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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22
TernNe.

A terrible storm swept over
Iowa and Illinois Friday night.
1t did vast amount of damage
to crops and buildings 10: Fair
field. Charlottesville, Richland,
Mt Pleasant. Morning Sau ,
Weaver, 5alem. LIbertyVlile.
West Burlington. Iowa and
KeIthsburg and Monmouth an
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22
New Things

Mr.. Green is building a nice
six room cottage.
MIR. Wright is adding three
roops to his home.
I Joe Hays is re-roofing bis
barn
Jack Crawford is putting a
new roof on his big barn.
George Megown is having 60
feet of grauitold walk put in in
front of his cottage home!
g. J. Ellis is shingliug his
home.
G. ]. Tillit is adding one
room to his home.
G.. T. Rulings is re-roofng his
home.
W. D. Elliott is putting bis
home in good repair.
Mrs. W. B. Brown is building
a barn,
E -, l.. Pepper is adding one
room his home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22

ing a total cost for raising of
1920.
We look upon the above price
81, as pipe dream -or typo
graphical error. When it was
shown 10 a successful hog pro-
ducer aud feeder. we learned: A
hog can be clovered 10 -Missoa.
ri for less money than 10 Qli-
nois aud corn fed as cheap or
cheaper and that 1t would cost
to raise aud prepared Is months
old 342 pound hog at least
$3.50.
Market ReDerS.
For Wednesday before date
of paper.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22

Wanted LabOrers white or
colored, for all departments Of
our plant. Steady employ
ment good wages. Apply,
American Car and Foundry
Co., ST. Charles, Mo-"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22
Rigidly Enforce Vagrancy Law

Smith 1, w Couch l, Il Htpklns
I, Joe Morthland 1, j KEELING l, |
d McGlasson 1, @ Paris /, Jno
Kendrick 10 aud shipped a car
load Sunday.
Del Hagar has fifty acres of
corn for which, he says. l would
not take rs bushels per acre.
Robert Rouse has sold a pair
of sucking mules for $3.50.
M,Proctor and Son are num-
bered among the big farmers OF
Monroe. They in a few days
will began TO feed 240 head of
cattle. They will start them
with ten acres of sugar corn and
behind that is two huodred
acres of corn equal to tue best
lever raised in Illinois and Iowa.
Great Scott, what a country
this would be for real estate
men to come to to get solid
production stories to base their
Wild dreams on for Texas or
Alberta, Canada Some one
has said: Its a poor blanket
that won't standing stretching"
Iu this vicinity the blanket is
So good that it does not not
have to be stretched.
| JIM Proctor and Son have 200
acres of corn that a couserva-
tive estimate places at Is bar
1els per acre.
| Lewis Londborg places his
Thirty acres of corn at IL bar
rels per acre. =,
J W Whites twenty FIVE acres
of wheat yielded twenty eight
bushels per acre.
| For Sale-Buck lambs sired
by thoroughbred Oxfords. out
lot 4 bred Shropshire ewes
Jno S McCliutic.
l Frank McGarthland has
bought the Josh Jarman 100
acre tract six miles east aud
one mile soul of this city tor
$50 per acre.
| Clay Underhill has bought
lambs from: Root Parson 26, d
NJ Proctor 10. Jno Campbell 9.
@ S Meyers IA, r A jackson 8.
w OOsborne IL, G r Willis z, G
B Wood 25. r L Hagan 25.
Mr. Farmer when you need
horse feed, COW feed, chicken
feed and the best OF corn meal,
remem Der the Vaughn & Utter.
back mill.
J d Brandmeyer returned
Tuesday from New London,
Iowa where he has visited hie
old home. He says: That $l5C
and $3.50 land up there up won't
; produce ten busbele of corn pei
acre this year.
Heury Green has received ar
imported Oxfordshire buck
lamb to place at head of hiss
; flock. His fock is comparative
ly a small one, but when il
comes to $$it is big one
; Yowen aud Sharp have scid
IL head of nice feeders to Ad
Vaughn.
! Bloomington. ILL.,, Aug. 49,
} william Fl Rowe. of Jackson,
! Vile. has just disposed of hI'
; years crop of hogs to a ioeal
{ buyer at $6.7b per hundred
a They averaged 842 pounds and
came to 81, l,S49.77. The hogl
3 were fourteen and ffteeI
: Months old aud Mr.. Rowe esti
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22
ITEMS FROM FARMERS.
u firmers, For Farmers And Pertaining
TO'farmers.

