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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

une,hical or loses culture all One
need to do to annul the alliance is
to withdraw from it; whenever any
ethical person comes along who
looks more cultured than Charlie
does, Susie may quit Charlie and
bestow herself on James. This
understanding tends greatly to
simplify everything. 1t looks to
US as if the Plan has trial marriage
beat as far as Dorando beat Small
wood, and as if the trial brand of
wedlock will have to travel with a
limp until it can thin k of some new
and more fetching adjuncts.-St.
Louis Times.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
Pointed Paragraphs.

The more girl smiles the less
she means it.
Marriage is the hurdle between
romance and realty.
A happy medium ought to make
good at spiritual seance.
Less than u pint of whiskey may
make Il peck of trouble.
What men admire in women is
the traits not found in themselves.
If your ideas are not worth 2
cents write them on a postal card.
Every time a man picks up a
little experience he drops few
dollars.
Fortune knocks at every mans
door, but misfortune camps on his
front step.
You can rely upon the friends
you buy-if you have money
enough to keep them bought.
Many a man has lost his life in
trying to collect the living he
thought the world owed him.
A man never realizes how silly
bis love letters are until he hears
some of them read in court.
1t is said that necessity knows
40 law. but if she is the mother of
invention she should acquaint her,
self with the patent laws.
If one-half the world doesn't
know how the other half lives, j:
isn't because it doesn't spend lot
of time trying to find out.-Chi-
cago News.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
Cheer Up!

Don't kick because you have to
button your wife's waist. Be glad
your wife has a waist to button
and douoly glad you have a wife
to button a waist for. Some mems
wives have no waists to button.
Some mems wives waists have no
buttons on to button. Some men 9
wives who have waists with but.
tons on to button don't care a con.
tinentsl whether they are buttoned
or not. Some men don't have any
wives with waists with buttons on
to button any more than a rabbit.
-Lacon (III.) Journal.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
cHILp's CONFIDENCE IN oAoo,
Wanted Papa to Emulate the Historic
Act Of Moses.

The Sunday school lesson that day
had been about Moses leading the
children Of Israel through the wilder
ness to the Promised Land, and little
Bobby had been particularly impressed
by the incident Of the prophet strik-
ing the rock with his stan and causing
the water to gush forth. After Sun
day school he took a walk with his
father. and could talk Of nothing else.
Now. Bobby has an overwhelming
respect for his fathers prowess. which
was not even overshadowed by the re-
markable achievement of Moses. He
was thoroughly imbued with the idea
that there wasn't thing in the world
his father couldn't do II that thing
were at all possible of accomplish
ment. So when they came to . pile
of large powders, with the Sunday
school lesson still uppermost in his
mind, he rather startled his father by
exclaiming:
Say. pop. hit a rock. l want a
drink"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
Couldn't Place Horace,

They say that Horace wrote his
poems in praise f wine." the school
teacher said to the Billville citizen.
Who? Horace Greeley? Never
knowed he writ poetry"
NO, no-the other Horace. who
comes from antiquity"
Never hearn tell of him, n'er the
place he come from; but it's my 0pin-
ion, whoever he WIZ. that he had
mighty little to do to be wastin' words
on wine, when the country has more
100-proof corn ticker than it kin con-
sumo convenient; but come ter think
of it, the less said bout corn. new or
old. In the north Georay re4on, the
better. The blamed oil government is
mighty watchful. Cbnstitn-
ton.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

Senator TiIlman's aIInsi"D in his
recent speech. reply ing to the
charge made against him by the
President, to Harriman's posses
sion of two million acres uf west
ern lands, i. enough 10 attract at
tentiOn to the real cause of the con
troversy between both houses of
congress and the President. Per-
haps if the secret service depart
ment had been employed a little
earlier in the investigation of the
methods Of our national Legislators
these two million acres of land
would no, now he ''owned' b, MIR.
Hartman, bat would still belong
to the people. Stretches of public
domain almost equal to II realm
have been given away to railroad
magnates by congress. What the
congressman got for it still nblde-
with the Interested parties alone.
1t is enough to sns that millions
upon millions of acres nf The best
land of the country, representing
untold wealth, have been handed
over to the railroads. Any in
quiry rs To- the how or why Of this
liberality un part of nnr Jaw max
ers, is called ''an assault upon
their integrity" but with such
favors it is no, difficult to see how
our railroad kings become sole
owners of SD much of the earth.
We believe little espionage over
our congressman aud senator's will
be OF profit to the people. II may
prevent our Harrimans from swip-
ing up what has 80 far escaped
their reach.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

