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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
THE

KANSAS CITY-Cattle-Choice ex-
port and dressed beef steers, $6@T.25;
fair to good, $4.75@6; western steers,
$3.50@5.50; stockers and feeders,
$3.25@5.25; southern steers, $1,000
4,5O; southern cows, $2.10@3.50; ma
tive COWS, $2.15@4.40; native heifers.
$2.90@4.90; bulls, $2.75@3.50; calves.
$3.50@6.50. Hogs-Heavy, $6.05@6.15;
packers, $6.15@625; pigs and lights.
$6.15@6.35. Sheep-Lambs, $500
1855; ewes and yearlings, $5@5.6O;
western yearlings, $5.50@5.80; west
ern sheep. s4.75@5.5O; stockers and
feeders, $3.75@6.25.
ST. LOUIS-Cattle - Native ship
ping and export steers, $6.35@7.10;
dressed beef and butcher steers, $5.75
@6.25; steers under 1000 lbs, SAC
4.65; stockers and feeders. $2.75@
AIS; cows and heifers, 1906; can.
ners, $1.25@2.40; bulls, $2.50@4.25;
calves, $4.50@7.75; Texas and Indian
steers, $2.90@5.50; cows and hejfers,
$1.75@4. Hogs-Lights, $5.50@6.55;
packers, $5.25@6.40; butchers and
best heavy, $6.10@6.45. sheep-Native
muttons, $3.75@6; culls and bucks
$3@3.25; lambs, $4@7; stockers, 1926
@6.
CHICAGO - Cattle-Common tC
prime steers, s4.40@7.35; cows, 1886
@5; heifers. $3@5.75; bulls, $2.46Q
BIB; calves, S3@7.60; stockers ant
feeders, s2.4006. Hogs-Choice t
heavy shipping, $6.1506.30; light
butchers, 6.3b@6.60 light mixed
36.20@6.50; choice light. $6.500e,e6,
packing. 95.26@6: pigs. te@6.2E
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

same time comfortable fashion IL
quite sure of a following at all times
by the masses Of women, including
many of the modish world. These
fashions need not always be becoming
to insure their life. The short skirt
is not nearly so graceful as the long
one, but even for the street the skirt
escaping the pavement by an inch Is
seldom seen save OF women who no
longer pretend to be below middle
age. The skirt varying from three
inches to five and eve six is seen
everywhere, and it's eearer may be IS
or 48, fat or thin, tall or short. She
means to be comfortable, and the men
applaud he; FOR 1t, for, after all, men
like sense. The blouse is also with
us to stay. 1t is inseparable from the
coat and skirt costume, whether long
or short, elaborate or simple.
As for the short sleeves, it must be
confessed they are very trying to the
majority, whose bones are all too
prominent. and whose hands seem dis.
proportionately large. But they are
cool and comfortable and under try
ing conditions a lingerie blouse that
would be soiled In an hours wear.
energies fresh and spotless as to its
sleeves after a days shopping. In any
event, the woman with the dainty
hand and rounded arm should never
relinquish the elbow sleeves wherever
and whenever they may properly b
worn.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
SqueIched,

When the late George Francis
Train was giving evidence before the
metropolitan board of aldermen of
London, in favor of his scheme for lay
ing a tramway up Ludgate hill, says
Harper's Weekly, a noble lord amongst
his i~nterlocutors suddenly fixed the
old pioneer with his monocle and
said:
MAY I-ah-ask a question, Mr.
ah-Train?"
THAT is what I am here for, my
lord" he replied.
You know, of course, how very
narrow is Ludgate hill. Suppose that
when 1 go down to the Mansion house
in my carriage one of my horses
should slip on your id rails and
break his leg, would you pay for the
horse?"
The reply came like a flash. "My
lord, If you could convince me that
your id horse would not have fallen
if the rails had not been there, 1 GER
tainly should pay"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
NERVES OF THE WORLD.
How Messages Are Conveyed Over Che
Broad Earth.

