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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
Local Notes.

Fresh bread all the time at Cotter's
New prunes, dried peaches and new
oat meal at Hilton's.
G.. E. Bruins offers for sale his fine
Duroc Jersey herd soar.
High Patent hard wheat Perfection
-four $1.20 per sack at Hilton's.
Mrs. G. c. Haight has gone on a
visit to relatives at her old home at
Newport, Ohio.
Mrs. Ira Carmichael and baby ar,
rived from Chicago Wednesday on a
visit to relatives and friends, guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. d. Carmichael.
DIR. Fawcette finds that it is i'm
possible to finish his work at the time
advertised. so will be compelled to ex-
tend his time (cut rates. to Saturday,
October 81.
Mrs. S. M. Brown and son Jerome,
while in Chicago, called on Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Carmichael and spent two
very pleasant days with them. Mr..
Carmichael has we'll equipped con-
fectionary store and is doing fine
business.
Just because the sun is shining SO
brightly today is no sign it will be
warm weather week hence. Now is
the time to buy your tennis fannels,
cotton lannels, and feeced lined wrap
per goods and have them ready for
the cold winds that are sure to come.
Geo. G. Smith & Co.
Don't think because DIR. Fawcette
has extended his time to October 81
that you can come any time and have
your work done. He has appoint
ments seven days ahead; every hour
taken. So you had better mske ap-1
pointments at once and get in line
Remember the time. The Doctor win
close October 81, no matter how much
work is in sight. Keep in mind the
cut rates.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
Public Sale.

will sell at auction at the Fore
man farm four miles south of Laclede,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1905,
the following described property to-wit;
175 breeding ewes and 125 lambs
4 work mare ~ years old; ] gelding
9 years old;2 geldings 2 gears old; |
yearling filley; | yearling gelding; 2
mule colts; pair twin colts; l mare
colt; 12 head 2-year-old steers and l
one yearling steer; 5 brood sows; S5
shoats; some farm implements. Sale
to begin at 10 a. m. Lunch on the
ground.
Terms:-All sums of SO and under
cash; on sums over $40 a credit of
nine months will be given without In
terest if paid when due; if not paid
when due eight per cent from date.
Purchaser to give note with approved
security before property is removed.
Five per cent off for cash.on sums over
SO. E. A. 0LIs.
Cor. ID. G. SHIFLKrT. Auctioneef.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
Some Evening RsvsrIss.

One should not repudiate himself.
There is no surer method of discom-
fort and no shorter road to failure.
To speak in natural tones and to act
without affection; to dress in such
way as not to invite comment, TO act
without being hampered by artificial
rules; and to live undaunted by con-
ventionalism is not to live in vain. It
is to escape much that spoils life.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
From Over the County.

i The old board sidewalks at Bucklin
are rapidly being replaced with gran
itoid.
| The Commercial house at Linneus
has changed hands, j. III. Collins, Of
Wheeling, being the new landlord.
Work of putting in the new iron
bridge across Locust creek west Of
Browning was commenced this week.
The Hale fair that was to have
been held last week was postponed
to October 8 and 4, next Thursday
and Friday.
The October term of circuit court
begins at Brookfeld next Monday.
There are SO cases on the docket and
covers seven days.
Browning has enlisted the services
of the prosecuting attorney to capture
or kill several "blind tigers" that are
said to infest that town.
Roscoe Mullins, son If Major A. w.
Mullins, of Linneus, is now associated
with his brother-in-law, W. K. Amick,
in the practice of law at St. Joseph.
The new school house in the Plum
Grove district is nearing completion.
The plastering was done this week
and the building will soon be ready
for the opening of school.
The Jenkins factory at Browning
has just completed and will put on
the market an automatic swinging
stacker. 1t is said to be one Of the
most complete stackers yet built.
An extra freight from the north
was badly wrecked last Sunday after
noon five miles north Of Laclede. A
box car loaded with coal broke down
and wrecked nine other cars, all leav-
ing the track and being badly demol-
ished. The track was not cleared till
Monday afternoon, the passenger
north being delayed about an hour.
Judge Fetty, well known citizen
of Linneus, was badly hurt in a run
away last Sunday morning, near his
farm west of Linneus. He was driv-
ing along the road when a team from
behind ran into his buggy knocking
him out, breaking several ribs and
causing slight fracture of the skull.
Although badly hurt it is thought he
will recover.
Fletch Franklin, the noted Sulli-
van county outlaw who was tried and
convicted in this city in December,
1902, for stealing horses from J. w.
Brady OF Forker, sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary and recently |
released upon good behavior but who
was Immediately re-arrested, was tried
in the circuit court in Chillicothe this
week for stealing horses from Sub.
Thorne, formerly of Linn county, now
of Livingston county, and was, yester-
day, convicted and sentenced to three
more years in the penitentiary. Bull
letin.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
COMPLETE COUNTY SERVICE.
Free Mail Delivery to be Extended In Linn
County December I.

