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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-12-24
An Iowa Public BenefactOr.

There is a man 10 Iowa who IS
credited with having added $50, 00O,-
900 to the wealth of that state during
the past year-Prof. Holden. of The
Iowa Agricultural College. He
travelled thousands of miles all over
the state, lecturing to farmers aud
showing them how to increase their
corn crop from q bushels to the acre
to 40 bushels. And the harvest
justifies bis CLAIM. The farmers
listened to him gladly, and have added
100, 900, 900 bushels to the customary
yield OF the state. All this was done
by selecting the best seed and follow
ing scientific methods of tillage.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-12-24

Dookery a g congressman protested
to be a silver man, and took it out in
prOiessings. AS governor be treated =
worthy and influential religious body
with contempt and prosecuted them.
l vas brought in close contact with
Sam Cook 10 populist-fusion days and
he is one of The most detestable things
a human can be:--a tgrant. Hall Of
Saline county Is just another on a
smaller SCALE. Ny guess is that the
stay-at-homes are hugging themselves
over the result rather than regreting it.
Folk might as we'll not have been
elected, the republican legislature will
not let him hurt their party's chief
business. l have many friends in the
republican party, and kins men too, and
there are many estimsble people in it,;
but since Llncoln's death the history OF
that party can be written in two words
that describes a fracture of two of the
commandments.
l never liked Kentucky my grand
father the editor was shot down in the
streets of Frankfort, and my personal
interest in longevity Is great. But it
IS a favored land naturally. The corn
crops astobish me. The hogs are
healthy and wonderfully fine. But the
effect on the farmers, their families
and way of living that cutting their
prices In two by decentralization and
the substitution Of paper currency has
caused, is telling terribly. Here a. in
Missouri they have what Benton called
the constructive sagacity" that tells
them what is the matter, but no leader
to show them the way out. They are
running after the ''Society Of Equity
now, which is just another pocket ant
not the true channel. Population doe,
not change much here, I have a letteI
written by my great grandmother from
a farm still inhabited by her descend
ants, and she mentions families o.
neighbors where descendant are stil
neighbors though eighty years hay
passed.
GEORGE WILSON,
Henderson CO.. XIV.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-12-24
PEARL is INITIATED MOST.
More Sham Gems Are Made to Repre-
sent 1t Than Any Other
Jewel.

Among all precious stones few
are so extensively initiated as the
pearl. The real article is a silvery
white, iridescent gem, extracted
from the pearl oyster. The gen
uine pearl is really an unfructifed
egg of the oyster.
Its imitation is arrived at by a
chemical process. The liquid EN-
plOyed in the manufacture is
called essence d'0rient." The
base of the compound is prepared
by throwing into water of am.
mOnia the brilliant scales of a
small river fish called the blay.
The scales are first carefully
washed and put to soak in water,
when the pearl-like film falls away
and forms a sediment at the bot.
tom of the vessel. This sediment
is worth to the manufactures $25
an ounce.
White wax of mucilage or gum
arabic forms part of the mixture
proper for the more important and
expensive limitations, such as
those made to initiate the rare
Oriental pearls, which fetch fabu.
lous prices.
The emerald is another stone
which is cleverly initiated. A per-
feet emerald is the rarest stone in
the world, though the trade ranks
it after the ruby and the diamond.
The best emeralds come from
Peru, the limitations from France,
and few from Birmingham, Eng
land. The real article becomes
electric by friction, and herein lies
the difference between it and the
imitation.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-12-24
o OF UNION PACIFIC.
Building Of the First Trans-C Continent
tai Railroad in This
Country.

