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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17

Odessa Democrat: The meeting
which had been in progress at the
Cumberland Presbyterian church closed
Tuesday night. This was The greatest
meeting ever held IN Odessa and
se~venty.five conversions we're made.
Rev. A. II. Kelso, the pastor, con-
Quoted the meeting alone and developed
u power for saving souls the like OF
shich was never before seer in our
,,ty. The whole town was stirred aud
religious spirit was created that will
lasting III its goodness.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17
A GOod Investment.

This bank is placing loans for q
limited number of customers, In sums
ranging from $500 to $500 on choice
farms in this locality, at a good rate Of
interest. Ifyou have funds that are not
paying you an income, we can make
you some money il you will write us.
We also have listed a feW good farms
TOR sale. WAsHITA WALLET BANK,
1904 Fort Cobb, Oklahoma
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17
Farms For Sale.

Having more land than | can con
veuiently look after outside OF this
state, l will sell one or two of my
farms in Lafayette county, well
located for schools and C urches, 3
of said farms near Dover aud Two
near HigginSville, ranging in size
frt III $50 TO 200 acres each. VIII sell
at $40 per acre less than my neigh
bors with no better soil.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17

WANl ED-A salesman TO sell oil as
q side line. One who visits mills,
electric light plants aud coal mines,
preferred. Apply,
GEORGE P. JONES s. COMPANY,
st. Louis, Missouri
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17

WANTED-Meh, women, boys and
girls to represent McClure's Magazne,
Address 81 East 2Srd St, N. Y. City
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17

You Suffer From Kidney TrOublesg
We guarantee one bottle of Smiths
.e Kidney Cure to benefit or cure
Your druggist will refund your
Sey E'rice so cents. Crenshaw &
asg mar25yl
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17

Young men-The Moler Barber
College, St. Louis, No certainly offer
a splendid chance to learn the barber
trade just now. Their scholarship
can practically be earned before com.
letting. 1t includes tools, board and
positions. Write them. 2.IOt2
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1906-02-17

Real Estate Transfers.
Friday, February 9, 1896
John Kitchen to Susan , Smith,
CO y r.tioD, $500; 81, 81, 81.
Henry Muller 70 Jeremiah ] Warden,
conside ation, 81, $50; 10, Az, 20.
He Muller TO John II Ausop,
conside ion, sl,7OO: 10, as, 20.
OF l. Prizes. to Mary Z Barns,
o 81 ten, $1,000; pit 2 lots in
Co.. r.
FRI Weber to John C Miller, con-
sidera D, So, 800; IL, 4s, "a
urdaY, F bruary 10, 1906.
f / P Canterbury to John w
Nolan, consideration, 50, OOO; l, 40,
%
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Mishaps of an AutOm n hiIist

An English automObilist, c. S. Rolls,
tells of the things that have happened
to him: Il have burnt my boiler out
three times on a steam car, | was once
stuck In deep flood and had to hail a
punt, once had to be practically dug
out OF bog, was once stuck for want
OF match for over three hours with
my burners out, the longest distance
have had to walk for petrol was in
France-twelve miles: have three times
had passenger fall off a racing car
moving at fair speed without being
killed, once had horse and cart on
top of me. in the Paris Vienna race ran
into tree at seventy miles an hour.
twice been overturned, once had my
head mashed in by a starting handle,
have twice run away completely down
hill forward and two or three times
backward, once upset an apple cart in
the Strand, and twice had my car burnt
up."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Now. Then, Who's WhoY

In his speech at the Royal acadelny's
annual banquet Mr.. Kipling said that
every writer has hope, or has had hope.
that through him q miracle with words
would be wrought. And why not? If a
tinker in Bedford Jail, if pamphletner
ing shopkeeper pilloried in London, if a
muzzy Scotsman, if a despised German
jew or condemned French thief or an
English admiralty official with a taste
for letters can be miraculously afflicted
with the magic of the necessary words.
why not any man at any time" So
Mr.. Kipling. Now, then, young ladies'
and gentlemen, let us see how much
you know about the famous writer's.
The tinker is easy. but who were the
pamphleteering shopkeeper, the muzzy
Scotsman and the rest? - Harper's
Weekly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
SlRES AND SONS.

