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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18
Horticulture Books New
Ready.

The Annual Repoft Of the
State Board of Horticulture is
now ready for distribution and
may be had free upon appiica-
ton to w. L. Howard, Secre-
tary, Columbia, Mo.
The Report is a book of 400
pages we'll illustrated, and con-
tains in addition to other matter,
the following special articles
which should prove Of interest to
live fruit growers: Hardy
Peaches. Orchard Cover Crops.
Misscuri's Timber Supply.
Large versus Small Orchards.
How to Grow and Care for Grapes.
How to Reach the Unsupplied
Markets. Missouri's Opportun-
ties in Forestry. Growing To-
matoes for Canning Purposes.
Arbor Day, It's Significance and
| Observance. Styles of Pruning
Practiced in the Northwest. The
Strawberry as Grown CONNER
cially in the West. New versus
Old Methods OF Packing and
Marketing Apples. Growing
Csntaloupes in Colorado as seen
by a Missourian. How tn 6
Fruit Grower Deals with the In.
sect Problem in Colorado. Some
of the Most Desirable Shrubs
Climbers and Plants for Decorat'
ing the Home Grounds. Methods
Conditions and Future Prospects
of the Fruit Industry Of the
Northwest compared with Mis-.
souri, and Sister States. Harti'
ness of Peach Buds Blossoms
and young Fruit as Influenced BY
the Care OF the Orchard. I'm
pressions of the Orchards ant
Orchard Districts of the West
Hotbeds and Cold frames, Then
Preparation and Management
How the Insect Situation HaI
been Handled in Illinois. Lead
ing Inseot Problems Of the yea
(for Missouri.) How to Can Frui
and Vegetables on the Farm
Best Commercial Varieties o
Strawberries. Development o
Disease Resistant Plants. Seleo
: ton Of Peach Buds for Budding
A Disease Of Neglected Peacl
Trees. Fundamental Principle
ot Pruning. New Varieties o
Strawberries. Instructors TO
, Spraying. Missouri Appl'
Growing. Cross Polination
why We Prune.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18
Miss Effie Fay, a young animal
trainer, appearing with a carnival

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trainer, appearing with a carnival
company in Chillicothe, last
week, was attacked by an enraged
leopard in the animals cage
Tuesday night and was badly in
jured before an employe of the
company could enter the cage
and repulse the beast.
A nineteen-year-old boy and q
fifteen year -old girl were mar
ried in Princeton last week. They
tried to elope, but the minister
refused to marry them until they
telephoned for the consent of
their parents. They got it. The
parents are said to be of sound
mind.
Charles Davis a horse shoer,
was rescued from a boxcar at st.
Charles Sunday morning in an
unconscious condition. He got
into the car at Oklahoma City to
60 to st. Louis. Someone closed
the door and fastened it or the
outside and he was locked in for
five days and nights without food
or water.
Indian legend and ancient my
thology both appear to have
been familiar to the pioneers who
named the neighboring southwest
Missouri towns of Aurora and
Sarooxie. The latter is an Indian
name meaning "rising sun" }"
practically the same thing Aurora
means. There is a rivalry be-
tween the towns, and just now
Sarcoxie is growing over a base
ball victory.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18

The numerical bodies, Of
Springfield and the officials Of the
Frisco railroad are planning a
big demonstration on the occa-
sion of the opening g Of the
Frisco's s2,0O0,O0O shops and
locomotive works in this, city the
first week In July.
Ernest Johnson, John Murphy
and Thomas Winters pleaded
guilty in the federal court d
Hannibal Tuesday TO robbing the
postoffcs at Marceline and were
sentenced 10 eight years at hard
labor In the federal prison atLeay-
snvorth, Kan, by Judge Culver
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18