In Harper's Magazine, Frank
II. Spearman, the well-known rail
road authority, tells the dramatic
story of the building of the Union
Pacific railroad. His description
of the completion of the enter.
prise and the attendant ceremO-
MES is most interesting:
"Surely no such story is writ
ten anywhere on the records of
our railroads" says Mr.. Spear
man. "The days when Dodge ran
the line, Jake Easement laid the
rail, Leland Stanford drove the
spike and Bret Harte supplied the
poem can never return. Litera-
ture and the railroad had not be-
| come wholly divorced when the
California poet wrote: What the
Engines Said From the stage of
theaters and on the first pages of
newspapers particular announce
ment was made of the celebra-
ton to come on the next day. The
rejoicing in San Francisco
reached the extravaganza of a kerr
mess. In the bay the skipping
was bright with bunting, and be-
tween gayly decorated buildings
professions of %jubilant citizens
marched all day. What matters
it that we know now the electric
current suffered a stage fright
and the ring of the sledge on the
last spike could not be made to re.
peat beyond Omaha? Is it not
enough that the chief operator
was equal to the occasion and
drove the heavy blows in dignifed
clicks at the telegraph Office OH
the Missouri river? What is OF
consequence is the way in which
the clicks were received-the
blows repeated at San Francisco
on the great bell of the city hall,
and cannon booming with the last
stroke off Fort Point; and on Cap
, itOl Hill in Omaha a hundred guns
following the explosion of bombs
and the screaming of steam wills.
; ties. Capitalists, prominent citi
=, Zens, volunteer fremen and horse
shOers could still walk happily in
one tireSome procession when the
last Pacific railroad spike was
., driven. Grant took the news il
the white house, Chicago turned
h out a parade four miles long, New
/ York was saluting the Pacific
coast with salvos of artillery an(
Trinity chimes were ringing 'Ol(
Hundred and Trinity voices wer,
chanting TIE Deum when the ear
lest transcontinental line wa:
finished; and in Philadelphia tn,
old bell was ringing in Indepen
dence hall. For American rail
reading surely those were tn,
golden days"
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After The war.--What2

o'The future of the world is to be in
flueuced by the Russo. Japanese war TO
a greater extent than'by any other wal
since the overthrow of Napoleon" is the
view of n. T Bacon, who elaborales
this thesis in a singularly clear and
penetrating leading article in the jan
uary number of The Booklovers Mage
zine, entitled latter the War-What?'
Most people have already taken it for
granted that the result is to be the
practical Inauguration OF "the yellow
peril as a menace % Western civiliz.
alton. This is not Mr.. Bacon's view.
He points out, what most superb 'ial
spectators of the wal overlook, that
while Japan has succeeded, aud likely
to succeed In checkmating Russia, she
kno VS. little or nothing, as yet, of the
service Of civil administration, and
that is the problem that will lace her
when the wal is over aud she attempts
to reorganize China. In addition to
this, Japan will emerge with a severe
handicap in the shape of a heavy debt
and increased internal taxation. "Her
poverty" Mr.. Bacon continues, "wlll
force her to invite foreign capital to
so great extent as to make this devel-
opment largely International, and to
do away with trade exclusiveness 10
large measure both in China and Jap
an " Again, "the diversity Of the
peoples making up the Chinese empire
will prevent Japan's exclusive suzeraip-
ity over it. "For many years" Mr..
Bacon says, "'this huge population has
gone on under self-goverment and
with but slight need to central author,
ity, gradually developing 10 each
separate province the tangle Of locs
traditions which serves as law, anC
which conqueror has strIveG IN VAN II
charge until his followers we're grad.
aally absorbed into the vast, passlvetv
resisting mass" The Chinese Inveler
ate hatred Of innovation would turf
them against an innovating conquerol
such IS Japan, just as af Europ,
would resent the substitution OF Islam
for Christianity.
The third difficulty that will con
front Japan is the rivalry of fore g.
nations. "Already the commercial
suscepubilitIes of other nations hay
been aroused" The merchant elias
of Germany are pro- Russian, and eve
England, Japan's ally, "would hardl
> look with equanimity on Japan
moves towards supremacy in Chine
and France would be sure to objec
. on her own account as we'll as o
Russia's." New European alliance
are in the air. Germany IS alread.
seeking The friendship of Russia /
: order to break upon the Franco Ru,
sian alliance and deal her rival a heav
-
blow. Russia is frances debtor, bI
such a bond is not a sympathetic on,
and might easily be turned into
menace. France is already coqueI
10 ting with the idea of an Anglo-F renc
alliance, while Italy would probabl
join the malilme powers, and pc
haps help 10 preserve an otherwll
unstable international equilibrium
AS to Russia herself, the reactional
d autocracy that has blighted her na'ior
al life is doomed. Out of defeat W
probably spring the noblest fruits
It progress.
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The Real Thing.

