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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Knew How to Do 1t.

"Will you allow me to ask you
a question:" interrupted a man in
the audience.
"Certainly, sir" said the orator.
''You have been giving us lot
of figures about alien immigration,
increase in wealth, the growth of
trusts, and all that" said the man.
"Let's see what you know about
figures yourself. How do you
find the greatest common divisorl'
Slowly and deliberately the ora
tor took drink of water.
Then he pointed a finger straight
at the questioner. Lightning
flashed from his eyes, and he re-
piled in voice that made the gas
Jets qniver.
Advertise for it, you ignora-
mous!"
The audience cheered, and yell
ed and stamped, and the wretched
man who had asked the question,
sneaked out af the hall total
wreck.-Ex.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
CoRSETS FAD OF ANCIENTS
Oxford Man in Unearthing Palace
Smashes Theory of Uncramped
Women Of Long Ago.

Arthur Evans. the Oxford Archaeo-
loglst. who has made SO many inter-
esting discoveries in the so-cailed pal
ace OF Minos, in Crete, has found in a
subterranean sanctuary certain very
ancient, small Earehenware statues,
representing sau,e goddess and two of
her servants. The dress of the figures
is said to be highly modern. The god
dess, We grieve to say. wears corset.
just such a corset as contemporary
man shyly wonders at in the windows
of a department store. The skirt OF
the robe of the goddess is in Louis
XIV. style" Her jacket is exactly as
is worn in the present day" Styles OF
say 1000 3. c.. styles of 1904. Unless
some humorist has "sslted" the exca-
vations, you are forced to hold, re-
marks Everybody's Magazine, that
much nonsense has been written about
the splendid, free. uncramped bodies
of the female sncients. And we shift
and bedeek and bedrape us" much as
our esteemed ancestors did in the
morning Of the world.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
RoonyiIle ~ Lose Land
Offices.

! dss;,.sc', from Washington
says: Among the fourteen land
offices. in the central West which
will be abolished those ut Ironton
and BoonyilIc, Mo-. are included.
Representative lIamlin would like
to see these two offices consolldat-
ed with the third office in the state
which is located at his home town
of Springfield.
1t was stated at the land Office
last week that no definite action
had been taken to abolish any Of
fees with the exception of the one
at McCook, Neb., and one or two
in other states. There have, been
objections interposed by senators
and members of the House from
nearly every state against abolish
ishing the offices, or to any change
and naturally the registers and re-
ceivers at these offices are bring
ing every influence to bear in order
to hold their jobs. The statutes
state explicitly, however, that
where the land in the jurisdiction
of any Office falls below 100000
acres, or the cost of maintaining
the office exceeds one third of its
recei is, it shall be abolished. The
law has not been strictly enforced
heretofore, and the congressman
will exert every effort to keep the
Offices in their states.
The reports from the two Offices
in Missouri show the following
for the fiscal year ending June 80
last:
Ironton of1ice-Vacant public
land, 1,0so acres; cash receipts,
S11, ,693; salary of each officer, ST.
259; expense of office, $2735; re-
ceipts for quarter ending Septem-
ber 80, $l701.
Boopville ofiice-Vacant public
land, 1880; cash receipts, S412,-
239; salaries, S12S7 each; expenses
S29I4; receipts, S2511.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Pointed Paragraphs.

