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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03

child urinate too often, ifthe urine scalds
the flesh, o. If, when the child reaches an,
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet-
ting, dependu upon it, the cause of the diff
Guilty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition Of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser-
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp-Root is soo~nrealized. Itissold
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03

BY druggists, N hfty-
cent and one-dollar
size bottles. You may
have q sample bottle
by mail free, also a
pamphlet telling all
ahnnt Cwamn-pn nf
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03
Women IS We'll IS Men are Made Miserable
BY Kidney and Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourageS andlessen sambition; beauty,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03
Eat What
You want of the food you need
KodoI will digest it:

You need = sufficient amount Of
good wholesome food and more than
this you need to fully digest it.
Else you can't gain strength, nor
can you strengthen your stomachh
It Is weak.
You must eat in order to live and
maintain strength.
You must not diet, because the
body requires that you eat a suflc-
TENT amount Of food regularly.
But this food must be digested,
and it must be digested thoroughly.
When the stomach can't do 1t,
you must take something that will
help the stomach.
The proper way to do is to eat
what you want, and let Kodol d.
gest the food.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today, and
purchase a dollar bottle, and II you
can honestly say, that you did nos
receive any benefits from It, after
using the entire bottle, the drug.
gtst viii refund your money to you
without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
Of the bottle purchased by you.
This offer applies to the large
bottle only and to but one In .
family.
We could not afford to make such
an offer, unless we positively knew
what Kodol viii do for you.
1t would bankrupt US.
The dollar bottle contains % times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol Is made at the laboratories
Of E. @. Dewitt s. Co., Chicago.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03

including many Of the thousands of testi-
moniai letters received from sufferers
who found Swamp-Root to be Just the
remedy needed. In writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co., B~inghamton, N. Y, be sure and
mention this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Koot, and the address,
~Binghamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03

Nothing else can do this. When
the stomach Is weak 1t needs help;
you must help 1t by giving it rest,
and Kodol will do that.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-07-03

Arthur Gordon left Saturday for
a trip to Ft. Scott,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
MONDAY, JANUARY 2S, 1909.
THE SPY SYSTEM.

Fouehe was NapoleOn's Minister of Police, and next to Napoleon the most feared man in France. It is even said that Napoleon feared him and though disliking him cordially he was afraid to dismiss him.
 Fouehe instituted the French plan of compiling adossiers" on public men and private citizens. These were rec cords of the watched mans antece- dents. his habits, his associates, his weaknesses and his sins. France has never gotten away from this under hand policy which has caused her more embarrassment than it has con- ferred in benefits But it gives a cer- tain power to officials who have charge of the "dossiers." When pfi- vate individuals enter upon this sort of thing the laws calls 1t blackmail.
 Back of the institution of the plan and the motive which has kept it alive is the love of power.
 With detectives tracking Represen-, tatives and Senators. with detectives watching the members of the Tennes- see Legislature, it would seem that this policy. after all these years had gained foothold in the United States. And it grows out of the same impulse --the overweening love of power. It was inaugurated to give some man or some set of men power over other men, who did not do their bidding. It is a dangerous policy and one out of harmony with Republican instltu- tons.
 The man who has to be watched to see that he does his duty Is one who will be cumming enough to be corrupt no matter how he is watched. When the people of the United States feel that they must keep detectives on the track of their public servants, the republic has sunk lower than it's founders ever dreamed that it would Our government is essentially a rep resentative government. When we admit that we can not find men to discharge the duties of representative without espionage we admit the fail- ure of Republican government.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
BY sAvoYARp.

