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Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05
Was the Freeze a Blessing?

T. j. Rowland, one of Boone
county's prominent farmers. had
the following to say to the Colum-
bia Statesman of last week, in re-
gard to the cold snap that wrought
such havoc in the orchards and
gardens all over the country. He
said: This cold spell may get
some of the fruit, but it also got a
lot of chinch bugs. There were
millions of chinch bugs that came
through the winter and would have
given us trouble later on. But when
that warm spell came about three
weeks ago they got out and flew
everywhere and were beginning to
multiply. This cold wet weather
just paralyzed them; the drenching
rains washed away millions and
others were frozen. 1t will be a
blessing; even if it kills the fruit
this will be made up in corn and
wheat. All these things happen
for the best, if we could only see it
that way"
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05
Brain Leaks.

| ASSahos
Belief in luck has ruined many
men.
The man who looks for trouble
can find it with his eyes shut
Honestly, Mr.. Confirmed Smoker,
do you enjoy smoking a pipe in
the dark?
You are not really having a good
time today if couple of weeks
from now you would be happy if
you could forget it.
When doubt enters love is crowd
ed out.
The average boy will not believe
that spring has arrived until the
circus bills are posted
The young fellow who talks about
his salary usually envies the young
man who earns wages.
There are men who think that
home is merely a place where they
can get rid of a crouch.
About two days work in the gar
den takes all the agricultural ambi-
ton out of the average city man.
What a glut of garden sass there
would be on the market if every
city man raised as much stuff as he
plans.
If this sort of thing continues the
farmer will rush for the family
physician instead of the veterinarian
when one of the hogs gets sick.
When you see young lady in
the street car pouring over a long
letter, the chances are that it is
from Him. Maybe it is from a girl
friend telling all about Him.
The admonition bear we one an
others burdens" does not mean that
you should patiently submit to
having burdens shifted over onto
your shoulders by people too lazy
to bear their own.
The average boys idea of a sane
Fourth" is a ton of powder, six gross
of firecrackers, a dray load of tor
pedoes, four million blank cartridges
two revolvers, a brass cannon and
four barrels of red lemonade.
We hear a whole lot about the
wickedness of strikes for higher
wages or against wage reductions
but we seldom hear anything in
criticism of the big trust that shuts
down its plant for the purpose Of
pushing up the price of stock on
hand.-The Commoner.
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05

A good way to get a new horse
collar to fit just right is to throw it
into a tub of water the night before
it is used first. When it comes
outof soak in the morning put it
right on the horse. In an hour
II will be shaped to the shoulder
ifofthe right size to be snoped at
all Take it off then and let it
drY.--Farmer and Stockman.
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05

A New York minister paused
during the progress of a sermon re-
Gently to say: I'm trying to see
some of men l am addressing but
the barbarous hats the women are
wearing keep me from seeing the
men and prevent them from seeing
me" Wonder if he did not notice
peculiar coldness on the part of
the female portion of his congreea-
ton after the services were over?-
Quincy Herald.
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05
Out of the Ginger Jar.

Out OF the Ginger Jar.
There is a difference between a
hoodo and a who don't.
A level-headed man avoids many
ups and downs in life.
The skunk cannot be called pen
niles since he always has a scent.
The shirt waists a great deal of
starch in the course of year.
A runabout wagon is greatly to
be preferred to a runabOat wife.
The evils of riches are seldom
manifest to those who possess
them.
No. the milky way was not
caused by the COW jumpings over
the moon.
Many stories are like ashes:
when thoroughly sifted there is not
much left.
There is this to be said for the
apnle tree-it never hides any fruit
in its trunk
Sheep are most persistent gam
boilers, though they are constantly
being fieeced.
The man who shutters does not
need to be told to think twice be-
fore he speaks once
Some folks find out how far a
dollar will 60 by seeing how far
they can 60 on dollar.
The pig has never been known
to express any desire for jewelry.
though it often wears ring.
1t keeps the society doctors busy
nowadays hunting up new diseases
that the common people do not
have.
An enterprising exchange has a !
long catalogue of work for rainy
days; but, then, who wants to work
on rainy days?
The chanticleer hat proves that
not only must city folks look to the
farmyard for their living, but also
for their styles.
The young fellow who told his
best girl that she was the apple of
his eye, doubtless meant that she
was a "Seek-Ro- further"
Always stand up for the right, |
but do not wear yourself out with
worry because you can not turn the
world and make it over in a day.
Many a woman as sharp as a
brier at the bargain counter, has
been Obliged to confess that she
was fooled in the selection of a
husband. May Farm Journal
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05

