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World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14
MOUNTAIN GROVE NEWS.
BY Mary.

ny Mary.
School began Monday .,aiter
three weeks vacation.
Mr.. Baum is very sick with
pneumonia fever.
The boys will have to look a
little ont The girls have the call
ltsing 1904.
,@essio Farris Of Names who is
at,eaqins school at Norwood,
passea tsrcrgh town enroute for
that City last week.
Katherine V andiver Of Bado is
visiting friends in this City.
Rosa Fierce was the guest Of
Alice Green Friday night.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14

The people Of the German
Evangelist church, has just tin..
ished all addition to the dwelling
house Of their minister Rev.
Worth.
Miss Lou Owen Bunnell Of Dres.
don happened to an accident
Christmas, week with a paper cap
pistol, IN the hand Of ons Of her
little Ifaphews, The cap bursting
and throwing the fragments into
her face.
1t this escapes the waste basket
1 will come again wishing the
Colony aud correspondents pros,
porous and 4 happy New Year.
| am as ever yours for truth.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14
BRusHY KNOB ITEMS.
.BY 1'opsy"

is by Topsy"
We have been having some
very fine weather for the past
week.
~ understand that George
didn't punctpre his buggy, how
about it girls.
Henry Fox was seen going to-
wards Mr.. fuckers, | wonder
WHAT'S drawing his attention.
Say Ionic did you get. home
from Bills?
i heard that fellow that got the
sack didn't get'any string.
Well Edmond how did you en-
joy the hunt, do you think your
mamma wants you now
4 Well John next time you bet
ter go bare back, don't you think
80. . M
Prayer meeting as aa2rus,sy
Knob every "Wednesday 1T. :.
Earnest Robertson and James
Fry were visitors sof Doug Mel
tons Sunday
Rev. Mckee preached at Bru-
shy Knob Sunday night.
Earl Barthlow and Mr.. Fetr
were visitors Of b. (, X, school
Friday.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14
FLORENCE PIsKups
BY Merhauic
Editor CRsssEr.

ny MtfhnHlc,
Editor CRsssEr
AS | Sep 81 many
correspondents writing for thu
cRE,sET, can't keep from writ
ing some myself, And as this Il
my first, ! will be rs brief as pos-
Islhle. And ii you do not tire nj
this may come again.
News is scarse here lit This time:
The weather has been 50 cold
that the people Of this part oi
Mo. IS afraid to get out very much
Jas. Thlxton and wife was in
town shaping Yesterday. Mr.
'Thlxton IS gong to move to his
falher-in-laws farm near Upton,
,hs spring.
The young people Of Florence
Ind IL grand Ball New Years night
at Fred Rasa's New Hall, they re-
port II good time.
Charley Brunkbors has Just re-
turned from New Mexico where
he has been visiting his Brother
in law, DR.. August RlnGea, for Il
week or so. Charley says he went
tout there to kill Al bear. But did
mos find one. And If he had of
found one, he would hay" thought |
.of his wife ut nome and would not
have tried to shoot. for fear of |
.wounding the bear, aud 1t might
have got him. So 'Charscy is gIad,I
he did Not fiji d one.
Miss frankie Johnson Of Smith
ton is pleasant visitor with Jack
Lewis and wife. Last and this
week.
Mrs Thos, Hockaday was IN
town Wednesday shopping.
William Bremen was in town |
today on business
Fred Rasa went ia Versailles
to day on Legal Business.
We saw Mr.. Rodenbar passing
through town to-day il,quiring
for stock hogs.
Henry Duval our dwarf Oft. Bin. !
high says things had to 60 right
at the ball New Years night. He
was door keeper.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14
THE CRESSET
no MIR rN1ss0URJ
L0cdL LORE.