"What is a pound party, papa?"
asked Floramay, who was perus-
ing her Sunday school paper.
"a pound party, my child" re
piled her father, SIS a girl who is
learning to play the piano"
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NJ. wHsoa's Letter.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER:

EDITOR INTELLIGENCE:
A batch OF your papers that reached
nae here had much home news Of
interest. New names are appearing,
old citizens leaving for the bourne
whence no traveller returns. "Nothlng
is constant but change" There Is
a touch of fEthos to me in the item
about the young Baptist College glrl
now q wife in Wyoming in whose
rough mountains / spent some early
years-and the other, Mabel johnson,
q beautiful blue-eyed girl whose head l
measured in my chronological measure
ments of the students the light of her
blue eyes dimmedfor ever. And you
have a republican representative in
the legislature, a defendant OF
Powhstan, the aboriginal emperor of
Virginia. His tather's name, my old
friend Branch, is in the book of
descendants of P%ocahontas. Some OF
my kin here, Randolpbs, are direct
descendants and look like Pocahontas
too. But they are democrats. Que
of them IS as pretty a Kentucky girl as
you could find, hut spoken for,
AS to the election there is a COM
Portable feature about telling "What
did It," it is like interpreting the
prophecies in the Bible; each one can
suit himself. But none of the
interpreters has asked even a hundred
voters who stayed at home why they
did so. To me it suggests itself that
other democrats are doing as 1 die
some time ago. II unworthy men are
to be kept IN Office let them be
republicans. There was no way to
get rid of the Missouri supreme court.
which was ''not a thing to thank God
\ ON but by dong as has been done
y Senator Cockrell and Mr.. CoWherC
were "silver men" enough to ge
elected, but when in congress the
we're like that man in the play who
when his wife asked him to 60 and d.
a certain thing sprung up and said &C
fly, my love" and Immediately sa
down. / saw a good deal of congress
In two sessions and Senator Cockrel
was too popular with republicans l.
suit me, and that popularity continues
l have held up Missouri democrats al
over the east as the champion crow
eaters, and no one IN the U. s. is NOR
astonished at the result than
Among other interpretations
interpret it as a vote of a want of con
6dence in the party leaders, who ough
now to do as the European cabinets d
when a vot Q OF confidence fails to pass
The whole lot, from the national an
state committees downward to thecom
mltteeman 10 the smallest politics
division ought 10 resign. There
going 10 be- a new party in this countr
but the democratic party will alway
be here, and continue to be easll
beaten. The new u will be in Ii
North aud Mr.. John Flat William
will lever be its congressional leadeI
Il will leave the democrats the
isticuff senators who will maS
millions of votes against their ow
party. TIE shrewd Yankees manae
them Just as a mstador does q bull
the ring in Spain or Mexico. BryH
democracy IS the real democracy, b
Bryan though honest and patriotic vi
pever understand the money question
I'd 1t is the sine qua 0 Of evel
yform. Had the democratic party
Missouri been honest In its professloI
1t would have put Bland in the senat,
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Taking Boxing Lessons.

Circuit Attorney-elect Arthur N.
Sager, who succeeds Joseph W Folk
Oh January l has engaged a boxing
instructor and will go in for physical
training in order to keep himself in
trim for the arduous labors be assumes
In taking up the Doodle cases. On the
day after he takes Office Sager will
prosecute Charles Kratz, the ex-
councilman who fed to Mexico after
being indicted for bribery. Later in
the month the bribery case against
Snyder comes up.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-12-24

The Jefferson Club Of St. Louis has
voted out Ed. Butler and his son con
gresham Jim Butler.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-12-24

Married, in Kansas City, Dec. 90
Mr.. H. B. stillwell Of Slater and
Miss Cassie Mason Of Higginsvills.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
NEW
TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBERS

List of new subscribers added by
the East Tennessee Telephone
company today:
149-2-Eubanks, Or. Residence 7S9
Broadway.
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Second
sal, white-Potts, j. F., Residence
Lone Oak.
l679-Haynes, NJ. L., Residence 5o6
Ohio.
53oI-suell, X. d., Residence Cairo
road.
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Remember we give free country SER
vice. complete, long distance conneo-
tions, and . list OF over 1000 sub
scribers for the same price our com
petitors charge for less than half the
local service.
CORRECTED DAILY
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
BASEBALL NOTES.

Arrangements have been made to
have the schedule changed 20 as to
have Henderson play in Vincennes
July 4, and GAINESVILLE will play in
Paducah. An effort is being made to
have Henderson play ct Vincennes
the third and fifth of July also.
Eddie Powers, with Cairo last
year, has signed with Clarksville.
Cairo wouldn't pay him the salary he
wanted.
Pitcher Doll was released yesterday
evening in consequence of some iffer-
ences existing and not on account Of a
lack of ability He will either sign
with Paducah' or Vincennes, Is both
want him. 80. The Pa.dook-y Redskins
are not so hespy and IL the locals will
only put mp the same kind Of tesm
work as they did yesterday 1t will be
no great shakes to take all three of
the games at Paduke. Go after them,
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FEB. l2, 1898.
A DELIGHTFUL PLACE TO SPEND
THE SUMNER.

