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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Fools and Wise Men.

Some one said that fools, women
and children need be protected" The
author Of tae phrase seemed to not
take into consideration that 1t is some
times h I'd to distinguish between the
fool I'D the wise man. He is wise
indeed who does not nibble at the
bats on the hooks held out to catch
him. How many people, time and time
again, find themselves caught on some
contract deal, f1nd that some sleek
agent has sold them a lot OF inferior
groceries for twice the amount that
they could buy the same quantity OF
goods from a local dealer, and get a
far better quality? Be careful when
dealing with strangers. Remember
the biggest frauds present the most
plausible appearance. Don't sign any
kind Of a contract or order without
the most careful investigation.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Need Of Good. Schools.

Intelligence is the distinguishing
mark between the savage and civil.
lied man. Education is one OF the
greatest of Gods blessings, and ig.
oranc a curse. In America there ex.
lists no valid reason why every man,
woman and child of normal brain
should not have an education. There
is no phase Of life where knowledge is
not necessary, In the most progress.
sive communities is where the superior
schools are found. Help along your
town and help along education in gen.
eral, By affording your children a
chance for a good education, you Of
fer them riches that cannot be meas.
ured by dollars. Because education IL
capital that cannot be destroyed; 1t IL
ready cash in hand, assets that one
cannot be robbed Of only by an act Of
Providence.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Favors Soon forgotten.

Not many years ago the majority
OF farmers in newly settled sections
were dependent upon the business
men and the merchants Of the towns
to carry them through between crops.
There are farmers who can look back
a few years ago and see where they
were favored when in want of supplies
and had not the money to pay for the
same. Prosperity changes many, and
this may be the cause why those who
a dozen years ago were so anxious TO
see the country develop, now send
much of their money to outside places
for goods needed instead OF keeping
their dollars at home to further en-.
rich their community; and how soon
are favors forgotten. The merchants
who assisted in making success pos
sible for many by quite a few are
passed by. Is this Christian graft
tude?
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Heat Tests of Clothing.

An interesting experiment, made in
June by a physician, proved conclu-
sively that for the sake OF GOODNESS
only white should be worn in hot
weather.
The physician spread out in an in.
tense sunshine a large piece of white
cloth, another Of dark yellow, another
Of light green, another Of dark green,
another of blue and another of black.
Then, with the help Of six thermom-
eters, he made the following table Of
the various heats which each color re-
ceived from the sunlight: White, 100
degrees; dark yellow, 140 degrees;
light green, 1856 degrees; dark green,
16S degrees; blue, 1913 degrees; black,
POS degrees.
Thus the physician proved that in
July or August the man In white Is a
little less than twice as cool as the
man in blue and d little more than
twice as cool as the man in black.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26

ia There Not Dancer?

Is 1t poor policy for the farmers and
the laborers of the land to help build
up less than a dozen large stores stu
ated In great cities to do business of
thousands of dollars in country towns.
One Chicago concern does a business
through the mails of 100000, 900 a
year. Twenty thousand dollars in
business is about the average for the
country town store. Here we have
an example OF one concern doing the
business of 5000 small stores. Is there
no. danger that should these great con.
Germs through their immense business
drive the local dealers out of trade
that they would become like other
great combines. oppressors Of the peo'
pie?
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Copyright, by Joseph r. Bowles.)

pare with you that you should call her
that? After last summer answer
you frankly do not see how you
could descend to coming here. How
you could dare to come! You knew
perfectly well whom you would meet
whom you must see day after day.
and with the memory we three have
-"
Whether ] turned deaf or blind or
both, | scarcely knew. That ! struck
my horse cruelty with the whip, ! re-
member, and the mad rush of wind
past my face. whirling my hair, as
he dashed Infatuated out of the path.
wheeled. poised for an instant on the
"embankment. and then leaped! He
was thoroughly trained for the field,
or | think we would both have been
instantly killed; but he only stumbled
in gaining his footing, and threw me
dashing off unframed himself.
| tell 1t as though l knew 1t. but
this is as il was told me later. In
reality, | was incapable of thought or
feeling; only the sound of that scorn.
full voice without the words 1t uttered
deadened all else. l tainted when |
was thrown, striking a stump with my
head, and wosd have been killed, they
said, but for my heavy, loosened hair.
II was two weeks later that re-
gained my senses, and not until | was
stronger did learn how Ill | had been.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
THE COST Of LIVING
10 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT
ANNUALLY IN UNITED STATES.
THE CITY vs.. THE COUNTRY
Unequal Distribution Of Business
Works a Hardship Upon Many,
and Retards Growth Of Asri-
cultural Towns.

