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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
BIG SCANDAL" VANIsHES.
Jed spalding's Opponent Was "Liv-
ing with Another Mans Sister,
According to Minister.

The late Jed Spalding, of Michi-
gan, who weighed $50 pounds and
stood six feet five in his socks, was
one of the best jokers in the state.
He had a brother-in-law in politics,
whom he did not like very well,
and once very vigorously opposed
his candidacy for mayor of Port
Huron, Mich. One day, while the
ministers of the city held a meet
ing to decide which candidate to
support, Jed happened to meet
one of the pastors on the way to
the meeting. This preacher was
an aged Scotchman and somewhat
hard of hearing. He told Spaldinl
that he would do all he could t
prevent the brother-in.law's in
dorsement, and asked for a pointer
or two for a speech. Spalding, eve
ready for a joke, saw his chance
and, pulling his pastor aside
shouted in his ear: "My brother
in-law is living with another man
sister"
"You don't tell mev the paste
said, and he hurried off to tn
meeting to spread the new
among the ministers. He got th
platform and Immediately said:
"The Democratic candidate is
most wicked wretch. He is Twin
with another MANS sister. Ihay
the word of his brother-in-law Je
Spalding, for it."
Immediately the meeting was
an upsoar. The mention Of jess
spalding was enough. The laug
ter became tumultuous, but Il
pastor didn't notice the mistal
he had made until told that j,
Spalding himself was the 10Th
man."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
STRAW HAT SALE IN WINTER
For Wear in Florida, Where the Sum
mer Season Has opened-Wave
Proceeds North.

1--WE always carry a good stock
OF straw hats in WINTER" said 4
New York halter, "and the seyerer
the winter the more straw hats we
SELL. The simple reason for this
is that in such a season more PEG
pie go south, and it is to people go
ing well south that we sell straw
hats here in winter.
"They are wearing straw hats in
Florida now, south of st. Angus.
tine. You would find some straw
hats worn in that city. but at Or
mond, Palm Beach and Miami and
elsewhere throughout the Florida
peninsula south Of st. Augustine
straw hats are now commonly
worn and are required for comfort.
The straw hat stocks that we
carry in winter here and at our
agencies in Florida are not of the
hats left over from the stocks Of
the preceding season here, but ad
vance supplies of new fresh goods,
from stocks made up for the sue
ceeding season. The straw hat
season in this country really opens
i'll Florida in winter, and the hats
We are now selling for wear there
are of the styles of 1906, such as
will become familiar here when, in
due time, the straw season shall
have opened in New York
Owe begin making straw hats
for the next years trade on Au-
gust 10" said a straw hat manu-
facturer, "and this work goes on
actively all through the fall and
winter. When people here III
New York are going around IN
Heavy o%yercoats and fnrs we are
selling straw hats for future de-
livery, and the distribution Of
straw hats to more distant south.
ern points beginsin winter, so that
the jobbers and retailers at these
points may have their stocks
ready for the opening of the sea
son.
"The straw hat season opens in
Florida, not only for the tourists,
but for jewellers in the state, about
February 1. In New Orleans and
Mobile and along the gulf, they be.
gin to wear straw hats about April
1, and so with the advancing sea
,fson straw hats begin to blossom
further and further north, until
, We get the opening of the straw
| hat season in New York about The
, last of May"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
lRELAND's FUEL INDUSTRY.
Land of Erin Certainly Is Entering
Upon Another Era, According
to All Indications.

1t now looks as if Ireland had
entered upon a practical develop
ment, in a new fashion, of the vast
reserve of fuel stored in her boys,
says the Boston Transcript. The
coal deposits, though worked to a
small extent, do not at present
encourage a considerable invest
ment of capital. Prof. Hull, wher
head of the geological survey de-
partment, fixed the native coal re.
sources at a substantial total, and
the day may come when, through
the imprOvident system of Eng
fish mining, they will constitute
a very valuable property. Mean
while the peat is at the surface and
invites enterprise. The wonder is
that this great accumulation Of
potential wealth has remained so
ong almost ignored. 1t is true
that at least 5000, 900 of the pOpu-
latiOn have used peat from time
immemorial for heating, but they
were merely touching the fringe,
and the current methods of pre-.
pairing it for burning were utterly
, primitive and incidentally waste
full. No one seemed to think until
very recently that a material so
abundant might be capable of
! utilization in some other way and
for other purposes than for do
nestle fire. Men of science, active
, enough in various directions, ig.
nored mere boys as scarcely
worthy of their study. They didn't
even appear to be aware that Ger
many was experimenting with THU
"brown coal" with a view of bring
r Ing it into the domain of com
merce, and that Sweden, Denmark
d and Holland had machines in u.s.
> to compress the clammy stuff int,
r hard and dry cakes which woul,
$ meet the needs of MANUFACTURER
r Industry.
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Telephone Patents.

