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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
Campaign Against Housefly.

1t has been announced by Chief
Entomologist Howard that farm
er's bulletin will soon be issued by
the United States agricultural de-
partment outlining a national cam
paign for the determination of the
housef1y. We have shooed the fly
from the kitchen with our aprons,
treated him to deadly poison and
entangled his nimble feet in tempt
ing sickness, but he is still in evil
dence. Driven from one stronghold
he purSueS his VexatiouS occupa-
ton in another. He disturbs our
after dinner nap in the hammock,
he sneaks in whenever we open the
screen door and buzzeS so jubilant-
ly that the housekeeper thinks there
is whole army of him in the house.
He seems to be an unconquerable
pest. But now Uncle Sam has come
to the rescue and announces that
science will seek to accomplish
what the good housewife has been
unable to do drive the fly from
the face of the land. Thanks. Uncle
Sam. We will smooth out our
aprons, put away our fly papers and
follow science to the utter annihila-
ton of the enemy. We await orders
from Washington. In the mean
time let us look after the garbage
and the sink drains and other spots
which will make good habitation
for the little creature. Absolute
cleanliness will do much to keep
the housefy away. National Daily.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
The Land

Chicago, April 15.-The report of
the submerged and shore lands leg
islative investigating committee, ON
which that body is now working for
presentation to the next legislature,
will contain the declaration that
property valued at upwards of $75,-
100000 has been grabbed from the
state by guest corporations and by
individuals in Chicago alone. Rec
concentrations almost strong enough
to be termed a demand will be made
that the legal machinery of the
state be employed to wrest this
property from its present possessors.
The land in question is located
along the lake front from end to
end of Chicago, along the Chicago
river, Calumet river and the lakes
and waterways of the Calumet re-
gion.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
SONS. Thomas, Luther and William,
and a daughter, Clara, to mourn
their loss.
Packing the Supreme Court.

A Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Post, Robert F. VIII
son, reports the progressives in pol
itics as believing that they have
driven the Standpatters to their
last ditch the United States SUI
preme Court" as an intrenchment
from which to battle for property
privileges against human rights.
Under cover of cabinet houseclean-
ing" according to this correspond
ent, there will be chance to pack
the Supreme Court for privilege for
70 years" by filling four places on
that bench which are or are about
to be vacant, with comparatively
young men whose whole training
and careers have made them essen
TALLY hostile to personal rights
and who, with the new Justice,
Lurton, will have a majority on the
bench of nine members. - The Pub
lie.
Mrs. Carrie B. Jordon of Lewis
town, Idaho, arrived Saturday to
visit her brother, j. Gardner Wade.
and other relatives. Mrs. Jordon
~as reared in this city and at one
time known as one of Monroe's
pretty girls.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21

tional committe, the Republican
congressional committee and the
president. He was asked to size
up the situation and to do what
some of the big Republican papers
of that region would do, namely,
present the attitude of the admins
tration regarding its legislative pro-
grams, and tell what was the real
record of two months of the new
tariff bill.
In his book on Twenty Years in
Congress" said Mr.. McKinlay,
James G. Blaine said that the time
would probably come when the great
food-producing states would turn to
free trade, snd the south, becoming
a manufacturing region, would ask
for protection. That time seems to
be almost here. The middle west is
shouting for lower tariff. Some of
the great Republican papers there
are demanding that men be elected
to congress who will insist next
winter on revising the tariff down.
ward. Senators Beveridge, Cum
minis, LaFollette, Dolliver, Clapp,
Bristow and the insurgent repre-
sentatives in the house are con-
stantly demanding a lower tariff.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
Moss.

j. Warren Moss, Gl years old,
is no more. He was stricken with
paralysis at his home in lakewood
Thursday, and Friday the stroke
was repeated and death followed.
Mr.. Moss was at one time a citi-
zen of this city and known as a
good quiet man and a good citizen.
The remains were brought to this
city to the home Of his son. Luther.
and Sunday taken to Mt. Vernon
where the funeral services were
conducted by Rev. H. w. James at
ii o'clock a IN.
Mr.. Moss left q devoted wife. and
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
A Danger to Party.

Washington, April IA Unless
the protectionists of the country
awaken to the meaning and impor-
lance of the insurgent movement,
says Representative Duncan McKin-
lay, 1t is probable that the forces of
the Democracy and the insurgents,
by uniting in the middle west, will
be able to return enough Demo-
cratic members to congress to COM
pei a reopening to the tariff ques-
ton next winter and the passing of
the lowest tariff bill the country has
ever known. That is what Mr.. Nc
Kinlay thinks INSURGENCY means.
The congressman from California
( has returned from trip through
the great food-prOducing country OF
the middle west. where be went at
the request Of the Republican ma
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
The Dehornins of Cannon.

