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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-10
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT GOATS

while he uses the common goat to fur
nish milk and meat
The SIS, 600 worth of goatsl6ins that
are imported by Uncle Sam each year
gives work to many strange races, and
draws on goat herds from Uruguay and
Australasia to the White Sea in Russia
and Labrador IN far northern Canada.
On the oceanic peaks of the Azores, in
the beautiful Madeira Islands. where
the days are all as dreams. afar in the
Wild country around the Black Sea, high
among the clouds OF the Swiss Alps, the
<are feeding today to furnish skins
the shoes and gloves and other
Wearing material of the boys and girls
of the United States.
The soft. velvety skin that forms your
gloves today may have passed through
adventures before 1t reached you that
would make story in the most thrilling
of story books seem tame. The goat that
bore 1t may have scampered over the
barren plains of Russia with wolves nj
her heels. A Servian mountaineer may
have driven her over the black rnoun-
tain denies Of his native land to save
her from the Turks An Arab may have
driven her through the pastures OF the
Holy Land
Even the Himalayas. distant though
they be from civilization, fed and shell
tered goats TO furnish American clothing.
The fierce men of Tripoli escorted long
caravans across the burning African
lands to bring the goatslSIns safe to
port that they might be shipped in New
York and Boston on some rusty battered
tramp steamer that has poked her ugly
and prosaic nose into all the lands of
romance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-10

attention to them long before
Uncle Sam did. but they did not spread
quite the same facts about them. Ac-
cording to them the goat is really only
a humorous object. living mostly on ash
hesps and eating loose property, such as
shirts hung out to dry.
But Uncle Sam finds that his goats
are extremely valuable possessions of
the United States. His census men col
lected the figures from all the states6
and found to their amazement tn
there, are almost two millions of goa
in this country.
There are more than ISL, 900 on farms
only. More than 100000 of them are the
beautiful Angora goats. but the rest,
which are just the plain. ordinary, COM
mon goats. are not to be despised. The
value OF all the goats on the farms is
estimated at being a little more thar
three and a quarter millions OF dollars.
Yet with all these goats in the country
the United States still imports all Of it's
goatskins from other lands. This is
not due TO the fact that the business
isn't worth having. for last year the
imports OF goatskins amounted to s25,-
100000. but the fact appears to be that
the goat herders and the goatskin max
ers of other countries demand so little
money and live 80 poorly that there is
nothing I'm 1t for the American farmer,
and he Drefers IN raise HE ooata for
their hair. as in the case of Angoras,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-10
HINESE medical literature is
copious and its photography
has been drawn up with the
1901 s-.r.,r...l.,.,a ere. hui the

7 HENEVER military men get
together in a party in which
there happen to be British
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

Blind prejddice and selfish dc.
sire Of certain cliqucs and ring
politicians to manipulate affairs
may defeat Joseph W. Folk IN
the nomination for Governor be.
fore the Democratic State Con.
ycntiou this year, but if it does
the strongest man will go down
and the party viii 20 with bin
That is the feeling in every dis
trict, and politicians are begin
ming to realize it.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

a monument TO the DOckcry
family is being erected on the
family lot in the cemetery at Chill.
icOthe. 1t bears the names Of the
late Mrs. Dockcry and Of the sew
cn Dochcry children. The mon
umcnt is - feet high and is said
10 resemble closely that Of the
late General John $. Marmaduke
at Sweet Springs.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