L
 Mir. John Barrett, the head of the United States Bureau of American Re- pubiics, insists that this country does mot get It's fair share of South Amer lean trade, and that Is true, as 1t is equally true that the United states do allen people under the sun. Mir. Bar rett says that South American trade Is down there and we can have IL by sS,Snstrpetins ships and estaoissiny nd hing ports. and that is not true. The argu- ment is that if American tax payers are forced to subsidize shipmasters the trade of the Latin Republic will fan the fire to cook the rabbit not yet caught.
 Trade Is like water and follows lines of st,,i least resistance, The cheap article article whenever they come in competi- ton. Here is majority In both houses of Congress who hold that this coun- tEys try cannot sraa manufsesurs as chsaply as peoples of Europe but 1t is proposed for the farmers to hire men to make ships in which to send our dear goods S Bess essan and aos drive @ oSt s that Ss Tsk it what this ship subsidy graft means and all it means. A ship Is but tool of commerce, and operates as a dollar does as a medium of exchange. and q
 
 dollar makes business. or c hole makes a potato. First capture your trade with cheapness then your ships will come and without subsidy.
 Suppose we vote sto.ooo, ,ooe for ship subsidy, and one of our ships--that costs as much again as British ship --is loaded with cotton goods that cost more than British goods. and sails into Rio Janeiro after coffee and> finds the ,Englishmsn there on the same mis- sion. Our man will not get the coffee except at 8 sacrifice. while the Eng lishmen will have sold out and loaded up and sailed away ere the American has began to trade. That is why we have no real Latin American trade. That Britlsher brings the coffee to New Orleans, enters 1t free of duty. swaps 1t for cotton In the bale, and thus for that venture he has free trade with us. That goes on every day In the year. and 1t will continue to go on uniil the American people resolve to capture foreign trade the one way it can be done-by the making of a tariff for revenue only, which is the only hon. est and constitutional tariff possible. Then we will make cheap goods and not till then.
 The South Is beginning to make cot ton fabrics and report hath it that she Is doing remarkably well in the ven- ture: but the machinery in a Southern mill cost smueh more than the same
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
ProfectiUe Tariff ls the
 Greatest Trade Restraint

looms do in England, the structure costs more, and everything the factory consumes except the lint cotton costs more nor, than the like articles do in Eng vantages enjoyed by Manchester. Eng land, ana she will soon outstrip the world m manufseturins cotton.
 In 1880 the American merchant ma- rine was the most extensive in the world with more ships and more tonn- age than Great Britain's even. What and the reductions thereof in 1857. We travelled the globe around and our flag strained from the mast head. of Amer cSsn isan snaIrs craft a in o every port where msr-
 Last year there passed through the bore ,onr flag with 1z.ss7 tons. That American yacht marine. Here is what free trade did for the British merchant marine, 2.s51 ships of which last year passed through the snez Canal with e. through the canal 22s ships with sss,- 0Ss tons. England and Holland are not protective countries. loss of foreign trade if 1t taxes that trade to the quick when 1t Is offered. Let us see. Last year--the fiscal year 1907 rather1we imported dutiable ner-' which the Government collected tariff duties agrgegating s322.f21,65s, or fz.55 per cent. Had the duty been re- duced to 20 per cent, as it should have been, we would have got more goods for less price and more revenue, too. But your protectionist says it is ruinous to import what can possibly be made at home at much greater cost. That is grand error for every bale of goods that comes from abroad puts an American iaboring man to work making something else to exchange for it.
 We have that illustrated in our coun. try. Mississippi can grow cotton, cheaper than Minnesota and Minnesota can grow wheat cheaper than Missis- cippi; Kentucky can grow hemp cheap. CT than Florida, and Florida can grow oranges cheaper than Kentucky. Each of these States produces what it can grow cheapest and Swaps with the others. That. more than anything else. accounts for the wonderful ms. terial development and the almost uni. form prosperity of the American peos pie for six score years, 1 sf
 And the same principle applies s0 foreign trade. The proposal to hire ship builders and pay them out of the public treasury to make vessels to go more, than 42 per cent. the moment fe reaches our shores is preposterous.
 Washington. January 24.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

The effort to bring criminal libel suits by the government against newspapers-an effort having Roose- welt for it's starter-doesn't strike The Kansas City Journal very favorably. "President Roosevelt" it remarks, should abandon his attempt to es- tabIish in this country a law of lese majesty. or to penalize criticism of the government by it's citizens and newspapers" That is plain talk, and good advice but will it have any eff feet? Can or will Roosevelt volun- tarily abandon the absurd position he has assumed. and thus make of him. self laughing-stock? What he should do. to he consistent, would be to send a special message to Congress demanding the re-enactment of the in- famous Alien and Sedition laws of the first Adams era. Congress would not pass such law, of course. but the demand for it might ease the Roose- welt mind and conscience.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
Letters To the Editsr
Presiaent-Eie Taft wasts what He
 VIII Net Get
PhiiadelPhia, Pa. Jan. sa. 1909.

