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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-22
His Literary Preference.

1t was Chicago business man
who in answer to the question. What
book has had the create It influence
on your life and been most beneficial
to you?" mt the following reply:
- aistreet's."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

Sedalia Democrat: The Democrat
today publishes the formal announce.
ment OF the candidacy OF Hon. Alt
f. Rector, of Saline county, for
congress in this district, subject to the
democratic primary election to be held
on April 7th. Mr.. Rector is a democrat
upon all the issues neiore the people
and the kind OF democrat VINO works re
every campaign to make bis party
successful. He is a lawyer OF ability
and experience and is e %forceiul,
eloquent speaker and a most effective
e%ampaigner. With him as the
standard bearer the party doctrine.
will be enumerated and defended II
every township 10 the district, and q
party victory in November will be
assured. He will serve the people Oi
the whole district as faithfully as h5
has served Saline county IN the past
and he will be heard from when grear
ISSUES are before congress.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The Columbia Herald 10 a leadiugz
editorial is calling for a general
primary to select a democratic
candidate for the United States
senate in 1909, or in default Of a
general prim4r, Tue Herald wants
primaries in each county The
latter will be found to have been the
course pursued 10 most Of the
democratic counties Of the state in
1903, II the Herald will take the
pains TO look the matter up. A
general primary proposition Is absurd.
The verdict Of such a primary could
have 20 biuding fierce upon a county
representative, who might know that
~nine-tenths OF the people OF his
county favor some one of several
minority candidates.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The following extract from a Wash
iugton dispatch to the Kansas CITY
Star OF Thursday was not printed 10
the funny column, but it should have
been: conservative senators are
once more bnsily engaged in an at.
tempt to patch up a truce with the
president which will permit OF the
introduction of a substitute bill for
the Hepburn measure. 1t is quietly
whispered about that the president
wants to restore party harmony and
you'd you'd prefer % act With the repub
lean side; that he feals the demo.
Gratis will seek TO incorporate amend
ments in the Hepburn bill which viii
be more radical than he desires and
that the situation which has devel-
Oped might be disastrous to the party
and should be Strengthened out as
soon as possible. II his attitude has
not been misrepresented by numerous
republican senator's he would prefer
TO have his party unite on some
measure which will be &C :eptable to
the people to having rate legislation
enacted through the democratic
votes" In other words the presl-
dent is preparing to ''lie down." as
he has done 10 the Ease of every Issue
he has ever raised. In his first term
he was a tariff feformer, but upon
advise Of counsel he desisled from the
agitation. Then he was a ''trust
buster" a phrase which now has an
ancient, archaic sound AID is dimly
associated in the public mind with
such bygone agitatiOns as the FAlleu
and Sedition claws" and Flfty-four
furty or fight" Bristow Jared the
lid a few years ago, aDd the president
bravely issued orders Of investigation
10 "gO to the bottom. The investi
gators are probably still at the Bot
tom All the public knows is The
presidents official exculpa' ion OF
Payne, LoOmis, Morton, ct omne
genus. The rate regulation business
now bids fair to be added to The list
of the presidents splendid crawdad
achievements. The Star is preparing
its readers for this result 1t says
ed%itOrIallv: "Mr, Roosevelt has always
be- a good part, man as well as a
patriot. lie has repeatedly made con.
ceS,ions 10 the interest Of party
harmony. II is quite possible that be
would consent now to any reasonable
proposition that would harmonize the
party in the senate without leopard
zing the efficacy OF the pending
legislation"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

