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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
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The Circus Has a Yellow Fever Scare
The Bad Boy and His Dad Dress
Up rs Hottentots-Pa Takes a
Mustard Bath and Attends q Re
vival Meeting.

Well, we have had a row for your
life, and all the excitement anybody
can stand. We got into Indiana and
have had a yellow fever scare, a quar-
;antine that lasted one night, so nobody
could sleep on our train. a riot at Ev-
ansville cause we took on a couple OF
female trGpezc m that came from
Honduras, via New Orleans, and a re-
yival of religion, all in one bunch, and
pa is beginning to get haggard. like a
hag.
The female trapezc performers, who
had been expected ever since we start
ed on the road, had been ~quarantined
at New ORLEANS, where the yellow fever
Is raging. and finally got through the
quarantine guard somewhere in .Iis-
sissippi, ana got to us Saturday after
noon, and some official telegraphed to
the mayor that two yellow fever refu-
gees had struck his town to join the
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
He Doesn't Curse Now.

Washington, Hans, Dec. % Especially
Jesse T.. Mitchell is a telephone lineman, and
also a well-known resident here. Every
body acquainted with Mr.. Mitchell knows
that he was a man who held very positive
views about Patent Medicine. Hear what
he says now:
81 used to curse all kinds OF Patent Medi-
cines, for they never did me any good, but
Dodd's Kidney Pills have caused ne to
change my mind. For twelve years l suf-
fered from Kidney Trouble. There was a
hurting across my back that made it posi-
tive agony to stoop, and as ! am in a stoop-
how | suffered. After a days work that
any man would think nothing of, l would be
tired and worn cut. In fact, was always
tired. 1 began using Dodd's Kidney Pills
and after taking four boxes | feel like a new
man, | am as fresh at night as when l be-
gin work in the morning. l have no pain
IN my back now, and l am stronger than
ever"
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

Intricate Plea ct the Bar Of Justico
That Was Too Deep for
the Judge.

Soon after the late Gilman Narston. ~
New. Hampshire, had been admitted 10
the bar a civil suit was brought to him.
II involved a somewhat complicated cues.
ton OF inheritance, says the Boston Her.
AID. Blu the young man, in no way
daunted, took the case, looked up author.
tiles all the way back to julius Caesar.
md prepared an argument of a few hun.
dred pages which seemed to him unan.
swerable. His only fear was that Il
might be beyond the comprehension Of
the court.
When his case was called Mr.. Marston
rose with inward assurance and plunged
in boldly. The judge seemed interested
and he took heart. But at the end Of
an hour and a half, in the midst of the
most intricate part az his plea, he was
panied to see what looked like a lack Of
attention on the part of the court.
1t was a. he had feared; the Judge
was unable to appreciate the nice points
of mis- argument.
your honor" he said, ~ beg your par.
don hut do you follow me?"
II have 80 far" answered the Judge,
shifting YEARLY abou: in his chair, but
I'll say frankly that if 1 thought 1 could
find my way back. I'd quit right here"
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
Nervous Women
Their Sv6srinSs Are Usvalt1
Due to Uterine Disordere
PorhaPs Unsvspsctod
a MEDICINE THAT CURES

Can We dispute
we'll known
thatAmerican
women are ner.
How often do we
hear the expires.
sion, II am SO e
vous, It seems as II
l should fy;" or,
Don't speak to
me-" Little thinys
annnV Vn11 and
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
and went into . dressing room and got

and went into . dressing room q got
behind a wagon and began to take the
cure the sailor had prescribed. ! don't
know as 1t was right to do 1t, but ABOUT
the time pa had got to the red pepper
course and was sprinkling II on MS
skin pretty thick, and he was begin
ming to get pretty hot, and was yell
ing a little. I told the chief OF police.
who was loohing around with the
health officer for suspicious cases, nat
there was a man acting sort OF queer
behind the wagon that had q piece Oh
canvas over the wheels. They both
rushed in on pa and grabbed him.
Gee! but la looked and smelled like
a plate of pigs feet and the doctor SAID
it was an u~nmistakable case OF yellow
fever. he could tell by the smell, and
then pa turned pale and yellow from
fright, and they wrapped him up IN a
niece of canvas and took him away In
an emergency hospital ambulance, ana
the whole show at once knew mat we
were in for a quarantine.
They burned up the suit OF clothes
pa LOOK Ou anu tut ohC hO "0' o'''o
to put on, and the ambulance o
away, while pa shook one fist at the
sailor and one at me, and his X be-
gan to shrink and smart, and he yelled,
and the audience stampeded, and the
show was in the dumps.
We had to stay over Sunday In Ev-
ansville, and the show people were
so scared the manager thought he bet
ter have religious services in the tent
Sunday, SO they got a revlvallst
preacher to preach to them, a fellow
who used to preach to the cowboys
out west. Sunday morning the tough
fellows in the show said they wouldn't
do a thing to the preacher when he
came on 10 do his stunt. Their idea was
to wait until he got well on his
sermon and then begin to interrupt
him and ask questions, ana finally to
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
Some Of Missouri's Boasts.

