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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09
SHORT PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come and Go
During the Week

B. S. Cross went to st. Joseph
Wednesday.
w. B. and G.. A. Calhoun visited
in Browning Saturday.
Mrs. M. P. Benson was in
Chillicothe Wednesday.
Miss Lou Shifett was Br ook-
field visitor Wednesday.
DR.. j. T. Poison who is critically
i'll was reported worse yesterday.
Mrs. j. T. Davis and Mrs. Il. b.
Jones were in Brookfeld Monday.
Mrs. Blair of Clarence has been
guest of Mrs. F. M. Clay this week.
L. W. Libby began spring term
of school north of Meadville Mon
day.
Geo. w. Yount of route two went
to Denver Monday to spend the
summer.
Miss Eta Dye returned Sunday
from a visit with her aunt near
Linneus.
Mrs. M. f. Clay and daughter,
Miss Loretta, were in Chilficothe
Saturday.
Mrs. j. B. Patrick and Miss
Daisie Rankin were in Chillieethe
Saturday.
Elbert Kailer of Eaperville, ILL.,,
was the guest of Miss Virginia
Kraft Sunday.
Mrs. G. J. Clifford of Chillieothe
was the guest Of Mrs. M. Coleman
in Laclede Thursday.
Mrs. J. A. Cook and daughter,
Miss Mira, went to Dolliver, Iowa,
Wednesday to visit relatives.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09


the home of Mr.. aid Mrs. J. T.
Lomax at San Benito, Texas.
The spring term of the Locust
Creek school opened last Monday
with Miss Mabel Kraft as teacher.
A very interesting letter from +.
F. Felt was received just as we
were going to press-too late for
| publication this week. Watch for
it next week.
Mrs. Standby will entertain Chap
ter R, P. E. O., at her home
Wednesday, April 13, in honor OF
Miss Corrough. Regular business
meeting at 2 o'clock prompt.
Elder Merrill will preach at the
Christian church Saturday evening
and Sunday morning and evening
at the usual hours. You are cor
dially invited to attend these SER
vices.
A card from J. H. Willard says
they are now at Winters, Cali, and
= like Northern California much bet
= fer than the southern part, but we
can't help thinking that they like
Missouri; hetter than either.
Mrs. John Hetrick returned
Wednesday from Ballinger, Texas,
where she has spent the winter with
n Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Wigle. Mrs
D. F. F. Pratt, who had also beer
he visiting there, returned with her.
Movie Randall, who has been Il
of the employ of the Henderson
Morris Produce Co. in Laclede th
- past year, left Tuesday to take
position with the S. P. Pond Ct
at Keokuk. n. A. Ormsby takes b
place in the local produce house.
as Mr.. and Mrs. J. 7. Bassett n
ST. turned Tuesday night from Wis
1ll with their son, w. H., and 9th
relatives and friends at Walnu
ith Kansas. Mr.. Basset reports all tf
mt srmer Laclede people arour
oil Walnut as well and busy getting
,ch their crops. While some corn the
ely lis two inches high, most OF 1t
still to be planted.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09
Some Evening Reveriss.

Ooeulng anu planning Is Inc ora
er of the day. Every farmer who
may be truly called farmer il
busily employed in putting in his
crops. The croaker or paper farm.
er is sitting about on store boxes at
the village store whiting and de-
ploring the state of the weather;
too wet to plow or plant any
thing" while last week it was too
dry. The weather is never right for
those fellows. They, like Wilkins
Micawber, are waiting for some
thing to turn up, instead of going
out to turn up something. The
prudent farmer is at home, wet or
dry, when it rains doing odd jobs
that he need not do when he ought
to be in the field. Apportion your
time, you need all of it; have a
system in performing your work;
work in season, and plant In season,
so when harvest comes the fruits OF
your labor will be fully realized.
Stop your croaking about the
1.worthlessness of the country. If
the country don't suit you pack up
your traps and go. Nobody COM
PEELED you to come here and nobody
will stop you from going, provided
always, you can escape the sheriff.
Boys and girls forced against
their will through long course of
study distasteful and abhorrent to
them, are always failures, only
mere parrots and chatterers through
their lives. We love the rough
honesty of homely humor and comic
good sense, even though some OF
the higher rules of rhetoric may be
| violated. We love a man whose
native boyishness is not all lost by
the use of a hair brush and shoe
blacking; whose nature is not all
4 1fcumpeu Ouu osnu Ur U''n0a Z" "'S ~
don't care if his coat isra little ou
Of fashion, and his speech a llttl
too much emphasized-we sa!
} THAT man is natural, he does reall.
live-he4shows it; he acts just a
he feels, and he means what h
says" On the other hand, W
hate with true hatred the shan
who weighs every meal he eats 10
q fear he shall take more than the LAY
9 of physiology allows; who marx
S with exact precision every word n
n utters; values the cut OF coal
J. and is most scrupulously nice abot
% contact with this nasty world; WI
70 hates good, honest dirt. uses e9
n glasses young; goes to the theat'
n with very nice' young ladle
bows well at party, and is an e.
- cellent Judge of perfumery.
~ From all such, good Lord dellV
~. us! We like boys who give evlden
~ of a determination to hew their oV
~ way in the world. They are the n
~ tural kings of society, and II II
- - to develop the natural, untarnlsh
49, 49, impulses of their souls, will ma
their mark in the world, and be
some use to their fellow creature
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09
THINGS YOU MAY WANT TO'kNON
Pungent Paragraphs Picked up by Our Perann-
buIating Pencil Pushss.

