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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29
How She Happened.

we dIS ldVOTeu ny one OF our
learned friends with the lol.
lowing account of the creation
OF woman, says an. exchange
1t is translated from, an old
Sdnskrit book entitled The
Surging of the Ocean of Time"
WOMAN.
Tradition Says There Was a
Scarcity Of Solid Elements at
the Time of Her Creation.
At the beginning of time,
Twashtri-the Vulcan of the
Hindu mythology-created the
world. But when he wished to
create woman he found that
he had employed all his mater.
ial in the creation of man. There
did not remain one solid ele-
ment. Then Twashtri, per-
picked, fell into a profound
meditation. He reused himself
as follows;
He took the rouudness of the
moon, the undulations of the
serpent, the entwining of climb
ing plants, the trembling of the
grass, the slenderness Of the
rose vine aud the velvet of the
flower, the lightness of the leaf
and the glance of the ia wn, the
gayety of the suns rays and
tears of the mist, the incon-
stancy of the wind and the tim
idity of the hare, the vanity of
the peacock and the softness of
the down on throat of the swal.
low, the hardness of the dia-
mond, the sweet flavor of hon.
ey and the cruelty of the tiger,
the warmth of fire, the chill of
snow. the chatter of the jay and
the cooling of the turtle-dove.
He united all these aud formed
a woman. Then he made
present of her to man.
Eight days later the man
came to Twasht and said:
my Lord, the creature you
gave me poisons my existence.
She chatters without rest, she
takes all my time, she laments
for nothing at all and is always
ILL.,"
And Twashtri received the
woman again.
But eight days later the man
came again to tie god and said:
my Lord, my life is very SOL
itary since 1 returned this crea-
ture. I remember she glanced
at me from the corner of Der
eye, and she played with me,
chung to me-
And Twashtri returned the
woman to him.
Three days only passed and
Twashtri saw the man coming
to him again.
MY Lord" said he, Il do
not understand exactly how,
but l am sure the woman causes
me more annoyance than pleas
ure. beg of you to relieve me
me of her.
But Twashtri c:ied: Go
your way and do your best"
And the man cried: Il can
not live with herr
Neither can you live with
out her. replied Twashtri,
And the man was sorrowful, !
murmuring: "Woe is me! l can
neither live with her nor with
out her, *. @. World.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Robt. Sullivan, of Palmyra,
was with Monroe relatives Sat
uriay.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

II. M BJulware and family
spent Sunday with the home,
folks at Hannibal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Mrs. James .Gordon has beer
visiting relatives in Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Sunday, Charles Mastiu and
son, John, of Shelbina, visited
their nephew and cousin, Mas
ter Tom Hawkins, who was so
badly burned Thursday night.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Did you see the lovely Furs
at McIntire & Co.'S The prices
will please you as well as the
goods.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Mr.. W. II. Buchanan was with
Q tucy friends, Saturday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Mrs, Benz Wunch. of Hanni-
Dbl, spent Sunday in the city
with relatives.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

Have your stationery prin ted
at the DEMOCRAT office.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-11-29

You get an easy shave at
Streams.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Systemic Catarrh, the Result of La
Grippe. Pe-ru-na Receives Credit
For Present Good Health.

Mrs. Jennie ". Gilmore, Box "A, White
Oak, Ind. Ter, writes:
six years ago | had la grippe, which
vas followed by systemic catarrh. The
only thing l used was Peruna and Mana
lin, and | have been in better health the
last three years than for years before. |
give Peruna all the credit for my good
health"
Pe-ru-na---A Tonic After La Grippe.
Mrs. Chas. E. Wells, ST., Delaware.
Ohio, writes: After a severe attack Of
la grippe | took Peruna and found it a
very good tonic"
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Automobile Farming.

