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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-11-30
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Surgeon Dentist
LEXINGTON MISSnIlRi
ANOTHER wONOER o. soIENcE.
Biology has Proved that DandruR is
caused by a Germ.

Science is DOING wonders these days ia
medicine as wen as In mechanics. sincs
Adam lived, the human race has been
troubled with dandruff, for which no halr
preparation has heretofore proved q sue
cessful cure until Newbro's Herpicldc wa-l
put on the market. It is q scientific prep
aratien that kills the germ that nakes
iandruf or scurf by digging into tho
scalp to get at the root of the hair, where
It sap the vitality; causing itching scalp.
falling hair. and finally badness. With
out dandruf hair must grow luxuriantly.
1t Is the only destroyer OF dandruff.
Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c.
in stamps for sample to The Herpl-
eide Co, Detroit. Mich.
two sinsS-SO soma ana AI.VH
oRENsHAw & YOUNG.
Special Agents.
LEXINGTON, Missouri
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square on the head. Now what does
that prove? II proves, he says, that
they hev some o. the same instincts
as college boys has, on'y they've got
more sense. Dye hear them yellin'
their heads off while this games go.
in on2 ! listened good an hard, but
they wasn't nary a sound. No says
!, I don't hear nothin' You bet We
don't says he. DO We see EN- bet
tin good money on the result? i
amt seen the flash Of a Nickel says
/. Are they castin' reflections upon
their parents by singin' that they're
sons o CHANDELIERS? he continued on.
An smashin' each others hats with
canes, an fghtin' p%licemen, an
stealth sign-boards, an maxim fool
eyes at a lot O girls, an paintln' the
hull bloomin' landscape a deep yeller
redo 4 amt noticed it, says l..
Well H. that don't show that they've
got more intelligence than the aver
age student from Yale, Harvard, Wis
eonsin, Minnysoty or the North Ber.
wick Military academy I'll eat my
hat. These bugs can play football in
a clean. hullsome, gentlemanly way,
which is more'n them college boys
can do. an II they can do that, what's
to prevent their learnin' Latin an
Greek. an Mathymatics? He had
me stumped an right. though
couldn't see what good it could do a
tumble-bug to be able to- do all them
things, an / thought then that Mont
gomery was a good deal Of a durn
fool for wastin' his time on anythin'
so few-tile. But a month later
changed my mind because n morn
ia when emptyin' Montgomery
waste basket I found a type-wrote let
ter to him sayin' Your article OF
The Intellectual Capacity o Tit
Tumble-Bug AS Proven BY certaii
Investigations on the Coast Of Main.
IS accepted FOR publicatlon in III
Scientific Oregonian Check for 81
Will follow.
"Ieei cfle0 ~ NOJhtlSpoon
"Eighteen dollars for an article o.
tu%mble-bugs?'
Yep said the captain. An h
wasn't over a week writin il neither
writin' an hour every day. That
durn good pay i'd like to be hire
to sit on The grass an look at any oil
kind Of a bug for three dollars a day
Beats hoein. said 81.
/ Beats anythins7 returned the cal
: tain. Well sir. he experiments
with everything IA the bug line h
: could nnd, an one day ne told his Stel
+ nygraphic Fly That was a new one Q
me but he explained n a stennygfi
pher Is moat generally q nice HIT
I eia With blue eyes an fuzzy hair Oh
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sets around when you talk an takes
down what We say in a little note
book Montgomery said they were a
great help as long as they attended
to business, an relieved a Teller with
a lot Of writin' to do OF a very on
sid'rable amount o. drudgin'. Tn
only trouble with EN- was that they
was expensive. an a leetle inclined to
get on the nerves OF a feller's wife,
bein' Airtatious mostly by mater an
costin' anywheres from s. to SIS a
week. Mrs. Montgomery had been
n before Montgomery married her.
but after they got back from their
weddin' tour she said she wouldn't
take no move dictation, as they call
II, from him nor nobody else, so
Montgomery had to do all his writin'
by hand, an it come hard. One day,
however, while he was writing an
article on how to make lamp chin
ney cleaners out o. catterpillars he
saw a fly swimmin' around in the
ink. Bein' a kind-hearted man he res
cued the little creature with his pen,
an | CORY, when he laid It down on
the desk that fly crawled oyer to a
sheet o white paper he had layin'
there, an Jest walked around and
around, an finally when it had
walked enough, an sot down on
a piece O. blottin' paper to dry,
Montgomery saw that in its prone
made It had worked out the words:
Thank you for saving my life. II
there is anything ] a do to recip-
rocate your most thoughtful assist.
ance pray do not hesitate to call upon
me.
20 tutt!" calculated the postmaster
