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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28


New Madrid county farmers
are holding meetings to discuss
the question Of high rents.
Robert Mentesr OF Madison
county has nine hills Of pump.
kins on which there are 1t9
pumpkins.
A new railroad from Cape Gi-
rardeau to Portsgeville via New
Madrid ie . certainty. says the
Portageville Critic.
Walk Bros. OF Ste. Gsnevieve
threshed So, 900 bushels Of wheat
with their machine this year, and
claim the championship for tne
amount Of work done.
The squatters Of Big Lake have
received information from Wash :
ington that the U. 8. Land Com ,
missioner has decided that Big
Lake is government land and
that IL viii be surveyed at the
time the other lakes are sur-
veyed. -Blythsville Courier.
The public will probably hear
something soon not very vots-
deserving about the record Of q
certain Republican candidate ior
office In this county. II what ID
said is true the fellow deserves 10
be in jail, where certain Demo.
cratic politicians tried to get the
Cash. Book to land another die.
tinguished candidate for office in
1904.-,Jackson Cash Book.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28

A machine has been attached
to q shingle-mill at Gideon, by
means OF which the sawdust is
baled up like hay.
The fight between the Frisco
railroad and the city Of Cape
Girnrdeau will probably be COM
promised soon, and 1t 10 intimated
the CITY viii win and sgain secure
the shops which were moved to
Chaffee.
All Of Che Fe;rs Throughout.
Southeast Missouri report . big
success. Among the exhibits ct
Piedmont were three bed d-spresds
one Ito years old, one 100, and
the other 100 years.
The strawstack Of Edward Per-
ringer Of Madison county was
slruck By lightning ou the 2sd
Iult. and burned. Il vas an un-
|usaslly large stsck, for 1900
bushaIs of wheat had been
thrsshed from Il. g
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28

The barn on Ben Gockeiss farm,
~ arsi noijaa sot,thseat of Iactr.
fson, vas struck BY lightning
Tussday morning and destroyed
By iire Four horses belonging
u Barney Heiserer and two be.
|lonfine to Frank Heider were
|k;llsd. TIA cortarts "a ,hs harm
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iso9k
rhe Dsxtar Messenger advises
- $500. i laar !. ioa,,o.,. y,
3 Assp Z. =.
pfstty evenings Of q strictly home
built and heme operated aero-
plane which 1t says is now being
built and equipped In Dexter and
which ID expected to be flying
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28
'RoUNDABoUTTHE STATE.


Centralia is coming right along.
Il has . Lynnhurst addition.
Joha Martin, 8 negro OF Rich.
mond, died last week. He
weighed 400 pounds.
A former Princeton citizen vis-
tied that town last week after an
absence Of tifty years.
But is Our Dave really worth
as much as thirty million dollars,
as .'the enemy" increasingly
charges.
Life is worth while up in Trsn.
ton. The town has . 'possum
brigade--and the 'possum and
'coons are plentiful.
No one has sent in q satistac.
tory answer to the Maryville Tri-
bone's query: "Why will people
make fools Of themsslves?"
M.L.Fraacis OF the Slater News
admonishes 10 "elways look .
man in the eye whom you talk to
~ y "
him--likewiss . mule" Been
kicked, hub?
The monument to the memory
of General James Shields, being
built at his grave In Carrollton,
soon will be completed, and II Is
proposed to unvsil il November
12th.
The Rankin No. 20 10 q new
automobile to be made by the
Midland Manufacturin Company
at Tarkio. Itis said to be . very
fine car with 9 number OF entirely
new features.
They have 9 little OF the real
spirit over in Santa Fe, q small
place in Monroe county, where
$50, 600 was raised to insure the
coming Of the electric interurban
railroad from Mexico.
No wonder Springfield In.
creased more than 30 per cent in
population in the last ten years,
Who wouldn't move I, . town
where they serve cider and gin
gsrbrsad at "functions?"
An incentive not 10 call father
AMI mother the ''old man" and
the "old woman" is found in the
fact that . ST. Louis youth has
Inherited : fortune because Of bis
uniaillng courtesy snd Kindness
% his elders
The Ozark turkey Is on top. A
big crop Of the festive birds 10 IN
sight for Thanksgiving and
Christmas times and the farmer
win reap q big income. Prices
viii likely range from 12 to is
cents per pound down there.