Owing to printers error in the
publication Of the notice of special
election for the extension of the
city limits, it was found necessary
to postpone the election and it will
be held ON Monday, April rs.
The boys who disturbed the con.
gregation at the Methodist church
last Sunday night by talking all
through the service will do well to
remember that the law provides
very severe penalties for such ac'
tions, and that laws are sometimes
enforced.
w. w. Ausmus, one of the pros
porous and well known farmers on
route 1, was in St. Louis this week
and bought a span of big fine work
mules for which he paid $500. They
are i've years old, we'll matched and
one of the best teams in this part
of the country.
Very little interest was taken in
the school election Tuesday. 9. S.
Welsh and w. r. Barton were re
elected as members Of the board
without opposition and the levy
will b one dollar on the hundred
dollars valuation, with an eight
months term of school.
The city election last Tuesday
was the quietest in years. A very
light vote was cast and the follow
ing officers were elected without op-
position: T. J. Welsh, mayor;
Robert Wood, marshal; W. H.
Barton, alderman in west ward and
William Kraft, alderman In east
ward.
1--Tne S1os,rcss .s~=.------- g H. -aaladf
Royal Neighbor camp went tt
Meadville on Friday of last weef
and initiated candidate for th'
camp at that place. They were
royally entertained by the Meadvill'
camp, had a fine supper and lots o
fun, and enjoyed every minute o
the trip. ~
Geo. w. Anderson was in Lin
neus Monday to call the attentlo
Of the county court to the pressln
need for a new steel bridge acros
Big Turkey creek just east OF Joh
Naples. The court made the nj
> cessary order with instructions
rush the work and the new brlde
3 will be put in just as soon as 1t ca
be made, which will probably be
about six weeks.
l. Next Friday the taking OF Il
census begins all over the Unit
IL States. When the enumerat
/. comes to you with a string OF que
% tions about a mile long, just ansW
them and be done with it. L
% enumerator has no personal intere
in YOUR answers, but Uncle ST
insists that answers must be Civ
promptly and truthfully, and I
D. less fuss you make about 1t t
ne sooner it is over with. Ii y
8 don't remember when you w
s. married or how old your chlldl
lo are, better look it up.
"a The Henderson Morris Prod'
st company has leased from the r.
at road company the ground just sol
III of their poultry house on the sol
side of of the track and carpent
have begun work on their I
building. This will be 4Ox56 I
Ia part of it will be two stories hi
The company's business here
W.T. growing so rapidly that it bees
W.T. necessary for them to have Il
.wt buildings nearer together an6
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09
TOWN And COUNTRY IN BRIEF
Local Events Of The Past Week Recorded For
Busy Blade Readers.