Missouri has 20 state institutions; II
never had a general crop failure; 1t 10
the leading clover state Of the union;
It has more stock farms than any other
state; 1t has the largest acreage OF blue
grass Of any state: 1t has the largest
permanent school fund In the United
states; 1t raises one-tenth Of all the
cor raised In the world; It produces 80
per cent. OF the zinc mined In the world;
It has one-third more apple trees than
any other state: its farm land has ad-
vanced 40 per cent. In the last four
years; II has the largest yield OF cotton
per acre OF any state in the union; 1t has
the lowest rate Of taxation Of any stats.
Kansas City Journal.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
Largest Ocean Steamer.

Consul General Guenther, OF Frank.
fort, says the worlds largest steam.
ship Is the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria.
GS4 feet long, $4,000 tons. which was
launched August "a, at the Vulcan
yards, Stettin. He writes that the
new boat will have a net tonnage OF
q. 900. The engines indicate 17,20d
horsepower: the speed will be II knots
an hour, so that the trip from Europe
to New York will be made In seven
and one-half days. In addition to the
regular dining-room. the ship will be
supplied with a restaurant . Ia carte
and with electric elevators and ae
electrically lighted bathroom
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

circus, and he ordered the chief OF po- I
lice to hunt them out, and put them in
n pest mouse. The Honduras females
were yellow as saffron, but it was
caused by the climate of Honduras,
but the whole show was scared to
death for fear we would all have yell
low fever, and the management de-
tailed pa and to hide the yellow girls
from the police.
IA fixed up ore Of the cages, with
the girls BACKED up as lIottentots and
pa and | BACKED up as an African king
and prince of the blood, and We did
stunts in the cage at afternoon ana
evening performances, and the crowd
could not keep away from oar cage,
until pa got hot and unbuttoned his
shirt and, before we knew it, everybody
SAW pas white skin below where his
face and neck were BACKED. and while
we were talking gibbcrish to each 9TH
cr a country jake got mad and he led
"A crowd to open The cage and make us
remove our shirts to prove that we
were Iiottentots.
When they found we were white peo-
pie BACKED up they wanted their
money back and were going to tip over
the cage. when pa saved the day by
making a speech, at the evening per-
formancc, to the effect that we were all
yellow fever refugees from New Or
leans and the mob lit out on the run
for the main tent, where they an
nounced that there we're four cases o,
fever in the Menagerie tent, and llat
settled It.
The mayor and police closed the
show on account OF yellow fever, ant
we couldn't get out OF the tent. p,
had been quite close to the yellow girl
and when he found out that yellow
fever was a disease that catches yol
when not looking. and In Is minute
you look ike . corpse. and In fou
hours you are liable TO be q sur
enough corpse, he shook the yello'
girls, and asked an old sailor what
man ought to do who has been ex
posed to yellow fever, and the oil
sailor, who has mad yellow fever lot
OF times, told pa to strip off his clothG
and take a bath of prepared mustard
and rub 1t In thoroughly. and the
wipe 1t off. and take q vinegar rub, an
after that sprinkle a little red pepp'
on himself, put IN different clotht
and drink about y gallon OF red lemol
ade and he could defy yellow fever.
Pa is an easy mark and he believe
the old sailor. who Is tattooed al
makes o show OF himself with II
freaks. and pa took a change OF cloth
and q bottle OF mustard and q cru
Of vinegar and = b0ttle os ss1 pspp
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