Phiiadeiphia, Pa, Jan. 22. 1909. NG5s1 Dear ss sIrNWiii ASyff"ye you allow an old time Republican little space in the part. at least, to Editor Rhodes. oi dress to Judge Taft on the occasion of the recent visit of that distinguished gentleman to Augusta, Ga.?
 A copy of your paper was sent to Charles RsttraSy aF Sy of ny ychsroRse DsR cousts s, Alabama. and in 1t this little bucketful of froth attracted my attention:
 Judge Taft; I am going to take ad- you that if you knew the heart and hand of the men of the South, and par ticulariy of Birmingham. you would know ,hn that they regard the .,,s result .i o1 God Almighty Himself to the people Of the South, over their own protest
 Judge Taft wants to get control of that he has his pliant and ready made machinery to accomplish the very un- desirable object When Judge Taft as- sumes the reins of government in the of I the % sousSlanS nd pi and of ' the @ c6nntry ns at large, his loyalty to Americanism, and his determination to dlsassociate himself from the corrupt and corrupt ing element that has, to such an ap- paiIing extent, dominated his predeces- sor, he may then say to the people of the South, sT have Instituted process S1 s.s houseSsanns ,a ast Seh wR nsord the nation with confidence in our con- stitution and in our institutions, and that neither shall be dominated nor publican psrty pa 'sa of today, s's and the Re- publican party that elected Judge Taft to the Presidency. is not 2 Republican agoa Parfg Is pssty wssGd s the ysFy yelt's utter unrepuhlicanism. even to the un-Amerlcan act of choosing months and months before the nomi- hating convention in Chicago: his .ss, own ably" carrying out my policies" ex- puHged. practically. the name "Repub- lican" from its relationship to such Ros sSat M q rsft pRsdssd SI%ss Sna President Roosevelt to "unquestion- ably" carry out the Roosevelt policies, I would have more hope than I now would be a departure from the outgo-
 The act of forcing, with all the pow CT of the Big stick" ot,c the nomina tion 10 part of Mir. Roosevelt, and the pledge on the part of MT. Taft to carry out the. Roosevelt policies" was q lanen- and by t we can En safeiy A infer % that the Taft administration will be Roosevelt ism. Therefore considering all these things to be of such grave importance, voted for William Jennings Bryan. and will continue to vote the Demo- cratic. or some other clean ticket. un- til the Republican party Is regenerated, or in other words Americanized.
 Men of the Southland, you. with thousands of others. have had flung into your faces by President Roosevelt such choice epithets as these: "Rich Malefactors," :gndesirable Citizens" Irresponsible writers" "prevarica- tors" etc, etc.
 Mr. Taft by almost every act and word, has so completely merged him. self In Mir. Roosevelt that the country will be most agreeably disappointed If he gives us other than what we have had to endure for the past seven years. Democrats of the Southland. stand by your colors
 B. Franklin Rattray.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25

birth of Edgar Allan Poe. which was observed on Tuesday. can say they heard The Raven" read by It's author. But among the few there will be At least one Baltimorean who may make such an assertion unchallenged--Pro- lessor Rasii L. Gildersieeve. professor sity.
 Not only does Professor GiIdersieeve remember Poe's reading of his own poem, but he also admits that in the exurberance of youth he had the temerity to criticise the reading ana merit of the work. This was at period in life, Dr. Gildersleeve says. when he was criticising almost every. thing and thought he would tryit out upon the poet. Dr.. Gldersleeve IS not afraid to. say that Poe was not good readef; that since that time he has heard much better renditions of the famous poem than that given by the author.
 It was when about eighteen years old that Dr. Gildersleeve heard Poe. and. though deeply but not favorably impressed, pr. Gildersleeve's account Is none the less interesting In that he adds to his "reminiscences impressions of Poe as a man as well as reader. The reading mentioned occurred Tn Richmond about 1s4s. the year Of Foes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
NEWS or DENTON.