That we may communicate at will
with the remotest corners of the earth
is so familiar a fact that we never
stay to ponder the more curious de-
tails. The land lines crisscross the
Sky In our great cities, follow the rail
roads, climb the mountains, and shoot
over prairie and through forest to the
ocean. You can hardly escape them
wherever you so. Their red gold CLINT
allures the Mobanji cannibals of the
Haute Congo, or climb 12,345 feet
above sea level, to weird Titicaca in
Peru, the loftiest of the worlds lakes,
and you may flash a message thence
to New York or Chicago.
The camel caravans of the Sahara;
the kangaroos and black fellows" Of
Australia's Dead Heart; the elephants
of Malayan jungles. and the nomad
Mongols of the great Cobb desert of
Central Asia-all are familiar with
these nerves of the worlds trade.
Less familiar, perhaps, are the deep
sea cables, yet their circuit Is no less
daring. The coasts of the continents
are fairly f%estooned with them. At
least IL swing over ocean abysses be-
tween the old world and the new.
There are three from Lands End, in
England, to Lisbon; three from Spain
to Brazil; two from Gibraltar to Alex
andria, in Egypt; four down to the
Red sea, from Suez to Alden; three
across the Indian ocean from Alden to
Bombay; two from Madras across the
bay of Bengal to Penang, and thence
on by the straits of Malacca to Suma-
ira, Java, Australia, and New Zealand.
Even the cable map of the China
sea, Foromosa strait, and the Yellow
sea now compares favorably with that
of the gulf of Mexico. In short, these
carriers of hundreds of millions of the
worlds messages, trade and personal,
total 740,0 0 miles of land wires and
$4,000 nautical miles of cable.-Na-
tional Magazine.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
The Way the Moon Chances,

1t vas the tenth week after the
honeymoon. The great round moon
rolled up above the trees.
George" she said, Economically,
"do you remember how the moon used
to affect you when you were calling
on me? Why, every time it went un
der a cloud you used to kiss me. You
don't do it now"
NO" yawned George, as he lit his
pipe, "the moon affects the tides, but
not the tieds. The honeymoon ends
all moon nonsense
And then she said he was the mean
est man in town and went over to call
on the neighbors.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
He Set a Date.

A merchant in a Wisconsin town
who had a Swedish clerk sent him out
to do some collecting. When he re-
turned from an unsuccessful trip he
reported:
"Yim Yonson say he will pay ven he
sells his hogs. Vim Olesen, he will pay
ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack
say he will pay in january"
WELL" said the boss, that's the
first time Bill ever set a date to pay.
Did he really say he would pay in
january"
"Vell, aye tank So" said the clerk.
HE say dat it ban a dam cold day ven
you get that money. I tank that ban
In Yanuary."-Harper's Weekly.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

After the heat of midsummer na-
fure offers special Inducements to the
athletic girl, and for such we offer the
above suggestions in dress. The first
gown is of brown and white check
with buff revers, and black velvet col.
lar, and is crowned with a hat of
MANILA turned up with black, and
drimmed with black, and the coat has
pipings of buff and buttons of gold,
and beneath it should be worn any
sort of simple shirt, either of lawn, of
tucked white crepe de chine, or of
S%hantung. The great essential to the
success of this costume is it's absolute
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

tune from n of the best artists.
Yet again 1 quote from a personal
encounter, and tell of a dress of white
linen with the skirt trimmed with
three broad crossway bands, the bod
ice cut with very large armholes over
an under-bodice of tucked lawn, and
round the shoulders a loosely hanging
scar of light Wedgwood blue, and on
the head a Tuscan hat, lined with
black, the front one mass of roses
shading from red to pink, and~found
the neck a string of pale pink coral
beads.
{ L like colored beads with muslin or
linen frocks; and, talking of linen
frocks, l am reminded of several other
cheap effects. Green and white striped
cambria made in the very simplest of
STYLES. with a shirt-bodice, long
sleeves, and a t~urned-down white lin
en- collar tied with a little green bow,
belted at the waist with a green pat
ent leather band, and crowned with
q green straw hat trimmed merely
with a huge green glace bow.
\ The latest news of hatpins | have
received relates of closely-jeweled
knobs of monster size, while the pear
shaped tortoiseshell pins are still pop
nIar, plain and engraved with gold.
Feathers are growing wilder and
wilder, and their prices higher and
higher. Had l to invest large sums
In this direction l would advise the
ostrich as being the safest bird. The
pIumes Of the ostrich are perennially
In fashion, and q really good ostrich
feather will in time play many parts;
and, by the way, / continue to admire
those ostrich feathers which are ar
ranged to fall In fountain fashion,
while I persist in my dislike of the
skeleton kind which seems but to be
Aendeavoriug to emulate the ost:ich
feather after a good shower of rain.
and to lack the least hankering after
the beautiful.
The elbowlength sleeve is undoubt.
eddy booked to co. and the new
sleeves will come to the hands IL not
ITO the knuckles. But whether the
short sleeve will go is another matter.
The creators Of fashions have enacted
many DEGREES that have been wilfully
d~isobeyed. One Of them was the death
of the short skirt; another the disap-
.pearancs Of the shirtwaist. or blouse.
"LM. |FAF|H tHHHI HA |L"N A4 va
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Hard Luck. IndeedI

