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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-03-05

LADIE UMBRELLA SKIRTS, the greatest
values ever shown in these six styles. Made of the
best cambria and muslin with hounces of India
linen, beautifully tri nmed, with good durable
laces and embroidery. If we had to buy today
the prices would be. =. ..,...,~...sl.25 20 Sl.5o
White Sale Pr7cel9Se RI ~ -c-
LADIES' UMBRELLA SKIRTS, the finest and
best values it has ever been our good fortune to
to have for you; we have not the space to describe
them. We want you to see them. ...............
White Sale Prices SI40,
SI.98, $2.48, 81. 9Sto S4.98
CORSET COVERS of nice fine muslin, cheap at 13c
White Sale Price &c.
CORSET COVERS OF nice soft muslin, filed seams,
trimmed with Torchon Lace and hemstitched
rutie, worth Ice
White Sale Price zoe.
CORSET COVERS, two styles, lace trimmed, very
pretty and durable; worth csc and cheap at that
White Sale Price 19e.
CORSET COVERS, ten styles of the full blouse
front and the tight fitting, nicely trimmed with
new laces and embroidery; sold regularly at
..''''"'""...... ................3 Doc to 49c
White Sale Price 25e.
CORSET COVERS with the new blouse fronts,
four styles in this lot, trimmed with dainty edges
and insertions of the fine wearing laces. Regular
~ '"iues' ''"''''".'''... 49,. .. t.. e.
White Sale Prize zoe
CORSET COVERS, about fifteen styles of the
choicest new creations in allover embroidery.
tull hounce embroidery, lace and insertions to
match. You'll admire them
Prices 49e, 75e, SOC, CSC.
oHiLDRENS DRAWERS of good muslin, trimmed
"i'n nne tncks' sizes 2 to years, cheap at. l5c
Whit Sale Price nc.
LADIES DRAWERS of splendid muslin, trimmed
WIN neat line tucks, regular s5c grade ....,..
WAfte Sale Price re.
LADIES UMBRELLA DRAWERS Of the hest
muslin cambria aounces, edged with embroidery.
N"'"P "V'''''. ........ 35c
HIhih Sale Prace 25c.
ADDE'S DRAWERS Of fine muslin
camorie LOUNGES, with nice wide lace. worth 4oe
White Sale Price e0c.
LADIES DRAWERS of cambria and
long cloth beautifully trimmed with rufaes and
nounees OF lace and embroidery in match sets
N4'F Sale Prices 4oc, z5c and o8e.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-03-05
are authorized to announce
J. A. r.

as a candidate for the once of Assessor of
Lafayette county, subject to the regular
action Of the democratic party.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-03-05

As a candidate Tor Representative in the
state legislature, subject 10 the action of
the democratic party.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-03-05
A SENATOR.

STATE SENATOR.
We are authorized to
r. 4. BROWN,
of Cass county. as a candidate for the once
of state Ser ator from the Seventeenth
Senatorial District, subject 70 the regular
action OF the democratic party
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-03-05

We are authorized to
CLAUDE MARQUIS
As a candidate for the Office OF County
Assessor, subject to the action Of the demo-
Cratic party.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
SEARCHED BY THE MArRoN.

taken in the course of one year, the large jewel-studded chalice and paten being always ignored, though quite as accessible as the small ones.
 A richly-stocked optical store was recently broken into and ransacked by night providers. The place contained costly lenses, microscopes, telescopes and gold-rimmed eyeglasses, worth many thousands of dollars, but the thief took nothing but 100 assorted glass eyes. The fact that the demand for this contrivance is seldom and slight convinced the police that the burglar was 8 one-eyed person in search of mate for his good eye A month later. however, another shop of the same class was robbed, and, after going over his disarrayed stock. the proprietor was surprised and pleased to admit that nothing of value was missing. The detective, who re- membered the former case, asked whether artificial eyes had been in the stock, and learning that they had, searched diligently with the clerks, only to find that the box containing them had been carried off by the thief. Tn capture of the peculiar burglar fol- lowed, but he had two good eyes, and had not tried to sell any of his queer plunder.
 Criminals or k1eptomaniacs of this class are seldom caught and never at tempt to explain their cratic prefer ences. Expert policemen believe that it is an excessive development of the collection fad, although it is often found that the thief is wealthy enough to practice fad of almost any cost without purloining his prizes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03