Elsewhere in tins issue will be
found the announcement Of N. M
Houx IS a candidate for reelection to
the office Of prosecuting attorney
subject TO the regular action OF the
democratic party. Mr. HCux has
filed this Office one term Of two years
and according to democratic usage
there is no probability Of democratic
opposition. BE has been faithful
aud energetis in his efforts to enforce
the laws and in his prosecution OF
criminals. His record has been such
as to entltle him to a second term
upon his merits and there is no doubt
that he will poll the full party
strength in both the primary and the
general election. z
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The setting Of the dates Of the
state nominating convention and the
state judicial convention SO long
before the usual time OF beginning
state campaigns appears to have been
an error Of judgment upon the part
Of the state committee. Representa-
ti0n was changed so as TO make these
convention larger than usual SO that
Il e party may have the benefit OF
whatever enthusiasm big conventions
may stimulate. But II these
conventions are held three months
before the opening OF the campaign
I'll Ut this enthusiasm will have
subsidized
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The Supaeme Curt Of Missouri
this week dissolved The temporary
injunction granted last summer
restraining a justice u the peace
from arresting the St LoniS police
Sc II out to break up the pool selling
at the nelmar tracks 10 St. Louis
county. IN an opinion rendered by
Fox and disSented from by Marshall
and valiant the court holds that the
St. Louis police may not be employed
TO make arrests outside the city. AS
a result Of this decision it is tn ought
probable that races at the Delmar
tracks will be arranged for this
summer.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The testimony OF farmers and OF all
who have occasi n to be acquainted
with the subject is TO the effect that
the county roads are now in a worse
C nditiou Than at any time for twenty
yeats. After an open winter during
which the roads have been wOrn into
rutS a petiod Of wet weather has
succeeded, aud now In many places
the roads are entirely impossible.
All Over the county, rural mail
carriers have temporarily suspended
their work This condition ought to
stimulate a good attendance upon the
meeting called by the county court to
be held at Higginsville March 8
to consider the subject Of road
Improvement. Townspeople as well
as country people are interested in
this subject and a delegation Of
business men from Lexington ought
to be IA attendance at that meeting
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The precinct primaries 10 Greene
county held.last Saturday for the pur-
pose Of eliminating one OF the Greene
county candidates from the cOugres.
.ioDal rae resulted In Q victory OF
Hamlin over Haseltine. The reports Of
the contest in the Kansas City aud ST.
Louis spapers were brief. Que OF
these reports was to the effect that
Hamlin carried every precinct in the
county except one, which Haseltine
carried by four votes. The other
report was that 10 the county con-
yention Hamlln had 125 votes out OF
possible l7S This result effect
lallV disposes Of the rumUrs which
have been inductriously circulated in
this county by enemies Of Mr. Hamlin
who live In Greene county to the
effect that MI. Hamlip was not 10
public favor and good party standing
In his own county 1t has been a
source OF a good deal OF ~uneasiness to
II iml'n's friends in This county that
TWO years ago Haseltine should have
made such a showing Ia Greene
county when he had been a candidate
only a few weeks and when HamliD
was seeking his complimentary second
term, The explanation OF Hamlin's
friends that Haseltine's cand dacy
was looked upon as d joke and the
election day being rainy only 3 few
votes we're polled, was not altogether
satisfactory. II had to be admitted
that serious home opposition to a
candidate for a second term was a
bad sign. And when 1t was an
nounced that HaSeltine would again
contest Greene county 1t was b 'llevec
that he would make a better race
for now that Hamlin had had his
second nomination at the hands o.
the democrats and had lost tn
republican, there remained no gooC
reason why any qualified nan 10 The
district might not ran aud receiv,
whatever support he merited Buf
under these conditions Haseltint
seems to have run a poorer a C thar
he ore. Mr. Hamlin' s home stludln,
is thus yindirated. and the voters o
this district NAV now support eithe.
Mr. Hamlin or Mr. Rector with th,
assurance that each is the favori.e o
his own county.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03