leased on the margin of The record.
Account Of j.. w. Kirk allowed in
sum of $a %.
Account Of r. G. Eowcn for wood fur
nished allowed in aum Of 50.
Resignation Of g.. II Bluhm IL. justice
of the peace Of Richland township, re.
cciycd and accepted.
Account Of Knoop & Long for mer-
chandisc furnished court house allowed
in sum of u -.
Warrant ordered issued To George j..
Clark for purpose of securing mineral
from this county for the Worlds Fair.
Warrant ordered issued to Mrs. An
ME Il. Newbcrry for S. for benefit Of
family.
Account Of Knoop 4 Long for sup
plies furnished court house allowed IN
sum Of SAFE
Account Of J. +. l.cale for contingent
expenses OF Office allowed in sum Of
SOS
Warrant in sum of s. Issued for ben
eft Of Chas. Williamson.
Warrant in sum OF S35 issued George
ThrustOn for services rs ~janitor of
court house.
Ordered that the order vncating old
road ia The John M~cClanahan change
of rOad be annu!led
Warrant ordered issued to Henry
Harrison FOR support Of Ann Martin in
SUN 81 si0.
Account Of Hubbard & ~Knvanauph
for present owner lis, allowed for 20 25
Abstract OF fees collected by j. Il.
I!calc, county clerk, for quarter ending
December 3lth, 1909, received and APP
proved.
Abstract Of fees collected by w. &,
Thomas, circuit clerk, for quarter end
ing September Both, 1903, received and
approved.
Abstract Of fees collected by j. 4.
Icale, county clerk, received aud ap
proved for quarter ending September
10th, 1903.
Ordered that warrant he issued Jas
HUFF for o. for benefit OF Rosa liickan
Warrant ordered issued for aI25 fOl
prosecuting attorneys salary for quar-
. ter ending December Sist, 1903.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

The terrible iroqunis theatre
catastrophe in Chicago in which
nearly 600 people were roasted
alive has no equal on record, and
the details Of the sad affair are
horrible TO read and cause the
stOutest heart to turn sick. Fire
proof theatre in Chicago are a
farce, and the men who owned
and operated Troquois should
be held accountable for that aw.
full catastrophe.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

The meeting OF the Folk forces
in st. Louis last Saturday has,
without doubt, demonstrated TO
the voters Of the state that Mr..
Folk is the strongest nan now
before our people rs the Demo
cratic nominee for governor. His
speech before an audience of 1000
at the colosseum Saturday night
was masterpiece and fully de
tined the famous prosecutors po.
sition, both as candidate and as
To his principles as "A consistent
Democrat. II is useless TO make
arguments to mems reason, il
Mr., Folks ST. Louis speech don't
make him friends throughout the
State.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

The briefs in the case of vii
liam Zei2ler, wanted in Missouri
for alleged bribery have been
submitted TO Governor Odrll in
New York, and the lawyers for
Ieiglcr think their client has been
very much iusultcd AT the refer.
ences in the briefs to Zeigler as
a bOOdlcr.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

With all the strikes, car short
ages and other irnpediments, the
coal output Of Missouri in 1903
va not 50 small. State Mine
INSPECTOR Shows estimates that
the total will be 4,JOU,OOO tons.
in 1902 it was 100000 tons.
Macon is the banner coal county
this year, her output being 1880.
900 tons.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

If those gentlemen who claim
that I'd Butler is u much abuS'
ed man would conjure up some
scheme TO get him TO run against
Circuit Attorney Folk for COVER
nor, they would probably be con.
vinccd before the vote was count
ed tina, "bOOdle is an issue IN Mis-
souri,"
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08
Manager Wanted.

Trustworthy lady Or gentleman IL
manage business Ia this county and ad-'
joining territory for we'll and favor
ably known House Of solid financial
standing. SEQ straight cash salary and
expenses, paid each Monday by check
direct from headquarters. Expense
money advanced; position permanent.
Address Manager, $40 Monon Bldg,
Chicago. III.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08
Excerpts from Folks ~. Louis
speech.