"Ye can TUT till We drap, Joe" said
the captain, but ! know it happened
Montgomery showed me the sheet o
paper, an what 1 says It said It said
or course it wasn't wrote as clear an
neal as the copy-book writin', but by
lingo It was better writin' n yol
could do with yer hind legs with al
your eddication.r
He did 1t with his hind legs?'
cried 81 Wotherspoon.
with his ieft mind leg" said tn
eantatn - f%%@s@SS aTOun0 urassin
his left hind leg after him formir
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to show his appreciation OF the little
Industry and sticktoiuveness
carried EN- both over to the ant hill,
an let EN- have the door-mat all suin-
mer long. An the ants enjoyed H.
too. They quit bulldin' their ant
hill and lived in that there mat all
summer long"
How'd you know all about 1T"
demanded the postmaster.
Il done the chores that year for
the Montgomery family" explained
the captain. And I nearly lost the
job because I put the door-mat back
where It belonged the next mornin'
Mr.. Montgomery said I was interferin'
with some i%nterestin' experiments in
insect life he was maxim, an was for
THROWN me of the place, but Mrs.
Montgomery said I'd only done what
l was hired to dc, an they KEEP me
on. | got so | was afeard to touch
anythin' ! found lynn around the
place. remember n mornln' later
on it was rainin' like all get out, an
! see Montgomery's velvet smokin'
jacket hangin' on a tree down near
the road. but l let her stav an git
soaked. Why didn't We bring in my
coat, ye jackassl Montgomery hol.
Tered when he saw me. I thought
maybe ye'd donated it for a town.
han for the K~atydids, Mr.. Montgom.
cry, says |. An l didn't want to in
terfere with their ~proceedin's or youl
calculations, says /. He see the
pint all right, an from that time OF
we was good friends, an he used tC
invite me to come an jine him watch
in stray bugs that turned up. Ont
day there was a couple O. dozen tum
ble-bugs q%uarrelin' over a ball like
lot O college boys, each one tryin
to push it a different way, an OIL,
Montgomery was delighted. We sa
an watched them for four hours, an
durin' that time l got on to wha
he vas doin'. He vas tryin' to PROV
that insects could be taught thing.
an he said this here happenin' prove
it. 'Ye see, captain, he says, 'theI
%tumble.bugs prove my pint. by
notice what they're doin'?' Yes
says /, they're playin' football
Precisely, says he. Teve nit
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the letters with II as he went. II was
covered with ink an when he set
down he'd wrote what l told We.
Well Of course that put an idee in
M~ontgomery's head. If a fly could
do that without bein' taught, they
wasn't no end to the things he could
do II he was taught, and Montgomery
was jest the Teller to teach him an
teach him de did. At the end of a
month he had that little cuss trained
SO as he could work with both his
hind legs at once an kick off two or
three thousand words an hour. The
only thing he couldn't learn was puc-
tuation marks, Periods was his long
suit, but when il came to commas an
interrogation marks he didn't seem
to be able TO catch on to it at all
Still, as Montgomery said, it was
somethin' to have his writin' done for
him. Unfortunately Stenny got too
MISUNDERSTANDING called him
stenny as forgot to tell We. Stenny
got too ambitious after awhile, an
began to do business IN his own ac-
count. Montgomery made one very
bad mistake, lie taught the creature
to sign his own name SOS We couldn't
tell it from Montgomery own auto
mograph, an one mornin when he,
come downstairs he found the hy'd
been busy on his cheque TO his own
order for a hundred an fifty dollars,
an signed Montgomery's name to it,
As Montgomery told me this showed
the possession Of criminal instincts,
an he decided that his dnty TO s'ciety
required that Stenny should be pun.
ished Consequently he shut him up
in a tin box for two days. an when
he let him out the first thing that ny
did was to commit suicide He dove
head first into the molasses jug. an
drowned hisseif. Montgomery was
heart broken. but he got considerable
consolation out Of a cheque for thirty.
FIVE dollars for an article he wrote on
Certain Evidences OF Science in
Flies IN which he told in simple an
touchin' language the tragic story OF
stenny
Seems to me I've heard tell Of that
Teller Montgomery said the post
master. Wasn't his name mentioned
in that there article O. tn presidents
on the fakirs?n
Maybe said he captain q
didn't read that article and I've KIND
o lost sight OF Montgomery The las.
time I saw him was three years ags
) over to Kennebunk.
ism workin' on insecis9" asked 81
4 yep, said the captain. He toll,
me be was trainin' q June.bug 70 but
E out his correspondence on q tYge
( wrisin machine
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copyright, BY Joseph B, Bowlos,j