she saw the roof of her own home only a block away. She knew it was her roof, for there was her mothers pink waist on the line, and beside it the dolls clothes, which Susan had washed that afternoon, and then stood on chair to hang out before she came over to the school building. Il was time the doll was abed, and Susan knew nobody would attend to it. She went through the room where the big scholars sit
 When she passed the principals desk she happened to look behind it into a case with glass doors skeleton with legs and arms and skull, all screwed up, to be put away for vacation grinned at her. The child cried out and ran downstairs, screaming all the way with the voice following her and coming from the different classrooms as she passed the doors. She ran back into her own schoolroom and to her own desk, where she buried her face in her arms and cried till there was nd cry left.
 Although she could see only the dim outlines of it, she knew that there was 8 big armchair up on the teachers platform, with cushion in Rt. So Susan timidly groped her way to the platform and curled up on the cushion in the big chair, and that is where the detectives found her early in the morn ing sound asleep.
 A general alarm had been sent out for the child when the parents re- ported her to the police as lost early in l the evening, but it was daylight when the detectives on the hunt traced the girl to the schoolhouse and decided to break in.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
HAD GHOSTLY WATCH
LITTLE GIRL SPENDS NIGHT IN
 BIG sCHooLHoUsE.
Was Locked Tn by Janitor and Wan. dered from Room to Room, Meet ing New Terrors at Almost
 Every Turn.

Susan Quinlan, seven years old, speni . night in the big shadQWy school house near her home in New York and suffered hunger and loneliness and terror, which, to a child of her age seemed doubly great.
 Susan went to the public schoo building at Myrtle avenue and Wal worth street Friday afternoon to mes her brother, who attends a vacation school in the building. She got ints the building, but missed her brother and, while wandering about trying tt find him, school was dismissed fol the day. the janitor locked the doors and went away.
 The stiffness of a three-storJ schoolhouse, with only one small gir in 1t, is awful. The child realized sht was all alone, and ran downstairs tt the entrance hall, only to find the bia heavy door locked and barred. Sht could hear the children laughing and playing on the sidewalk, but they couldn't hear her when she screamed for some one to come quick and lei her out.
 When she cried: "Let me out" . voice somewhere up the stairs called: etLet me out" and then all was still It began to get dark, and Susan braved the voice and trudged upstairs again to the schoolrooms, where the big win. dows were. She went into her OWL room, because 1t seemed a little like home. She sat down. on hard-bot. toned chair in the front row of deslks and began to cry. It was after sup. per time. She opened the desk to see if there were any cookies left ovel from the last terms lunches, but found nothing except speller.
 They she tiptoed to look in Amy Jones' desk, for Amy used to bring g sandwich and jelly roll every day There wasn't crunb there, nothing but small dead mouse that had starved to death since the vacation began, and piece of report card which the mouse had nibbled as lasi resort
 Then she rapped on g window Across the roofs of the wooden sheds
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
London's Homeless Poor.

From an investigation made by the medical officer of the London county council, according to writer in a re- cent issue of the New York Medical Record, 1t is estimated that one in every 9 ,000 of the population of the city of London is homeless, A census of the persons who could not pay for nights lodging in the cheapest of lodging houses and passed the night out of doors in the streets, or under arches, or in the recesses of front doors, or on land- ings and staircases of tenements where the doors had been left open, revealed such a number in certain district that the officer felt justified to make the esti- mate presented to the council. On the night this investigation was undertaken there were 5000 vacant beds in the lodg- ing houses.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
Broy,les.

is mine,'' reluctantly replied the peis- oner.
 Put them on Let's see how they ft ''
 Ware, apparently with much diff culty, got into the trousers, putting them on over the ones he already had on, and they were found to be so large that they closely resembled an inflated balloon with bean pole in the middle.
 No use, Ware. You have not told the truth You stole those trousers" said the judge "Twentyone days, or $10. .75, and I'll have you returned, because the owner of those balloon trousers may be located"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
THIEVES WITH PADS.
THEIR WORK SHOWS PLAIN EVIDENCES OF INSANITY.
Chicago Woman Devoted to Stealing Scissors-Burglar Who Was Ad- dicted to Gathering Up Ar
 tificial Eyes.

