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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
Published Friday Printing Company
DEATH OF JOHN B. KEITH, sr.

Mr.. John b. Keith, Sr., one of
st. Francois county's oldest and
most highly respected citizens,
died at his home near Libertyville
mt II: 80 O'Clock last Sunday morn
ing, March 2lst, in the 18th year of
his age. Mr.. Keith has been great
sufferer all his life. Since he was
eighteen wears old he has been at-
flicted with an enlargement of the
yericosc veins of one of his legs, but
despite the Inconvenience and suf-
fering which this caused he has
been II most successful farmer,
reared large family, and main
tanned disposition that made
friends of all his ucighbors, In adj
dition to his almost lifelong afilic-
tion, several years ago a cancer APP
peared on the side of his face, which
continued TO grow more malignant
until it affected one whole side Of
his face and throat.
Mr.. Keith was bern and reared in
ST. Francois county, and had lived
near Libertyvillc all his life. He
was man of sterling worth and
upright character, whose word was
ms good as his bond and whose
neighhors all trusted him and were
glad of his wise counsel For forty
five years he was member of the
NJ. f.. Church, South, and died as
he had lived II devoted, patient
Christian. When the end came he
passed TRANQUILITY and peacefully
into that sleep from which he will
hc awakened into the likeness Of
Him whom he served, "for he shall
see i'm as He is.
He leaves bercavcd faithful
wife, two sons and two daughters,
| besides five brothers and host of
other relatives, to mourn his death.
His surviving brothers are w. f.
Keith of Shawmut, Ark, James
and Oliver Keith of Texas, Pleasant
Keith of Bonnc Terre aud Hugh
| Keith of st. Louis,
The funeral, which was largely
attended, took place last Monday,
Rev. A. &. Stormout of Frederick
town conducting the services, and
the mortal part of this good man
was laid at rest in the Wesley
Chapel cemetery.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26

Mr.. Vernon Doss of Leadwood
has purchased the interest of his
brother, Russell Doss, in the Doss
Il Roberts barber shop, and has re-
moved with his family to Farming
ton.
Miss Marion Keith, who returned
to her home in Flat River recently
after an extended visit to relatives
in New York, came over to attend
the Bonnc Terre band concert, and
was the guest of Mrs. Mary Asbury
Mckay.
Mrs. Jennie Gruuer, widow of the
late Lee Gruner, and her sister,
Miss Azzie McMullin, arrived here
last Friday from Batcsvillc, Ark,
where they nave been living for IA
couple of years, and will make their
home In Pennington.
The Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church gave Mis-
sionary Tea at the residence of Mrs.
=. $. Cole on Wednesday afternoon
to which the members of the CON
gregation were invited. 1t was n
very pleasant affair.
The pupils of the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades of the public
school will give musical recital at
the Opera Honse on Friday evening,
April I'd, at 7:45. The public is cor
daily invited. Those who heard
the delightful recital given last
spring will be glad of the opportun-
tity of going again.
Mr.. w. G.. Chinn, who represents
Armour & Co. in this part of the
State, was stricken with appendici'
tis on Wednesday, the 18th, MIR. +
r. holland. his lfather-in-law, took
him to st. Johns Hospital on the
early train last Friday morning. He
was operated upon by DR.. John
Young Brown, an eminent st. Louis
surgeon. Mr.. holland returned
home Friday evening and reported
+ Mr.. Chinn to be getting along very
satisfactorily. Mrs. Chinn, the
bride of month, is constantly witt
her husband. Mr.. Chinn was Op
Grated upon about eight years age
for appendicitis, and until stricken
. with this last attack supposed hi
apucudiN had been removed.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
FUNERAL OF HARLEY PEPIN

The body of Harley Pepin, who
died In the Philippines last Novem-
ber reached here from San Francisco
Monday afternoon. Services were
held at the home on Tuesday at
noon, and Mr.. ana Mrs. Pepin left
on the afternoon train with the body
for Mount Vernon, H., their old
home, where interment took place.
Services here were conducted by
Rev. S. 7. Brite. Harley was TWEEN
ty-two years old, and had been II
member Of the Baptist Church for
four years before enlisting IN the
Navy.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
LICENSED TO MARRY.