too far, and it is worthy of the
man who stands boldly between the
grabbers and the people and says
that there must be a halt. The
present troubles between congress
aud the President are largely due
to the p,sition be has taken in this
matter, for behind congress stand
the grab5ers of these resources,
which sh,nld forever be the heri
tage of the American people. Not
since Lincoln, who conbatled the
commercial interests involved in
the maintainunce Of.human slavery
has uny President been 80 hated
aud abused, derlded aud naIigned
as Runsevelt has been by the inter
es,s which are now engaged in
drawing The wealth from the mass
es to pile up the stupendous for
tunes of our modern pluIocracy.
There will be high carnival of
JOY aud mirlh, and u humping OF
The tables till the glasses ring shat
tered upon the foor by the rabid,
insutia'e plulocracy aud its tools in
the c"ngress of the people when
Pre-iden, Roosevelt steps down
from his office on March fourth
next. Whether RooseveIt's shoes
are going to oe wobbly Oh Mr..
l'uf,'s fee still remains to be seen.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
The Rat and His Board Bill.

The bill of damages which civil
Iiza.ion holds against the rodent
foots up into tremendous figures.
According to the experts of the
Bureau OF Biological Survey of
our Department Of Agriculture,
Uncle Sam has alone to pay $780,
600, 900 every year on account of
property damages inflicted by the
pest. John Bull and the kaiser
between them have to fork over
$3.50, 100000. The rat bill of the
world would reach into the bill.
lions. Sir James Crichton Browne,
president of a recently formed in
ternational union of scientific OF.
CARNATIONS working together for
the determination of rats, declared
that every rat in the United States
costs the citizens at.least 2 cents a
day for its keep. In England a
rat costs from half cent to 5 cents
daily. The British India rat is the
most expensive rodent of them all,
for there each of the innumerable
swarming millions of the pests con-
sumes on an average 81 cents daily.
If you add to the cost of the board
and lodgings of rats the expense of
maintaining quarantine operations
against them and of fighting the
diseases spread by them, the aver
age specimen of the rodent tribe
preying on civilized nations may
be said to cost us from I to 10
cents duy.-From Success.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

A man had sat for some time In =
restaurant. looking thoughtfuily at his
saucer OF melting ice cream. Al last
he left his chair and made his way to
the proprietor.
Il see you ADVERTISE that yoir make
your own ice cream he said, In con-
fidential tone
Il do, SIR" said the proprietor.
Well" said the man. would you
permit me to give yosi 4 little pointer
| won't charge you q cent. and it'li be
money in your pockrt.'
proprietor.
Get somebody else to make it. said
the man. in hoarae whisper
Youths Companion
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

BY the veto message accompany
ing bis disapproval Of al iusignii-
cant bill passed by congress grant
ing the privilege to private capi
talist to build power dam across
the Jumes River in Stone county,
Missouri, the President brings to
light the significant and IamentabIe
fact that already One-thlld Of all
the desirable water power sites Of
the country have passed from pub
lie control into the hands of the
"water power trust" which now
exploits them, or will exploit them
10 the future, for the gain of the
individuals who claim tho right Of
private ownership TO them by the
gift of the congress of the people.
The Presidents reason for vetoing
the bill above referred to is good
one, and to the point. He says
the right granted by congress in
this instance, as in all previous
similar instances, carries with it
no restraint that will prevent the
passing of the privilege granted in
to the hands of monopoly. 1t is
clear that the President feels that
it is high time to put a check upon
congress giving away the wealth
producing natural resources of the
country. This has already gone
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
Probate Court Docket.