The dehorning of one Joe Cannon,
is a Democratic victory, though we
are happy to state, every Democrat
ic congressman voted to be freed
from the old trust agents autocratic
rule 1t could not have been ac-
complished, if the Democrats had
not been aided by the votes of the
insurgent Republicans. These men
had independent views and in ex-
pressing them, had incurred the ire
of the tyrant who abused and in
suited them.-Platte County Land
mark.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
Negro Children in Missouri.

That the number of negro chill
dren of school age is steadily de-
creasing in Missouri and has been
for the past ten years is indicated
by the annual report of Howard A.
Gass, state superintendent of public
schools, for the school year ending
June go 1909. In 1899 there were
50,873 negro children enumerated.
In 1909 only 43,857, which is a
decrease in ten years of 7,016. The
total enumeration of all children in
Missouri of school age, that is be,
tween 6 and 20 years old, for the
school year ended June 80, 1909
was 1,005,O92, which is a net in.
crease over the year previous Of
20,433. The increase, however, is
confined solely to the cities.-Han,
nibal Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
Taft Going After Kansas.

President Taft is arranging to send
a score or more congressman to
Kansas to try to make the citizens
of that state believe against their
good judgment that the present tar
if law is the best ever enacted. AL
drich may possibly have made Taft
believe that such is the case, but
no one can make the majority of
the people believe it.-Albany Ledg-
er.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
PRETTY SCENES
On One of Missouri's Most Fertile
and Productive Farms.

A drive to what for many years
was the John o. Wood farm just
east of the city would be an eye
opener for not only a townsman
but farmer from any state in the
union.
1t is an 800 acre tract of as fine
fertile well laying soil as can be
found any where out doors. A
large portion of it is virgin soil,
never tickled by the point of pillow
and nearly all of the balance has
been in grass and used by herds OF
cattle for feeding grounds, there
fore it comes under the head of as
rich as cream"
Six hundred acres of that lovely
farm is being put in corn. Gee
just to sit in a buggy and watch
those sixteen teams hitched to
plows, harrowS and planters is a
sight worth more than going three
miles to see. And what will the
harvest be? A bounteOus one for
that kind of soil tickled by the
husbandman means prosperity.
And corn is not the only crop out
there for 140 acres of it is in oats
and it looks as fine as silk.
Then there is the large barns and
cribs. The pretty home and the
arteSian wells that through pipes
distributes water to the different
fields.
Mr.. Wood farmed it himself, but
it has fallen into the hands of a
townsman D. K. Vowel and he
rents it out on the shares. The one
tenant JnO. !. Thomas and other
renters give 1-2 half of the corn
shucked and in the crib. Two-fifths
of the oats in the bin. Stock fields
are reserved to protect the lands.
The house, barns and go acres of
blue grass lands rents for $500 per
year.
Is it a typical Missouri farm? AS
we are not real estate men we say,
No. For it is an unusually good
farm we'll located, well watered and
is above the average farm In any
mans country and that is the rea-
son we say, it is a beauty and
worth ones while to ride three miles
to see it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
A Roast for Kentucky.

Caleb Powers, who has been con-
victed three times and sentenced to
life imprisonment twice and once
to hang for completely in the muir
der of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky in
1900, and since pardoned by the
present governor, is a candidate for
Congress in the 18th Kentucky dis
trict. There's gall for you. But Ken
lucky has become so disgraced by
the murder of Goebel and the cleo
ton of Republican governor who
pardoned all those alleged assassins,
that not even the sending of a par
doned criminal to Congress can
sink that commonwealth any deep
er in the mire. Montgomery Stand
ard.
A Skunk by Amy Other Name, Etc.
Inc world co move. Not so
long ago but what it is fresh in the
mind of Major William Warner, the
Republicans in charge of affairs in
in Missouri frequently burned the
ballots" before counting time had
arrived. Now, the Hadley plan, is
to keep the ballots too long for the
protection of the law to prevent a
multilation or a change and then
yell vociforously for a new count.
It's not such long reach from the
Rodman-Warner way to the Hadley
way. Skunks that come out of the
same hole usually match well in
smell and it doesn't increase your
affection or respect for them to
learn that they went in at different
places. Lexington News.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
Joe Is the High Priest.

Not single Missouri Republican
congressman voted in favor of
trouncing old Joe Cannon. All of
them voted to keepinlive the trusts,
and trust gang in the house. The
high priest of this gang is Joe:Can-
non.-Plattes County Landmark.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
A Cruel Blow to Joe.

One of the crueIestEthines.sthe
Democrats and insurgents did for
Old Joe Cannon. was to defeat the
bill to buy the old trust agent an
automobile.-Platte County Land
mark.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
Bad Nail.