get "A blanket and toss him up a few
times for luck, and then chase him out
and have the circus bulldog, that
chew the clowns pants, catch the min
ister's coat tail and just scare him
plum to death.
The boys said it would be the biggest
picnic that ever was-a regular barbe
cue. The boss canvasman said ,ie was
opposed to mixing religion with the
circus business, because the fellows
could get all the religion they needed
in the winter, when the show was laid
up and he would see the boys throug.
In anything they proposed to do to the
sky pilot that was going to play his
| came in ring No. | at 1920 the next
dag.
Well after | heard the circus men
talk about what they would do to the
preacher, | was afraid they woula kill
him, so when he and a helper brought
a little melodeon into the ring, facing
the reserved seats, ! told him the boys
were going to raise a ru;.pus and drive
him out of the ten with the bulldog
hanging to his coat tails. He put his
hand on his pistol pocket and pulled
a long, blue gun about half way out,
and let it drop back down beside his
leg, and he winked at me ard said he
guessed not. scarcely, as he had
preached to crowds so tough that a cir
Gus gang was a Sunday school In com
parison.
Then ! got on q front seat to watch
the fun. About 800 OF the circus hands
performers, clowns and peanut butch
, ers. came In, snickering, and sat dow
on the reserved seats In front of tn
A little pulpit, imprOvised from the bar
v Of them laughed and said: Hello
II Bill" and "Ah. there!" and Get on Il
3 his collar and . lot of other things.
r The little husky preacher had a Sal
@ walton Army girl to play the melOdeor
and he didn't take any notice OF tn
q remarks the boys made. except to Sc
his jaws together and mOisten his lip
d Finally they were all seated, and b
got up to open the services. when
- big canvasman, q regular Smart Alec
4, got up on a seat and said: 'Pardne
n how you going to open this jack pot!
d The crowd laughed and the preach'
>. pulled his long blue gun up out OF h
pocket, and laid 1t on the barrel, al
a. then picked 1t up and pointed 1t at Il
big canvasman and said: This gan
ID is going to be opened with this han
I'd seven of a kind. all As caliber. dun
le dunn bullets, and unless you sit dow
es quick | will send = mess Of bullets In
ct your carcass right where your hea
er ought TO DO. II you open your wou
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

make you irritable; you can't sleep,
you are unable to quietly and calmly
perform your daily tasks Or care for
your children.
The relation Of the nerves and gen.
erative organs in women is SO close
That nine-tenths Of the " pros.
tration. nervous debility, the blues,
sleeplessness and nervous irritability
arise from some arrangement of the
organism which makes her a woman.
Fits OF depression or restlessness and
irritability. Spirits easily affected. so
that one minute she laughs, the next
minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and
between the shoulders. Loss of voice;
nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry
at the least provocation. All this points
to nervous prostitution.
Nothing will relieve this distressing
condition and prevent months of pros.
tration and suffering so surely as Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. NJ. L. Shotwcll, OF 1O3 Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
~ cannot express the wonderful relief I
have experienced by taking. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. I suffered for
II long time with nervous prostration, back.
ache, headache, loss of appetite. l could
not sleep, and would walk the floor almost
every night.
~ had three doctors and got no better, and
life was a burden. was advised to try
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it has worked wonders for me.
g am a well woman, my nervousness Is all
gone and my friends say I look ten years
younger"
Will not the volumes Of letters from
women made strong by Lydia f. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound convince
all women of its virtues? Surely you
cannot wish to remain sick and weak
and discouraged, exhausted each day,
when you can DO as easily cured a.
other women.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
Where Words were Inadequate.

The house emptied itself before the last
scene, the opera being somewhat drawn
out. a dowager was pushing her way
out with the total disregard of other peo-
pies feelings land toes) that marks the
at the onslaught, observed out loud: "The
last 'hus hasn't gone yet, ma'am. No
need to hurry"
IL locks could kill. n coroncr's in.
quest would have followed.-Vanity Fair.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

Authors of to-day do not seem able to
assume the virtue of leisureliness when
they have it not, and do not display the
philosophical breadth that underlles the
greatest imaginative works alike in verse
and prose.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
Proud of Him.

