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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-11-15
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Special H~omeseekers rates TO all
points west, south and southweet,
tictets on sale JUNE > and 10, July 3
aud II. Aug. Z aud q. Sept. 4 and Is,
Oct , aud 10, and Nov. 9 and % at
very low rates, via Mo Pac.
r. A. BAILEY, Agent.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-11-15

meetIngB OF Township board.
First Wednesday after first Tues
day In April.
First Tuesday after first Monday
I'm July.
Third Monday of November Of
each year at Office of the township
clerk.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-11-15

Don't Neglect Insurance.
u YOU wan, good fire insurance,
a. fnrE- 'hr | represent one of
~ best compsn e. in the United
Ntatrs.
GRO. 2. HUcKEBY.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-11-15

Home, $1,000.
l. Jones to Geo Schrodt 60 a
sec 20 New Home, 5000.
John Sears to Geo Il Cobb lots
3 toe blk / Pages add Butler,
$3.50.
w Chambers 60 w NJ Frazier
100 a sec IL East Boone, $1,000.
rs Brant to G E Brown 1O8 a
sec 81 Mound, $1,000.
Nottah A Wolcott to h CT Nc.
Call 240 a sec s Elkhart. S1O5OO.
E G Webster TO Commercial
Trust Co 1850 a sec 5. z, s, II and
Is Lone Oak, $4,000.
Elizabeth A Hunter to J W
Chambers tract sec 10 Mt Pleas
ant $3.50.
b H Childers to JOS Clapp lots
s and 8 blk 5 Atkison Park add
buIlef, S10U.
MI Whipple to d d Bassett
10 a sec 10 Pleasant Gap, $1,000.
Alice Rogers to w ] Tingler
lot y blk 20 west side add But
Ter, $3.50.
Minerva King to James Shep-
pard lots 1 to 5 blk 16 lots / to 5
blk II Sperry's add Rich Hill
$1,000.
Henry Crawford to Fanny
VIM 50 a sec 5 Lone Oak, $1,000.
Mary E Frow to B Kirk lot 9
blk 50 Rich Hill, $1,000.
Henry Deller to A S Deller pt
blk % Sperry's add Rich Hill,
$3.50.
A Crigler to NJ E Small lots
l and , pt lots Z and s blk 1 Stem
dish add Hume, 500
WI Kash to Lily Moore 40 a
ser II Deepwater, St4O0
Henry Moorehead to W Kash
tract section l Deepwater, SIS.
G F Howe to Fred Kershner
pit lots 4 and 5 blk 10 Amsterdam
500.
Frank L Wolfe Go Ray Kersh.
ner lots 1 > aud 3 blk II Amster.
dam, $500.
Susan NJ Conley to B p Here
ford pit lots , and 3 blk % Sper.
add Rich Hill, $500.
Cora l. Hibbs 20 J A Johnson
so a sec % Mingo, $4,000.
Henrietta Ball 10 Elizabeth A
Hunter pit lot , blk o Williams
add Butler, $1,000.
Wesley AFrowsmith to Gamer.
on Showalter lot - blk 20 Rich
Hill, Sl36
Eta J Reed to w H Powell 40
a sec p Rockville, $500.
D NJ Coulter to Iva Dale so a
sec 3 Spruce, $500.
w r Hodges to VIM Mudd blk
a Sperry's add Rich Hill, 5000.
&C Smithey TO L A Bennett
lots IS and SO Worland, $54.
Ada A Stokes to No State
100 a sec 20 Lone Oak, S726
l. NJ Burleo TO Ii II Wells part
blk So Butler, 500.
Caleb Taylor to ] B Alden 50
a sec - Homer, $500.
II Knorp 10 w Frankenfeld
lots 10 and II blk l26 8rd add
Rich Hill, 1925.
Thos Manchester 10 A Frank
enfield lots 3 and 4 blk 115 Sd add
Rich Hill, $50.
David VI Coulter TO Iva Dale so
a see % Homer $500.
Mary . Reece to Mary NJ Sar
tain lots 222 agd 223 Adrian
$1,000.
Trabue to Albert Cox iots
II and rs blk 4 Atkison Park ad
500.
Lucretia LemasteFs 10 j w
Scott lots 3 and 4 blk rs Titles
BE Hume 1850.
w w Crume TO John Cotrell
ind 1.2 int 10 a sec 50 Rockville
S45.
Louisa T Brown 10 o w Lamb
part lot , block 66 Rich Hill S235.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-11-15
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Secondhand Mail Boxes.