A patent every day for the year
1905 is the telephone record. Dur.
ing the last year there were issued
about 1886 patents for Inventions
relating to telephony, or an aver
age Of one daily. This represents
30 per cent. increase over the year
1904, and nearly 100 per cent. in
crease over 1903.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10

NoTE-There are many mixtures, made in imitation
OF good baking powders, which the prudent will
avoid. They may be known by their price, being
sold for ten to twenty-five cents a pound, or a cent
an ounce. They are made with alum, interfere with
the healthfulness of the food.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
THE STYLES IN sNowsAoEs
Various Models That the Traveller
Prefers in Different Parts of
the Country.

In the intense cold of the north
west where the snow is deep and
frozen to a dry powder, the dog
drivers use a shoe that is p feet
long and fairly narrow. The mesh
cs are coarse in the spring, but
midwinter and dry, hard snow ne
cessitates an extremely fine mesh.
The toe hole is placed about two
thirds the length forward and the
toe of the shoe is broad and up
turned. In the best made shoes
the filling is cleverly put in and pre-
sents a concave surface to thu
snow and does not sink in deeply.
but carries up and forward so that
the long body and heel always re
main down, even at a fast pace.
In Eastern Canada, where the
country is less open, the snowshOc
is an almost exact opposite in
shape. The oval is Shorter and
broadened until it appears very
clumsy, nevertheless il has been
generally accepted for all-round
use. In this model the toe hole is
placed further forward for ease in
hill climbing, says I. D. sherman,
III Outing.
The "club" shoes in the market
to-day follow this design, except
that they have upturned toes,
whereas the trappers and lumber
men claim that it is easier to
climb hills on the hat-t0e model,
especially when carry ne a pack OF
dragging a toboggan. A special
ly designed shoe called a "hill
climber" has no filling forward OF
the toe hole nor back of the real
cross piece, beside being very
coarsely meshed. To borrow from
an expressive friend who owns .
pair: If you always climbed il
would be a 'cnch,' but they're tht
divil and all coming down" Where
the forests are very dense the In
dian uses a fairly broad shoe abOu.
three feet in length, enabling hin
to slipsmoothly about through tn,
trees with small danger of tang
ling the tails in the thick under
brush, which would be sure to hap
pen necessarily if they were mod
eled after those used on the opel
plains.
There is another i~nterestin.
model, formerly used in the AID.
rondacks. and now mostly confine
to the Rocky mountains, Gale
the "bear-paw" shoe. 1t is a pei
feet oval in shape, having no het
or tail. 1t measures about Is b
II inches and is %eoarsely strung
the meshes being two to four incl
cs across. This coarse mesh i
very necessary where the snow
moist, as otherwise the shoe wOul
, load up at every step and max
! travelling impossible, Most of th
; eastern shoes are closely meshe'
as the snow, being light and fine
. a wooded country, Sits east
= through.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
FIRST lNDlaN IN LONDON.
Unusual Experiences Of a New Yorker
and an English Boy in Capital
Tells OF Acquaintance.