A new and special type of automobile
has recently been put on the market in
Scotland which is designed especially
for farm work, and which is not only
suitable for blowing, but may be
equipped as a cultivator or reaper. 1t
will prepare the ground and sow the
seed at one operation, and can be OPP
Grated at a better speed than a horse.
Thus when blowing it can cover from
six to seven acres a day, and goes over
the field so as to leave it in final shape
for cultivation. When not in use in the
field, the motor can be used to drive
all farming machinery, and when plOw-
ing, the cost of fuel, labor and depre-
citation has been computed at 81 per
acre, or less than one-half the expense
of blowing by horse. 1t is interest
ing to note that the cost of the machine
is about $500, an amount that does not
seem p%rohibitive for a large farm,
where a thorough test Of the new ma.
chine could readily be made. The au.
tomobile, unlike the farm animal, does
not have to be fed when it is moi
working, and 1t is here that a sub
stantial element of economy car prob
ably be secured.-Harper's Weekly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
whistles Tell the Weather.

Any man who lives in the central
portion of the city, where he may never
catch a glimpse of the rivers or bay for
weeks at q time, has, if he sleeps with
his window open, n reliable guide to
the weather conditions, 80 far as fog
and rain are concerned, in the much
abused whistles Of the river craft. If
he hears them footing frequently when
he first wakens in the morning and be-
fore he has had occasion to look out of
his window, he knows dirty weather.
is to be the city's portion for the day.
The worse the fog is, the more often
the whistles blow, and when 1t is par
ticularly bad the wailings of those sig
nails take on a shrill note as if in terror.
Men whose ears r particularly seusi.
tive to sounds and who have ever lived
in Jersey can always tell when it is
blowing from the west at night, with.
out looking out of their windows, by
the wailing cry of the locomotive
whistles that the wind carries across
from the Newark meadows.-New YorI
Press,
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Plead For Moderation.

College life in many OF our great In
situations is becoming as o~verburdened
with subjects and pleasures as the
child's life is. The democracy and sim
plicity and calm which are Of such in
finite Importance at the period a young
man or young woman is usually TAX
ing the college course are given away
to class distinctions founded on money
spending, to luxury and elaboration OF
quarters, and to the excitements Of the
sporting field and the automobile. The
moderation, the spirit of equality. the
atmosphere which invites to study and
to reflection, SO strong in the Old World
universities, we are in danger OF
swapping, temporarily, at least. by
mere multiplication of equipment and
the foolish tolerance of luxury in quar-
tiers and excitement in diversions. We
cannot manufacture, buy or hire any
educational substitute for the family
circle, the forest, the field, the natural
simple life Of old-fashioned work and
play. We cannot make a great college
with anything but study, reflection, as
piration. How am 1 going to get these
things for my c~hildren-these things
which are in reach Of the poor If they
will take them, but which the elabor-
ate machinery of life we are creating
is snatching from the hands Of the
rich and the well-to-do? 1t is the most
serious educational problem which the
thoughtful father and mother has to
face to-day.-McClure's Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
PRICE. r.
Tell How to Raise Money.

A new wrinkle in promotion schemes
is being unfolded by a business con-
Germ having headquarters in the Illinois
metropolis. A speciality of this enter
prise is to furnish money raising
plans for church workers" The firm
announces:
eff you wish to raise cash easily and
quickly for any church, Sunday-school
or society fund, send a postal to-day.
Our recently published new method
souvenirs of church and pastor have
already realized in cash upward Of
two hundred thousand dollars"
A typical form of Endorsement reads
in this fashion: 1--WE will send you
hundreds Of letters in which real
church workers tell how they use the
plans we submit."-New York Press.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
NAVAL CADET
Say Dismissal is Too Great a Pun
ishment.
The President Declares That Naval
Cadets Shouldn't BE Court
Martiaied.