The man who was spending his
summer vacation in the country was
looking quizzically at the mail
boxes in the rural postotlicc.
Il did not know this was such a
large place" he said. Il thought it
had a population of only about
1000, but the mail box numbers
run much higher than that, and |
don't suppose every one in town
rents box either"
The postmaster peercd out of his
little barred window.
Il can explain that" he sad.
"Iou see. the country postoIlices
never get new boxes, but we have
those left over when the city cstab-
lishments make over their offices
and get new boxes. So YOU see lots
of country places are bound to have
high numbered boxes.
although our numbers run over
1000, you won't find any less than
1000. Some other country post
office drew the lower ones. | N.Y.
self had rather get the big numbers,
for it makes us seem like a busting
little city" -Washington Post.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Servant Problem Solved.

81 have solved the servant prob
lem," said the woman with the com
pressed lips and the determined
eyes.
"You have:" asked the other per-
son.
Il have. When things get to such
a pass that the hired girls want
three days out in the week, want the
use of the parlor every other night
and Sunday afternoon, want me to
play soft love songs while they are
entertaining their beaus in the
kitchen on other evenings, insist on
the privilege Of debating what gro
cerles and meats | shall buy. claim
the right to wear my clothes and
bonnets, dictate whether or no |
shall keep a dog or a child, succeed
in having my house decorated and
furnished to accord with theirtastcs,
and-well, when things are as they
are | am just
Not going to keep servants any
longer"
Better than that. | am going
to hire out as servant and enjoy
life."-Judse.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
ARAel PkSHA.

In a little house up a by street
If the Moliamme,lan quarter, old,
friendlc>s. broken, lives the man
who might have ruled Egypt. Ii
you ask twenty people in Cairo TO-
day. Where is Arab Pasha:' tif-
teen will tell YOU that he Is dead,
while the other five do not know.
I'm fact. after the bombardment of
Alexandria he was sent TO exile for
life in Ceylon, but was allowed some
four wears ago 10 return to his ma
tive city. 1t was only after Il weeks
hard fcrrcting that | discovered,
through a native journalist. the
whereabouts of the great man. Even
now. in his SEVENTEEN wear, he Is
big man; IN his prime he must have
been immense-white hair and
beard; IL broad, thoughtful forehead,
surmounted by the Turkish tar
boosh: kindly ewes, dulled a little by
age, but lighting up wonderfully
when he talks about things which
interest him; straight, powerful
nose; a large mouth, which must
once have been hard and cruel, now
softencd by adversely. Though the
day is warm. he wears an overcoat,
and he walks heavily on massive
ebony stick.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

Some interesting Games to Be Played
With Jackstones.

OF course YOU boys and girls all
know how to play jackstones, but
You may not know all the games
that can be played with them.
Do You know Cats in the WE'LL"
for instance? 1t is played in the
following fashion:
Roll the jacks from the hand to
the ground; these are the cats.
Then place your left hand near
them, with the fist lightly closed,
the thumb and first finger forming
the opening to one we'll.
Jack may now be thrown up. and,
while he is in the air, one of the
four cats on the ground must be
picked up and put in the well.
Repeat the operation with the
second, third and fourth cats until
all have been drowned in the well.
The left hand may now be taken
away, leaving the dead cats in a
bunch.
Now jack may be tossed up, and
this time all four cats must be pick.
ed up before jack comes down.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