pasture.
John Deere No. 9 corn planters
at Moberly's.
sr, Some good timothy hay for sale
by T. M. Hogan.
All goods sold by Moberly are
fully guaranteed.
A good five room house for rent,
Inquire at postoffce..
@. M. Burnett wants a few more
customers for Jersey milk.
Luncheon olives, large an d
bright, at Carothers & Aliens.
Some good milch cows for sale
by J.. G.. Clinefelter, route one.
Regular meeting Of the Modern
Woodmen next Wednesday night.
A carload of Velie buggies and
carriages just received at Moberly's.
See the Great Western ball bear
ing manure spreader at Moberly's.
\. Barred Plymouth Rock eggs 75c
per setting. ttig A. NJ. Walker, phone
7O4.
Sharples Tubular cream separa-
tors for sale by G. G. Moberly. See
them.
Heinz sauer kraut-it's fine
25c per gallon at Carothers q
Aliens.
Gasoline engines, air or water
cooled, all sizes, for sale by q. q.
Moberly.
Pasture to let by the head. A. E.
Common, ~ miles northeast of
Laclede.
LacIede Mill has all kinds of feed
on hand. All feed delivered
promptly.
John Deere plows-gang, sulky
and walking-in stock at =. y.
Moberly's.
Just received fresh barrel OF
cookies, SC per dozen, at Carothers
& Aliens.
House and 4 acres of ground I
miles north of Laclede for rent bJ
A. Ell. Farrar.
A lot Of good white oak fence
posts for sale by John McDonnell
route one, Laclede.
Fancy recleaned cowpeas, can
and millet seed at Moberly's. II
handles only the best.
White iron, single bed complet
with springs and mattress for sal
by Miss Grace Sissons.
We want your eggs and Will pa
YOU the highest market price
cash Carothers & Allen.
The local branch of the Hendel
SON Morris Produce Co. shipped OF
a car of eggs Wednesday.
Biddle Market, the coffee WI
the highest cup quality, 25c p
pound, at Carothers & Allen s.
There is no other cracker qul
SO rich and crisp as the Premlu
soda. for sale by Carothers & Ale
Eggs from high scoring 5.
Buff orpingtons 81 for 10; =.
Webley, route 8, Laclede; pho
7O9.
The best painters in town use
only strictly pure palnt-Mou
City Co.'s Horse Shoe brand.
R. Barton.
C. G. Moberly has in stock a
and complete line of John De
implements. The warehouse
full of them.
The w. G. T. u. will meet
home of Mrs. White promptly
2:3O next Tuesday afternoon.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09

Moline wagons at MOberly's.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1910-04-09
Feed Prices at LacIede MiII

Note these prices on feed at La
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
A WAR WITH JAPAN.
Better Than Their Labor and Morals,
Says California Senator.

Better Than Their Labor and Morals,
Says California Senator.
State Senator Frank MCGOWAN of
California in an address before the
convention of building trades Of Cali
fornia, the other day at Monterey, Cal.
declared that the Pacific coast was
threatened with flood of 1.-THE cheap
labor and cheaper morals of Japan"
at is better" he said, "to have q
war with Japan than to have this
country filled with these people, who
by their cheaper mode of living can
drive out the white man in any occu-
patton they enter" He attacked the
last legislature for what he called '.its
cowardice in refusing to enact more
vigorous exclusion laws against the
Japanese" "They fawned before ia
pan for fear of a conflict between our
two civilizations" he said. The only
war MCGOWAN said he feared was a
war between the two standards of life.
in which America would go down to.
defeat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
ON CAME TRAILS WITH ROOSEVELT
Habits Of the Buffalo, Deemed
by Many Hunters a. Africa's
Most DANGEROUS Beast. De-
scribed by Former President.
N the February Scribner's former
prnefdon+ Thooao,. Do.,. =.

N the February Scribner's former
President Theodore Roosevelt in
u his article on african Game
Trails describes as follows the
habits Of the buffalo he saw during a
hunt in which he participated while
Z guest at Mr.. Heatley's ranch, lying
between the REVERB and Kamiti riv-
ers:
AS I have said before, the buffalo
Il by many hunters esteemed the most
dangerous of African game. 1t is an
enormously powerful beast, with, in
this country, a coat of black hair
which becomes thin in the old bulls
and massive horns which rise into
great bosses at the base, these bosses
sometimes meeting in old age so as
to cover the forehead with a frontlet
Of horn. Their habits vary much in
different places. Where they are
much prosecuted they lie in the dens-
est cover and only venture out into
the open to feed at night. But Heat
ley, though he himself had killed a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
GORDON IN THE WRONG PEW.
Mississippi Senator's Experience In
Barber Shoo

