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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-06-15

ington notified Postmaster ]. w.
Mills here this week that after June
80, 1905, the post Office at Riverview
in this county would be discontinued.
The Vefsailles-Boonville Branch of
the Missouri Pacific Railway now has
a train auditor, in other words COL
lector, who, like the Irishman carry
ing the hod, does the work while the
conductor looks on.
Ed Boeschen, accompanied by bis
guests Henry Schapper and Lloyd
Lumpee Of Versailles went out last
Wednesday to become more intimate
ly acquainted with the hnny tribe
Cole Camp Courier.
Mrs. Hester Livesay accompanied
by her son, Attorney r. VI. Livesay,
went to Harrisonville Tuesday morn
ing to make brief visit with her
only uncle, G. P. Woods who is a res
ident OF Harrisonville.
You need not worry any moro.
When you want that picture of yours
framed bring it to f. M. Duh's store
and he will fix you up in the latest
style. He has the goods and the
price is so low you will not miss it.
John f. Price, who had intended
to 60 to the Kentucky Homecomer's
Carnival held at Lexington this week,
gave up his trip at the last moment
owing to the harvesting season being
on and claiming his attention at his
farm near Olean.
Miss Ada Williams, who had been
making visit with Bunceton friends
arrived here Mond1y fer visit with
Versailles relatives and friends. She
is the daughter OF DR.. Porter F..
Williams, superintendent of the State
Asylum at Fulton.
A. P. Muntzel and wife departed
Tuesday for Warrensburg to attend
the State Druggists Convention in
session there this week. 1t is need
less to say that they had good time,
the druggists always do when they
get together in one body.
David Cornet living at Old Bar
nett was in this city Monday and
stated that his barn was destroyed by
fire Saturday night, entailing loss Of
all the hay, grain, harness and farm
ing implements contained therein.
The cause of the fire is mystery.
Ben Rickard, formerly of Versailles
but now of Pennington was here sew
eral days last week. He played ball
last season with the Merchants OF this
city, but is now with the Pennington
team. "Rick" is a good ball player
and the team he is with is a fast ON.
Constable w. b. Moreland was in
the south part of the county Tuesday
serving warrants. He took with him
eleven warrents on petty charges and
served eight of them before returning
the same evening. There are few
better officials in his capacity than
Constable Moreland.
While carving meats at their meat
market on Monroe street last Saturday
Herschel Mason accidentally let the
carving knife slip and cut long cash
in the index finger on his right hand.
Herschel has been nursing q tender
hand for several days rather than
carving tender steaks.
| f. r. Poe, assistant cashier Of the
Syracuse Bank, was visitor in Ver-
sailles Monday and favored the Dem.
ocrat with an agreeable call. Mr..
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-06-15

For fresh tender meats at all times,
call on the Butcher and Grocer.
G.. H. PRICE.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

The soft rose and strawberry and
raspberry shades in linen are to be
much worn.
Brocade jackets, whether separate OF
part of the gown itself, are immensely
fashionable.
A dainty pair of slippers are OF
heavy white linen, with a daisy design
embroidered on the toe.
A very lovely little hat Is made OF
creamy roses and lace, with a quill
made OF green leaves at the left front
SO far, it would seem that every
thing is to be lowered, embroidery
spotted, checked, plaided, blocked oil
striped.
A thin gold gauze ribbon, narrowly
borde.ed with old rose and sprinkled
with little gold roses, Is delightful as
a gown trimming.
Cine of the attractive devices OF the
hour, conspicuous in smart toilettes
is the use in sleeves of fabrics which
contrast with the bodice.
White and black effects are very
much thought Of at this moment. whits
suitings striped or plaided with black
threaten to have an immense run.
Linens and voiles-these are the two
leading fabrics for spring and summer
costumes-linens of all grades ant
voiles Of silk, of wool and of cotton.
Some kind of pretty lingerie wais
must be worn with the corselet cos
tume-that is, the princess dress reach
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05
TRANSPORTING CLOTHES POST.
How 1t was Made Part Of = Beauti
full Flower Garden.

