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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
Trne Measure of a Man.

The place to take the true meas
ure of a man is not in the darkest
place or amen corner, nor in the
forum or field. but by his own fire
side.
There he lays aside his mask and
you may learn whether he is an
imp or an angel, king or cur, hero
or bull dog
care not what the world says OF
him whether it crowns him boss
or pelts him with bad eggs; care
not a copper what his religion or
reputation may be, if his babies
dread his home coming and his bet
ter half swallows her heart every
time she has to ask him for a FIVE
dollar bill, he Is a fraud Of the first
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

We have heard a good deal about
revising the tariff by its friends
Now we are getting an elegant illus
tration of it. Protection revised by
protectioniSts means more protec-
ton. The Republican party bunko-
ed the country in 1896, when it
promised reciprocity before election
and killed all the Mckinley treaties
after the election. 1t promised re-
vision last year, which was univer-
sally understood to mean a reduc-
ton. The average Payne rates are
a little higher than the average
Dingley rates, and yet a considera-
BILE part of the Republicans in con-
gress will not vote for the Payne
bill because it is too low. Quincy
Herald.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

offered. But it were tedious to
dwell on all the incidents of the
trial, of how the lawyer for the de-
Tense once addressed his honor the
court by his give name. (Which
may be attributed more perhaps
to the democratic spirit of the
vicinity than to any lack of delica-
cy of refinement) as | am reliably
informed that one of the star wit
nesses IN the case often answers to
the melodious if not very respecta-
BILE name of Liver lip Bill. Of how
his Honor from behind his goods
box throne, (Which by the way l
think bore the familiar legend of
Sohm Kicker and Weisenhorn)
brought in verdict of guilty. l
shall not even mention the defend
ants lawyer carrying brow
wrinkled with perplexity and a
chew of tobacco in an advanced
stage of mastlcation, which may
have been the reason why he
missed the cuspidors placed there
for his especial benefit and spat up
on the floor with such exceeding
violence, but gently draw the cur
tain on the unexpected turn
events have taken. for impromtu
farmer lawyers of the better class
as well as others will soon forsake
the wrangling and hypocrisy of
court rooms for the less alluring
but more honest pastime of stir
ring the virgin soil of old Missouri's
slopes and valleys with a corn field
hoe. So be it. ~
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
The Wreckage

Two pieces of human driftwoOd
Beached on the sands of sin,
Four eyes from retrospection
Grown heavy as hearts within;
The man lacked honor, ambition,
The woman needed a friend;
Neither could pierce the future
Or cared to think of the end.
The name of their craft was Pas
sion,"
But blindly they read it Love;
One creeps from the Stygian dark
ness,
The other drops soft from above.
They sailed away on their journey,
Cared not what the world might
say,
And the Lloyds that they keep in
Heaven
Just posted the wreckage to-
day.
Two hearts asha ' n,n
Two memories sacred with pain;
Two lives just w I'D
That can nevC
Florence B. Da. Dr. ia april
Smart Set.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
LEO BELL

Judge Mcpherson, according to
press reports, sets forth the anomal-
Gus and remarkable doctrine of
passing upon state laws before they
are made in other words, threat
ems the Missouri legislature with
injunction proceedings prohibitive
of that body exercising its consti-
tutional prerogative in the way of
statutory enactment. So astound-
ing is the alleged position of Judge
Mcpherson that it temporarily
takes ones breath away. Discuss
ing the matter Acknowledgement
Major and it is to be hoped that
his optimism in the premises is
we'll founded says:
Neither the state nor federal
courts have power to enjoin a state
legislature. For this reason | con-
clude that Judge Mcpherson was
misquoted, or else what he really
said was misunderstood" -Hanni-
bal Journal
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
The Value of a Human Life.