John Stone, q merchant at'
Chillicoth, had quarrel with HE
father with whom he was associ.
ated in business, procured o
quantity oflaudanum, went homo,
displayed it to his wife, swallowed
it and died in spite of all the,
efforts made to relieve him.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18

gators that the disease was en-
tireiy absent before the advent
of the whites in America.
The most prominent tubercu.
locis specialists in this country
agree that alcohol will not cure
consumption, DR.. 8. A. Knopi
says" :"Alcohol has never cured
and never will cure tuberculosis.
1t will either prevent or retard
recovery. DR.. Frank Billings
of Chicago and DR.. Vincent Y.
Bowditch, ex-presidents of the
National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis; DR.. Lawrence F. Flick
of Philadelphia, and DR.. Edward
L. Trudeau of Saranac Lake, the
founder OF the anti-tuberculosis
movement in this country, are all
of the same opinion.
| DR.. William Osler says,
whether tuberculosis will be
finally sradicatsd is even an open
question. 1t is a foe that is very
deeply intrenched in the human
race. Very hard it will be tc
eradicate completely, but when
we think OF what has been done
in one generation, how the
mortality in many places has
been reduced more than 80 pei
cent-indeed in some places 10C
per cent-it is a battle Of hope,
and SO long as we are fighting
with hope, the victory is in
sight"
It is stated by DR.. William G,
White OF Pittsburg at the recent
meeting Of the National Associ-
alton for the study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis, that 80 pei
cent of all the school children ir
our large cities have tubercl'
bacilli in their system befor,
reaching the age Of nineteer
years.
Homer Folks Of New York City
recentlyetated before the Nation
al Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberoulosis thai
there are in the United States al
the present time $4,000 cases oi
tuberculosis in advanced stages
of the disease, every one Of whom
should be isolated in hospitals,
but there are at the present time
only 5000 hospital beds for these
cases in the entire country.
That tuberculosis is no respect
er of persons is evidenced by the
recent death Of the two boy
princes of Montenegro from tina
disease, which they contracted
from a maid in their nursery.
There are constantly 5000, ,00(
persons seriously i'll in the U. s.
of whom more than 100000 are
cousumptives. More than hal
of this illness is prsventable.
Consumption is caused by tht
poisonous germs in the consump'
tive's spit. The poisonous spi
dries and goes as dust into, otheI
peoples lungs. A little poison,
Gus spit when scattered in dust
is enough to infect dozens o
people. That is why careless
splitting is not only dirty, bu
dangerous
The number of deaths during
the four years Of the Civil Wa
was a05,070. During the pas
four years 100000 deaths hay
resulted from tuberculosis alon'
in the United States.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18
TUBERCULOSIS NOTES.
BY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY
AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS.

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Consumption among Japanese
lsborers is increasing to such
degree that the figures are be-
coming q source of anxiety to
Japanese merchants and officials.
A large percentage of laborers
who are sent back to Japan by the
Japanese charity associations are
consumptives. 1t is claimed by
the Japanese newspapers COM
menting on this matter, that
through the lack of hospital ac-
oommodations in the Japanese
labor camps tuberculosis in
creases at an alarming rate. They
suggest that a new system be
employed in dealing with the
sick in these camps, as the jap
anese are quite ignorant of even
the most simple health safe
guards.
There are in the United States
298 Sanatoria, 222 Dispensaries,
and 200 Associations for the
treatment or prevention of tuber-
culosis, while there are 600, 900
cases Of this disease in the
country, 1t is estimated by the
United States Conservation Com
mission sthat this country loses
annually 81, 900, 100000 from pre-
ventable tuberculosis.
For the past three years a per-
sistapt crusade has been waged
against consumption amongst
post office employees in France.
Under these efforts, the number
of cases has diminished so per
cent, having been in 1905 1,048
cases; in 1907, 808 cases, and
last year the number fell 10 sos.
In England, in addition to other
efforts to combat tuberculosis, a
unique project is being placed on
foot, to put into commission a
sailing sanatorium for persons
suffering with tuberculosis.
Germany has 80 sanatoria for
tuberculosis, which hold over
10000 poor consumptives; the
cost of each ssnatorium 10 about
100000. Through organized
effective methods, Germany has
reduced the death rate from con-
sumption by one-half throughout
the nation. In the German Army,
tuberculosis has diminished AZ
per cent during the past 20 years
(3.3 per cent per thousand to 1.9
per thousand Of the effective
force).
That consumption can be per-
mantly cured is demonstrated by
J some figures published by DR.. A,
Van Bueden Of Belgium, who
says that 1873 per cent Of the
patients treated in the Bourgou-
mont Sanstorium in 1904 have
continued, four years after treat
ment, to improve, and are in a
condition to return to their regu-
lar occupations.
DR.. Shannon of Edinburg re-
Gently stated that out OF the /, ,000
city children under three years
Of age examined by him, CAT had
: tuberculosis in some form.
DIR. Wilferd T, Grentsl, the
famous Labador explorer and
, social worker, says. that In the
interests of the campaign against
tuberculosis, he has induced most
Of the natives to weave the motto,
"Don't Spit" in their rugs, in
stead Of other homely sayings,
which were formerly used.
I Owing to their studious habits
i. and their lack Of proper physica
{ exercise, Chinese students both
I in this country and in theiI
native land are especially. liable
to tuberculosis.
b According to q report Of tn,
Il - IA A. .
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18
'ROUNDABOUTTHE STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges-Made blythe Shears,
: the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal. Some Credited. and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