Misses Belle johnson, Ellen WaIk-
er and Julia McClintic were with
Quincy friends. Monday.
Jefferson Krump, Of near. Florida
has been with friends in this city.
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05
NEW BOOK
A New, Complete Edition Of
MIR. Bryan's Speeches
Contaning an Of Ills Impertant PuLlie Utteranoes


In two handy volumes You follow MR. Bryan practically
through his entire from his yaedctooratio
lege in 1881 through his early pubc his presidential campaigns
his world tours his platform experiences and his participation in
meetings of organizations devoted to national progress well
ternatona congresses for the promotion of theods pao
The subject matter of these speeches awde range op
from the fundamental and vital problems national and world life
to the highest ideals human endeavo Aandy
ence the student of social problems the present p
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05

"a Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. BrownelI
Shelbina. ="
John Bixler and j. Jett were
Hannibal visitors Saturday, N
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05
A Brief Outlines ofgContents

In these volumes will find all his mpoant POLITICAL speeches
the Tariff Banking Currency Bmetalis Income Tax Money
the Silver Question, Imperialism Colonasm Government Owner
ship The Trust Question Guaranteed Deposits Election of Senators
by Direct Vote Initiative and Referendum Labor 1908 Tariff Speech
State and Nation etc. etc. Here you will find ao his speeches
foreign lands before the Worlds Peace Congress London
Japan England etc. ETC. Thesebooks contain his
religious lectures The Price Soul The Value an Ideal The
Prince of Peace Man. Missions Faith etc. his miscellaneous
speeches Character Grays Eeeye Memorial Day Arlington Re
ceptons in Lincoln his hom White Conference
Commerce the TaByan banquet o Nesbors Tributes to
Jefferson, Lincoln, etc, etc.
Monroe City Democrat., 1910-05-05
The Only Complete Collection

While Mr. Bryans and public addresses
appeared from time time in different editions his works or have
been issued in separate FORM these volumes only
authentic complete and authoritative collection all
ever issued This the first publication book of complete
collection Mr. Byans speeches from his entry in public life
up to the present time
This complete collection of speeches handsome vol
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Fronseces showing Mr. Bryana various stages biographical
introduction by his wife Mary Baird Bryan Price per set $22
cloth binding prepaid Bound in half leather 1925 prepaid
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-15
RODS You

for $3.50. But inasmuch as the importer has
to pay 1919 for the privilege Of bringing the
coat through one of our Custom-houses, it
cannot be sold for less than 1925. although
there is a profit In it in England at $3.50.
The same cheap overcoat which can be
sold In England at 81 costs $14 in our mar
ket, for the simple reason that the Tariff tax
of $50 per cent on the 81 amounts to $40,
and the two together make S14.
The same discrimination against the COM
mon people prevails in all the schedules and
affects four thousand articles which enter into
our complex American life.
On the common clothing which people in
moderate circumstances use, the Tariff tax
ranges from 80 per cent to 1871; the net result
is that we pay two prices for every article
of ordinary clothing. The suit which can be
bought in England for $15 can't be touched
in this country for less than $35; the best
Rogers pocket-knife can be bought in Eng
land for IS cents; the same knife will cost
you at least ST. if not $3.50 in this country.
To show you that these American prices are
made by the Tariff and are extortionate, the
manufacturers ship their goods to foreign
countries paying freight and other charges,
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that he has a will of his own. It is said that
he has high temper; that he can storm at
folks; and bang the table with his fist.
Nevertheless the men who surround him
control him. Like Roosevelt in one respect,
he has no sympathy for the under dog. Like
Roosevelt, he caters to those who are strong.
Essentially, he is an aristocrat. Instinct
lively, he leans to the aristocracy. When he
forces himself upon the "Hoi Polloi''-the
Common Herd, the effort is plainly discern
IDLE, He doesn't "mix" we'll; the clothes of
familiarity with the people don't fit him.
Even when they arranged that comedy of
the Alternately boys who rode to the White
House, entered the Presidents room, and
saluted him with, ''Hozz0, BI2!" the country
failed to warm up. On the contrary, an I'M
comfortable sensation was felt by nearly ev-
erybody.
MIR. Tafts utter lack of sympathy for suf-
fering humanity is glaringly apparent in his
voluminous Message. You'd never suspect,
from reading it, that we are facing a return
of Hard Times; that 100000 men in and
around New York are out of employment;
that the high cost of living is causing nation
wide distress; and that in many sections of
the country the situation of thousands of peo-
pie is well-nigh desperate.
He again praises the damnable Payne-Ald-
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in Whjch the TQrjtf