March 10, Arthur Clarence Morris
Of Lcadwood and Miss Mabel Fran
ces Robinson of IrondRle.
10Th, w. w. Gamblin and Miss
Lcona Rosenstenger Of Doe Run.
10Th, Wallace l.. burlington and
Miss Hattie l.. Fitzwater of Flat
River.
I'D, Marion A. Bales and Miss
Mary Catherine Lees of Esther.
sd, Charles Andrew Marler and
Miss Julia Donley of Esther.
23d, Jerome G.. Rambo and Miss
Eliza l.. Scott of Frankclay.
I'D, Carleton NJ. Havinear and
Miss Ina G. Hough of Pennington
2Ith, w. t. Lane and Miss Ethel
Stout of Flat River.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
TWINS AND TRIPLETs.

Two pair of twins and triplets for
st. Francois County in one week
don't look like race suicide.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. II. Evans,
of Elvins, on March 0, twin girls.
10 Judge and Mrs. A. w. kinzer,
of Doe Run, on March II, twin
girls.
Three bouncing baby boys were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim
Pratte of East Bonne Terrce, on
Monday, March Il, 1903. Mother
and children are reported as getting
along nicely.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
TOWN And VIClNAGE

Laakman' y Tor aruss'
groceries Ut hleiii ,.
Suh-arleo apples az hio'n -
Lettuce anu r''u'','' "' 49,,
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MI 'i"''N - n,.n,1...
was III 'o"'' ''' ''''''''N =,
Spring Millinery OPENING "' "'S'
,. I. WAITS On il'o"N' -""''"
-o'''
Mr. Nm. DnE Oh Leau"o',' 10
transacting business III f"r''''"E'""
wednesday
Miss Llbble Muhsch lei' o"li""S
to spend rev weeks WIFI rei"'''eS
In New Madrid
A large crowd of young people en-
joyed dance Mt Hospital NO i"S'
Friday evening
Elder w. T. Walker of Salem VIII
preach at the Christian Church this
tIhursdayl evening"
Mrs. Samuel Vance visited her
daughter, Mrs. Harry Tnomure, at
Bonne Terre last week. ~.
Judge and Mrs. Jere S. Gossom
of Charlottesville were Pennington
visitors couple of days this week
NJ. Iootm.p oppoupces her
spriur Opening of Millinery on Fri
day and Saturday, March 10Th and
9th.
Mr. T. Rasonson npc of Flat
piyor,e ortarnrising grocery mer.
chants yos tropsoctiug husiness in
Pennington Tuesday.
Al the St Louis Conference OF
tho N = Church nj SedaIia Rev,
q u Thonns was re.appointed
president of Carleton College.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26

Lost sunday morniugs March ~
gold rnmnelcd pin. Reward, Re
turn to Times office.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
CHILDREN HITCHED TO
CART OF ROWING FAMILY
Taken Charge of by sheriff-Man in
Jail, Woman and Children Being
Cared for by Benevolent
Women
Woman Tells Distressing Story Man
Probably Demented-Sad Case
of Destitution.

Last Tuesday evening Deputy |
Sheriff Schaefer arrested between
Pennington and Knob Lick and
brought to town rowing family of
man, wife and seven children, the
oldest child n girl of eleven and the
youngest babe little more than II
year old, They were travelling ON
foot, with four-wheel cart, To
which the man had the children
hitched by means of rope to help
him pull it. Word had come to the
Sheriff from several points about
the rowing family, their manner of
travelling and destitution.
The man, who Is evidently of in
his mind, claims to he n prophet, a
priest and brother of Jesus Christ,
The woman was afraid to talk In
his presence, but when her husband
was placed in jail and she and her
children made as comfortable as
possible in room in the old Braun
Hall building, she talked freely, and
il is sad story of wandering, de-
privation, suffering and iuhuman
treatment on the part of the man.
The woman said her husbands
name was Jonathan Jones. She has
lno people, having been reared an
orphan in North Carolina. She
married Jones in Alabama some
twelve or thirteen years ago, who
was then earning wages as farm
hand. They moved about frequent
ly, the family increasing in number,
and about three years ago he gave
up trying to get work, roved about
from place to place, camping out Mt
times near towns, and devoted all
his time to reading the Bible, while
his wife and the Oldest girl did what
they could to provide for the family
and with what assistance benevo-
lent people gave them managed to
live. He was cruel to his children,
whipping them frequently and max
ing them stand In cold water in the
winter up to their waists, crying
and shivcring, until, as the wife cX-
pressed it, "their little feet were as
red as goose flesh ~ He would tell
them that that was the way to serve
the Lord.
They left Columbus, KY, before
last Christmas, rowing about with
out any purpose or destination. thu
, children harcfootcd and scantily
clothed, hitchcd along in front OF
, him to the cart, subsisting, as the
woman says "on what good pcopl,
gave them"
The woman is apparently about
: thirty-fvc wears of age, with t
= pleasant comely face which even
her untidy and poorly clad condition
! did not hide. The children are bare
footed, thinly and poorly clad, bu
| withal healthy looking. The oldes
is Il girl of eleven years, then twin
girls of nine, another girl of younger
) years, two boys of about six ant
four years, and n baby boy of abou
| n year and half.
Some of our good women have In
5 terested themselves in the woman
and children, but just what disposi
Il ton may be made of them has no
:. vet been decided upon.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
HIGH SCHOOL CARLETON 2