Letters begging for a total Of con
100000 are received monthly by John
D. Rockefeller.
President Roosevelt presented to Sem.
atOr Beveridge the pen With which h.
signed the agricultural bill which con.
tains the meat inspection clauses.
General Henry Joseph Brngere. com.
mander In chief of the Preach armv
has been retired. having attained tho
age limit His successor Is General
Hagron.
William II. Newman Of the New York
Central railroad holds the record this
year for directOrships and trusteeshins
He represents the Vanderbilt Interest,".
in 1O6 corporations.
John G. A. Leishman. who has been
appointed first American Ambassador
to Turkey, when a boy In Pittsburp
was placed In Protestant orphan asy.
lum by his widowed mother.
Glenarvoir Behymer Of Los Angeles
is one Of the youngest students ever
graduated from a law school, having
taken his degree at nineteea. He viii
have to wait two years before he can
be admitted to the bar Of California.
William T. Vernon Of Kansas Civ
the new registrar of the treasury, has
been given the degree Of Ii. d. by
Wherefore university Of y enia, O., an
institution under supervision of the
African Methodist Episcopal church.
OregOn's new senator, Jonathan
Bourne OF Portland, represents a new
order of things in his state and In the
nation. He is the first senator ever
elected by popular vote. Senator
Bourne will be business senator. He
is millionaire.
Attorney General Moody is a base
ball crank. He does not often get time
to go to the league games in Washing
ton, but when he is out on horseback
and comes across a game on a vacant
lot he always stops and looks on for
half an hour and cheers the amateurs
heartily when they play we'll.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09

WAS THROUGH WITH POKER.
Uncle Rastus Tells Young Men Ho"
Game Is Played.

Uncle Rastus Tells Young Men How
Game Is Played.
"What's poker" echoed Uncle Ras-
tus as he turned on the young man
who had innocently asked the ques-
ton. Say, boy, you jest percolate de
consanguinity and don't nebber fool
around wild no game of poker. II 1t
hadn't been for de game Of poker Ia
have had brick house and fo'teen
nevis to console my ole aige."
But how does dey play de gamer
persisted the young man.
How does dey? Well, sab, poker am
played wild keerds. You deal out FIVE
and look mighty wise while you am
dom it. If you don't like what you
git you frow 'em away and call for
some mo-. Den you diskiber dat you
has three aces in your hand, and your
heart jumps right into your mouf.
You has got $40 in your pocket, and
you keerlessly observe dat you will bet
it on your hand. De odder party am
fool huff to butt in. He sees you and
goes ten better. You don't want to
be riz out of de game, and you do want
to take a fall outer dat man, and so
you put up your watch, your dimun
pin, your dawg. your mewl and your
wheelbarrer. Dat Odder chap am only
bluffin', but you am dar to stay"
'How kin you tell dat he am only
bluffin'?'
You have what they calls bunch.
He sees you till dar am muffin mo- to
put up on either side, and den you call
his hand and start to rake in de pot"
"And sunthin' happens?"
"Sunthin does, young man. OATS
whar de sagacity of de cumulashun
comes in. Three aces Orter rake In dat
pot, but de Odder party happens to
have TO kings, and you don't rake
You am dun cleaned out = knocked
down-sent to de porehouse for de rest
Of your days"
"And so you don't play poker no
MOI"
Not any for me. sab. If l had my
life to lib ODER again 1 might tackle
cyclones. whirlwinds, earthquakes and
redhot stoves, but you kin jes' gamble
dat de pomposity Of de combinashun
wouldn't elucidate dis individual to
perambulate around wild no game of
pokerr'-ChicagO News.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
FEES IN ENGLAND.
The Treasury Has Many Schemei
That Swell Its Income.

