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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
Educational Notes.

One OF the unique features of Supt
Carrington's Forthcoming report is a
complete history Of Missouri education.
ally in 1875 with comments from several
men now living, who had much to do
with the schools between 1910 and 1860.
The State Teachers Association de.
clnred In favor Of n truency law, of "A
law liking minimum salary for teachers
and OF IA fixed income for all state edu-
cational institutions. IL commended
summer schools, county teachers asso.
Citations and the effort to have a school
exhibit representative Of every county
and OF all classes Of schools.
The average annual salary paid teach.
ers in the towns and cities of Missouri
is $500; in rural districts, S925. The
average length OF term in towns and
cities is III days; in rural d ~stricts, 1.6
days. The average number OF children
enrolled TO the teacher In towns aud
cities is "a; in rural districts, 40. The
average daily attendance to the teach
er in towns and cities is SO; in rural
districts &c.
There are about 100 high grade pub
lie high schools In Missouri. Each of
these Is the equal Of the best colleges of
the State thirty years ago-equal in
equipment, in teaching corps and in
The curriculum. There are fully 500
others doing good school work. The
rural communities OF the state must dc.
pend for any education above the com.
mon branches on these 300.
The problem of adjusting the public
school to the home life and to natural
environments Of the children Is attract
Ing wide attention. 1t naturally in
cludes manual training and domestic
economy on the one side and nature
study and agriculture on the other.
Euch side has its application to both
elementary and secondary schools. The
committee Of the National Educational
Association has made four divisions OF
It's subject and assigned Supt. Caring.
ton to make special investigation Of ma
ture study and agriculture In the ole.
mentary schools.
The State Teachers Association re-.
Gently held in st. Joseph was, in many
respects, the best ever held. The pro-
grnm WAS full 10 overlooking with good
things. The attendance was large, but
not too large to be we'll accommodated
In the st. Joseph High School building.
President Longan did the proper thing
to devote the entire afternoon to de.
partmsnt meetings. Nine departments
holding three hour sessions In the at.
ternoons afforded everyone an opportu.
nifty 70 enter into the discussions Of
those subjects in which he was most in.
terested. w.. I. DARLINGTON,
State Superintendent.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
Exchange Plckups.

A merchant at Lamonte, In Pettis
county, boasts Of shipping merchandise
TO Scotland.
The farms of the United States covers
s4l. 200, 900 acres and employ nearly TO-.
500, 900 people.
As n creditable showing to Missouri's
school children, statistics show that
nine out Of every ten attend school.
A dog was playing . piano In a circus
in Yorkshire recently, when one Of the
audience called out "Rats" The dog
immediately vacated his seat and went
for" the rodents. The piano kept play.
ing.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
Pains in the

Like toothache, this Ia not q danger.
Gus, but q decidedly unpleasant oil.
ment. Persons who are subject to ut.
tacks OF it will be pleased TO know that
prompt relief may be had by taking .
dose or two Of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Disrrhoea Remedy. This
remedy is equally valuable for children
and when reduced with water and
swsetened IL pleasant 70 take. For
sale by Witten Drug Co.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
Don't Worry.

This is easier said than done, yet il
may be Of some help to consider the
matter. If the cause is something over
which you have no control it Is obvious
that worrying will not help the matter
In the least. On the other hand, il
within your control you have only to
act. When you have a cold and fear
an attack Of pneumonia, buy a bottle
OF Chambcrlain's Cough Remedy and
use it jndiciously and all cause Of wor.
ry as to the out come will quickly dis
appear. There Is no danger of pneu
mOnia when It Is used. For sale by
Witten Drug Co.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
Facts Boiled Down.

Facts Boiled Down.
There are $4,000 Mormons in
the United States.
There are about 1900, 900
Catholics in the United States.
Savings banks in New Jersey
hold unclaimed amounts aggre.
eating 500, 1875.
The new railway station ut
Washington is expected to be the
finest in America.
The Pennsylvania Society of
New York, organized in 1899, has
more than 500 members.
Coffee is a very strong antisep.
tic; there are many diseases the
microbes of which are destroyed
by it.
Prussian railway cars have
only about three.tenths the car.
rying capacity of those used in
the United States.
The postal receipts for the fis.
cal year ended with June were
81, sos, 967, an increase over the
previous year of $l26,632.
Nearly one.half of the mortal.
ity in the United States is from
diseases of the lungs and Is per
cent of it preventable.
In South Africa the white ants
have been found SO destructive
to wooden ties that steel has been
adopted.
A careful examination of trees
that are struck by lightning
shows that over half of them are
poplars. From this fact scien.
fists conclude that the poplar
has some value as a conductor of
lightning. Therefore agricultu.
rists are advised to plant these
trees in the vicinity of their farm
buildings.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15

The use OF electricity in connection
with farm work il being strongly ad-
vocated. The idea thai the light is dele.
terious to vegetation is said to he all
wrong, and the contrary holds good.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15
Versailles POstOfiice.