Mohey TO lOau dL D per CSut
on Ihrm security.-Meriwether
& Mrriwether. tt
We have at the head of our
White PIymouths a fine cocker
el bought from U. r. Fishel,
whose motto is: 1.-The Best in
the World and the premiums
he captures prove him to raise
that kind, Will sell eggs at
81. 90 for 15.--W. }. ROUSE.
Several registered Polled,
Aberdeen Angus Bulls for sale
If DAVENPORT & Co.
For Sale
Three hundred ewes and
eleven bucks.-Walter Fl. Moss
Joshua Jarman rented out
his wheat ground and the So
acre patch netted him So per
acre. We have a sueakiug idea
that the land didn't cost double
that when he bought,
Henry burst has sold l07
! head of breeding ewes to
| Boone Bros and rs to Geoge
Saffaraus.
JB Gray aud Son have sold
176 April lambs from Western
ewes to Kendrick and Dawson
for 5000.
| Mike Madden's 65 acres Of
wheat yielded 2,io0 bushels,
J r WiIsen has 108 acres oI
corn that he thinks will MAKE
Is barrels per acre.
Here is corn for your whiskers
or your hogs. Buckman Bros
have a two hundred acre field
that they thiuk will yield Is
barrels per acre. And Wal
tells us: Of course there are
some fences through it, bat
there is seven hundred acres oi
corn there in one body that i:
just as good as ours. Mr. Buck
mans $50 acres of oats made Sc
bushels per acre and the so
acres of wheat 30 bushels.
1 Ad Vaughn sold sixteen buck
lambs to l P Stephens and has
bought a thorough bred Shrop-
shire Down buck.
Jim Cusack's corn is so big
that he does not like to make
an estimate On what the yield
will be. He says: 1t is larger
than the bumper crop of 1902.
M with Williams means Mau
rice not Mamie as last issue OF
this paper had it. So it was
Maurice who sold the mare Il
TIM Kelley for $3.50. Aud ] {
that sold the mule colt toI
$50,
Dan X Yowell has sold his
1893 acre tract Of land in TexaI
to Frank Clark OF Quincy foI
$l2 per acre.
W B Arnold is another Mon
! roe farmer that does things. HI
, is now preparing for market 81
head of 8 year old steers q
head 2 year old steers, "a heat
of 2 and 3 year old mules. l5'
head of hogs. Will start on tel
acres of sugar corn and has on'
r hundred and twenty acres o
field corn and lot of old cor
e on hand.
: Monday IsaaS Nelson sent l
, beeves.to the Hannibal market
Sold Hawkins and Nelson 4
, Bought from Ed O'Daniel 4
Prank Hagan 1. James Bros s
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-22
sABOUT THE CHURCHES.
lIuteceStiuS News cOHcSrnlag the Oifess-
eat Denominations.
I This Column Closes Promptly at ga. a
D.. Each Wednesday. DOn't Forget II.