Complete rural free delivery service
has been ordered established in Linn
county to be effective from December
1, next. The total number of routes
in the county will be 80, as follows:
Browning 4, Brookfeld 5, Bucklln 5,
Laclede 8. Linneus 5, Meadville 4,
Marceline 8, North Salem 1, St.
Catherine g., Purdin 3, Hybrid 1,
New Boston g.
Route l from Laclede has been re-
arranged to give closer service and to
extend to some new territory south
west of town. Number 2 is unchang-
ed except to take in a block of new
territory on the northeast. Number
3 is new route. It takes up the
north end of number 1 and covers
some new territory east and southeast
of town. The Laclede routes as Off
cially laid out are as follows:
ROUTE NO. 1.
Beginning at the postofice, the car
rier will 60 thence south t, west / to
cemetery corner; thence south I, west
to Wallace's corner 1 mile; south ],
east /, south to- A. A. Welsh's corner
II miles; west ] and north 1 mile;
west !, south ], west ] to Harter's
corner; north mile to Sharp's corner;
west, south and southwest to mill II
miles; southeast and south II miles to
the Cook corner; east to Foreman's
corner 2 miles; south 1, east to Mer-
chants corner 2 miles; north II, west
to school house ! mile; irregularly
nor tn to Barton corner Il miles; west
to Anderson corner and north to
city limits 1 ] miles; west to postofice
/ mile. Length of route 23a miles.
Area covered Is square miles, number
Of houses on route 96, population
served 384.
ROUTE NO. z.
Beginning at the postofice the car
.ier will go north / and west to city
limits; north and west Ii miles to
Smiths corner; north l mile to Hanson
corner, east 4 and return to Hanson's
corner; north 2 miles to Luyster cor
Ter; east /, south l to Goslin's corner;
east J to Sunny Point school house,
,orth 2B to old Flynt corner; east,
outh and east IL to Hatfeld's corner;
outh, east and south IL to Alexander
er; east II to Newkirk corner;
outh I to Welsh corner; west, north
vest and west II to Peacher corner;
vest ! and return to Peacher corner;
outh J; west II to Sunny Point
chool house; south and southeast 2f
niles to city limits; south from city
i'm its 3mile to postofice. Length Of
QUITE 22t miles; area covered IL
q uare miles; number of houses 86;
population served 344.
ROUTE NO. 3.
Beginning at the postofice the car
ier will go thence east to the city
mits mile; east 81 miles to Nash
orner; north to Observation-Disclosures
orner; west II to Farrar corner; north
] to Bruner school house; west to
'assett corner; south, west, south and
rest 2 miles to Gardner corner; east
/ to Henry Gardner corner; south !,
rest t to Stark's corner; south II and
rest t; east II to Benway corner;
Iorth / mile, west 81 to McAfee cor
er; north and west 4 mile to post
flee. Length of route 19a miles;
rea covered II square miles; number
f houses S6; population served 344.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
Woodland Nils Running.

The Woodland Mills have been
overhauled and repaired aud are now
running by water power. Bring on
your grinding. 9-16-4
J. L. WooD.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30
For Sale.

