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The Lexington advertiser., 1909-04-02
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Editor AuV6lJlSer
I attended divine services at old He
bron church Sunday last, and heard a
fine sermon by Brother ]. A. Coleman,
our pastor Text, 2nd chapter, 4th
verse of Zachariah-' Run, Speak to
the Young Man Those words were
spoken to Zacharlah by an angel come
down from heaven to warn sinners of
their danger. Brother Coleman proved
beyond a doubt that it is the RESPONSE
Bile duty of all Christians to avoid
themselves of every opportunity to
their danger that they may turn and
serve the Lord before it is everlasting
ly too late. But alas, how many of as
that discharge that Christian duty
Brother Coleman is a young man and
good preacher we all love him. /
love him because he is an Alabamian.
This scribe was born in Alabama. His
father and mother still reside theje.
just outside of my yard stands a
beautiful bushy top oak tree, about a
foot in diameter, in which our chick
els roost and the COWS lie about it,
Last Saturday night the lightning
Stl uCh LHC tlCC, hLllIhS hAO oOiSCf
heifer blonging to Dave Stevens. and
the last old rooster we had. About
two months ago slick chicken thief
stole two roosters and two hens out of
the same tree Now, Mr.. Editor, do
you think it would be any real harm
or sin to wish the lightning had struck
the tree that night.
Mr.. Editor, see in last weeks
Advertiser one of your correspondents
wishes to know how to destroy the
different kind of sprouts that encubmer
old land. / think it never possible to
entirely destroy them, but there is
remedy YOU can use that they will not
be so much trouble afterwards. My
experience has beer, first from obser-
vation; second, from experience and
practice. Before the war, old man
Logan bought tract of land unim.
proved on the Yazoo City road below
Zeiglerville in Yazoo county, now
owned by the late Martin Shipp heirs
The land was covered with postoak
and blackjack runners, or bushes. He
had them all grubbed up saw the
negroes at work and noticed how it
vas done and have never forgotten it.
They mad heavy grubbing hoes with
cutter on the back. First, they dug
The Lexington advertiser., 1909-04-02

wool and don his summer Jeans, and
man will pasteurize his blood with
sassafras and greens.
Cheer up, cheer up, it's summertime,
Or VIII be pretty soon.
And yonder are the roses that
Shall burgeon into June.
The proud peacock will strut around
And sprout another tail.
The quail will tune his tuba up
AID whistle from rail-
And we shall scour our livers off
With curly dock and kale.
The revision of the tariff will con-
tinue without any of the excitement
which attended the sessions of Con-
gress when Mr.. Roosevelt was Presi
dent Art, which was proven by the
last crop of valentines to have accom-
plished nothing under protection, will
be put upon the free list. A limited
quantity of sugar ana coffee Will be
admitted fir m the Philippines without
duty. The deal is that by extending
this privilege TO the people over there
who are first to get their crops harvest
ed we may be able to induce the lazy
inhabitants of the archipelago to get a
move on themselves Our maxim IS
to be First come, fist served, and
the duty take the hindmOst.
Easter will come on the 18th. 1t is
too early to pIeilct just what the new
hats Will lie like. From the few young
ones we have seen the merry widow
seems to have married derby. The
issue resembles neither parent. The
milliners WeIe determined to make
something that would keep anyone
from trimming her old hat over, ana
they dia it.
primp, sisters, primp with care,
Use your own and other hair,
A white stuffed rat for light flutfed
hat,
A well-draped rat for bell shaped hat,
A small, lean rat for tall green hat.
Primp, sisters, primp with care,
Plimp for the coming Easter fair.
April will be under the influence OF
Aries the Ram, which will restore the
norm of plenty. Children born under
Aries usually have rich parents, and
get dogs, goldfish, parrots and Bill
'Possums for little brothers and sisters.
And then T. X. will hit the east OF
Africa to hunt, and all the world will
tuln its gaze upon that valiant stunt.
The lion will get in his lair, the elo-
phant will pray, the hippopotamus
will stow the little hips away, the
rhino will betake himself to distant
parts ana hide, and the gnus and ante
lopes will crowd upon the other side.
The mighty hunter will walk down
the gang plank of his ship, and when
he sets his foot ashore the continent
will tip. The natives will kowtow
and rub their belize ON the ground, the
monkeys will despair and groan in all
the jungle round, the guns and lug
gage will come off, the shells and pa
tent tents, the beasts will fill the for
ests with their meanings and laments,
the tall giraffe will watch afar and
soud his srill alarms, and the stork
and Theodore will fall in one another e
arms.
The promised fun will start at last,
The packers will detile,
The train will stretch across the plain
Toward the distant Nile
The shouting and the tumult rise,
The heavy rifles roar,
And smoke will overcast the sky
And rivers run with gore.
And then the month of May will
come and all the earth will doff its
caps toward the thr0bbing East, where
GANDERBONE.
The Lexington advertiser., 1909-04-02
O-O-oO-O-O-o-O-O-OO-O-O
3 over The COUNTY 8 8
10000 10000
From GdnderbOne.