L Is to be hoped that the demo
Gratis O. the county will assemble at
their respective voting places today
and 10 a spirit Of good fellowship and
wise forethOnght select a county
committee of working democrats who
will give their time and intelligent
endeavors TO the cause Of democratic
success at the polls There is abso-
lutely no excuse for carrying consid-
arations OF past factional alignment
into these preciact meetings 1t
makes no more difference whether the
candidates for county committeeman
we're once for Folk or for Reed than
IL does whether they we're once for or
against the present Northwest bound
AIRY, the Mexican war, or the Missouri
compromise. No surer way Of reducing
any party TO a miserable, hopeless
and contempt.inspiriOR ninoritY can
be devised than that OF nursing bitter
memories OF past differences and of
narrow mindedly assuming that men
cannot differ in opinion without being
base. Vindictiveness is not even a
pitiful, tag.end virtue: it Is a positive
vice, and the time to throw it of is
not tomorrow or yesterday, it is
today. Yesterday is past aud tomor.
row will be today when it comes.
The democrats OF this county cannot
afford to encourage Or stimulate
bitterness The time has come when
they must show a more aggressive
spirit against their political foes and
less toward each other. W. must
all learn to keep the peace. II we
can't keep the peace, w r uu-
worthy OF success and ought to fail Ia.
the general election. Lafayette is a
democratic county and ought to give
a majority OF a Thousand, with, the
lesson Of two years ago to stimulate
US. II everybody will tall into line
cneerfully, they Will 6feel betler
auu vue resuiu ii ne marvellous.
A new committee for this county
will be selected today Let us
accept the result as The will Of
the majority. a few weeks or
months hence the primary election
will be held Let us all turn out and
vote for our personal choices and be
satisfied with the will Of the majority.
We certainly do not expect and could
not ask to be ruled by the wi ! Of the
minority. Let us have a cheerful,
wholesome spirited campaign. II
there is anything we DOM like, let US
talk about something else We have
all been diSagreeable long enough
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

1t vas a singular incident that a
republican rate measure drafted by a
republican representative, passed by
a republican house, and urged by a
republican president, should have
been put by vote OF a republican
senate committee into the hands Of a
democrat to introduce and defend on
the Il lor OF a republican senate
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

From reading the defense Of Joseph
by John d. Rockefeller Jr., before
his Sunday school class IN New York
one would think that the young man
is a disciple Of Henry George He
said it was entirely riRh' for Joseph
20 acquire all the land Of Egypt for
the gov .rnmeot by taking advantage
OF the necessities OF the improvident.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03
Lexington College Notes.

Miss Charlotte Berg went to Kansas
City Wednesday morning - spend q
few days. with friends.
MI. and Mrs. Robert N Oook and
Mrs. Il, W. White went to Kansas
City Wednesday morning 10 sre
Thomas Dxon's late move the
Clausmap" on the sage. Mrs, White
will see Sarah Bernhardt also.
J. Il. Waugh has rented Mrs Laura
Thornton's residence on East Main
street aud will move to this city
about the middle Of next week.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The announcement of ] &C. Slaple,on
as a candidate for the Office OF
constable Of Lexington township,
subject to the regular action Of the
democratic party, is u be found 10
this issue. Mr.. Stapleton was
reared in this community ana is a
competent and worthy mar to fill he
office he seeks.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

President Roosevelt has had a
conference with John Mitchell of the
Mine Workers Union in regard to the
threatened strike. Mitchell has
called a meeting Of the advisory
committees and may order a new
convention about March Is to see II
ANYTHING a be done to avert a
strike.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

One OF the sensations Of the day is
the acquisition Of the Chicago g.
Alton railroad by the Rock Island.
The o was prompted by revenge,
It is said, owing to the lefusal OF the
Hartman Syndicate to sell a short
connecting line In Texas to the Rock
Island people
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03
NYALuABLEFoR RHEuMATIsM

1 have been suffering for the past
few years with q sewers attack OF
rheumatism and found that Billiards.
Snow Liniment was the only thing
that gave me satisfaction and tended
to alleviate my pains. March "a, OF:
John Q. Deguao, Kin.man, Ills. 25c.
SOC and 81 90. Sold by C%rpnshaw &
Young. 8.sn1
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The Russian national assembly has
been called to meet May 10 The
elections will have tn be held before
that tiue as no representatives have
been chosen up to this time The
Vravest danger is expected to attend
the session Of this assembly.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