Benton, Jan. 24.-(Special.)- )-Mr and Mrs. S.. T. Pruitt were at home to a few friends Friday evening, the ecca- sion being the thirteenth anniversary of their marriage. Covers were laid for six. An elaborate dinner was served.
 The home was decorated with ferns and cut flowers. Narcissus were used in the parlor and Parma viclets in the dining room. Among those present were: Mrs. s. Rowan. Miss Julia Yeat- man of Marion, and Misses Ada and Hazel Pruitt of Salem.
 Mrs. ". c. Clements has returned from visit to Hickory Grove, and will leave next week for her home in Manquin. Va.
 Mrs. R, E. Smith. of Notasulga, is visiting her parents, Mir and Mrs. T. N. Dudley.
 Mrs. W. H. May, Jr.. of Marion, was the recent guest Of relatives here
 w. H. Pierce, of Petronia, is again able to be out after undergoing an cp- eration some time past.
 R. M. Williamson has gone into the mercantile business. having purchased the stock of B. Dudley.
 MT. and Mrs. G. F. Bowling have re- turned from a pleasant visit to their daughter, Mrs. John Bryan, of Glen wood.
 Miss Nell Dudley has returned from Selma where she was the guest of friends
 MT, and Mrs. William Moore, Jr., who have recently moved into their new residence at Tyler. entertained Friday evening complimentary to their friends, Mrs. Ida Small of New York, mother of the hostess, was among the number.
 Mrs. Lewis Carlisle, of Bessemer. is the guest of Mir and Mrs. W. E, Car lisle.
 J. Dee Miller. of Montgomery, par ticipated in hunting party here late ly.
 Mrs. J. S. Ruff and little son, Gibbs. of Prattville, are visiting relatives here.
 MT. and Mrs R. NJ. Williamson spent Tuesday in the Capital City.
 Dr. w. B. Hall of Montgomery, was among the recent transients.
 Mrs. s. T. Prultt visited her father. W. L. Thompson in Selma. last week. We are glad to report that he is con- yalescent from recent illness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
RULING ON WATER RATES.
Interstate Commission Cannot Control
 Steamboat Charges.

Steamboat Charges.
 Washington Special to New Orleans
 Times-Dem ocrat.
 Within the next few days the Inter- state Commerce Commission will pro. mitigate a ruling on it's Jurisdiction over water routes that will be of great importance for inland water 1laViga. ton. In brief, the Commission will hold-though in a closely divided opin- ion-that 1t has Jurisdiction only when a combination of rail and steamboat rates is quoted
 Thus, the boat line from New Or leans to St. Louis may make what rates 1t pleases between those points. But should 1t publish a through rate to Cincinnati. for instance, in conjunction with the Baltimore and Ohio 1t would be compelled to file this with the In terstate Commerce Commission.
 A Mississippi river line need not file interstate rates-from St. Louis to New Orleans, for instance-with the Com mission so long as they are for river tranSportation. But If rail transports tion enters in, then the rates come un- der the Commissions supervision.
 The Commission is expected to hold also, that 1t has Jurisdiction over ex- port and import shipments only when the rail and water combination occurs. It could not pass on rate from Lon don to New Work or from New York to London. But 1t would have juris- diction over a rate from Buffalo to Liverpool.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
IS THERE HOPE FOR TIT