The beasts of Uganda were beating
retreat, and the slower were trying to
stay with the feet, when lion came
flying aside from the rear with his face
mutilated and one shredded ear.
"We thought, said the beasts
AS they saw him arrive,
you stayed back to face him
And eat him alive!"
But the man eater only
Ran faster and whined,
And now and then ventured
A survey behind.
"Well, )" said the hippo, who ran as
he could. did you eat him alive, as
you boasted you wouldY" But the lion
limped onward with never a word-at
least anything that the le:t Of them
heard
"I'll bet, 1" said the rhino,
lie bit oft his head
And left them to find him
All bloody and deadl"
Whereat they all laughed,
And the great lion cried
And licked at the gashes
All over his hide.
Il see how i: happened the ele
tree overhead, and when he ponnced
on him, stranger to fear, the cruel
thorns tore him and shredded his ear T.
They all laughed az in,
And the lion, all red
With blood, only shuddered
And limped ON ahead.
20, come" :" they exclaimed
AS they followed with haste
''We know that you ate him,
But how did he taste3"
The lion turned round at the top of
a rise, and bis whiskers were matted
with tears from his eyes. Don't
taunt me-, he begged, ''and I'll tell
you my woes. - And blood trikcled
off at the end of his nose.
We'll do it" they answred,
And husky with grief
And fear, he proceeded
My story is brief.
did lay for Teddy,
Intending my worst,
And | jumped as promised
But he bit me first -
The first day of April will be All
Fools Day, and it will be celebrated
much more elaborately this year than
it has been in long time. There are
more fools than there used to re. They
may be divided into three classes, viz
Common, or those who think the cost
of living will ever 60 down again.
Preferred. or those who thought pros
perity would return right after the pre-
sidential election.
Dam. or those who thouht Mr. Rock
efeller would have to pay that $29,
500, 900 fine.
The ram will patter on the roof, and
the colt will buck and dance, the
tickled calf will shake his hoof and
jubilantly prance, the robin will arise
at morn and chase the festive worm
the school boy will wish chickenpox
would spread and end the term, the
old fl as will breed Cther fl 9 upon
the itcbiI & pup, and tie dilt will fly
with radishes and lettuce coming up.
A fresh and sweeter oxygen will glo-
rify the days, the sun will tempt the
flowers with its soft and vernal rays,
the farmer will pat in his corn, the
ducks will lay again, the meadowlark
will wake the morn with ravlshing re-
frain, the native will moult all his
The Lexington advertiser., 1909-04-02
For Sale.

Two new disc harrows.
w. B. LUNDY.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Dragging.
Ohio State Journal


Dragging is such an easy habit to
fall into that nearly every little de-
light opens the way, and it requires
very strong character to resist the
inclination. II may be claSsed as a
discourteSy, and what makes it so is
not the theme SO much as the waste
of time required to indulge in it.
There is another. objection, and that
is, il encourages the use of many su-
perlativcs, which is never in good
form, because they are mostly used
to fill up empty minds.
Still another problem, which is
that Dragging is placing discount
upon the persons listening, for he is
reminded Of his own inferiority. For
instance, the other day a man told us
of catching a Seven-pound fish, which
had the effect of making us feel in
significant and uncomfortable, until a
friend informed us that he had seen
the fish and that it weighed only
three pounds, which suggested to us
another objection to Dragging, which
is that it is close akin to lying; which
impression was made the deeper by
the report of another person who
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Remarkable Vindication.

