. The
paper was found in Tours.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-10-28

our much vaunted free press. and too
many times have the papers helped re-
elect the very men who deliberately
passed the law curbing the power Of
the press. 1t is high time the matter
was given serious consideration and
decisive action taken. The trouble Is
that each paper has felt that it need
have no fear Of any kind Of q libel
law no matter how drastic. But now
they have had their little expensive
experiences and are able to see that
any newspaper. no matter how care
fully edited. may be injured under a
foolish, inconsistent or unconstitu-
tional libel law. Let us all realize this
and keep pounding until the good ef-
feet is evident. Let all remember, too,
that it is much easier to prevent the
passage Of unliberal libel laws thap
to change them after once passed.
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onies of not more than thirty hens.
Each colony has it's own reservation,
maintained in the highest state of hy-
glenic cleanliness, and each group of
hens is separate and isolated at all
times from the Others This also facil-
itates the use Of feed calculated to
insure the greatest possible productive
ness-a subject to which the United
States Department Of Agriculture, as
we'll as progressive poultrymen. have
of late years given great attentions:
and, ASIAN Indication of what has been
accomplished in this direction, it may
be pointed out that the average year
ly yield at these scientific poultry