II . second horse can be So
cured . horseback riding clut
win be organised at Craig. with
Miss Eva Sharp as president. Th'
Leader says i isn't considered
advisable 70 have more than feal
members 70 one horse. Also, th'
horse might kick.
rh.se ara so,na ii ths oldsa
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28

on its surface was traced an or
namental scroll work. tits sup
posed that the pipe ~as made by
Spanish or French people and
brought into this country by
traders or fur hunters.
An example OF how q railroad
can make or break q small town
10 shown ia the case Of New
Franklin. When the st. Louis
division of the Katy railroad was
built from New Franklin along
the north bank Of the Missouri
river New Franklin was made the
division headquarters. The town
developed rapidly, attained . size
Of some fifteen hundred. The
railroad men bought homes and
properly in Che belief that the
division was permanent. A year
ago the word was whispered that
the road contemplated moving
the division to Sedalis, and from
then on there was uncertainty
and expectancy. The change has
been msde-snd now New Frank
lin is holding the sack.
A new phrase Of the game law
eas arisen, Over In Grundy
county some men were arrested
for hunting on lands without the
consentof theownsr. Upon trial
it developed that there is nothing
in the new game law forbidding
hunting on lands without the con-
sent Of the owner. Section 2SO2
OF the old law forbade such hunt-
ling, but in the revision OF the new
law the section was unintention-
ally omitted. The men were dis
charged. It must be remembered
however, that entering upou the
lands of Others without consent
subjects the offender ID the nan .
Aides az tresnass. Rnt tha owns,
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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28

ever came down the Republican
pike In Missouri.
Hadley, who pnses ss mildly
''insurgens. " isreally aextremsly
stand d-pat." He Is only seeking
to again give the people ths
|double.oro as be did two years
ago when he was "dry'' ID the
country and s'wet In the cities.
such splendid insurgsnt Re.
publicau Senators ss Bristow,
ICummins. DolIiver and LaFollstte
say that the revision Of the tariff
was In the interest Of the trusts.
viii you vote TO endorse Q party
that thus betrays your
There win be no doubt Of the
result in Missouri this year, only
as to the extent Of our majority,
il every Democrat but does his !
duty. Vote, and work, and Il
win do good II you pray q little
too for victory for the people.
Republicans,are declaring that
the 18th, 14th, 18th and 10th con-
gressional districts OF Missori are
doubtful" In this they are
correct, but the only "doubt"
about them 10 the size Of the ma
jorities the Democratic candidates
win receive.
According to Republican au-
thority, Senator Aldrich, every
week day Of the year the Repub-
licans are in charge OF the gov
nent wastes in reckless extraya-
gance one million dollars. The
way TO stop this leakage 10 10 vote
the Democratic ticket.
The steel trust held . billion
dollar banquet in Chicago Tuss-
day night in which the ''lst we'll
enough alone" slogan was sound
ed. This steel trust is another
one Of the Republican party's In
fsnt industries that is still receiv-
ing its protecting care.
Slick Herbert Hadley fooled
the majority OF the people In Mis-
souri, once, but Herbert will find
that he can't come back with his
goose grease methods OF stand
ling for one thing in the country
and another in the city. The
people are onto his curves.
j What makes the outlook for
Democrats ip Missouri bright Is
the fact all Democrats look alike
this year. There is no "oid
guard" nor Is there any DISPOSE
ton on the part Of one Democrst
to read another out Of the party.
This is what worries the Repub-
lican conspirators, With all their
reeourcefulnsss and ingenuity
they can't start . scrap amongst
the Democrats tLis year. That
Kansas City ''harmony'' meeting
did the work.
] Republicans are toasting, since
they find about $4,000 negroes
have registered in st. Louis. that
they will secure such . large ma
ljority in st. Louis that they will
be able TO overcome the majority
lin the country and defeat our
state ticket. II every Democrat
does his duty and votes himself
and help get out our full country
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1910-10-28

FcLxT1CM COMMENT.
Vote 70 revise the Republican
tariff downward. 81
Get ready to vote against the
trusts November 9Th.
Wake up. Democrats, and get
out . bumper vote November Sth.
The way to reduce your tariff
taxes is to vote the Democratic
ticket.
True this Is an ''off'' year In
politics, but let's make is IN of
all one for the Republicans.