Mails arrive at and depart from Yer.
sailles IA follows:
Arrive Depart.
by Mo. Pac. Ry. 8:15 q. m, 3:4S D. m,
STAR ROUTES.
barnett $500 1880 a. m. 2 p. m.
BOvler's Mills ~"
Gravois Mills 9 ~"
Proctor 1l:OO 2 ~
Il verview* 1880 LAO
STucsdays, THURSDAYS and Satur.
days All Others daily except Sunday.
Rural delivery daily Sunday except.
ed) via mid and Excelsior.
]. w Mills. p. NJ.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15

Germans smoked 36s tons OF cigarettes
last year, as against 80 ton in 1901.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15

THE DEMOCRAT, and the Kansas City
World daily, for 81. so.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15

T. J.. Chambers. Ed. Vandicator,
Liberty, Texas, writes Dec. 2S. 1908:
with pleasure and unsolicited by you
! bear testimony to the curative power
Of Billiards. Horehound Syrup. l have
used II In my family and can cheerfully
affirm 1t is the most effective and pleas
ATTEST remedy for coughs and colds !
have ever used" CSC, SOC and 81 90. For
Sale by Milton Lewis, Florence, Mo.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-15

by . special election at H~igginsville
II was decided TO spend $4,000 OF i'm.
~provements Of their watsrworks and
electric light plant.
The Newark journal., 1904-06-24


At the close or the nominating
speech of Col. Davis, Mr. George Pugh.
or Pulaski, one of the campaign man
ages of Judge Wood, moved that Gov
Davis be declared the nominee bv ac-
clamation, which motion prevailed
Gov. Davis was then escorted to the
platform and addressed the convention
The names of l.. A Byrne of Miller.
j. Y. Bourland and Robert L. Rogers
were presented for attorney general,
the vote being as follows: Rogers
1903, Bourland Is, Byrne 81; necessary
to nominate 222. On motion the NOM
nation was made unanimous.
Mr.. Rogers addressed the conyen.
ton in a brilliant speech, declaring
that he would go into Office wearing
no mans yoke, but as democrat with
only the idea of performing his duty
as he might see it. Mr. Rogers was
loudly applauded.
Hon. Hamp. Smead arose and stated
that his name would not be presented
for delegate at large Mr. Smead said
that he retired in favor of Senator
James H. Berry in the interest of har-
many and at the suggestion of Gov.
Davis.
Hon. w. H. Martin, of Hot Springs.
was elected as a member of the dem
ocratic national committee, to succeed
Senator James P. Clarke.
Hon. Harry L. Ponder of Walnut
Ridge and Hon. Tillman b. Parks of
Lewisville were nominated by ACCLAIM
alton for presidential electors at large.
The convention ratified the selection
of district national delegates made by
the district caucuses as follows:
First District-Harry Wood of
Woodruff, and L. p Berry of Crftten-
den; alternates, B. B. Bifie and E. B.
Sheek of Clay county.
Second District. B. Baker and T.
NJ. Wood; alternates, F. s. Brown and
w. NJ. Stuckey.
Third District-H A. Dinsmore of
Washington, and Jerry c. South of
Baxter; alternates, Henry T. Buie of
Marion and J. Polk Fancher of Car
roll.
Fourth Dlstrlct-N. II. Arnold of
Miller, and O. L. Miles of Sebastian;
aIternates, ID. h. Saln OF Howard, and
J. NJ. Pitcoek of Crawford.
Fifth District-E A Darr of Pope
and Sam Frauenthal of Faulkner; al
ternates, A. NJ. Shields of Johnson and
II ~
I'm p'o'' u ell
eiAeH DistIle II. l.ansiord OF
JEFFERSON ana W. II. Martin OF Gar
iahd' altefhates' 1. Z. TrImble, Jrs
oil Lonoke and }. l.. Wadley of Gar
lana.
seventh District-R. S. Warnock of
Columbia ana Johh y. Wheeler Of
bfdoiey'
me Following presidential electors
selected by district caueuses were APP
proved
First District-Ed Mathes of Craig.
head.
Second DISTRICT. L. Sharp of
Salem.
Third District-Ben Taylor of New
ton.
Fourth District-T. B. Pryor of Sc
Dastlah'
a'n Diseilet-"' II. Duley or Pu-
ldshi'
olAth Dlstrlct-Creed caldwell OF
j emerson,
seventh Dlserlct-George K. Haynie
Vi NEVADA.
The following nominations were
made for chairman of the democratic
state central committee:
Hon. Carroll Armstrong. by Hon. J.
T. Hicks.
Hon, o, B. Gordon, by Hon. T. B.
Parks.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
POWER TO COME
FROM INTERIOR
United Railroads Enters
Into Big Deal With the
Martin-De Saba Company