One of the most striking evidences of insanity among petty thieves ls manifested by preference for somt special article often to the exclusion of more valuable plunder which lies as ready to their hands. In some in- stances this unreasoning weakness fo1 some object of trifiing value has driver the kleptomaniac to the most extraor- dinary display of ingenuity. patience and cunning,
 The Chicago Tribune says that g well dressed, middle-aged woman was arrested in one of the downtown de- apartment stores few weeks ago be- cause she was detected in the act oi stealing pair of scissors from the counter When searched by the ma ttron of the establishment no less than five pairs of scissors were found in her pockets. She admitted that she had stolen them all, but as they were not of the same patterns sold by the store, it was evident that she had taken some from other places. She agreed to give them all up to the de- ltective, burt could not remember where tSu0 Ab0 p1CACO b11CkA "A S0eA OA O1 her home revealed a collection of 1,10d pairs of scissors tastefully arranged
 upon the walls of her room. She had sold none of them, and many were cheap, almost worthless, bits of cut lery.
 There is in London thief who has been convicted dozen times of steal ing wheelbarrows. He is no sooner released from jail than he sets forth upon what seems to be an irresistible quest for more wheelbarTOWs. Nc matter how rickety, old or cumbersome the barrow, he will make off with ii If he can, but he has never been known to steal anything else Anothea display of this peculiarity among thieves is found in the disappearance of thousands of communion cups from churches in which the small, indivfd- Eual chalices are used From one Presbyterian church 216 of these com |paratively valueless vessels have been
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03

keeping him stripped of clothes, and at night tying him by the ankles to a tree at their bfvouac.
 Johnnie succeeded in escaping and &ound himself bare of clothing in a howling wilderness, surrounded by wolves, but he did not despair. At that time the country was full of cat tie, and the boy soon found friends among the horned beasts, who protect ed him from the wolves, hid him from the savagss, and kept him warm at night, by allowing him to sleep with them. One COW, especially, took com passion upon the lonely boy and~adopt- ed him, allowing him to share the contents of her udder with her calf
 Making out on milk and berries, he lived for many weeks, until Col. Buck Barry, commanding his rangers, Capt. Jack Csureton, Capt Henry Fossett and other pioneer heroes returning from their great victory at Dove creek, found the Norwegian youth, and took him home. This is the first case known where a boy became the foster son of COW, and was treated with ex- own offspring. To this day he retains tender regard for cows, and says he fully appreciates the religion of Brah- ma in regarding COW as 3 sacred animal.
 Among the persons present at Me rldtan at reunion of the old settlers was Col. Buck Barry and the Norwe- gian, John Johnsen. whose strange history was repeated by one of the speakers to the crowd
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
COW ADOPTED TEXAS BOY.
Remarkable History of a Norwegian Lad, Now Respected Citizen
 of Lone Star State.

Residing in Bosque, about 40 miles west of Waco, Tex, is man named John Johnsen, a Norwegian, who came over with the first Scandinavian col
 ony soon after the annexation ol Accompanying his father, who was driving a wagon loaded with fcuq and corn meal, he was compelled to stand by and see his father slain and scalped by the Comanche Indians The savages started toward Arizona, talk. ing the boy, Johnnie, as a captive
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
FIRE ALARM.

4-Cor South Main and Grand sts.
 6-Scoy1ll Manufacturing Go (P.1
 6-Cor Bridge and MagilI sts.
 7-Exchange Place
 12-Rogers & Bro (S.)
 13-Cor East Main and Niagara sfs. 14-Cor East Main and Wolcott road 15-Cor High and Walnut sts 16-Cor East Main and Cherry sts. 17-Cor East Main and Cole sts. 2l-Cor North Elm and ingsbury sts. 23-Burton street engine house. 21-Cor N. Elm and Kingsbury sfs. 25-Cor North Main and North sts. 26-COr Buckingham and Cooke sfs. 27-Cor Grove and Prospect sts. 2S-Cor Hillside avenue and Pine sts 29-Cor Ludlow and N. Willow ats 31-Cor Bank and Grand sts. 32-Cor Riverside and Bank sts. S4-Cor w. Main and Watertown I'd. 35-Conn By & L't'g Go, car h'se (pA Waterbury Brass Go (P) 37-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts. 38-Cor Grand and Field sts 42-Cor South Main and Clay sts. 43-New England Watch Go (P.) 45-Benedict & Burnham Mfg Go (P1 Waterbury Buckle Go P.) 47-Cor s. Main and Washington sin 51-Cor Baldwin and River sts. 4 Waterbury Clock Go, case fac (Pa 54-Cor Clay and Mill sts.
 56-Cor Liberty and River sts. 57-No 5 Hose house.
 5S-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts 62--Cor Dool1ttle alley and Dublin sR 72-Cor West Main and Willow sts. 73-North Willow st, cor Hillside. 74-Cor Johnson and WateryiIle sta 142-Wolcott st, beyond Howard. 162-Cor East Main and Melton sts. 173-East Main st, opposite Polls. 212-The Platt Bros Go (P.) 213-Hammond Buckle Go P) 214 Waterbury CPk Go, nf'v't fac fp.A 216-Cor North Main and Grove sts. 251-Cor Round Hill and Ward stss 253-Farm street
 261-Junction Cooke and N. Main sta. 263-Cor Abbott and Phoenix avenues 272-Grove, bet Central & Holmes avs SI1-S. N. E. Telephone Go bldg. fP.l 212-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. 313-Randolph 6 Cloves P.l S14-Plume 6 Atwood P.) 3I57-Amer1can Rlng Go P.) 3l6-Electr1c Light Station Pl 31S-HolmeS, Booth & Haydens S(Pk 321-No Hose house. 322-Cor Green and N Leonard sts. 323-Cor Washington av & Porter if. 324-Cor Charles and Porter sts. 325-Cor Simons st & Washington av 371-City Lumber Sc Coal Go P) 412-Tracy Bros P.) 432-Cor Liberty and $. Main sts 451-Steele & Johnson Mfg Go P.l 5S2-Cor Baldwin and Rye sts.
 P.l Private.
 SIGNALS.
 nno e,%y-nI1< ooIarx to the City hall
 II. Two strokes, fire out, recall.
 Ill. Three strokes, 12 m.. 6 D. m.
 Fire gong blows at 9 o'clock.
 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-Te strokes quick will indicate general alarm and will call the entire force into service.
 1-1-1-1-1r1-1-1-1-1-1-1- F.iftaen SSokes quick will call out the militlss
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
TROUSERS WERE TOO BIG.
How Georgia Justice Convicted a Negro Thief Who Was Also
 Something of Liar.