and sell them in foreign markets in competi-
ton with foreign manufacturers
This, of course, means that they sell them
very much cheaper abroad than we can buy
them at home.
A sewing machine which in this country
cost $50 or $40, is sold in foreign countries
by the American manufacturers for ST.
The Harvester Trust sells all kinds of plan
tation machinery and implements at much
lower price IN foreign countries than they will
sell them for in the United States, vet they
admit there is profit at the lower price
made to foreigners.
This will give you vivid idea of how the
Tariff enables the American manufacturer to
rob his fellOw-countrymen.
The Steel Trust secured the contracts for
the Manchmian Railway material by under
bidding the English manufacturers, vet it has
not denied that there was a profit to the Trust
on the contract. Don't let this fact cause YOU
to weep for the American railroads: they
didn't lose the money when they paid those
higher prices forsteel rails and other materials.
The common people who pay passenger
rates and who are the final payers of freight
rates, had to bear the burden of the higher
prices charged by the Steel Trust to the Amer
lean RailWays-for our fool courts have de-
CONCLUDED ON PAGE NINE.)
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rich tariff he virtually tells Congress to do
nothing at all; he pleads for the poor down
tr0dden corporations whose sworn reports
show that they made net profits during the
year, to the staggering total of $3,1250O0,-
O0O
He wants to add to the burdens of the tax
payers by substituting the owners of American
ships-when every student of our economic
condition knows that it is the tariff which
drives our flag off the high seas.
He wants to spend $190O0,OOO fortifying
the Panama Canal, knowing that he would
thereby open up another sluiceway for other
millions to pour out of the national treasury
every year.
He wants the farmer saddled with heavier
load than he is now t0ting; and he recon-
mends that the railroads compel him to bear
the expense of q bill of lading which will be
satisfactory to Europe.
Never a word does he say about forcing
heartless corporations to adopt life-saving in
ventions-such as the Swiss block system, or
the automatic switch-setting device. Never
thought does he give to the child slaves.
He is getting $4,000 a year. with $4,000
more to spend travelling: and as he enjoys
a plenty of the good things of life, he doesn't
seem to care a continental about the less for
tunate persons who are struggling with debt
or hunting for work, or elzing out a dismal
existence on starvation wages
But what could anybody expect, after see
ing the sort of Cabinet he picked?
It's a Morgan-heim Government; and that's
all there is to it.
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President TQG's Message

ONE men naturally dominate their sur
roundings: others are controlled by
the people next to them.
Our genial Chief Executive belongs
to the latter class. Doubtless he thinks
he means we'll: doubtless he believes
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k2SSN Suppose one of our wealthy citi-
kESSM zens desires to buy one of the very
'@@ superior automobiles that are made
In France; let us suppose he selects car which
IS sold in France at $4,000; how much will
it cost him to bring it through one of our
Custom-houses and use it in this country?
The Tariff on automobiles being so per cent
he will have to pay $1,000. to get his machine
through the Custom-house in Savannah
Brunswick, Baltimore or New York He can
not bring the car into this country at all with
out passing it through one of our Custom
houses and paying that $1,000 Tariff duty
Consequently his $4,000 car has cost him So
600 before he can use it in the United States
Now, of course those American dealers who
handle foreign automobiles have to pay the
same amount of Custom-house duty and have
to add it to the selling price of the car. There
fore on every automobile of foreign make used
In this country the owner has paid half again
more than the same car would have cost him
if he had bought it abroad.
Thus, Frenchman in France will pay ST.
600 for his car, and the American who uses
exactly the same kind of machine will paw
$1,000 for it here. Now that looks like
pretty steep tax on the rich, doesn't it?
But see how much more the poor man has
to pay; on blankets, for instance, the tax is
1865 per cent; consequently, when you buy
blankets which, in England would cost you
$1,000, you have to pay $26.5O for them on
account of the $1650 Custom house duty
which the importer had to pay before he could
offer the goods for sale in the American mar
ket therefore, on every 81 600 worth of blan-
kets bought by our people, the Tariff tax is
$1G50, and the entire cost $685.
So you see on this necessary of life, the
blanket, the people are made to pay more than
three times as much as the richer classes have
to pay on a luxury like the automobile.
Let us take another illustration: when the
wealthier classes buy champagne, foreign
wine, which only the wealthier classes are able
to afford, the Tariff tax is 81 per cent There
fore, on a case of this foreign wine, WORTH
say $16 in France, a Custom house duty of
$500 has to be paid on it before it can be
offered for sale here. Therefore, the same
wine, which you can buy for SIG in France
will cost you $21.92 in the United States.
But suppose the goods imported consist of
cheap overcoats-the only kind which tens of
thousands Of poor men can afford to purchase
what Custom-hOuse duty is demanded and
collected before the coats can be offered for
sale in our market?
Two hundred and fifty per cent
Now let us figure how that works and see
how it hurts our working classes.
There are some cheap but heavy overcoats
consisting mainly of shoddy, and with the
least possible amount of wool in them-and
that of the poorest quality-which can be
bought in one of our cities for 1926.
The same coat can be purchased in England
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Some of the