Statistics as TO the cost OF living
are ever interesting to the economist.
II Is estimated that only 29 per cent.
of the people of the United States re.
side in large cities. 1t is claimed about
$4,000, 900, 600 are spent each year by
the $1,000. 900 people In the union for
clothing, food and Injuries. II II
per cent. reside in rural towns and
farming sections, 1t stands to reason
that the percentage of money paid for
necessaries OF life is II per cent. of
the vast sum of nearly s19, 900, 600, 900
annually expended. These figures open
up a wide field for study of economic
conditions.
For sake of Illustration. let IL be
estimated hat in the large Cites the
cost Of living is so per cent. more
than in the country towns and farming
districts. which would still cave ap.
proximately 60 per cent. of all spent
for food and clothes credited to the
peonle living outside the larger cities.
Then II Is found hat the amount rural
residents spend annually is sl1.S00,.
O0O, 900. But do the profits on this
vast amount of business remain in the
rural districts? Do the merchants in
patronage of the people who are resi-.
dents of the districts? A conservative
estimate is that one-third OF all this
vast trade goes to the AIS large cities,
xvharoin rau{do opIv On NOR cant nf tho
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Example Of Modern Engineering.

A remarkable example OF the scru-
pulous exactness with which modern
engineering work is accomplished is
found in the new piece Of the Sueyic,
which has been placed to within one-
sixteenth of an inch Of the position 1t
must occupy to allow of the two parts
OF the vessel TO be Joined. When the
tubes Of London, working from either
end, were about TO be united II was
found that they were only an inch or
two out OF line, The ordnance survey
OF England, when the various sections
were brought together, showed a dis
crepancy Of less than FIVE inches, and
the construction of the Forth bridge,
the greatest feat Of all, was more re.
markable still. When the king came
to drive the last bolt the hole through
the various plates was SO near that
the heat from a flaming paper was suf.
fcient to expand the metal and allow
OF the rod being thrust through.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Wants All Houses Painted Green.

1t was bad enough for doctors to
scare bridge players by finding germs
on playing cards and to assert further
that virulent baccili lurked in up-curl-
ing mustaches, as did a Berlin ply.
stefan, who may have been stabbing
his war lord, but there is a source of
fresh worry in the assertion of a Lon.
don eve specialist that among town
jewellers sight is steadily deteriorating
on account of the color Of the build.
ings and the lack Of horizon. IF I
had my way l would have every house
in London painted a fresh foliage
green" says this eye sharp. "Soon
we should have a brighter, happier
London than eve has been known.
Looking at the color green actually
causes the formation of a chemical
mixture in the eye. Colors have a
marked effect upon temperament. Red
excites and afterward depresses. A
~redpapered room will drive some men
and women almost mad. Green, on the
other hand, soothes and improves the
eyesight."
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
SONGS OF A GENERATION AGO.
In the Majority Of Them the Hero.
Ines Always Passed Away.