Judge Kencsaw NJ. Lands of the
United States district court Of
northern Illinois has his share of
humor for which the family is
noted. Since his appointment to
the bench he has not INDUCED in
this trait as he did when an attor-
ney. One of his stories was told to
a select coterie of friends the day
Of his appointment. This is it:
"Therc was a state senator in Hi
nois whom every one in the lower
end of the state Familiarity address
ed as Tom Merritt. He was noted
for his wit and stammering. He
was invited over into Indiana to
make a speech for "a Democratic
candidate for governor. Warming
up to his subject, the senator said:
I've been t-t-told that the Re-re-
publican candidate is a scho-scho-
scholar, that he has r-tr-translated
Homer's "IIiad." Wha-wha-what
good is that to us? Every Demo-
crat reads Homer in the or-or-orig-
inal.'
''The best part of the joke is, as
Merritt afterward said in telling the
incident, that nobody in the audi
ence even smiled at the statement.
Merritt went back to Illinois the
next day. American Spectator.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
SEVEN CENTURIES TOO LATE.

While they were detaching mo-
saics inside the Cathedral of St.
Mark in Venice the other day, SAYS
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the
workmcn found imbedded in the
cement a rare coin of the time Of
the doge Enrico Dandolo, who died
in l205. The suppositlon is that
the coin dropped in the cement
from the clothing of the mason at
work on the job centuries ago. IL
this is true the unfortunate man
probably never knew what became
of it. He may have supposed 1t was
omitted from his pay envelope, or
that the chap on the job next to
him pinchcd it from his jacket
pocket when he was emptying his
dinner pail, or that Nicolo Coca,
the wine vcnder at the far end Of
the Bridge of Signs, had worked the
change racket on him. All of which
seems a pity. And when We con-
slider how he may have gone home
and handed his salary to his wife,
how she looked il over and harshly
remarked that he was. short an
Enrico Dandolo, and then accused
him of leading a double life, why,
it all seems very painful and very
unjust. But its too late to do any
thing about it now-seyen centuries
too late.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

Among the divine rights of the
king of Seryia is not immunity from
press criticism, and the newspapers
OF that country are somewhat en-
phatic in their language. One of
them SAYS:
"Abominable polypus Our I'M
fortunate land is at last in the grasp
of your sanguinary claws, but we
will shake it free"
Murder and govern, monster,
You went~to Switzerland to study
and returned "A criminal. This is
the morality YOU have brought us
from Geneva
"Reptilc. Seest thou not the
looks of hate that follow thee in
the streets: Fearest thou not the
hand fatcd one day to wiring thy
cursed neck"
"Otadjbina" says: "The article
in which we said, Flushed with
blood, YOU appeared in our midst
reeking with alcohol has been pro-
nounced wrongfully suppressed by
the court, as it contains no malign-
ment of King Peter. Our mild and
just exposition of facts as they are
shall therefore continue"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

Is white lie ever justified? That
at least some ople believe it has
no excuse is proved by the following
tale: An ancient rabbi came to a
city where all the people were truth
full, married one of the inhabitants,
had two children and prospered.
One day a neighbor called when the
rabbits wife was washing her head,
and the rabbi, going to the door, was
seized by false modesty and said
that she had gone out. Thercupon
both of his children died, and, as
no one died in that city before
reaching old age, the neighbors
made inquiries, the rabbi confessed
what he had done and was ordered
to leave the city Immediately.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Her Turn First.

A teacher in one of the country
schools, says Lippincott's, had a
class of young children in mathe-
mates before her. The examples
were in addition, and she PROFOUND
ed this question: "Now, children, if
lay four eggs on the desk and
SAM" pointing to a freckle faced
boy at the head of the class, should
lay three, how many would there
be-"
The bad boy, who was at the foot
OF the class, had been listening in
tently and shouted out: go on,
Sam, take her up. She can't do it,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Striking a Match.