After several months negotiations a
contract was signed yesterday between
the California Gas and Electric Cor
poration and the United Railroads,
wherein the former agrees to furnish
the street railway syndicate electric
power to operate its system for period
of twenty years. The contract goes
into effect on January 1, 1905, by which
: time the power company will have e5-
tablished somewhere in San Francisco
a big plant through which electric cur
rent from it's big up-country generators
will be transmitted to the various cleo
trio car lines here. In discussing the
deal yesterday John Martin, vice presi-
dent of the electric power company,
said:
I'm order to take care of any possible
interruption of service over our long
distance transmission line, which. by
the way, is now the longest by nearly
100 miles of any in the world, our COM
pany proposes to install in this city a
complete gas making plant, including
every modern appliance. The gas we
manufacture will be used to operate
gas engines directly connected to cleo
trio generators. The orders for these
engines have been placed already and
the first installation will be three en-
, gines and dynamos of 1000 kilo watt ca
pacity each, making a total installation
of $1,000 horsepower at San Francisco.
1.-THE particular advantage of the use
of gas engines by the electric transmits
sion company is in the very low cost of
producing gas by the crude oil water
eystem, the patents for which we own.
1t is the intention of the company to
enlarge its local gas plant whenever
consumption demands"
Vice President Martin refused to state
Just where his comDanys local plant
will be established, giving as reason
that any statement on the subject
might tend to interfere with the COM
pany's purchase of property.
The company is now furnishing pow
er for the electric street railways in
Alameda, Marin. Nevada, Butte, So
lano San Joaquin, Sacramento and
Santa Clara counties, and the contract
entered into yesterday will add to this
list the counties of San Francisco and
San Mateo. Just what disposition the
United Railroads will make of its big
local electric plant, which was only re-
Gently completed. is a matter it has not
| vet decided. The railroad company
gives as the primary cause of its deal
with the electric power company its in
ability under present arrangements tc
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH
SUPPORTS CHARITY WORK
On Friday and Saturday a Bazaar
Will BE Held In the Par
Iors of the Church.

One of the oldest charitable organ
izations in the city is the Society for
Christian Work of the First Unitarian
Church. 1t has membership of 27O.
The society averages fifteen persons
on its regular list of those who re-
ceive the free rent" privileges. some
OF whom have been assisted for years
one for more than twenty-five
years.
The society gives a yearly contribu-
ton to the Juvenile Court; Is con-
tributor~ to the Associated Charities
and to the District Nurse Fund. Every
year a sale is held and In this way
ously used for worthy purposes. This
year the sale will be held in the par
ish rooms of the First Unitarian
Church, corner of Geary and Frank
lin streets, Friday and Saturday, No
vember IS and 19, from 10 a. m. to
o. m.
Mrs. Hadwen Swain will have
aprons of every variety at the table
which she manages. Mrs. AIpheus
Bull will have charge of the booth
for the sale of fancy articles of al
kinds. Mrs. Louis Lisser will be the
chairman of a table for collars stocks
and bags; Mrs. Bradford Leavett will
preside over the candy table; Mrs
Lloyd Baldwin an art room. and vii
have for sale receipts for coOkingi
the delicatessen table will be under
the management of Mrs. w. B. Cotre
and Mrs. Clough. There will be
plenty of entertainment for the little
folks on Saturday afternoon. Verify
two delightful days are in store-Fri-
day and Saturday.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
TORTURE COMES
BEFORE DEATH
Man Who Tried Suicide
by the Gas Route De-
scribes His Sensations
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