From The War on the White
Death" by 0. F. Lewis, in the April
Metropolitan Magazine.
When a person dies of tubercu-
lOSis we are apt to think, We'll, not
only are his troubles over, but he
is no longer an expense to family,
friends or the community" No
further expense, perhaps, but new
ertheless a great loss, not only in
the circle of family or friends, but
also tothe community! There are,
it is said, 100000 deaths from tu-
berculosis in the United States an
nualIy. Let us be conservative and
say 10000. The average age at
time of death is thirty-five years.
The normal life would 60 on for
thirty-two years longer, or until
the sixty-seventh year. Frederick
L. Hoffman, noted statiStician has
estimated that the real loss of life
of these 10000 victims of con-
sumption measured in time, 4,800,-
600 years per annum. If we as
sumo that the net value of a year
of human life is at least $50, the
real loss to the nation resulting
from the disease, large portion of
which is needless, may be estimat-
ed at $24O,OOO,OOO per annum."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
EGGS FOR SALE.

Barred, Buzz and White Rocks.
White, Bun and Brown Leghorns,
White and Bun Wyandottes, Black
Minorcas, Cornish Indian Game, Buzz
orpiDgtons, Partridge COchins o. per
setting.
Toulouse goose eggs for o..
MAMMOTH Pekin Ducks o. per IL.
Sees Poultry Farm, Monroe CITY.
Mo-, ,. 4 NJ. Phone 2l2.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
28O2I

1Q01I
AhucSy AOVAl weighs and
good good draft and
PEDGREEFoaed May 81
1902 3O05l he
Brilliant 1871 5 Brilliant 1851 4) he
Veux Ca in 73 he by COCO 2 MgnOn t7l5
Leblanc T739l
DAM Maud sO by Guilaume 1903 l34L
Favori ~ he by Favora 1912
nderim Valentine
7l2 he by MgnOn rs, he by JeanLe Blanc
2nd Bernce ljO2l
1851 he by COCO ia, he by Vux
Mignon 7l5, Le-
Bird dam Trana 1853 ana he
Ndoco he by Brilliant $780, Brilliant NJ
Terms $40 90 insure living colt
black
'tO"| big gier
$40 insure a living
loo Siro,c IT. Is black 3-yearod points
OON A0lHlOHc, OLE 54 head long
Joe Simmons sired by
n ac" ennet 2nd dam b. Imported Bird
Jumbo. 4th by Excelsior
will be
S25
I sired Id
"OS ~ with white
$40 to insure living colt
The at
of Haard miles Monroe City
and jennes per
Care will be taken prevent accidents but responsible should
all
b"rhood fee becomes due aud payable lien will colts,
above until according
Session of
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
Christianity is Replacing Creeds


The old question of orthodoxy
and heterodoxy is about dead.
Deeds, not formal statements, prove
right religious beliefs. The world is
rapidly becoming Christian. But
theological TENS are as unintelligi-
BILE to the people as Sanskrit would
be. Plain words, direct address,
familiar figures, homelike terms,
natural bearings, must be utilized
in religious matters. Men want
the good news from God-the Cos
pei They welcome it as homesick
soldiers do the final terms of peace
in a straining war. They need God
and know it. So Sunday evening
lectures are not a success. Ethical
dissertations are not winsome. Mes.
sages about a nearby Father-God
fill the hearts hunger. Subjects
must be mOdern.-The April De
Signer.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Sam Mahan has gone back to
Denver after a very pleasant visit
with his mother, Mrs. W. G. Barger
and sisters, MeSdames D. r. Daven-
port and H. Levy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Rev. Father Henry Niemann, pas
tor of St. Patrick's Catholic church
at Maryyille, and his Pensioners,
are the happiest priest and people
for miles and miles around. The
last Of the $4,000 it took to build
their beautiful church was paid OF
last Friday. For ten years they
have battled with debt and ii has
been a trial that was burdensome
and discouraeing at times.-St.
Joseph Observer.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Mrs. j. F. Renshaw and Miss Sal
lie Thurman, of near Warren were
with Monroe friends Saturday.
They were enroute to Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Mrs. 7. R. Headin, of Quincy ar
rived Friday to visit her friends
Luther Moss and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Mrs. P. F. White, of Louisiana
has been the guest of her parents.
John L. Evans and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

The educational feature of the
Missouri state university is receiv-
ing strenuous attention as shown
by the fact that spring football
practice has begun with twenty
candidates in the squad and more
expected. = BroOkfield Gazette.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
AS A VISITOR
Saw a Country Law Case Before a
Squire.

