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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09
He Reads the Store Ads.

# always read the evening
papers," said Officer James
Hogan, whose post OF duty is
Eleventh and Walnut streets,
ito see how my next days
work is going to be. You see.
if there are several marked
down calico sales I know that
I'll be busy and have a hard
day of it. When all the big
stores have full page 'ad' L go
to bed early. because l know
there'll be something TO do.
However. on the other
hand, if the ads are for high
priced silks. curtains, etc, l
know that business will be
light, as most Of the well-to-do
women make their shopping
trips in carriages
Omcer Hogan receives his pa.
pers from the newsboys on his
corner every evening, and in
varia bly, the forecast given out
by the big policeman Is found
- -o~ra,.f World
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09
DIR. Hornback, Oculist and
Aurist, Hannibal, Mo.

No Age Limit.
Cato learned Greek at 80;
Lophocles wrote his grand
Zoe dipus,' and Sim ,nides bore
OFF the priz. OF verse from his
compeers
When each had numbered more
than fourscore years.
And Theophrastus,4 at ,fourseore
and ten, : HE r S.7-5 y
Had but egu1 his characters
of Men,"
Chauncer at Woodstock with
his nightlngales
At 60 wrote the Canterbury
Tales"
Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to
the last,
Completed Faust" when 80
years had pasl.
Something remains for us to do
or dare:
Even the oldest tree some fruit
must bear,
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in
another dress.-Longfellow
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09

Teddy is no longer the acct
dent. He is now the big stick
but it appears the Senate has
two big sticks.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09
The Great Difficulty.

From the Detroit Free Press.
"One- half of the worlds hap.
piness is solved when a person
learns to mind his own bust
ness"
"Yes, but it's The other half
that causes the most trouble"
What's that?"
Getting other people to
mind theirS!'
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09

j. K, Ely has concluded 10
enter the contracting ana build
ing business. See him before
you LET your building contracts,
If.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09

Miss Pearl Sorrel was called
to Hannibal Thursday by the
death of her friend, S. G..
Owens.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09
THURSDAY, MARCH. 9, 1905,
ANNOUNCEMENT

WE are authorized to announce
j. B. ROGERS
as a candidate for reelection rs
County School Commissioner of Mon
roe County at the school election to
be held April 4, 1905.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09

Good business house for rent,
JNo. j. RoGERs.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-03-09

All kinds of furniture repair
ed.-R F. Mcclure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
Protectinq Farmers.

Charles H. Clark in Success Magazine.
 Another protective influence exerted by the trade association is that of educating it's members against the swindlers by which the foov CTS of almost every occu- patton or calling are Victimized. 1t is d recognized fact that swindlers and cona f;dence men ply their craft along routine lines; in other words they move from place to place and work men in the same general line of business. Recently a grain buyer in western town was vic timized in this manner: Like all other local elevator men, he followed the prac- tice of advancing to the farmers of his locality reasonable sum of money against the grain which they would soon market. One day two farmers haling from rather remote locality with which he was not particularly familiar came to him and asked for an advance upon the crops they were then cutting. The men appeared to have met by accident at the elevator, and claimed to know each other only casually, saving that their farms were some five or six miles apart As these men were dressed in overalls and hickory shirts, their faces and arms being well Drowned by the sun, the grain buyer naturally concluded that they were genuine farmers, and, after asking them a few questions as to their acreage he gave them the cash advance on their crops which they asked Later the ele- Vator man learned to his sorrow, that they were a peir of clever confidence men carefully 'made-up" in farmer style. They. had consistently ''worked' the grain buyers of that region, being very careful however to keep out of the territory covered by the organization. This campaign Of swindling could not have been successfully prosecuted among buyers who belonged to the asso- ciation, as their first swindle would have been promptly reported to every mem- Der of the organization and efforts for the arrest and prosecution of the con fdence men would have been made at once
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DO ANIMALS MIMIC?
Many of the Close ResembIances Are
 Purely Accidental.