NEWARK, n. j., Nov. 12.-'When
found I was dying O. million thoughts
flashed through ny mind in a second
Thirty thousand little devils, each bear
ing an image Of my wife, danced in ec-
stacy before my eyes. l never imagined
such torment before. And then there
came a sudden desire to live. crayeo
life and sight and promised myself to
lead another and far better life If only
l could breathe the pure air of health
and freedom again. Gradually L began
TO lanse into Inconsistencies. and the
next 1 knew was when ! awakened in
the hospital
This is the statement OF Edward
King, formerly treasurer of the Monu-
mental Theater in Baltimore, who at
tempted suicide by asphyxiation
yesterday in the Palace Hotel here.
King was arrSigned in court to-day on
a charge OF attempted suicide and was
held for trial Kings desire TO end his
life was the result OF a quarrel with
his wife, which ended in their separa-
lion ten days ago. King In telling how
he tried 10 kill himself said:
Il wanted 10 make death doubly GER
tain, so / stuffed the cracks in the door
and window and even plugged the key
hole. Then / turned on the gas and
lay down TO await death.
1T was not long before everything
began 70 grow dark before me. / felt
the gas filing my lungs and quietly
overcoming me. Then the little devils
began TO dance before my eyes. ] tried
to reach out and embrace my wife, but
my every muscle was paralyzed. 1
could not move. To add to my agony
the images seemed to mock me in
scorn.
"All at once I began to fall. 1t
seemed to me as IL ! was dropping
through space All the time Frances
was getting farther and farther away
from me. until she WAS finally lost to
view.
"The next thing knew / suffered In
tense pain in my chest and lungs, and
finally awoke to find myself in the hos
pital."
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
URGES APPROPRIATIONS
FOR COAST IMPROVEMENTS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-GeneraI A.
Mackenzie. chief OF engineers OF the
United States army. in his annual re-
port 10 The Secretary Of War. presents
az exhaustive review Of the work ae-
conpiished by his corps during the rs
cal geer ended June 80 last, and sub
miis estimates Of appropriations re-
QUired FOR the fiscal year beginning
.Juiy 2 next.
General Mackenzie states that the
following amounts can be profitably
expended IN the next fiscal year in the
districts named:
Deep water harbor ar San Pedro Bay,
California, $40 600. Wilmington harbor,
California. 500. 600: San Luis Obispo
harbOr. California. Se5 600; San Pablo
Bay. California, SSl 600; Coquille River,
oregon. $4,000; canal at Cascade, CO.
lum bia River. Oregon. Sl00 600: VILLAIN
cite River above Portland, Or, and
Yamhill and Long Tom rivers. Oregon,
$e0.ceo. colombia and Lower William
ette rivers. below Portland, Or, $780,
coo, mouth OF the Columbia River, S776,-
900; Improvement OF Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, $4,000: road into Mount
Rainier, National Park, 100000
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
ADNERTIsEAIENTs.
AN OBJECT LESSON
In a Restaurant.