Parvenu's Wife-O, Emil, since you
were knighted I haven't a moments
peace. l must have company, pay
visits, help artists. We must build a
big castle, have our portraits painted
for the gallery, and If I die of all this
bother, I know l shan't have any
peace; I suppose l shall have to be a
ghost In our castle."-Fliegende Blat-
ter.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

as it was more euphoniously named,
and a third was the attempt to intro.
duce crinoline or hoops. All of these,
and many other enactments, were null
and void.
In these days m show more
sense than in the past in the matter
Of gowning, and a sensible and at the
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

simplicity. But, by the way, the very
simple shirt Is not having things all
its w way, for few are guiltless Of
the center double frill. This frill is
shown decorating with great success
the other dress illustrated. The waist
coat is of patterned %cretonne, the coat
and skirt of purple cloth, and the hat
is also of purple, with a waving plume
which extends its influence from front
to back. A smart little costume this
altogether, with lines Of fanciful braid
decorating the skirt and coat, and
putting in their appearance again on
the cuffs.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Product Of the Lowlv Hem.

Washington's monument is 555 fee
high. The eggs shipped from SO coun.
ties In this state, leaving "a yet to
hear from, II placed end on end would
build a monument 221.SS2 times higher
than the Washington shaft.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

FITS, st. Vitus Dance and all Nervous
Diseases permanently cured by DR.. Kline's
trial bottle and treatise. DR.. X. II. Kline.
ID. 9Sl Arch st.. philadelphia. Pa.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
with a smooth iron and Defiance

With q smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you a launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; 1t will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods.
and 1t will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Many Bullets Had Gone Wild.

"oHy ouiiCsS TAU So"o Vvuo'
Recently four tons and a half Of bull.
let's yer dug out Of a hill behind a
rifle range at Yarmouth, England, the
accumulation Of two years shooting
by the local volunteers. They sold for
$122.50 q ton.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

iris find 1t an
easy task to look
nice in the sum-
mer time. The
simplest W h e
dress made of
cambria, with a
tucked skirt and
a bloused bodice,
will bear, if the
waist be trim and
the belt neatly
adjusted, under
the influence of a
good hat and a
colored chiffon
scarf round the
shoulders, an as
pect not I'M
worthy of a cos
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Had Measured II,

"How far" asked the first automo-
bilist as they met at a turn In the
road, lis 1t from here to the next town
where there's a repair shop?"
ELEVEN hills, three bad bridges, one
long stretch Of deep sand, and two ar
rests" answered the second automo-
biliSt.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20

It makes the mind very free when
we give up wishing, and think only
of doing what is given US to do
George Eliot.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-09-20
Hazinu.

Hazing by any other name hurts
Just as bad
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
First Patent In America.

The first patent IN America was
granted Ia Joseph jerks, II founder
aud machinist who had emigratcd
from Iiammcrsmith, England, where
he was born In l60a. He was II very
ingenious man. and was induced 10y
Governor Winthrop, the younger, 10
come 10 Lynn, Mass, about lGi2, as
and steel works
He WAS acknowledged head of the
iron smelling and founding business
and The first builder of machinery In
this country and first patcntce of in
vention In America, having Introduced
the idea dirSt granted 10y net of par
llament in 1G25l of protection for the
manufacture of Improvements 10y pe.
tition to the government of NIassachti-
setts Ray In 1916 he took patents for
mill improvements, and In lGlj he pat
ented the present form of the grass
scythe, for which he should hc held
IN grateful remembrance. LA lGt2 he
made dies for the first coinage of
money. the pine tree shillingS In 1904
he built the first fire engine to the
order of the selcctmcn of lioston (the
first ever built in this country, in 1901
he built II forge and entered upon the
manufacture Of his improved scythes
nine years before his application was
granted. journal of American Ills
tory
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
How a Flea Jumps

1t is said that II flea leaps 300 times
Its height, and while II usually does
land on its feet. ii often fails, especial
ly when II falls on perfectly smooth
surface, where the claws can get only
slight hold. A flea hnS SIX legs.
whose great length and bulk make
them SO heavy that they must be Il
great help In keeping their owner right
side up when ii makes one of those
gigantic jumps. and when II lands up
side down or In some other way Its
ability to kick Is So great that not more
than one wrggie Is needed TO set things
right A flen's wings are mere scales
and Of no use. But suall and worth
less as they are, they tell the cntomolo-
gist something about the proper classi-
6cation Of the insect To the flea itself
they have no value. St Nicholas
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14