Y Ell us take few simple facts in
regard to the Tariff and see how it
= reaches and Injuries the people.
5SM Suppose one of our wealthy citi-
SS8 zens desires to buy one of the very
. superior automobiles that are made
Lower coast gazette., 1910-08-06
HUSBANDS BATTLE TO DEATH
3. V. Barger Shot by c. M. Gaynon'
Who Himself Dies Later.

Little Rock. Ark.,-In a duel to the
death in the home OF C. NJ. Gaynon
both Gaynon and his a%ssailant, B. V.
Barger, were killed Wednesday night.
The shooting began while GaynC"
was with his wife and son in the par.
lor Of their home, shortly before mid.
night.
Barger had called at the home Of
his former wife several times during
the day, while Gaynon was absent.
II have come to kill or be killed"
it is said he told her. She warned
Gaynon and the latter was armed and
ready when Barger appeared at his
home. Without a word the two men
began to shoot. The screams Of the
woman mingled with the revolver
shots. When the fusillade ended, Bar
ger was dead and Gaynon lay dying
at his wife's feet. He expired a few
minutes later.
Twenty years ago Gaynon and the
woman who is the cause Of the dOu'
BILE tragedy were married. Later she
obtained a divorce from him and
married Barger, who was her step
brother. Several years ago she OBJ
tanned a divorce and soon after re-
married Gaynon.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-08-06
II : Of 's s;ss. T use ; 1hompson's Eye Water
"PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN"
Fabled Fountain Of Youth Could Not
Be More Potent Than Association
With Little Ones.

PLAY with the children!" was the
recurrent advice Of a wise and sue
cessful man. This will keep your
heart young, your viewpoint fresh.
your wit sparkling. The child heart Is
at once the purest and the happiest
in all nature; the child tongue Is q
TRANSPORTING power"
Something CT this induibtable power
attaches to good stories of those naive
and innocent little ones" scripturally
declared specially blessed and potent.
The child mind transforms, the child
touch lifts to glad laughter Incidents
and accidents not otherwise worth
noting. Witness this little tale Of the
careful mother to whom came a tiny
son all agog over the requirement Of
new and forbidden knowledge.
"Mother!" cried the child, baby
eyes shining. baby cheeks glowing.
do o know what I'll be hornswog-
gled' means?"
mo, DEAR" said the mother, SOL
EMMY. Selling the opportunity to i'm.
plant a lesson. I'm sure | do not"
We'll, l do was the ecstatic an
swer, the suggested lesson being ut
terly ignored. 1T means just the
same as I'll be sol-darned!'"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-08-06
BRYAN BREAKS WITH PARTY
smarting With Rebuke, Will Espouse
Local Option on Own Hook

Lincoln, Neb.-Smarting from MS
defeat at Grand Island, where the
Democrat state convention turned his
county option plank down by a vo<e
of g to I, William J. Bryan does MOI
intend to be governed By the platform
of his party. The thrice defeated
presidential candidate returned to Lin
coin from the convention and at once
and announced he would take an act
i've part in the coming legislative cam
paign. Bryan charges that the 4
yention did not represent the wishes
of the rank and file and that It was
packed by agents Of the brewery and
]iuuor interests. The Bryan plan IS to
take the stump during September and
October, speaking in every legislative
district.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-08-06
BANK LOST 100000
RUSSO-ChiNESE BANK DEFALCA.
TON GROWS SENSATIONAL.
Believed Wider Hypothetical Stock
He Is Alleged to Have Stolen
With Wall Street Brokers.