MRS. Delano's hand is getting
better from the severe cut she re.
ceived, over . weex ago. while
cutting meat Tor dinner.
The Colony mill is about to wind
up the saving ~ the set they are
now at, On Beaver,
John Raglan has been having Il
severe spell OK tooth ache; but Ii
getting better again.
Mr.. Thomas Shelley il looking
fine now, its ~ bov and mother
and child doing we'll.
Mr.. Co1rtncy's wife the daugh-
rer Of mn Voner they hal TIE
doctor with her last Tuesday night
80 We were informed
.Wesare proud Of our many cor.
respondents, and the interest they
l, Il ~. T. A ~. L
take III" CREssET. We wish To
say 10 them TINT at any time they
see my Of their items left out, or
part OF them; do not think we
DID not want TO put them ia, it
wlll be because space will not adj
nit them III, do not let this keep
any one Of our correspondents
from writing them. Neither do
We want them to take any excnp-
tons to them. Now correspond.
ents please read this earthly. For
when spring comes and We are
insured Of warm weather we IN
tend to have correspondents, day
attl,is place. And We trust that
they will all take part and an
interest when the time comes. For
W shall notlfy each one, 50 as
they can inform us just what part
OF ,he program they can fIl.
I'VE had the pleasure OF seeing
tw' 81 Texas County's best school
teaehers at the II O'clock services
at ITO Arbor; the two daughters OF
Billie Fielden near Success Dora
and Lucy. Lncy teaches No, !
school aud Dora teaches the
Donsmore school who Informed us
,that her scaool would be out nj
the end Of eight days more. Dora
has taught successful school and
when she leaves, tho people Of the
district will miss her for her pres
euco isa gem to any neighbor.
hood and we learn that her sister
Lucy is meeting with as grand a
success and will be as fully missed
WHEN her school is out.
Old Uncle Jobny TyrrcIl called
ut this OFFICE on last Wednesday
Uniformed us that he was ont hunt.
ing lost hogs, Uncle J, @. ought
to hunt him q Wash W-o-
NAH.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14
Dnnsmore Notes.
"By Grace and Luiu.'

Ii Ia with the greatest OF pleasure tina,
we accep, the opportunity 81 writing q
few Items tlis morning.
Hope you all are enjoying life.
Miss Dora and Lucy FicldeD, Jim
Gearbar,. Oryie Clark and Charley Tyr
rel'. were all welcome visitors At Mr..
McGowens Sunday. Oh, believe Gear.
hart stayed until Monday.
Flossy.' the reason Sack" and g. NJ.
dident getto come 10 the candy breaking
the invitation was some to late. !
know we would have enjoyed it fine,
Myrtle dident get to 20 either ! heard
well 'Lyrtlc we were both dissapoint-
ed.
Oliver Salesman IS moving On the
farm he purchased from DuGen
Shelley.
Henry Tate and Jno. Williams
visited at McGoweos one day last
week.
Oh. "Flossy' you and A. p. must
sure come up 70 IAH-Ville Sun
day sure we will all be there have
something 10 tell you all.
Miss Lucy Fielden the teacher at
number one School visited her sister
Dora Fielden Teacher Of the Duns.
more School last Sat. night they are
two Of Mo. best teachers.
The Dunsmore School will close
on Wednesday Ian. 20 we will all be
sorrv 10 see Miss Dora leave us
and hone how soon we may have
her visit US or teach our school again
for we don't think any Of tie pupils
could DE better pleased with a teach.
err or friend than we are with her we
hope she will teach our school again
in the near fnthure, and We can now
say we have had one good Christian
teacher
Mr.. VIII Pclrcy teacher OF the
Shelley Ridge Scr,ol was the well
come visitor at Mr.. Mc(,owens Mon
day night From what we have.
heard he is teaching good school.
Misses Annie and Cora Smart
were the welcome guests of Grace
and Lulu MlGowen Monday even
ing.
/ will not write any more this time
so you will have room Tor all that is
written this week, Tor part was left
out last week Take all mistakes for
kindness with best wishes to al! the
correspondents.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14
MERR SCII1C1. ITEMS.
9'By Snowflake And enubesm'

