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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02
FINAL

AXE notice that i will make "a final settle
ment OF the estate of MARrHA ANDREWS, de-
ceased, at the April term. 1909 OF the Probate
Court of Montgomery County, Mo. Said term
to be held In the Court House in Montgomery
City. Montgomery County, Mo-, and to begin
On the third Monday in April, 1909.
f.. A. DUESKEL,
3-12-5t. Administrator
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02
FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Take notice that | will make a ina settle
ment OF the estate of JOHN CoFFMAN at the
April term, 1909 of the Probate Court Of
Montgomery County, Missouri. SAID term to
be held ut the Court House in Montgomery
City, Montgomery County, Mo and TO begin
on the third Monday in April, 1909.
+. c. COLEMAN,
y got. Executor.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02
Federal Prison Burns

Wednesday night fire destroyed
a large portion of the Federal
prison at Fit. Leavenworth, Kan.
The prison was surrounded by
armed troops from the Fort to
prevent the prisoners from es-
Gaping.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02

Mr.. Waiter Earl OF Texas came
home Wednesday night on No. IL
and left Friday morning on No. B..
He was only to stay Cwo nights
and one day.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02
ELEVATOR FOR MONTGOMERY
The Prairie Milling Go. Will Com
mence Work at Once on a $4,000
Bushel Elevator

Within a short time Montgom-
cry City will have one of the finest
grain elevators in the county.
The Prairie Milling Company
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02

Miss Curtis Wagner, Miss
Beulah Powell and Ivan Powell,
went % Ann 81, Colo, Tuesday.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02

4 most beautiful display of up
to-5ate Millinery at Mrs. w. II.
Beasley's.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02

CIRCUIT COURT.
Montgomery city first Monday in Nay an9
SECOND Monday in November. Danville. 4th
Monday i'm April and first Monday In Nov.
COUNTY COURT.
Montgomery city. First Monday IN March
June. Septomhcr and December. Danville,
first Monday in February. May, August and
November.
PRoBATE COURT.
Montgomery City. third Monday in Janu-
ay, AOril. July and October. nanVille,. trSt
Monday in March. June. September ana I)e-
cember.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02
NOTICEOF school ELECTION

Notice Is hereby given to the qualified vot-
ers of the School District of the City of Mont
gomery, Missouri, that elections will be held
in said school district under the provisions of
sections 1874, 9711, 077s,o19a and 1857 OF the 1899
Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, on
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02

Follow the example Of all your
friends. Read the Tribune.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-02

4-s-8t, Sheriff of Montgomery County, Mo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

with some very striking groups of So
ciety people, by the same man who does
the advertising posters for Fitzhugh, Bad
leigh & Botch, the cloak manufacture.
If this T. Suffren-Catts is the same
man [ know he has the low, retreating
forehead of a sun perch and mind like
a piece of fruit cake says the assistant
editor. That's him. says the Editor-in-
Chief. proudly. Well, anytime Intellect
is the ante he'll have to go shy in the
pot says the assistant editor, doubtfully.
What can he write? He can't says the
great editor. But I've no doubt this man
can The valet of almost any rich mans
son is a smart chap; he has to be to do
the thinking for the two of them. And
anyway won't the story. be signed with
T. Suffren- Cats name, a name that is
familiar from ocean to ocean,? Right
you are says the assistant editor, and
he goes away, overcome with admiration
for the genius of his superior. e
pretty soon we'll see EN- featuring
the table of next months contents on
the newsstand like this
One Mad Mad Symmetry Harry
K. Thaw
ticle by Cipriano Castro and Abdul
Hamid.
What I Have Done For American
Architecture, '-Ex- Senator Clark of Mon
tana.
The James Family. from Jesse to
Henry'-An appreciation by James ].
Hill
Personal Correspondence With L. S.
Senator's with Price List Attached
BY John G. Archbold.
SYMPOSIUM of Favorite Household
Recipes-(a) Punches by James j. JEFF
fries; OBJ Mixed Drinks by Carrie Ma
ton; (c) Stews.' by the superintendent
of Bellevue Psychopathc ward; d)"Things
That Can Be Done With Wheat by
James A. Patten.
"A Joint Debate on Dress'-Affrma-
tive. Berry WALL negative. Mary Garden.
The Shut-In s'-Conducted by Charles
w. Morse.
And so on and so forth. Probably
before long a magazine writer with no
wall street past behind him or Sing
Sing future in front of him will be as
scarce as a hen with gumboils.
But heaven be thanked, though they
may deprive the magazine writer of his
lob they'll never be able to drive his
humber co-oworKer, the newspaper re-
porter. out of business, as long as the
public Graves its fiction with headlines
over it. The men of the fourth estate
are safe, whatever happens
'Wot Is this here fourth estate they
always mention when they speak of a
noospaper man?' asked the House De-
tective.
''It's the only kind of an estate that a
newspaper man leaves when he dies"
said the Hotel Clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