The democratic platform for 1903
contained the following plank:
I'VE favor an income tax as part of
our revenue system, and we urge the
submission of constitutional amend
ment specifically authorizing congress
to levy and collect tax upon individ-
ual and corporate incomes, to the end
that wealth may bear its proportion
ate share of the burdens of the feder-
al government.
Mr.. Bryan Endorsed this plank and
urged the necessity of a constitution
al amendment. President Taft, in
his acceptance speech, insisted that
an amendment was not necessary.
For years the republican leaders have
opposed an income tax and denounc-
ed the democrats for advocating il.
But behold the change!
President Taft sends a message to
congress proposing the submission of
an income tax amendment and it
passes the senate by A UNANIMOUS
VOTE-77 ayes; nays, none. And il
will undoubtedly pass the house.
Was vindication ever more complete?
Democratic governors in states hav-
ing democratic legislatures ought to
call extra sessions at once and secure
immediate ratification of the amend
ment. Income tax clubs ought to be
formed Immediately in every county
-non-partisan clubs to pledge men,
bers of the various legislatures to
vote for ratification. Now is the time
to act. The dollars have been enjoy
ing an exemption to man. AS the
law is now the government in time of
war can take the husband from the
wife, the son from the mother and
the father from his children, and
stand them up in front of an enemy's
guns, but il can not, even in the hour
of peril, compel wealth to bear its
share of the expenses of the govern
ment. The income tax amendment
ought to be ratified at the earliest
possible moment Let democrats get
to work in every community and in
vite republicans to join them, Now
for the amendment specifically au-
thorizing an income tax.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Off Years in Politics.

In Missouri this is what we call an
"off year in politics, " which suggests
that there is nothing doing in politi-
cal way. Some states do not have
off-years. In Ohio for instance, the
politicians are busy all the time for
there is an election every year. These
perennial campaigns keep politics at
white heat.
This off-year in Missouri means
there will be few political speeches
made during 1909. There will be
fewer barbecues and picnicS. The
Fourth of July orators had to fall
back on the Declaration of Independ-
ence and talk about the founders of
our great republic. Politics will be
rather dry fodder this year. But the
two great parties are making history,
which will be carefully studied dur
ing the next campaign. What con-
gress is doing Tor not DOING will be
cussed and discussed by the orators
when the campaign opens. By this
time next year the whole country will
pass judgment upon public questions
and upon its public servants. We
are only resting for warm fight
which is to follow. There are big
questions to be threshed out on the
hustings. There is the eternal tariff
problem, which is always live issue
when every other question has died.
The referendum will keep us busy.
The prohibition amendment will be
up, for the saloon question will not
down. A dozen other matters OF
state or local interest will be warmly
discussed by the people. But the
politicians are saving wood.-Colum-
bia Herald.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22

Programme sar re Bates COUNTY
Sunday School ~ ~ held al Sprsgue,
Mo-, Aug, 5sh AMI 81
Wednesday EN~aSag.
7:0 Conyenocc Sermon,
Rev, W, ~ Eo~e0, Rich Hill.
THURSDAY Ns<aSag,
900 Devotional SsNsce,
], W, PcsSenAaryer, Butler.
9:l5 Is the SanssS School Worth
While? Rev, j Z. Lamb, Butler.
9:45 The Home il Relation to the
Sunday Sehcoa
Mrs Z, : Morton, Hume.
l0;l5 The Sunday School in Rela-
ton to the ChervA
Mrs, A. T, Wsrsen, Sprague.
l0;45 The Church IN Relation to the
Community
Prot. II, q Nancy, Sprague,
ll:l5 Reports frVra caanV officers,
appointment of cOcssRRceeS, etc.
THURSDAY Afternoon.
l:30 Praise SerV&sA
300 Talk on STATE Ceacennon,
Mrs, ChaS BARCLAY, Butler,
$50 Junior Work.
Mrs NSSs1e Ely, Butler.
800 The Needs NJ the Primary
Teacher.
Mrs \ H. CaNer, Butler.
$3.50 Prominent peSscsS of the Sun
day School Work IN our State and
How to Remedy Them,
ElmeSB Lacy, State Secretary.
Thursday ESSaSRe,
E45 Devotional Ssrxaca,
Rev. L. o N0sgScl, Rich Hill.
500 Address [, u Cr1Ss, Butler.
Friday MsrnSae,
900 Devotional SsgNace,
A. u NoaS;, Rich Hill.
9;l5 Reports VI CNssynitteeS and
election Of officers tNC ensuing year.
945 The Teachers Responsibility
for the Religious Lie NJ the Pupil,
W, H. tsarGroVe, Rich Hill.
l0;l5 Teacher rras,ssgsa,
Rev, u :, NNion, Butler,
l045 Organized Class Work,
Rev. W, NJ, N2yacld, Butler,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
The Price,.