by Snowflake aud en,,besm'
Good morning Ed. will you al
low us space in your valuable
paper?
We are having gloomy weather
at present.
The party given ut the home Of
Mr.. Freemalr's was we'll attended,
guess Eta II, and, Ellen Il. got
home alright didn't you girls.
Hurrahl for Won Oma Willie H..
is not pretty but he is awful good.
Oh say Ella why dident John
come Sunday, guess John knows.
Say Minnie who was it that
come Sunday, was you ashamed OF
his name?
Louis MUIR and jim Alartinfrom
Texas are visiting friends and re.
lativas at present.
O. A. johnson, MUIR school
teacher has got his scholars pretty
well trained, he forgot his bell the
other day; n rap on the window
and soon we We're at our books,
you bet he likes to see Us study.
Oh say ,Flossy' Myrtle looks
awfus pleasant today because
Frank has come back guess.
Charley Edwards was in this
part New Years day, guess Lille
quit crying ana laughed but he
has gpne now boo hoo. Snowflake
is crying to.
Oh say Buffalo Bill what has
BECOME Of 'Chatterhox' has he
niai,ned and left the country
Charley Orten OF Springfield is
wanting to buy the horse power Of
n thrashing machine anyone hav-
ing one please report to Alfred
MUIR.
j. A. MUIR had his mill house
raised today call on him to get
your corn ground.
Rams MUIR is seen going north
every Sun. wonder what the at
traction isl Guess Eta knows.
Well ] guess we had better get
to our lessons, lye bye till next
week.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-14

ALICE ITEMS.
ny itap HEAD AND Wmrg HEAD. Z.

rIsF itnD HEAD AND wnurg HaAn..
We are having some cloudy weather
nj ibis writing.
Mrs, Coble ana Oma ID sad d be som,
better
me party at the home 81 MIR. ana
Mrs Rrense Bailey's Tinrsdnv Mn,
was well attended.
Say Jim hope you and David ana
the rest Of you boys viii be in 4 rood
''amar again another party Gomez On
won't 2on boys.
40 Mary wonlaaa Of liioagh. H
Do'Iie gets npey-ry morning and W.
hreakfesl that's more than ID; % snd III
3 use % do isn't il Mrs Dspue.
Wen Fred The next party you 80 d
No" wn"i lave "a 90 home by your self
'vavr your vioen nj home next time 81
you en- take Laura home
say sark Do you suppose we will gct
!" go'na pSrly "Wednesday npl,, none
we sill.
won'lrr II Flossy will he il, n.x,
week j knew She would we would not
write tnv tins time,
wonder What Elsie viii say whru sl;a
'rHrS ll,a' Fred X. Is going away T
guess she viii cry her eyes out .lyAi,c
head" hopes She win por To tcli him
good b' before he goes.
WtII 'Swee' have you and Sulr. IN
mat g""se yet thu you cooked ymas 10
yon havht we viii come np and hetn
J on cnt IL.
ne music party NJ tho home of Mr..
Hhd Mrs Fred freeman SATURDAY. nivh,
was very wen attended guess ,b,y al
go' all the popcnrn they wanted Ia ont
hope l0n didn't hnve u very hard ,,ms
sweeping 's'c il"r. Did ynu Myr,ley
=
Ut ne ana Ada Bailey attended cburhJ,
a. Hickory Ridge Sunday ,hey recor,rd
a NEE time there Was large crowd on,
dom enessEey enjoyed his seJf yerv
much SUNDAY his yin was no, Their.
/, oh E'ler YOU and Eta missed it ali 6v
before The a"r'y broke MP ,or !
d'dn get lrea'ed IN popcorn ma I
caudy.
Nas JOY ne time get a stick ~
caAdv " v"'' want to bic will, III. ,,;,,-
oY y"i, are iiabc 10 MAKO a ,,,.,s,
and bite them on ,hr M
ipsy Won missed II all by not The. (.
'ne 10 lhe patty the other night w, mn
TO see Your John and that ISM, ri, ~
tell 80" the rest you don't guess 1,
M'lhuf hnss'ns was coming from
Monn'aln Grove with the Mai, ST.,
ana MA horse fell down with him and
h"fl MN pretty bad Well Arthur ho6a
yon viii be AL right By Sunday, We ,re
sorry YOU g"' hurt you had better ho,a
our h"r.e up mex, time.
Well Mary come down and wc ~,
go Gown to Bado and gtt our beau,v
sha'ched and put 1t down In the barn q
Keep tho rats out OF it.
Wilclose hoping 10 hear fran NJ
mex, week I've b,e.. n
TINS escapes the waste basket will com.
again.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
Pathetic Story of . Mother of the
Labrador Coast,