The High School girls basket ball
team defeated the Carleton College
team last Wednesday by the scor" of
~ To >. The game was very One
sided, and Carleton never had n
chancc to win. Miss Pearl Bying-
ton was the star of the game, her
brilliant work scoring "A majority Of
the points for High School.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
STEEL WIND MILL FOR SALE,

Steel wind mill, fvc-foot wheel,
steel frame, also large wood tank.
All IN good condition. Only purpose
OF selling, have city water works
win sell ut half price.
G. a. NoRwfSE,
Bonnc Torre, Mo-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26

Pattern hats on display at the
opening at Mrs. Laakman's on Fri
day and Saturday, March 10Th and
27th.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26
White Pekin Duck Eggs

At - cents a setting of II eggs.
Apply to Mrs. j. w. Cowley, r. r.
No .
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-03-26

For Rent-Two rooms ca first
floor. No stock, children or chick
ems. Apply to Mrs. S. +. Drum
eler.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-14
Romances Of Progress
By Albert Payson Terhune
ROGER BAcoN-A Man Who Lived GOO Years Too Soon

A franciscan monk, Roger Bacon
by name, in the middle of the thir-
teenth~ century, found himself in grave
danger Of being burned to death as a
sorcerer. He had devised and de-
scribed many things which, according
to the orthodox theology of his time,
implied black magic and undue &C
Quaintanceship with Satan.
For instance, he declared that by
grinding charcoal. saltpeter and sui
phur and mixing them in equal quaint
ties a force would be generated which,
when set afire, would rival the thun-
ders and lightnings of the heavens.
This powdered mixture placed in a
cylinder would also propel ball of
iron some distance and at unheard of
velocity. Followers of Bacon called
the substance gunpowder. The monk
also showed that by placing lenses in
certain position toward each other
or by grinding them in peculiar ways,
they would magnify objects seen
through them. This, like gunpowder,
savored of magic; so the perfecting of
telescope and spectacles was, by
churchly decree. forced to wait until
later and saner century.
The calendar and the modes of
computing time in vogue in the thir-
teenth century was ludicruously mad
equate. Bacon. by his knowledge of
astronomy, worked out true method
OF compiling calendars, but this, too,
was frowned upon. His genius was
even constructing what promised to
be a practical flying machine, when
an Italian who was laboring on a sim
liar invention was burned at the
stake as magician. This put a stop
to Bacon's experiments in flying and
delayed the airship and dirigible bal
loon for another half thousand years.
Roger Bacon was born OF an impoy-
erished noble family in 1914. He was
graduated at Oxford and went to
Paris. which was then the center of
perse....s :, learning, where he
e.--S studied for many
years longer. It
was an age when the church was all
supreme and when people who disa-
greed with that institutions decree
were promptly put to death in the
most horrible manner human ingenu-
ity could devise. AS such churchly
beliefs were not founded on Bible
teachings, but on a man-made creed
which denounced as sorcery all things
1t could not understand, invention and
progress were at a standstill.
The church did the thinking for the
world. But Bacon was not content
with this. His wonderful brain in
sisted on thinking for itself. The re-
suits of these thoughts he published.
winning renown and clearing up much
OF the ignorance and superstition of
those dark ages. But he ran foul of