The Treasury Has Many Schemes
That Swell Its Income.
When a young man determines to
become a barrister and enters his name
at one of the inns of court in London
or Dublin he has to pay to the govern
ment fee Of Eos. And when he is a
full fledged English or Irish barrister
or a Scotch advocate he has to fork out
a further sum of ESQ.
Should he desire to become solicitor
he is fined even more heavily. When
he becomes an apprentice his fee to
the government is ESQ, and his yearly
duty when he begins to practice is, for
the first three years. f3 in the country
and "a los. in London or Dublin and
after the third year f6 and 20 respec-
lively. So that a solicitor practicing
forty years in London will have paid
the government over f4OO.
A law agent (ScOtland) pays EGO at
commencement of study and zoo or fS5
on beginning practice in the sheriff's
court or court of session.
If you want to change your surname
Of your own free will the government
charges you only f1O, but if you do it
under the direction of some deceased
benefactor it costs you ESQ.
Bishops pay ESQ for permission to be
elected and ESQ more for the royal as
sent to their election. and the fees paid
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
THE GOD OF WAR. :
clustering Mars and His Name Month,
the Thracian of the Twelve.

clustering Mars and His Name Month,
the Thracian of the Twelve.
Mars was not a favOrite among the
classic Greeks, nor is his name month
q great favOrite among the Gothic
moderns. The god Of war was bar
barian intruder in the Olympian circle.
There was something Thracian, and by
that token crude and unworthy in his
manner. He was more of a blusterer
than a fighter, and Homer narrates
with evident relish how Pallas Athene
tumbled him over in combat, his vast
bulk covering several acres. OF wild
aspect, untutored ways and Indifferent
wits, he had little to recommend him
but his immoral origin.
Such also is the month that has taken
the war gods name. One poet notes
it's ugly looks and threats" "a half
wild creature cast from natures lap"
another calls it, The proverb mad as
a March hare says the same thing
with less reticence. English people
call the month March Manyweath-
ers' and thereby intimate their doubt
of it's capacity for sustained purpose.
1t is the Thracian Of the twelve, as
September is the Tyrian. There is
something clustering and barren in its
aspect, as there is in what people call
"a good war; The winds that blow
from one end of it to the other are not
"the winds of Go1' rnck of March
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Prunes and Indication.

Mrs. --. who knows many prac-
teal thing, had maid who was dying
Tor thought she was) Of indigestion.
Now this maid was too valuable to lose,
SO her mistress determined to save her
life and retain her services. maggie,
l want you to eat every morning for
breakfast three stewed prunes. Now,
never more than three. If you were to
eat more you would get tired of them.
But three will leave you little hungry
for some more prunes and your appe-
tite will steadily increase" Maggie
started in obediently and at the end of
the week was the healthiest, happiest
girl for miles around. Mrs. has
effected many such cures.-New York
Press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
COG AND MAGOG.
Various Traditions Relating
These Two Famous Giants.

Various Traditions Relating e
These Two Famous Giants.
Who were Cog and Magog? English
tradition says that they were the last
of a race Of giants who infested Eng
land until they were destroyed by
some of the Trojans who went to the
British isles after the destruction of
Troy. Cog and Magog. it is said. were
taken captive to London, where they
were chained at the door Of the palace
Of the king. When they died wooden
images of the two giants were put in
their places In the course Of time a
great fire destroyed these, but now, II
you go to London, you will see In the
great hall of one Of the famous build
ings - the Guildhall two immense
wooden effigies of men called Cog and
MagOg.
But there are other traditions Of the
two giants. One is to the effect that
when Alexander the Great Overran
Asia he chased into the mountains of
the north an impure, wicked and man
eating people who were twenty-five ma
tons in number and who were shut up
with rampant in which were gates OF
brass. One of these nations was Goth
and another MagOth, from which we
readily get the names Of the mythical
giants. 1t is supposed, however, that
the Turks were meant by Cog and the
MongOls were the children Of Magog.
We shall find mention made of Cog
and Magog in many books, including
the Bible, but there are the great wall
and the rampant of Cog and Magog.
whatever may have been the fact that
gave the names Of the two giants to
that portion Of the structure.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
THINGS THEATRICAL.

1.-THE House Of q Thousand Candlesr
Is to be dramatized.
Sour milk is an important factor In
Sarah Bernhardt's daily diet.
Robert billiard, one OF the leading
men in the cast of THE Girl of the
Golden West" the past winter, has
entered vaudeville.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will be seen
In a new drama as well as in several
of those she made famous when she
makes her American tour next season,
H. f. Outcault, whom every child and
grownup knows as the originator OF
1.-THE Yellow Kid" and Buster Brown"
has been secured for. a few weeks In
vaudeville.
Paul NJ. Potter is to write the COM
edy in which Lillian Russell will be
seen the coming season. The play Is
to be founded on Francis de CrOisSets
LA Bonheur Mesdames." "Barbaras
Millions" is to be the title Of the new
piece
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
The Ashes Of the Dead.