- L. s..
As one way of getting to the
fore, Moberly wants a golf club.
Morrisville, in Polk County,
has lost half its business section
by fire.
& Maryville is growing metropoli-
tan with "Crystal Airdome,"
% hold about 1900. .
The Bsptists of Fulton have
just begun the erection of a
$4,000 church building.
No wonder the normal school
fight in Maryville is so hot. One
Cook and any number of roasters
are in it.
G. M. Bryson, who used to be q
booze fighter in Montrose, has
started a paper called the
BooSe Fighters in Nevada.
A business block in Higgins
vile was destroyed by fire Tues
day, The fire is believed'to have
been the work Of incendiary,
Circuit Court is in session in
Scott county with a modest docket
Of 1923 ses-mostly the output
81 the grand jury Of last April.
Cansville, Harrison County,
has found a fivs- foot vein OF GOAL.
This is'a big thing for that town.
The coal was found while boring
for oil. :"
The Folks seem to like the
governor brsihess r. E. Folk,
brother Of the ex governor, is the
candidate for goyernof Of Ten
nsssee.
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Up in Cooper county a bane of
night riders called on the manag-
sr Of the Woodbridge lime works
and ordered him to hit the trail be-
cause lie hired italians.
Last Sunday between u and 1
O'Clock, P. H. Berry, a resident
81 the vacinity of louisville was
shot from ambush and now lies
at his home in a critical condition.
The contract for building two
and a half miles Of macadam
north from Belton to the jackson
county line has been let for
S8,740. The macadam ls 70 oe
sixteen feet wide.
Missouri now has 900, 900 sheep
within her borders. Five years
ago thers were only 100000 in
the state. At present prices OF
WOOL and mutton we know OF no
better paying stock
The Springfield Republicans
one objection to making women
members Of the police forces OF
Che country is that they never
would learn 10 use hip pockets fcr
either pistol or TASKS.
South Cedar City is a city Of
terminuses, says the Louisiana
Times. THAT iswhere the Jeffer-
son City Rapid Fire waggonsttc,
C. & A., NJ, X, 4 T. and bridge
sidewalk systsms terminate.
A man at Rockport, who claim
ed IL had not'rsinsd on the 12tt
of May for more than thirty-fy'
nsars hat an other fellow 1900 &
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18

the death of his father, as has
been expected. The mayor plan
ned to drop its use, but was ad-
vised by his attorney that it would
be illegal for him as mayor to
drop it, that its use would prob
ably obviats numerous legal
entanglements of deeds and other
to which the old signature
was affixed.
Workmen began the task of
rszing the one-story log cabin
built seventy-five years ago and
situated in the business district
Of Springfield. The old building
was Green county's first court
house, and later was used as a
postoffice building. At the time
Of its erection in 1884, it was the
largest and most prominent
building in Springfield. A mod
ern brick business block will be
erected on the site,
Five years ago this summer
the people of Andrew county
voted 100000 to build a railroad
from st. Joseph through Sa-
vannah and northwest. The
proposition had been voted down
in 1861 and the eeunty was in
turmoil over the proposition.
The newspapers published there
at that time were The Northwest
Democrat by Messrs. Welch &
Hail and the Plaindealer by
Charles h Whitaker.
B. F. Garrett, aged sixty five,
a prominent ex- Confederate, was
found dead, hanging on wire
fence at his home near Mont
oomery. He had evidently died
of heart trouble while trying to
get through the fence. Garrett
was with General Price and lost
a leg in the army. After being
wounded he lived in a oornfield a
week on roasting ears. He had
recently written his remarkable
experience for publication.
Miss Laura Robertson, a Msxi-
CO girl, gave a song recital in
Washington recently, of which
the Washington Herald said in
part: Miss Robertson has a
dramatic soprano voice of wide
range and unusual sweetness and
has the temperament and stage
presence so conductive to suc-
cess. A brilliant future is pre-
dicted for this gifted young
women.
The proposition submitted lasi
Saturday to the voters Of Platte
county to enour an Indebtedness
Of $4,000 for the building Of 4
modern Jail carried by o vote o.
two to one. Every PRECINCT ii
the county favored the PROPOSE
ton. Three times the voters
have been called, upon to vot'
upon q new Jail proposition hav'
ing been defeated ct each othel
time.
A total eclipse Of the sun Il
scheduled 10 occur on Thursday
June II, visible in all portions o
the United States except in tn
extreme southern. The eclips'
viii begin in this section at abou
le:iO in the evening and win con
ltihue until after sunset. At tn
time OF the disappearance Of Oh
So tie moon will obscure abeu
one half Of his srea.
The old NcJimsey livery bari
lin Msryyllls is being tor
dewn 10. make room for . ne,
postoffics building. This l. on
Of the old land marks Of the Nod
awav county scat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
FROM GOVERNER HADLEY
Missouri Executive Gives His Position
in Two Cent Fare Controversy.