How 1t Was Made Part Of q Beauti-
full Flower Garden.
Long ago, when we only dreamed Of
a garden, we had set our hearts upon
certain ideals. Our garden was to
have an arch. a column and a pergola,
and we were able to construct some
thing to call by each of these names,
using mostly such material as was at
hand. The clothes posts being with us
to stay, we tried to utilize them to
advantage, says a writer in the Garden
Magazine.
We had done with rigid formality,
and to introduce a break the two posts
nearer the house were moved further
apart and out of line while the other
two were brought nearer to each other.
Each was incased in extra-heaty chick
en- wire, and provided at the top with
a hook and cleat fastened by bolts go
ing through the post. At the base of
the first post are three everblooming
honeysuckles (lonicera ~heckrotti). The
first year the bulbs of this vine were
a mass Of little green bugs which
neither liquid nor powder would kill.
The following March the vine was
sprayed with kerosene soap, which
seemed to be a successful treatment,
as there have been no insects since that
first attack.
The second post was placed five feet
from a flower bed and an additional
support set in the bed; both were then
connected by an arch made of iron
such as would be used for wagon tires.
The ends were fastened to the posts by
bolts, and cross-pieces of light iron,
riveted about eighteen inches apart, to
support chicken wire one foot wide.
The remaining. posts were made to
form a small pergols, and connected
by irons as before to posts in a paral-
lei bed. In this case the iron strips
are supplemented by a bar Of angle
iron along the top, to prevent sag
ging under the weight of the wooden
crosspieces. Japanese clematis (cle-
mats ~paniculata) grows around all
these posts, and / have found it best
to plant at least two roots at the base
of each, in February trimming one
vine back to the top of the post and
cutting OF the other at the ground
level. In this way the taller plant
starts, soon covers the top, and the
lower plant clothes the post where the
stalks of the other are comparatively
bare.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

Progress of Education for Women
Popular interest in any question may
be judged with fair accuracy by tn,
amount Of printed discussion of it
Even those who have followed intelli
gently the history of the education o.
women may well be surprised at thu
story told by two pamphlets published
by the Boston Public Library. They
bear the modest title of Contribution!
Toward a photography of the Highel
Education of Women" One was pub
lished in 1897 and the other last year
They contain lightweight closely print
ed pages, filled with the bare titles o.
books and articles relating to fem
mime education.
The change in the point of view o.
most significant. In 1905 the Christian
Observer was considering I'm Wha'
Degree May Female Talent Be Bene
ficially Cultivated?" and 'The Effects
of Female Improvement ON Domesti,
Happiness" In 1868 the Westminstel
Review published an article on 18th,
Suppressed Sex" and in 1867 the Pal
Mall Gazette one on "Latin for La
dies" In 1874 the Popular Scienc,
Monthly took up the protest agains
the onward movement, in Educated tt
Death-a Mothers Story"
BY way of contrast, the later of til,
two pamphlets contains a list of fifty
seven colleges which admit women
and concerning which matter has beer
printed, and notes a book of three hun
dred and ninety-four pages devoted t.
the progress in women's education In
the British Empire.
1t is significant that the literature O
recent years is rich In books and arti
cles on the relation of educated womer
to home-making. They are evidently
making themselves felt there, from til.
sanitation of the house and the chem
istry of foods to the study of thu
baby's mind.
Whatever criticisms may be made OIL
women as scholars, lone can be made
on those women who dedicate theil
scholarship to the service of the home
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

Good music is a powerful tonic to
many people, especially those suffering
from melancholia. 1t lifts them out Of
their solemn moods, dispels gloom and
dependency, kills discouraged feelings
and gives new hope, new life and new
vigor. 1t seems to put a great many
people into proper tune. 1t gives them
the keynote Of truth and beauty, strikes
the chords of harmony, dispels dlscord
from the life, scatters clouds and brings
sunshine. All good music Is a charac-
ter builder, because its constant sugges-
ton of harmony, order and beauty puts
the mind into a normal attitude. Music
clears the cobwebs out OF many minds
so that they can think better, act better
and live better.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

A thin silk or one that trays easily
can be cut out better If laid between
sheets of thin paper and the pattern
cut through paper and material to-
gether.
A collar lining Of taffeta should be
cut SO that the front part is on the
straight" of the material and the
curved part of the collar will then
come on the bias.
1t is a good plan to bend steels or
whalebones at the waistline when
making a bodice before putting them
into the castings, as the bodice will then
fit closer to the figure.
After stitching down a seam press
With a hot iron and If no board
is at hand it is useful to know that a
rolling pin wrapped in a clean cloth
will answer the purpose equally we'll.
In making a blouse ZOO deep a round
must not be cut for the neck at the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