Washington, D. C.-The President
made public a copy of a letter which
he addressed on February 1 to the
Chairmen of the House and Senate
Committees on Naval Affairs on the
subject of hazing at the United States
Naval Academy. In it he said:
81 have directed that a pardon be
issued to John Paul Miller, a midship-
a at the United States Naval Acad-
envy, recently convicted of hazing and
sentenced to dismissal from the acad-
envy. In the discussion of this case
my attention has been called forcibly
to the unsatisfactory condition of the
law on this subject.
"A midshipman accused of haZing,
whether the extent of his offense be
great or small, must be tried by court
martial. The findings of such a court,
If approved by the Superintendent of
the academy, are declared final and
cannot be revised by the Secretary of
the Navy, or even by me, and neither
the court itself nor the Superintendent
nor the Secretary of the Navy has any
discretion as to the punishment to
be imposed.
SIT is declared that in all cases of
conviction the offender shall be dis
missed and be ineligible for appoint
mient as a commissioned officer of the
ARMY, Navy or Marine Corps during a
specified time. These provisions of
law seem to me neither just nor jul
dicious, and l am seriously concerned
at the injury which l fear may be done
to the discipline of the academy, and
even to the future efficiency of the
Navy if they are permitted to remain
in force without amendment.
81 heartily disapprove of the prac-
tice of haZing and in common with all
those interested in the welfare of the
academy wish to see this practice
thoroughly eradicated there. But the
punishment of dismissal is altogether
disproportionate to the culpability in
volved in some forms of hazing. In
many cases these amount to nothing
more than exhibitions of boyish mis-
chief attended with no consequences
of any moment to those haZed and in
dicating on the part of the hazers only
some exuberance of animal spirits.
"Unquestionably they ought to be
punished, for under any circumstances
hazing constitutes a breach of the rules
and the future officers of our Navy
must be taught first of all and as a
foundation for all other merits strict
and unquestioning obedience. But to
punish these faults of youth by de-
priving the young man concerned OF
his career in life is to commit a glazing
injustice. Moreover, it frequently de-
feats the object of the law itself by
causing the offenders fault to be for
gotten in the sympathy felt for his
misfortune SC that it becomes hard to
get a conviction, and when n is OBJ
tanned the pressure is very great on
Congress to pass a law restoring the
offender.
I'm addition this disproportionate
punishment of what may be a trivial
offense may result in depriving the
Government of a promising officer on
whose education it has already expend-
ed several thousand dollars"
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Minor Mention.

Lieutenant : General Count Won
Moltke, has been appointed Chief Of
the German General Staff.
James K. Polk, a great-great-
grandson of President Polk, is one OF
the champion whist team of Washing
ton.
CIVIL, the Welsh bard, has just fin
ished to his satisfaction a sermon on
which he has been engaged for fifteen
years.
Jean Dnreboul, a Paris joiner, died
from congestion after winning a bet
that he could consume ten yards of
sausages.
Henry Hearthfeld, of Cardiff, Wales,
was accused of stealing lead from a
roof, and broke Jail and fed.
Henry Labouchere retires from Par
lament without regret among the poll
teal women of Great Britain.
General John c. Bates is the first
bachelor in the history of the Ameri-
can army to become Chief of Staff.
DR.. Andrew Jackson BarchfeId, one
of the recently elected representatives
from Pennsylvania, is six feet three
inches tall.
Yosaburo r. Sugita, of Toxic, has
been given the chair of language and
literature Of Japan at the University
! of Notre Dame
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
CAUGHT BY THE Grip
RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA.
Pneumonia Followed La Grippe.
Pe-ru-na the Remedy That
Brought Relief. !

Mr.. T.. Barnecott. West Aylmer, Onta-
rio, Can, writes:
"Last winter l was i'll with pneumonia
after having la grippe. / took Peruna for
two months, when l became quite well,
and l can say that any one can be cured
by it in a reasonable time and at little ex-
pense."
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
The Improved Place.

One afternoon last summer Mark
Twain started from his country home
to take a drive. Knowing that he
should return late he told his man, who
was new to the place, that he need not
sit up for his coming.
Before starting, however, he told
the man, when he had finished his
work, to lock the stable and place the
key under a certain stone which Mr..
Clemens pointed out to him. When
the humorist reached home at midnight
he was surprised to find that the key
was not in the place selected. When
his patience had been exhausted he
awoke the man, who seemed rather
hurt, and said as he came out into
the yard:
"Of course that key amt there, Mr..
Clemens. l found a blamed sight
safer place to hide it,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Airs: Bessis MnsIey