speech.
The great demonstration Of the
Folk forces in st. Louis last Sat
urday proved cOnclusively that
the Democrats throughout the
| state are in earnest i'm their de.
mands for the St. Louis prose
cntor TO head the ticket this
year on the Dti.bOodle issue. In
his speech Saturday night Mr..
Folk made a special appeal to the
people in numerous epigrams, Il
number Of which are reproduced
below:
"The use of the police force in
favor of one side or the other in
apOlitical controversy il un-Dem-
ocratic and un-American."
We need in our cities more
home rule. Honest elections are
the corner stone Of free govern
ment."
"When the people are deprived
Of the right to justly express
their views at the ballot box, they
are stripped of the dearest right
Of citizenship"
"lhc Democratic party owes
it 10 the people Of Missouri to
give the state good election laws
and TO enforce them fairly and
itnpartialiy."
''rhc property Of corporations
should be taxed at the same rate
as private individuals, and in do.
ing this the value OF franchises
should be considered"
81 have appealed the case Of
the State Of Missouri against the
givcrs and takers OF brides to the
people the highest tribunal Of
The commonwealth. The case
must be decided by the people,
one way or the other. The issue
j. made and cannot be honorab!y
evadcd or escaped"
'It ~ not strange that there
! should be some who take the
position that the stamping out of
corruption ought not TO be an is
sue nov"
"In the state general assembly
Legislation has been honey comb.
ed with corruption for years. In.
stead Of public Office bcinga pub
lie trust, to many it vas private
snap"
Those who believe in free gov
crnmcnt are looking to Missouri
to see it indicated by a righteous
citizenship"
"Iherc is no room in the Dem
ocratic party for the boodler. No
party has a monopoly Of the Vir-
tuouS. neither are the vicious con
fined to one party"
81 would take the yOvernOrship
if il comes in such way as 70
leave me frce 10 do ny duty to my
party and state. II it were nee.
cssary TO compromise with unde.
sirable influence IN order TO gel
il, | would not have it,"
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

Miss Mary Y. Houston, n teach
or IN the high school at Mexico,
has resigned 10 become associate
editor Of the Salisbury Press,
Spectator.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

The Kansas City World last
Friday contained an editorial
headed eff Christ were to come
Wen. if he were To come to Kan.
,as City a large part Of the pop.
ulatiOn would take to the tall
praSS.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

Rats are becoming 50 numer.
Gus in Northamptonshire, Eng.
land, that men who will extermi-
nate them are being advertised
for.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

Harry Iiawcs, who is 70 an.
nounce his candidacy for COVER
mon at St. Louis on the 10th in
slant, proposes to ride into the
yubernatorial chair on his "hand.
some" Judging from the beauties
he is distributing over the state.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

Statistics show that in fifteen
years the average height Of Brit.
ish men has risen an inch. The
present average height for Il man
Of thirty is five feet eight and a
half inches.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08
COUNTY COURT.

Ordered hat "a LOAF Of $500 be- made
J.. NJ. Coopar.
Ordered that n warrant for s. be Is
sued " Mollie Bass for self and family.
Order by the court that the southeast
quarter Of the northeast quarter Of sec
ti'p 20, township ~, range II he re.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08
1904 will indeed be busy year.

A number OF our exchanges
come to us this week with an
uouncemcnts Of candidates for
county Offices. The subject has
not vet been preached in Morgan
county.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-08

sells round trip tickets TO points III .s
own line at IA reduction of 10 per cent
for the round trip, and gives a 3o.day
return limit.
The Missouri Pacific Railway sells
tickets to all leading points from its
Versailles office and checks baggage
through. Choice of lines given In all
cases.
Il. n. SiMOSs, Agent
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04
WHEN ELSIE WAS FOUND
BY EPES w. SARGENT.

II beg your pardon" said a tiny
voice, but I'm lost"
Thurston sprang to his feet with an
exclamation. BLESS my hearth he
cried, looking down with surprise at
the dainty little mite of humanity be-
fore him. 1--WE will have to stop
that"
IF you please" she said, primly,
II don't want it stopped! I got lost
on purpose. I don't want to be found
too quick"
But what will you mother say?'
he demanded. when speech was again
permitted him.
oh" she said comfortably, she'll
probably say, There's that Elsie run
ming away again."
80 your names Elsie" he said,
catching at the hint. What's your
last nance"
She eyed him shrewdly. IT des did
tell you l didn't want to be found too
quick" she said. IF 1 tell youIl
know"
There was no denying this logic.
Harvey looked hopelessly at his I'M
invited guest. She could not be more
than 5 or 6, and, judging from her
dainty garments she was of a good
family, much too good to be residents
of the beach colony. And yet
Thurston had selected his bungalow
precisely because OF its freedom from
the proximity Of the fashionable
hotels further north.
More than this, it was the fag end
of the season, and most of the big
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04
By OSBORN SPENCER.

