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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1907-04-12

lifting man to higher and better.
life.
Missouri girls are still throw.
ing bottled letters into the river
TO see what returns they will
bring. The Howell County Gaz-
cite tells about a girl in Carroll
county who cast a message on
the waters about q year ago.
Recently she received an answer
from q young engineer in the
employ of the government river
improvement service stationed
q few miles below Memphis,
Tenn. The letter stated that the
bottle had been found in a cre-
vase by workmen engaged in
repairing the levee.
Very dangerous and nerve-
trying is the editor business be.
coming. Only a few days ago,
recalls the Stotssbury Tribune,
the editor of the EldoradoSprings
News was attacked by citizen
of that place and SO badly lnjur-
ed that he is not expected to live.
II this thing keeps up much long
or the Tribune believes the man
who wants to trade firearms for
advertising space can make a
deal with almost any editor.
Before long the disagreeable
task Of picking chickens may be.
come a thing of the past. The
Schell City News editor, q poul-
try fsncier, allowed his incubator
to get too hot and it singed all
the feather on a lot of young
Q hicks. Since that time they
have become fully developed and
perfectly healthy towels, so he
declares, but not a feather has
appeared on any one Of them.
Following the suggestion oi
the Eastern man who wanted his
city to purchase a lot of goats &C
that they might keep the streets
and alleys clean by eating paper
tin cans and other rubbish, the
Springfield Leader thinks goats
might have been made an issue
in the spring election.
/ A German scientist has figure(
out that water will be worth q
cents a drink in 800 years. HI
is off in his calculations. Mexico
Ledger thinks some Of its delin
quent subscribers are gcini
where it will be worth more thai
that in a good deal less time thai
300 years.
A Milwaukee man wants o di
vorce because his wife drinks
gallon of rock and rye q day
} Some men are so Internally mea
} says the Holden Enterprise tbs
they think their wives shoul
have no personal liberties.
3 Ten years ago the hired ma
: use to hustle around and ask tn
0 farmer, "how much will you Civ
} me?" Now, says the Monro
! County appeal, the farmer hus
b ties around and asks, 'ho'
, much will you takep"
The poor man who fell in a rol
! Ter skating rink and was crushe
by q 200 pound woman, the Va
y Buren, Current Local thinks, hs
come to the conclusion that We
: men, in some cases at least or
e dangerous.
. A Weston man puffed up
: the attention his new suit a
y tracted on the streets, got q 8,
q we're setback when his wife pul
+ ed of three price tags when
i reached home that night.
II A man who will let his daugf
n ter marry Q youth who wears
I. red sock on one foot and Q gre
one on The other, says the We
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1907-04-12