State OF Missouri,
County OF Washington, s.
Docket of cases in which settle
ments are due from executors, admin
istrators. guardians and curators al
the ensuing February term of the Pro
bate Court, to be held at the cour,
house 10 said county, commencing on
the second Monday 10 February, 1909
Monday, February Sth, 1909.
Frank J. Boyer, administrator OF
Rosie Boyer, deceased; final settle.
ment.
Nettie CoRhili, ADMINISTRATIVE OF
Thos. L. Coghill, deceased: annual
settlement.
Emma Higgins, executrix Of John
r. Higgins, deceased: annual settle
ment.
John o. Long, administrator OF
William White. deceased final set.
tlement.
Guy T. Sloan, administrator Of Jen.
ME Sloan, deceased; final settlement.
James "A. Shields. administrator Of
Prim Justin. deceased; Hoal settle
ment.
L. P. Key, guardian OF Champ
Bridgwater, minor: annual settle.
ment.
Samuel NJ. Carter, executor OF E.
Fl. Rice, deceased annual settlement.
John NJ. HodKen, administrator OF
Frank Armstrong, deceased: annual
settlement.
Tuesday, February 9Th, 1909.
Frank Tennison, executor Of John
II. TeDnison, deceased; annual settle.
ment.
James W. Settle, administrator OF
Eliza N. Stratton, deceased: annual
settlement.
Rev. Chas. NJ. Canning, executor OF
Mary E. Haughey, deceased: annual
settlement.
J. J. Key, guardian of Ivy b. Stone,
minor; annual settlement.
Joseph NJ. Long, executor Of Viii.
liam Long, deceased; final settle.
ment.
Joseph A. Forshee, guardian of Roy
Hughes, minor; annual settlement.
John NJ. Hughes, guardian OF Leslie
D. Hughes, minor annual settlement.
VIM. c. johnson, guardian OF Leslie
T. Condit, minor; annual settlement.
John S. Hansoo, executor OF Nancy
Burkhart, deceased; annual settle.
ment.
STATE II Y ssOuri, ss
County vi VA >hingtOn,
l, James y. Henson. Judge OF the
Probate Court OF said county aud
state, do cer'i ify the above statement
to be true copy Of the Probate Conrt
docket for the February term as fally
as the same appears of record in my
offices. Witness my hand and sea
of said court this 4,h day Of January,
1909. JAMES A. HENSON.
[Seal.] Judge of Probate.
Owing to an advance in the sub.
scription price OF the "T
Globe Democrat our clubbing rate
with that paper will be sl.75 for both
papers, the s1.5O rate being indeflnite.
ly suspended.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

The standing pine cf the three old
pine Michigan. Wisconsin and
Minuesota-prohably does not exceed
20. 900. .000, 900 feet. Last year the total
cut Of pine in these three states was
but about 3,292. .000, 900 feet At that
rate the stumpaEe will be exhausted
in six or seven years. The original
growth in these states WAS approx
mately 100000. .000, 900 feet. The
greater part has been cut OF siacs
1S7A
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

Mr.. Hadley had little boom
for President ut his Inauguration
for governor If Missouri the other
day. He is the right kind Of
timber for the presidency, and it
will be in good seasoning where he
will be for the next fonr years.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

Every time President Roosevelt
makes u move that interferes with
grating (business) interests he is
called crazy mau. We hetieve
the President is sane enough.
What hurts the Interests is that
the President has the dope on them
and is not afraid Ia make it known.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

Governor HadIey starts out all
right ON the ''lid' question. Ii
STAYS on. We also endorse his
recommendation to treat all liquor
disuensorles on the same terms,
let it be the ordinary saloon or the
high-toned social club.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

President Roosevelt is Johnnie
on the spot and can show 'em
every time, even when it comes To
taking ninety mile horseback ride
in one day.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

Congress seems more inclined to
drop ;be fuss bel Seen President
Roosevelt and itself since it has
seen that the President is prepared
to produce Tie evidence when call
ed uuup.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

If the Illinois Re, ubIicans we're
to split as bad hefore elections as
they do afterwards The state would
sure be in the doubtful column.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20
S1.OO Per Annum.

Mr.. Taft having feasied on
southern possum and jollied the
southern voters, we now await the
r1ptnro
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-20

Owing to an advance in the sub.
scription price OF the e''Twice-a- Week q"
Globe Democrat our clubbing rate
with that paper will be sl.75 for both
papers, the s1.50 rate being indeflnite-
ly suspended.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-28
MY GRANDFATHER'S WAR LETTERS