The state Journal is in receipt of
fetter from Governor Herbert s.
Hadley of Missouri in connection with
the recent editorial in the Topeka
morning paper wherein he was called
a "22 short and a 1.-TWO by four
statesman"
Governor Hadley says:
II do not know what alleged inter-
view the editorial is based upon but it
assumes that l made statements that I
did not make
What 1 did say in reference to
the attitude of the state towards the
enforcement of the laws regulating
railroads, was that SO long as the
railroads submitted to state regula-
ton in the matter of rates, Iaws.the
object of which were to secure the
regulation of rates through competi-.
tion-were purposeless. But when
the railroads ceased to obey the laws
fixed by the state regulating their
rates, then 1t became the duty of the
state to enforce, and enforce strictly,
the laws prohibiting the consolidation
of parallel and competing lines. and
other laws of a similar character
which sought to secure the regulation
of rates through the operation of
competition.
II have not insisted that the rail-
roads should give to the people of
the state a two-cent rate after the
decision of the federal court, but
have insisted that they should not
charge a three-cent rate in this state
as long as they are charging a two
cent rate in contiguous territory in
which there existed less favorable
conditions for railroad operation. And
1 stated that every right of the state
in litigation and legislation would be
exerted to prevent such unfair dis
elimination against the people of Mis-
souri,. This may be regarded as two
by four craftsmanship and indicate
that man is a '22 short in the state
of Kansas, but is not so regarded in
the state of Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
New York InterbOrOugh Rapid
Transit Company
Wants to Spend $5O,OOO,OOO in
Building Subways.
ADVERTISES THE FACT
Occupying Quarter Page Space
in the Newspapers.
Traffic Facilities Do Not Keep
Pace With Increased Travel.

New York. April 13.-The INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit company which op
crates the present subway and which is
one of several interests seeking a
chance to build more subways in New
York. takes a rather unusual course in
pushing its plea by publishing quarter
page advertisements in the New York
papers today appealing to the people.
The Interborough declares that where
as the present subway was built to car
ry 100000 passengers day, it is carry
ing twice that number.
While 1t was expected that the un-
derground road would relieve conges-
tion on the elevated lines, the latter
are carrying 80 per cent more traffic
now than they did when the subway
was planned. Pleading that there is no
margin for delay. the Interborough asks
permission to build a subway from For
ty-second street to the Bronx on the
East Side, one from Forty-second
street to the Battery on the West Side,
and an express track on both the Sec
ond and Third evenue elevated lines.
The advertisements concludes:
The plans for our so million dollars
expenditures are ready. Our proposal
In writing is before the proper authori-
ties We are ready to act"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
BIG BILL OF COSTS.
Standard Is Assessed S14.66O by Mis-
souri, Supreme Court.

jefferson City, Mo-. April 13-Costs
of $14,660 were taxed against the
Standard Oil COMPANY of Indiana, re-
spondent in the recent custer suit de-
cided adversely to it by the supreme
court of the state TODAY. The sum
represents the expense of taking testi-
mony and the feeling of witnesses.
Special Commissioner Robert c. An
thony was allowed e11.O00 for his
services.
The court also decided favorably to
railroads a case brought to it from
Benton county, in which an alleged
violation of the law requiring rail-
roads to run at least one train daily
each way over all lines in the state,
was charged against the Missouri Pa
cific Railway company. The evidence
showed that the road had been fined
500 because the train in question was
not exclusively for passenger traffic
in the opinion of the supreme court
the train complied with the statutory
requirements in that it was operated
on regular schedule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
TOO MUCH EDUCATION.
Defense of "a Negro Graduate of Yale
Charged With For~~--