lively free from them: 1t is at county
headquarters, district committee rooms
and the like that they are a promi-
nent factor. Perhaps the larger pro-
portion of all the campaign singers
belong to campaign quartettes or glee
clubs The organization of such clubs
sometimes begins very early in the
campaign; the present writer knows
OF half a dozen ''aggregations of vocal
talent" which began practicng to-
gether this year even before the can
didates were nominated. for the ex-
press purpose of being ready to sing
acceptable campaign songs as soon
as the campaign should open.
Naturally such clubs do not sing for
the love of music alone, nor do the To-
cal political managers expect them to,
and considerable appropriations are
set aside once every four years for
their payment. Nor yet do the cam
paign singers vocalize altogether for
the money there is in it, Performers
of experience report that more fun
and general excitement can be got
out of presidential campaign by a
political singer than can be got out
of any other known form of earning
a livelihood. There are only two Sc
rious drawbacks, one being the short
ness of the campaign and the other the
wearing nature of the work.
A "McKinIey" SOlOist.
Il sang as a soloist in the first Nc
Kinley campaign" said a now steady
going citizen to the writer the other
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04

hostelries had closed. He looked
hopelessly along the beach. No one
he knew was down on the sands Al
ready the nights had begun to be
more than chilly, and only a desire to
finish his book had led him to re-
main.
Il don't see what we can do about
1t, Elsie" he said, puzzled. I'm about
the only one left here, and I'm err
concluded lamely.
said reassuringly. I'm used to it,
cycling the somewhat rusty typewriter
with half-filled sheet in the carriage.
my mamma does those things, too. &"
Thurston gasped. Stenography
must be a paying business If a type
writer's daughter could afford to dress
like Elsie. He looked at her in won
der until she recalled him.
You can give me piece OF bread
and sugar." she suggested, land I'll
go on the beach for awhile. was in
a house like this once. and they had
very nice brown sugar: it's the incest
on bread, you know"
Thurston rummaged I'm the tiny
pantry, upset by bachelor houSekeep-
ing, until ne found some brown sugar
left over from a fudge party he had
given when his sister visited him.
Supplied with two slices. plentifully
spread Elsie departed for the beach
and Thurston went back to his work,
pausing every little while to make
certain that the golden head was still
in sight. There was something most
comforting in the thought of this lit
tie child playing about the yard. 1t
was almost like the home he had
fancied.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04

you were" that brought Thurston,
penitent, to his feet. 1T wasn't that,
DEAR" he said, as he swung her to his
knee. I'm sure I'd very very much
like to marry your mamma"
Il don't quite know" she said mus
ingly. you would let me live with
you. wouldn't your"
Certainly" he said tenderly: why
not?"
"You see." she explained, there was
a man. long time ago, wanted to
marry my mamma, but he wouldn't
because 1 was a baby. and he didn't
like children. he said. He wrote
things like you and mamma, and he
said I'd have to go to my grand
mamma, because he couldn't write
with me around"
rs your mamma Mrs. Thorndyke ?"
he asked in a curiously tense voice.
She gave a little cry of disappoint-
ment. Now you've gone and spoiled
1t ALL" she declared. How did you
known?
For a moment Thurston was silent.
He could not tell this little child that
for four years he had lived a loveless
life because he had asked the woman
he loved to sacrifice her little daughter
to his career. He had heard vaguely
that she, too, had found success as a
writer, but he had never met her. For
answer he caught the child up.
Come" he said. as he locked the
bungalow door. 81, too. am lost; help
me to find myself"
And through the afternoon sun the
two trudged across the sand dunes
with common destination, one re-
GREETING that she had been found, the
man fearful that he had found himself
too late.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04
The Season of Campaign Camp Followers
1hees Legion OF Them and the Greatest Nuisance Them All the Man
Who bankers TO Be Interviewed for Publication