A physician puts the query: Have
you never noticed in any large restau-
rant at lunch or dinner time the large
number Of hearty, vigorous old men
at the tables: men whose ages run
from so 20 80 years; many Of them bald
and all perhaps gray, but none Of them
feeble or senile?
Perhaps the spectacle is so common
as 20 have escaped YOUR observation
OF comment. but nevertheless II is an
object lesson which means something.
II YOU win notice what these hearty
old fellows are eating you will OBJ
serve that they are not munching bran
crackers nor gingerly picking their way
through a menu card of new tangled
health foods: OF the contrary. ohey
seem 10 prefer a juicy roast OF beef, a
properly turned loin Of mutton and
even the deadly broiled lobster is not
altogether ignored.
The point Of al this is that a Wig
orous old age depends upon good di-
eestion and plenty Of wholesome food
and not upon dieting and an endeavor
to live upon bran crackers.
There is certain class Of food
cranks who seem 10 believe that meat.
coffee ard many other good things are
rank poisors but these cadaverous.
sickly looking individuals are a walk
ing condemnation Of their own theo-
ries
The natter In a nutshell is that II
the stomach seoretes the natural d.
aesffve juices ia sufficient quantity any
cleeou,e fcod viii be promptly d.
sested. r the stomach does not do
So and certain foods cause distress one
or two ~ quarts Dyspepsia Tablets
after each meal viii remove all diff
Guilty. because they supply just what
every weak stomach lacks. pepsin, hy-
dro chioric acid. diastsse and nux.
stualts Dyspepsia Tablets DO not
sct upon The bowels and in fact are
10. strictly q medicine, as they act
almost entirely upon the food eaten,
digesung Il thoroughly and thus CIV
ing the stomach a much needed rest
and an appetite for the next meal.
OF people who travel nine out Of ten
use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. know
Ing them 10 be perfectly safe TO use at
any tine AID also having found out
By experience that they are a safe
guard against Indigestion in any form,
and eating as they have TO, at all
hours and all kinds Of food. the travel
ing public for years have pinned their
faith 10 Stuart's Tablets.
An druggists sell them at so cents
sor full-aizcd packages and any drug
gst from Maine to California. II his
opinion were asl<ed will say that Stu
alts Dyspepsia Tablets is the most
oarussf and successful remedy for any
-famach trouble.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
ClNNERY SOLD
FOR CREDITORS
Property of Pacific American
Fisheries Company Is Dis
posed of at Auction
ONLY BRINGS $4,000
Sale Of Pacific Packing and
Navigation Company Is
Postponed Until December

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Nov l2-At
The receivers sale this morning the
property Of the Pacific American Fish
cries Company, representing an original
investment OF at least 81, ,0O0, 0Oe, brought
$4,000, bid by W A. Peters, an attor-
ney Of Seattle. for interests which he
refuses 10 disclose. 1t is commonly re-
ported that he made the purchase for
New York creditors. Neither Peters nor
I. B McGovern Of New York, who is
understood 10 stand close to the cred
itors, would discuss the subject.
The Pacific Packing and Navigation
Company, offered at the same time un-
der decree Of the Federal courts at
Washington and Alaska, had no bid
oers at the minimum price of $500, 900.
Accordingly the sale was postponed ufl-
III December 10, at 10 a. m. in this city.
Meanwhile the receivers will apply to
the courts for a modification of the or
der so that they may dispose OF the
properties, including large number of
Alaska salmon canneries. one cannery
seven ships and barks, thirty or forty
tugbOats and several fish trap locations
on Puget Sound and supplies inven-
toried at 100000, separately or in any
manner that viii bring the best re-
turns. The terms Of the order prevent
ed acceptance OF any bid unless the en-
tire property would bring a total of
$500, 600. Several men were ready to buy
some portions OF the holdings. but not
all The consequence was only one bid
Of $1,000 for a small Alaska cannery.
This could not be accepted. No diff
Guilty is anticipated in disposing OF the
holdings al the next sale.
News has been brought to this city
that an effort is being made TO Jump
some OF the best fshtrap locations IN
Puget Sound. owned by the Pacific
American Fisheries Company. W. A.
Peters. who bid in the concern at re-
ceiver's sale this morning. has notified
Receiver Kerr that he will not accept
The property until the menace is re-
moved Mr. Kerr left this afternoon
for the fishing grounds to make inves-
ugaEon and declared that the al
leged offenders viii be taken before
Judge Hanford OF the Federal Cir
cuit Court on charge Of contempt for
n'ole~iing property under the care of
the court
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-13
Honor stcyenson,s Memory.

The fourth annual banquet of the
Stevenson Fellowship in honor of the
birthday of the late Robert Louis
stevenson was held in the California
Hotel last night. Rev. Ernest Z. Ba-
ker acted as toastmaster. Among the
speakers of the evening were Alex
ander NJ. Sutherland, George ST. John
Bremner, Professor Chauncey Wet
more Wells, Charles Keeler, Rev. VIII
liam RAIDER, David Starr Jordan and
Mrs Virgil williams. During the
evening the POSTMASTER read mes
sages of regret from prominent men
of the world. including Secretary OF
State John Hay. Hon. A. j. Balfour,
Prime Minister of Great Britain;
Jeannette l.. Gildes, editor of the
Critic; Will II. Low of New York,
Rev. Lyman abbott, editor of the
outlook; Lord Rosebery and Benja-
min Ide Wheeler.