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Seward weekly gateway., 1908-06-20
ny Gable to The Daily Gateway

By Gable to The Daily Gateway
 Chicago, June l9-William H. Taft received the nomination for president on the first ballot of the republican national convention yesterday after noon. The vote stood Taft TOP, Can non 5S, Fairbanks 40, Hughes G.. Foraker Is, Knox 6S, La Toilette 20, Roosevelt 3, one delegate was absent. Taft's nomination was then made unanimous.
Seward weekly gateway., 1908-06-20

London, June 15-Earl of Derby is dead at the age of sixty-seven years. He was former Governor General of Canada.
Seward weekly gateway., 1908-06-20
DELEGATES ARE
 GATHERING IN
ey Cable to The Daily Gateway.

Chicago, June 15-Delegates to the republican national convention are ar irving from the east, west and south. The hotels are already crowded.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
uH-- - -.
Missouri the Banner State.

The following article is furn'
ished the Journal by Mrs. e. B.
Fisher, press committee OF the
Woman's club and is quite in
teresting:
1t is very gratifying to learn
that Missouri is the banner
state, N the number of towns
applying for the travelling art
gallery of the general fedora
ton. Mrs. J. E Furgeson, of
st. Louis, state chairman of the
art committee, has been making
very delightful addresses on
the paintings in the gallery, in
some of the towns where they
have been exhibited. Mr.. Shimi,
a Japanese, will visit Missouri
with a collection of old Japa-
nese color-prints, and some EN-.
broideries, temple hangings etc.
A number of club towns are ar.
ranging to have this exhibition
and the state library commits
sion has put in circulation six
fine books on Japanese art
which will be sent to the towns
where the exhibit will be held.
This cannot fail to be of great
educational value.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
Gard of Thanks.

The following appeared in a
North Missouri paper: mr..
Editor: l desire to thank the
friends and neighbors most
heartily in this manner for their
cooperation during the illness
and death OF my late husband,
who escaped me by the hand of
death on last Friday. while eat.
ing breakfast. To my friends
and all who contributed so will
ingly towards making the last
moments and the funeral of my
husband success, l desire to
remember most kindly, hoping
these lines will find them enjoy.
ing the same blessing. I have
also a good milk COW and a roam
geIding horse, eight years old,
which 1 will sell cheap God
moves in a mysterious way, his
wonders to perform. he plants
his foot steps on the sea and
rides upon the storm, Also a
black and white shoat cheap"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Washington, D. c., April g.
New regulations governing meat
inspection went into effect yes
terday. The department of ag.
riculture has received several
complaints regarding the clause
which requires all inedible
grease, tallow aud other fats
must be denatured and render.
ed unavailable for food purposes
before shipment is made. One
complaint alleges that the Eu,
ropeau dealers will refuse to re
celve grease and other fats thai
have been denatured aud thai
this new regulation will discour
age foreign trade in these prod
ucts. II is said chemists O.
! Europe have been able to con
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

to lack line, consequently, the
use of line as a corrective OF
sourness on this soil may be
sometime used to an advantage.
The results of the expert.
ments with corn, wheat, oats
and clover on these experiment.
al fields are now available and
they will be taken up from time
to time through the kindness OF
the local papers.
M. F. MILLER.
Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, Columbia, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
EASTER EGGS ARE A HEATHER
CUSTOM
Like the Christmas Tree They Came
From Our AngIo-SaXon Forefathers.