James Russell Lowell was a great
favorite in the literary circles OF Lon
don. On one occasion at a large BAN
uuet the peculiarities Of American
speech were discussed with English
bluntness. Lord s. called to Mr.. Lowell
loudly, SO as to silence all other speak
erS:
There Is one new expression invent
ed by your countrymen so foolish and
vulgar as to be objectionable. They
talk of the ashes of the dead We
don't burn corpses. No Englishman
would use a phrase SO absurd"
"And yet" said Mr.. Lowell gently.
'.your poet Gray says. speaking of tho
dead:
Fer In our ashes live their wonted nres.
"And in the burial services OF the
church Of England 1t Is said, Dust to
dust and ashes to ashes We sin In
good company" A cordial burst Of ap-
plause greeted this prompt rejoinder.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
SELECrI0|NAa
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ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
The Advancing Expeditions to the
North Pole.

The Advancing Expeditions to the
North Pole.
with the expedition headed by Wal
ter Wellman from Spitzbergen, that or
Myths Erichsen from Greenland and
that of Mikkelsen from Alaska, all ad-
vancing upon the pole this summer, In
terest in Peary, who went north last
summer and thus has a years start OF
them, is becoming greater" writes p.
T. McGrath In the Chicago News from
st. Johns, n. F. "Peary went north
from Newfoundland in July, 1905, In
his splendid new steamer Roosevelt
and hoped to be able to work his way
up into the polar basin west OF Green
land before navigation closed, feat
almost accomplished by Captain Hall
In the PoIaris in 1871. An open season
In the seaway there, which occurs oc-
casionally, enables an extreme north
ing to be made. and if Peary were so
favored he would be able to shorten by
some hundreds of miles the distance he
would have to cover on foot In advanc-
ing toward the pole itself. Peary's In
tentions were to send ESkimoS south
from his ship to Cape Sabine this sum-
mer with news Of his progress. The
Scotch whalers which left Dundee in
May for Davis strait took letters for
him in case their cruise carried them
so far north. They were also author
lied to take aboard and convey south
any dispatches which might be lodged
there from him.
"Cape Sabine is, so to speak, the
last accessible outpost in the north. In
addition to the Scotch whalers, the
Newfoundland sealer Adventure, which
has been chartered by the dominion
government for patrol service in Hud-
son bay and will proceed there in July,
will also go to Cape Sabine and should
reach there about the middle Of Au
gust. Peary's friends have requested
that the Adventure make a special
search there for records from him.
and as these are always deposited be-
meath a cairn in Lifeboat cave, the
scene of the Greedy tragedy in 1884, It
is certain that any papers which may
ne sent SOulll 10y ullH VIII ne IcCON-
cred and the fact probably communi-
Gated to the world from the Marconi
station on Labrador. 1t is thus high
ly probable that toward the end of that
month some news of him will be learn
ed by the world.
at is barely possible that with ex-
treme good fortune he may have forced
his ship so FAR up that he has achieved
his aim and got, if not to the pole it
self. at any rate beyond the farthest
points, degrees SO minutes-reached
by any previous eXplorer-the Duke of
Abruzzi, who advanced that far in
1900. On the other hand, the pros
pect Is that he may have to spend a
second year there, working into the
polar basin this summer and pushing
pOleward next winter and spring over
the mighty foes which stretch to the
apex of the globe Pearys most formi-
dable opponent will be Wellman, with
his airship."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
The Regret of His Life.