To be such q successful wife, to re-
tain the love and admiration Of her
husband. to inspire him to make the
most of himself, should be q woman's
constant study.
If a woman finds that her energies
are tagging, that she gets easily tired,
dark shadows appear under her eyes.
she has backache, headaches, bearing
down pains, nervousness, Irregularities
OF the blues, she should start at once
to build up her system by q tonic with
specific powers, such a Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
Following we publish by request .
letter from a young wife:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
"Ever dnos my child was born I nave suf-
fered, as l hope few women ever have, with in
f1ammation, female weakness, b~earing-down
pains, backache and wretched headaches. It
affected my stomach so I could not enjoy my
meals, and half my time was spent in bed.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made me a we'll woman, and I feel so grateful
that I am glad to write and tell you Of my
marvellous recovery. It brought me health,
new life and vitality ."-Mr. Bessie Ainsley,
Gil South 10th Street, Tacoma, Wash.
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for Mrs. Ainsley 1t will
do for every sick and ailing woman.
If you have symptoms you don't I'M
derstand write to Mrs. pinkham,
daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham,
at Lynn, Mass. Her advice IL free and
slways helpful.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Russia's Now Minister of Marine.

Admiral Birileff brings a robust dis
position to his ew task. He is a roll
licking salt, with a Homeric stammer,
a practical Joker like Lord Charles
Beresford. Stories about him are
numberless. Here is one: When Ad-
miral Shestakoff was in power he
passed a rigorous rule that his young
officers must not bankrupt themselves
buying boquets for visiting royalties.
The Empress was to visit a ship on
which Birileff served. AS Her Males
ty descended to the cabin a huge bo-
quet of flowers mysteriously appeared
on the table, and delighted royalty at
once took possession Of it. Admiral
Shestakoff saw the mass of fragrant
blossoms in the imperial hands, and
turned furiously to his officers:
did / not give orders that no one
must present fowers?"
"N-nobody did" stammered Birileff;
"s-she t-took it hers-selfr!' - Charles
Johnston, in Herper's Weekly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
What He Did to "Hamlet."

A group of actors at the Players
Club were once engaged in a discus
sion as to the ability and impartiality
Of certain professional critics of the
drama, when the late Maurice Barry
more referred to a certain Denver jour-
nalist, who was widely known for his
dramatic criticisms. Hayward" said
Mr.. Barrymore, was certainly one Of
the ablest of them. He wrote most
learnedly, with the keenest analysis of
every phase of the actors art, and,
above all, with nc little wit. 1 am just
reminded of what was, perhaps, the
briefest dramatic criticism ever penned.
It will probably outlive everything else
Hayward did. 1t ran about as follows:
George G. Min, the preacher-actor,
played Hamlet at the Tabor Grand
Opera House last night. He played it
till II o'clock. '"-Harper's Weekly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Women of the Hour.

Queen Maud of Norway will need
little tuition in the speech of her new
realm.
Queen Margherita of Italy has an
Alpine garden six thousand feet above
sea level.
The mother of DR.. William Osler
entered on her hundredth year recent
ly at her home in Canada.
Bertha Krupp has received a new
title, Queen Krupp," by which she
is known all round Essen.
Mrs. Sarah Noble, a widow of Gin
%cinnati, Ohio, feeds 1000 canaries in
her luxurious home in that city.
Mile. Laporte says that theatrical
criticism is sever in Warsaw.
The Princess of Wales has rebelled
against the tyranny of dressmakers.
The Supreme Court of New Bruins
wick has refused to admit Miss Mabel
p. French, of st. John, to the bar for
lack of precedent.
The Oldest person in Europe is Mrs.
Josepha Elder, of F~urstenhut. Bohe-
mia. She has just passed her one
hundred and eighteenth birthday.
Countess Boni de Castellane fell off
her horse recently and had to be taken
home In a peasants cart, in great pain.
Her foot proved to have been badly
twisted.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09

She was a model of domestic careful
ness, has a special talent for making
bread, and takes great pride in having
her loaves turn out well.
One evening she had set the batch
of dough to rise in the kitchen and
was reading in the parlor, when her
s~ix-year-old boy came running to her,
crying: Mamma, mamma, there's a
mouse jumped into your bread pan!"
The good woman sprang from her
seat.
did you take him out!" she asked,
frantically.
mo, but I done just as good.
threw the cat in, and she's digging
after him to beat the band!'
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
OVER SEA HABIT
Difference on This Side the Water,