Every Democrat should go to
the polls early and vote to re.
deem Missouri from the blight Of
Hadleyism.
The way TO rebuks Hadley In
his attempt 10 assess farm lands
at full value is 10 vote the Demo-
cratic ticket.
Under the blight Of Hadleyism
Missouri slumps from 9th rank
among the states to that OF 7th.
Turn the rascals out.
The tariff tAx has doubled the
cost Of living and the Republi.
Cans are respoasible for the tariff
tax. Turn the rAscals out.
The way 10 rebuke the Repub-
iican psrty for violating he pledge
to revise the tariff downward 10 to
vote the Democratic ticket,
Line up, boys, for the battle
Tuesday, November 9th. see
that every ballot possible is put
into the box for Democracy.
Give Tuesday, November 9th
to the cause Of Democracy. &c
70 the polls early and vote ! and
work for the Democratic ticket.
A Mr.. Shovlin is q candidate
for treasurer in Montana. He il
q Democrat and indications are
that he will soon be shovlin the
cash.
The State Democratic ticket il
made up Of splendid men ag aims
whom no word Of reproach car
be uttered. Vote the Democrat,
ticket.
A party should keep its prom
ises. The Republican party afts
promising to revise the tarii
downward, really revised it up
ward. Turn the rascals out.
The Republican party is sqoan
dsring $500. 900, ,00Oof the people
money every year. The way Il
stop this riotous extravaganza /
to vote the Democratic ticket.
The Republican party in Mis-
souriis the party OF extravaganc
and high taxes, while the Demo
cratic party is the party of lov
taxes and economy. Take you
choice.
Every farmer who wants hi
land assessed at full value en-,
his taxes thereby increased 80
per cent should vote for Herber
Hedley's boss-namsd Republi
, can ticket.
81 Speaker Cannon oughtn't wor
,try any longer about whether o
! not the next coneress will max
an appropriation for n ausomo
bile Tor the speaker. A muie
; good enough for Champ CLARK.
The Republican party has ore
atsd 90, 600 useless Offices al q
! annual expense ofss1o0, ,o00, ,00(
The way to turn these idle, use
! sslsss ofIieials out i 70 vote Il
! Democratic ticket.
4 Democrats gave Missouri ID
best administratlon of affaifs /,
l any state In the Union. The Va
.lto endorse their magnificent re
n Y -. 4 1II - 17I' 5zia : III
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as she made us happy, and that she
did to the queens taste. Why, the sun
showed always where she was, she was
that kind and CHEEKY to every one But
at last we noticed a change. When she
thought no one was lookin she was sad
and worried, and then when she'd see
some one a comm she'd try to laugh
and sing, but it didn't sound right. 1t
set all of us to thinkin', but we couldn't
imagine what it could be- We knew
1t wasn't bad news, for l was post
master and never letter did she get
as I knew of.
About two weeks before this a
smooth handed, slick voiced chap came
into camp and set up a gambling hail.
None of us took to him much. He was
below there was a lot o. nastiness brew
ing and waiting to bubble up to the
top when least expected. There was
some talk about his bein' a dukes son.
but it was an awful slide down shaft
from dad to kid. But he played square
-he knew his men. He Dragged too
much about his affairs with women,
but we gave him warning that around
Coloma we didn't stand for nothing like
that.
We'll, when / noticed how Lady
Gay looked-that was my name for
her. and every one sort o. took to it,
sitting behind the corner in the store
thinking things over and wishing /
was more like her so that / might be
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able to take things into my own hands
for better -or for worse, when all of
a sudden in rushed Texas Tom, one of
the miners, all excited and out o
breath, who as soon as he could get
his wind shrieks out, Say, Ben, there's
hell to pay down at the DOCKS den.
Lady Gays there playin' the wheel
and she's gambling away for dear life.
You know there's something wrong,
for she amt gone in one of them
places since she's been here. | think
It's time some of us took look into
it,"
Old Ben arose and, taking the
stranger by the sleeve, called his at
tention to a spot a hundred yards or
that apple orchard is there on the other
side?"
The stranger saw.