Sir William Grove, the eminent sci
enlist and jurist, never forgave himself
for not discovering the spectroscope
Il had often observed" he said, that
there were different lines exhibited in
the spectra Of different metals ignited
in the vOltaic arc, and if I had had any
reasonable amount of wit l ought to
have seen the converse-viz, that by
ignition different bodies show in their
spectral lines the materials Of which
they are composed"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
He Met Him.

when you 60 to New Zealand I
wish you would inquire after my great
grandfather, jeremiah Thompson"
Certainly" said the traveller. And
wherever he went he asked for news
of the ancestor, but without avail, &C
cording to the Dundee Advertiser. One
day he was introduced to a fine old
Maori Of advanced age. Did you ever
meet with an Englishman named Jere-
miah Thompson he asked. A smile
passed over the Maori's face. Meet
him?" he repeated. why, 1 ate himw
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Mr.. MOrcan's worries,

Little by little our most precious
works of art are going to America,
where they obtain most magnificent
reception. Among the latest acquisi-
tlonS of the great transatlantic collect
the means of buying everything, but
the taste 10 choose well, are some I'D
mirable worries of the middle ages from
the splendid collection of Baron Albert
Oppenheim of Cologne.-Paris Figaro.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09

The severest test Of manhood is never
found in good times. but only in hard
times. 1t is not the man who has sue
cess when others are doing well, but
it is the man who keeps up his courage
and struggles on when everybody else
is wavering or going down who Is the
hero in the sight Of God and men. 1t is
an easy matter to make good time
when both wind and tide are in ones
favor or when one is moving with the
current, but it requires character and
skill and daring to make head in spite
of opposing forces or to work success
fully against the current.-Exchange.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Mosquito Eggs.

The eggs Of the mosquito are fastened
together by viscid secretion from the
insects body. From 25O to 800 eggs
are laid at time, and the little boat
shaped mass is so constructed that it
in any way injured by wind. rain or
water 1t is abandoned by the insect
and the eggs are hatched by the heat
Of the sun or atmosphere. A temper
allure below freezing is said not to
destroy the vitality Of the mosquitoes
eggs
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
MUSIC STRINGS.
The Great Amount of Material Re-
uuired to Meet the Demand.

The Great Amount of Material Re.
quired to Meet the Demand.
zone of the most generally accepted
but mistaken ideas that are entertained
by the people of this country" said
travelling representative Of a foreign
mandatory of gut strings, sis that
strings used on musical instruments
are manufactured from catgut. If that
were true the cats in this world would
have been exterminated many years
ago in supplying the market with ma
terial for musical instrument strings.
''The fact is that they are manufac-
tured from the intestines Of sheep, and
In obtaining enough raw material even
from these animals the manufacturers
at times find difficulty.
1.-THE only string made from the in
testines of the feline is that used for
surgical purposes - for sewing up
wounds One would be amazed to
know that there are millions Of mu-
steal instrument strings used in North
America alone, and just think where
the Tables would be If they had to
supply the consumption.
Another amazing thing is that there
are over 700 different grades Of musical
instrument strings. The demand for
strings in North America is increasing
every year, especially in the south and
in Mexico. There are more guitar
strings sold in Mexico than any other
kind, but through the south the banjo
string is still popular, despite the fact
that every year has marked slight but
gradual falling off in the demand."-
Kansas City Journal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Dist1nRui0hed.

Visitor Gin penitentiary)-W is that
distinguished looking convict? Ward
en-He is known here as No. 1147.
visitor-He seems to hold himself aloof
from his fellows. Warden-Yes; you
can hardly expect him to associate with
the common herd. His trial cost the
state 100000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
DreSdeu,s Dog Bath.

At Dresden a new bath for dogs has
been opened for the convenience Of
busy people who have not the time to
look after the cleanliness Of their own
pets. Dogs are left at the bath by
men on their way to business, and dur
ing the day they are kept in kennels,
cared for. given a wash and a good
rub down. clipped if necessary and re-
turned to their master when the days
work is do!.-.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
The Only Way.

A person of little tact once remarked
to the octogenarian Auber, what q
sad thing it is, this old business
"Yes," agreed the old musician, ut
Is sad; "but," he added, with witty
philosophy, "up to the present time no
surer way has been discovered to live
a long time"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
VERY Likely.

"You seemed to size that man up pref
try WELL" remarked the laxative pa
tron
Sure" replied the waiter, cts easy
for us walters to take a mans meas
ure."
Yes? l suppose you measure him
from tip to Philadelphia Press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-09
Jumping at Conclusions.

81 see that the human ostrich Is no
more. He's the chap who swallowed
nails, needles and hatpins. And he
chewed glass too"
Il see. He chewed so much glass
that he got a pain" - Detroit Free
Press