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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27

D. T. Boeie was in Sweet Springs
Thursday.
J.F. Forster was in Kansas City
Thursday.
F. ". Adams was In HigSlnsville
Wednesday.
R. B. Berrie spent Thursday in
Wellington.
Chris Walk returned from Kansas
City Wednesday evening.
John T. Major went to sedalia
Wednesday morning for a short stay.
Walter B. waddell went to Kansas
City Wednesday on business.
Mrs. George Wittenburg returned
from worth Wednesday even
ing.
Hon Alexander Graves left We'd
nesday evening fora business trip to
San Antonio, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip voigt went to
Sedalia Wednesday to spend few
weeks with relatives
Miss Fannie Sawyer returned We'd
nesday evening from visit of sew
eral weeks in Independence
Mrs. c. g. Sipe, who has been
visiting relatives in Hiawatha, Kans.,
returned home Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Elmira Meng and daughter,
Miss Lee, returned Wednesday from
an extended trip to Ell Paso, Texas.
MIR. and Mrs. James Ardinger re-
turned TO Kansas City Wednesday
evening after a visit with relatives
here.
Arthur Foster vent to Kansas City
Thursday to see the Gotch-
Raoul de Rouen wrestling match to-
night in Convention hall.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27
one MORE WEEK
OF COUNTY CONTEST
The Second Piano will be
Awarded Next
Week.
CONTESTANTS NOW EVEN
Miss Blanche Bardet of Wellington and
Miss Ellen Martin of HiggiasyilIe
Are Working Hard.

Next week will be the last of the
INTELLIGENCER piano contest and
Saturday, April 3, at p. m. the bai-
lot boxes viii be finally closed. I'm
mediately after supper the count
will be begun and as soon as all the
ballots have disposed of the result
will be announced. AS this con test
promises to be unusually close,
every precaution will be taken
to make the count absolutely
accurate. Three business men will
act as judges and viii have entire
charge of the tabulating of the
votes.
Last week Miss Martin lead by
margin of l2,50O votes, but Miss
Bardet closed up the gap and is to-
day a scant 500 in the lead SO the
outcome of the contest depends al
together on the work of the coming
week Nothing more will be said OF
either candidates standing from now
until the end of the contest, so that
there will be no incentive for either
to hold back any votes until the last
minute.
Next week the method of casting
secret ballots, the same as employed
in the city contest, will be used.
Special envelopes and blanks may be
had from either of the young ladies
or from this Office, the money placed
therein and deposited in the ballot
box in this Office or the one lin the
Lexington Savings bank. Noroae
will then be able to tell how the vot.
| ing IS running.
The free vote offer for today is 49,
600 for each $40 turned in and for
next week lS.0OU for each $40.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-03-27

c. a. Keith spent Wednesday in
Kansas City.
Miss villa Curtis returned Tues
day evening from a short visit in
Odessa.
Mrs. Richard Field lett Wednesday
for a visit Of several weeks in
St. Louis.
Oscar Westerman returned We'd
nesday from a weeks visit in Well
ington.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

so-called meadows" Other conspicu- ous blocks of the unbroken wall are called the Three Brothers, 1000 feet, the Spires Cap of Liberty, and Sentinel
 Rock. About fifteen miles above is the source of the Merced river, which flows through the valley. There are two falls and about half mile of rapids in the Merced river. Nevada Fall the upper one is about 600 feet high, and yernal Fall is about 400 feet The Bridal Yell Fall Is on the side of Cathedral Rock which faces the entrance. Bridal Veil creek here falls over a preciplce 630 feet high, and flows over an irregular bed which forms a series of cascades that combined, make a descent of about 300 feet The total fall Is 900 feet. Just below Fl Capitan is a fall called Virgins Tears. which is over 1000 feet high. The waters flow over this preci- pice only for a few months after the summer heat has melted the mountain snows. The Yosemite Falls, nearly op- posite Sentinel Rock, is made by the Yosemite creek. The first vertical fall is 1,500 feet; then the water descends, in series of cascades, about 625 feet, and again flows over a precipice 400 feet high. In the Meadows" are a variety of flowers and grasses in the early summer months. The principal trees are the pine, fir, cedar and oak
 In the vicinity are great masses of dome-shaped rocks, and the famous big trees of California are near by. Among the prominent elevations are North Dome, Sentinel Dome, Half Dome and Glacier Point From Sentinel Dome may be obtained good view of the Yosemite Valley and the surrounding country. Glacier Point, 4,740 feet, also affords a magnificent view. Half Dome Is an imposing mass. 4.70O feet high.
 Miles of Unsurpassed Scenery.
 It is no exaggeration to say that in eleven miles of mountain trail there is
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
4 Mlsplaced Pin.