Edcn WEDNESDAY. DOuI FOEket IT,
Rev. John Anderson, of Han
nibal, was with Monroe friends
Tuesday.
Rev. J. Il. Rife has received
a call to the pastorate at Be-
vier. We could not learn as 10
its acceptance.
Rev. FIR. Martin Collins. of
! Shelbina, spent Friday after.
noon with Rev. FIR. Thomas
Mullen.
Sunday afternoon Monroe
sent a large delegation to Pal
, myra to the dedication of the
negro Baptist church.
Rev. Dr.. 1. W. Read was with
= Quincy friends. Monday.
Holy ROSARY.
Usual services Sunday at Holy
Rosary church.
METHoDIST-CIRCUIT.
DeMoss-Sunday School at 10
a. m., preaching at IL a. m and
preaching at Ely at 8 p. m of
same day. We earnestly re.
quest the attendance of all our
members and friends upon these
services, as matters of great in
terest to all will be considered.
Three points on the Monroe
City Circuit: viz DeMoss, Mt.
Vernon and Sharpsburg have
met in full their pastors claims.
Brother A. Lee Ely is proving
himself strong as a faancial
leader in the church. He will
accompany the pastor next Sun
day evening at Ely: Come and
hear this wide.awake layman,
he will interest you.
The meeting at DeMoss closed
last Friday night. There was
1 conversion andaddition, Bro
Earl Mouuce. He will be sc.
ceived Sunday morning.
FIRST BAPTIST.
The Pastor will conduct regu.
lar services Sunday morning,
subject of DISCOURSE: 1.-The
IuAuence of the Church"
~ Rev. Bailey will conduct the
union service in the park at 6:45
GRACE BAPTIST.
The regular services Sunday
morning.
Sunday School at 10 a. m
Preaching at II a. m. Park ser
vices in the evening.
Pastor Laughlin reports his
work at Philadelphia doing
we'll. Three Sunday Schools
two of them mission schools
$50 enrolled in all of the schools
Large congregations and fire
Cduent additions to the church.
METHODIST.
Sunday School as usual a
$50 a. N. Preaching at 10:4'
followed by Communion ser
vices. This being our last sun
day before Conference, full at
tendance of the membership i
earnestly requested.
Junior Epworth League at 2:S
p. M. Senior Epworth Leagn,
at ,7:S0 p. M, or immediatel.
after the close OF the park ser
y vicea.
\ -
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
BY CLARENCE L. BROWNELL

Courtesy is one of the prime virtues of Japan. Masters of vessels have told mo that they have received pleasanter treat ment and more consideration from the hands of Japanese inspectors than from any other customs officers in the world. Americans going into Japan will have less difficulty passing the customs there than they will have in passing into their own country on their return. Not only on the border but all through the country there is courtesy. The bodice are ubiauit- ous and their manners never failing. They are a centralized body Of which the head is in Tokio and their attitude towards foreigners Is the government s attitude. Time and again I have heard them spoken of as gentlemen as by birth many of them are, being samurai and sons of noblemen. Their department entities them to be called such in the American sense. which, after all, Is the only sense worth while. Excepting when called to quell 6 disturbance in some treaty port dve-there arc no dives any where else in Japan-the Japanese police man does not address a foreigner without first saluting and he is often at great pains to help him. He does this as a matter of course and will not accept a gratuity. l have not heard of him re- fusing to aid foreigner, but l have heard the contrary many times.
 On two occasions a policeman, thinking I was tourist. sought to protect me against overcharges that could hardly have amounted to more than a few cents. I do not recall that have seen q police officer in San Francisco go out of his way to look after the interests of Japanese. And In Japan let us remem- Der the policeman represents the national government.
 Though foreigners cannot obtain abso- lute title to land in Japan they may lease 1t for ninety-nine years. They can build houses, factories and mills on this land. which are as absolutely their property as is possible here in the United States. For egners may go where they like except into forts and navy yards. and may live anywhere. They may not own mines, though they may be employed as super intendents, and they are not to go into farming as a business, but any other sort of occupation is often to them as freely as to natives. They may hold chattel mortgages and foreelose them but If they held mortgages on real estate they could not foreclose. This keeps them from putting money into railways and from making some other Investments which are attractive to them. Japan under stands what has happened to some of the weaker countries when citizens of stronger countries become heavily inter ested therein. Christian countries, some one has sald have an appetite for heath en countries, and while heather is scarce ly word appropriate to Japan, the Japanese government is wise in Its gen eration. It would welcome capital but 1t has never had mind for protecto- rate. It declines to be owned by Nor gan, a Rogers or a Rockefeller.
 In word, Japan is not for sale. Her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
THE FISHERM EN-.

By Charles Kingsley. Three fishers went sailing out into the west. Out into the west as the sun went down; Each thought of the woman who loved him the best And the children stood watching them out of the town For men must work, and women must weep; And there's little to earn, and many to keep.
 Though the harbor bar be moaning. Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower. And trimmed the lamps as the sun went down And they looked at the squall and they looked at the shower, And the rack it came rolling up, ragged and brown; But men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep,
 And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down. And the women are watching and wiring ing their hands. For those who will never come back to For men must work, and women must And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep--
 And good-by to the bar and it's
 moaning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24

