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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
Progress

For a generation we may say
the nou-drinking mass has been
coming more aid more and more
decidedly into demand ia buSi.
ness enterprises. and now more
than ever before. Why is it
thuss Because success in bust.
ness. aud protection of life.
more clearly de mand the clear
brain, the steady nerve. and the
moral stamina. The liquor
dealer himself wants a nom
drinker behind the bar. He pre-
fers that his own sons grow up
sober ard that his daughters
suitors abstain from the habit.
his own business .ioculcates in
the soma OF HE patrons. The
rail road lines. the steam ship
lines. the great manufacturing
establishments, the great mer.
camille concerns all demand
that their business be entrusted
only to men who are not given
to drink even occasionly.
Not from sentimental, but from
purely common sense business
friend ships. Insurance com.
panies too, find by actual ex.
perience that sober men are 90
per cent safer riskS than drink.
ing men. Hence Il becomes a
question. not only in morals. In
money ma King bu, n question
of life and death
Also great progress has been
made along Anti.Norcotic lines.
Twenty years ago not one state
10 the United States had law
against the sale of norcotic
drugs. Now many states have
such laws. and the Pure Food
laws compel the manufacturer
to print upon the label placed
upon the medicine the ingredi.
cuts contained therein. TWEEN
ty years ago not one state had
laws against the sale OF tobacco
in any form Now some states
foroid the sale of tobacco to
children aud every state forbids
the sale OF cigarettes to minors
of various ages and five states
forbid the sale aud manufacture
of the cigarette These states
are Indiana. Ten nessee. Nebras
bra, Oklahoma and Washing
ton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
Row Royal.

The Republicans OF Marion
County ha ye lost their heads.
The row started over the
Craftsmanship at the convention
in Hannibal Saturday.
1t is said the cause back Of it
was not the chairma ship, bu
over Captain Cha m berlain's cen.
gressional ASPIRATIONS and j P
Hlnton's wish to be natiOull
committeeman from Missouri
Let the cause he what it may.
ii is the hottest of hot w.rs.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23

When be started on his trip
around the world, and as soon
as he returned, Secretary Taft
made a speech defending the
policy of the president toward
corporations In the latter he
gave no indication of his pro-
gram should be succeed Mr.
Roosevelt, and IN the former be
gave none except to indica tie
additional legislation in the
same direction. That the ad.
ministration is on the defensive
and that it has no disposition
to outline a future policy is in
dicated by both of these ad.
dresses. The Republican party
has got into the habit of AVOID.
ing promises for the future and
claiming votes in reward for it,
past conduct. and the admins
tratiou is doing the same thing
Quincy Herald.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
Progress.

Near the town of Up-against-it
in the land of Root. or-dle.
We have found our very finest
inspiration. you and l.
TOiling up the hill called Have
10, with Compulsion for a
guide,
We have made the sort of effort
that was never yet denied
10 the way were Can't and
Couldn'I, with their brother.
What's the.use.
While our dearest foe. Born
weary, seiz1d with Joy each
poor excuse.
Yet behind us. U, relenting.
drove our htartless master,
Must.
And our feet essayed no Tagging.
spite Of hill or heat or dust.
1t was there we grew the sim
ews for the struSgle-you
and l.
Near the time Of Up against-it,
in the land Of Root.or.die
Near that village. Up-against IT,
in tile land of Roor-or. die,
We discovered possibilities IN.
dreamed of-you aud ].
Wore there heArtaches in that
Journey Little. then, our
master cared,
As along that stony highway
under whip and spur We
faTtd., -.
Bread.and.butter trudged beside
us. vita keen and ruthless
go1d.
That should quicken halting
footsteps five loitered on
the road.
RESue ano Spuuk' TWO comeIy
sisters, lured US on With
myriad wiIeS--
All the masters weltS were pain
less az we Toasted on their
smiles.
So our hearts grew strong ~
conquer. al we plCided =
you and l.
PaS< the hamlet. Up.against-it.
IN the land If Root or. die.
Strickland W. Gillian in
Success Magazine
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
SunfIoWer Philosophy.