/ Union, but rebel officers in disgu;xa
lie sent Tor them and brought Them
back, ana reluctantly charged them
with being spies. General RoseeranS
miles away, was wired to. INIT +bs
colonel was told that the matter ras+aS
with MN. One officer confessed and
hnaiiy ooth officers were executed. The
story was quite graphic ami gave their
names one OF whom was Lieutenant
Williams. In my grandfather letter
of June is this passage:
- witnessed the execution of two
rebel spies today by hanging. Gle was
colonel and the other a lieutenant
They came into our camp and saw how
we were fixed and how many men were
here, and the eolouel in command gave
them pass 10 go to Nashville and
lent them fifty dollars. After thew
were gone a few minutes the colonel
got after them and brought them hack
on suspicion. This morning thev ac.
knowledged all and said thew were
spies. They had passes from the see.
rotary or war and from Rosecrans and
nave been through our whole army.
lney passed themselves for government
Inspectors
Great and Good Man.
Then from the hospital in Nashville.
on July 20, 1868, he wrote a letter
saying he almost suecumbed to his all.
ments.
General Rosecrans and staff we're
here last week. I had the honor Of
eonverslng with the general. He
thought 1T would do me good to get
to the front and pick blackberries. 7
think the general not only great but
a good man. He talked freely with
the boys and everybody seemed pleased
with him. Grandfather Pierce had
only one criticism of the general. and
that was that he cursed too freely.
In August he wrote that he was NOT
feeling well. 81 am too sick now to
write, he says, and he closes a
very brief letter with his usual af-
feetionate farewell. In a postcript he
tells his wife not to try to 90 to the
front to see him as she could not mass
the lines.
A short time afterward he was
brought home, honorably discharged
from the service, but his Homecoming
was shortl1ved and he passed away
peacefully in a feather bed to which
ne mad. so often referred after a bad
night s rest on the soft side Of cold
floor sat the 'front.'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-28
Spies Executed.

A few weeks ago current magazine
Contained a graphic story of the mys-
cry of the visit of two officers in the
ent of a Union colonel near Franklin
Il June 1868. and how the colonel be-
.ame suspicious that they were not
The bee., 1909-07-08
DEATH OF JOHN sARGEANT,
Little Son Of Mr.. and Mrs. ~ Sergeant,
Of MlddIesbOrOush.

The sad news of the death of
John Sergeant, the two.year. old
son of Mr.. aud Mrs. M. Sergeant,
of Middlesborough, which &C.
Cured last week was a shock to
their many friends at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sergeant resided
here until a little more than a
year ago and John, having been
born here, was known and loved
by all who knew HIM for his
bright, winning baby ways. He
was the pride and JOY of the fond
parents who have the heartfelt
sympathy of the entire commun-
ity in their sad bereavement.
The bee., 1909-07-08
DELEGATES NAMED TO MA
TIONAL EDITORIAL MEETING
President Underwood Announces SeIec-
tion-Remembers The Bee.

Hopkinsville, KY, July g.
To represent Kentucky at the
twenty-fourth annual conven.
ton of the National Editorial
Association, President Under.
wood, of the Kentucky Press As
ISOLATION, has made the follow
ing appointments:
Delegates-Paul M. Moore,
darlington, Clearance E. Woods,
Richmond; Miss Goldie Perry,
Winchester; J. w. Barrall,
Shepherdsville; George Givens,
Henderson; Harry A. SOmmers,
Elizabethtown.
Alternates-Stanley Frost, Be-
rea; Chas. 7. White, Harrods-
burg; w S. Hudson, Barbour
vile; j. r. Oatlett, Princeton ;
Henry Summers, Smiths Grove ;
B. B. Cozine, Shelbyville.
The convention will be held at
Seattle, WASH, July 10 to %,
and on July24 the editors will
sail for Alaska. 1t is requested
that all representatives who ex-
pect to attend the convention
communicate at once with r. r.
Perry of Winchester, Ken.
tucky's executive committee
man. The delegates will go to
Seattle via Chicago, where a
special train will be provided.
On July 10 the delegates will
be handsomely entertained at
the home of William Jennings
BRYAN.
The bee., 1909-07-08

After four months illness of
pulmonary trouble Mrs. j. T.
HigdOn passed away at her home
in this city Friday evening about
$3.50. Mrs. Higdon was a mem.
Der of the Missionary Baptist
Church, and was good Chris
tian woman. She is survived by
a husband, mother and si4>shil-
dren. The remains were laid to
rest Saturday afternoon at Tren-
ton, the former home Of the
family.
The bee., 1909-07-08
ARTHUR WADE OF
BARNsLEY KILLED
While Walking Home on Railroad Track
Last Saturday Night

Saturday the Dixie FLYER kill
ed Arthur Wade instantly at the
Arnold switch about a quarter
of a .mile south of darlington,
breaking his neck and otherwise
mangling him. Wade had been
in Madisonville that afternoon,
returning to this place on the
z 80 interurban. He started to
walk home on the railroad track,
and In some way was unable to
escape the approaching train.
The remains were interEPd at
Flat Greek sunday.
The bee., 1909-07-08