Pathetic Story of . Mother of the
Labrador Coast,
Writing of the people of the Labra-
dor coast, in Harper's Magazine, Nor
man Duncan tells a pathetic story of
poor mother whom he met sitting
with her child outside the Battle Har-
bor hospital:
"'He've always been like that she
said. He's wonderful sick. I've fetch
ed un out here t. get the air. He docs
better in the air, zur,' she added; !;
much, much better
"Hell be getting better said L.
Here in the hos
He'll die,' she interrupted quickly.
II was glad that he was to die. It
would be better for him and for her.
She would forget his deformity; she
would forever have the memory Of
him lying warm upon her breast,
warm and lovely; for, In this, memory
is kind to women,
You have-anotherT
81" No, zur; it's me first
"The child stirred and complained
She lifted him from her lap, rocked
him. hushed him, drew him close,
rocking him all the time.
"'And does he talk 2 asked.
"She looked up In a glow Of pride
and answered me, flushing gloriously,
while she turned her shining eyes once
more upon the gasping babe upon her
breast:
h'He said "mamma," oncer
"And so the Labrador 1iveyere' is
kin with the whole wide world"
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
WHY WE TREMBLE.
The Nerve Actions Superinduced by
Cold, Fear and Anger.
Ticket holders will please
come at once.

The Nerve Actions Superinduced by
Cold, Fear and Anger.
Cold, by stimulating the sensory
nerve endings in the skin, produces a
corresponding irritation in the brain
motor centers and by contracting the
blood vessels in the skin produces a
temporary excess of blood in the brain
This 1nterferes with the steady flow of
nerve force to the muscles, so that the
spasmodic action Of these nerve cur
rents produces the trembling due to
cold.
OF trembling from fear or anger Oar
win gives this explanation: Men dur
ing long generations have endeavored
to escape from their enemies by flight
or violent struggling. These cause
breathlessness and trembling of the
muscles. Whenever fear is felt the
same results tend to appear through
the force of inheritance and association.
Just as furious rage leads persons to
make violent attacks on the object of
their resentment, so in milder cases,
though no such attack may be made
the beginning of violent exertlon =
namely, trembling of the muscles
tends to show itself, But the chief
cause Of trembling from fear or anger
is, according to the same authority,
the interruption or disturbance of the
transmission Of nerve force from the
cerebro spinal system, due to mental
agitation WHY Or how these emotions
affect the cerebro spinal system
through the mind in this way is not
known"
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
BONE FOOD

Soft and crooked bones mean
bad feeding. Call the disease
riekets if you want to. The
growing child must eat the
right food for growth. Bones
must have bone food, blood
must have blood food and so
on through the list.
Scots Emulsion is the right
treatment for soft bones in
children. Littledoses everyday
give the stiffness and shape
that healthy bones should have.
Bow legs become straighter,
loose joints grow stronger and
frmness comes to the soft
heads.
Wrong food caused the
trouble. Rightfood will cure it.
In thousands of cases SCOTS
Emulsion has proven to be the
right food for soft bones in
childhood.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE. Chemists,
Ao9-4I5 Pearl Street. New York.
SOC. and sI.oO; all druggists.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
Women and the Theater.