ce such things, what must be the
effect when q strong, healthy
man is literally without food for
days and even weeks. Thank
heaven that we live in the United
States and especially in old Mis-
souri,, where there is always
enough to eat"
"Preachin' Bill" of the Ozark
county ,ssys,in the Camden Point
Home Bee: "When God looked
upon the work of His hands and
called hit good, he war shore a
lookin' at this Ozark county,
Rough? Law yes! Hit war
made that way on puppuss.
There amt nothin' to fiat coun.
try nohow. A man jes natcherly
wears hisself plum out walkin'
on a level 'thout ary dawn hill to
spell him. An then lookey how
much more there is Nv hitl
Take 40 acres O. Tat an hits jest
a 40, but you take 40 acres o.
this Ozark country an God u
mighty knows how much 'twould
be if hit war rolled out fiat"
Homer j. Clark, editor Of the
Cass County Democrat, was NOM
mated by his ward meeting as
Democratic candidate for alder
man. His brother, Harlie, thus
writes of his candidacy: "He
does not announce himself as fit
for a member of the controlling
council at the millennium; admits
that his candidacy may he q
joke; that he has been accused
: of nearly every serious crime,
, but, denies fatty that he has
never been convicted of horse.
> stealing, and declares that any
I one starting the latter story on
him in this campaign will forever
be precluded from his prayers.
. Richmond is nothing il no
3 loyal to its pretty girls. In theil
: defense the Democrat says
I "We'll wager that the travelling
! man who wrote letter to one o.
: the Warrensburg papers brag.
g ging on that towns merchants
its fine schools, big business, anC
last but not least, its pretty girls
never visited Richmond. We
q haven't the biggest town, nor tn
y best town, but we've a gooc
9 town, splendid merchants ant
q good schools, but we never take
a a back seat on pretty girls an(
lots them. We have the pretties
and best girls in the state. Com
: and see for yourself"
The Trenton Times has dis
:, covered that nothing under tn
!. sun can be more humiliating +
. a woman than to have the mid
!, die button on the back Of he
shirt waist come unfastene
Just at the time when she had al
most forgotten that such a calam
" ity might befall her, If shehap
"a pens to be in attendance at q SO
y cial function she must careful
10 back into some cornor, stan
N there and grin hideously, tryin
le to appear unconcerned, until pre-
y vidence sends someone who thor
y noughlyunderstands to her corne
4
! An item in the Rayville Entel
: prise says there will be a wed
!, ding in that town in a short tim
,. in which the contracting parti
"a are on the sunny side Of sevsnt
1t was a case Of love at first sig,
and the courtship is said to ha'
20 been carried on without the usu
ns aids Of candy and ice cream sod
40 A case Of measels on an Edo
- ado Springs train one day Ia
:. week came near causing Q par
:. among the passengers. Rslatil
mt the occurrence the Winson R
m view observes that Q man car
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1907-04-12
Around About the State.
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Hens and onion sets at this
season of the year, observes a
rural editor.
Homer Bassford, an Audrain
county boy, is to be dramatic
writer on the new st. Louis Times.
While an Oak Grove man was
operated on for appendicitis the
other day he attempted to sing,
but the Banner says the doctors
out it out.
II time was really money, the
Amoret Advertiser believes the
average editor would get rich,
for so many people take his pa
per on-time.
In its usual careful way the
Lamar Democrat has noticed
that a tall woman wants to wear
a sawed. .off hat, while a short
woman selects a sky-scraper.
A Howell countyevangelist as
tonished his hearers bydeclaring;
81 will fight the devil until hell
freezes over and then I'll buy a
pair of skates and pursue him on
ice.'
Two important matters are be-
ing agitated in Moberly. One is
to, ,help the Wabash get an ade-
quate water supply, the other to
secure meeting of the Missouri
Drummers' association in July.
Omar D. Gray of Sturgeon de-
clares that it is time Bob White
of the Mexico Ledger invested in
new cuts of some of the notables
he runs occasionally. One OF
these, Gray declares, is at least
80 years cid.
Wright county claims to have
volcano, which is very active
at times. It is reported by citi'
zens of Hartville that an acre oi
land has sunken several feet anc
in the center of this is an open
in from which smoke and ashes
issue.
Although eight legislatures
have under consideration meas
ure for taxing bachelors, the
Carthage Press fails to see any
decrease in the number of tn
latter. Maybe they prefer tn
ills thay have than to fly to thos'
they know not of.
Hung iuries are not uncom
mon, but the Pattonsburg Cal
tells about q hung jury at Mary
vile. Judge Ellison, who, afte
hearing a case, said: 81 don
blame the jury for sometime
failing to arrive ct a verdict, TO
! can't agree in this matter my
SELF"
A Neosho physician took o fe'
drops Of blood from patient an
sent it to a bacteriologist for dia
gnosis. Some one emptied tn
bottle and put in some blood fror
a tom eat. The returns from tn
bacteriologist were as follows
"Your patient is liable to ru
along the top Of the fences an
howl all night, After he hs
chewed up all the cats in tn
nsighborhood give him a cup
new milk and piece of raw liz
or. The spread Of the diseal
would be q calamity"
In this wise the editor of Il
Fordland Pointer grows eloque
on the subject Of Hunger
"China and India have milliol
on millions that do not kno
what it means to have their app
tite satisfied. Real hunger rar
" comes in our day and age b
sometimes following q long sp'
Of fever one gets true taste
torture. When you forget trai
;no honor. uokhor. wifa- chill
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1907-04-12