"The first American Indian l
ever saw" said a New Yorker,
"was in London, at Buffalo Bills
wild west show.
Il had gone out to the show
grounds early so as to look around
a little in advance, and while | was
doing this I saw this Indian step
out of his tepee; and he fixed my
eye in a minute. and l just stood
there and looked at him.
"He was the real red man of the
forest all right, the kind you read
about in Indian stories, and he
looked it all over, tail land straight
and 1.-THE and all that, and he just
stood there in front of his tent like
a bronze figure, silent and immov.
able, never saying a word.
Next there stepped out of the
tent a little Indian, five or six
years old, maybe. He was the big
Aidian's son, probably, and q
straight little clap he was. He
stepped up alongside Of his father,
and stood there just as still and ST.
lent; and that certainly made a
remarkable pair of Indians, and
| stood and looked at them with
great interest.
And while was standing there
looking at them a little London
cockney lad, maybe Il or IA years
old, came along, and stopped and
looked at them, too, with interest,
but with a little different sort of
interest from mine. He had in his
hand a biscuit, or a bun, or some
thing, and after he'd been stand.
ing there a minute or two he began
picking little lunches of it out OF
this bun and rolling them in dough
pills between his fingers and flick.
ing these pills at the small Indian
Neither the big Indian nor the
little one stirred or said a wore
while this was going on. They JUS
stood there just the same unit
finally the little cockney lad land
ed one of those pills square in thu
little papoose's eye. And the bi!
Indian spoke.
Gle didn't move, he didn't stir
he didn't shift a hair; but he didn'
need to take any action, what h,
said was enough. And he didn'
say ugh! UghP or talk any sor
Of Indians at all.
But standing there perfectl.
still, never moving a muscle, an,
speaking quietly and coldly, h
proceeded to tell the lad, in detail
and not in Indian, but in straigh
New York Gashouse, precisel
what no won't ro-'rr I'D ar
other pill at the little Indian.
! IF u starut IaG sp0Acl come i
| that sort OF language / couldn'
. have been more surprised than
? was to hear the Indian talking il
and what with the surprise of i
and, still more, | guess, the yer
particular nature of the warnin
in it for him, the Indian speeC
hit the little cockney lad hard. H
certainly did not throw any MOI
pellets at the papoose, and pref
= soon he passed on; and went {
myself not long after that, leaviI
the Indian still standing there il
: movable"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10

Papa (~sternlN-Come here, sir!
Your mother and | agree that you
deserve a sound whipping.
Small Boy (bitterly)-0h, yes,
that's about the only thing that
YOU and mamma ever do agree
lbout.-Stray Stories.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
no b Point.

"The day of the boss is over"
said the talkatiYe man.
married or single?" asked the
man who hadn't spoken before.
Thougltless listeners deemed
the question irreleyant.-Philadel
phia ledger.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
which Half

Bjones-Psmith saidI was liar
and d horsethief.
Kbrown-Oh, don't mind that.
Everybody knows that Psmith
never gels anything more than
A&f right.-Cleyeland Leader.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-10
Novel Weather Signal.

In some parts of the United
States, where the weather cOndi-
lions are of vital Importance to
the fruit-grower, the weather bu-
reau has endeavored to reach
everybody interested by means of
whistle signals. A code has been
devised, and where used locally it
is published in the newspapers, so
that at a given hour anyone may
learn of the latest weather fore
cast without taking the trouble TO
60 out of his way. A preliminary
blast of from
ton is first sounded at a predeter.
mined hour to attract attention
Weather conditions are Indicated
by combinations Of long blasts
and temperature conditions by
short blasts. The long signals are
from four to six seconds dura
tion and the shorter ones from one
to three.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
Wild WITH /. ]. :.
Q0aA1 n >Rul0-u0 II 20"
!" IL celjge .-E
ITCHING HUM0R.
Eruption Broke Out in Spots All
Over Body-Caused a Continual
' itching for Two Years Doctors
Medicine Did no Good Cured at
Expense Of only SLIPS and Now
THANKS CUTlCURA
FOR COMPLETE CURE

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
MOTHER in FLIGHT
TO ESCAPE PRISON
Charged with Robbing Her Own
Children, She Seeks Safety
in Alaska.