ST. Louis, Mo-, April 13.-"To what
source do you attribute your mental
condition."
Superior education. I'm a negro and
have no business with a college educa-
tion.''
This question and answer propounded
and replied to by Louis o. Graves, a
graduate of Yale, was the climax of
what Judge Taylor of the court of
criminal correction today declared was
the most unique defense he had ever
encountered.
Graves was charged with forging a
check. He acted as his own attorney,
called himself to the stand and con-
Quoted his own examination. After
testifying that he had served terms in
the penitentiaries in Missouri and Hi
nois and that he had been an inmate of
five insane asylums, he asked himself:
did you ever try to commit sui
cide?"
give times,' was the response to
himself
81 Jumped from the third tier of cells
and cracked my skull. took poison in
Central police station. I tried to hang
myself in the penitentiary and twice 1
tried to kill myself when I felt desire
to commit crime coming over me-"
Graves said that he had no recollec-
ton of the forgery with which he is
now charged and was remanded to jail
to await possible action by the grand
i1rV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
ON ONE MORE CHARGE.
The BoyIes Are Indicted at Cleveland
for Child Stealir~

Cleveland. April 13-An additional
Indictment charging child stealing was
reported today against James H.
Boyle and Mrs. Bovle, who are under
arrest at Mercer. Pa on the charge
of kidnapping Willie "-hitla of Sharon.
Pa
Before the arrest of the Boyles here
March %, the day after the Whitla
boy was returned to his father, the
grand jury indicted the couple on the
charge of blackmail This step was
taken as precaution against the pos
sible failure of the Pennsylvania au-
thorities to obtain a conviction
1t was feared Mrs Boyle especially
might be able to evade the charge
there.
Later developments have shown
there may be real grounds upon which
to base the fear and the local authori-
ties decided to further protect them
selves against a miscarriage of justice
by having the additional indictment
found. The Boyles now are charged
with blackmail. kidnapping and harbor-
ing stolen child in this county
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
]. E. G0SSETT IS HURT.
Horse Frightened at Switch Engine
Tramples Him.

J. E. Gossett. of 1915 Van Buren
street, foreman of the operating de-
partment of the Edison Light. Heat &
Power company. was trampled on by
bis horse on East Seventh street, near
the Capital Iron works about IL O'Clock
this morning. but escaped with severe
contusions of the left shoulder and
knee. However. he was given severe
shock and it is likely that he will be
confined to his bed for at least few
days.
He had left his horse and buggy af-
ter hitching the animal by a neck
strap to a post within a half a block
of the Capital Iron works. While he
was gone a Santa Fe switch engine
frightened the horse so that 1t reared
and broke the strap. Mr.. Gossett saw
this and ran to hold the animal. About
this time, the switch engine backed up
again and the horse reared and threw
Mr.. Gossett so that he fell under its
feet Norman Miner. solicitor for the
Edison company, who was with him,
extricated him and took him home in
the buggy.
Dr. W. S. Lindsay was called. He
says that he does not know when the
injured man Will be able to return to
work, as the confusion of knee and
shoulder may require some time to
heal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
BLOWN FROM A CAR.
Santa Fe Brakeman. C. III. Swords,
Fatally Injured Near Deerfield.

Deerfield, Kan, April &c. H.
Swords, a Santa Fe brakeman, was
blown from the top of a box car
about o'clock Sunday evening just
outside of the city limits and prob
ably fatally injured. The accident
was not witnessed by members of
the train crew but as the caboose
passed his PROSTATE form was seen
by Conductor B. C. Jones who was in
charge of the train. He was picked
up and taken to his home at Dodge
City for emergency treatment.
The injured man who was conscious
but paralyzed from the waist down.
was then taken to Topeka to the
Santa Fe hospital where he is await
ing developments though the doctors
in charge of the case do not give en-
couraging reports. He was taken to
the Topeka hospital by Conductor w.
f. Talbort and was accompanied by
his wife and two children. The wind
was exceedingly high at the time of
the accident and the train was run
ming about 20 miles an hour.