TN the Piedmont region of Virginia
 lived and labored two Methodist l preachers on adjoining circuits. One of them, the Rev Jesse Powers, was known throughout tho region as one of tho salt of the earth-the meekest, most devoted and most self-sacrifcing of men. The other did not have so good report among the brethren. Indeed, some thought him rather self-sufficient an1 pretentious.
 A auizziea wag of the neighborhooG had the greatest reverence for Brother Powers, but rather low estimate of the other preacher. and so, willing to air his wit, he told this anecdotes: The two preachers were travelling horseback to- gether when Brother Powers thus la mented his spiritual leanness
 An. my brother, l am living far be- low my privileges. Even on my knees ! find the world and the things of the world intruding upon my devotions and dampening the ardor of my prayers. Is 1t ever so with you?''
 NO, indeed" said the other When l determine to have a season of communion with my God l never allow the weak and beggarly elements of this perlshing world to come in between me and the throne of grace
 That Is blessed state of mind" said Powers 'I wish 1t were mine. Now, my brother. if you win kneel down here in the road. make a prayer of three min utes, and then tell me, on the honor of Methodist preacher, that you have not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
o CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

By Walt Whitman. o Captain, my captain, our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rock, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear the people all eXulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
 But o heart. heart! heart.
 O the bleeding drops of red,
 Where on the deck my Captain lies,
 Fallen cold and dead. o Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag Is flung-for you the bugle trllls, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths- for you the shores acrowdlng, For you they call. the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
 Here Captain! dear father!
 This arm beneath your head!
 It is some dream that on the deck
 You've fallen cold and dead. pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
 Exult, O shores, and ring, O bellsl
 But I with mournful tread
 Walk the ddk my Captain lies,
 Fallen cold and dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
BY WILLIAM B. PHILLIPS

the raw materials to each other. This ensures cheap assembling in the stock house Il has been the basis of long continued boasting of the future of the industry here and, indeed. the progress that has been made during the last twen- ty years is wonderful and most gratify- ing. The entire industrial growth of the iron and steel business in Alabama has been built on this one thing more than any other. II Is an advantage which AL abama will long enjoy and it is hardly possible to lay too strong an insistenct upon it. At the same time may we not raise the question whether we have not neglected some other considerations which are of almost equal importance? Mining our ore and limestone and making coke and delivering them to the stock house at costs much below those reached in other districts have we kept pace with other economies which our less fortunate neighbors have had to work out for their own salvation?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
FOREIGN SCHOOL CHILDREN w "A APAN

1 day need to be made over and reversed if | the foreigner is to receive the accom-
 modatlon he is accustomed to in his own | country. So 1t is not strange that mine
 host charges him more.
 l Travel in Japan is as free to foreigners as to natives. There is no difference in fares on the railways, on the street ears, or fin stages. A palanquin bearer on a l jin-rild-sha coolle may expect more of
 a foreign fare. The foreigner weighs many pounds more than the Japanese, on the average, and Japan Is a country of
 mountains where grades are steep. The | foreigner Is also less patient and less | understanding. Often he does not un-
 derstand at all and his coole has a sad time trying to explain by gestures and grimaces, rules of the road and customs l that volume might be written upon To say that Americans and their pleasure craft are forbidden certain wa | ters of Japan, is to state part of the truth only. Japanese are forbidden Just 1 the same The native sanpan has no | more privilege than an American yawl. Japan is a multitude of islands, many of which are protected by forts and by | submarine mines. Where these things are the Japanese government enforces strict
 regulations which are equally for native
 and foreigner.
 The Japanese school question, which | outside of San Francisco Is rather mat ter of wonder, does not exist in Japan. Japanese schools are free enough taught at various times in various schools ] and colleges in Japan. l never heard of objection to foreigners. The late Laf-
 aciod Hearn sent his children to Japanese
 schools and a Scotch acquaintance of mine put his child into one to acquire the yer
 nacular. There was no trouble in either case.
 The school system Is patterned after the American. The Rev. w. Griffs, author
 of the 'Mlkado's Empire" the standard
 work on Japan, laid out the scheme for
 the Japanese schools and saw 1t put into efficient effect. Good as 1t Is for the Japanese, I hardly think many of the 1 foreign residents are keen to take ad-
 vantage of 1t. They send their children to the excellent mission schools, to pri vate schools, have tutors and govern
 