In Atlanta, Ga, one Eugene Ware was arrested by City Detective Lock hart while he was trying to dispose of a pair of trousers in pawnshop. Lock hart sized up the negro and then sized up the trousers. He decided the original owner had not been person the size of Ware, and the negro was arrested.
 Tn the police court Ware stuck to the story that the trousers belonged to him.
 Put those things on,' said Judge Broyles.
 .tTain'f no 11sa ledge knows dey
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
Why Mails Went Wrong in 1907.

According to the statement of an hon. orable member in the house of commons the regulations of the Dublin general post office are of a very singular kind. now and then open the letters and take out the contents in order to compen- Sate for the inadequacy of their sala- ries.-eees Sam n GhEonicla.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
Before the Diver Goes Down

Professional divers, before submerg- ing themselves, take deep inspirations for about ten minutes. The object is to store up oxygen, not in the lung cells, but in the blood corpuscles. This renders a temporary suspension of the breathing possible by supplying the corpuscles with an extra quantity of oxygen
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
Black Seq wrac1rs

There is no part of the world which has such sinister record for wrecks as the Black sea. A number in some years has averaged more than one day; the greatest number of wrecks re. corded in one year being 425, and the smallest 194. About 50 per cent. of these vessels became total wrecks, all the crews being lost.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
An Immense Span of Wire.

The longest single span of wire in the world is used for a telegraph line stretched over the River Kistuah, be- tween Bezorah and Sectanaroum, In dia. It is over 5000 feet long, and is carried from the top of one mountain to that of another.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
W 0S 2