Rev. Newell Dwight Hills tells us in positive language that universal peace is here to stay" and clenches his argument with the words: ''There is no need of nayies There is no need that more navies should be built With the next Hague Conference let us wit ness the dissolution of the worlds ar mics. Let that message of peace be permanent and continue ad infinitum." l"
 That is all very nice and pleasant to all but the race of jingoes who can see war in every passing cloud. To them promise of universal peace is incredible. and to many of them it is repugnant. In the language of Cato, or some other old Roman. they are always ready to say, My voice is still for war;. and. nothing gives them more apparent pleasure than to pre-. dict war and thus bolster up their contention for big navies and armies.
 All the friends of humanity, all the lovers of their kind, all those who wish most good for their country, will join in the wish that Dr. Hillis may be correct in his prediction but we must confess that there seems little ground for looking for or expecting such a blessing on earth as universal peace. Tn fact, 1t is difficult to under stand upon what grounds such a con- dition in human affairs can be possi- ble. If all the powers of earth could unite in a determination to settle all international differences by arbitration there might be a hope that the time would come. as spoken of by Isaiah, when nation shall not litt up swori against nation. neither shall they learn war any more"
 But what hope is there that all the fighting powers of the world can be induced to join in demand for uni- versal peace? And what assurance would there be that all of them would be faithful to such a compact if they should become parties to it? Nations, like individuals. have so many and such varying motives governing their acts that 1t seems to us useless to hope for a time when there will be no more wars. Even Hague Confer ences cannot assure it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
7ni. s My zs th Bi,.hda,
Thomas W. Palmer.

Thomas witherali Father, former United Staes Senator. and for many lie affairs in Michigan. was born in Detroit January 25. 1sso After study ing at the University of Michigan he went abroad and spent several years In foreign travel visiting many parts of Europe and South America. Upon returning to the United States he en. gagged in business for short time in AppletonfiWis. Tn 1853 he return ed to Detroit. where he acquired wealth in the real estate business and as . lumber merchant and mill owner. In 1870 he was defeated for Congress and four years later he was an unsuccess- for Governor. In isss he was elected to the United States Senate and held office until lsSo. In the latter year he was appointed United States Min ister to Spain and resided at Madrid for three years. In 1892 Mir. Palmer filled the office of President of the Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi cago i-'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
SIX BOSSES IN SENATE
La FOIlette's Magazine Names TheI
 md Dennmncen fhA Gxnfann

La FoIlette's Magazine Names Them,
 and DenOunces the System. Milwaukee Special to New York Times.
 Less than a dozen bosses dominate legislation in the United States Sem ate.' says this weeks issue of La Fol lette's Magazine.
 'Who are these bosses?" it goes on.
 In the order of their control one ac- quainted with the business of the Sem ate would name them as follows: Aid rich. Hale, Elkins. Cullom Gallinger, Foraker.
 Do they rule because of their supe- rior mental endowment? Far from 1t. They are not great men In the main they are quite an ordinary lot. They are the product of bad system,
 Legislation in the United States Sen ate Is controlled by committees. The appointment of the committees Is con- trolled by party caucus. The. caucus is composed of a few bosses. with a few independents and many towards and followers. When the committees are announced the bosses are found upon the committees which control appro- priatlons finance, transportation, tar ln, commerce, foreign relations mill tary affairs. naval affairs-and they have not overlooked the .Judicary Com mittee nor the Committee on Rules"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
Pens of Price.

Dundee Advertiser.
 The pen used by Charles Dickens just before his death. which has been sold at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms for I9 pounds los, must yield the palm of costliness to the well-worn gold pen used by Boz for many years, which found a purchaser some time ago for over 40 pounds. At the sale of the Dalhousr collection quill pen used by Wellington when writing to Queen Victoria in 1S44. brought only 5I-2 guineas, while one of Sir WaIteF Scott's pens, selected by Lord Dalhous.e in 1899. from Scott writing table at Abhottsford. only realized three gull meas moreI Amol the most valuable pens in the word is one owned by isaac Reed of New York. carved from portion of George Washirston's lens box. and used by Lincoln when Presi- dent. and the quill of a golden eagles wing. theS property Of the Empress Eu- genie. with which the treaty of Paris was signed in 1SEs