 as the case may be. This is not at all
 a reflection on Japan's schools. It is Q race instinct. Once, for the act of Japanese who was then fin rebellion against his government, Japan was forced to. pay an indemnity to many foreign
 powers. Later the United States, bear ing in mind that the act was that of
 rebel, returned this country's share of
 money with interest, At the suggestion of the American minister, 1t went to
 the public school fund, for use through
 out the Empire. Thls fairness made for friendship.
 I have seen much of school children
 both in Japan and in America. l wish
 the pretty manners of the Japanese were
 contagious. They are worth "catching"
 and if they can be caught l advocate
 exposure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24

with the Bourborns; 1t learns nothing and it forgets nothing. It failed to learn that the waters which had been held bael1--all those years had been accommodating, that it was only a question of time until the dam must yield and then-save himself who can.
 Upon the merits or demerits of the educational bill it is needless to speak Sufficient it is to say that the house of commons passed the bill and that the house of lords mutilated it beyond all pos sibilty of acceptance by it's promoters Here was an open defiance of the popu- lar will as expressed by English repre- sentatives. The affront must either be swallowed or resented. and the decision was speedily arrived at.
 Serious questions" said the King. "af fecting the working of our parliamentary system have arisen from tha unfortunate differences between the two houses. My ministers have this important subject
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24
America Is MusIc-Mad.

Edgar Mels. in Success Magazine"
 America is going to the extreme in music. so far as financial extravaganza Is concerned. According to conservative estimates. the people of this country will spend ten million dollars on this form of amusement between November, 1906. and April. 1907. Included in this estimate is only the better class of music, the comic operas, musical comedies and so-called "attractons' of this type not being con- sldered at all.
 Ay1erlca has become music-mad-mad in It's desire to hear music that 1t does not always understand. and musicians whom 1t does not always value rightly. A mu- scal obsession has taken hold of tho peo- pie, and, having the necessary money 10 pay the demands of those wise enough to realize the extent of this newborn craze, we are now hearing the best there Is in music at Europes artistic expense. As matter of fact there were not twen- ty really frst-class singers and instru- mentalists left in Europe on December 1. for tho almighty dollar" is patent att traction to even so impractical a being q sthe average musician.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24

York is of the kind elassed as bltumlnous coal and coke the Alabama iron falling under the same classification, with this important difference however. that of the New York iron nearly one-half Is besse- mer and low-phosphorus iron, which is not made in Alabama. and therefore does not compete with our own iron. But we do not now speak of competition. that Is an entirely different question and one that concerns itself largely with freight rates
 It is not pleasant to contemplate these facts, to realize that we are not holding our rghtful place in the production Of pig iron
 We may walk four miles an hour, and then four and quarter. but if our rivals are walking five, five and half and six. it will not be long before we shall have to use motor car to overtake them.
 The great advantage which Alabama enjoys over most of the other iron dis tricts in the country is the proximity of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24

TT all depends upon whose OK is gored.
 When the house of commons passed \ the Irish Home Rule bill in 1893 it was an expression of the majority of the English people in favor of granting self-government to Ireland, but the house of lords promptly flung out the bill and the measure was lost. Many radicals attacked the house of lords but in half-hearted sort of way. It was only an Irish question upon which the members of the upper chamber had dared to thwart the popular will. The lords would not dare to oppose the will of the English people on an English question. They knew better than to at tempt it, and if they did there was a way to crowd the chamber with newly created peers who would pass the popu- Jar measure.
 At all this talk the house of lords sim ply laughed and said to itself, We are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-24

islands arc not to become like the Sa> moan or the Hawaiian islands, nor does she envy the status of Egypt. India or the Transvaal. Japan admits Americans and other foreigners to citizenship. Two notable instances are those of Dr. yir- beck and the late Latcadio Hearn. both Americans. These men would have achieved distinction in any country. Ths government of Japan has no desire to unload its surplus population into Amer- iea. It could have no reason for such wish. It much prefers Japanese emi- grants 10 settle in Korea and Manchuria, where they are availably near at hand, and remain under the jurisdiction of their home government. Japanese cooles como to Canifornla for the very evident reason that they can earn moro here than at home Not one of them has come be- cause his government wished him to. In short all I can say from my intimate knowledge of Japan Is that she is living up both to the letter and to the spirit of her treaty with us. It would seem but fair, therefore. that she should ask us to do the same.