And you are the best bit of this
world and II promise of the next" he
said. catching the end of her chiffon
scarf that was falling from her shout
der and throwing 1t carefully around
her throat My dear child You take
care OF everybody on earth except
yourself. Its spring. of course, but
the air Is So chilly YOU ought to keep
that lace stuff on Your chest covered
She laughed happily. walking beside
him With light, springy steps.
You treat me rs If were an IRE.
sponsible child that needed Watching"
AS for watching you. | always do
that. You must have known for
months that III like nothing better
than taking care Of you always There
wouldn't be much luxury To offer you;
there would be plenty of love. But l
want You te have everything NeSter-
day | chased all over town for a story
that the chief wanted. and | wis lucky
enough to get IL exclusively The old
man said il WAS worth five hundred
to the paper, and he nearly knocked
the breath out of me by handing me a
check. The very FIRST thing thought
Of, little girl, when | got calm enough
TO think WAS that that five hundred
would furnish II flat Could you be
content to live In Il tiny Hat and trust
me 10 take care Of you us best |
could" He pecred eagerly into her
face, and neither of them SAW the cab
drawn by II madly frightened horse
dash around the corner.
When she recovered consciousness
she VAS on Il seat In Il corner drug
store. with John Martin bending anx-
iousiy over her
Drink all this" he commanded tax
ing the glass from the druggist. Il be-
lleve your arm Is broken. dear. and |
feel murdefeHs enough To smash every
cab in the city to kindlng wood"
She smiled family.
u think you had better leave one
whole one and call II to take me back
to the hospital =
In the cab he placed her arm, accord
Ing to her directions, In Il position that
would give her as little pain as possl
Bile. then drew her head against his
shoulder
Poor little girl he said commiser.
atingly This Is sorry ending for
the pleasant evening hoped You We're
going to have"
She sat In silence, and uneonsciouslY
her face nestled into II more comforta
BILE position ON his shoulder His arm
held her 10 break rs much rs possible
the iolting of the cab Still half dazed
and not wholly recovered from her
faintncss. her mind, with II peculiar re-
Hex action, ran over and supplemented
the thoughts of the dny
John" her voice was faint and
sleepy I'D rather live In the tiny fiat
than to roll in II chair on the sands mt
| Palm Beach forever
He tried to see her eyes by the light
| through the cab window
"My dear, I'm afraid you have some
| fever" he said anxiously.
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
HUMOR IN THE FOOTNOTE.
Librettst Gilbert's Joke on a prospec
tive Bride

In the eafls days of W. s. Giibert.s
Success when Gilbert x Sullivan were
considered by managers MS the sure
Winners" III the comic opera field, II
Nou1g Woman Who WIS II member of
eflc of the "iinafore" companies wrote
Ia Gilbert telling him Of her approach
lug marriage with II Young man Of
good position and family.
Gilbert congratulated the young
woman and expressed the hope that
her future might he prosperous and
happy.
only little more than n month
passed and another letter from the
same girl reached him, In which she
stated tint her engagement with the
Young man bad been broken and that
she had accepted another suitor
lie replied that he had every conf
dcllcc in her Judgment and again ex-
pressed his hearty wishes for her wei
fare
II was almost two months after that
that Gilbert received n third letter
from the same girl. who Informed him
that young Lord had proposed and
that she had accepted him after break
ing her engagement with No. >
Gilbert S lfamor could no longer With
stand the temptation. and he wrote
Il desire to congratulate you ON your
approaching marriage with" Here he
placed nn astcrlsl, and in II footnotc
added
Here insert the name Of the happy
man
This Is probably as characteristic II
piece of humor rs any that appears In
his "Bab Ballads" or In his works for
tine stage
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
Mental Medicine.

A somewhat eccentric physician who
recently died would order patients to
take walks, say daily, ON the left side
Of the street, returning by the other
each morning ut Il certain hour and
eat cheese with ginger beer; another to
take supper precisely Mt midnight and
eat only apples, or he would instruct
the patient 10 put just SO many grains
of salt on the egg he was to eat and
part his hair In a different way each
day. Ills object was TO get the mind
of the patient on something else than
symptoms, and this scheme worked
well In many cases, especially when
the patient was suffering from melan.
cholia New York Times.
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
TWO CHEERFUL LIARS.
A Queer Cherry Tree and 6s ,k Ao-
ton Cannon Ball.