"I was in an uptown tea room where the scenery is all out of proportion to the amount served you" said New York clubman. T was dallying with some lee cream when my spoon struck common. everyday pin in the bottom of the frozen stuff. gave little wave, and waiter slipped to my side See, pin in this lee cream I said Why, I might have swallowed that He took the glass and disappeared When he returned he reminded me of an undertaken. he was that solemn. That pin has lost man his job, sir he said Well I replied, I am sorry for that. but it might have cost me my life, when you come to think of It. Yes, sir said the waiter meekly. Then, You see, sir, most of the folks that eats here just sips their ice cream and don't chew it. t.''-New York Times.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

A great fortune has been held, per Sc, to be conclusive of doubledealing and fraud. To be oppressive and dishonest has been declared the only way to at tain great financial success. This we claim to be untrue as q statement of fact, says Leslle's Weekly, and at the same time a dangerous doctrine by a plain law of psychology. Young men want success spelled with big "S,' and the ambitious are not satisfied short of fair degree of material re ward. For this there Is no moral blame. But already the harm has been done in making the false suggestion that in order to be successful one has only to be slick" overshrewd, dishon- est. In the far-reaching influence of simple suggestion we have one of the most valuable contributions of modern psychology. The smallest word of sug- gestion can reshape a career. Thus the erroneous preaching of many a sincere moral leader has worked we know not how much harm. With a true concep- tion of what constitutes the highest aim of life, there has been coupled false suggestion of how to obtain what may be called lower form of success the material. On the contrary, the les son always to be driven home is that real success-moral, intellectual, or economic-comes only as the reward of honest effort on the part of every man. No other thought should ever be sug gested. The surest way to any lasting pre-eminence, even though 1t be tlnan cial, is the way of old-fashioned hon. esty and integrity. These qualities were never more valued than to-day. and now, as always, they pave the road to fortune.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
@ Famous
 WVALLEY of Y MYSTERY !"


The great gorge In the granite peak of the Sierra Nevada Mountains known as the Yosemite Valley was set apart by act of Congress in 1864 flor public use, resort and recreation for all time" The Valley has since been taken over by the Government and made a part of the nations domain, and Is now one of the four national parks. The name Yosemite means grizzly bear, and was probably the name of an Indian chief. The troughlike valley, walled with sheer cliffs of enormous height, and presenting to view within com paratiyely limited area the most aston shing features of scenery known in the world excites feelings In the mind of the observer which are a mixture of generally regarded by foreign visitors to this country among our greatest natural wonders.
 The reservation, as now officially out lined. Is thrty-two miles in width. from east to west, and forty miles long from north to south. But the valley itself Is only six miles long by half mile in width. It is sunk just about one mile vertically below the general level of the adjacent region, resembling ei- gantlc trough of irregular shape, hol- lowed out In the mountains. Nearly In the center of the State of California, the Yosemite is 155 miles from San Francisco. as the crow flles-a little south of east
 In early days the whites in that part of California had good deal of trou- ble with the Indians, settlers being murdered occasionally, and various out
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