ing a comfortable competency Rockefeller
had him whipped to Battenberg edsing.
So l guess we'll have to give 1t to Uncle
John D. for literary excellence.
"And, now, by heavens, there's a flood
of them.
Hartman is turning out dainty little
conceits on train wrecking as an indoor
sport and Rogers has burst forth, and
Carnegie, not content with building Ii
braries, is furnishing the material to fill
them. Carnegie started in to follow the
pursuit of letters and the first one he
caught up with was the upper case L.,
and he's been keeping steady company
with 1t ever since. And now every time
he writes down that adorable capital
they do say he has to let his vest out a.
trhe to keep it from pinching him under
the arms. We used to wonder what we'd
do with our eX-Presidents We know
now. The magazines have showed us the
way, and 1t seems to be the easiest way.
Conceive the situation, / ask you,
Larry. The lofty or loftbrowed magazine
editor sits at his desk so filed with a
sense of the dignity of his calling that
it gives him a drawn feeling across his
chest. In comes his assistant for a con-
ference before putting the next issue to
press. Well says the editor-in- chief.
II lOOhS LIKE d DlB nuIuDcI. lie III ST
batch of that dollar q word stuff came
in, collect from Africa and we also have
the last installment of the Rockefeller
early "reminiscences, entitled Thrilling
Adventures of Boy Baptist Our pres
ent pleasant President has come across
with positively the last word on the Pan
anna canal, preceded by about nine thou
sand other words, done in the sprightly
style of supreme court decision. Those,
With ba ctnff raPnlar st IF
tributors, including preachers, ex-doctors,
ex-lawyers, bank presidents, bank bur-
glars, window dressers, comic opera an
gels porch climbers, travelling statesmen,
Salome dancers, stage managers and cred
1t men for wholesale dry goods stores,
ought to round out most satisfactory-is-
sue did let In little bit of humor by
Mark Twain, but H. ii. Rogers, who's a
friend of his vouches for it, and l dom
think the readers will complain that we're
injecting too much outside stuff into our
magazine. There was guy out In In
diana named Whitcomb Riley that tried
to sneak in some dialect poetry on me,
but l turned him down. What's he ever
done, all his life, except write poetry
What have you on the hooks for
next month"; asks the assistant edi-
tor.
That ought to be very strong one,
too says the Editor-in- Chief. I've booked
the personal confessions of Morgue NJ.
Johan, author of the successful musical
comedy, ''rhe Red Onion" telling how
he did the book before breakfast. wrote
the lyrics between the ham and the sec
ond fried egg and composed the music
while waiting for the waiter to bring him
his change; and there's to be splendid
inside, Intimate article ON Life at New
port" from the pen of T. Suffren- Cats.
the well known cotillon leader. Illustrated
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
THE HOTEL CLERK ON THE
LATEST LITERARY INVASION
BY IRWIN S. COBB