II wonder If tn president o the
United States is an authority On the
habits Of insects said 81 Wother
spoon, who, having been stung on the
end Of his nose by 2 bee that after
noon, naturally had the subject more
or less constantly before him.
Il reckon he Is said the postmas-
ter. Hes surrounded by EN- down
to washin'ton."
Il don't mean the kind that gets
elected to the semitic an house o
representatives. said 81, 4 mean the
real kind-the buzzin' kind"
THAT / don't know returned the
postmaster. But for a bet It amt
an awful long shot that he be. Fairs
can see they amt much in this
world that he don't know all about, or
cant find out all about in time for
the early eedition O the newspapers
In case he feels like takin' a whack
at it. Why?'
20 nuthln'." said 81, rueiully rub
bling the end of his nose. Il was Jest
wonderin il a~nybody'd ever thought
enough about bugs an things like
that to sit down an study EN- care
full"
] have said the captain, IAN tax
in them all together | consider the
insect life to be about as interestin
as any subject under the canopy"
Dye think they have brains?"
asked 81,
Some have an some amt said
the captain. Il sh'd say for instance
thatSa bee that can set down on a
hollyhock or a bit O. honeysuckle
lookin' for honey was a burned fool
! for settin' on the end O. your nose
\ in the expectation O. indin' anythin'
sweet In your disposition. But be
cause one bee amt got any brains
\ amt any excuse for sayin' that other
\ bees hasn't got none neither. F
1 was a bee in thees here parts with
them summer girls lookin' like ripe
peaches an cherries up to the Ingle
/, nook around I'm blamed if I'd waste
any time foolin' around a desert o
Sahara for beauty like you. 81"
well, / notice them artist felleri
that comes up here lookin' for thingI
sr to paint buys more O. my time &c
~settin's than they do o yours re
y torted 81.
y Il grant We that said the captain
pleasantly. In the first place
amt funny enough to be Gale,
: pitcheresk, an in the second place
as I heered one O. them lady artist
ar remark, there amt know use O. paint
in the lily or tryin' to put a gilt edg,
on a refined gold brick. But speakin
I Of insects, it's remarkable what y
can teach em II We only ketch EN-
young, an have the patience to kee'
= %eyerlastingly at It. Take the fly TO
instance. Everybody thinks the hy'
a pesky little nuisance that amt fl
for nothin' but a spiders breakfasi
an for maxim the ~hy-paper industr
0 money.makin' enterprise, an yet
calls to mind a litery Teller | one
knowed down near Kittery tina
trained one Of EN- to do his wrltil
for him."
@Huh!s jeered the postmaste
That's a whopper on the face Of I
cap. We never see a Fly big enoug
10 hold a pen in his hand
Il didn't say We did, retorted II
captain. Il never SO much as me-
toned a pen. This feller's name We
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Wellington Montgomery, an he had
a bungalow down near the navy yard.
He was a writer by profession, an a
stndS4it OF insects for fun. I've seed
him settin for seven hours at a
stretch watchin an ant tryIn to haul
a doormal across the grass TO where
his wife was runDin an ants boardin'
house. The little euss would get a
grip on the doormat with lis hind
legs and then start for home an
mother with his front legs. aud old
man Montgomery Mould set there an
laugh 6t 70 XIII hlnsell over II. or
course he couldn't move the mat an
| Inch but he KEEP on tryin Jest the
same. I'M Montgomery hnally Jest
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
GASOLINE TANK IN
A BOAT EXPLODED
TWO PERSONS DROWNED AND
FIVE WERE INJURED.
BOAT HAD "a PASSENGERS.
All Were Thrown Into a River, but All
Save Two Were Rescued from
the Water by other
Motor Boats.

Tiverton, r. l., Aug. ia gasoline
tank in a 30.foot motor boat in the
Seaconnet river exploded last night,
causing the death Of two persons and
serious Injuries to five others. The
boat contained IA young people who
had been on trip to Newport from
Fan River and had stopped at Tiver.
ton on their return. George Antuya
and Lydia Mercer were killed and
the Injured are all suffering from ae.
we're burns.
The boat had reached point a
little north of the New York, New
Haven 81 Hudson River railroad
bridge over the Seaconnet river when
the explosion occurred and the IA
young men and women on board were
hurled into the water With the ex.
ceptiOn of Miss Mercier and George
Antuya, all were rescued by motor
boats which put out from the river
bank, but these two were drowned.
Joseph Chouinard who was in
charge Of the boat performed heroic
work Ia keeping several of the young
women atlOat until the rescuers
reached them, although he was him
self suffering severely from burns.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
TELEoRAPAlc BREWTIEs.