/ once attended a trlal III a JUS
tice court in one of the back dis
tricts of the state wherein son of
Ham appeared to prosecute anoth-
er dark subject for disturbing the
peace and trampling upon his feel
ings in general. A carpenters
shop served as court room and the
tools of the artisan hung around in
prOfusion over the heads of the
motley assemblage of furtiVe
eyed daTkies. the work bench full
of boys who slouChily sat in grin
ming anticipation, another Satur-
day evening gentlemen of leisure.
The constable a little gray polled
old gentleman, had much ado to
keep a semblence of order among
the second named, and many nod
and frown did he beStow in their
direction. He had more over as |
learned d rather peppery temper
and strobe about with a sturdy de-
termined air as cOmported well
with vigilant limb of the law.
The defendant was ably represent
ed by retired farmer of the neigh
borhOOd whom | had heard of as a
village wiseacre whose declamatory
voice had often been heard as he
graciOusly impaired information on
all topics from the intriCacieS of
architectural design on thro the
mazeS of the law down to the low
est ebb of the tide of human
knowledge. He had | was told a
considerable smattering of the law
gained while trying to elude its
clutches during the whole of a
somewhat checkered career, but
this last | regarded as mere SANDER
and would not have my readers
otherwise regard it for the world.
For as the knights of long ago lent
their aid to the weak and the OPP
pressed, so even in these degener-
ate days will a champion often
arise for the sake of humanity, or
religion, or maybe trifling none
tary consideration. The county
attorney while treating the defense
with all courtesy never seemed to
lose sight of the smallest detail of
the case in hand. One could not
but admire the easy encourage
ment he sometimes gave a willing
witness who often went on in his
enthusiastic swearing to the very
end of the rope where he Imply
dangled. He had one other char
acteristic not always possessed by
country lawyers, for although I'M
doubtedly having some legal
knowledge and talent he did not
seem to continually try with shot
and shell to drill that fact into the
minds of his auditors. AS the trial
proceeded | had an illustration of
our colored brothers unlimited
powers of swearing such as was
never before afforded me. A more
damning mass of direct evidence
was perhaps never before poured
molten hot over the head of pris-
oner at the bar. 1t seemed as if
he might have been guilty of this
particular crime at birth and only
awaited this moment to further
darken mans long record of wrong
doing. hoped he might hang, but
feared the law did not provide so
great a penalty even for one of his
depravity. But who can gaze
through the mists of morning and
foretell the evening? Before the
defense was half through, the char
acter of the culprit stood boldly
forth whittier than a new plaster Of
paris image. One dusky skinned
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
Not Dead.

Thursday morning some one
started the report, Joe Murphy was
killed on the railroad near the Nc
Farland Bros, mill by a wild
freight train.
Joe says: It's no such thing"
And we guess he knows.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Mrs. j. P. Patton has been visit
ing sister in Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15
Cuddl5 G by.

Cuddle Baby
Old Man Wake here 10 stay.
Cuddle Baby's 7 thought he
Never would be tie SO naughty.
Old Man Walkec's m 'n.v proud,
Walks three ste. an. ... 1T
loud;
If he isn't much more l..l.e
Old Man Walkers bound to
tumble.
Cuddle Baby isn't so,
Blinks his peppers, grooming low.
Glad to let his mamma rock her
ddle-Babby-O ld-Man-Walkar.
Sleepy-time, come soon for then
Cuddle Baby's home again.
- Charlton Lawrence Edholm, in
the April New Idea Womans Mag
azine.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-04-15

Warren Fuqua, was with Hanni.
bal friends FridaN9g
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06
If Not, Why Not 9