Eight head of spring calves, one
three year old grade white face bull;
also few cows. G. T. SHARP.
Phone B. & L. line.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30

Fine Tennessee Blue Stem wheat,
heavy yield. Inquire at Bruins mill.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30

Sincerity is genuine comfort as
well as a great virtue. The people
who are unaffected and genuine are
not the people to ask, "Is life worth
living?" 1t would be as sane for
man with sound lungs, standing in
the free open of mountain summit,
to ask, "Is air worth breathing"
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30

fort and no shorter road to failure.
To speak in natural tones and to act
without affection; to dress in such a
way as not to invite comment, TO act
without being hampered by artificial
rules; and to live undaunted by con-
ventionalism is not to live in vain. It
is to escape much that spoils life.
/ **
| Sincerity is genuine comfort as
well as a great virtue. The people
[who are unaffected and genuine are
not the people to ask, "Is life worth
living?" 1t would be as sane for
man with sound lungs, standing in
the free open of mountain summit,
to ask, "Is air worth breathing"
Xxx
Some courage is needed to be natur-
al and a higher kind of courage, too,
than that which marches behind the
safe end of gun. That moral cour-
age which is not intimidated by ap-
pearance nor cowed by custom is a
finer article than the daring of the
speculator, or the steady nerve of the
soldier in physical peril. 1t takes
bravery of the truest stamp to be true
to oneself.
Xxx
Ridicule belittles the enterprise; ex-
|pediency throws lots of doubt upon it;
circumstances embarrass and make
difficult the adventure of being natur-
al. But he who in the face of it all,
manages to be loyal to the inner voice,
to keep faith with himself and to
maintain selfrespect, has won the
victory in a crucial battle.
Xxx
Thus while it is true that one who
keeps his self respect has the worlds,
it is also true that he must diseredit
the worlds to maintain his own. The
public may chatter about what man
has, but it asks, before it quits talking,
what he is, and rates him accordingly.
*** |
Above all things there should be
no gloom in the home. The shadows
of dark discomfort and fretfulness
should never cross the threshold,
throwing their large, black shapes,
like funeral pals, over the happy
young spirits gathered there. If you
will, you shall sit on throne and be
a presiding household deity. O! faith
full wife, what privileges, what treas
ures greater or purer than thine.
x
And let the husband strive to for
get his cares as he winds around the
long narrow street, and behold the
soft light illuminating his little par
lor, spreading its precious beams on
before it. He has been harrassed,
perplexed, prosecuted. He has borne
with many cruel tone, many a cold
word, and nerved himself up to an
energy SO desperate, that his frame
and spirits are weakened and depress-
ed. And now his limbs ache with
weariness;his temples throb with pain
heat caused by too constant applica-
ton. He scarcely knows how to meet
his wife With pleasant smile, or sit
down cheerfully to their little meal,
which she has provided with SO much
care.
But the door is opened, the overcoat
thrown hastily off. A sweet singing
voice falls upon his ear, and the tones
are so soft and glad that Hope, like a
winged angel, flies right into his bos-
ON and nestles against his heart.
A home where gloom is banished-
presided over by one who has learned
TO rule her household. Oh he is thrice
consoled for all his trials. 1t Is i'm
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30

Thus while it is true that one who
keeps his self respect has the worlds,
it is also true that he must diseredit
the worlds to maintain his own. The
public may chatter about what man
has, but it asks, before it quits talking,
what he is, and rates him accordingly.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-09-30

Ridicule belittles the enterprise; ex-
,pediency throws lots of doubt upon it.;
circumstances embarrass and make
difficult the adventure of being natur-
al. But he who in the face of it all,
manages to be loyal to the inner voice,
to keep faith with himself and to
maintain selfrespect, has won the
victory in a crucial battle.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
Fine Feat Of Engineering.

Philadelphia is noted for many dar.
ing engineering feats. One of the
most daring, perhaps. was when four
foot water pipe was moved dis.
tance Of twelve feet without interfer.
ing in any way with the water serv.
ice. 1t is said that no other country
offers an exact parallel to this inter.
esting and great undertaking. To real.
ize the remarkable nature OF this feat
It must be understood that 1.200 feet
Of pipe. weighing, with the water.
about 10000 tons. was moved out Of
line II feet and then lowered ~ feet
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
How Enemies Are Made.

once heard of man who, discuss
ing a name on the visiting list, said
to his wife: You know perfectly well
that l don't like that man." Don't
you think you are a little unreason-
able?" asked the wife. Your dislike
arose because he did not answer a let
ter you wrote him, and you found aft
erwards that the letter was hung up
all summer in the pocket of your over
coat, and was never sent to him at
Yes, l know that" was the
iejoinder. but it was so long before
found it out that | could't overlook
his rudeness. and l never forgave him.
and don't believe l ever shall" There
is good deal of i'll feeling in thit
world that is without any firing foun-
dation.-George p. Rowell in Printers
Ink.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
The Charm of Sincerity.