the church. The powerful Franciscan
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balance ARM was forced downward.
A vacuum was formed by pouring
cold water into the condensing CYL
inder, the atmospheric pressure form
without drawing the piston down into
the cylinder. By this action the pump
rod was forced upward.
At about this time James Watt. a
young Scotch mechanic, was picking
up a scanty enough living as instru-
ment-maker for Glasgow university.
A model of the Newcomer engine was
sent to him to be repaired. Every one
had looked on that engine as little
short of miraculous. It had been &C
claimed as the highest possible tyne
of machinery. Watt did not agree
with this idea.
The first and gravest fault, he
found. was the necessity for alternate
ly heating and cooling the cylinder, in
respectively admitting and condens-
ing the steam. The letting in of
steam and the subsequent cutting OF
of communication with the boiler
while the steam was condensed In
volved a great loss of time and steam.
The remedy came to Watt as an I'm
spiration. Why not do away with ali
this delay by condensing the steam
In some other vessel than the cylin.
der itself? Then the condensation
struooIe with temperature could
49, W" always be kept low
and the cylinder
always be kept hot. He put the idea
into execution. Then he added an air
pump. to maintain the vacuum. and
other improvements on the original,
Now that the work was done and
the modern condensing steam engine
completed. Watt sought to put It ON
the market. But here fresh misfortune
awaited him. No one would take up
his invention. Countless millions of
dollars lay In its future, but no one
could see that it had any special prac.
tical value. The making of his model
had consumed SO much time and ma
teriai that Watt was penniless and in
debt. Then followed the long period
OF poverty and hopelessness that il
the portion of 80 many progress-ma.
kers.
At last an ironmaster, DR.. Roebuck
by name. consented to finance Watts
engine on the condition of receiving
Of the profits. Watt closed
with the offer, and his years
OF hardships were at last rewarded
by prosperity and fame.
To series of accidents the steam
engine is due. But, If these accidents
had not been seized upon and used to
their best advantage by men of genius,
steam might not yet have been uti.
lied. Thus, Accident, plus Genius
IS credited with the steam engine.
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ssThird
DEGREE
As a Battle
of Wits
By Inspector James 5. Mecafferty
chiei Of New York Detective Burssg

lily injury confinement dark nosome foy smelling cells
ing until exhaustion drives the confess 1t
merces persistent nsisent questioning nterped with
ments that the long the guilty. rarely fail to accom-
plish their purpose.
Whatever third degree methods employed my department
employ myself usually the suspect alone my Office or at the
most with other policeman present There display dazzling
uniforms to impress him. instead usually civilian dress
Seated opposite the usually study him time
absolutely that know with what have contend If the
be ury and sun must methods very from those
use he be quick alert and intellectual 1t for first of
what the pecuiaries of this be- what his individuality be-
If ere be third degree detective to-day that
what 1t is simply pitng stronger will against one We
however, seek out the weak the lies deceit with
which crooks themselves we pound awav
at it until they break down and confess.
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JAMES WATT---And the Series of
Accidents That Changed All History