The propreors of so-caled soft drink establishments
which merely used schemes for selling hard drinks in
violation Of the local option law getting very much
worried over Mrs Marie Keoughs plan for putting them to
the test.
Mrs keough, who is doing splendid work for the Anti
Saloon cause holds that soft drink establishment should
be resort for and children for men
as IN fact women and children the best patrons of eg
mate soft drink establishments everywhere proposes
to have the of the various where these soft
drink paro1 in operation present themselves as custom
ers and order drinks they would drug
fountain.
the establishment the square the women of course
Will be served and their patronage will be Welcomed IF it
refuses to drinks to eneavors to make it
unpleasant for them in any way it will be the possible
evidence that the place is crooked.
This fair and reasonable way to deal with these people
and 1T ought to be effective The plan has only recently been
proposed and to be gaining in favor all towns
where the soft drink business has become nuisance
The experiment will be watched with great interest by all
friends OF temperance and doubt also by the people on
the other side
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06
TIL f. ILLIN OIS ISSUE

drinking days. of the twenty young Influenced by
my drinking habits to join in drinking, killed himself
by falling, fracturng his skull while very drunk in
loon The retail liquor trade suffered financial loss est
mated at minimum of fifty dollars month by the death
of alcoholic liquor slave Sam Sam began drinking at
enteen of age, and lasted wenyseven years in
loOns''
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06

It Has to Have Boys.
The thing that burned itself into the
soul of this haples slave Of alcohol the peculiar peril that
besets boy in license Again and again he goes
back to that phase of the subject and he concludes his
tice thus
'FThe inexperienced and impressonable young in a
saloon village town city does not get square deal My
definition of square deal saloons IF there be
Saloons teaching the evils of alcoholic drink at school, home
and church ought to be discontinued The youngster de-
tects the inconsistency between preaching and practice In
my high school days drank beer while studying the eff
fects Of alcohol the human body did not believe the
textbooks for it seemed inconcevabe to my ignorance
that such poison alleged to be should be licensed
to be sold group of human beings another group
of human beings.
Saloons must have fresh drinking boys every day,
they go out Of business for lack Of patronage The
saoonkeeper nothing for the ultimate effect his
customer Of the goods purchased fresh drinking boy
every day to make the saloon cash register ring
unsteady in the saloon proprieors saloonkeeper
getting fresh drinking boy every day is willing to let old
liquor slaves fill graves, jas pens and asylums
Averages a Boy Day
every day that the saloons open in saloon licensing
states saloonkeeper bartender soves the
bar glass Of COOL refreshing beer to young and
says, You're big enough to drink beer now Then there
is started fresh minor drinker who oudrnk relay
of od-tmers If the fresh minor drnker is boy leader
twenty minors started and half the twenty become
alcoholic liquor slaves.
PERSONALLY, alcoholic liquor slave from whom
eighteen hundred and sixty saloonkeepes took
good paying jobs during twenty years Of my drinking life
should like to all saloons egislaed out Of existence
for the purpose of protecting the growing youths of
ton Old slaves like myself out of the material
word.''
This writer's contention the extent to which boys
ged drink licensed saloons startling
At first Incredible But he admits that in the
paravely small number of bar-rooms known the |swe
places this not apparent But to the lower grades Of
saloons which numerous he insists that the kd
patronage is immense
The petition of the temperance people contesng the
cent local option election in Bristol Va which resulted
majority of thirtywo for the wets has been filed in the
Corporation Court of Bristol 1t ten typewriter
pages embracing the Of many alleged to have
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06

The petition of the temperance people conesting the
local option election in Bristol Va which resulted in
majority of thrttwo for the VETS has been filed in the
Corporation Court of Bristol It typewriter
pages embracing the Of many alleged have
voted illegally
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06
Temperance + Firms Meet

The Finnish National Temperance brotherhood of America
held an assembly in DeKab last week which was notable for
the enthusiasm that prevailed and for splendid parade
which covered distance of nearly half a mile Addresses
were delivered by Mrs Marie Keough John W. Cook
and the Rev. George H. Wilson
The officers elected for the following President
Mike Skytte lshpeming, Mich Vice Presidents Nesor Top
par, lronwood Mich. Secretary, Miss Alma Tnkannan
lshpemng Mich Treasurer Isaac Maxi
The next session of the Association will held at EvIet
Minnesota in 1910
The Brotherhood decided by formal vote to erect fine
new building national headquarters for order at s
pemng The building to cost several thousand dollars
and will be credit to the Films and organization
The official of the Brotherhood is to be changed
from bl-monthy to weekly 1t is published at Coleva
Mich
The Chattanooga Times Snce the statewide pro-
hbtoy law went into effect negroes have stopped fighting
shooting and beating their wives if criminal rec
ords kept by the justices of the peace the city are to be
taken as evidence In every justice has been an
apprecabe decrease in criminal business since july
Fiftyhree industrial centers of 10000 or over each in
fourteen different States under prohbitov laws
Their total population is 2,348,749.
Prohibition may not always prohibit but gives the blind
piggers lot of worry where the officials are most
lenient.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06