J. K. and F. L.aNo.
 I. N. M. and Reader. None of your coins are rare.
 c. McC.-A photographer should be able to describe the process better than I.
 Spelled .sho-fur, accent on the last syllable.
 J. w. B.-Your questions are too complicated for layman. Consult q lawyer.
 Traveler-Pa Passports are issued only by the secretary of state and the fee is one dollar.
 D. Z.-New York has sixty-one couu- ties. Nassau was formed from Queens when Greater New York was createei A. J. CA co-partnership is form ed by written agreement signed by the parties in which all the details and stipulations are stated.
 C.. H.This column cannot advise as to the reliability of business con- Ecerns Chicago ds sufficient address for any exchange in that city.
 -n-
 M. T. C.Where is Zion City locat- cd?
 A. Forty-two miles north of Chi cago on the Chicago and Northwestern railway.
  n 4. I1 name of the Osage Indian agency sA.-WTite William A Jones, Com missioner Indian Affairs, Washing. ton, D. c.
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 McC.-I have centennary medal of M D. church south with the portraits lof Bishop Asbury, 17S4, and Bishop { Peirce, 1884. Has it any value2 A I do net think so.
 NJ. $. B.-What is the address of Miss O'Neil, the actresS2 Also that of Paul Dresser, the song writer? Tewksbury, Mass. Mir Dressers ad- dress is not known.
 F. C.-Who was the author of "Hail Columbia, 7 the patriotic song?
 A. The words were written by Jo- seph Hopkinson, Philadelphia law yer and statesman. The tune had been called the Presidents march. S. o. V.-What is the most ancient town within the United States?
 A. St. Augustine, Florida, which was settled in 1865 by the Spaniards \ and has had continuous life ever since. It contains about 2,O0O people. ,--[f-- M. L.-How fast are the lands Of the national government being claim ed?
 A. The average during the past five years has been about 29,O00 claims, covering about four and a half mil lion acres.
 Mrs. E. RI have no data on the subject you ask about except what iS found in the Bible and is therefore free to everybody. This column can not proftably discuss questions which theologians have been arguing since history began.
 G. M. R-What is the Civic Feeder ation, and how can I find out more about it than your reply wdll be like ly to involve?
 A. Address R. M. Easley, secretary of the National Civic Federation, PSI Fourth avenue, New York city.
 -H-
 Tom-What is the Kremlin?
 A. It is an old fort of the Russian czars in Moscow built over five hun, tlred years ago. It encloses an ares of nearly one hundred acres, with five gates and eighteen towers and within at are the imperial palace and severa churches.
 Nellie B.-I have brass meda about the size of cent with Lincoln'S portrait on one side and an eagle and the words s'Lincoln and the Union" or the other. What is its history anC value?
 A. A campaign token of 1864, with out value.
 J. K. HIS there book or pamph let containing the Lincoln and Doug las debates?
 b A. They were published in 1860 b1 FoIlett, Foster &S Co of Columbus, O i, A postal card to this firm should bring information as to whether thu book is now out of print.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
Our Scenery.

Prince Hohen1ohe, who has been touring in the Rocky mountains, says he is compelled to admit that such scenery does not exist in any other part of the world.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
Deafness Caused by Cold.

Deafness is more common in cold countries than in warm climates, the ear being very sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
A Pec,1liaritv of onals

Opals, when taken from the mines, are quite soft, and can be picked to pieces with the finger nails.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03
THE STATE CONVENTION
Will Meet on September 6-z at the
 Hyperion Theaser, New Haven.

To the Democratic Electors of the
 State of Connecticut:
 A state convention of the delegated party from each town will be held at the Hyperion theater, New Haven, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9th and 7th, 1904, for the purpose of nominating candidates for presidential electors candidates for state offices and 8 candidate for representatives. large in the congress of the United States. and for the transaction of any other business proper to come before such convention
 In accordance with the rules of the party, the convention will be called to order on September 6, at o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of effect ing permanent organization.
 Each town shall be entitled as town to twice as many delegates as It has representatives in the legislature, and all towns in which the vote cast at the last presidential election ex- ceeds 1000 shall be entitled to one ad- ditional delegate for each additional 1000 votes then cast, and also each fraction thereof exceeding one-haf.
 Tn accordance with the said rule all towns entitled to more than four dele gates, with the number to which each is entitled, are as follows:
 Hartford. .1Sl Norwich ....... 5 Bristol. 5fStonington ..... , Manchester .. 5I 5IBridgeport ... IT New Britain. 8lDanbury ....... { New Haven =. .26l Greenwich ..... 2 Waterbury INorwalk ....... { Ansonia. .... 6fStamford .....-. [ Derby . 5EWindham ...... . Meriden. 9(Winchester ..... : Naugatuck 6lTorrington ... .. . Walhngford. 5lMiddletown .... 6 New London ... 6IVernon .......-
 Tn accordance with rules of the party, all caucuses and primaries in the several towns for the appointment of delegates to the state convention must be held at least seven days be- fore the meeting of said convention.
 JOHN T. WALSH, Chairman.
 EDWIN $. THOMAS. Secretary.
 ssIt shall be the duty of the chair man of each town committee to send copy of the credentials of the dele gates to said convention of his town, properly attested by the chairman and secretary of the caucus, to the secre- tary of the democratic state central committee at least five days prior to the convention.
 IHereIOTe, dS Soon do yUH Slule delegates have been elected, it will greatly facilitate business if you will at once forward to the undersigned q blank properly filed out, which must be receives not later than September ana as ngrch earlier as possible. Yo1l therefore see Che necessity of call ing your caucus at once as the rules of the party provide that all calIeuses must be held not less than seven days before the date of the convention. (Signed)
 EDWIN S. THOMAS, Secretary"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03

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