An English nobleman, imprisoned In
the Tower of London on a political
charge in the latter part OF the sew
enteenth century, noticed one cold
day that when he clamped down toe
tightly the lid of water-kettle on his
cell stove, the lid would sooner OF
later fly on. The prisoner. marquis
of Worcester, had much time on his
hands. He fell to studying out rea.
son for these explosions. In time he
had figured out their reason. The
heat of the stove boiled the water in
the kettle. The boiling generated a
vapor, known as steam This vapor
was so powerful in its expansion that
1t forced its way out CT the narrow
confines of the kettle and pervaded
the room. Experiments later proved
that steam would fill 1872 times the
space occupied by the water which
had formed 1t. 1t was new force, a
new and tremendous power, of which
the world at large was wholly ig-
norant. The marquis made many ex-
periments along his chance-discov-
cred subject. And the fame of them
reached the ears of Capt Slavery, a
military engineer.
Slavery, soon after hearing of Wor-
cester's theory, was one day sitting in
a tavern. He had just finished drink
ing bottle of wine. He tossed the
bottle with its few remaining drops of
liquid into the open fire. Presently
what was left of the wine began to
issue from the mouth of the bottle in
the form Of steam. Savory snatched
up the bottle and thrust its neck into
a pail of cold water that stood close
by. Water rushed up into the bottle
almost filing 1t. This phenomenon
set Slavery to thinking. He made ex-
periments and, Ia 1898, took out pat
emit for device for Raising water
and occasioning motion to all sorts of
mill-work by the impellant force of
fire." In other words he made the
first practical application OF steam
power to mechanical use and. by fol-
lowing out the idea evolved by the
o.n bottle In the tav-
.,, ern, ne constructed
'ey' a crude steam en-
CINE or pump for taking water out OF
mines. To this raising of water by
pressure he Joined the principle of
procuring. by condensation. a vacuum.
This was later improved on by q
steam engine in which Through the
vacuum made by condensation a pis-
ton, or plunger, was forced. Savery's
idea was taken up by Thomas New
comen, an English mechanic, a year
or two later. Newcomer made an en-
CINE In which steam was let into a
cylender from below, piston above
being thus driven up in such a way
that pump-rod Fastened to 1t By q
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order, Of which he was a member
sent him to prison for ten years al
Paris, depriving him of all books OF
writing materials, and thereby doing
everything In its power to block fu
ture civilization.
The pope at last ordered him set free
He hurried back to Oxford, where, in
lectures and books, he fiercely de-
nounced the ignorance and monk-rid.
den stupidity of his time. He also
put forth a new philosophy which
pointed to a higher. saner life; and
resumed work on his inventions.
Foremost among these inventions
was the formula for gunpowder.
Combustibles of various sorts had
been in use from time to time, prin-
cipally in the orient, since before the
beginning of the Christian era. Crude
explosives had even been hurled by
hand or from catapults in battles and
at sieges. This custom had been com
mon among the Arabs for centuries.
For in the early days, all civilization
and invention came from the east. Gull
ture and progress we're rife in India,
China and Arabia at q time when
Europe was cropping In the darkness
of semi-barbarism.
But there can be little doubt az to
Bacon's devising real gunpowder I'm
dependent Of these earlier discoveries.
He found that equal quantities of
~. n,.. - saltpeter, charcoal
c'." S and sulphur formed
~ high explosive.
1t was not long before cannon Of
wood, bound with iron hoops, or of
leather, bound with ropes. were in
use. These were easily sufficient to
resist the expansion of such powder
as Bacon had invented. Iron balls or
great stones were the projectiles. The
flower Of chivalry found they could
make scant Roadway against such mis-
siles, which smashed the stoutest
armor like eggshells: Thus the per-
secuted Roger Bacon struck a death
blow to feudalism and other outworn
"chivalric" customs. He also, indi-
rectly. aided progress by decreasing
the frequency with which wars were
waged. For powder. as 1t improved,
called for more intricate guns, and
these at last so increased the cost of
war as to render it no longer a thing
to be entered upon, as before, at any
slight provocation.
Bacon's audacious writings and lee
lures caused the church once more to
Imprison him-this time for IA years
land to burn most Of his writings
(including a formula for prolonged
life) and his inventions. Soon after
his second release he died-poor, dis
yraced, Stunned as a sorcerer-at the
age of 80. His was the double crime
Of seeking to help humanity and Of
living 600 years too soon.
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About one OF the meanest species
of fraud is that reported from New
York, where oats shipped from the
west are said to be largely mixed with
barley to give larger profit to the
shippers. On account of this diet an
unusual number of work horses have
died, the fraud not only thus killing
the poor animals, but also INJECTING a
loss on class in the commanity least
able to bear it. But the modern bust.
ness pirate has no more compassion
than his prototype of old who made
his victims walk the plank.
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A western university professor pre-
diets that the population of the
United States will soon overtake the
food supply. This fits in nicely with
the theory OF the other professor who
says cannibalism is the proper thing.
Food can be supplied and the popula-
ton kept down by the simple mode ad-
vocated, which will thus kill two
birds with one stone. 1t is not often
that the learned experts so neatly
dovetail their theories.
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II the new sultan fails to meet the
requirements of the reformers. or
should die. he win be succeeded by
Abdul Hamid's eldest son, Youssouf
lzzitdine, who is described as in every
respect a better man than Mehmed.
He is scientist, and astronomer, a
mathematician and linguist. This
being the case, it seems rather a pity
that the law Of Turkish succession
does not allow the son to succeed the
father.