In the highlands and mountains of
Tennessee and Georgia, along the
line of the Nashville. Chattanooga
and st. Louis railway, may be found
many health and pleasure resorts,
such MS Monteagle, Sewanee, Look
out Mountain, Bersheeba Springs,
Bon Aqua Springs, East Brook
Springs, Estill Springs, Nicholson
Springs and many others. The bracs
ing climate. splendid mineral waters
romantic and varied scenery combine
TO make these resorts unusually at
tractive to those in search Of rest and
health.
A beautifully illustrated folder has
been issued by the N, G. and 81. l..
railway and will be sent TO any one
free of charge.
w. l.. DANLEY,
General Passenger Agent, Nashville,
Tenn.
Mention this psper.)
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pefyIna Mosqultoes and n.at.

There is a cottage somewhere on
the slope Of Orange mountains which
is porched on all sides and screened
against insectiferous pests with gal
vanized mesh. So far so good. Com
mon enough and every day. A gutter
extends around the edge OF each porch
beneath the cHrnicing and engaging
with the top on the screening. The
bottom is perforated. In hot weather
this gutter Is flushed with water,
which trickles down the screening.
rendering the house cool and keep
ing out all dust Nothing could be
simpler or more charming. And the
expense Is small.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
BABIES ON FIRE
With Itching, Burning, Scaly
HumOTS Of the Skin
Instantly Relieved by Baths
with CuticuTa Soap
And Gentle Applications OF
Cuticura Ointment.

Instant relief and refreshing sleep for
skin-tortured babies, and rest for tired,
fretted mothers, In warm baths with
Cuticura Soap and gentle anointings
with Cuticura Ointment, the great skin
cure, and purest of emollients. to be
followed in severe cases by mild doses
of Cuticura ResOlvent.
"My niece's little baby boy, two years
old, was so badly afflicted with eczema
that he needed constant watching. IL
was all over his face and he scratched
the sores constantly. Mornings his
clothes would be stained with blood,
and his face and hands would be COW
cred. His family never could take him
out, as his face was always full of large
sores. They had medical treatment,
and tried everything they heard OF.
She commenced using the Cuticura
Remedies last spring and found that at
last she had a wonderful healer. The
sores LEFT his face and he was entirely
cured, and now his face Is as smooth
aud rosy as though no sore had ever
been there 20 mar it."
Mrs. L. J. ROOT,
JERUSALEM, N. Y.
FEB. l2, 1898.
On March Z, 1908, five years later,
Mrs. Root writes:
81 received your note of kind In
quiry and am pleased to inform you OF
the permanent cure Of my little boy.
He Is now q healthy child with pink
and white skin free from all blemlsh..
1t has been a marvellous cure and
brought about In a short time after all
other medical aid failed"
soid throughou, the World Cutieura Rssolvent slc-
On torn q Chocolate Coated P.ls' - PEI va Of ~
ointment Sac soap sc. Depotsi London, u tharter-
house "a Paris Rue de 10 pairi Bostons ~ Columbus
Ave Fot.ef Drug Chemical Corn.. sole Propneiors
aS-send for The Cuucura ekn Book"
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low streak and cannot stand the GAIT.
Cairo Bulletin.
The following eirorless games have
been played this season;
Cairo, 4
Henderson 4
Vincennes B
Hopkinsville 2
Paducah l
Olarksville 1
Total 10
Yesterday Holycross called Crotty
down for failing to cut down a hit
down the third base line. 1t made
Crotty mad. Crotty made every at
tempt to get the ball but it was too
quick for him, the result being two
runs scored. This put the pitcher in
the air and he began to find fault.
Crotty refused to play any longer and
Bittorff substituted. Holycross also
called down Percy Wilder, who played
right field, for failing to get under
Shermsn's two base hit. Holyeross
seemed TO be little out yesterday and
for a while had the Cairo players
fighting themselves.
Dan o. Common, formerly with Padu-
cab and later jackson, Tenn, is here
and will play with Cairo today, having
regularly signed. He will play third
and Crotty will go to Short, Haas
taking to the outfeld.
Brady pitched we'll yesterday but
had the game been errorless, would
have resulted 3 to in favor of Cairo.
Gilligan started the error making yes
terday and when the captain began to
tumble and throw them away, the
team went to pieces, il seemed.
Amateur ball in Psducah seems to be
improving with the example set by
the big league players and the games
are getting better every day.
Sunday the 1. o. Independents
played the Metropolis boys at that city
and the game resulted in tie score,
3 TO 3, the game being stopped in the
tenth inning by rain. Sutherland,
for the Paducah team, struck out
eighteen men.
The Independents will Sunday play
the L. A. L. team and will on July
4th go TO Maytield to play.
sherman's hitting is feature OF
every game.
Barlow has begun hitting again.
Gilligsn has made fewer errors
than any inhelder in the league so
far.
LAM went to pieces twice yester
day and threw the bali away.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
ACUTE RHEUMATISM.