John Burroughs in March Outing.
 To what lengths this protective resem- blance theory is pushed by some of it's expounders Thus in the neighborhood of Rio Janeiro there are two species of hawks that closely resemble each other, but one eats only insects and the othe- eats birds. MT. Wallace thinks that the bird eater mimics the insect eater. so as to deceive the birds. which are not afraid of the latter But if the two hawks look alike would not the birds come to regard them both as bird eaters, since one of tkem does eat b rds? Would they not at once identify the harmless one with their real enemy and thus fear them both alike? If the latter were newcomers and vastly in the minority then the ruse might work for awhile. But if there were ter harmless hawks around to one dan gerous one, the former would quickly suffer from the character of the latter in the estimation of the birds Birds are in stinctively afraid of all hawk kind.
 Mary of these close resemb,cnces among different specieH of animals are no doubt purely accidental, or the result of the same law of variation acting un- der similar conditions. We have a hum- ming-bird moth that so closely in it's form and flight ana manner resembles a hum- ming bird, that if this resemblance sbiouGIt any lIlHuunltN rom O0nEef. 1t would be set eown as a clear case of mimicry. There is such a moth in Eng lsnd too. where no humrling bird is found. Why should not nature repeat her. self in this waN2 This moth feeds upon tho nectar of flowers like the hlmming bird and why shoi.ld it not have the hum- ming birds form and manner?
 Then there are accidental resemb!anees in nature. such as the often-seen resem- blance of knots of trees and of vegetables to the human form. and of a certain finn gus to a part of mans anatomy. We have a fly that resembles a honey bea In my bee-hunting days I used to call if the mock honey bee" It would come up tLe wind on the scent of my bee box and hum, about it precisely like a real bee. When looked at closely it resembled a drone more than a worker bee Of course it was here before the honey bee and has been envolved quite Independently of it. The honey bee has it's enemies: the toads and tree frogs feed upon them and the king birds captures the slow drone
 When an edible butterfly mimcs an un edible or no,.iou5 one, as is frequently the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05

The following article is copied from IThe Mercantile and Financial Times, Of New York:
 There never was a time in the his
 tory of this country when it was easier flor people of moderate means to secure
 homes of their own There is general
 prosperity and they are earning the money, and men of integrity and abil- ,ity, having thorough knowledge of the soundest methods of legitimate are deyising plans to en- able men of thrift and intelligence to bay for their homes upon terms which are, if anything, easier than those i'm posing the payment of rent.
 The majority of our readers are proh- ably familiar, to some extent, with the plans of the ordinary building and loan
 societies,i the so-called home building associations and the mortgage install |ment plan of selling property. No doubt these plans have placed many
 people in the possession of homes and
 have worked fairly well in many in stances. We have no intention, there
 fore, of assailing these plans, but we
 believe that every intelligent reader
 will readily recognize the advance that
 has been made upon these plans by
 the Investment Home Purchasing
 Contract" of the Standard Trust Com. |pany of Birmingham, Ala.
 From a careful study of this contract 1t appears to the writer that the Stan |dard Trust Company have embodied therein. with essential notifications, the principles that underlie and have lbeen successfully applied to endow- Iment insurance for many years. At all ;events. the plan has nothing in com |mon with those of home cooperative 3societies, or mortgage installment sale lof property.
 Briefly outlined, the plan is as fol Ilows The company issues an Invest lment Home Purchasing Contract" the Iface value of which is LOGO. They col Ilect on this contract $6 as advance pay lment when the application is signed land thereafter a monthly installment Iof $6, payable on the 18th day of each month Each contract is eligible to a Iloan of funds to purchase a home in Ithe sum of $1 000 after six monthly in Istallments of dues have been paid thereon, as per terms and conditions Iof the contract. After a purchase oi la home is effected or loan made the Icompany charge only $750 per month with per cent interest per annum
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payable monthly, on each S1,000 ad vanced or borrowed
 All monthly installments with per cent interest per annum on same after the third instalIments, are credited on the purchase price of the home or loan. The contract provides for the pur. chase of a home, farm or business property in any locality to which a clear title can be had; the only restric- tion in the purchase of the property is that the title must be good and the price paid must be based upon fair and reasonable valuation of such prop erty. No security is required. beyond the property purchased, improved or released under lien, and the fulfillment of the contract agreement, and all who are disposed to make an effort can, by this method, put themselves on a sure footing of property ownership.
 The resemblance of the contract to an endowment insurance contract lies first, in giving the holder a definitely specified time-ten years and six months-to pay for his home, exactly as the applicant for insurance pays for a ten-year endowment policy. One has a home paid for, the other a paid-up insurance policy Secondly, the re- semblance is accentuated by the TO- vision in the Investment Home Pur- chasing Contract" by a cash surren- der value, if from misfortune or other wise the holder does not wish to carry it, and it provides also for the return of all payments with his proportionate part of the profits of the company, If the contract is carried to maturity These provisions are equivalent to the non-forfeitable and participating features of life insurance policies.
 In case of the death of the contract holder all money that has been paid in, together with six per cent interest thereon, is returned to his heirs, oi beneficiaries.
 Inasmuch as tho $7.50 per $1,00f which the contract holder pays in, Is constantly reducing his indebtedness the interest payments are correspond ingly reduced every year, the total in terest payments for ten years and six months being only $217.32, which added to $946 paid in monthly install ments on loan, makes the total pay ments only $1,163.32; the contract has been completed and holder has 2 home of his own instead of a bunch of rent receipts.
 Under this plan any man can acquire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05