Expect to be occasionally
called names you don't deserve.
A woman who can b. w0rk"r
to entertain, can u, "wuIked'
by an agent.
The bene ticiary is never III
one who mp aims Of the cos
of life insurance.
Common sense and rumdec,
have faculty Of III ms ia op
posite directions.
There ought 10 be a law pro.
viding that a man cannot be
punished for robbing a lawyer.
A thoroughbred is a man who
buys pictures OF actresses. and
claims they were given TO him
by the parties they represent.
If man had everything else
toeuit him except just one thing,
he would he as unhappy over
that as all the usual ills put to.
gether -Atchison (Kas.) Globe.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
The Punishment of Adam.

visited a school one day
where Bible instruction was part
the daily course, and in order
TO test the children's knowledge
asked some questions One class
of little girls looked particular
~ bright. and asked the tall
est one: What sin did Adam
c mmitP"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23

Miss Katherine Gooch, of
Shelblna, was with Monroe
friends Sunday afternoon.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23

Claui Meyers and wife, OF
Hannibal, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Meyers parents, S. B. Scr,
rell and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
Does Nothing For a Town.

The move 10 force the Bell
Telephone TO reduce it's rates
for st. Joseph should be push
ed. This company has never
done a thing for 81. Joseph ex,
cept to collect exhorbitant ra ties
from all its patrons st. Joseph
Observer.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23

Mrs. II. A. McAtee and daugh-
ter, Miss Ruth, of Elsberry, ar
sived Saturday to visit husband
and father who has charge of
The Culbertson & 90 drug store.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23
OUR PRINCIPLES.

Total abstinence, Prohibition
of the liquor traffic, One stand.
ard of morals for men and WON
en-. The education of public
sentiment Tor right.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23

A little granddaughter Of Mr..
aud Mrs. A. j. Shepard. of
Iowa City, Iowa. who is visit.
ing them, while at play fell and
broke her right collar bone. DR.
McNutt reduced the fracture.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-01-23

William Rtechoff. of Iudian
Creek. was in the city Monday.
He has about recovered from his
severe attack of neuralgia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06

War is hell but Iowa republican,
ism is worse says the Manson Dem
ocrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
Why He Did Two Good Turns.

Detroit News-Tribune)
s. Sir Thomas Upton has done many
generous acts during his life about
which he can never be induced to talk.
He is fond. however, Of telling of an
incident which happened in his early
days concerning an astute mother who
forced him to raise her sons wages
because Sir Thomas had presented him
with brand new suit of clothes.
Sir Thomas started business with
one assistant, boy of IA, who was
willing and honest. One day the lad
was overheard complaining that his
clothes were so shabby he was unable
to go to chapel. !.
Mr.. Upton, as he then was, was
making every effort to enlarge his lit
making every sacrifice to enlarge his
little shop, but he took a small amount
from his carefully boarded saving and
bought the boy a suot of blue cloth.
The next day the boy didn't come
to work, and Mr.. Upton, meeting his
mother. in the street, asked her the
reason.
"Why, Mr.. Upton" she said, courte-
sying. Jimmy looks so respectable,
thanks to you. sir, that I thought I
would send him around the town to-
day to see if he couldn't get better
job" z z 2 q
Sir Thomas meekly took the hint
and offered an increased salary. which
was accepted on behalf of Jimmy's
was accepted on behalf Of Jimmy by
his mother"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
WHERE POVERTY IS RICH.