II may not be generally known that
Fanny Crosby, now spoken of only as
a hymn writer, used to drop into week
day verse, supplying words for songs
more popular in their day than are
any of the new things heard by music
lovers of these later times, says the
New York Post.
The matron who Is now being
"courted again in her girls" will, II she
has n good memory. recall a doleful
song that her Charlie and his rivals
used to ask for when she wore ring
let's and broad.brimmed gypsy hats:
In the Hazel Dell My Nellle's Sleep
ing" the words of which were written
by Fannie Crosby, under a pen name.
This same matron had not been mar
ried long enough to give up her music
(words b., the same author) had all
sentimental young people weeping be.
cause she" was gone"
It was the fashion in those days for
song heroines to die young, and Miss
Crosby wasn't any more murderously
inclined than other song writer's. At
that time Sweet Alice" under her
slab Of granite 80 gray. was still popu.
lar, and listeners were informed that
Gentle Annie" wouldn't come any
more because she was gone too"
though Fair Eulalie" appeared some.
times as a spirit robed in white.
We had not long given up weeping
at Little Blossoms tomb when
Sweet Belle Malone" went to wait
for her lover (captious critics had It
that she waited In vain) at heavens
gate. While Katie Darling was stlll
being mourned for the angels began
to clear the way for rNellie Gray's'
faithful aflanced TO join her up above.
Kate Darling" had probably q longer
season of belleshlp than any other
dead girl, but she was closely followed
by Miss Crosby's Resale"
The little beauty, Belle Brandon"
was another young person of the
Prairie Flower" genus, but in spite
of her early grave she was never so
popular as were some of her rivals.
To be sure, the old songs were some.
what nim%iny-piminy and they were
doleful to a degree, but, nevertheless,
they were what the young people cried
for in those days and they were doubt.
less unobjectionable. The words were
all more or less of the MARY In
Heaven" order of verse, and surely
Burns was at his best when he lay on
the grass, watching lyon lingering
4 800 a
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Garnet Of Ivory,

The carpet, at a distance, seemed
Of cream-colored silk, but as the In
dian merchant unrolled 1t, it ratified
slightly, for it was a carpet of ivory.
IAN ivory carpet" said the sallow
and thin dealer. 1T does not belong to
me. but to a certain rajah. He has
commissioned me to sell it to n OF
your millionaires, whose wealth and
liberality are world.renowned."
The carpet, though very heavy, was
quite flexible. It glistened like satin.
1t was eight feet long and six feet
wide.
"Over 5000 pounds of tusks were re-
quired for this carpet" said the In
dian. "Only the finest parts could
be used. The strips were shaver
singularly thin. See how flexible they
are.
'But three such carpets exist, and
they all belong to India. The largest
and best is In the treasury Of the
Maharajah Of Boroda."
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
RECLUSE WAS RICH
LIVING IN SEEMING POVERTY,
WOMAN LEFT $4,000.
London Police Are Seeking In Amer
lea the Heirs Of Miser Of Peculiar
Tastes Who Has Just
Passed Away.

Thirty thousand dollars worth Of
personal property awaits the heirs Of
a remarkable old woman recluse who
has Just died in Chiswick, n London
suburb, says the Kansas City Star.
Her next-of-kin are believed by the po-
lice TO be living in different parts Of
the United States-one of them, a
niece, having been last heard Of in
California-and advertisements ad.
dressed to them by name will shortly
be published in America.
When they come here they will find
an assortment Of treasures, for Mrs.
Jane Chutton. the dead woman, ap.
pears to have had peculiar tastes. AL.
though successfully posing as the
poorest Of the poor. living in a dilapi.
dated old house, with a dog for her
sole companion, her death revealed the
fact that she had slowed away in a
back DON $4,000 in bank notes, $4,000
in government bonds, diamond rings,
brooches, bracelets and other jewelry
worth about SIS, 900 and a great store
of valuable silks, rare Indian and
Paisley shawls.
The hovel In which she was found
dead had been her home for many
years. A neighbor brought her food
and old friends visited her now and
then. A love omanc in the back
ground may have had something to do
with her solitary life. In 1851 she mar.
ried John Chutton, a butler who, had
passed himself off as a man of means
and whom she found too inquisitive
about her affairs" This was the only
reason she ever gave for leaving him
at the church door the day of their
marriage and for never seeing him
again. She seldom left her house and
her visitors were few and far be-
tween.
For several days her neighbor, one
Elizabeth Camp, had knocked on her
door and was unable to get any re.
ply. So she summoned the police, who
forced IN entrance. They found Mrs.
Chutton lying dead on the bed. A
search Of the house was made. In one
room were hundreds of yards of silk
worth $3.50 a yard, are shawls and
wraps. There were boxes full Of beau.
tiful old.fashioned clothing, and many
costly ornaments lay scattered in the
dirt. Packed away in al old trunk was
a stocking containing the $4,000 in
bank notes and $4,000 in government
bonds. A tin box revealed a heap OF
diamond rings, brooches, bracelets,
gold watches and precious stones.
The only food in the house was a
small piece of bread. The coroner
said that he had once attended her,
but had not charged anything be
cause he thought she was a poor
woman. The police have taken posses
sion Of the dilapidated house and all
its precious contents, and they are
waiting for the American relatives to
reveal their whereabouts.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Not Accordinn 10 Greed.