Master Gilbert Walker discarded
his shoes Thursday for nature and
pleasure. Some two hours later he
lift a board with a wire nail in it
and it fell on the instep of his bare
foot and punctured it badly.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21

"A young woman from the city
had been staying on a ranch up in
the cattle country for q few weeks.
Seeing some calves running across
a pasture she exclaimed, Obi what
pretty cowletS."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
NEW BOOK
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Containing All of His Important Public Uu

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In two handy volumes You follow Mr. Bryan practically
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The subject matter of these speeches wide range
from the fundamental and vital problems of national and world Life
to the highest ideals of human endeavo handy
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
What the Missouri
Editors Are Saying
Placed in a Padded Cell.

Cannonism may not be dead, but
it has been placed in a padded cell
where it can do no HARM Kansas
City Star.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21

Miss Laura Hornback of Palmy-
ra. arrived Friday to spend several
days with her sister, Mrs. ]. C.
Hardy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
A Brief Outlines Of Contents

In these volumes will find all his important political speeches
on the Tariff Banking Currency Bmeasm Income Tax Money
the Silver Question: Imperialism Coonaism Government Owner
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State and Nation etc. Here will find all his speeches
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21

W. A. Morthland and sister, Mrs.
Josephine RACER Of Warren, were in
the city Friday enroute to Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21

E A. Thompson was a business
visitor in Palmyra Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-04-21
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-28
MANY WILL ATTEND
SUMNER SCHOOLS
Superintendent Eggleston Be
lieves Records for Hot Weather
Attendance Will Be Broken

Attendance at the summer normal
schools of Virginia will be larger this
Year than ever before. according 10
reports received by Superintendent OF
Public Instruction Eggleston Monday.
Already the number of students at
the summer school at the University
OF Virginia. which began several day )
ago, In increasing daily. and beyond
the wudes; expectations, The scho01
started with 900 entrants and there
are almost 1000 there now. 1t is
believed 1900 will attend the school
during the summer.
The naming summer norra1s Will
begin Wednesday. The latest ad-
vance Information regarding them is
that all records have been broken for
the number of students entered.
The schedule of locations OF the
schools and those in charge of them
follow;
University OF Virginia, DR. Bruce
H, Payne. of Charlottesville.
Covington, Joseph Fl. Saunders. of
Norfolk.
Big Stone Gap. ]. N. Hillman. of
Coeburn.
Martinsville. N. p. Painter. of Roa-
noke.
Newport News. Ernest shawen. OF
Norfolk
Winchester, c. NJ Farmer, Of Ber-
ryville
Emory. S. r. McChesney. of gris-
toll
Chase city, r. r. Jones, OF Peters
burg,
Fredericksburg. A. b. Chandler, of
Richmond.
Farmville. J. l.. Jarman, of Farm
vile.
Galax. f. B. Fitzpatrick, of Roa-
noke.
Harrisonburg. j. A Burruss. of
Harrisonburg.
For Colored Teachers.
Hampton, George r. Phenix. OF
Hampton.
Petersburg, j. II. Johnston. of Pc
tersburg.
Cambria, Z. a. Long, of Cambria.
Chase City, J, B. Terrell, of Chase
Citq
Lynchurg, J. II. Diggs. OF Lynch
burg.
Manassas j. P Hin. of Manassas
Fredericksburg. w. A. Wright. OF
Fredericksburg.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-28
NO SMOKES LEFT FOR
QUEEN OF BULGARIA
Her Majesty's Escort Finds Only
Empty Boxes in Smoking
Room.

PARIS. June ga somewhat EN-
ba rrassing incident occurred at re-
ception given by NJ. Picnon. minister
Of foreign affairs, and Mime. Pichon
at the foreign Office in honor OF the
king and queen of Bulgaria. Severa
hundred guests attended the reception
Including members of the diplomatic
corps and the elite OF society.
After the sovereigns had partakef
Of refreshments the queen expressed q
wish 10 smoke a Russian cigarette
NJ. Piohon escorted her to the smoking
room. In which there were many
guests smoking and drinking liquors
NJ. Pichon promptly went to a table
on which cigars and cigarettes were
supposed 10 be, but 10 his great dis
may he found only empty boxes re-
NAMED
A minute Of awkward embarrass-
ment followed. NJ. Pinchon rapidly
explored the room for cigarettes, but
without result. The queen. who war
standing near him, understood and
saved the situation by talking to a
lady. NJ. Pinchon almost immedia teIy
offered her his arm and escorted her
away,
The incident was noticed b yonly a
few of tho guests. as many of them did
not see or did not recognize the queen
and continued to drink and smoke the
while.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-28
MURPHY ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER JEFFRIES' CHANGE