A New York woman-her name is
Crossman if any should desire to know
has announced that people whose
financial condition renders them unfit
to care for children should not have
babies. The theory is not new, and its
cruelty is as old as arrogance.
Who shall decide to what limits be-
tween poverty and affluence the privi-
lege of perpetuation shall be confined?
How poor must people be to be de-
barred from having children? The
men who have done most for the
world sprung from the loins of pow
erty. Those who are doing the worst
in the world from the ranks of the
very rich. How rich should a man be
to be debarred from raising sons like
those of many of our multimillionaires
and daughters to sell for titles? Be-
tween the children Of the very poor
and those of the very rich. who has the
best of an argument in favor of being
born? And to which of the classes does
the world owe most?
1t is not question of finance, never
has been and never will be. The poor
will go on raising children and spend
ing their lives in labor to feed and
clothe them. Out of this toll and self
sacrifice and holiness of purpose comes
the greatest inheritance any child may
receive from its parentage. the foun-
dalton of character: Like breeds like.
The unselfish slaves to responsibility,
who have toiled to keep the children in
school and the fire warm on the fam
lily hearthstone, have bred sense of
duty into the world. From them have
risen the men who do things because
they should be done, not to their indi-
yidual profit. but often to their own
Jesus was himself car
penter and gathered corn for food by
the wayside.
Mrs. Crossman's view is that of a
Stun reforner. She has, like too many
of her Kind, associated poverty with
ignorance and degeneracy as inevita-
bic, forgetting or unknowing that the
poverty that comes of doing the best
possible for, large family is the
matrix of great men and the fountain
head of great accomplishments. She
is doing little harm and no good.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
gi,,rrs- 3arpaha, 9llarshalltu jn,ua aa,uarp 1908

sales are light. The past years bust
| ness in all wholesale lines shows a
very large increase. This is especially
true with the shoe and leather trade.
Dry goods and drugs make a good
showing and furniture and millinery
are not far behind. The outlook for
spring business grows steadily brighter
as the wheat turnout the southwest is
in splendid condition and money mat
ters are rapidly becoming normal
Chicago-New Year holidays
ness, but indications have become
more distinct and encouraging for the
immediate future Clearance sales in
leading retail lines denot no particular
pressure in the offerings of accumulat
ed merchandise and the buying is sat
isfactory. Wholesale branches are
mainly engaged upon inventories and
the usual preparations for departure
of road statesmen. Current bookings
lutuEG OellNeTleS are no FEWER ltldil
anticipated. Important inquiries APP
pear in rails, pig iron and railroad
equipment which are expected to as
sure much work. Mail orders from the
interior for spring merchandise make
fair average. and there is quite
number of visiting buyers already here
selecting for early shipment. Receipts
of raw material exhibit steady shrink
age. and this tends to maintain the re-
cent level of prices.
Philadelphia-The wool market was
quiet during the past week. Prices of
the higher grades are steadily main
tanned, but the poorer grades are
pressed for sale and rule in buyers
favor. Wholesale milliners report sales
less than usual at this period. but col
lections have improved The leather
market remains quiet but preparations
are being made to meet the increased
for all grades which is ex-
pected soon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
n in Washington Star
Appreciated the Beautiful.

That 1t is not always we'll to put
goes to visit the poor is the moral
of story told in an English maya
zine recently There We're two phi
lanthropists. according to the tale, one
n professional ard the other an anna
teur. The professional had arranged
to take the amateur to gathering of
slunl dwellers in the east end Of Lon
don. At the appointed hour the anna
teur. who happens to be duchess and
q great beauty. appeared ut the house
of her friend. dazzling apparition In
court dress, tiara and jewels. "Oh
my dear" gasped the professional.
falling helpless1y into the nearest
chair don't you know that we are.
going to one of the lowest and most
squalid Sums? can't promise that
you will bring any of that back with
you" But the beauty only laughed.
That's all right" she said. II quite
understand you. But poor people love
beautiful things. Their children espe-
cially are captivated with fine dresses
and feathers. Just wait and you will
see!'' And the professional did see.
Those poor. half starved, half naked
Stun dwellers had eyes for no one but
the dazzling young beauty who had
done them the infinite honor of coming
to see them in her most beautiful
frock and jewels.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
Not Much News.

In the summer of 1908 an exploring
expedition set out from Cook inlet,
Alaska, in an attempt to climb Mount
Mckinley. the highest peak on the
American continent. They went III
with pack of cayuses through a hun
dred miles OF tundra and then strug-
gled for weeks over glaciers and
through terrible hardships, to emerge
at last ON the Chulitna river, down
which they RATED to civilization. as
represented by Cook inlet.
AS they came in. worn, ragged, al
most dead from exposure and hunger,
tall old man strolled upshore With
four white mems dogs. says Robert
Dunn in "The Shameless Diary Of an
Explorer" They asked him the news
of the world
"Waal, yer know the pope's dead"
he drawled, land the cardinals held a
sort of convention and elected a new
pope.
Roosevelt he's agreed to complain
to the GEAR of Rooshia about them mas
sacreed Jews. and some ones killed
that Queen Dragon of Servia trying to
jump her claim to the throne. And
Rooshia's going to fight the Japs. The
amt much happened this summer"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
Murdered bv a Statue,