Five cases Of bubonic plague, four
Of which have resulted in death, have
been reported to the health depart
ment OF San Francisco within the last
week
Robert Pinkerton, head of the de-
tectiye agency died on board the
steamship Bremen, August y, at sea
He was en- route to Germany for his
health.
Five men were trapped in the hold
OF the steamer Utica at Buffalo, ~.
Y. and frightfully burned The fire
started from an explosion, John Ro-
man, a Russian, was taken out Of the
mold dead.
The committee from the St. Louis
Aero club which have in charge the
dlrigible balloon races for the James
Gordon Bennett cup has set October
% as the date for the contest and ap-
propriated $4,000 for prizes.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
RIVERS THAT HIDE
COME TRUANT STREAMS OF THE
FAR WEST.
Many Run for Miles underground and
Rsappear Above Non.Poroue
soll--Peouliar Course OF
oregon River.

The "lost rivers" of the far west az
q rule head in mountainous areas and
rush downward into bowllike valleys
where they incontinently vanish Some
OF them reappear miles from the van
ishing point, while others are lost for
ever.
The floors of the valleys into which
they flow generally are comparatively
level and are built up of loose sands
and graves washed down from the
rocky and forestclad slopes, which
absorb the water and through which II
percolates slowly beneath the surface
When the slow-moying underground
current encounters an obstruction, as
Il often does. In the shape Of natural
dixie or the rocky rim of the lower end
of the valley, the water is forced to
the surface and the stream is born
again.
Thus the Santa Ana river in Call.
fornia sinks in the wash above Red.
lands, rises to the surface above
Bunker Iill dixie, sinks below It, risea
from Riverside to Bedrock canyon, be.
low III Rlncon, sinks I'm the wash above
Santa Ana and finally partly rises
again in the large peat land springs
above Talbert.
The San Gabriel and the Los An.
geles rivers exhibit the same charac,
terlstlcs, but disappear and reappeaI
less often In their much shorter course
to the sea.
At some points these sunken rivers
flow for long distances under a wide
stratum of impervlous material where
the water is under considerable pres.
sure. When wells are driven through
this stratum AN artesan flow results.
Another peculiar stream is the Des.
chutes, which drains large area in
central Oregon. il Is known to hydrog.
raphers all over the world for the ex.
traordinary regularity OF its flow
throughout the year This Is account.
ed for by the porous lava formation
which constitutes portion OF the
drainage area. When the streams en-.
counter this sheet of lava they are
taken up by the sponge.like material
and disappear from sight, passing be.
meath and through the lava and finally
emerging through dark caverns and
deep canyons into the main stream.
This wonderful lava bed is natures
regulator. 1t swallows up the floods
that come down the steep slopes. 1t
absorbs the rains and SHOWS and then
releases them slowly through filter
miles In length into the Deschutes.
Day after day, year after year. its
flow Is uniform and its waters spark.
ling and clear. For this reason. prob,
ably, IL is the finest trout stream in
America.
New Mexico also has truant stream
the Rio Mimbres. II drains many
miles Of mountain country in the
southern part Of the territory, and for
a time Is a stream OF Importance.
Then, as II tired Of existence. IT flows
out upon the plains near Demlng and
Is lost forever swallowed up in the
loose sand and gravel.
The Pecos, too, Is a truant at times
and seeks secusIon beneath the sur.
face, coming up miles below In arte.
sian springs Of great volume.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
Bold sriton Plays HoIaup Game.

Georgetown, British Guiana. Aug
19.--Much excitement has been caus,
ed here by an invasion of Venezuelan
territory by Capt, Calder, in command
OF a small force from British Guiana.
and the seizure OF quantity Of balata
(the gum OF the bun elk) used for in.
sulating wire Calders force went
down the Rarma river and crossed
the boundary into Venezuelan terri.
tory where Calder al the point OF g
revolver, demanded that the Vonaz
uelan commissioner surrender to him
l100 pounds of balata The commis
sioner gave up the gum.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
THREE KILLED
AT A CROSSING.
AN EXPRESS TRAIN CRASHED
INTO AN AUTOMOBILE.
NEAR ASHLEY FALLS, MASS.
Charles Root, Of Bristol, Conn, His
Mother and Aunt Were Killed
Two Others Of the Fam.
lly Injured,