The persistent effect upon the heart
of caffeine in coffee cannot but result
in the gravest conditions, in time.
Each attack Of the drug land that
means each cup of coffee weakens the
organs a little more, and the end is
almost a matter of mathematical dem
onstration. A lady writes from a
Western State:
81 am of German descent and it was
natural that 1 should learn at a very
early age to drink coffee. Until l was
twenty-three years old l drank scarcely
anything else at my meals.
"a few years ago 1 began to be af-
fected by a steadily increasing nervous
ness, which eventually developed into
a distressing heart trouble that made
me very weak and miserable. Then,
some three years ago, was added
asthma in its worst form. My suffer-
ings from these things can be better
imagined than described.
During all this time my husband
realized more fully than I did that
coffee was injurious to me, and made
every effort to make me stop.
FINALLY it was decided a few months
ago, to quit the use of coffee absolute
ly, and to adopt Postum Food Coffee as
our hot table drink. ! had but little
idea that it would help me, but con-
sented to try it to please my husband.
/ prepared it very carefully, exactly ac-
cording to directions, and was delight.
ed with it's delicious favor and refresh
ing qualities.
"Just so soon as the poison from the
coffee had time to get out of my system
the nutritive properties Of the Postum
began to build me up, and I am now
fully recovered from all my nervous
ness, heart trouble and asthma. / glad
ly acknowledge that now, for the first
time in years, l enjoy perfect health
and that l owe it all to Postum
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs
Postum Food Coffee contains NJ
drugs Of any description whatsoever.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09

Mr.. Winston C%hurchilrs Life of his
father does not seem to contain a little
episode in Lord Randolph's Parlia-
mentary career which occasioned some
chuckling in its time. Lord Randolph
was in the full flow of his TRADE about
"a ponderous nonentity with a double
barrelled name"-the then Mr.. Sclater-
Booth, and future Lord Basing A
somewhat too vehement gesture caused
the dispersion of the orators volumin-
GUS notes; and it was Mr.. Sclater-Booth
who collected them and politely re.
turned them to his apostrophizer.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09

"AOAONp VACAcu ETleCO:
Eyes, I'm from San Francisco said
Charles L. Francis at the Hotel Rem
merit this morning, "and it's a comfort
to get East once in a while. My peo-
pie are from this neck of the woods
that is, father came from Maryland.
My mothers home is in Vermont. They
both went West in 40, and so really It
isn't my fault that 1 was born on the
Pacific coast instead of on the Allan
tic.'
"You speak as though you wern't al
together proud of your native heather.
Is there any truth in the report that
Frisco is n degree worse than Chi
cago?"
WELL" he said, laughing, cts not
quite as bad as that, but really out
there the morality, in spots, is too often
plated rather than solid. You see, the
pie live a pretty free sort of a life;
there's lots Of money and plenty Of
ways to spend it. Pennies are almost
as rare as Columbian postage stamps,
andI suppose this plethora of cash is
In q large way responsible for many in
discretions on the part. of the people
there. l don't mean to knock the old
town, but sometimes I get to wishing
that conditions were a little different,
for there are possibilities in store for
that town in the future, but it needs a
wave of reform in politics and in other
ways before anything like an ideal
state Of affairs can exist there. You
see, in the East here you grew up
slowly and soundly; out there we
didn't have time to grow slowly after
we got started, and now we need to
overhaul ourselves before we are in a
position to face the millenium."-Balti-
more News.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-02-09
Dover Chests" In Demand.


The "dower chest" as a gift for the
newly betrothed bride is growing in
favor and antique shops in the country
are being searched for the old carved
chests of Virginia and Massachusetts,
pioneers. Some persons with money
to spare are sending agents to Europe
to find the real antiques, such as figure
in historical pictures. The dover chest
of carved oak, with massive bands Of
brass, would be loved by every pros
pective bride. Some chests are of gen.
erous proportions, and if they are filed
with rare embroidered silks, cashmeres
and fine linens, as was the old custom,
their value will be enhanced very ma
terially in the brides eyes. 1t may be
significant, or it may not, but among
the gifts that the Empress Of China
gave to Miss Roosevelt was a chest Of
scented wood, carved with dragons and
other emblems and bound with ham,
mered brass, -