The following letter from lady who through social drinking became slave to alcohol shows how easy il is for the lar sex to become victims, and when victim there is less mercy shown them than is extended to man. It is fortunate, there fore, that there is a means of escape through a private treatment which can be taken within the privacy of their own homes, and it is not therefore, necessary fo- them to leave home and family to get relief. Mrs. Semerall should be praised for willingly making known to unfortn- nate woman where she can secure relief, and ex-Mayor Mcdonald deserves great commendation for his efforts in restoring this woman to health. happiness and so- briety. Read the following letters, which were written for publication:
 Pass Christian, Miss, Jan 24, 1905 James Sanatorium Memphis, Tenn:
 Kind Frends-I have finished my course of medicine, and my friends say I am looking fine and, thanks to you, am feeling like a Lew woman. I feel good and am not cross and grabbed like I used to be. I pray for you both every night and all l ask is for God to keep you here on earth to show the good you can do When I took the third bottle l could not tolerate whiske. any longer. l can now take the money that l nsed to spend on liquor and use it to a much better advan- tage. I shall always praise your kind ness. and will let you hear how I am getting along There is another young lady here whose brothers are going to send for treatment. She was only waiting until I finished MT. Mcdonald, our Mayor. will write you at once
 Thanking you again and again. I re- main, cordially,
 MRS. NELLIE sEMERALL.
 Pass Christian Miss.
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a $1,000, $2,0G0, $3,000. S4,000 or $5.00' home in a comparatively few years a easily as he could pay rent during corresponding period. The equate' payments on a $1 900 loan of botl principal and interest would only b. $923 per month. The loan, with ac crued interest, can be paid at an. time, thus stopping further interest.
 Studying the plan of the Standar' Trust Company from every possible point of view it presents no feature o point vulnerable to criticism, and i impresses us as tho most beneficent safest and rational solution of the ren problem that has ever been devised The company makes no pretensions tt philanthropy and no promises whicf it is unable fulfill. The security fur nished it's members is based upon i'm proved real estate, which the contrac holders themselves have possession e and are paying for, and while the Dor rower only pays four per cent interes per annum, payable monthly the com pany. by re-lending the monthly pay ments as fast as they are paid eacf month, compounds it's interest, an, thus makes not less than eight pel cent on it's loans.
 No business proposition could b' sornder. no security could be better
 The officers of the company are re liable and conservative business mel and would not lend their aid and in fluence to any enterprise which did no appeal to them as being unassalable practical and bringing fair and jus returns to all participants.
 The personnel is as follows: L. F Harris, president: H. Sheffield Jr vice-president; F. E. Whitehead, secre tarv and treasurer.
 The Standard Trust C. ompany is ir corDorated with an authorized capita of $500, ,000 and has the principal oftic at 63S rirst National Bank Buildina Birmingham, Ala. Eastern Office Wilmington. Del. and branch offices a follows: IS and 19 Exchange Ban Building, Charleston. s. C.: third floor Peoples Bank Building. Anderson. G.: 104-105 Lenkauf Building Mobile Ala; 401 Main street. Dallas. Texas 30S Thiesen Building. Pensacola, Fla. Vaughn Building. Selma. Ala.
 Liberal contracts will be made wit competent and trustworthy agents Call or W rite,
 THE STANDARD TRUST COMPANY No. 6SS Ft Nat. Banh bldg Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
DAY FOR EVICTION.
Scene When a Poor Family Was
 About to Be Dispossessed,