In Japan a girl at the age Of 8 ear
her hair tied In a red scarf bound
around the back of her head; the lore
head is left bare, with the exception Of
a couple of locks, one on each side.
When she is Of manageable age she
combs her hair forward and makes II
up into the shape of a fan or a butter
fly, and at the same time decorates Il
with silver cord and balls of varied
colors. This means everything and is
fully understood by the young men of
Japan. A widow who wishes for a Sec
ond husband puts a tortoise-shell pin
horizontally at the back Of her head
and twists her hair round 1t, while on
inconsolable widow cuts her hair short
and goes in for no ~adornments of any
sort These last are rare. BY these
simple means much confusion is avoid
ed. A glance around the ballroom suf-
fees to tell the age and status of every
woman in the place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

"Oh, q very bad lott returned Wick
ers; quiet and silent, but ready for any
villainy. l count him one of the worst
men we have. With the exception Of
one or two more, / think he is the
worst"
why don't you fog emp says Frere.
Il cut the hides off my fellows if they
show any nonsense"
WELL" says Viekers, 81 don't care
about too much cat myself. Barton, woh
was here before me. fogged tremend-
ously, but l don't thingk it did any coed.
They tried to kill him several times.
You remember those twelve fellows who
were hanged? mol All, of course you
were away"
what do you do with 'em?"
ooh, fog the worst, you know; but l
don't fog more than a man a week as
a rule, and never more than fifty lashes.
They're getting q%uieter now. Then we
iron, and dumb-ells, and maroon them"
do what?"
"Give them solitary confinement on
Grummet Island. When a man gets
very bad. we clap him into a boat with
a weeks provisions, and pull him over
to Grummet. There are cells cut in the
rock, you see, and the fellow pulls up
his commissariat after him, and lives
there by himself for a month or SO. 1t
tames them wonderfully"
Does it?' said Frere. SITS a capital
notion. / wish l had a place of that
sort at Maria"
"I've a fellow there now" says Wick
ers, Dawes. You remember him, of
course-the r~ingleader of the mutiny in
the Malabar. A dreadful ruffian. He
was the most violent the first year l
was here. Barton used to fog a good
deal, and Dawes had a childish dread
of the cat. When I came. he'd made a
sort of petition to be sent back to the
settlement. Said that he was innocent
of the mutiny, and that the accusation
against him was false"
ITO be e~ontinued.)
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05
HIS RECOVERY WAS SPEEDY.
British Duke Given . Pointer on
Naval Etiquette.

British Duke Given . Pointer ON
Naval Etiquette.
On one of the visits OF the American
feet to English waters Admiral Err
ben, now retired, vas in command,
with Capt Alfred T. Mahan, the writer
on naval affairs, as his flag captain
says the New York Tribune. One
morning Capt. Mahan came to his ad'
miral with an Invitation to dine with
a duke, which he had received
az can't accept this" said Capt
Mahan, las they forgot to invite you
81 should say you couldn't" growled
the admiral. "In answer for you"
whereupon the admiral wrote:
admiral Erben, United States Navy
regrets that Capt. Mahan, his flag cap.
tain, cannot accept the invitation OF
the duke of Blank. Capt Mahan Is
on the sick list"
An hour or 81 later a messenger
from the duke returned with invita-.
tons for the admiral and the captain
Whereupon the captain wrote again
admiral Erben accepts with pleas
ure the invitation for Capt. Mahan and
himself. He wishes also to advise the
duke of Blank that he has taken Capt
Mahan OF the sick list"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05
Where Pluck of Preacher Won Re-
auecf and Devotion.