ly at a loss for strong words when he's
describing his own works. 'All very
WE'LL says the editor, when he gets
through, but tell me, have you ever
wound up the affairs of large railroad
system in such way as to leave the
minority stockholders on the outside look
ing in, wistfully? L have not says the
writer, but at Harvard l. Never mind
that says the editor going to Harvard
won't win you anything here unless you
afterward went to Africa by way Nof
Washington, ID. c. 1 suppose you've never
done anything of Importance in the trust
forming or trust busting line, either? And
you're not preacher that's turned lit
erary or even a doctor that can tell
amusing tales about the habits and NOR
ais of bacteria. You must know my good
man, that there's no demand any more
among the best class of weekly and
monthly publications for the work of
men who merely write. Anybody can split
infnitives. But did you ever split rails
preparatory to becoming President and
could you tell about 1t? l guess you
won't do And the magazine writer goes
forth under the open sky in a dazed
state wishing that he'd spent the early
years of his life fitting himself for the
profession of brick layer, where the
pay may not be so large, but you can
get 1t in an envelope every Saturday
night.
tits a funny thing, too, Larry. It's
only been few fieeting months since all
the magazines were undertaking to beat
the garbage contractors. A magazine that
couldn't stir up a large and assorted col
lection of bad smells In high places didn't
belong. Opening the newest number was
like cutting into intensified Camem-
bert cheese, only the odors were more In
vigoratng and various. Every magazine
worthy of the name had Its troupe of
bright young men with long prehensile
noses like the rubber eraser on a dime
lead pencil, who were constantly digging
at the roots of all the Easter lilies, in the
hope of turning up dead rat from time
to time. If you saw q magazine on the
newsstand with a cover design of cock
roach crawling across a cracked china
plate you could be sure that Anybody s.
was out with fresh crop of discoveries
touching on un-pretty doings among the
elect, or the reelected of the nation.
And then, all of sudden, change
came over the spirit of their Nightmares
l think, maybe, twas Uncle John ID.
Rockefeller. that dear old man with the
de-natured memory and the smile like
somebody drawing dirk knife, who start
ed 'em off on the new track He got
tired of spreading the sweetness and the
highland the salve-by word of mouth
from the witness stand and the second
bunker. So one day he sat down In his
quiet library amid rows of shelves lined
with bound reports of the Interstate Com
merce commission appropriately auto
graphed with the compliments of the au-
thors, and began series of magazine ar
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16
Barry the Heroic.

In the May Wide World Magazine there
is an attractive article dealing with the
rescue dogs of st. Bernard. The sagacity
of these faithful animals is remarkable
and the following story Is told of Bar
ry"-the most famous of all the Alpine st.
Bernards-who lost his life while per-
forming his duty.
During the ten years he was with u.s.
said the provost, "he saved the lives OF 40
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

persons who had lost their way in the
snow On one occasion he found a child
ten years old lying in the snow under the
influence of the fatal slumber which pre-
cedes death The dog warmed the child
with its breath. and then reused ftAfrom
sleep by licking 1t. This much accom-
plshed, Barry, by lying down by ~ side
gave the child an obvious invitation to
get upon his back and ride. The child
did so, and was thus carried to the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

([EFEEL sorry for those poor fellows
that make living writing special
II articles for the magazines" said
the Hotel Clerk.
Sure why should you?" asked the
House Detective of the st. Reckless.
'Think Of the easy time they have with
no union hours and no comm down at
and stayin till .. When one OF them
chaps needs a bit of money all he has
to do is to sit down to his little old
tvpewriter and turn out a piece, without
any worry or any thinkin about it at
all"
yes, you do get that belief from read
ing what they write, sometimes" said
the Hotel Clerk. but that's not what I
was meaning. Writing the stuff may
be easy enough for a special writer,
especially If he's not hampered and bound
down by facts, but placing it is the
hard job these times
"Wot's the trouble?" said the House
Detective.
1.-THE trouble is" said the Hotel Clerk,
that most of them don't know how to
do anything but just write. They've
never been distinguished at anything else
except writing. They've never happened
TO be President of these United States
or any little thing like that"
"Aint parties wot can write. wot the
magazines want?' demanded the House
Detective.
"Once twas so, but not any more"
explained the Hotel Clerk. when a plain
day, week, or job writer goes into a
magazine editors office with bunch of
manuscript under his arm, he doesn't get
the warm welcome any more. Nobody
gets up to give him a chair. Nobody
wrings his hand and hopes he's been
WELL The great editor sitting there in
the sanctum. with his hands folded across
his sanctummy and his high, noble fore
head running all the way up from the
temperate zone to the Glacial period, re-
CARDS him with pronounced coldness,
while he describes the nature and the
attractiveness of his wares And, be-
lieve me, Larry. they can do 1t elo-
quently, too. "A magazine writer Is rare
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

monastery Barry was killed by some
unknown person, probably by mistake.
The inscription on his monument isf
Barry the heroic. Saved the lives ofs4o
persons, and was killed by the forty
first"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

Picnic and Barbecue next
w Wednesday at Germania.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-05-16

ticles that attracted attention in the lead
ing literary circles of Wall street almost
instantly. 1t seemed to me that Edgar AL
len Poe had more imagination, but. then,
Poe drank and he lived more or less
reckless life, and when it came to amass-
ing comfortable competency Rockefeller
had him whipped to a Battenberg edsing.
So l guess we'll have to give 1t to Uncle
John D. for literary excellence.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
Seeds Of Happiness.