tie on the question Of whether
his salary should be raised by
voting in favor of the proposition. |
A resident of Shannon county,
named Earwood, died last week
at the age of 106 years. He was
one of the pioneers in that Sec
ton.
One Of the improvements being
urged by the commercial club of
Excelsior Springs is the placing
of street signs and house mum.
bers.
c. T. Cullom Of Sedalia has
been awarded the second prize Of
s25 in a window dressing contest
in Chicago in which there were
400 contestants.
An editor may not know it all,
but the Reynolds Outlook say he
does not live very long in a COM
munity until he knows a darned
sight more than he publishes,
In Sturgeon the electric light
plant Is owned by the city. The
Ledger says the plant is now
clearing about $40 per month and
the city is getting its street lights
for nothing.
Harry Umstead, night opera
tor for the Katy at Boonville, was
held up and robbed by masked
men the other night. The COM
pany's safe was blown open and
the contents, amounting to about
Si20, stolen. There is no clue.
-Boonville Advertiser.
Recorder Hall of Liberty, issu-
ed a marriage license to awoman
this week. She explained that
the man she was to marry was
busy and did not care to lose
time by going to the court house,
and that she had been married
twice before and knew how to get
the document.
A prominent but grouchy and
nonadvertising business man Of
Mexico died not long ago, and
the editor of the Ledger refused
to print a column eulogy which
had been prepared by some
friend of the deceased. The edi.
tors excuse was that man who
does not believe in printers ink
when alive should not be en-
balmed in it after he is dead.
Backward, roll backward, oh
Time is your train" implores q
Verona writer, "and let me SCI
Alice spelled rightly again.
am SO tired of 'Alyce' and Mae
tired of the way names are writ
ten to-day. Oh, for the fash
ioned Mary or julie; cut out YOU
'Edyth' don't be such q fool, Al
to think that cognomens lik'
'Myrtah' or Pyrl' will ever Sc
we'll on a sensible girl
Seeing q linotype for the frs
time q ranchman was amazed
says the Polo News, after gazinI
at it for awhile said: "Gres
Scottl amt that the most intelli
lgent machine you ever saw
: Why, it's plum human" Final
ly overcome by admiration, h
! took off his hat, made Q low bo,
; to the complicated mechanism
: and said: Isurely would admir'
} Mr. Machine, If you sll woul
come out and take q drink vii
Al me-"
i The Carthage Press thinks th'
: the ordinary juror is incapable
: administering justice to woms
Q charged with felonies. 1t say
1.-TWO girls who were arraigns
: lin q st. Louis court charged wi
. assault with intent to kill . judi
n of that city recently, offered
j. plead guilty II the court befo
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-20

A learned Daniel come to judgment
In Newark has given two decisions in
highly important cases of domestic
peace which should be historic. In a
case before him where a wife COM
planned of her husband the New Jer-
sey Solomon decided that, while it
may be the duty of the husband to
wash the family dishes under certain
circumstances, he is relieved from that
duty when, with sinister design, the
dishes are piled up from meal to meal
upon him. He also decided that when
a husband kept only one dollar a week
out of his wages for spending money
his wife is not justified, either NOR
ally or financially, in suspecting him
of leading a double life. Even our
dignified judiciary thus contrives to
get little fun out of daily life.
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congress MUST
CO SLOWLY
SUCH is THE DECLARATION OF
Mr.. TAWNEY OF APPROPRi-
ALTON COMMITTEE.
important Cove rnment Financial State
ment Given Out by Minnesota Leg
islator. Expenditures for Year Ex-
coed Revenues.