The man who pays cash for a
ton of coal has money to burn.
A joker's idea of good Joke is
one that is on the other fellow.
Many smsn wants the earth but
in the end the earth gets the man.
A man doesent need much mon
ey if he has reputation for being
wealthy.
A fool may not know when to
stop talking, but wise man know s
when not to begin.
Some men claim to be self-made
while some others are supposed to
be wife made.
Men and women who are oppos-
ed to labor unions should steer
clear of love in a cottage.
Before the self made man can
get into politics he must be made
over by the machine.
It's almost as difficult for wo-
man to keep secret as it is for
her to see the point of a joke.
AS rule women are not inclin
cd to lay up anything for a rainy
day-probably because they dis
like the idea of shopping in the
rain.
It's poor mule that won't work
both ways.
knowledge is horse power to the
veterinary surgeon.
Truth is mighty and will prevail
after political campaign.
At the age of forty-tive a man
wishes he knew as much as his
twenty -year-old son.
Sympathy is wasted on the un-
known man who lets famous wo-
man marry him.
Women think they do the post.
master Il favor when they buy a
postage stamp.
Coal may be high, but after it is
once in the bin it soon gets lower.
Some men are as proud of what
they do as others are of what they
can avoid doing.
A woman is seldom interested in
her husbands letters unless they
are marked ''personal."
1t takes shrewd business mar
to conduct paying peanut stand
next door to police station.
Some men believe in long en-
gagements, but the average girl il
willing to take chances on any
kind.
Lots of men use their last dollar
buckiug the tiger instead of using
it to keep the wolf from the door.
Chicago News.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
RETURN DAY IN DELAWARE,
Old Election Custom Observed It =
County Seat-Populace Assem-
bles and Hazes Losers.

Sussex county Delaware, on the dap
after election, as for a century past u
has done on the Thursday following q
big election, gathered at the county
seat to celebrate the return day The
actual reading of the returns from the
courthouse steps, the hazing Of losers
and the congratulations of the winners
have passed with the birth of teio-
graph, telephone and newspaper. but
with true Delaware exclusiveness tho
county clings to its unique post-elSe-
tion festival. Every man. woman and
child in lower Delaware who couia
scour uD a conveyance was there, says
the New York Sun. Every one w&s In
holiday attire and the horses were
gaudy with flags and bunting. Thou
sands picnicked in the courthouse
square and did everything. from talk
politics to swapping horses Tho
negro, who forms a large percentage
of the county's population. was out In
force. -He had money-he always AaD
had since Addicks was In politics--anl
he was willing to barter his money TOR
the cpp'that cheers Frequently thecoa-
ored ;bTother started out to hunt trour
Bile and always got it from the nearest
citizen. Sometimes his ardor was coolies
with a fist, at other times a club or N
iron hitching weight was used. The
remedy was always effective. The pre-
vailing trend of conversation was that
votes had brought higher figure than
ever before and that immediate Droo-
perity was assured.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
good of the ''common people
there cannot he too much of.

A subject that is receiving con-
siderable attention just now in the
press and in the minds of public
men is the question Of corrupt
politics and the apparent growth
of the use of money in influencing
elections, and how to overcome
the evil and make elections more
pure. The practice of corrupting
the voters is one that strikes at
the roots of honest government
and the remedial agency must be
of kind that fear of the conse-
Guances will deter men from en-
gaging ia the practice of corrupt
ing the voters. Political parties
are as much to blame as individ-
uals for the growth of corruption
in politics, for when such corrup-
ton is accomplished the party in
whose favor it is done often strains
every effort to stand between the
law and the offenders. Political
corruption has its best breeding
places in the larger cities of the
country. where bands Of political
mercenaries composed usually of
the very lowest classes of citizens,
practically rule at the ballot-box.
Nowhere in the whole United
States is there a better example of
this unwholsome tendency than in
the fourth ward in the city of St.
Louis, under the protection of the
Democratic party. In that ward
the Republican vote has almost
been obliterated. The paid mer-
cenaries were given the whole reg
istration lists of the ward and were
permitted by the election judges
to pass before them and deposit
ballot after ballot until the entire
lists had been voted in the interest
Of one party. The judges of the
opposing party would not protest
against these proceedings for fear
of personal injury. Such methods
make the ''free'' institutions of the
United States seem farcical; gov
ernment by them is the despotic
rule of vicious power abetted in
by the party which profits by it.
There is, indeed, cause for the
honest and fresdom-loving citizens
of the United States to be waking
up and thinking seriously Of pow
er of corrupt influences over their
institutions.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