King Edward once said that he
spent the most exciting and nervous
moment of his life on a prairie in
Canada when he visited that coun-
try as a youth. He was in no dam
ger of being scalped by red Indian
or eaten by wolves or gored by a
maddened bison. His anxiety and
nervousness were simply due to his
efforts to light a match. The prince
and his party were miles away from
human habitations; they wanted to
smoke and had only one match be-
tween them. Lots were cast as to
who should strike it. The lot fell
on the prince, and with great diff
Guilty he managed to get the light
which was to supply them with fire
till their return to civilization.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

something dangerous about speed.
When | was student at Princeton,
there was middle aged cook, sim
pie minded woman with a good deal
Of money saved, who suddenly got
herself engaged to a horse jockey. |
saw the cook standing looking out of
her kitchen window with a dazed
expression one morning, and said
to her:
"'What is the matter, Hannah:?'
why, SIR she said, with my
husband that is to be, everything
goes with such liahtnin' speed that
it's confusin. Day before Yesterday
We got acquainted, yesterday we was
engaged, and today find that he al
ready owes me SIS. Buffalo En-
Quirer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Ten Square Feet.

Some of the schools have SIM
pie so called 'catch question" that
Is much IN vogue among the pupils
at times. 1t is, "What is the diff
ference between ten square feet and
ten feet square ?" Now and then an
unwary boy or girl trips over it
and answers, There is no differ
ence," but a little thinking shows
mem that there is good deal of
difference. Ten square feet means
an area equal to parallelogram
measuring ten feet on one side and
one foot on the other; the parallel
ogram contains, therefore. only ten
square feet. Ten feet square. how
ever means a square measuring ten
feet on each of its sides. which
therefore, contains 100 square feet
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Unhappy Lot Of American Composers

The musician in America is doub-
ly handicapped. He can hear rela,
lively but little music, and he can
have his own work produced not
at all. We always have a German
sitting upon the safety valve, lest
American steam should sizzle out
and the imprisoned genius, when
once let loose, prove as difficult to
manage as the tabled one of the
brass bottle in the arabian
Nights" say this without disre-
spect to the admirably qualified for
eigners who direct our orchestras
and operas, most of our theaters
and the majority of our music
Etude.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

The bright and limpid appearance
u 'he pest olive oil is sec..ad by re-
peatedly passing it through LAYERS
OF, OF carded cotton wool as a fiter
me clarified oil of Italy is then, un-
III bottled or sold in bulk. kent in
cold storage in masonry tanks lined
wv, Nun nara marble and covered.
lhose who use much oil and have
a cola, dark place in Will to keen
IL ma 1t economical to buy IA good
brand OF oil in gallon packages. It
can be drawn off into quart or mint
oo'.ies Tor convenient use and also
$ that the large quantity nav not
oe exposed too frequently to the
alr.-New York Post
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Shakespeare or Shakspere?

1t is not to be wondered at that
boys and girls are sometimes puz-
zled over the spelling of the great
poets name. 1t is written in three
different ways-Shakespeare. Shak-
speare and Shakspere. Which of
these is right? The first is gener-
ally preferred, though many of our
best scholars write it Shakspere,
contending that it is right because
his autograph signature appears in
that form. At the same time it
should he remembered that the
name appeared as Shakespeare on
the title page Of books that he SUI
perlntended, and this warrants the
belief that he accepted it as the cor
rect spelling, in spite of the auto
graph signature There is very lit
tie authority for the form Shak-
speare.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

Don't you remember that cold day
They left me hours and hours In bed
And when nurse came for me at last.
"Your nose Is out of Joint" she said
"a baby's come to live with US"
Well, then. that's what's the matter
now
You might have known how IL would be.
oh. dear. my head! Please don't meow.
Or / must send you from the room.
Nice little girls don't make a noise
When their mammas give almost all
Their kisses to small red faced boys.
tell you, puss. you are too big
To sit with kit upon my knee.
And it's no worse for you to have
Your nose put out OF joint than me.
Margaret Eytinge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
A DREAM That VOL.
The True Story That Is Related by
veracious Writer.