Great harrington, Mass, Aug. 10
An automobile containing a party Of
fiye persons from Bristol Conn. col.
iided with the New York pittsfield ev.
press at Ashley Falls crossing near
here, Sunday. Three OF the motoring
party were killed and the other two
probably fatally injured. The dead
Charles J. Root Of Bristol instantly
killed.
Mrs. Root, his mother who died
from her injuries while being remoy-
ed TO Pttsheld by train
Miss Roberts, sister Of Mrs. Root,
instantly killed.
Miss Mary Root, daughter OF
Charles ]. Root removed to the hos.
pital at Pttsheld, where her cOndl-
tion was said to be very critical
Miss Katherine Root, aged II, niece
OF Mrs. Root, knocked unconscious
and suffering from internal injuries
According 10 the engineer Of the
express, Mr.. Root was al the wheel OF
the automobile. He had been racing
with the train apparently the tracks
running almost parallel with the high
way for some distance. The accident
occurred at a grade crossing just
north Of the Ashley Falls station At
this point. the highway crosses the
tracks at an oblique angle. 1t is be-
lieved that Mr.. Root hoped TO cross
ahead OF the train, but miscalculatcd
the speed Of the express. His ma.
chine hit the tender Of the locomotive
and was wrecked.
The express was stopped as quick
ly as possible and the train crew hur.
ried TO the victims Of the accident.
Bristol. Conn, Aug l9.-News was
received here late Sunday afternoon
OF the catastrophe at Ashley Falls,
Charles j. Root. his mother Mrs. Joel
H. Root, and her sister Miss Candace
Roberts, and the probably fatal injury
OF Mr.. Roots sister, Miss Mary Root.
and his niece, Katherine Root, The
party left here Sunday morning for a
trip through Lenox. Lee and the Berk-
shires. All the members Of the party
with the exception Of the little girl
were deaf and 1t Is thought here that
the approach OF rhe train may not
have been known 70 them TO. that
reason. Only one brother, Theodore
G. Root. is left here He is the
father of Katherine.
Mr.. Root was a manufacturer Of
counting machines Of all kinds and Of
registers. He was 40 years Old. Mrs.
Joel H. Root was about G. years old
and her sister, Miss Roberts, two
years younger All were very promI.
nent here, being OF revolutionary
stock. Miss Root is well known about
the state through her writings for the
Daughters of the American RevoIu.
tion of which society She was a mem.
ber.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
An Ineendlary confesses.

Scranton Pa, Aug. 19.-Fred Zwlck,
aged u years, a plumber, has con.
fessed that he was responsible for at
least one Of the many incendiary fires
which have occurred I'm Scranton
within the last month The chief Of
police says that Zwick caused at least
80 fires. Zwlck lives next door to
fire headquarters and it is believed
that he built the fires because OF a
mania for seeing the fire companies
responding to the alarms Saturday
night there were nine fires. At the
last FIRE Zwick was caught in the act
OF rekindling the rubbish after the
flames had been subdued
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-19
TOLD OF oLD-TlMs HEALERs.
When Gold.Headed Cane Was lndls,
pensable Paraphernalia.

A go!d.headed cane used to be con.
eidered a necessary part of the physl.
clans outfit, as indispensable to the
profession as the medicine bag or the
general air of wisdom. In the rooms
Of the London College of Physicians
there is preserved gold-topped
staff, which is famous as having been
carried by succession of prominent
doctors whose lives extended over a
period of nearly century and a half.
DR.. William Macmichael has published
an account of It in a quaint little
book in which the story of the various
owners and their characteristics is
told.
The cane originally belonged to the
century The doctor himself rather
quick as to temper, was once treated
to biting bit of repartee. Radcliffe's
garden adjoined the grounds of Sir
Godfrey Kneller, the kings chief
painter A door in the wall made easy
communication between his majesty's
doctor and the artist Some of the
doctors workmen, however Uttered
up the artists beautiful flower beds
and aroused his anger He sent word
that II the thing continued he would
have the door bricked up
Sir Godfrey can do what he pleases
with that door so long as he doesn't
paint IT," retorted DR.. Radcliffe
did my good friend say that?" re-
marked Sid Godfrey, when the slap at
his profession was repeated to him.
"Well go tell him that I'll take any
thing from him but physic.'
The cane passed in succession from
DR. Radcliffe's hands to those of Mead,
Askew, Pitcairn and Baillie, all ia
nous in their day and generation. OF
Baillie the following incident Is told:
He was q gentle and patient physl-
clan by nature, but his immense prac-
ticc and crowded hours sometimes
made him hasty with the importunate.
At one time, after listening to long
story of her ailments from lady who
was so little i'll that she intended to
go to the opera that night the doc
tor left the room with sigh of relief.
lie had just got downstairs when he
was called back
Doctor" feebly asked the lady,
may /, on my return tonight, eat a
Few oysters?'
"Yes, madam" roared the doctor,
"shells and all."--Youth's Companion.