ground seem as sweet and sound as those which are harder to get. You can quickly i'll your pockets with them and imagine you have struck something easy-and so you have. But you haven't got good apples. Bite Into one of them, and you may find that your teeth have cut a worm in two. Put them away for the winter, and in a week they will be rotten. What you have got by merely stopping and pick. ing 1t up wasn't worth the mere stoop- ing. And all this is true of many other things besides apples. It Is true of almost everything In life. If you would fill your pockets with the good things of this world, don't waste time on the wind. falls. The apple that falls at your feet has a worm at its core and bruise on its face. Both will develop in the eat ing. To patiently cut them out takes more time and trouble than to climb the tree and get apples that are sound. True, there is a lot of talk about luck, but 1t Is all talk and no luck. He who only picks up the windfallsof life never knows luck, and he who climbs the tree never needs luck. There Is no lazy way to true achievement in any line of endeavor.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
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terested in money-getting than in nat ural scenery, were disposed to monop- olize all the privileges and organize a system for swinding tourists. Accord ingly, as the best means of protecting the Yosemite from such a fate, the State of California arranged to hand over the whole affair to the national government, which has been accom- pllshed.
 Wonders of Nature All About.
 AS the crisp. pure mountain air fills the lungs and the glory of a sunrise In one of the most grand and picturesque canyons in the world exercises to the full its potent charm. you find yourself wondering whether there Is, or ever was, such a thing as a city, or such a thing as bustling. busy business world. The things about you, these grand piles of rock, the singing river, the great inyigorating pine trees, the cloudless sky and the brilliant morning sun, these are the only things that are real.
 Look above and see the majesty of the huge piles of rocks. the two great dOmes guarding either sides of the head of the valley; see the sky with Its fleecy. fieetlng clouds, and the woods, and all that there Is to complete an en- chanting picture. and then glance into the limpld depths of the waters and there see again the same picture so startlingly reflected that 1t seems that 1t Is the first world turned topsy- -turvy.
 Entering the valley from the lower end, the two distinct valley types may be seen, the Vshaped and the U-shaped It has the characteristics of a gorge and also of a canon. It Is nearly en- closed by walls of granite from 5000 to nearly 5000 feet in height. On the north side Is huge block of granite called Fl Capltan. It projects into the valley so that two of its smooth, al most perpendicular faces are visible the height is $500 feet. Opposite Fl Capitan are Cathedral Rocks and Brid- al Vail Rock The bottom of the val ley widens from Fl Capitan up to the
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
EARNING $15 1000 A YEAR AT
 THE AGE OF THIRTEEN

Earning s15,0OO year, and in re- ceipt of an offer that would give him S3O,0O0 a year, if he accepted It. rather unusual for boy 13 years old, isn't 1t?
 The boy Is Frank Wootton, an Eng fish jockey. Frank now stands third on the list of England's winning riders for this season-being surpassed only by Danny Maher, the wonderful Amer ican jockey, and British rider named Hggs Before the season ends he may lead them both.
 Frank wears short trousers when not in riding brooches, and is known as the "knickerbocker jockey" He is the youngest boy riding on the English turf. His weight in the saddle Is less than 90
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

rocks, but which are now mere out lines, mere pencil scratches on the great natural slate of rock Farther up the canyon to the right is tiny splotch of light It proves to be Mirror Lake. now shorn of its entertainments by majesty itself. Its neglected waters lies scarce ly discernible. way below the fractured face of the south dome, whose resplend. ent helmet is towering above you.
 Turning the eye about the horizon it meets the grand pile of rocks known as Clouds Rest so called because it's peak Is almost entirely buried in the billowy veil of the heavens. Next in the procession appears Liberty Cap Mount Lyell, Mount Starr King. Modnt Clark and the Obelisk, and in the mid-t of all this grandeur are the Vernal and Nevada Falls, whose waters sparkle in the dark green of the far distant can yons. From one spot, called Sierra Point, can be seen five of the great waterfalls of the Yosemite, the Upper and Lower Yosemite, the Vernal, the Nevada and the Illillouett This Is a spot where the view is one of supreme beauty in this region of glorious yiey s.
 From Glacier Point the sunrise and sunset views are among the most i'm pressiye to be had anywhere. To see, as the sun either sinks behind the west ern mountains or as it creeps in the early morn up the eastern facade of the rocks, the play of the lights and shad- ows, of tints and colors on the canyons messy depths, on the greatest of water falls; to see the many-hued lights as they steal along and up the faces of the rocks. and then scatter themselves over the floor of the valley. is a picture which the richest cannot buy, but which the poorest and humblest may enjoy.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