It often takes the mirror of anoth-
ers opinion to show up the ~inconsls-
tencies Of practice. The idea that
gloom should be associated with death
in the mind lighted by the hopeful
torch of Christianity seemed a strange
thing to the young Indian girl men
toned in a book on "The Indian
Alps"
"Mem-sahib," asked she, why do
you wear those sad colors? l don't
like them"
II am in mourning, Tattoo. 1t Is
the custom of English ladies'"
But black is the color Of night,
mem-sahib, and yet you believe that
when you die you go to heaven at
once. Then why not be glad for your
friends who die, and wear colors such
as We see in birds and flowers, and
falling water when the sun shines?
God doesn't make your colors. All,
we'll, Christians are strange people,
Youths Companion.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26

how near to deaths door, and how II
was only my hair that saved me in the
fall. Inez had gone, they told me
eyasively, when / asked for her, and
Toms friend would have gone to n
Of the houses in the village had they
listened to any such nonsense. But
when | vas strong enough to be car
ried down to the parlor and set among
a pile Of cushions in my favorite
lounging chair beside the CHEEKY wood
fire on the hearth-for the days were
chilly-Tom's friend came to me.
Everyone had unaccountably left the
! room, and | was alone when he en-.
tered. ! held out m hand gravsly,
without a word, and although he took
It as gravely. he also stopped and
touched my hair with his lips.
And then, like a silly child, l was
sobbing on his shoulder and he was
telling me the story | had waited so
long to hear.
Then told him how my accident
had occurred, and he in turn told me
something Of my school friend ! had
dreamed.
IneZ-my beautiful Inez-had lured
my brother on during their summer
ing a year before, and had then
laughed at him in her soft, low, mu.
steal voice when he made known his
heart, and 1t had gone hard with him
at first; but she treated a mutual
friend of theirs in the same way,
only he had not Toms pride-and a
pistol bullet was easiest, he said, and
soonest over, and that had turned my
Toms i~nfatuation to hatred Of the
} beautiful giTl.woman, who also tried
her arts on this brave friend OF his
without success.
Tom was too noble for hertz his
friend finished frankly, and ! had not
met you then, Sorrel, but her treach,
cry kept me safe! l had not met you
my sweet little girl, without whom the
d house is dark and silent"
And without my hair!" added
r presently. with an attempt at sauci
r ness, but there were tears in my eye,
as well. "A poor little strawberry
t blonde to match with her ~exquisit,
G beauty"
n DON'T" he said imperatively. "Yor
are not to speak so OF yourself, sor
y rel-it isn't respectful TO me; and II |
d hadn't been for your hair"
o IF II hadn't been for my hair"
a added, taking up the pause, But "
I, never finished the sentence.
So was engaged ere | came out,
though would not listen to a weddin
lie sader two years, nor would mothe
ct and the rest. AS for Inez, ! have neye
n seen her from that day, for she r,
n turned to her home in Spain. And
am certain that Tom has no pain 1
~ the memory Of their summer, save tn
Ut recollection Of the sad little TRACED
Of the ending Of a life under he
1t falsity, for Tom never loved her
ly spite Of her exquisite beauty
could not love such a woman!
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Treasures Of Herculaneum.

What is in Hercuaneum? Archae'
ologists have long believed that its
treasures would prove far more inter
esting, umerou and valuable than
those unearthed at Pompeii II they
could only be reached. But they are
also more diff cult to uncover, and
hence more expensive. Public interest
In Europe has been directed to the
matter sufficiently to have Gig. Rava,
minister of public instruction in Italy,
lsepare a bill providing $780, 900 for
the purpose OF removing houses form
iag the modern town of Resina, which
Is located above Herculaneum, and an
appropriation Of $4,000 a year for
actual excavation work.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
BUILD UP LOCAL ENTERPRISES.
Individual Effort a Factor In the Prog
ress Of Cities and Towns.