One reason why truth l. stranger
than fiction i that makers of Lc-
ton generally try To bee plausible.
while truth is never hampcrcd by
any such consideration. Here. Tor
instance. Is "A true story. No rca-
sonably expert fiction writer wodId
think of connecting 80 improbable
Il yarn.
\ BROOKLYN man, whom we may
as well call Smith-the Smiths are
all so used to it they probably won t
mind-this Smith dreamed a policy
gig one night not long ago. The
numbers were so deeply impressed
on his mind that he remembered
them when he awoke and told them
to a relative at the breakfast table.
live me a quarter, said the
relative, half in fun, and will
play the gig today"
Smith tossed "A quarter over to
him, and the matter dropped from
his mind.
That afternoon u knowing horse
man gave Smith a dead straight tip.
1t was the surest thing ever and a
good long shot, so Smith borrowed
$50 and lost it on the horse.
That evening on his way home he
passed the cigar store where he
usually stopped. He concluded that,
with only so cents in his pocket,
he'd better smoke his pipe after
dinner.
Give me quarter" said his rela-
tive after the evening meal, ''and
I'll give you a good cigar"
But Smith went right on filling
up the old pipe.
"Well, give me quarter and |
won't give you a good cigar" the
relative insisted.
I've no quarters to spare"
Smith answered moroscly. lie was
dreadfully in the dumps. He had
promised to pay the $50 next day
and had no idea how he was going
TO raise it.
Give me a quarter, | tell you,
the relative demanded. Il must
have it"
'Oh, well, if it's as bad as that
And Smith flung the silver piece
across to him.
'There," said the relative, "now
you are entitled to half the win
nings, l'put dollar on your dream
gig today, and it won an even hun
dred.'
He handed 5000 out to Smith
and the incident was closed. Every
one of the three numbers he had
dreamed had won.
Now don't tell me that it is q
good story. 1t isn't. 1t is merely &
true story. If | hadn't been pre-.
vented by facts could have made {
much more plausible yarn of it, but
it wouldn't have been so strange
Brooklyn Eagle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28

Governor Guild of Massachusetts,
had visit the other day from a
crank with a message from God. "
His experience reminded Boston
lawyer Of an incident in Fall River
years ago, when ii clergyman named
Alley was on trial for the murder of
a parlshioner "lIe was defended
successfully said the lawyer, shy
the late Jeremiah Mason, considered
by all of us to have been the great
est American pleader who ever
faced a jury. Mr. Mason had finish
ed his examination and was to make
his plea in the morning. He was
about to retire, when a crank was
ushered in. 1 have message from
the Angel Gabriel declaring that
Brother Alley is not guilty of this
awful crime. and'-but he got no
further. Mason bcamed upon him
and said: My dear sir, this is most
timely. Go at once to Gabriel and
have a subpoena served upon him d.
rectlng his appearance in court in
the morning. The crank departed
IN a trance, and the door closed be-
fore he recovered"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Iemmy's Doubtful Commitment

"A teacher was instructing a class
OF boys, and had spent half an hour
trying to drive into their heads the
difference between man and the
lower animals, but apparently with
little success.
Tommy" he said, coaxinglv. to
a little chap, do you know the diff
terence between, say. me and a PIG
or any other brute:''
NO, replied Tommy, innocent
", but another teacher standing nv
laughed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Revenqe,

Miss Angelina Ito Lucy, the par
lor maiI-Lucy, if any one calls to
see me this afternoon, don't forget
that | am only at home to Mr.. Fitz-
noodle.
Lucy-1es, miss.
Interval of an hour, and Lucy re-
appears, looking rather flushed.
well, Lucy:'
please, miss, there's been five
gentlemen call, and when | told
them you were out to everybody but
Mr.. Fitznoodle, they all seemed very
surprised and annoyed, while the
last one said: 4 am sorry for Mr..
fltznoodle. '"-London Answers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-28
Three Crowns,

During the middle ages the cleo.
tive emperors of Germany at their
coronation wore three crowns-the
silver crown as king of Germany,
the iron crown of Lombardy as king
OF Italy and the imperial crown as
kaiser of the holy Roman empire.
The first was received at Aix-la-
Chapelle, the second at Monza and
the third at Rome, but Karl V. was
the last kaiser-king who received
the imperial crown at the pope's
hands.