We do not know how cheap the
seed. of happiness are. or We should
scsttcr them of;ruor-l.oweIl
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
Best way 20 Be Useful.

To make oneself beloved. says an old
French proretb. that is. s':tcr all, the
hes, war 10 =" useful That is one OF
the deep sayings which children think
fiat. and which young men. and even
young womcA despise: and which a
mlddie-aged man hears with a certain
troubled surprise. and wonders II there
IS not something in II. after all: and
which old people discover to DO true.
and think. VIII a sad regret OF oppor-
tunitics missed and Of years devoted.
how appropriately. TO other kinds OF use
fnlness. The truth is that rlosf Of rs.
who have any ambitions at all. do rot
start in life with the hope Of being
useful. but rather with an intention of
being ornamcntal-Arihur c. Benson.
Essay on Friendship.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21

less aud with painful ,'iugcling. Mr.
G. edwin is of the soaring few
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
Fraternai Tramps.

II IL said that all tramps have a
masonry Of their own. certainly be
lieve IT, They leave their signs on
fence posts. s'oops. sidewalks and
trees. These signs are similar TO those
on Egyptian obslisks or Indian totem
poles. >Grf. the other day threatened
with death a veteran Of the fraternity
and told him TO warn his craft not 10
annoy me. that l was very danger
ous man. The next day there were
sundry chalk marks about the prem
ises and have not seen a tramp since.
And vet l have fed At least a thousand
Of these fellows and "wntered" them.
too. They are a good-natured lot. II
! had more money than a mere stipend
Id hire the biggest ballroom 10 any
New York hotel for Christmas and in
vitp . thousand tramps to eat dinner
with me and relate few experiences.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21

The question often arises as u
which OF the present day stars in
the theatrical armament is entitled
10 the distinction of being called the
bt S; acI.r on the American stage.
In answer to a letter written him
recently On the subject in question
and in which the name Of Nat Good
win was suggested for the honor
George P. Gcodaie, the critic OF the
Detroit Free Press printed the fol
lowing:
The late Sir Henry irving once
said to group o: friends that he
regarded Mr.. Goodwin as pc ablest
of American actors he knew. There
is a well matured conviction in the
public mind that in allrouni adapta'
billy to the art of impers0naticn--
act:ng-our comedian stands alone
among his contemporaries who speak
the English language,
The views OF F.Ce Press on
that point have many times been SET
+ rJh III its issue Of March T.. ~
cpieareG this expression:
NJ. Goodwin: Richard Carcwe Is
an exam 10 # The fiora elan theory OF
the art TIA Cnnc"als art-nevcr
Strenuous. i.ut dramatically effective"
ard r:2s; eff 'tiv" in its min tones.
The acting OF this comedian. whjn he
sots himself with tarBestno>s 10 tie
work bcfoT" him is Of the Kind ; al
entries him 10 claim rank with tn"
great names Of -he stages soliea
period"
February .. !90l--'Thcre are artist
G;ke Macrcady aud Lawrence Bar
rntt Of a former S"n"ration' who are
such by force Of plcdding and pert
n:ci !. and studi3us efor:. There
are others. who possess. inherently
tho genius that makes art servant
anI Who Scrc Win g.acefii ease
Where he mere artist climbs. breath
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
TA4HFE 5Ta1E FlGH'iNG
'W0 BIG MONcPOtiGS
North Carolina Leg alato.s Hot on
Trail Of the Fertilizer and To-
bacco Trusts.
(py Associated TrCSS.)