Mr. FinlaASon. town clerk of Stirling
century. was noted for the marvellous
Ii conversation. lie was on Il visit TO
the Earl Of Mouteith aud Alrth in his
castle OF faha. ON the loch of Mon
teith, and MAS about taking leave
when he Nas asked by the earl Wheth-
er he had seen the sailing cherry tree.
NO said Finlayson. w lat sort Of
thing Is IT,
1T is, replied the earl, II tree that
has grown out of II gooSc's mouth from
II stone the bird had swallowed and
which size bears about With her i'll
voyages round the loeh. II is Just ut
present i'll full fruit of the most cNqut.
site flavor Now. Finlayson," he add
memory and fancy. match the story Of
the cherry tree
perhaps can" said Finlayson,
clearing his throat, adding. when Gilt
yer Cromwell was Mt Aith one of the
cannon sent Il ball to Stirling and
lodged II in the mouth of n trumpet
which one of the troops in the castle
was In the act of sounding
WAS the trumpeter killed." said the
earl.
"No, my lord" said Finlayson. "lle
blew the ball bnck and Killed the artil
leryman who had fired Pearson S
Weekly.
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
A Pretty Fast Clock.

He WIS standing in front of the cir
cular elevator Indicator In one of the
oilcc buildings, watch IN hand. 1t wns
the morning after. and ! suppose that
he had forgotten 10 concern himself
with the frivolous detail of winding
his tlmcpicce the previous evening.
His equilibrium WIS far FROM stable,
and his eyes, unSteadily following the
Indicator hand. hlinked with efforts mt
comprehension as he tried 10 set his
watch.
"'Diculous clock (hicy-very 'musing
(hlc) very fast pncc we live thic)
thcsh days 0Iic) pretty fast fer my
ole timer hicJ 'diculous can't seem
t catch 1t ,hic) whoa.-there you are
gone again hlcl Pshaw' 'diculous
clock
| left him still trying to get his
watch into conformity with the speed
ing Indicator Boston Traveller
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
A PIQUED BONIFACE.
Meilhao and Costly Dish That He
Did Not Eat.

Among the most absentminded of
geniuses was the French composer,
Meilhae On the occasion of the first
presentation of one of his operas Neil
haze. in evening dress, entered II fash
iouahle restaurant and threw himself
down n table, thinking earnestly
nbout the event Of the evening and
nothing else
\ waiter brought him menu. Neil
hac, a man of very simple tastes In
the matter of food, abstractedly indi-
Gated with his finger the first dish on
the bill that his eye had struck. Now
II chauccd thai this was the most elnb-
orate and costly dish on the bill. and
when the waitcr went to the kitchen
with The order there was in eonse=
quence great eommotion there. The
proprietor himself was summoned, and
he and the principal chef devoted them
selves 10 the preparation of the famous
dish one man WAS sent for this
choice ingredient and another for an.
other Meanwhile Meilhac waited, alb
sorhed.
At last the dish was brought with Il
great flourish, nnd the proprietor, with
proud smile, stood mol far away td
observe the result When ii MAS de
posted in front of him Meilhne regard
ed the dish with an expression of mel
ancholY interest
"bid order that he asked.
"CertainlN N Mcilhac."
"Be YOU like it%'
YES yes, monsieur: but
"Ihcn kindly take ii away and eat 1t
yourself ordered Meilhac and bring
me two fried eggs. Chicag" Record
Herald
The Lambertville record., 1907-08-14
Shy on Smells.

Great Scott, what ito YOU call these.
Helenf asked Dan Foss He was gaz-
Ing ut an elaboratelY garnished plat
ter which held two tiny fish
You wanted Smelts didn't know
how big they were. | never heard Of
smelts III the west You know | got
two mackere last week, and they
mHde II nice little meal, so | thought
two smclts would be enough our
fish mans been sarcastic since that
day | phoncd for II halibut and he eX
planned II halibut was too large for
two people it occasionally weighs 100
pounds. Today he began to be funny
about the two smelts | got ffeezingly
dignified and hung up the receiver.
The boy had gone before | looked at
them. knew right away. Dan, had
made a miserable blunder, only
boiled eggs, sou see, to make out a
meal"
"All right, little woman, laughed
Dan They're Il nice appetizer only
next time order twenty any way Fiji
teens about my limit on smelts. Sue
cess Magazine.