Deep tearing or wrenohiug pains,
ocossioned by getting wet through
worse when at rest, or on first moving
the limbs and in cold or damp weather,
is cured quickly by Billiards. Snow
Liniment. Oscar Oleson, Gibson City,
Illinois, writes, February IS. 1902
"A year ago l WAS troubled with q
pain in my back. 1t soon got so bad
could not bend over. One bottle Of
Billiards. Snow Liniment cured me. -
%, 500 81.
Sold by Dubois, Kolb g. Co., Padu-
cab, Ky.
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THAT TIRED FEELING.

If you are isnguid, depressed and
incapable for work, it indicates that
your liver is out of order. Herbine will
assist nature to throw off headaches,
rheumatism and ailments akin to
nervousness and restore the energies
and vitality of sound and perfect
health. ]. J. Hubbard, Temple,
Texas, writes, March %, 1902: ~
have used Herbine for the past two
years. 1t has done me more good than
all the doctors. When l feel bad and
have that tired feeling, l take dose
of Herbine. 1t is the best medicine
ever made for chills and fever" 90
cents O bottle.
Sold by Dubois, Kolb & Co., Padu-
cab, KY.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
FOURTH OF JULY RATES.

On July end, Bird and 4th, the Illinois
Central Railroad Company will sell
tickets to all points on these lines
South of the Ohio river, and to points
on these lines north of the Ohio river
within two hundred miles of Paducah
at one and one third far efor the round
trip. Tickets sold to points South OF
the Ohio river and to points on the
st. Louis div ision between Psducah
and East st. Louis will DO good re-
turning until July sth, ii okets to other
points on the main line North OF the
Ohio river. will be good returning
until July 9th only.
]. II. DONOVAN, Agent.
G. A. LITTELL, Ticket Agent Union
Depot.
Paducah, KY, June 23, 1904.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28

Bittroff substituted for Crotty in
the last of the eighth inning.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
23 4 8 s 4 50 10-r h g
Pad. 10000 400 0-5 Z
Cairo, OOO02 1850 81 8
Earned runs, Cairo 3. Two base
hits, Sherman 2, Gerard 1. Richards
/, Hass 1. Stolen base Holycross.
Three base hits, Harvey 1. Double
plays, Gerard to Violet. Left on
bases, Paducah, 8; Cairo, 2. Hit by
pitched ball. by Holycross, 1. Struck
out, by Holyoross 2; by Brady, O..
Umpire Setley. limo Of game l hour
and 30 minutes.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28

Cairo yesterday won from Paducah
by score of to s, making two out OF
three won by the Egyptians in the
present series.
The first five innings were good bali
playing but the Others were about as
rank as they ever get to be. Cairo
outolassed Paducah on every point in
the game, making more runs, getting
more hits and scoring fewer errors.
Paducah made as many errors as Cairo
did scores. A small crowd witnessed
the game.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
Wireless News at Sea.

The first extra of a wireless"
newspaper was published on the Cam
pania during her recent trip. She
passed the Lucsnia in midocean and
got a gist OF news from her by wire
less, so that the little paper was a
newsy and interesting affair.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
MISERY PERsoNIFIED.

Hyden. KY, Thousaudsticks: The
most miserable people that we ever
see are those that want to court and
don't know, how. For example, Green
Couch and Bill Campbell Cook.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28
LEADING ATTORNEYS.

Jos. r. Grogsn, Attorney at law,
room 400 Fraternity building. Phone
$50.
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swedish Newspapers.

Sweden has now 7bl newspapers
and periodicals. including ffty-two
dailies. Stockholm has twelve dailies
"a large number for town of 100000
people.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-28

BaGby & Martin, No. 225 South
.aourth street. mp stairs.