Happily there are many sub
stantial reasons why the people of
Missouri should feel merry just
now, but there is one which appeals
to the Republicans of the state es'
pecially. In the recent campaign
Democratic and mugwump news
papers did all in their power to
defeat the candidates nominated at
Republican conventions. 1t is not
certain that their efforts in this di-
rection had any special potency,
but they were put forth zealousIy
and persistently. Now since the
election is over and the Republi-
cans are about to assume the re-
sponsibiIity in the state legislature
that the people entrusted to them,
10 and behold these Democratic
and mugwump sheets bob up as
the chief advisors and instructors
of the Republican majority. The
Republican legislators are told
what they must and must not do,
which candidate they must accept,
what influences they must heed
and what influences they must turn
a deaf ear to, and how they must
proceed generally in order to make
a good record for the party-in
whose welfare these counselors, of
course, are deeply interested.
There is not Republican legis-
lator- elect who can fail to be struck
by the impudence of these journal
istic advisers. There isn't one OF
them that would not receive with
derision a suggestion that he could
be influenced by their twaddle-
unless possibly he might be moved
to do the opposite of what they
tell him to do. Missouri Republi
cans are not in the habit of takine g
advice from the organs of the en-
emy, and they will hardly begin
now at time when they have wol
& great victory and have some ex-
ceptionally important duties to dis
charge to the people and to thei1
party. But the Democratic ant
n,ugwump editors are pouring on
their daily tnbfuls Of advice will
as mucn seriousness and pompositl
as if their course was not ntterl.
Inconsistent and ridiculous. 1t il
risking nothing to say that tn
lRepablicsns in the legislature will
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Not a Scrap Left.

The editor of fourishing jour
nal in neighboring town recently
called at the ''home of the brides
parents the day after the wedding.
He was desirous of telling his
readers all about the event, and
wished to give the young couple a
good ''send off, as well. The
brides mother met him.
Good morning, Mrs. Jones, "
said the editor. Il have called to
get some of the details of the we'd
ding"
''Goodness!'' replied Mrs. Jones
in dismay. ''They're all gone.
You ought to have come last night.
They ate every scrap"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Boys Essay on Lions.

A boys teacher had taken him
to the geological gardens with his
classmates. On their return the
teacher asked that each should
write an essay on some of the ami
mails he had seen. Here is sam
pie from a bright-minded eleven
year-old.
''Llons always walk except when
they eat and then they growl.
Their roar is most terrifying to
men aud other beasts when heard
in the forest, but when they are in
cages it sounds like they were sor-
~ about something. Their tails
are not as long as the monkeys &C
eording to their size, bat keep
switching all the time, and the
seals can make just as loud a noise
and have more fun in the water.
They are cats, no matter what you
think, and their size has nothing
to do with it, and they think with
out talking. Once donkey stole
q lions skin and went around brag
ging about it, but the other donkeys
got onto him because he talked Sc
much. That showed be was don
key. Keep still when you are
thinking"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

Senator Dryden OF New Jersey,
q prominent life insurance man,
says that federal oontrol should be
exercised over life insurance COM
pauies. More "socialism." There
is no business interest in this coun-
try that touches the people closep
than life insurance, unless it is
banking, and life insurance may
be practically called banking, since
It is nothing more or less than lay
ing up or saving money for the
bene6ciaries of the insured. There
fore, if federal control may be ex-
srsised over banks, why not over
life insurance companies. Life
insurance should be made absolute
" safe, and any corporation or
mutual association engaged in the
business of writing life insurance
should be required by the federal
statutes to give positive assurance
of its ability and intentions 10
carry out its obligations. Fra
ternai insurance societies should
be brought under such supervision
- we'll as corporate companies,
&or it is in the latter organizations
that the masses carry insurance.
Such legislation is In the interest
of the people, in the interest OF
the widows and orphaps of the
men who had paid out Of their
duly earnings what they could
that those dependent upon them
might have provision against pow
erty after the death of the family
provhler. Let such laws be urged
snl welcomed, fos what is for ths
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