Mississippi Senator's Experience In
Barber Shop.
Colonel James Gordon, Mississippi's
new senator, has learned that there
are two barber shops in the senate
wing of the capitol building at Wash
tngton. This information cost him a
new silver dollar. The Mississipplan
has long hair, and beard. and there
are times when it is worth dollar
to have barber give him proper at
tention. In the main basement COR
ridor leading to the house wing there
is large barber shop for the exclu-
sive- use of senators. No charge is
made, for the BARRIERS are paid by the
government, being carried on the rolls
as messengers or laborers. On the
floor below, in the endorsement, there
is a barber shop, patronized by capitol
employees, where the usual charges
are exacted for shaves, hair cuts, etc.
Senator Gordon went to the capitol
the other day looking for barber
shop. He accosted new policeman,
who was unaware of the fact that Mr..
Gordon was senator. He directed
the senator to the shop used by the
employees. When Mr.. Gordon had
been properly trimmed up" he ten
dered the obsequious negro q silver
dollar. He thought he was in the
shop used by senators, and his dollar
was in the nature Of first call tip.
The barber offered him the change,
but with courtiy wave Of his hand
Colonel Gordon indicated that he de-
sired nothing back
''I'm SENATOR" he said.
us you all?" queried the startled
but doubtful barber
Eyes; may not look like a senator,
but l am one just the same" replied
Colonel Gordon as he buttoned his
frock coat and left the shop.
Later one of Senator Gordon's
friends told him of his mistake. The
senator said he had got what he went
after. and his friend added, Yes, you
were in the right church, but the
wrong pew."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29


own worms. The earth at the edges
OF the spring had lots OF worms. and
whenever fish saw one crawling out
OF the ground he would Jump oR OF
the water and grab It. My Rhode
Island reds, in scratching about tho
spring saw what the fish were doing.
Now. what do you think those muir
derous hens did? They went to my
potato patch. where I'd put Paris
green. They got their bills full OF
poison. went back to the spring and
washed their bills free Of the Paris
green. ! tried hard to get the poison
out Of the spring. bit was too late
1t dissolved. The next morning all
the fish were dead
Now, the hens have the worms.
and we don't dare drink from the
spring And some people say that
chickens haven't any brains
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
AMERICAS CHIEF FORESTER.
Training In Forestry of Henry s.
Graves, Pinehot's Successor.


Graves, Pinchot's Successor.
Henry S. Graves, who has been Sc.
lected by President Taft and Secre.
tary Of Agriculture Wilson to succeed
Clifford Pinchot as chief Of the forest
service of the United States, was for
two years assistant chief Of the old
division of forestry under Mr.. Pinchot,
and he has been director Of the Yale
forestry school since 1900. He was
graduated from that university in 1892
and was trained in forestry in the
United States and by European study
He was connected with the reconnois.
sance forest survey of the Black Hills
In 1897. Is.
The new forester was born in Mari.
'etta, o.. and brought up in Andover,
Mass, where his father was for many
years member Of the faculty Of Phil
lips academy. He prepared for college
Ct this academy and entered Yale with
the class Of '92. In college he played
quarterback with the varsity football
team and gained high rank IN scholar
ship. He was led to take up the study
Of forestry by Mr.. Pinchot. After a
course of graduate study at Har.
ward he Joined Mr.. Pinchot at Bit
more, N. O., where on the estate Of
George w. Vanderbilt the first applica-
ton Of scientific forestry to American
conditions was being made. After his
work at Biltmore Mr.. Graves went
abroad for technical traininp IN Eh,ro.
pean professional schools Of forestry.
since no technical instruction In fores-
try was then obtainable in the. United
States. No other American except Mr..
Pinchot had anticipated him, in. this
step. Indeed, he was the second
American to enter the profession.
Mr.. Graves foreign studies were car.
ried on under the most eminent Of the
old world foresters, Sir DIETRICH Bran
dis, principally at Munich. on his re-
turn to the United States he was asso-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
MH ROOSEVELT AND BUFFALO COW PAPYRr
GRASS, SHOWING THE DANGER DIFFICULTY OF BUl
FALO HUNTING =

couple of bulls and the Boer farmer
who was working for him another, had
preserved the herd from outside mo-
lestation, and their habits were doubt
less much what they would have been
in regions where man is rare WIS.,
ttor.
Grazing Habits of the Buffalo.
1.-THE first day we were on Heatley's
farm we saw the buffalo, to the num-
Der Of seventy or eighty, grazing in the
open some hundreds Of yards from the
papyrus swamp, and this shortly after
noon. For mile from the papyrus
swamp the country was an absolutely
fat plain, gradually rising into a gen
tie slope, and it was an impossibility
to approach the buffalo across this
plain save in one way to be mentioned
hereafter.
Probably when the moon was full
the buffalo came out to Craze by night.
But while we were on our hunt the
moon was young, and the buffalo evil
IDENTIFY spent most of the night in the
papyrus and came out to Craze by day.
Sometimes they came out in the early
morning, sometimes in the late even
ing. but quite as often in the bright
daylight. We saw herds come out to
Craze at 10 O'Clock in the morning
and again at in the afternoon. They
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
Stirring Account OF Critical
Moment During a Buffalo
Hunt = How a Charge by the
Beasts Was Luckily Prevented.
usually remained out several hours,
first grazing and then lying down."
Stalking the Quarry.