Cleveland Moffett in Success Magazine
 for March
 We turned now into Eldridge street and drove slowly through lines of peddlers' carts until we came to a barber's pole in front of a narrow doorway. A black haired woman peered at us curiously from a window over red and blue an- nouncements, in Yiddish. of various balls in the neighborhood. This was No. 169 the home of Abram Rabinovitch, whom we presently found in two rooms of the rear tenement, rooms that were clean and neat despite their poverty. and that show ed a woman's effort to make them bright and home like.
 The woman lay on a bed in the back room in a sort of stupor It was partly the heat. for the place was stfling and the windows tight shut, but 1t was partly want of food, as we realized when she murmered "milk-hunger." She was ont over twenty-three, and as she lay there pale and still. she looked quite beautiful
 The husbands grief was pitiful. When the baby came. ne said seven days before there was no money and no food. For three days he had given his wife tea. nothing else. he had nothing else Then visitor left him fifty cents and he bought her a chicken. For himself he bought some stale breai and for little Isreal, one year old Che was holding Isreal in his arms), he bought stale bread also. He would not have us think i'll of him would we come away from the door least the neighbors hear He had never told anyone of their destitution, he had his pride. he had always been able to keep up the home, earning good money at the sweat shop by sewing on bows pants five or six dollars week-and they. had been happy Lena, and he. in their two years of married life, happy and thank ful. But now.well, he had been out of work for three months Only twice in that time had he found anything to do, and that was In the big snow storm, when he shoveled with the street cleaning eang-shoveled through two bitter nights and that was all he had earned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05

Jamea Sanatorium, Memphis, Tenn:
 Dear Sirs and Friends-TlTee years ago took treatment with you for alcoholism, since that time I have never had desire or any inclination to drink. although l have had much sickness in my family, fol- lowed by death. Notwithstanding this my treatment there has kept me from drink. God only knows what would have hap pened during my adversities had l not been free from drink Eighteen months after taking your liquor treatment I O. dered and took a course of your tobacco treatment The result of it's was a complete cure would not give $5.00 a car for tobacco unless I could dispose of it at profit, and a good one too, and would even then feel a delicacy in trafficking in the filthy stun, l shall always have a warm place in my heart for you and the James Sanat orium. l hope to see you all when I come south. You may use my name as reference or any other way you may wish to bring men to your place, for their sakes and their families Every one who desires to see men freed from the ravages of whiskey and tobacco, ought to use their influence to get those afflicted in touch with you. l often think how many homes are made happy and how many useful lives and perchance immortal souls saved as a result of tke James Sanatorium treatment. I shall feel 1t my duty to turn men afflicted with these things to you
 With kindest regards and best wishes. am, always your sincere friend.
 w. F. CRABTREE.
 Licking. Mo.
 Specially Prepared Home Remedies For the cure of Alcoholism. Drug Addic- tons Cigarette, Tobacco and Snuff habits will be furnished at the following prices: Full course for drunkenness ..........$ SIP, 30 Full course for tobacco habit ....... 500 Full course for cigarette habit ...... 800
 Cost of specially prepared treatment for Drug Addictions is dependent entirely uopn the age and physical condition of patient kind and quantity of drug used. how drug is used etc. Literature and testimonials and free samples for treat ment of drug habits furnished on appliea- ton.
 Call at city office. No. 13s Poplar street. or at Charles R. James private of flee, No. III Second street or address in confidence. James Sanatorium or Lock Box 1000, Memphis Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05