In our observance of Easter
few stop to consider that the
quaint old custom of egg-giving
is a survival of Saxon times.
We find many stories of eggs,
hares and rabbits in Germany
associated with the joys of
childhood on Easter day; and
in France the Easter eggs are
made of manifold and costly de
vices. In Ireland and Scotland
the children are taught to
break eggs in the torn OF a
cross. Queerest of all. colored
eggs are offered at high mass in
Russia. With all these preced.
ents behind US It is no wonder
that we have a gala time at
Washington, and that on Easter
day democracy rules supreme
on the sloping White House
lawn. From early morning un
til six a! night the children roll
eggs and, though no one knows
who started the custom. the
American child does his share
in inauguratiug another spring,
and showing. in material way
the joy with which the ancient
festival of Easter fills mankind.
THE NEW IDEA.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Mrs. Fred Minor. who resides
near Rensselaer, was stricken
with paralysis yesterday morn.
ing and her condition although
greatly improved today is con.
sidered quite serious. Her en-.
tire left side was effected and
tor over twelve hours Mrs. Min
or was unconscious. She re-
gained conscious this morning
and attending physicians be-
heve that she will recover.
Mrs. Minor is well known in
Hannibal and has many friends
here. -Cour!er-P Post. L a ter.
Mrs. Minor died Sunday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Cecil Forsythe, one of the
best young men ever raised in
Monroe, came in from Kansas
City to spend several days with
his father and sisters. He has
severed his connection with the
Kansas City Journal to accept
a similar position with the
Headlight at Pittsburg, Kan,
and gone there to assume his
duties.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Mrs. M. P. Nolen and Miss
Elizabeth Geotze were called to
Liberty, Thursday by the serl-
Gus illness their of friend. Bates
Fields, theological student in
William Jewell College.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
National Convention 1908
Denver, Colo, Oct. 1921.
RED LETTER DAY.

Denver, Colo, Oct. 1921.
RED LETTER DAY.
June 9-Flower Mission Day;
Birthday of Jennie Casseday.
According to press dispatches
the entire Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia peninsula Is dry"
The last wet" section, WOr-
cester county, Maryland, went
dry March 21st in a special To-
cal option election by MAORI.
ty of 2,059. The drys carried
every district. There are now
thirteen dry counties on the
peninsula-nine in Maryland,
two in Delaware and two In
Virginia. Some of the new
songs are: 1.-The Nations Co.
ing Dry" and Victory Bells"
The great temperance move
that is sweeping over the land
and gathers force as the days
go by has reached Montana.
The newspapers are becom-
ing thoroughly alive, and ask
ing for help to push the cause.
Institutes and medal contests
are being held and field work
being done by National Organ
izers.
THE WHOLE STATE ALIVE TO
RISING SENTIMENT.
At benson. Texas, in a med
al contest a little daughter of
a saloon keeper won a silver
medal and won her father from
his business. On the evening
of the contest the father and a
number of gamblers lined up on
a seat to witness the work of
the little folks, and the father
was SO wrought upon that he
declared he would quit the bus
mess and he did.
We are expecting Tennessee
to be the next to JOIN the ranks
of Prohibition states.
A friend writes that the fight
for local option is on in New
Jersey and the people are in
earnest and aroused all over
the state as never before. Where
local option has had a fair trial
land it has in many places) the
business men have been convert
ed. Dry territory is the best to
do business in. The wonderful
growth of the local option move
ment is because men are finding
out that a dollar over the bar
does not come over their coun-
ter. The man who drinks up
his wages lie a poor customer for
any legitimate business. A man
can spend his money for bread
and butter, meat, vegetables
and clothing and help every re.
taller in town or have 1t 60 to
the nonresident brewer and
distiller. II saloons help busi-
ness and trade and people. why.
in advertising a city. do they
mot advertise their saloonH
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
OUR PRINCIPLES,

Total abstinence, Prohibition
of the liquor traffic, One stand.
ard of morals for men and WON.
en-. The education of public
sentiment for right.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Through the courtesy of the
DEMOCRAT this space is reserv.
ed for the W. G. T. U. 1t is
edited by Ella L. Sherman.
District Press Superintendent
of the W. @. T. u, who is re-
sporsible for all statements
which appear in this column.
Our Watchwords: Organize,
Educate, Agitate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

@. W. West. of Joanna, form.
erly of this city, has been over.
the.line fishing for votes Aug.
4. He wants to be the Assessor
of the Little Kingdom.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Miss Rebeckah Wood has
been visiting her friend. Miss
Julia Stoddard. Miss JullS
accompanied her friend home.
Cincinnati, for a return visit.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
The composition of Northeast Missouri
Sells