Prohibition not always prohibit but gives the blind
pggers lot of worry where the officials are most
lenient.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-08-06

Fifty industrial centers of 10000 or over each
fourteen different States, under prohbitory Il
Their total population is 2,34874
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-07

used at that time. and which was never
used or alluded to. Scripps regarded
it as wholly confidential, and left no
memorandum of it among his papers
\ Lincoln, however once expressed the
opinion to Herndon that his ability
came to him through his mother and
not through his father, a theory which
people who knew Thomas Lincoln seem
to have no difficulty in accepting.
Various biographers have undertaken
to give Lincoln an imposing family
tree, tracing relationship between tie
Rockingham county LincolIs and the
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Lin
coins, and making much of not over
striking similarity of baptismal names.
Whatever the actual facts may be,
no genealogical research will ever ex-
plain Abraham Lincoln, or account for
his transcendant genius. Like Napo-
leon, he was "his own ancestors"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-07
Disguised Rebates.

In one of the most important and
far-reaching decisions growing out of
Philadelphia case, the Interstate
Commerce commission orders the big
railroads that center in New York to
cease showing favoritism to that city
as against Philadelphia in the matter
of shipments of sugar, cement and a
number of other commodities. The
case is particularly interesting, as the
decision is aimed at a practice which
has long obtained on the part of the
railroads in making concessions to one
city to the detriment of another.
The case was taken before the COM
mission by a commercial organization
of Philadelphia and the showing made
that while Philadelphia had better
rates to many points, by reason of its
location and water connections New
York received nearly all the sugar
shipments by virtue of an arrangement
between the railroads and the Sugar
trust by which two-thirds of the REIN
ing was to be done around New York,
and the shipments were to be divided
among the railroads in equitable pro-
1 portions. The railroads evened the
matter up by allowing lighterage, car t.
age and other expenses. known as
'accessorial allowances" running from
{ 2 to 5 cents per hundred, thus Offset
ting Philadelphia's other advantages.
| After full hearing the commission
made short shrift of the case by de
| claring that the, "accessorial allow
ances' were simply rebates, in viola
ton of the law TT is not a part OF
the carriers duty" reads the commits
sion's decision, "to bear the expense o.
the transfer of goods from the snip
per to the carrier and for carriers tC
compensate shippers for performing
duties which the shippers are legally
bound to do for themselves is for the
carriers to violate the law
1t is encouraging to find the Inter
state Commerce commission so promp
in detecting and stopping the access
orial allowance" dodge. The resul
will be to spur shippers everywhere t
be on their guard and, to insist on the
equal treatment which the law pro
yides for them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-07
Lincoln's Ancestors.

Two genealogists, one American and
the other English, have compiled THE
Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln" which
proposes to trace the family back for
10 generations and to follow Lincoln's
English ancestry -four generations
further back than it has ever been
carried before"
Commenting on this fact, the New
York World says that perhaps the
work was worth doing, although it
may well be doubted if Lincoln him.
self would have been greatly impress
ed by It, He never manifested very
keen interest as to his antecedents.
In a little biography written in his
own hand for Jesse w. Fell in 1859,
Lincoln said his parents were of "un-
distinguished = perhaps l should say
second families" his mother coming
4of family by the name of Hanks. "
When John Locke Scripps went to him
in 1860 for materials for campaign
life, Lincoln replied, "Why, Schipps, it
is a great piece of folly to attempt to
make anything out of me or my early
life. 1t all can be condensed in a single
sentence, and that sentence you will
find in Gray's Elegy-
1.-THE short and simple annals of
the poor
l That's my life, and that's all you or
anyone else can make of it,"
He also communicated certain infor
nation to Scripps which was not to be