Sometimes the most amusing, some
times the most dangerous, and always
the greatest nuisance of all the cam
paign camp followers is the man who
wishes to be interviewed for publica-
ton.
He is a person of widely varying in
dividuality. Sometimes he is big, ag-
gressive and loud voiced; sometimes
he is slender, secretive and insinuating.
Sometimes he comes from one of the
big cities. sometimes from Podunk;
sometimes from the effete East, and
sometimes from the bounding West,
and sometimes from the sunny South.
At headquarters he always seeks out
the man in charge of the press bureau.
and woe betide the latter then. unless
he be a man of wide experience and
the coolest and hardest of marble
hearts.
The most embarrassing lesson ever
taught to headquarters press bureau
man was a noteworthy feature of the
beginning of a recent Republican cam
paign.
The Press Bureau Man.
The press bureau man was impul-
sive, credulous and inclined to accept,
without sitting, all the optimistic
things he heard. At that stage of his
development no story could be too rosy
for him to swallow whole, no favora-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04

PRODUCTION any day before election
and the has beens" and turn coats
who insist upon seeing him have to
wait many long and weary hours be-
fore being able to get by the door
keeper. Over and over again they will
suffer repulse only to return to the as
sault later in the day. the next day
or the next week. have heard of one
old chap who haunted the national
headquarters one year for nearly two
weeks in an effort to see the chair
man, doing the hours away a part of
each day in one of the reception-room
chairs while awaiting audience. Final
~ on the thirteenth day he was let in.
The Spy Scheme.
His scheme was to play the spy.
He had been a lifelong member of
the opposition party, he said, and had
the entree of the opposition headquar-
tiers. Often. he declared he heard
scraps of conversations which showed
what were the plans of the opposition
and how they were working out For
a consideration he would make notes
of all he heard and report once a day.
The chairman was a new man to
his job that year, but he had already
had his eye teeth cut. He pretended
to acquiesce, and then had the old
man investigated. Next day it was
learned that he had made similar ar
rangement with the opposition COM
mittee chairman, and that his plan
was to loaf about both headquarters,
play both ends against the middle"
and draw money from both political
camps. OF course he would have found
1t difficult to carry any Information
of much value to either camp, but the
very natural order. in the circum-
stances, that no idlers were thence
forth to be allowed to occupy the
chairs in either headquarters recep-
ton rooms was promptly issued by
both chairmen.
1t is generally supposed that both
parties have a good deal of spy work
done during every presidential cam
paign, and undoubtedly both parties
try to carry out the idea, but in the
nature of things little is really accom-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04

day, land I had rafting good time
from start to finish, besides earning
pretty good money for more than
two months. But / was worn to a
FRAGILE by election day, and nothing
would tempt me to be a campaign
song singer again.
II haven't the least idea what the
various committees pay quartette
singers, but l got S. "a hail. while
some singers got a good deal more.
! rarely sang in less than two halls
any given night, and sometimes 1
sang in as many as four. Oftenest
of all, it would be three halls.
would sing before the speaking at one
meeting-two or three songs, perhaps.
Then, when the speaker would begin
would step into a carriage which
the committee had waiting for me
and drive half way across the city to
another hall.
There l would arrive just as the
first or second speaker was drawing
his remarks to close. I would go
to the platform, and, when the APP
The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04
An Observatory That
Observes Without
A Man in Ii

Any one who has been drawn up
in an elevator to the top Of tower
ing building in lower Broadway to the
New York office Of the Weather Blu
reau is inclined TO think that the OBJ
servers there are pretty we'll up in
the world" and there are several sta
tons OF the bureau in the United States.
like the ones on top OF Pixies Peak
and Mount Washington, which are
noted for their elevation.
But there is one American meteor
illogical station of which people seldom
hear. which beats all others in the
world for hight. Though IL is an Amer
lean institution, II is not in the United
States. and though II is In constant
operation night and day there is no
observer there. the place being so
high up that no living being can stay
there.
II Is a mile higher up than the IA
nous observatory Of Pixies Peak, and
three Mount Washingtons. piled one
on top Of the other, would lack near
1000 feet Of reaching the base Of the
This weather observatory Is oper-
ated by Harvard University. and IN
built near the top Of the volcano W
MIST. which rises 20.22O feet above
the sea back OF the town Of Arcquipa
hi Peru n ~ perched on the edge
~ o huge crater, from which ~ in.
ferVals great clouds 0f HulphurouH
vapOr roll about the station or shoot
fOr a thousand feet into the air.
All sorts of delicate scientific in-