Hopkiusville, Ky, July g.
Mrs. Robert II. Turner, who lives
in this county near Oeruleau
Springs, committed suicide some
time early yesterday morning by
drowning in the cistern. just
when the deed was done is not
known. She arose some time in
the night and stole out without
awakening anyone. When the
family arose at the usual time
aud she was missed, tsearch
was at once begun, aud her dead
body was found in the cistern.
The bee., 1909-07-08

grief now universal in our midst
occasioned by his death.
Resolved, That we hereby ten
der his family the deepest SYM
pathy together with the assur
ance that in the sorrow which
death has brought to the house
hold of our comrade and friend
each of us share a common grief
akin to that of those who were
nearest and dearest to him in
life.
Resolved, That these resolu-
tions be published in the daily
Hustler, jacksonville Journal
and darlington Bee, and a copy
be sent to the family of the de.
ceased as a testimony of our con-
dolence with them in the loss we
have all sustained.
F. F. Brown,
I. B. JONES,
d. G. NELSON,
JOHN r. MILLS,
L. d. HOcKERsMITH,
Committee,
The bee., 1909-07-08
THE KENTUCKY
PRESS MEETING
Most Delightful Gathering in
Foothills on the Picturesque
Kentucky.
MANY MEMBERS or THE
"OLD GUARD" WERE THERE.

The editors of the Kentucky
Press Association accompanied
by wives, sisters and friends
journeyed to this delightful re-
sort nestled In the foothills of
Eastern Kentucky to the meeting
held there last week. The trans
portation over the Louisville &
Nashville to LouIsville1 and by
special train over the Southern
and the Louisville q Atlantic t2
Estill, all railroads extending all
the courtesyand attention posi-
bic.
The scenery through that sec.
tion along the banks of the Ken
lucky river as it winds its way
like a silvery thread to the Ohio
is among the most beautiful TO
be seer IN the country, with here
and there glimpse of the typi-
cal mountaineer as we passed
the stations along. The wide
expanse of wheat and corn fields,
the herds of sheep grazing on
the hillsides, the great RATS of
valuable timber, indicate the
thrift and industry of the people
in this section of the State which
nature has so beautifully endow-
ed with beauties of landscape
and fertile soil. We got a
glimpse of the progressive towns
of Lawrenceburg, Versailles and
Richmond.
Estill, one of the most noted re-
sorts in the State, so restful in
Z itsquiet beauty, an ideal place
for busy editors to spend sea-
son of pleasure, drinking of its
sparkling waters free from print
er's ink and the noise of the
press. Messrs. Riddle, proprie-
tors of the hotel, were untiring
IN their efforts to make our stay
a pleasant one. A "Summers'
outing could not have been
"Moore" pleasant. How charm
ing Underwood" and dell, with
the good things to eat including
Pickles." the water flowing
freely without turning "Faw-
cett," a kind Friend" to well
come us and to assist in doing
things up "Brown. am sure
all would "Ditto" what has been
said and now / "Wood" like to
make san announcement" that
we meet together next year at
this or some other beautiful spot
and that all who can will attend,
for we "Needham." SINK.
The bee., 1909-07-08
Ms. Wilson Going East TO Have Her Ia
iured Arm Examined.

Frankfort, July 6.-Mrs. Will
son, wife of the Governor, is to
be taken to Baltimore to permit
experts to examine her injured
arm. The injury was the result
of Mrs. Wilson being thrown
from a carriage in a runaway
accident in this city several
months ago. She has borne her
suffering with unusual fortitude.
Gov. Wilson will accompany
his wife East, and Lieut.. Gov.
Cox will look after the executive
duties of the State.
The bee., 1909-07-08

Covington, La, July 6.-Hav-
ing experimental successfully
with tobacco seed secured from
Cuba, one of the large planters
has arranged to bring a number
of families from Kentucky to
cultivate prospective tobacco
crops in this section.
The bee., 1909-07-08

The reception given on Mon.
day evening showed a number of
the Old Guard" in line, and
the next day brought yet more
of the habitual members of the
X. p. A., who love the associa.
ton for the sake of the genuine
spirit of fellowship that exists
among its membership. 1t was
good to be there.
The bee., 1909-07-08

There were more past presi-
dents Of the Association at this
meeting than could be recalled
as attending the annual gather
ing in years. The list, In order