Springfield, Ohio, has been
INDUCING 10 another race riot. But
the press generally speaks very
tenderly and 81 alphabetically Of race
riots in Ohio.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The senate has set March 9th as the
date for voting upon the admission Of
the territories, 1t is believed that
the Foraker amendments will have
enough support to insure either the
defeat Of the whole proposition or
the acceptance Of the amendments.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

The city Of Trenton, Missouri has
voted an issue OF $50, 900 in bonds for
the purchase Of the private waterworks
plant or for the building OF a new one
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

Count Boni has agreed that II his
wife will pay his debts, amounting to
three and one.half millions of dollars,
she may have the children and the
divorce. The general opinion is that
this is a good proposition to acce It.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

Several life insurance companies
have Withdrawn from Missouri owing
to the expense of an examination
demanded by Superintendent Of
Insurance vandiver. The ones that
have withdrawn are not thought to
have been worth continuing anyhow.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03
rallrnad antnmnhilI

The railroad automobile is the
latest thing. President Underwood
Of the Erie railroad is to make a trip
from Pasadena, California, to New
York 10 . OF these machines as
soon as 1t has been fully tested.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-03-03

sos't p..,so ro-o'.cr VIEW rosN.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

THE REST ON AN oUTBUILD1NG.
be quickly and easily done. Anothe:
way, suggests the Farmers Review, is
to have the block or stump near an out
building, where piece of timber can be
nailed on the corner in proper position
to hold the post while being sharpened.
This takes a little less work in prepare
ton than the first plan, but the work
must always be done in the same place,
while by the other plan the tripod can
be taken anywhere it is wanted. In this
connection the chopping block used in
splitting wood might be mentioned.
Much labor may be saved by providing
a sound solid block, as less blows are
required on perfectly solid foundation
than when yielding one is used. Either
select stump of tree as described for
the first post sharpener, or take knot
ty length cut from a log, making it
about foot long and setting it on end
in the ground so that it is only about
four inches above the surface. II a few
fiat stones are placed directly under 1t,
It will make a still flrmer foundation.
This forms a block that is practically
unyielding and the work Is much easier
by its use.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
HuuuS Lacking.

AS travel about through this coun-
try, I notice that there has been
great decrease in the fertility of many
farms. In times past, according to
the reports of the farmers and my own
observations, the crops were much
larger than at present. The cause
for this decreased fertility is the con-
tinued growing Of corn year after year,
and no proper regard to rotation, says
q writer in Farmers Review. So far
as I can understand, the chief lack
In the soil of the worst rundown farm
is humus. The farmers are doing
almost nothing to bring these farms
back to their first fertility. Accord
ing to my experience believe that
livestock farming, which will give
large amount of available fertility, will
bring back these farms to their orig
inal condition of productiveness, pro-
vtded that clover is used in the rota-
ton.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
WOMAN
~oNAN AND BOY WALKING
PICTURE FORMS AND cQMR1NAT1QNs

presenting the picture forms to the child
with the combination, draw the symbol
OF the man as first presented, that Is,
without action, then draw the symbol
with the action, pointing out the change
In the direction Of lines or blocks as al
tered by the action. A supplementary
stick figure of this action may give the
angles more clearly. The child should
always understand any figure in action
as a variation of the plain figure and
not as new symbol. This nurtures the
idea Of the flexibility of the symbol and
cultivates its free use.
The Illustrations.
The picture of-the girl carrying the
milk pals through the orchard gives the
figure with but slight change from
the plain figure. The arms are extended
to permit the carrying of the pals and
one foot is advanced to suggest walking.
The woman with the little boy walk
ing by the river has the same modifica-
tions; one arm is extended to hold the
boys hand; this bends the child's arm
so as to meet her hand the other hand
can hold stick or basket. There is
the same advancement of the foot in
each figure>to suggest walking. ~. n.
Il is left to the parent or teacher to
find names and stories for these pic
lures, as Polly, the Milkmaid. = THE
Walk BY the River" = etc, and the destr-
:abiltly Of this will be SPOKEN Of later. d.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
Copyright, By Joseph D. Dovlea.)