Avowedly women are both directly
and indirectly the best friends of the
theatrical manager. If he can please
the feminine portion Of his audience
he is tolerably sure Of success, for
when a woman likes play she induces
her men folk to go to It. This being
80, ought not women to be specially
considered in all places of entertain
ment2 But 1t is precisely on the oppo-
site lines that the manager commonly
proceeds. Men are encouraged to push
and squeeze past and disturb and in
convenience ladies between the acts
because smoking rooms are provided
for them In most theaters. Women, on
the other hand, are expostulated with
and denounced T. they wear hats at a
matinee.-London World.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
BAD HABITS.
The Woman Who Didn't Want Them
In Herself or Others.

The Woman Who Didn't Want Them
In Herself or Others.
Mrs. Jennings looked through her
glasses at her sister, Miss Sprawle,
with considerable severity. ''This
neighborhood has got into strange
ways the last few years, or else no
tice 1t more as 1 get further along"
she said, "and lest I should get into
the same way I want you to remind
me now and then. Mary.
IF you find me backbiting like that
hateful, stingy Annabel Powder or
Lucy White, that had better look to
her own saucy, bad hammered girl, and
her boy, that's the poorest scholar in
No. 1, or If you catch me growing
close listed like the minister's wife,
that has never returned the cupful of
granulated sugar she borrowed that
time the delegates came, or long wind
ed like Jane Larkin, who interrupted
me in the very midst Of my telling her
eSout Sally's twins and went on about
her spindling grandson for most If
teen minutes without stopping, want
you should tell me frankly.
"And that's not ALL" said Mrs. Jen-
nings as Miss Sprawle opened her
mouth to speak. 'If you find me get
ting inquisitive like Helen Lane, that's
asked me three times when my birth
day comes and what year I was born
after my having to go to the town
records to find out her age, want you
to mention it freely, and shall do the
same by you.
If folks don't help each other,
what's the good Of being set in fam
lilies? You've got little habit Of in
terrupting, Mary, that's growing on
you, and I'm going to do what I can
to help you break 1t up."-Youth's
Companion.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
GOT AS GOOD AS HE GAVE.
How Phi1anthrOpfst COrcoran Was
Answered by a Woman.


Answered by a Woman.
The late W. W. Corcoran, the million
aire philanthropist of Washington,
who gave to the city the magnificent
art gallery which bears his name, was
very fond of telling how he was once
overmatched by wealthy maiden Ia
dy from whom he desired to purchase
piece Of property.
Mr.. Corcoran was the owner of the
Arlington hotel, at the corner Of Yer
mont avenue and II street. Adjoining
the hotel property on the II street side
was handsome brownstone mansion,
owned by the maiden lady. The lot
upon which the house was built ex-
tended back to street, a distance Of
four hundred feet, and abutted, on the
rear Of the hotel property.
Mr.. Corcoran found it necessary to
enlarge the hotel property and with
this end in view desired to purchase
the rear end of the lot owned by the
maiden lady. AS she was very
wealthy, he knew that a large price
would not be any special inducement
and for time was at loss to know
exactly how to approach her. He final
ly concluded to go straight to the point,
and therefore addressed her the fol-
lowing note:
Dear Miss Chow much will you take
for your back yard? We wish to enlarge
the Arlington hotel. Yours sincerely,
W. w. CORCORAN.
Promptly came the reply:
Dear Mr.. Corcoran-How much will you
take for the Arlington hotel? We wish to
enlarge our back yard. Yours cordially.
A. c.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
Newton's Accuracy.

Newton's law Of gravitation, which
states that two bodies attract each 9TH
er with force inversely proportional
to the square Of the distance between
them, was made the subject of an ex-
haustive investigation by Professor
Brown Of Haverford college. His cal
culations show Newton's laws to repre-
sent the motion Of our moon to within
the one-millionth part Of 1 per cent,
and he states that no other physical
law has ever been expressed with any
thing like the precision of the simple
statement of this one.-London Globe.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20