rages committed. It was learned that the sayages had some sort of retreat far up In the mountains-a natural stronghold in which they deemed them selves safe from pursuit or attack and, curiosity on the subject being ex- cited. military expedition was organ ized to explore the region and drive out the Indians.
 Under the guidance of an old chief Tenaya, whose name is perpetuated in mann and Cathedral peak, the party finally reached the valley, whose won ders they were first of civilized human beings to behold. They killed some of the Indians and made peace. Never theless, not long afterward, In 1852, a party of miners was attacked by red skins In the valley, two of them being slain near Bridal Yell meadow. An other expedition followed, more Indi- ans were killed and the rest were driven out, being compelled to take refuge with a tribe of Monos on the east side of the Sierra. But trouble followed; the fugitives stole horses from the Monos, fled to the Yosemite, were oyertaken, and in a battle were almost entirely exterminated.
 In 1856 the first pleasure travel to the Yosemite began, and a trail enter ing the valley from the south side was opened. The first house was built in that year. opposite Yosemite fall. The whole region was originally part of the public domain belonging to the govern ment of the United States, but the gov ernment gave the valley to California, though retaining possession of an ex- tensive surrounding area, which, to- gether with the valley, has been known for many years as the Yosemite park.
 Meanwhile few squatters had To- cated homesteads within the boundaries ,f the park. and there were signs that certain enterprising persons, more in-
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

of usefulness had long since passed, but who still made feeble, shiftless pre- tense of keeping busy. and was indul- gently carried along on the payroll of the company.
 ''Catching sight of the young men in. dustriously securing the grimy win dows-work which the old fellow him self systematically avoided doing when. ever he could-he stopped to watch them approyingly.
 That's right, boys.' he exclaimed at last, nodding his head encouragingly That's the way I got my start"
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

pounds. This fact naturally puts him in great demand.
 The offer which would have netted the boy $3O,0OO next year, came from a French owner, NJ. E. Veilpicard It carried retaining fee of S1O,OOO. Wootton's father refused 1t, as he would not let the boy go to France without him, and in order to go he would have to sell out his stable and break up his home.
 Besides" says Wootton, Sr., "I really think Frank Is too young to have such a large retaining fec"
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
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Legal Information
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Tn Kerr V. Goldborough, 15O Federal Reporter, 2s9, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit holds that an adopted child, though un- der the laws of the State entitled to the rights of heirship of d child born In lawful wedlock, Is not a "llneal issue' within the meaning of the Federal Sue cesslon Tax Statute of 1898, but a stranger in blood.
 novel scheme for obtaining posses sion of passengers baggage Is reveal ed in the case of Aldrich Y. People, 79 Northeastern Reporter, 964 recently de- cided by the Illinois Supreme Court The checks on a passengers baggage ereeXchanged en route with the checks on other baggage, and the court holds that obtaining possession of baggage In this manner constitutes larceny, even though the transportation company is unintentionally made the agency for securing actual possession thereof.
 A manufacturer, engaged in the man. ufacture of steel, in accordance with secret process discovered by him, who sues a former employe and a competitor who has employed the former servant, to restrain the former servant from dis closing the secrets to the competitor, and the competitor from retaining the servant In its employ, is not required to disclose on the trial the secret proc ess of his business, according to the de cision of the New Jersey Chancery Court, in Taylor Iron and Steel Co v. Nichols, 65 Atlantic Reporter, 605.
 The rights of local merchants to agree among themselves not to purchase merchandise from wholesalers and job bers who sell goods to catalogue ar mall order houses, and to inform each other of what wholesalers and jobbers make such sales, is upheld by the United States Circuit Court for South Dakota, in Montgomery Ward & Co. V. South Dakota Retail Merchants and Hard. ware Dealers Association, 150 Federal Reporter, 415. The court regarded it not to be unfair competition. intimida- ton, or coercion for the retailers, either by persuasion or other peaceable means, to seek to prevent wholesalers from selling to mail order houses.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
Health Rules for Cars.