Well that's where it used to be-
Say, / was over the counter and down
the street before Tom had half a
chance to breathe. When | got Inside
the hall what sight sawv The old
man was growing excited and all of
the tremor had left his voice as he
continued: There was Lady Gay with
a pile of twenties almost a foot across
and near as high, standing at one end
of the table, and his nobs at the other
end twirling the wheel There was
two bright spots burning on her cheeks,
and when she saw me she caught her
breath and ! thought for minute she
was a-going to cry She wouldn't look
me in the eye but kept staring at the
pile in front of her. The Duke, as we
called him, was we'll down in the
mouth, as he might be, for nearly
every bit o. money in the bank was
gone. But after few minutes went
by his luck changed and with spin
o. the wheel a good slice of Lady S
money went flying across the table.
And so hack and forth it went for
soma time
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hill. Ladys last cert went to the Duke
She was as pale as a ghost and that
thing at the other end of the table
looked across at her with a glad sneer
She took one hurried glance around the
hall. and, STOPPING down, hOisted from
under the table a great sack of gold
dust. l held my breath for about one
second. but / knew that whatever she
did was all right she was that straight.
Suddenly In back of me I heard Texas
Tom saying to himself. I swan, 1 never
thought she was that kindr
1T didn't take me long to grab the
hound by the back of the neck and
drag him outside where I nearly shook
the stuffing out O. him. Let go. Ben
he yelled. I didn't mean no harm. but
you know she never got no such sum
cookin' for
HE didn't get no farther, for I made
for to strangle him as 1 said. When
you think things like that about her
keep them to yourselfr He mana ged
to gasp out, Well, you don't need to
get so ornery bout it. I love her toor
You love her? I shrieked, drop
ping him in my surprise and hate.
When man really loves a girl he
hasn't room in his heart for thoughts
like them. he only has room for love
Just then 1 heard a racket in the
room inside, so I left him and walked
back into the place and there was
Lady Gay whittier than death. standing
near the table where out of the opened
sack shot was rolling all over the
table. 1t was the same sack that
had filed with shot to use for a door
weight and had missed two days be-
forei The Duke took a glance and
making for her with one bound he
grabbed hold of her as he shouts.
So that's the way you'd cheat and
get rid of me. is it? You who were
going to play square game, to see
how IT would co. You thought / was
no good, did you? What about your
self?
And then he spoke a word what
no man says about a woman when I'm
around. ] put my hand to my leans 10
get my gun ready. and found that
had left 1t in the store. for was .
peaceful man, and never went lookins
for scrap. 1 looked around thinlin,
TO borry one. and there in the corner
l saw the Ola gun that some one had
left standin' there / didn't take the
time to see how it was loaded nor bo,,,
safe 1T was / was that mad tha+ r
couldn't think much of anvthine ~.
the one. 1t didn't take as nucb tf,,,s
as L am takin' in the telIin'. erabhaI,
the ornery old thing. and cooked m
and leveled 1t and pulled the trie1ar
1T went off. but I forgot the no1xda-
pan and had my eyes down too close.
and all | remember now was +ba+ y
saw one big flash and I,adv Co,
rushin' towards me. erwin and
screamin' and throwin' her .r,,,-
around me. Then came terrihis
burnin' in my eyes, and / knew was
blinded. but didn't care. LADY Cav
loved me-" as
He paused for long time as ba
wiped the perspiration from his ho.rv
mead with stained and tattered hand
tinued:
And after this there isn't much %
tell. The last that was seen Of tbe
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he stopped a while and then in
soliloquy. he continued.
1T was long, bleak. bare hall, with
just table and a wheel set up. on 1T.
A few chairs were set up around the
table. On the walls fastened in iron
holders were. some sputtering lamps
and candles that lighted up the crowd
of men and women. An old double
barreled muzzle loading gun with pow
der pan and cap arrangement, stood in
a corner, and the boards of the shack
were that loose the rain from outside
came in every time there was a squaIl,
dripping on the floor or pattering on
the lamps and making them sputter
and raise smell of wick and OIL And
the women He shook his head BY
this time he had forgotten the exist
ence of the stranger, and was chatter
ing to himself vehemently. II hate
to think of my little Lady Gay in the
same breath with them,'' he said with a,
shudder. "All painted up and black
ened and with a greedy look about
them. They didn't like her, cause she
wouldn't ever run around the town with
them. and they was glad to think she
was getting the worst of it. What
made me feel bad was knowing that
never before had she gone to gambling
dens or dance halls, and it set me think
ing awful hard When / first went in
the Duke was pretty green in the gills,
but when he began to win again a sort
of look o. triumph on his pale, thin
face made me want to punch him,
specially when the hard women be-
gan to look pleased. too / knowed
how glad they were to see her showed
under. She kept it up that way for
two or three hours without speaking
or noticing anybody except TO call out
in strained voice: Twenty on the
black or 10 on the red, Just as
the cocks were growing for the dawn.