New York. -Erwin Wider, about
- years old, ) feet > inches in height;
weight about l35 pounds: swarthy OF
complexion, with a small black mus
taChc curled at the ends. Wears rim
less nose glasses. talks with a Ger
man accent and is timid in address.
Such is the general alarm sent out
by the police for the missing cashier
of the RussO-ChineSe Bank, although.
oddly enough, the district attorneys
office said no aid had been asied OF
it By the bank and no application for
a warrant mad been filed. But this
contradiction is only one in a series
that have kept step with every deyel-
Opment of what is no." admitted to be
1t once the most puZZling and the
most serious defalcation in the his
tory of Wall street since Cornelius AL
word stole $GOG 900 from the FIRST Ma.
tional Bank, served a term in Sing
Sing and then retired to the secluslon
of a p~rincely country place.
When the RussO-Chinese Bank first
made public the fact that its strong
box was short, the amount was given
at $50, 900, all in negotiable bonds, a
list of which was furnished. This
afternoon the amount suddenly jumped
to $500, 900, of which the additional
SJ2O,OOO is said to be in stocks partly
owned by the bank and partly by its
customers.
No positive statement has been
made yet as to where these stock GER
tifcates now are, or with what intent
Wider's intention to h~ypothecate them
they were stolen-whether it was
with brokers as collateral for stock
speculation or to realize on them and
plant" the proceeds.
The RuSsO-Chinese Bank is credited
in Wall street with a capital of 3d..
400, 900, but it could not be learned
what assets or capital are credited
to the branch in this city. They New
York branch is not under the juriSdlc.
ton of the state banking department,
as it does not attempt regular bust
ness in deposits, but makes loans
with foreign funds.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-08-06
CLEANS UP 100000
New Orleans Bull Clique Has Made
Profit Of $1,000, 200.

New York.-Cleaning up 100000
in the cotton market Wednesday was
the work of but comparatively a fe"
minutes by the bull element, headed
by Frank p. Hayne of New Orleans,
long a close business associate OF
James R. Patter, whose series Of ire
mend0us deals a couple Of months
ago startled the whole world inter
eSted in cotton.
Brokers said that the Hayne crowd
had made q clear s%7.00O,Oo0 profit in
July cotton. The market Went wild
Wednesday when Mr.. HaYne, without
the slightest intimation OF what was
coming, suddenly bid for 10000 bales
of July at 1874 cents. On top Of this
order he flung a second for $4,000
additional bales at 1879 cents.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-08-06
SAID TO BE LOCATED IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
Seen on Streets There, Now Hiding
in CeIIar-Police Slowly Draw.
ing Net About Him.

San Francisco, Cal.-Traiied through
a half dozen states Of the Union, and
through Mexico and g portion Of Cen
trail America, Joseph Vending. aC-
cused of the murder of S-year-old Alma
kellner, daughter CT a millionaire
brewer in Louisville, Ky, in the eel.
lar Of St. Johns ParOchial School in
that city, has finally been trailed to
San Francisco, where local detectives
are slowly but surely drawing the net
about him.
That Vending has been hiding for
the past three weeks in a house in
San Francisco is said to be known to
the local police. They declare that
they have spotted the place and that
detectives are guarding the house in
the hope that Vending will put In
an appearance.
Following the murder Of the kell-
ner girl, her parents and Fred Fehr,
a millionaire uncle. offered a reward
of $4,000 for the capture Of the MUIR
derer. At the request OF the kellner
family, Capt. Carney consented to
abandon his dutis as head Of the Louis
vile detective department and devote
his entire time to tracking down Wen
ding, who fed Immediately after the
urder was discovered.
Through a half dozen states Carney
tracked Vending. He followed him
into Mexico and into the heart of Cen
trail America. Here he learned that
the fugitive had come to San Fran
cisco. Carney came here and again
lost the trail, finally to pick it up
again a month ago at Rio Vista, where
he discovered that Vending had been
working as a laborer IN a ranch.
When Carney finally located the
ranch he learned that Vending had
anticipated him and had gone to VAL
leo.