Special to The Journal.
Missoula, Mont, Jan. 18.-Failing to
perform the sacred trust imposed upon
her in the handling Of $4,000 as guar
diam Of her four minor children, and
with a charge of grand larceny pre-
ferred against her by the American
Bonding company Of Baltimore, Mrs. p.
J. Roe Of Missoula, in company with
man named Smith Higgins, has abscond-
of Alaska. Aside from the charge OF
grand larceny, the woman is liable un,
der the criminal law for abscOnding and
for contempt Of court.
The officers Of Missoula county. are
hot upon the woman's trail and it is
confidently believed she will be under
arrest in few days. She is aboard
the ship Farallon, sailing between Seat
tie and Alaska, and at the next port the
steamer touches, she will find war
rant waiting for her.
days ago In company with Higgins and
three Of her children and went imme
diately to Seattle. Officers Of that
city we're notified to arrest her. Yes
terday a telegram was received from
there stating that Smith and Mrs. Roe
sailed from Seattle Sunday on the
steamer Farallon for Valdez. Alaska.
The first port the steamer will touch
will be Juneau. information has been
wired to the United States marshal to
take the two into custody at that point,
and extradition papers will be sent
there at once.
Mrs. Roe was recently appointed
guardian Of her children to handle
$4,000 insurance money left them by
her late husband. She was placed un-
der bond for the faithful performance
pany acting as her surety. It had
been agreed that Mrs. Roe was to han.
die the insurance money jointly with
J. H. T. Ryan, cashier Of the Western
Montana National bank. The money
was paid over to her by the Modern
Woodmen, however, without the knowl
edge Of the cashier, or Of the district
court. - - -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
CHAMPION OF ALL
...... S St ! 7: 4 ! .|:,
Chicago Man Goes Down Town
for the First Time in
Eight Years. f.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service. -.
Chicago, Jan. 1e.-Johr Peterson,
who is Employed in the Mccormick
branch of the International Harvester
company, and lives at West Twenty
first andgWestern avenue. came down
eight years, and from the story he told
in Justice Hurley's court, the authori-
ties Judge that his entire fawily has
a. bad case Of the stay -at-home habit.
NMy wife, said Peterson, "hasn It
been down town for good, long while.
I don't know how long, but it must
be years. My three children haven't
been out of the house for more than
five minutes during the last seven
months. Their mother, keeps them
locked up. She is afraid they will be
stolen. T think she is insane. -
Forced to Leave Home.
Peterson did not come down town
this time because he wanted to, either.
He, left the home, to which he appears
to- be so much attached, because truant
officers arrested him for not sending his
children to school. ..
"After the hearing was over, Peter
son began to have the time of his life.
Some Of the officers Of the court, who
| had heard his story and who thought it
WOlllu US d ldl ~, OAO1Ou W SoSoAo AAAAA
around town.
sESure,' said Peterson when the in
vitation was extended. "I'd be tickled
| to death. This is new country to
me- ...
So Peterson was taken down to State
| street.
<"Say,' he said, clutching the arm Of
one OF" his escorts as they turned into
that thorofare, t'There must be fire.
Look at the crowd. Everybody on the
run. Let's get in the jam and see
what's going on
| Rubber" and Lame Neck.
{ Peterson nearly injured the igaments
of his neck staring at the tail buildings.
| They bore him on to the big depart
ment stores, into the lavishly decked
windows of which Peterson gazed with
the wide-eyed astonishment Of child
"reading the pictures Of new
Christmas book.
FAINT they great,'' he gasped
Essay, this beats regular show. Moth.
ing like this on Western avenue.
| Peterson wound up his day at a
vaudeville theater matinee. He sat thru
the performance in an ecstacy Of bliss
He said nothing until his companions
stopped to hail a car. Then he re-
peated remark he had made innumer:
able times before: "Well, I swear
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF HENNE.
pin-ss.-In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of William Vro-
man, deceased. - = 50" - ".. >"
The petition Of Charles e.. Vroman having
teen duly made and filed in this court, repre-
senting among other things that one William
Vroman, who resided last prior to his death at
Madison, in the state OF Wisconsin. died at
Madison, in the county Of Dane, state Of Wis
consin. on the list day of MaS 1895. seized of
an estate of inheritance in certain lands in the
| county of Henne.in," state of Minnesota, de-
scribed in said petition and that said petitioner
has an interest in said lands. and that more
than five years have elapsed since the death of
said William Vroman. deceased. and that no
will has. been probated, and administra ton has
! not been granted or had Of said estate in this
state. and praying that the descent of said lands
and of the interest Of said petitioner therein be
ty this court determined. and said lands assigned
| to such persons as may be entitled thereto by
law -~-s-: ~-'" s%'
| Now, therefore. it is ordered that the said
| petition be heard at term of this court to be
| held at the courthouse. in the city Of Mime
apolis, in said county Of Hennepin, state of Min
resota on Tuesday the 18th day Of February,
A. D. 1906. at 10 O'Clock am. -. .--
1t is further ordered, that notice of said hear
| ing of said petition be given by the publication
| Of this order once in each week for three sue
cessive weeks in the Minneapolis Journal, daily
newspaper printed and published in said Henne-
pin county. .s..
-'s"I F. c. HARVEY, Judge of Probate.
Dated Jan. Is. 1905. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16
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: "All Clouds Do Not Bring Rain. :"
AS general proposition extravagant
promises do not materialize, neither
do pretty labels. always ado1n good
simply say, "try it, and leave it for
you to deliver the eulogy. -, i.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-16

Justice Pollard Of st.. Louis, for sew
eraIt years past, whenever AZ man is
brought before him for drunkenness, re-
quires his signature to- total absti-
hence pledge for a year or more and
stays sentence as long as the pledge is
kept. $500 J.