He tried to go on but his feelings choak- ed him, he could noly point to his wife with a look of tenderness and grief while a big tear fell on the child in his arms
 What was he to do? People said he was strong and could work. Yes but where was the work? Who would bring water to her parched lips? And how could he leave the little boy? Besides. it was too late tLe rent was due tomorrow ten dollars for the landlord, and if it was not paid
 if it was not paid. With a gesture of dumb despair he pointed to the door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
SAYS SHE WAS AN
 HABITUAL DRUNKARD
Ex-Mayor of Pass Christian, Miss, Tells How Young Lady Was Saved
 By the James Specially Prepared Home T-,atment for Drunkenness.

James Sanatorum Memphis, Tenn:
 Gentlemen-Mrs. Nellie Semerall of this place was an habitual drunkard, and would drink until she was down and wholly unconscious when her mother asked me to apply to your company for your specially prepared home treatment. I did as he" other asked. When you forwarded the treatment Nellie commence ed taking 1t, and followed the instrue- tions until ;he whole course was taken. Since taking the treatment she is very much improved in health and she has not touched a drop and she says she has no desire to touch liquor again Mrs Semeral .s a tenant of mine and resides next door to me- and I see her daily and I know her to be changed woman.
 Respectfully.
 JOHN T. M'DONALD.
 Ex-Mayor Pass Christian, Miss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
SOCIETY WOMHN
 DRINK WHISKY
Became Addicted to the Use
 Through Social Drinking
6aap 9riends Sent to the James Sana- torium of Memphis for a Course of Treatment.

Says That After the Third Day She Could Not Tolerate Whiskey-Says That She Now Feels Fine, Is Not Cross or Grabbed Like She Use to Be-Another Young Lady In Her City GoinJ to Take Treatment-Ex- Mayor of Her Town Praises the Treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
7hs % Queen. of Son4
To the manufaCturerS or the Greatest Piano
 i'm the World
New York, August, 12, 1904.

INeW Ork, Au9uSt 1z, l1U1 Messrs. Steinway & Sons
 New York, N Y.
 Gentlemen: You are herewith requested to ship the concert grand, No 100000, purchased this morning by me from you, by express to Vancouver B. c.
 It is essential that the plano leaves Thursday August IA, to catch the steamer leaving Van couver on the 221, In order to be in readiness for my Australian Tournee, and you will please adopt means toward this end. authorize you herewith to take my Bech- stein grand piano from my London residence and allow me credit for as part payment for the grand Just bought from you.
 This being my third purchase of your grands, is fact which speaks eoquently tor itself, and reiterate what 1 said in 1895 regarding the super-excellence of your product. and can only add that it is incomprehensible to me how an artist or anybody who is able to afford the best can choose anything but Stenway.
 NELLIE MELBA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
Pleasure of TraveIinn-

Any trip is pleasure to those who travel over the Chesapeake and Ohio rail- way. The best of equipment excellent service. quick time. beautiful scenery. Finest dining car service. Polite atten- ton. Convenient schedules. Every com fort the most exacting. traveller could wish. New York tickets permit stop-over of 10 days at Washington. Baltimore and Philadelphia; also the famous Virginia Hot Springs. 11-11-fri-su-we-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
ease in the troples. the mlmielker is no

case in the tropics, the mimiclker is no doubt the gaineT.
 It makes biz difference whether the mimicker is seeking to escape from an enemy, or seeking to deceive its prey. 1 fail to see how, in the latter case, any disguise of form or color could be brought about.
 Cur shrille. at times, murders little birds ant eats out their brains, and it has not the form or the color or the eye of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05
He1nfuI Hints on Decorating Your Home

decorating your rooms. no matter whether you want the highest class of decorative work or some simple wall paper treatment. We can sug- gest many new and novel styles of decoration. W. D. Colby Decorating Co new location, ISIS Second avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-05

bird of prey. and thus probably deceives it's victims, but there is no reason to be- lieve that th-s guise is the result of any sort of mimicr.-.