Where Pluck of Preacher Won Re-
spect and Devotion.
All through the winter of 1901 a
struggling procession of fortune seek
ers made its way through the rough
mountains of central Idaho, says the
Worlds Work, bound for Buffalo
Hump. The cold was intense, the
travelling difficult, the suffering great.
Everything was expensive; shovels
sold for $12, chickens for So and
wages were as high as SIS a day.
Horse feed was 81 a meal, and whisky
90 cents a drink. A teamster who
owned a horse that could wear snow
shoes made $500 in four months BY
hiring him out.
A young Episcopal clergyman
thought the Buffalo Hump mines n
good place for missionary work.
There was no such thing in camp as
Sunday. The miners were too busy
for that, and gambling and drinking
were the only forms of recreation.
There was, therefore, great excite
ment over the expected arrival OF a
"tenderfoot-sty pilot" some were OPP
posed, some we're pleased, and all
were excited, Tor anything new" was
a relief to Buffalo Hump. For the
first time religion became a topic of
conversation.
When within sixty miles of the
mines he was accosted by q we'll
wisher. He told him hat the snow
was too deep to ride farther, and the
wellwisher consented to buy his horse
for So, simply as a favor. He impress
ed upon the young preacher the I'M
port ace of having a full ~knapsack.
and advised him not to eat until he
had gone far on his journey.
Thanking him for his kind advice,
the missionary courageously set out TO
tramp through sixty miles of snow,
with only a blazed trail to guide hin,
BY 10 o'clock he was tired and hun
CRY, by 3 O'Clock he was famished aud
exhausted, and by 6 o'clock he dropped
in his tracks. With eager fingers he
united the knapsack to find in it--a
rocki The good samaritan had re-
lieved him of his lunch and he had
packed. a useless. heavy burden Tor
all those dreary miles!
But he had come to preach and not
to cry and his great good nature. his
earnestness and his ~"gameness'' deep
" impressed the mining camp and 4
wonderful change had taken place,
Sunday labor was abandoned and ser.
vices We're held every morning. Ev-
erything was a success bEt the sing
ing, and that was a dead failure.
'Ic we only had an organ" was the
cry. The "sky pilot" said that they
should have one. Returning through
the silent woods to Lewiston he pur-
chased an organ and brought it into
camp on horseback. That was a day
or great rejoicing In Buffalo Hump
The only man who could play became
so elated that he drank too much
whisky and the service was postponed
until evening. when it proved a g1ea.
success. Men who had not been to
church for twenty years came to that
first service. A furious dog fight TOOK
place outside the log chapel during the
| sermon, but not a man left his seat
Christianity had come to stay at Bue.
falo Hump.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

lected, and it Is trimmed in a lighter
shade of the same color, panels of the
pale gray being set into the royal skirt
and Elton. The former fits without
fullness over the hips, but is gored to
flare at the bottom. After the pre-.
vailing spring and summer models the
front panel is plated and heavily
stitched with tailor's silk. Extending
down the front is shaped effect. The
object of the Elton Is to produce the un-
broken line of the semi-princess modes,
and its trimmings are most effectively
worked out with the light gray cloth,
supplemented bf appliques of black silk
and narrow soutache braid Nearly all
of the new tailored gowns are three
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05
BREAD su~PERsTITIoNs.
Peculiar Ones still Prevail in Parts
of Rural France.

Peculiar Ones Still Prevail I'm Parts
of Rural France.
There are some curious superstitions
about baking bread in the course of re-
ligious seasons which seem so easy to
prove fallacious that one has difficulty
in understanding why they are still be-
lieved. One would think that some DAY
a mistake would occur and the disc0v-
cry be made that there was no force in
them. Probably, owing to the constitu-
ton Of the believers, the failure Of the
expected result would be ascribed to
some supernatural cause rather than
the real one, and the belief would be
continued. Most of these superstitions
are found in France, the greatest bread
eating country on the globe.
For instance, in Upper Brittany bread
baked on Good FRIDAY, it is declared
becomes black. In Charante it is held
that he who eats of bread baked ON All
Souls day will become diseased. The
flames will burst out of the oven in
ones face II bread is baked on the
Feast Of st. Nicholas. say the good peo-
pie Of st. Aube, so it is not done. In
Burgundy the people believe that If
bread is baked in the course of Roga-
ton Week all bread baked during the
remainder of the year will turn moul.
dy. The inhabitants Of the Black
Mountains believe the same thing. The
Sicilians refuse to bake on Good Fri
day, because they fear that in some
name they will burn the Savior.
The beliefs which other Europeans
used to have in early times demon
strate how illogical is all this supersti.
ton. These used to think that bread
baked on Good Friday would not grow
mouldy, and the hot cross bun was In.
cluded in this belief. Some one has
shrewdly suggested that the spice pre-.
served them. A piece Of bread baked
on this holy day, was supposed to have
miraculous powers If preserved. The
house containing it would not catch
fire. 1t was useful for preventing
whooping cough, and IL fed to cattle III
of certain diseases would cure them.
The natural deduction from all this is
that in q country bread baked on q
certain day will work i'll and that bak-
ed in another On the same day Will
work good, which means hat bread
baked on that day is about the same as
bread baked on any other.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05
Fus.x