RALEIGH. y. G.. Feb. 2"-Thc Ill.
!irht in n" ieeislstur" If North Car.
,llra began today ov~r two antitrust
bills Eimcl especially against tn"
twn liz home" trust tn" American
Tobacco CompaET. RI New York.
whose parent plan" IS still opcr-
a'"d in Durham. ;hc biggest ciga-
!, tie 2nd smoking tobacco manufact-
urinS cite in the world with ifg C'uc
factories in Winston. largest chew'n"
tnnacCo town in America and employ.
ire thousands OF wOri,men and pay
IN. several million dollars internal
revenue to the government each year
in North Carolina alone. and the Nir-
gina Carolina Chemical Company.
known as the fertilizer trust" selling
The great bulk of fertilizers in the
CarOlinas. Virginia, Georgia and other
states
The senate committee today refused
to report favorably the original bills
and reported substitute bills Of mildcr
form by vote Of 3 to in committee.
but drastic original bills will be Of
fered to the senate in minority re-
ports. All these bills today were
made special order for next Tuesday
in senate.
Substitute bills make it necessary
to prove conspiracy in restraint OF
trade by prosecution.
Tobacco growers. warehouse men
ami independent manufacturers OPP
pose radical action because Of mad
pecunia-y effects. Conservative coun-
sci Is expected 20 prevail in the end.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
.Yhe Chairman"

nc F>tdUs man.
Coming for its folrih annual visit.
"Thr ClaMsmGn," Will b" at the Acad-
envy mex, Thursday night, In spit"
of what dramatic critics may have
had to sa, about 1t tn" announc cmcnt
of this pIav's coming never fails To
create intcres1 aud III" audiences ar"
a,lncs, always laru" Throughout,
me Tour wears of it, existence it has
not lren without success and II Is
estimated that n"l rly fonr million
people have witnessed performances
hy one or more of IL" : vrral com
pnnirs that have been presenting the
play.
l. is stated that the company 10
rc seen here this year is just as
strong as the first s"nt out. and that
hr scenic production is new.
Thomas Dixon Jr III" anthor, has
drawn uron two OF nj, novels. "Th"
Clansman' and "Eh" Leopard ;
Sp?is" for the story and incidents ni
n. play The story l.; of the recon
$,rrr'ion rcrioi In Sonth Carolina i'm.
mrt;iatrly following 'h" Ciyil War
and tells of the s'rnEG'r G Southern
! white men for supremacy over tn"
hor drs Of freed negroes and their
carpetrag"rr and rrn"Grdr allies. The
h.ro cf The story * a prominent
vnunc South Carolirian who has been
, the rcad o. the Kiu NiuX Khan In
hi- state As tn" ra!u" OF the .nla"
, would inliCa|c. the ku XIX Khan
, is introduced and pa Il consricN'
olls part
.Ir Dixon has Described Til"
Clansman As an answer and sequel
to "Ircla Toms Cahin'
The advance sale ,rr his a'trac-
ton viii hepia Il. Ii" noN office Tues
, ia mNrniiis.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
Mohammedan Serenity.

A Mohammedsn people enjoy one
great advantage over all others-thcy
never suffer from the anticipation OF
that which IL to come. and. as a nat
ural resulr: they can always enjoy thc
present. although only fcv hours
NAV separate them from disaster. or
even from death. Their implicit i'"-
lief in an ordained fuIuT" inpar's a
hisn;ficd rcposc and Outward calm to
all their actions Thus IN spite ri the
trials and troubles which ihrcyt"a"d
'hc state during NY STAY .; F"z a
smooth surface ~ nchsnccahl" s"ren-
iiv veiird tho inner thought. Of cv"fy
Individual. from IN" sri'an to ir~
negro 81 his Gaics. -F.lsckvGod as-a-
Zinc
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-21
.is MOTIVE roR coiNo HOME
Johnny Wanted . Persona, interview
with Sammy Green.

Johnny Es,onished the family In the
country one day by announcing that he
wanted to so home.
whats that" demanded his father
"Want TO go home"
"Yep." maintained the boy.
well. that's very funny. II wasn't
two DAYS ago that YOU were begging
us TO stay up on this farm until DC
tobcr. Are you sick"
Nope"
Got the blues
Nope
"T"o,hache!"
Nope"
Mad because YOUR mother wont let
you go swimming"
"Ncp.."
An. | think | understand. SAID
Mis- father with chuckle. Il happen
TO hear YOU sassing that farmer boy
yesterday out back OF the harm, and
also happened To see him rop YOU on
your hack Eid II hurt much"
N nope"
well. cheer up my boy. W" all
have our ups and downs In this world.
What good would 1t do YOU to go
home?l
IF were only home. pap. r""licd
The boy with longing sigh. Il could
knock tho &tuEin' OUT Of Sammy Green.
and then Id feel bctter."-iiuhcnian
Magazine.