Surprising that the child has made II
the picture form of the man a fairly
flexible symbol that can represent easy
and undistorted actions, it is now ready
to use the human figure with forms Of
other objects which serve for its natural
setting. Recalling the tree, house and
hill forms, tAe man is to take his place
in them as the center of interest or as
a part Of the story picture. That the
symbol has proved an amusing jump
ing-jack with some as we'll as an ex-
pressive automaton with others goes
without saying. The Egyptians told of
the magniflcence of kings in much the
same simplicity Of drawing that now
serves the cartoonist for the expression
of the absurd in his art.
It is the serious possibilities of the
block man that are now to occupy US.
Two subjects are given, in which tho
figure is added to familiar material. In
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

learned at all. The teacher may be abl1
g work under the control of precepts in 4
art,fput that is the result Of his mental
training. He has lost the perception
the ittatiyeness. Of the child, and has
TO supply the loss by theory. Il is neo-
essary TO advise the teacher for his own
=workWhat should never be told the child.
put which must be conveyed to it indi-
fectly through the teachers examples.
. The relation in size of one object to
another is to be noted, not that rules for
lts regulation can be given here but that
the absence of it in his own efforts may
be referred to the right cause by tho
teacher.
! l.. A=wtde discrepancy of proportions
will be found in the child's first effort<
Win hgures in landscapes. Object1
Will seem far apart and the whole pic.
lure Will look out of joint. The teache.
VIII constantly have to refer to the pro.
portlons given. not that other proper.
ions might not be equally good, but that
tnese examples have been composed
with ideas Of breadth and simplicity
which might appeal directly to any such
appreciation of proportions.
Tracing from Art Prints.
In these days of the dissemination Of
art by the newspapers half tones Of
good art appear from time to time. For
instance, the Abbey decorations for the
Boston public library, the Sargent frieze
for the same place and pictures of like
character must fall within the notice
OF all. 1t is suggested to the teacher
that he could study such proportions by
tracing the figures in those pictures in
the style of the block figures he is en-
ploying. This could be done on any
transparent or thin paper, always draw
ing the full proportion of the frame Of
the picture and reducing the figures and
accessories to the simplicity of the SYM
BIOL forms that comparison may more
easily be made. A realizing sense of
the fullness and bigness Of great ex-
pressi ion comes from such study. The
teacher whose own expression is from
that point of view has saved the child
much after-study if the child should
carry its art expression as far as
academic development. It lies with any
sltterance that the bigger and broader
the expression the greater the work of
art, and the teacher need not regard
these little Noah's ark men and women
and trees and houses with which he
works as impossible of most serious
treatment. The majesty of the Egyp-
tian Memnon was upon very severe and
simple lines. It is the depth and seri-
BUSINESS of the intention back of It that
makes toy or work of such medium.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

stage of action would have to be widened
and it's Importance increased.
When the figures are merely accessory
to the landscape they are to be treated
as any other object, but the human in
.terest is always more insistent than in
animate nature, and it's artistic i'm
portance keeps it from being too much
subordinated. =
Problem Of Proportion.
The intention of the picture must sug-
gest these degrees OF the figures i'm
portance. >.
In the picture Of the girl carrying milk
pals through the orchard three degrees
of the relative importance Of the figure
are given. 1t is evident that the figure
could be made so, small that It would be
valueless, II not meaningless, and it
could SO fill the space that the possible
beauty Of the landscape setting would
be lost. Experiments with number OF
proportions, as before recommended,
would cultivate the Judgment better
than keeping IN mind suggested rules.
me child must unconsciously recognize
good proportions BY constant example.
1t must not with the figures any more
than with the forms be told Of qualities
that its limited comprehension would
md but 9 restraint in work. Tho teach
zer who has followed the child thus FAR.
% must have found that &C has learned ~.
work 4; and : not by rule. 81 It has not