Washington, Dec. 1S.-Chairman
Tawney of the house committee on
appropriations effected it's organiza-
ton by the appointment of the sub
committees as follows:
Sundry Civil = Tawney, Smith,
Brownlow, Fitzgerald and Sherley |;
legislative-Bingham, Gillett, Brick,
Livingston and Burleson; District of
Columbia-Gardner, Bowers, Madden,
Burleson and Vreeland; pensions
Keifer, Gardner, Brownlow, Bowers,
Livingston; Notifications = Smith,
Graft, Gillett, Sherley and Fitzgerald; ;
MISUNDERSTANDING, Keifer, Living
ston, Brundidge, Jr., and Vreeland ;
permanent appropriations - Brick,
Graft, Madden, Burleson and Brun-
didge, Jr.
At the close of the committees
meeting yesterday Chairman Tawney
gave out the following statement:
''The committee on appropriations
in congress are confronted with a
situation which will require very
material revision of the estimates,
submitted for public expenditures for
the next fiscal year ending June 80,
1909 in order to keep the appropria-
tions within the possible and estimated
revenues of the government.
1.-The estimates submitted at the
beginning of the last session of con-
gress for the new current year totalled
1896, 960,6 43. The estimates for the
next fiscal year, submitted at the be-
ginning of this session in the book OF
estimates totalled 1896, 949, 23s, or an
increased estimated expenditure OF
SOD 1888, 645. The estimated total
revenue for the next fiscal year is
1878, 123, O11, while the actuarrevenue
including postal revenue received
during the last fiscal year-which to-
tai revenue was larger than that Of
any previous year in the history Of
the government-was only $s46, 1885,
339.
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Leighton Coleman, Episcopal bishop
of Delaware, was found dead in bed
at his home in Wilmington.
The Fairbanks Banking company of
Fairbanks, Alaska, closed its doors on
account of lack of currency.
Frank Frankenberg, aged 60 years,
cashier of the Colonial Savings bank
of Columbus, O., dropped dead
Fire destroyed the four-story build-
ing of the Harmony Knitting mills at
Troy, N. Y. The loss is $150,O00.
Postmaster General Meyer ordered
that all letters addressed to Santa
Claus be turned over to charitable So
cieties.
In carrying out a mock lynching in
Memphis William Gordon, a 16-year-
old negro, was caught in machinery
and killed.
The Zeppelin airship and the hall
in which it was kept at Friedrich
shafen, Germany, were seriously dam
aged by hurricane.
James and William Campbell and
the latter's wife were struck by an
Illinois Central passenger train at
crossing near Epworth, Ia, and killed.
A naval hospital is to be one of the
features of the naval training station
on the Great Lakes. Plans have been
prepared for structure to cost about
$4,000
The rumor to the effect that James
Bryce, the British ambassador to the
United States, is to leave the Wash
ington embassy is declared absolutely
untrue in London.
The Volunteers of America have
been forced to retire nine Christmas
chimneys and as many make believe
Santa Clauses from Wall street be-
cause of poor collections.
Seventeen social democratic men,
bers of the second Russian duma were
condemned to labor in the mines and
deportation to Siberia, and ten to per-
petual Punishment to Siberia.
The geological survey is planning to
establish an experiment station in
Pittsburg for the study of mine dis
asters with a view to abating the
dangers of underground explosions.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Lewis, who in
herited a fortune of $1,500,000, has
been released from a New York in
sane asylum after 25 years incarcera-
ton and will now be allowed to look
after her estate.
Virtually complete transformation
in the state railroad system is about
to be introduced in Prussia. On all
except main trunk lines, automobile
cars, which run singly, will replace
locomotives drawing ordinary trains.
Popular agitation In Teheran, Per
STA, against the delay in the execution
of soldiers who recently murdered two
shopkeepers reached a climax in hos
tile demonstrations on the streets,
firing on the parliament building and
the resignation of the cabinet.
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New Record in Immigration.

Washington, Dec. 16-Immigration
to America during the year ended
June 30, 1907, was vastly greater than
In any previous year of the history of
the United States. This fact, with all
its interesting and important details.
is placed in strong light in the annual
report of Frank P. Sargent, commits
sioner general of immigration and
naturalization, which was made pub
lie Sunday. Mr.. Sargent says: "The
immigration for the year 1907 was
1926, 349, and exceeded that for 1906
by 1864, and that for 1905 by $685.
$50, or an increase over the year 1906
of more than II per cent. and over the
year 1905 of more than 25 per cent"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-20
WOMAN CALLED A FIREBUG.
Ohio Temperance and Church Leader
Is Arrested.

Norwalk, O., Dec. 14.-Mrs. Martha
A. Campbell, president of the Won
ems Christian Temperance union, SUI
perintendent of the Congregational
Sunday school at Steubenville, and
wife of wealthy Greenfield township
farmer, was arrested Friday in San
dusky on a secret indictment charging
incendiarism.
The indictment charges that Mrs.
Campbell burned dwelling owned by
Miss Loa Mather, a neighbor, in Oc-
tober. Miss Mather also has been in
dicted.
The fire insurance company asserts
the women framed a plot by which
Miss Mather was to take the insur-
ance money to pay off the mortgage
ON her home, and on that condition
Mrs. Campbell would buy the place.
Both women are on bonds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-20
Saloons Must Close.

st. Paul, Dec. 1s.-Attorney Gen.
eral E. It. Young sent a letter today
to Mayor Smith of ST. Paul, notify.
ing him that the state law requiring
saloons to close at II p. m. must be
enforced.
The text of the letter was not
made public, but it stated that for.
NAL complaint had been filed with
the states legal department., alleg.
ing that the city administration was
wilfully neglecting and refusing tc
enforce the liquor law. 1t notified
the mayor that if he persisted in his
conduct, the law made it the duty OF
the attorney general to bring pro-
ceedinga for his removal.
The law is well established under
the St. Cloud decision, and the at
torney generals positive stand is ex.
pected to bring the IL o'clock lid
down with an emphatic slam.
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LIVED IN FEAR FOR MONTHS
CITIZENS OF GOLDFIELD TELL
FUNSTON OF CONDITIONS.
Federation of Labor Delegation Makes
Remarkable Statement to Gen.
eral-Troops Won't Go Soon.