The secret of all charm and of the
most genuine popularity lies in avoid.
ing all pretences and being sincere.
Artificiality is always vulgar, how
ever highly placed the person who as
sumes it may be. But in point of fact,
a really highly placed person never
does put on side" A woman in
good position is SO sure of herself
that she has no need to put on an af-
fected manner in order to convince
less successful people of her import
ance. She is. on the contrary. so SIM
pie and sincere and genuinely courte-
GUS that not even the most envious Of
humber friends can grudge her her
success. If she is not sincere and
sweet-why. she only lays herself open
TO the suspicion that she has been
very badly brought up. and has had
her head turned by little money
Exchange.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
WINES OF THe AMcIENrs.
Heavy Drinking a Common Vice $1,000
Years AGO,

'"The tombs of Benz Hassam," said
an antiquary of Chicago, "are interest
ing on account of their realistic paint
ings. In these tombs, which are 5000
years old, there are many pictures of
drunkards. Drunken men, waving
wine cups in both hands, are being
carried home by sneering slaves.
Drunken women lurch through the
streets. followed by little mocking
children. All this, mind you, 5000
years ago.
Alexander the Great used to hold
drinking contests He could drink
and carry off the most wine won. Pro-
machus, the skilled Promachus. won a
gold cup from Alexander by drinking
fourteen quarts of wine. Fourteen
quarts!
"The Romans used to serve at their
banquets wines eighty and a hundred
years old. They would mix with these
wines turpentine, resin and sea water.
Thus, they thought. fine flavor was
gotten.
II once tasted wine 200 years old.
1t was so thick that we had to dig it
out with spoon. Its flavor was so
horrible that turpentine, resin and sea
water would, no doubt, have improved
1t.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
MAKING OF cnyRcn eELLs.
Philadelphia Founder Explains Some
Of the Methods.


mo silver is used in church bells"
said the bellfounder. people claim
there is, but have assayed many an
old bell that came here to be broken
up and never an ounce of silver did
find in one of them.
For the best bells we use old can.
non. They give us the purest ANAL
gam we can get. The tenor bell am
making now is composed of twelve
tons Of old cannon from Spain.
These two molds, the core and the
cope, are what give the bell sweetness
1t Is in their cut that the secret of
bellfounding lies. The core is the
inner mold; it has the exact shape Of
the bells inside. The cope, or outer
mold, has the exact shape of the bells
outside.
1--WE At the cope over the core, and
into the space between the molten
metal is run. When the metal has
hardened and cooled the bell is I'm
ished, save for its clapper.
ITO tune bells it is necessary to
chip little pieces out of them. Our
bell tuner is good musician. He has
composed a number of hymns.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
Grand Canon Aerial rramway.

The gigantic gorge Of the Grand
canon Of the Colorado is soon to be
fpanned at Its widest point by an
aerial tramway which will carry pas
rengers at height Of 5000 feet from
The bottom of the Bright Angel trail
TO the top Of Buckskin plateau.
From this eminence the Coconino
country, Arizona. may be seen plainly,
with California and Nevada to the
westward. Utah on the north and,
Colorado and New Mexico away to the
east.
OF all the expeditions which have
been made to the Grand canon from
the very bottom of the gorge to the top
of Buckskin or Kaiben plateau, reached
by a circuitous twelve-mile trail, none
has disclosed the wonders of scenery
which ride on the aerial will offer
BY the anchoring of cable some 500
feet in length to the wall of rock on
either side of the gorge on which will
be operated cage or car and the fur
ther improvement of the trail on the
north side of the huge crevice it is
proposed to transfer tourists from the
bottom Of the Bright Angel trail to the
top of the plateau. To build this aerial
tramway a company has just been in-
corporated at Kanab, Utah.
From the height which tourists will
attain one may locate by means OF a
powerful glass the various cities of
southern California. Much of the Nor
mon state could be seen in this way,
while the dry desert air of Arizona
would permit splendid long distance
views of that territory
Surveys and an estimate place the
cost at about $4,000. In connection
with the establishment of the aerial
tramway the company and southern
Utahans generally are working to have
a large portion of country about Buck
skin mountains set aside for a ma
tional park or reserve.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
Dav bv Dav.