The Agricultural Experiment
Station at Columbia is engaged
in making a soil survey of the
state outlining the various soil
types types and N z king chemical ex.
animation of each. A feature of
this work also is the carrying
out the field experiments with
fertilizers and other soil treat
ments on the more important
soil types of the state. Sever
al experimental fields have
been established in Northeast
Missouri at the following loca.
tions; Monroe City, Bowling
Green, Vandalia. Hurdland,
High Hill and KNOXVILLE. The
analyses of soils both from
these fields and from samples
taken in other counties. show
that the prairie land of this re-
gion lacks approximately one
halt the nitrogen, two.thirds of
the phosphorus that very fer
tile soil should contain, while
its potassium supply is ample.
For the white oak timber land
OF this region the same deficien-
cies except in a more marked
degree. Such land lacks some.
thing over one.half its nitrogen
as a rule, and about three
fourths its PHOSPHORUS while
the potassium is usually suffici
emit. AS these three elements
are the ones which are common.
ly lacking in soils, it can readi-
ly be seen that in order to make
this land productive attention
must be given to the building
up of the elements nitrogen and
phosphorus.
The experiments which have
been conducted on these expert
mental fields corroborate very
substantially the results of
these analyses. They show for
instance, that the addition of
nitrogen in any form is always
accompanied by an increased
crop production while practi-
cally the same is true of the ell
ement PHOSPHORUS.
In practical way the meth
DDS of building up and maintain
ing the nitrogen supply is first,
the adoption of a crop rotation
which shall prevent the rapid
burning out of the humus and
nitrogen; second, the growing
of legumiuous crops such as
clover and cowpeas, which
crops have the power of adding
nitrogen to the soil from the
air, through the means of the
bacteria which exist on their
roots; third, by the feeding
back on to the land as much of
the farm crops grown as posi-
BILE.
The PHOSPHORUS supply is
built up first, by the feeding
back of crops on the land as
mentioned for nitrogen, and
second, by the addition of some
form of a commercial phosphate
such as steamed bone meal, SUI
perphosphate of the ground
rock phosphate. On very many
of the thin lands of Northeast
Missouri the addition of these
phosphates will pay rather
large financial returns.
The analyses as we'll as the
experiments indicate that the
sofa especially on the fiat wet
areas OF the prairie 10 inclined
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Victor Reid and wife, of Shell.
bina. came over Sunday to visit
the homefolks.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
Id. H. StOddaFt.

vert inedible fats of this coun-
try into the finest Holland
cheese and English creamery
butter.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Mrs. John Shaw, of Pierre, S.
D.. has been visiting her uncle,
John L. Evans.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09

Mrs. M. G. Hendricks returned
Friday from Linn, Wash, where
sue has been visiting her daugh.
tiers since last October.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
Jr.,


always top the market.
Fonsica Jr's dam Silver Bell iennet we own,
and he was sired by Crucher Delaneys great iennet
jack, Fonsica, etc. Full pedigree application. Every
mule dealer knows this jack. Ask them about him.
MIDNIGHT is very fine jack. is Is hands high He is
coal black with meay points, extra good bone long range
neck and body large foot fine style and action
Black Bel jennet we aWn-was sired hy Edward Long
miers Blossom 2nd considered in his day best
jacks in the state Midnight sired by Buchanan Bros
Morecase be by Crucher Deaneys great ieunet Jack
Fonsica. Full pedigree application This jack is as
good jack as Fonsca, Jr. This is good
as we can give him.
TERMS-Dewy, Fonsica, Jr and Midnight will make the
of 1908 at Emwood Farm miles south of Monroe
City and miles east of Indian Creek will be permit
ed to serve mares at 49, 90 insure living Parting
with removing her from neghborhood foreits
and money becomes due and payable at
Care taken to prevent accidents but responsible
ity should any Colt in all stand good for
season money No business on Sunday.
CREOLE, Aberdeen.Angus bull will be permitted TO
serve cows at $1.00 EACH He is extra breeder.
Mr.. Farmer want to impress you that all of our
stock is extra sure. We keep other kind.
We handle DR.. Rea's veterinary remedies Ask US for
tree samples and Treatise the Horse We will also
insure live stock against death in any form ASK US
for rates and full particulars
We will take pleasure in showing stock whether
ynu breed not We at home all the time Come anv
time. r. F. D. No. 8. F. & M. Phone Gid
I'D. H. StOddart.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-04-09
FYOU WANT TO RAISE Big HIGH PRICED MULES BREED At
STODDAR

nFNATN is coal black allpurpose horse; 16
WHY hands high Deweys dam stand
ard bred mare he sired by Black
Rose who took End premium at the Worlds Fair in Chicago
1893 This horse is extra good breeder
OUR WORD. CALL AND of this
horses colts.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
THE MAN BEHIND THE FLOW.
He Is the Prime, Essential Man the
 World Needs