A well known eastern f%inancier, who
for some time was the president OF q
large trust company. recently re-
signed, giving as his reason that a
man, according to his belief, can do
better working for himself, and that
no man can really earn a salary equal
to what he can make In business for
himself. One OF the conservative
financial papers in commenting upon
the move Of the financier here referred
to says that In these days, when all
kinds OF business are being ~converged
into stock companies, the number Of
trades in which a man may engage in
business for himself have become so
few that for a great bulk OF men, even
those having the mental equipment
which in other years would have been
sufficient to make them their own
masters, there Is now no other opening
than that of service for some corpora.
ton. For the bulk Of the people, out
side of those in agricultural pursuits,
it is service for the corporation or no
work at all. This truth is becoming
more evident day by day. Even the
farmers are feeling the grasp Of cor
porate methods. 1t is true that mil.
lions must have the products OF his
lands and his hands, but the corpora
lions are the mediums he must work
through, and from him they exact
their fittings. 1t Is to the interest OF
the farmer as well as the laborer In
every walk and sphere to prevent as
far as possible further encroachment
of organized capital, and this ear be
done by as far as possible keeping the
dollars that you carr in circulation in
the community where earned and thus
prevent the further concentration Of
money and OF business in the great
| cities.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
n USUAL WAY.

First County Councilor-Here's a
ine.looking street.
Second Ditto-You're right there.
What's best to be done with 1t?
Lets have 1t dug up for a sewer"
But wouldn't 1t be proper to pave it
frst?"
"Of course; I supposed you under
stood that. Then, after it is paved
and a sewer put in, Wen have 1t re-
paved"
"All in readiness TO be dug up again
for tie gaspipe? see you understand
the principles Of municipal economy.
And after we have had 1t repaved
for the second time, then what?"
well then II will be In order for
widening. There's nothing | admire
so much as system in the care and i'm
provement of our ~roadways."
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Mnst Hr Annrr
Tphrral Gnntrnl
BY THEODORE r1ARBURG.
Baltimore.

able practices and Of the quality of the service.
The separate states have proved themselves inadequate to the task.
Improved communication has caused industry and commerce to leap
state bounds and to become national. II follows that they can be con-
troIed successfully only by the federal and not by the state govern
mets.
Model incorporation laws in the few states in which they exist
only serve to drive corporations elsewhere for a charter, which charter
Immediately privileges them to operate in every other state,
1t is only by denying permission to do interstate commerce to
corporations which fail to conform to definite federal requirements that
the problem can be solved. ---~-
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Decline in London,s Paupers.

The annual report Of the asylums
committee Of the London county coun-
Gil states that in view Of the recent
steady decline in the rate of increase
OF London pauper lunacy. and of the
possibility that there may cease to be
an increase, it is doubtful whether 1t
will be necessary to take steps, at
any rate now, toward the provision of
an eleventh asylum.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
OverWorked Motor Cars.

There is no doubt that many cars
today are being practically worked to
deAth. and II the truth we're known
It would be found that a good many OF
the so-called lazy chauffeurs are quite
as much o~verworked as their cars in
their struggle to drive them every day
and almost all day, not 10 mention
night work, and at the same time keep
them In proper running order.-Auto.
car.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Taft In the Orient.

The royal messenger bowed low.
big Chief Taft told me to tell you
that you are a great ruler and your
SUBJECTS are a great people. and he
said that some day you might be a
Big Chief Teddy and carry a bigger
stick than you do now, o gracious son
Of the full moon"
The dusky king smiled and winked
the other eye.
"Umph! You say his name Big
Chief Taftl l think his name Big
Chief Taffy.s
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Loss Fully Covered.

Adjuster-Tve called to fix up that
matter of your house burning down.
Was the loss total?
Heck Penn-Oh, tn house is plumb
gone; but, young Teller, eff l tuck a
cen from yore company, I'd feel like
a thief. Mebbe you heven't heard tibet
my wife tuck advantage O. tn excite
ment t elope.-Puck.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-26
Vanished with the Frost.

where are the knives and forks OF
last summer" grumbled the old farm.
er as he counted up the tableware
after the last boarder had left for the
city.
"And where are the spoons of last
summer" laughed the farmers daugh.
ter, as she gazed out at the empty
benches and hammocks.-Chicago
Daily News.