heard voice at evening softly say.
Bear not thy yesterday into Tomorrow.
Nor. load this week with last weeks
load of sorrow.
Lift all thy burdens as they come. nor
To weight the present with the by and
by.
One step and then another. take thy
way
Live day by day.
Live day by day.
The path before thee doth not lead
astray.
Do the next duty. It must surely be
The Christ is in the one that's close
to thee,
Onward. still onward. with sunny
Till step by step shall end in mile by
mile.
"rll do my best unto my conscience
say.
live day by day.
Live day by day.
Why are thou bending toward the back
ward way?
One summit and another thou shalt
mount.
Why stop, at every round the space to
The past mistakes If thou must still
remember.
Watch. not the ashes of the dying
ember.
Kindle thy hope Put all thy fears away,
Live day by day.
Julia Harris May
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
NO RIME FOR THEM.
Words in the Language to BE Avoided
by Poets.

Words In the Language to Be Avoided
by Poets.
The amateur poet scratched his
head.
1T must be somewhere" he mur.
INJURED, "but where is it,"
Where is what?" asked his friend.
why, I'm writing a verse and I
want a rime, but can't find it. I
want rime for the word twelfth"
Good reason" replied his friend.
there's no such rime in the English
language. That isn't the only unrimed
word. According to Tom Hood there
are just score Of them, although he
forgot to include that word. His list
includes bilge. chimney, Golf, crimson.
culm, cusp, fugue, gulf, have, kiln,
micrecosm, month, mouth (verb).
oblige. rhomb, scarce, scarf, silver.
widow, and window. Some of these
wsrds may be rimed by two others
combined, such as did, oh. for widow.
but none can be rimed with another
single word"
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
Chinese Wedding Ceremony.

A Chinese marriage is a sole.u.
ceremony-no talk, no levity, and
much crying. A feast is spread upon
a table. to which the blushing bride is
led by five of her friends. They are
seated at the table; but no one eats.
Deep silence prevails, when finally
the mother starts crying, the maids
follow. and the bride joins in the
chorus. Then all the bridesmaids leave
the table, and the disconsolate mother
takes a seat beside the chair of state
where the bride sits. The bridegroom
now enters with four of his men
friends, who carry the bride round the
room, while the guests throw rice
over the happy pair.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
HAS AN IMMENSE CAPACITY.
Goose Fish Can. Easily Devour Bird
Il Is Named From.

1t Is Named From.
The goose fish, as it is known along
the Massachusetts, shores, derives it's
name from an ability to assimilate
wild fowl in canDibalistic fashion.
In Maine the goose fish is often
called the monk fish. Notwithstanding
that 1t has anything but a monkish
aspect Rhode Islanders call it the
bellows fish; in Connecticut it is
known as the molligut; in North
Care lima as the allmouth, which tallies
closely with it's looks, and in places on
the other side of the Atlantic the
names wide gut and kettlemaw are
applied.
Their swallowing capacity is prac-
tically unlimited. Mackerel, sculpins.
dogfish, sea ravens, crabs, squids and
Holsters have been found in their
stomachs by government experts.
Sometimes they annoy fishermen by
swallowing the wooden buoys attach
ed to their lobster pots.
The adult goose fish is commonly
about four feet long and weighs from
35 to As pounds.-Fishing Gazette.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
Dumb creatu Honored,

try in which animals are regarded as
sacred. In almost all eastern lands
save those which are tightly in the
grip OF Islam certain dumb creatures
are the objects OF reverence or of
superstition. If not Of actual worship.
Slams sacred white elephant-a cur.
ious superstition grated upon a de-
based form of Buddhism-is the best
known example, but dozens of others
could be given.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17

Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in q pound pack
ages. and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
ica!s. If your grocer tries to sell you
12-oz package it is because he has
stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures ''16 ozs." Demand De-
fance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
White-That large young lady is
Miss Minnie Fish. Bright-She looks
more like a whale than minnow.
Gilpin observer., 1905-08-17
Case of "As You Say"

An indignant and impressive land
lady on the South Side was heard. a
few days ago, giving this Parthian
shot, reversed. to a derelict lodger.
for 1t was he and not the landlady
who was retreating:
IF you are gentleman" she said,
"as you say you are. and If you are
gittin' $40 a week, as you say you be.
you will pay me the room rint as you
said you would"
But the lodger took the trolley. az
1t seemed he would, and said no word
back, as no one expected he would
Chicago Record-Herald.