Children are often worried because
their mothers are too attentive, and
continually reprove the small ones
without reason. A child should be let
alone. and be allowed to play or amuse
itself in its own way, without the con-
slant direction of a nervous mother.
{ A boy. for example, enjoys more a
few simple toys and something which
his own ingenuity has worked out than
the most elaborate p%laything which
las been bought. In the same way, a
little girl will lavish her affections on
a misshapen doll, probably made al
home. whiie the most artistic produc-
ton of the toyshop will lie in state, to
be taken up on rare occasions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

be fewer he believes that those cou-
Piles who do marry will be happier,
because they stand on the same foot
ing, and mutual affinity will be the
basis of marriage in place Of mercen.
airy motives" He believes the new
woman's industrial training will make
her a better wife, for she will know
the value of a dollar and will sympa-
thize with the daily toll of her husband
Also she may be expected to apply
business methods to domestic economy,
and in the face of i'll treatment she
has the courage to separate from him
and return to se~lf-support.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

A Deadly Spirit Extensively Used n
the Worlds Commerce
Alcohol in its severest forms is a pro-
nounced poison. The wood alcohol or
is the deadliest OF these
spirits, and yet it has beer coming into
such general use as a substitute ror
the highly taxed grain spirits that
movements have been started to iuduc9
the reyenue department Of the United
States to authorize the manufacture Of
a d~enaturalized grain alcohol free OF
any tax whatever. Except for the rev.
enue tax on the grain alcohol, 1t could
compete with the horribly poisonous
wood spirits.
Potatoes will furnish slcohol In high
pfoportionate quantities, and with ths
product rendered unit Tor drinking
purposes-as is done In Germany-ths
uses Of the spirits in the arts exclu-
sively should not subject 1t to the enor-
nous tax placed upon the grain alco-
hol.
Alcohol Is the base Of almost count
less commodities In use In almost every
field of endeavor. 1t holds a first place
as a p~reservative. 1t is an almost uni
yersal solvent for drugs and chemical
substances. Germany, for example.
uses 25,OOO,000 gallons Of alcohol every
year for commercial purposes. and
these uses are multiplying rapidly.
Ether. ceIluloid, white lead, photo
graphic papers and plates, collodion.
perfumes Of all kinds, transparent
soaps Eliminates and smokeless pow
ders, varnishes, inks and even the man
ufacture of an artificial silk r de-
pendent upon alcohol, and in many Of
these combinations the substitution of
the wood alcohol for the grain product
may be productive of appalling calam-
ity to the unwilling workers In these
substances.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05


A glass Of hot lemonade before retir-
ing will often prevent a cold.
A very few drops or camphor in a
glass of water Will often relieve a sick
headache.
Bathing the eyes several times a day
in cold water makes them bright and
helps to keep them strong.
Rub the following on the hands after
bathing them: Glycerin and rose water
equal parts. Mix Wen by shaking.
Don't use cold water when giving
the face d cosmetic scrub. Warm
water, followed by a dash of cold
water, is better.
Hot milk, heated to as high a tenn
perature as it can be drunk, is a most
refreshing stimulant in cases of cold or
over-fatigue.
Pumice should never be used on the
hands. A bit Of lemon will answer It's
purpose, without making the fingers
rough and calloused.
A Swedish method of producing sleep
is to wiring out a handkerchief in icy
oil water and lay 1t across the eyes,
when 1t is said to act like magic.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

Take a gill of good vinegar in a pint
of cold water. a large soft, clean shay
ing brush. and a soft clean cloth. Re.
move all dust from the frame and dip
the brush in the liquid. Squeeze II
slightly SO that it may not be too wet
brush the gliding, doing a small piece
at a time. lightly up and down, till ii
is quite restored.