"My grandfather was a butcher" de.
clared Miss Sly, in the midst of a discus.
sion on ancestry.
The other girls gasped.
Its so, though" she declared. "He
slaughtered lambs on Wall street.-The.
troit Free Press.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

To Cure a Cold in Ono Day
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money II it fails to cure.
Z. w. GnovE's signature is on each box. 2oc
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29
inconsistency.

at seems very funny to me-" remarked
the Observer of Events and Things, TO
see a political orator, with a fancy vest
md vaxcd mustache, trying to convince
an audience that he belongs to the plain
people."-Ionkers Statesman.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-12-29

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump'
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

there were 1925 grain elevators in the
country all the growth of "a years,
with a total capacity of 28,000,000 bush
els. Besides these again there is
storage capacity of over 100000
bushels at Fort William and Port Ar
thur.
The Leading Industries.
The country has three great branches
of the agricultural industry-grain
growing, cattle raising, and dairying,
each one of which is developing as
rapidly as the number of resident
farl IS with their means will permit.
Here are the cereal statistics of the
territory that now constitutes the two
provinces of Saskatchewan and Alder
ia, comparing the yields of the year
1898, the first for which there are COM
plete records, with those of 1904:
1898 1904
Wheat $50 $50 1920. $50
Oats ....... $50 1920, $40
Barley .................... 465,S50 1850, APO
AS there is at least 25 per cent. more
land under crop this year (1905) than
there was last year it is confidently
expected the yields will reach,
Wheat Y, 500 200
oats q Wy IVY
Barley .....,................... S,OOOVVV
The value of the crop OF 1904 to the
farmers at the prices that prevailed
was $18.S25.676. (This does not in
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$4,000 in cash for a mortgage on the
boy"
The mother wept awhile, and then
sobbed her assent. Two weeks later,
when Jaques was able to sit up in bed,
the mortgage was given, and both hus-
band and wife signed it.
Swears He'll Foreclose.
Milo Green put the document in his
pocket and rose to go. The wife was
sobbing AS he started towards the
door Milo turned suddenly and blazed
out at his sick rival:
Before the Almighty" he declared,
eff you don't brace up and be man
and support this woman and child I'll
foreclose the mortgage the minute it
falls due. l did this in the hope of
making a man of you. l wish you'd
debut, if she wants you to live, I'll
give you a chance. If you drink and
fail to pay that mortgage I'll take the
boy"
From that day on Jaques was sober.
AS he slowly regained his health he
sought work and found it in lumber
yard, and he and his wife settled down
to save money to raise the mortgage on
their boy. Every six months they paid
the interest, and the little fortune in
the bank grew larger.
They do not know it yet, but every
cent OF interest money that has been
paid is in bank at ST. Johnsbury to
the order of one Claire Leseuer.
The struggle has been a hard one.
but the couple is certain that, by extra
work and extra saving, they can al
most accumulate enough to settle the
debt by September. The father Is wor-
rying over the prospect, and working
harder and harder to get money enough
to settle the debt, but, strange as it
may seem, the mother is not worrying
a bit aa- ..
Minister Takes Hand.
A few weeks ago the minister heard
of the strange mortgage that Capt.
Green held on the little boy up at
Guildhall, and he drove over to remon-
strate with the captain about such un-
natural traffic.
What Capt. Green said to the minis
ter is not entirely known. But it is a
strange thing that the next day, on
meeting a neighbor, Capt. Green re-
marked that the preacher was a pretty
decent sort of fellow, and the minis
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ter will not listen to anyone who
speaks of Capt. Green's hardness.
1t is peculiar, also, that the lawyer
down in Peacham, who drew Capt.
Green's will, chuckles whenever the
subject of the mortgage is mentioned.
Jaques Leseuer, over in the lumber
yard, is working desperately and few
erishly. at will kill my wife" he
says. 81 must pay it."
The Mother Only Smiles.
And, stranger than anything else, q
few days ago Marie Leseuer was sew
ing on little blue jacket for Claire,
and she said to a ncighbor:
Don't let Jacques hear of it, but
I'm making this so Claire can go over
to Peacham for visit this fall"
"Then the old skinf1int is going to
foreclose the mortgage?" asked the in
dignant neighbor.
you mustn't call him a skiniint.
He's been kind to us, and, whether the
mortgage is paid or not, I'm going to
let him have Claire for a time. think
it will do them both good"
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Pau Attention TO Your Shoes