A Missouri editor attempted sui.
eide Tuesday. The daily papers
say that business troubles grow
ing out of the suspension Of his
paper last week was probably the
cause. We will wager a ginger
cake that he had several thousand
dollars delinquent subscribers .on
his books, and that his readers arc
directly responsible for his desig
ing to 90 hence. We trust that
readers of country newspapers
will not allow this thing to contin-
ue.-De Soto Republican.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

THE HUSBANDS JUDGMENT BEST.
Husband and wife often disagree about
some matter that concerns each other and
frequently. the husband finds that his
wife's judgment is the best The case of
Mr.. John W. Young of Lincoln, ILL.,, how
ever. is an, exception. he says: MY wife
and both had a severe cold and we de.
cided to get some kind of medicine.
bought myself bottle of Hart's Honey
and Hoarhound and. taking it as directed,
was we'll in a short time. She wanted an
other kind and with the result that she
still has a bad cough. advised her to
take Harris Honey and Hoarhound and
think she will have to do so il she gets well
this winter" Harts Honey and Hoar
hound Is sold by F. X. Teasdale. Potosi
and ]. L. Eaton. Belgrade, in a5c. soc and
$I.oo bottles.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Tnld by Truthful James.

A more or less truthful Australian
relates that he put an unusually larDo
porcelain egg in the nest OF hen aAd
found that the next eggs she laid were
OF increased size. Then he put q goose
egg in the nest The hen laid an oeI
just as large. He was so pleased With
the scheme that he put a whitswashed
football in the nest. When he went
the next time to search for eggs 10
found one as big as a football, but 10
hen in sight. Securing the agE, -
saw engraved on it, by hen pgokaD-
raphy, these words: I'm no Ostrich,
but I've done my best" Later -
found the hen inside ,the egg
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

When one reads of the terrible
loss of life 10 the war between
Russia ana Japan we wonder> why
man viii blindly submit. to being
led UP to the slaughter. Modern
humapitarlanism should intervene
against the settling of information
al disputes by the killing men.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

Bill Eaton, v;1o was raised near
Bloomfield and went through the
war of 1851, never returned after
the war and all his people thought
him dead, but on December IL,
1904, he made his appearance IN
Bloomfield, and it appears thas he
has amassed fortune and is worth
over a million doIlars.-Jacksou
Herald.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Bows as Kitchen Servants.

The serHxnt girl problem haA bes0
solved by University OF Nebraska stu
dents, many Of whom have taken tAe
:plsce cf the kitchen maid In = num-
Der Of homes. This is because young
men students at the university hsyD
taken Up domestic science In the claO-
room, and are applying the knov.e4gs
thus acquired to earn college expeuseA
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

The Cars promises of reforms
in Russia are too much like the
promised reforms of the Demo
cratic party in the United States
for the people to have much conf
dence in them.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land office at 1ronton. Mo-, Decem-
Der }, l904.-Notice is hereby given
that the folloWing-named settler has
filed notice of his intention to make
lina! proof in support Of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the
Clerk Of the County Court at Potosi
Mo-, on January IL, 1905. viz; VIM.
J. Martin, II E l4436, for the S of
lots l aud n w t section !, township
&c n. range w. Fe names the fol-
lowing witnesses to prove his contin-
uous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz: George w. Crump.
VIM. Cooper, Andrew Beers and Dan
iel Gillian, all of Brazil, Mo.
GEORGE STEEL, Register.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
HiSs0nr;'S Hen,

Few people in Missouri eve,
stop TO think what an important
industry the poultry and egg brsi-
ness has praTen to be. In the
year Just closed Missouri has pro
duced forty million ,!ozen eggs,
with Il value which exceeds aay
other crop. If The growth of the
egg business in Missouri continues
it will be but a few years until
Missouri's hens will offer up pro-
duct equal in value to Missouri )
mines.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

90 about tie performance of their
various duties, including the eIec-
tion of senator, without the least
reference to the volunteer coun
sells of the Democratic and mug
wu,np newspapers. Kansas City
Journal.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

The jewelry store of J. IT. Tetley at
Flat River was broken open at mid.
day on Tuesday Of last week while
the owner was at home at dinner and
robbed of watches and jewelry to the
value of $500.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
A LOVE LETTER.