cratic manager to release her from her
contract and sent all three to California
for six months at his expense. For a
veteran prospectOr, who broke down
from hardship and exposure, he bought
home, and then fitted out the old fell
lows two sons for prospecting trip to
the Klondike.
During the summer of 1898 he went
California who had been his friends in
the days of want, aud be let none of
the party take cent along. A mother
in Dunnville who named her baby for
him found a sack of 100 $40 gold pieces
on the door step one day. He once
gave every woman in dance hall at
Bakersfield $500 to go home and lead
better life, but the local preacher who
spoke of the act in church on the follow
ing Sunday he never forgave. Two
Christmases ago he sent anonymously
$50 in money to dozen or two veter-
ans of tho Soldiers Home at Santa
Monica.
When the smallpox broke out in the
gold camps in Amador county two win
ters ago and two men finally volun-
teered to nurse the sick in the pest
house, he bought each of them cot
tage home, and he had the houses fur
nished completely. ready for the men
and their families to move into when
the epidemic was over. Last Novem-
ber he secretly sent 10 tons OF hams and
many bushels of corn to friendly and
neglected tribe of Indians, the Pimas,
whom he heard were starving because
of drought on their reservation in
southern Arizona.
1t now turns out that the manager
of the cOusumptives' hospital at Phoe-
nix, Arz., has been receiving periodical
gifts of ST., 500 and So. 600 from James
Dunn because an old mining chum of
Dunn's was taken in there and cared
for when there was no possible chance
of pecuniary reward for the service.
HAD NO USE FOR FRILLS.
Meanwhile Dunn lived like prince
He eschewed fashionable clothing and
such frills as a valet and lackeys to do
his bidding, but he spent thousands of
dollars in high living. He delighted in
having diamonds of the clearest hue
and as big as filberts in the front of
cheap calico shirt. With his blazing
diamond studs and cuff buttons, worth
from $1,000 to 1000. his corduroy
clothes, red and white calico shirts,
great russell leather buots, with trou-
sers tucked in them, and with man.
moth sOmbrero on his head, Dunn was
a conspicuous figure in San Francisco
and Los Angeles. He gave one of his
diamonds to waiter In q st. Louis
hotel once because the waiter had
pleased him by some simple service.
When Dunn travelled he went in STYLE
He frequently hired whole Pullman
car for himself and some mining camp
friends on trip across tho continent.
He usually gave some caterer carte
blanche orders to stock the car with all
the best eatables and drinkables that
money could buy.
A few months ago Dunn, with sew
eral companions, went TO Europe and a
short time ago word was received of his
death in Paris hospital. He made
will the day before his death, leaving
his mining stock and real estate to two
brothers, who were his friends and
helpers IL years ago, when James
Dunn S capital consisted of a shovel,
pickax and rude board shanty in
Calaveras county camp.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
The First Use of Napkins.

A French writer who evidently was
conservative and did not welcome the
napkin kindly records with scorn:
1.-THE napkin is placed under the
chin and fastened in the back, as II
one were going to be shaved. A person
told me that he wore his that way
that he might not soil his beautiful
frills.'
It was q difficult matter to tie the
two corners in the back, and it is said
that thence originated our expression
for straitened circumstances, hard to
make both ends meet" This custom
led to the habit Of the table walters of
carrying napkin on the left arm.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
what nCharmn Really Means.

The word charm" is from the Latin
Carmen" Originally 1t meant incan-
tation. TO charm person is to be-
witch him. In Julius Cesar" act ill.,,
scene /, II charm you," seems to mean
II adjure you" When we speak now
of charming woman we do not i'm
ply that she sings an incantation to
us, but there is pretty figure of
speech in our use of the word. We
mean that she has the same command
over US as If the incarnation were sung
and we were bewitched.
Amador ledger., 1904-05-20
Barbarou. Treatment of Tho women

bHHDHrOuB TreHtmeMN OF IhO WOmeh'
The Ibos have barbarous custom of
destroying twins. A woman who gives
birth to twins is regarded as some
thing accursed, and the children are
bush to perish, while she is proclaim
ed an outcast and driven from the vii
lage. To hold up two fingers to an
Ibo woman is to offer her the greatest
insult possible. They are very super
stitious. They worship idols of wood,
mud and iron, which are regarded as
protectors to be propitiated at various
periods, and slavery exists among all
the tribes.