Alice blue canvas oXfords. A fashion
not so pretty, more forced, is that OF
black patent feathers with uppers of
colored kid. White canvas shoes with
patent leather tips are a better nov
city.
White canvas shoes are easily
cleaned, do not cost a great deal. and
are recommended both for utility and
appearance. Colored shoes all are
cooler than black ones, as anyone de-
voted to the russell low shoe knows.
Stockings matching the gown are
fashionable, and are in good taste;
they really are not conspicuous, carry
out the color scheme without calling
attention to contrast. There is less
open-work this season, perhaps, more
embroidery and more variety of shades.
Calfskin is not to the fore now, even
for outing wear, to the degree it has
been, the tan and brown leather hay-
ing superseded it. Shoes are not quite
so sharply pointed as the extremists
tried to have them, but the bulldog toe
is utterly routed. Heels are too high
again, but need not be the ridiculous
Frenchy sort that sometimes sends the
foolish wearer to the hospital. In fact.
many well dressed woman, no matter
what the fad be, refuses ever to wear
the high narrow heel; there are enough
of these women that always there are
offered the medium shoes in late style
of vamp cut and material.
The slippers of straps and rosettes is
now the mode. The rosette may be of
chiffon matching the dress, or it may
be of white lace with a big gold button
at the center.
Shoes are more fanciful than they
have been in the memory of this gen.
Grafton; even the canvas ones come
embroidered. But the most marked
feature of shoes for 1905 is that the
old established black has been intrudeG
upon by the colored canvas and kid.
ELLEN QSMONDR
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The Stransest Financial Transaction
Ever Known In This Country.
A ROMANCE is BACK OF IT ALL.
Capt. Milo Green. Tilted by the Girl He Loves.
Advances Money, with Her Child as Secu-
rity, When She Gets in Financial Diff
culties-Claim Is Due September
II of This Year.

him bravely, even after he was forced
to leave st. Johnsbury and seek work
day labor-at Guildhall. What the
little woman suffered in the first ten
years of her married life she alone
knows. Her beauty changed-but she
still was beautiful. Trouble and hard
work could not change everything, and
her eyes were just as flashing and her
hair as black as ever. The husband
still drank hard, but for a time she
thought she had won the victory. He
quit drinking, settled down to work,
and there were three years of compare
tive happiness. Then Claire came, and
the mothers heart, hungering for years
for her lost boy, was satisfied.
The birth of Claire was fatal to his
fathers good resolutions. The day aft
er the child was born Jaques went out
to celebrate. He returned home drunk
and for most of the next two years he
remained drunk. He lost his savings,
his little home. his employment. The
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girl in all-white, provided it be specl-
less, is refreshing object on a torrid
day, and many a one will gladden. our
eyes this summer. 1t surely is what is
called white season.
The other evening a stately vision
came our way, tall young woman all
in pure white. The gown on near view
proved a soft null, trimmed with fine
insertion and lace, the redingote OF
white silk. One might think soft white
silk not the proper coat material, that
it not only would soil too easily but
would draw and pull out of shape. This
particular one fitted very well, the
seams as true as though of firm stuff.
1t was effective, and not impracticabler
gown and wrap both would undergo
washing. The hat was lace lingerie,
not too disjointed; picturesque with
out leaning to the grotesque.
AS rule a woman feels more at
ease if she have some little throw to
wear on the street, and as rule she
looks better. In the past the ostrich
boa fulfilled this purpose, but it cost
So muCu IL Was uOL Al IcdCu VI mdlSy.
Now we have boas made of tulle and
net, which are very frilly and pretty,
and reasonable in price. The shops
offer an infinite variety; fat ones of
no great depth or length; deeper ones
with long ends, and mere scarfs. One
attractive model is short, an end tucks
in close at the neck, while the other
extends little distance to one side,
and at the fastening is worn bunch
of flowers matching the trimming on
the hat.
These boas, made of close-set frill
of valenciennes lace, are extremely
pretty, and generally becoming. The
rich scarf is to be had in lovely shades,
and shows up well on light gown. II
one has a lace scarf heirloom it would
be well to resurrect it this summer, for
there is as much latitude in wraps as
there is in the styles of skirts.
Shawl-shaped fichus are very grace
full and are edged with fringe These
on the lingerie order, of soft null del
icately embroidered, are especially
charming. A scarf of double width
tulle, two or three yards long, makes
a pretty accessory to the afternoon or
evening dress, and does not cost vsry
much.