RENO. June 2S.--Mike Murphy the
noted trainer, Is growing enthusiastic
over Jeffries' change. One thing that
seems TO impress him most. he says.
Is that Jeffries Is training to condi-
ton, while Johnson is training to the
scales If man Is right, he con-
tends he should not attempt to reach
a fixed weight. Jeffries has refratned
from watching his poundage. whereas
Johnsons chief worry seems to have
been the requirement of certain
weight and to avoid the too early and
dangerous tearing off Of flesh.
1t Is this point that initiates most
against Johnson in the eyes of judges
of the fight. He has been slow in
getting down TO real work and now
that the day of the battle Is so close
he finds II necessary. regardless Of
what his present weight is, to dive
in to his task with vigor that he
should have shown a month ago.
johnson declares he knows best
what to do. and that the greatest
trainer in the country could not as
sist him.
Next Monday afternoon will tell the
story of his condition impressiveIy.
That JEFF Is trying himself out in
boxing as he has never tried himself
since he began work for this engage
ment is evidenced by the really rude
manner in which he treated Sam Ber-
ger Monday, Sam essayed to get fresh
with the big fellow, and when he
started a rally that looked like the
real stuff, Jeffries slid In one of those
stomach punches he has been practic-
ing and Sammy got awfuliy sick In
the breakfast basket. He denies that
Jeffrtes had to hold him to keep him
from going down for the count. but
at any rate he did go to bed and re-
main for some hours before he felt
able to face the cruel world again.
That Mike Murphy thinks better of
the cahbre of Jeffries' trainers than
of Johnson's Is evidenced by the inter-
est he has taken In the work of Farm
err Burns and Roger Cornell. To the
former he has offered a soft berth as
wrestling and training instructor in
the University OF Pennsylvania. and
for Cornell he has offered to secure
one of several comfortable biliets in
| Eastern colleges.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-28
GOVERNOR To SPEAK
At BUSH MEETING
Many Other Grafton and Promi.
nent Men to Participate in
Assembly.

Especial TO The Richmond Virginian)
LEESRU RG. VA, June rs. 1910
The program and prospectus of the big
eight day Bush Meeting at Purcell
vile. this county. which begins its
thirty third annual assembly on Au-
gust I'd. has been published, and shows
an array OF talent engaged which EN-
braces Col Geo. w. Balm, Hon. A. +.
Thomas, Rev. Ora Samuel Gray, MIR.
Ella A. Boole, Gov. VIM. Hodges
Mann. Senator Thos. NJ. Martin. Hon.
C. c. Carlin, Hon. Q. b. Martin. Miss
Jane Lewis. Miss Sybil Semmis, Nc
Dennid. Miss Mary Daniel, Miss Mary
Kennedy Hutchins. the Daley Quar-
tette, Farsin's Fourth Regiment Band
and Orchestra, and other we'll known
entertainers and lectures. This popu-
lar meeting is one of the largest held
In the South.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-28
GOVERNMENT LOSING
MONEY ON WH|skEY
Law Proposed Which Would
Make Change in Present Svs-
TEN of Rectifcation.

LEXINGTON. KY, June eat is
reliably stated In local anti prohibition
circles that at the next session of Com
gress there Will be introduced bill
intended 10 correct evils in the internal
revenue laws, TO Increase the receipts
from liquor and to lessen the expense
TO the government of collecting the
same.
1t is stated that since the govern
ment has permitted the process OF
whtskey rectifcation to he carried on
in the distillery IL has resulted In heavy
loss of revenue. 1t is maintained thai
there is produced not less than one nun
bred and Atty million OF gallons OF
spirits each year and that there Ia a
loss of AT least per cent, occurring IN
the process of rectifying. this being
equivalent to $500. geo gallons, which
at sl.10 per gallon. makes net loss OF
s4,95o.oe0 to the government per year.
1t IL further asserted that the gov
eminent Is put to enormous expense
In placing men at so-caIied rectifying
houses which In reality are only com
pounding or mixing places and frotn
this expense Is returned In nomina
| license.
The proposed bill ~ Is stated will
and will require that II he done as
formerly, after the whishey has beer
tax-paid. in ana by separate concern
under license sufficiently high TO re
tmhnrEe the government for the eN'
pense OF having the business conducte1
under the lock and supervision OF ITS
agents. and that such rectifying con
Germ shall engage in no other business
Likewise tho compounder or mixer
will be furnished a stamp or still an
other color and hts packages also be
marked and controlled as In the case
Of the straight whisksy distilier. and
such eompounder shall pay 10 the gov
ernment the sum of $40 per gallon
fwine or proof stamped out In excess
OF the proof gallons received by him.