The Missouri State Board of Health has just issued a new code of rules re latlng to the care of railroad passenger cars, says the Kansas City Star. Cuspl. dors are ordered placed at every seat and must contain, besides water, a spe- cifed amount of antiseptlc. Bed fur. nishings In sleeping cars must be aired daily, water coolers cleansed at the end of each trip and receptacles where food is kept In kitchens treated to antiseptc baths each week.
 The new rules will be strictly en. forced upon the railroad companies. More than 10000 people die annually, the health board estimates, from dis. eases traceable to splitting on the floors of cars and other public places. and determined effort Is to be made to put a stop to this practice
 The new rules will be displayed In all cars operated on roads throughout the State, and trainmen must warn pas sengers against any infringement of them.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

The president of the first interna- tional congress to discuss moral educa- tion in the schools, which was held in London recently, said that the world was deeply indebted to the educational thought and experiment of the United States. It has been national boast that the American schools strive to teach good morals as well as correct history and arithmetic, and 1t Is pleas ant to have their efforts thus recog- aiZed
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28
LIVE DAFTER HANGING.
Numerous Instances of Persons Be
 ing Resuscitated.


 Innumerable instances of resuscita- tioh after hanging are recorded. says London Tit-Blts. Henry III. granted pardon to woman named Inetta de Balsham, who was suspendde from g o'clock on a Monday to sunrise of Thursday, and afterward "came to-" pr. Pot tells of a Swiss who was hung up thirteen times without effect, on ac- count of the peculiar condition of his windpipe. 1t having been converted into bone by disease.
 Annie Green, a servant girl. was hanged at Oxford ln 1850 and recover ed fourteen hours afterward under a doctors treatment. Mrs. Cope, who was hanged at the same place eight years later, also recovered. On Sept 2, 1T24, Margaret Dickson was hanged at Edinburgh. and recovered while be- ing carried to the grave. She lived for many years afterward and was uni- yersally known as "Half-Hanged Mag gy Dickson"
 housebreaker named Smith was hanged at Tyburn in 1705. reprieve came when he had been suspended a quarter of an hour. He was cut down. bled and revived. William Duell. hang ed In London in TAO, revived and was transported A man hanged In Cork in 1765 was taken in hand by a physl elan, who brought him around in six hours. and we are told the fellow had the nerve to attend a theatrical per formance the same evening.
 Richard Johnson, hanged at Shrews bury on Oct. 8, 1896. obtained a prom ise from an under sheriff to place him In the coffin without changing his clothes. After hahging half an hour he still showed signs of life, and on ex- animation it was found he had wrap ped cords about his body connected with hooks at the neck. which prevent cd the rope from doing It's work. The apparatus was removed and the man hanged effectively.
 It may be offered in explanation of the case mentioned that there was no drop used at executions in those days, the culprit usually suffering asphyxia without the cerebral column being bro ken.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

Many estimates have been made of what the population of the United States will be in 1850. They vary all the way from one hundred and seventy five millions to two hundred millions The latest person to make an estimate, however, takes quite a different view. In the Atlantic Monthly, W. s. Rossi- ter, census expert, shows that tie rate of increase in population Is stead fly declining. From 1870 to 1880 the increase was thirty-one per cent. From 1880 to 1890, twenty-four per cent, and from that date to 1900, twenty-one per cent. In view of this steady decrease in the rate, Mir. Rossiter estimates that the population in 1850 will not be over one hundred and thirty millions, and after that date will tend to become sta tionary.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

ment oheir studies by practical applica- ton and experience The July after moons were long and the work at times very slack. so in one of these intervals of half-idleness the young men deter mined to turn to and give the labora- tory In which they worked q thorough cleaning. Tt was at this juncture," says a writer In Harper's Weekly, that the janitor happened along.
 "He was an old retainer whose years
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-28

at least 5,OOO miles of unsurpassed scenery. At every one of the many turns in the trail there are new vistas which are entirely different from those which have just been enjoyed. Across wonder is the Eagle Rock" and near by 1t are the Yosemite falls, glistenl1g in the full light of vivid midday sun
 Across the chasm are the Royal Arches" which only few hours ago were huge holes in the face of the