The death Of ZENITH, the half myth
ical king of Scotland, was one of the
most curious and remarkable in his
tory, if it may be called historical
fact. 1t seems that ZENITH had slain
Cruthlintus. a son. and Malcolm Duff
fus. the king and brother of Fennella.
She, to be revenged. caused Wiltus, the
most ingenious artist of the time, to
fashion a statue filled with automatic
springs and levers. Finished and set
up this brazen image was an admirable
work Of art In it's right hand Wiltns
placed ever and in the left an apple
of pure gold finely set with diamonds
and other precious stones. To touch
this apple was to court death. 1t was
so arranged that any one guilty of such
vandalism would be Immediately rid
died with arrows shot from loop
holes in the statute's body. ZENITH
was invited to see the wonder and.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
Vanished Youth.

Looking back upon the trials
Disappointments. toll and strife,
Drinking all the bitter walls
Then the failures of my life
l can comprehend the measure
OF the sorrow and the pain
When the dreams of youth and pleas
ure
Turn to dust, and all is vain.
Being lonely and forsaken.
Stranded on a storm-swept shore,
BY sore memories o'ertaken-
Former friends l see no more
Sad and dismal thoughts are falling
Like pail upon my soul.
And in troubling doubt I'm calling:
Where, oh mortal, is thy goal?
Tho life's burdens are increasing
Thru the darkness and the gloom,
And the struggles are unceasing
Till we reach beyond the tomb
Still, tho heartsick, we must ever
Brave misfortune's chilly blast
And in dutys stern endeavor
Hold the rampant to the last
When the fiery globe is sinking
Flaming golden in the west.
While the evening star is blinking,
And all nature is at rest,
Visions of the past are flowing
Onward to the silent shore:
But the winter storms are blowing
Where the flowers bloomed before.
OLD o, LIEN.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
BUSINESS AT LEADING POINTS.

/ Much idle machinery resumed on
January 2, and more mills will reopen
next week, but in many leading indus
| tries there will continue to be reduc-
tion in output until the outlook Is
more definite. This curtailment is
general in the iron and steel industry
| and at New England cotton mills. Yet
stocks are not burdensome in any posi-
| ton, and there is much confidence in
an early revival of purchases by con-
sumers, necessitating replenishment of
supplies by dealers and full activity at
mills and factories. Clothing manufac-
turers have received numerous can
celations, and In some lines buyers
have asked delay in shipments of
spring goods until the situation is more
fully developed There is better feel
ing as to mercantile collections since
the closing days of December brought
no special pressure in the money mar
ket.
Many iron furnaces and steel mills
have resumed and others are to open
next week, but thea curtailment of
production has been SO general hat
production has been so general that
not over so per cent of the capacity
estimates by some of the best author
tiles in the trade, including the Iron
Age.
Boston.-More than 80 per cent of
the cotton spindles of New England
will run part time between January
and March 1 by mutual agreement
among manufacturers. The future Of
wool goods production is not decided,
and will not be until the heavy weight
season, which opens next week, has
made some progress. The year starts
with poorer prospects for textile mills
than did 1907, and in every mill center
of New England many employees will
be idle part time during the first two
months at least, and the effect upon
general business in those places can
not but be depressing. The action Of |
the cotton mill owners, however, will |
go far toward steadying that branch Of
industry, and will in the end have
good results. There are indications of |
more mercantile activity early in the
year than during the closing months
Of 1907
neapolis.-Inventory taking Is
about completed, and travelling men
are busy getting out new lines and pre-
pairing to start Clearance sales are
proving attractive, and local retail
merchants report heavy trading since
Christmas. The northern pine market
S quiet, but there is little tendency
oward lower prices. Some of the
lardwoods show price reductions, but
he lumber situation as whole is
trong. Shipments for the week were
100000 feet.
Kansas City-Stock taking has oc-
upied the attention of jobbers and
=
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
Wonder What He'll Do Next.
(New York Times)