Goldfield, New, Dec. ia delega.
ton from the American Federation
of Labor called Sunday on Gen. Funs-
ton, who is continuing his investiga-
ton of conditions with a view of de-
termining the necessity for the pres
ence of federal troops In Goldfield.
These gentlemen made the most
remarkable statement 1 have yet
heard" said Gen. Funston Their
statement is that for months they
have lived in constant fear They
have considered it necessary for their
self protection to go armed at all times
and have been compelled to avoid per-
sonal contact with members of the
Western Federation of Miners in or
der to prevent serious trouble. This
condition of affairs, they have told
me, obtained until the arrival of the
United States troops, since when the
conditions have been greatly changed"
Gen. Funston stated that he consid-
cred this statement of the conditions
came from men who have been in a
better position to know the real sit
uation than any others who have
talked to him since his arrival.
In view of the facts cleaned, Gen.
Funston said that there is little posi-
bility of the troops leaving here with
in ten days, and upon his recon-
mendation half of the number now
here will be detained by the Washing
ton authorities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-20
TROOPS FOR HOPKINSVILLE'
GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY TAKES
STEPS TO PROTECT TOWN.
One Company of Militia Sent to RepeI
Raiders and Relieve Frightened
Citizens.

Louiville, KY, Dec. 17.-Upon
Johnston, Gov. Wilson Monday or
dered company H, of the First Ken
lucky militia, to leave Louisville
Tuesday morning for Hopkinsville.
Col. w. B. Haldeman and Capt. r. ].
McBryde will accompany company H
to look over the situation.
Gov. Wilson Monday afternoon is
sued a statement from Frankfort in
which he says:
'Adjt Gen. Johnston reports
to me that the people in Hopkinsville
are under severe strain. receiving
threatening letters, and that the i'm
preston prevails that the men con-
nected with the last attack are in
readiness to make another; that the
facts reported by reliable persons sup
port the belief and a distressing state
of paralysis prevails in Hopkinsville.
He incloses signed request from
the county Judge, sheriff, county at
torney and mayor of the city, asking
for troops. After discussing the sit
uation with them, he is of the opinion
that the presence of troops is neces-
sary, and that in order to conduct
prosecutions properly the moral and
positively active support of troops is
deemed necessary. He says that it is
needless to discuss the probability of
further outrages, but it is impossible
to say they are not likely to occur.
"The presence of troops will re-
store confidence and relieve appre-
hension and cause all citizens to unite
to punish the lawbreakers and re-
store the rights of every citizen. Gen.
Johnston has wired Col. w. B. Halde-
man to hold two companies in readi-
ness to march on brief notice.
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10 In the Air,

With the increase in balloonins
there ICONS up a danger that will
have to be guarded against as fully as
any other that comes up with a new
method Of transportation. The owner
Of a building has a right to the air
above and the earth beneath his pos
session, and IL an aerial ship fingers
over his habitation or his business
block 1t Is apparently guilty of tres
pass. and this may bring its navigator
into the courts to pay the penalty for
his invasion. If he throws out ballast
and Injuries property there is just as
much reason why he should be sued
for damages as II he had committed
the act on terra firma. He might top
pie over chimney and cause loss of
life, and he might do many other
things that would cause serious dam
age during his flight through the air.
Unfortunately, says Boston Budget, it
would not always be easy to identify
Che reckless navigator Of the windy
way. He would be good deal like
the unprincipled automobilist who,
after causing fatal or other acct
dent, seeks safety from prosecution in
flight. Fresh inventions are seldom
an unmixed blessing, and we cannot
even rise heavenward without being
reminded that there are people below
US that need to be protected.
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Holdup Defeated.

Spokane, Wash, Dec. 1s.-A spec.
ial train loaded with officers left here
to investigate what is believed tc
have been an attempt to hold up
Northern Pacific passenger train No.
near Trent few miles east of Spo-
kane.
When the train approached a point
this side of Trent signal was seen
waving. AS several signals had been
seen there the past week and always
proved to be false alarms the engi-
neer decided not to stop. There was
no accident to the train.
The incident was reported to Spec
ial Agent Hindman, he secured Sher-
lift Doak and a posse to go and investi-
gate.