and the first red glow of the sun peeked
through the clouds at the top o. the
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1t was in a little shack that fronts on
the main and only street of the town
that Blind Ben" lived. For years be-
fore he died he spent his time cutting
wood. tending his little garden, or sit
ting for hours at a time looking with
unseeing eyes out over the hills across
which the woman he loved came wan
dering into his life.
It was some weeks ago, Just before
his death that the stranger passed
through Coloma, gathering information
about a mining proposition. and. having
watched the old man as he puttered
around the house and garden, some
times talking to himself and always
with faraway look upon his face, be-
came interested in him. The stories
told OF him at the town store, about his
repeated assertion that he saw things
and his refusals on their account to do
the county's bidding and seek a peace
ful old age in the almshouse, as well as
his loneliness, prompted the stranger
who had come from the city to cross
the road and seek a friendship with
the octogenarian as lonely and deserted
as the roadway itself. It took some
while to draw him out, but finally his
isolated soul reached out for the sym
pathy and comprehension that had been
denied him by those who surrounded
him.
At last he spoke. $50 you want to
know all about her, do your He
burnt out corncob pipe that lay near
him on the steps. He filled it, lighted
It. and began:
Il can't forget the day first saw her.
She came into camp-iat.s see." He
pufred dreamily away. 81 guess It was
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shoulders and continued more cheerily:
She hadn't been here more than
few days when every man in the camp
was plym off his head about her. OF
course II didn't do none of us any good,
and we never told her about ii, cause
the rougher we mountain men get the
more we values women, but we showed
1t in lot O little ways. As the days
wore on kind of pinched look that
she had when she came went away and
her cheeks grew rosy and her eyes
were brighter than ever. We never asked
her where she came from nor what she
was doing up here away from her kind.
1t wasn't none o. our business so long
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good for me ever to possess. She
wasn't my kind, she wasn't. There's a
gols that's way down deep in the
earth, it's the mother lode. You can't
get to it with pick and shovel. you've
got to have machinery and shafts and
tunnels and all of the things that cost
an awful lot o. money, but when you
get it, my! 1t beats them all. Well,
that's the sort she was, and 1 knew It
when 1 saw her standing there" He
took the pipe from between his teeth
and pointed with it across the way to
a tumbled down hovel that had once
been a miners cookhouse.
When they told me that this little
baby y-Dlue-eyed thing had come to cook
ing every mothers son o. them out
into the street and making them shovel
dirt to send her back where she come
from. But she weren't wurritin, not
a bit" he chuckled with a side long
nod of his head. "She walks up to all
around gaping like a lot o. scared
pups, and asks them their names. Civ
ing a hearty shake with that little
hand O. hers not big enough to kill a
mosquito. And then she came to me.
She didn't make for to shake right
away, but first gave me an earnest
look that sent the blood runnin' a
race up and down me. Then she
laughed and said in friend-like way:
And you're Mr.. Storekeep, I
reckonr
Mr.. Storekeepr Did you ever hear
the first sweet notes of the meadow
lark when he's sure the rain is over
and the suns out to stay? Well, that's
the way them words sounded to me.
Ny heart was beating till ! thought it
would burst. If you called me Angel
Gabriel you couldn't please me more.
Mr.. Storekeepn" He repeated it under
his breath. caressingly, and with a sigh
deep from the heart of things never
to die. Then he braced his decrepit
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some 10 years after he found gold in
The tail race over yonder."
He pointed to the hilltop where Mar
shalrs statue was silhouetted against
a vivid blue sky, and away toward
the rocky river bed where Marshall
made his discovery. She was a little,
pale. fluttering thing. cold, and dirt
stained from riding miles through the
driving rain in a stage without a top
10 ii. But say, stranger, she was the
hind with eyes like the starlight, and
from the minute that I laid eyes on
her I knew the nugget l had been
looking for all these years, and
thought right that the nugget was too