"There's the LATEST man who ever
signed a hotel register" remarked
Colonel Peacock, the veteran manag-
ing clerk of the Hoffman house, in
dicating large, we'll set up strollre
about the corridor.
He's a drummer for a big Phila-
delphia silk house. and his name is
Samuel Parker Sedgewick Elliott.
When I used to know him ten years
ago, he used to sign his full name. in
very deliberate and careful manner.
using considerable flourish. A couple
of years after he began to abbreviate
It slightly like this:
Samuel P. S. Elliott
'sThen I noticed on the register
'Sam'l P. S. Elliott
",The follol1ing trip disclosed fur
Their slight elision, IS. P. S. Elliott
"On his arrival here last week !
saw he had the habit incurably, and
there was no hope for him whatever.
Here is what he scrawled: s. Elliott
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06
Iowa Newspapers
MADIGAN MAD AGAIN.
(Clarksyille Star.)

Dear Sir: AS my time for the
GAINESVILLE Star expires January 1,
1908, 1 want you to stop the paper
! then, as l won't take it any longer.
have seen so many pieces in your pa
per abusing people about sending off
to mail order houses for goods l have
got tired reading 1t, and SO far as
am concerned I will send my money
where I please and it isn't any Of your
darn business either. And if you think
you can stop me just by bowling thru
your paper, why just keep right on
bowling and we will see whether
stop or not"
The above communication comes
from a gentleman in a neighboring
town whom the editor Of the Star has
never met, so we are unable to tell
whether he means what he says or
was just looking for an excuse for
quitting the Star when he wrote. There
is no use of exploiting the Stars idea
of the mail order or trade-at-home
proposition, for it has devoted columns
Of space to arguing for the home
against the stranger, but never has
this paper had abuse for those who
one community and spend it in anoth-
err.
But what's the use? While we have
been advocating the trade at-home
principle, we have seen much printing
that should have been done at home,
sent away. We have seen the catalogs,
circulars and newspaper advertise
ments that have been brought to the
attention of the purchasing public by
mail order houses. We have seen
neighboring local papers full to the
brim with advertisements and price
lists-trade producers. We have seen
thousands Of circulars and price lists
reach the hands of the people of
GAINESVILLE and vicinity, from the
stores of neighboring towns. We have
seen people leave GAINESVILLE and re-
turn with purchases made in these
surrounding towns We have for
weeks at a time seen home advertising
in the Star as scarce as ice cream So
cables at the north pole. We have
people going away from home to
trade, without putting forth the effort
of the modern merchant to meet the
demands Of changing business condi-
tons. We have continued to trade at
home, and each Saturday night paid
the office help its weekly salary which
goes into the Golfers Of local business
houses.
But what's the use? Few systems
appear to be free from the trade away |
from home microbe. When the local /!
merchant, who derives the most direct |
benefit from the local papers argument
in favor of its home town, fails to see
the advantages of advertising, while
the outsider holds a contrary view, and
when the subscriber stops taking the
paper that has some home pride, it is
about time to ring off and let people |
go about their business in their own
sweet way.
The Star, which has the largest cir !
,ulation Of any paper in Butler county,
Ices not care to drive away subscrib
srs for the benefit of those who do not
appreciate its efforts, and it hates to
lesert the ones who are trying to
Keep the town on the map.
After reading this. the local dealer
Who is hit may feel like the cores
,ondent. that it is none OF the Stars
darn business" whether anybody adj
'ertises or trades at home, And, per-
laps both are right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-06

man Naval Expansion; one from
Washington on the topics, The Pres
idents Message and Its Reception by
the Country" MIR. Roosevelt's Refu-
sal to BE Candidate for Third Term
Reiterated; and one from ST. Peters
burg on the topics, Prime Minister
Stolypin's Commanding Influence"
Composition of the Third Duma," and
The Address to the Tsar.''
Student-But 1 don't think deserve
an absolute zero.
Professor Whether do I. but that
is the lowest mark 1 am allowed to
give.-Yale Record.