Would not interest you if you're
looking for garanteed Salve for Sores
Burns or Piles. Otto Dodd OF Ponder
Mo. writes: II suffered from an ugly
sore for year. but box of Bucklin's S
Arnica Salve cured me. It's the best
Salve on earth. Only Csc at f. X.
Teasdale's Drug Store
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

Re-Go Tonic Laxative Syrup is a pleas:
ant and effectual medicine for cleansing
the system. regulating the liver and bow
els, cures Costiveness, Biliousness, Head
aches, Loss of Appetite. Bad Breath,
Belching, Disorders of the Stomach. In
digestion and Dyspepsia. 25c. soc and
sI.oo bottles. Sold by F. x. Teasdale.
Potosi, and DR.. ]. L. Eaton. Belgrade.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

The Rubber Trust has just been
sued for damages under the Sher-
man law by an independent con-
cern. 1t does not require great
stretch of imagination to believe
that the Rubber Trust has been
trying to got its competitors gum
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

A frog kept at the Cornell uni
versity lived FIVE years without
brains, which does not seem so
very strange in the light of the
fact that lots of men go through
their whole lives without 'em.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

Thos. S. Mcguire, until lately one
of The popular passenger conductors
on the Iron Mountain, has given up
railroading to 90 into the laundry
business at Flat River.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

Hhooree, most Of the boodlers
are now out Of it in Missouri. The
voters did neater and swifter Job
than Joe Folk.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
STRAYED.

Four calves, marked crop off of the
right, split 10 the left ear, tag in the
right ear. Anyone taking up or re-
| turning these cattle will be literally
| rewarded. VIM. RIEHL, Potosi, Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

The Bonne Terre & Mississippi Riv-
er R'y on Jan. 1st reduced it's passen.
ger rates to three cents per mile.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
Eneland's Only Rhinocerss.

@e..@*.o9~*~Ss
A ferocious rhinocer0s. which hao
been at Manchester institution '16x -
years. has just died at Belle Vue. ~
now the rhinoceros at the London -
is the only one in England. !
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04

A law abolishing child labor in
coal mines has just gone into effect
in Illinois. Another step in the
right direction.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1905-01-04
President Roosevelt's "square
deal" idea stands four.square Will
the people.
In her get rich quick scheme
Mrs. Chadwick had Arnold &
Co.'s methods beaten to a frazzle.

The "Mysterious Stranger will
be found in the state capitol at
Jefferson City for the next four
vcara-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-10-28

is at it's height. In Oregon. and Wash
ington the most densely tlmbered area
is west of the Cascade mountain range.
This is due to the moisture peculiar to
that section, which aids in the rapid
and prolific development of plant life.
In this forestry belt the Douglas fir
predominates and furnishes about 80
per cent of the merchantable timber.
Among the larger species OF trees is
the giant tideland spruce, which grows
to marvellous proportions, in many in
stances assuming a diameter of twenty
feet and rising hundreds Of feet In
height. In cutting the big trees stumps
are often left Of twelve or fifteen feet
In height, because the wood OF the low
er part Of the tree Is rough AID hard to
work. If the stump chances to be hol-
lew all settler has to do for . home
Is to roof the stump and cut doors and
windows. Sometimes the hoiiows at
the foot of the trees are such that a
cart can be driven through them even
before the giant lords of the forest are
felled to the ground.