He Is the Prime, Essential Man the
 World Needs.
 There are but few things in this world that are so attractive, so sub stantially needed, so universally de- ended upon, so unreservedly discrimt mated against, as the man behind the blow"
 The man behind the plow'' has for several years in the past played but a small part in the affairs of State, po- litically, financially or scientifically, so far as his laying plans and carrying them out are concerned.
 We have reached the day, however, when ''the man behind the blow !s going to have something to say. He is going to be heard, and he had better be needed. The people who will con- tinue their efforts to press him will no doubt be wiped off the face of the earth, for he is in no condition or tenn per to be trifed with any longer. He is not unreasonable in his demands. He is not over-eXacting in his obliga- tions, but he is determined and un- finching when he is once aroused to the point where he will battle for his rights, and to that point he has been aroused in the last three years.
 The man behind the plow' is, has been, and will ever be the staff of our nations life" Without him our coun- try would be weak, insignificant, poor and unrespected but with him we are powerful. we are rich, we are honored, We are strong. Then why should not the man behind the blow" have a voice? Why should he not command and be obeyed? Why should he not say Go, and the balance of our people go? Why should he not say Come, and the classes of our nation come? Again we ask why, and we call on the world to answer why the farmers should not be the most respected, the most intelligent and the most con- manding people of our nation?
 We do not want to pat the farmer on the back, or boost him, but we simply want to express facts, and just here we want to say that if the farmer does not occupy the place to which he is en- titled, he has nobody to blame but himself. If he is willing to sit idly by and see others usurp the authority and powers that belong to him, and grind the very life blood out of his wife and children, certainly he can look upon himself as nothing else but a sorry linave.-Union News.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
That Land Problem Grows.

Many of those coming here now are, as the Stockman-J would say, investors and spectators. These men, many of them, have made it their business for years to find out what the farmers want in the way of land. From a long experience in such matters they have become excellent judges of a country and it's possibilities. They know a good thing when they see it, and having found it, get in on tn ground floor. This is just what has been done on the Texas plains Today these people own the bulk of our vast fertile prairies.-Canyon City News.
 And still the local papers continue to tell an anx.ous public what fine thing it is to buy contiguous lands aas an investment" knowing that lands must pay taxes and the money invest ed in them demands interest, and that the absentee landlord does nothing on earth for the community in which he holds lands Columns on columns of space is used begging men to rush in and take advantage of their brothers and compel those who come later to pay heavy tribute to the wise invest or" Humanity de:rands a change in the system that allows one man to force the homeseeker to pay an un- earned tribute.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
The Farmer ie on Top.

It seems to us that the cotton plant CT has about won the fight he has been making for better prices for his cotton. What he needs to do is to sit steady in the boat; arrange his obligations, but St on the lid which holds his cotton oft the market at the present prices. In the last few days 1Ye price has ad- vanced about a cent a pound; the crop is short and the demand greater than it ever has been. The manufacturer has sold cloth on the basis of 15 cent cotton. What is there to keep the price from going up? Those who have been forced to sell to meet their obli- eations have about all sold, and the farmer who has held, up to this time. is, in most cases, in position to hold a little onger.-People's Paper.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
Plant Your Own Crop.

When you determine on your cotton acreage this year, you who have not yet done so, ask yourself the question whose crop you are pitching and in tend to raise-yOur own or someone else's? Make up your mind to raise nobody's cotton but your own. If you cannot put in land enough for more than five bales of cotton for yourself, put just that much in and no more, and put the balance of your land in corn and oats and something to eat. There is never a daT Tn the year that corn and oats will not sell and fetch good prices. Every day you can sell sweet and Irish potatoes, onions, cab bages, pumpkins, peas and poultry, eggs and butter, so see to it that you raise enough of these things for home consumption and to sell. The non producer must eat, and you ought to make your living off him, and his name is legion. Your cotton will be all cash then.-Co-Operato
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
LOST TEMPER WAS COSTLY.
Poet Banker Threw Away and Bought
 Back His Own Property.

Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet banker, had high temper and was exceedingly sensitive. One day, exas- perated by the crass stupidity of a servant, he threw a book at his head. The boy ducked and the book sailed out of the window. After it hurried the menial, but he was too late; a passerby had picked it up and walked off with it. Stedman began to wonder what book he had thrown away, and to his horror discovered that it was a quaint and rare little volume for which he had paid $50. His chagrin was intense as the work was almost unique and the prospects of replacing it were remote.
 Some time afterward, when brows- ing in secondhand book shop, our splenetic poet banker perceived to his great delight copy of the very book he had lost. He asked the price. Its very rare," replied the dealer, but as you are an old customer I'll let you have it for $40; nobody else could have it for less than $60." Stedman gladly paid the $40, got home with his treasure as soon as possible, and sat down to gloat over it. A card dropped out of the leaves. It was his own. Further examination showed that he had bought back his property. It cured him of casting books at serv- ants heads.-New York Press.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
HIS LECTURE ON JOB.
Brother Dickey Thinks He Was Over
 rated as Patient Man.

"I dunno what dey call Job a patient man fer said Brother Dickey, 'kaze of all de growlers I ever hearn tell on he sho' wuz de growlinest. But he sho' did have enough ter make him growl-dat he did. De devil say: Looky yere, Job, you in my power, now, an I gwine ter 'aict you wid few biles' An Job say: All right; kin stan it ef you kin But de piles commence ter break out so thick an fas' dat Job say: 'Looky yere, man, desc ain't no biles-dis de smallpox, sho ez you bon An he eetch and eetch so dat he had ter scratch his se'f wid a goats head. Den de devil git in high win and blow down Jobs house; an dat wuz too much. So oP Job If up his voice an he say: 'Looky yere, bargain fer piles, but I didn't want no harricane th'owed in fer good measure '"-Atlanta Consti- tutiOn
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
RESOLVED TO SNUB EVE.
Mrs. InthesWim Intended to Draw So.
 ciaI Line in Heaven.

The minister had dropped in to tea, and the conversation had drifted through various channels to the ques- tion of whether or not we should know each other in heaven. Presuming that our physical beings would be perpetu- ated, and that recognition would be as- sured, the minister had asked various ones at the table among whom the Bib- lical characters they would be most interested in recognizing.
 Some mentioned one prophet and some another, but one lady, noted for her social exclusiveness, had not spoken. Turning to her the minister said: And who would you like to meet ill heaven, Mrs. Intheswim?''
 Mrs. Intheswim pursed her lips. T really don't know" she said, but there is one thing do know, and that is that 1 shouldn't care to meet Eve. In fact, I don't know that l would speak to her if l did."
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
CURED HER CHILDREN,
Girls Suffered with Itching Eczema Baby Had Tender Skin, Too
 Relied on Cuticura Remedies.

Some years ago my three little girls had very bad form of eczema. Itching eruptions formed on the backs of their heads which were simply GOV cred. I tried almost everything, but failed. Then my mother recommended the Cuticura Remedies. I washed my children's heads with Cuticura Soap and then applied the wonderful oint- ment, Cuticura. l did this four or five times and l can say that they have been entirely cured. I have another baby who is so plump that the folds of skin on his neck were broken and even bled. l used Cuticura Soap and Cuti- cura Ointment and the next morning the trouble had disappeared Mme. Napoleon Duceppe, 41 Duluth St., Montreal, Que, May 21. 1907."
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-06
Similar Result.

There are certain delicate shades of expression of which a Frenchman is, as a rule, past master. One member of that fluent nation, stranded in New York, was setting forth his troubles to a lawyer
 q understand from what you say that you are convinced your friend Le- comte has stolen your purse" said the lawyer.
 No, no, monsieur, not so fast!" cried his client. ''I only say that if Le- comte had not assisted me to hunt for it I should have found it again. Youths Companion.