| know because Pm often told
By those who ought to know, |
guess,
That far above uncounted gold
Is human life and happiness.
Yet always 'yet'')-but always
but
A word of woe must ever be;
To hosts the door Of Joy is shut
And who, | wonder, keeps the key?
Their myriads our railroads kill,
But men must take what Fortune
sends;
To make things safe, or pay the bill,
Would play the duce with dividends.
A propless mine-roof broke and fell
And hundreds died-God's will be
- done!
If galleries were timbered well
Our coal would cost us more ton.
Twill never do to check the trade
In crackers, bombs, and powder
toys,
For think of those whose means are
made
By peddling Death to little boys!
Yes, Wealth will have her toll Of men,
And Wealth is scarce to be despised;
But | confess that now and then
j wish we were not civilized!
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
3 Appellate Judges Named.

Jefferson City, Mo-, July.-Gover-
nor Hadley appointed the thre e
Judges of the Springfield Court of
Appeals, established by the last SeS-
sion Of the Legislature. They are
Argus Cox of Boliver; Howard Gray,
of Carthage, and }. P. Nixon, of Leb-
anon.
They will assume the duties of their
offices August l6. In speaking of
these appointments Governor Hadley
said:
"ln the selection of Judges Cox,
Gray and Nixon, for the Springfield
Court of Appeals, feel | have APP
pointed three able lawyers, who will
constitute as strong an appellate
bench as there is in the State.
"My principal difficulty in making
these appointments was due to the
large number of strong and able law
yers who were urged by their friends
for the positions. In fact | feel !
could have appointed two or three
excellent Courts of Appeal from
among the candidates suggested"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
LOOKING BACKWARDS.
Gleanings From THE TIMES
Columns a Quarter of Gen.
fury AgO-July %, 1884.

Some new wheat is coming to
market. The price is from So to DO
cents for the very best
From all parts of the county the
good news comes rolling in that the
corn never looked better, and the
yield, if nothing happens, will be i'm
mense.
Charley Lusk, IL years, of Spruce
township, was kicked in the mouth
by mule last Thursday and badly
hurt.
A very enjoyable social event oc-
CURED at the residence of j. R.
Hartman, northwest of town, Tues
day evening, Fifteen couples were
in attendance from Butler, and the
young people were happily entertain
cd by Mrs. Hartman and her two
charming daughters, Misses Alice and
Maud.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. R. Deacon left
Monday morning for Minneapolis,
Mimi, on a short visit.
p. C. Fulkerson and family left
Monday for Pueblo, Col.
Mrs. r. S. Catron and four chill
dren left for St. Joseph tie visit her
fathers family.
A. L. Mcbride and wife, E. R.
Henry and wife, Franz Bernhard and
wife, Dave Walker, Lee Badgley and
a number of others left for Minnea-
polls to be present at national en-
campment, G. A, R.
A full account was given of an at
tempt on the life of Charley Nichols,
son of H. H. Nichols. Charley was
called into the shadow of the Bennett
e. Wheeler building, a pistol was
placed to his left breast and fired.
The shock threw him down, and the
would-be assassin escaped. DR..
Walls was summoned and pronounce
ed it a flesh wound. Charley denies
having any knowledge of who did the
shooting,
II is a settled fact that George G..
Vest will open the campaign in But
Ter.
The building committee of the
Academy met to examine bids and let
contracts for the building of the addi-
ton, size to be 36x56 feet, same
heighth as old building.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Tortured on a Horse.

''For ten years couldn't ride a
horse without being IN torture from
piles writes L. S. Napier, Of Rug
less, KY, when all doctors and 9TH
er remedies failed, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve cured me-" Infallible for
piles, burns, scalds, cuts, boils, fever
sores, eczema, salt rheum, corns.
25c. Guaranteed by F. 7. Clay.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22

said that he had seen the man buy
that identical fish in Fulton Market.
Thus one sees into what forbidden
paths Dragging leads one.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Stealing More Thunder"