How a veteran. hunter named Gun
inghame led the hunting party to-
ward the buffalo and a most exciting
as we'll as critical incident of the hunt
near small half dried water course
are described in the same article by
Mr.. Roosevelt, who says:
1--WE crept up the water course until
= tut opposite the buffalo, which were
..oT lying down. Cuninghame peered
cautiously at them, saw there were
two or three and then led us on all
fours toward them, There were patch
es where the grass was short and other
places where it was three feet high,
and after a good deal of cautious
crawling we had covered half the dis
lance toward them when one of them
made us out and several rose from
their beds. They were still at least
200 yards off, long range for heavy
rifles. but any closer approach was i'm
possible, and we fred. Both the lead
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
COMFORT FOR NEAR-oLD MAID
Woman at Her Best at Twenty eight.
Says Chicago Matron.

Woman at Her Best at Twenty eight.
Says Chicago Matron.
Is an unmarried woman an "old
maid" at twenty eight?
Decidedly not. according to Mrs.
Henry Jaffray of Chicago, who ad-
dressed the West Side Co-educational
club, 1858 Washington boulevard, the
other day.
"An unmarried woman of twenty
eight is an important factor in social
and business life." She said, land she
probably is better looking at that age
than at any other AT one period of
our civilization she might have been
an old maid But that time has
passed. She doesn't have to marry
now unless she wants to. She can
go into business, take up profession
and do many other things, but she is
not an old maid.'"
A large audience of women applaud
ed the sentiment Of the speaker.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
HENS THAT POISONED FISH
Ez Cobb Tells About Pets That Had
* Brains and Knew How to
Use Them.

"Pshaw!" said Ez Cobb. Barkers-
vile poultry fancier. when he read
about hen owned by H. c. Spauldiny
OF Colebrook. digging bait for her
owner when he had the fishing fever
Ihats nothing. I've got some Rhode
Islands reds that poisoned Ash to
death because the fish stole worms
from en-
How did they do that?" demanded
an incredulous listener.
Il have deep spring In an open
lot" replied Ez. THE fish / kept In
1t got so wise that they dug their
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
lfARsHA11row IOWA JANUARY 49, 1910

ernor OF Missouri, from whom he got
his first name.
In refuting the charge Of efeminacy
Mr.. Ilginfritz says that Gin these days
OF militant and manly women we poor
men, who are gradually being robbed
OF all our distinctive attributes and
claims to superiority as the stronger
sex. have the perfect right to counter
balance the movement, and If we exer-
else few feminine comforts and priv
1leges surely no one can complain"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking does not cure children of
bed-wetting. There is a constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. SUM
mers, Box w. Notre Dame, Ind. will
send free to any mother her success.
ful home treatment. with full instruc-
tons. Send no money, but write her
today II your children trouble you in
this way. Don't blame the child, the
chances are 1t can't help 1t. This treat
ment also cures adults and aged peo-
pie troubled with urine difficulties by
day or night.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29

ing bulls were hit, and at the shots
there rose from the grass not half q
dozen buffalo, but seventy or eighty,
and started at gallop parallel to the
swamp and across our front. In the
rear were a number of cows and calves,
and / at once singled out COW and
fired. She plunged forward at the shot
and turned toward the swamp, going
slowly and dead lame, for my bullet
had struck the shoulder and had gone
into the cavity of the chest.
Nearly Charged by the Herd.
sBut at this moment our attention
was distracted from the wounded COW
by the conduct of the herd, which,
headed by the wounded bulls, turned
In quarter circle toward us and drew
up in a phalanx facing us with out
stretched heads. 1t was not nice
country in which to be charged by the
herd, and for moment things trem-
bled in the balance. There was a per-
ceptible motion of uneasiness among
some of our followers. Stand steady!
Don't rum called out. And don't
shoot! called out Cuninghame, for to
do either would invite charge. A
few seconds passed, and then the I'M
wounded mass of the herd resumed
their fight, and after a little hesita-
ton the wounded bulls followed"
+ + +
ciated with Mr.. Pinchot In his once az
consulting forester in New York city.
When Mr. Pinchot became forester of
the department Of agriculture in July.
1898, Mr.. Graves became his first as
sistant. He carried on forest explora.
lions and Investigations in the west,
He left the forest service in 1900 to
become the head Of the Yale forestry
school. In the intervals of his work
at Yale he made number of trips in
the national forests Of the west, some
times as adviser Of the government
and sometimes for private study of
forestry problems.