Anybody who doaees tina, the DEM
ocracy has OF late wears been an eff
fective party OF oppoSsseNa in national
affairs may get oSw idea or two
from analysis OF the Vote by which
the House passed the resolution for
submission OF the iaeVsae~sax amend
ment to the Constitution 40 the LegiS-
latures of the States
This course is recol@ssenaed in the
Denver platform vi GaSs year, In the
Chicago platform there Is blank in
the place where the Sahjee, might
have been mentioned And yet, of
the 2lS Republicans in the House only
fourteen voted against the resolution.
The original larceny az this Demo-
cratic plank was eoami,sed by the
Republican President the Republi-
cans of the House approve i, almost
unanimously.
Verify the DemOeza'lc party does
good missionary work when such
wholesale conversions follow. Doc.
tor Bartholdt, OF 81, leais, paid high
tribute to the effieisaey al Democratic
preachment when Ae rose in the
House on Monday and drew attention
to the fact that only ten Republican
Representatives in the fifu-thirC
Congress voted for the income tas
that was made part az the Wilson
tariff act during the second wear o.
President CleyekansiNS second admin
istration. He was lsssssiSed in pride
that he was one OF the Ten,
Plank by plank the Republican
party has robbed Democratic plat
forms of the issues over which part,
contests were wagsI a few year
tago. The Democracy has proved al
opposition party OF such compellin,
force that it has driven the Republi
can party to put it's neck under tn,
yoke and do Democratic work witt
alacrity.
In voting unanimously for submis
sion of the ineone-sax amendmen
the Democrats OF the House consist
emily made good a campaign pledge
Mr.. Taft's corporations income tax
which has been Incorporated in tn
tariff bill and IS now in conference,
mot Democratic measure, On tn
CONTRARY il proposes an invasion q
the rights Of the STATES which n
Democrat can consistently support. :
Republic.
| A wild bees hive when robbed b
Hollis Neal, a farmer os near Stepl
ems Store, yielded Se pounds {
honey. The bees hsd made the
: home under the floor cs Mr., Neal
house and il was necessary TO tear u
, half the floor 10 get the honey II
family was forced 10, abandon Il
house for the time being, Mr.. Ne
brought the honey 10 town and sol
|; lii to B, M. Payne. The hive had bee
undisturbed for several years.-C
Iumbia Tribune.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22

The usual reports are coming in of
battles with natives in the Philippines
and the killing Of soldiers. The chief
imports from that hellhole are long
boxes containing all that is mortal of
our boys who left their homes few
years ago in the vigor of young man.
hood and inspired with hope Of a
glorious future. Is imperialism worth
what it costs?-Osceola Dem.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Take Time to Think.

Let us stop to think of the goodbye
kiss. Better miss car than leave a
heartache.
Let us stop to think of the children.
We, too, were children once, and
liked to be remembered.
Let us stop to think of the aged.
For us, too, the evening shadows will
close at length, and we shall, per-
chance be left at desolate hearth
stones. We shall need to be remem-
bered then.
Let us stop to think of the stranger.
We, too, have been alone, and have
needed the touch of a kindly hand
upon our lives, and many a life has
gone out in the blackness of darkness
for the lack of such touch, as many
of us might have given.
Let us stop to think of God and the
future. AT best, the time is short
and the end is near. And when il
shall come blessed be he to whom
the entrance upon another life will be
but the realization of dear and famil
lar dreams the consumate of life
time of longings. Let us stop tt
think. If there be any virtue, any
praise, let us stop to think upon these
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22
Life 100, 900 Years Ago.

Scientists have found in cave in
Switzerland bones of men, who lived
100, 900 years ago, when life was in
constant danger from wild beasts.
To-day the danger, as shown by A.
w. Brown, of Alexander, Me-, is
largely from deadly disease. "If it
had not been for DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, which cured me, | could not
have lived" he writes, suffering as
| did from a severe lung trouble and
stubborn cough" To cure sore
lungs, colds, obstinate coughs and
prevent pneumonia, its the best med
icine on earth. Soc and $1.00. Guar
anteed by F. T. Clay. Trial bottle
free.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-22

Bride Flees From Devil"
Poplar Bluff, NO., Juy.-Mrs. F. F.
Ritz, the bride, whose death was
threatened by writer using the
nom de plumes "The Devil" and "a
Black Hand" was struggled out of
this city by her husband.
The strain Of fear upon her was so
great her departure was imperative
in order to prevent her collapse. Her
whereabouts are kept secret. A
special agent has guarded the resi-
dence all day.