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New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

That ilDconvCntionai book, "The M2rtyrdom
Nan" by WinW55d :,eade. nephew OF the no
e!i2t Charles Rcade. has lately gone into {
eighteenth edition. II was Of its author tn
his Uncle once said that ne was heir 10 col
siderable estates ana gifted with genius: h
he did not live Ions; enough 10 inherit the OF
or To mature the other" NinWrod Reade wrc
:l3n:y books Of fiction and travel but only Il
oluine mentioned above has survived.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-08

SignOr d'AnnunZI0 has been staying quietly
in Paris. studying the life of the dreSSmakerS
employed in the great fashion establishments
for the purposes of his new hook, "Amaranta -
The heroine is poor girl who leaves her Italian
uCme 10 Seek employment in Paris
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
oLoRlEs OF OUR OWN WORLD.

John Burroughs let not care and
humdrum dcaden us TO the wonders
and mysteries amid which we live,
nor to the splendors and glories. We
need not translate ourselves in mag
nation to some other sphere or state
Of being to find the marvellous, the
divine, the transcendent we need
not postpone our day Of wonder and
appreciation to some future time
and condition. The true in
wardness of this gross visible world,
hanging like an apple on the bough
of the great cosmic tree, and SWELL
ing with all the juices and p%otencies
of life, transcends anything we have
dreamed of super-terrestria abodes
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
SUIT MADE HIM CAUTIOUS
Libel Action Causes an Employer to
Be Extremely Conservative
With His Pen.

Mr.. Timidity once had the mis-
fortune to figure as defendant in a
libel action, and since then he has
been remarkably cautious with his
pen. Some little time ago he was
obliged to dismiss his servant, and
subsequently the lady who thought
Of engaging the domestic wrote to
Mr.. T. for the girls character.
Now Nh. T might have said
a good many things, but he remem-
bered that libel suit. A week or so
later a lady called upon him in any
thing but an amiable temper.
"T'ye called for an explanation,
Mr.. Timidity," she began. 81 en-
gagged a girl solely on your recon-
mendation, only to find she's worth
less. You said that, like other girls,
she had her faults"
"She has, madam"
'Tm aware of It'll But this is
also an extract from your letter: In
one or two departments she excels.'
What do you mean by that, may !
ask"
"Well, madam, she eats we'll
Good gracious! l should think
she doeslo
Every well, madam! She also
sleeps well-and those are the de-
partments referred top
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
TOO MUCH IN SMALL COINS
Treasury Renders An interesting Le-
gal Tender Limit Opinion iu a
Peculiar Case.

The treasury has just rendered a
rule Of peculiar interest in a pecul-
lar case. The Commercial bank Of
st. Augustine, Fla, has a debtor
who is required to pay the bank $50
every month. The man has a grudge
against the bank and makes the pay
ment as d~isagreeable to the latter as
possible, Instead of drawing a check
for the amount he has been in the
habit Of turning over a double hand
ful of silver coins. Ten dollars is in
halves, $40 in quarters and $40 in
dimes.
The other day Treasurer Nc
Chung received a letter from Thomas
X. Cureton, the cashier of the bank,
asking for an opinion as to whether
or not he was compelled to receive
the money in this shape. He want
ed to know whether under the law
the aggregation of coins was legal
tender. The law on this point is as
follows;
"1hat the present silver coins of
the United States of smaller denom-
nations than 81 shall hereafter be a
legal tender in all sums not exceed
ing $40 in full payment Of all dues,
public and private"
T%reaclrer McClung replied that
the bank was not compelled to ac-
cept the money as legal tender, his
opinion being as follows:
"The object ard purpose Of this
provision was to justify a creditor
in refusing to accept a burdensome
and inconvenient quantity of the
smaller silver coins in payment Of a
debt. | am, therefore, of the opin-
ion hat the true construction of the
act is that a tender of a sum con-
sisting of the several different de-
nominations of the subsidiary silver
coins must not, to be within the act,
exceed the sum of SO in payment
of any single debt. 1t follows, there
fore, that in my opinion a tender Of
such as that described in your letter
would not be valid and sufficient il
law"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
AID INTERIM.

Noah Webster was compiling his
dictionary.
"I know, Of course" he said, Chat
this is a purely ephemeral work, but
it will serve a useful purpose as a
sort Of stop-gap. Insert the hyphen
there, if you please" he interrupted
himself to say to the typewriter girl.
at will bridge over the interval be-
tween the crude literary beginnings
Of Addison, Doctor johnson, and
Walker Of an earlier day, and the
perfected newspaper style cards Of
the twentieth century"
From which we learn that the inn
mortal Noah took himself seriously,
but not too seriously.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
WANTED TO GET A-PLENTY
Improbable Client Of the Country
Squire and His Enormous
Biscuit Capacity.

esquire" Polk was the general adj
wiser in political, legal and other
matters for all the country round
about his estate, and, being the soul
of hospitality, his table was never
without one or more of the unproft-
able "clients" who came to consult
him.
His wife had long since ceased to
demonstrate, and she and the young
people resigned themselves to get all
the good possible in the way Of
amusing experiences out of the af-
fiction.
One morning a long, lank noun
taineer alighted from his "critter'
just as the family was sitting down
to breakfast, and promptly accepted
the squire's invitation to share the
meal.
When the dining-room boy carried
a plate heaped with "beaten" biscuits
around the table the guest took one
regarded it admiringly for an in
slant, swallowed it almost whole
then beckoned with a crooked finger
to the boy.
"Heah, boy" he said, "come back
Reckon I'll take three more of then
laddies, I gifts 'em SO sildom"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
Real Estate Transfers.

Deeds filed in Recorders Of
flee Lafayette County week end
ing Saturday, Nov. 10, 1910, COM
piled by Lafayette County Alb
stract Co. Ike H. Noyes, Mana
ger. Lexington, Missouri. Alb
stracts and farm loans.
Thomas H. Boulware to Carroll
Logsdon, W. D.. $4,000, all in
terest in S. E. a, n. E. q, 1-49-
"a.
Hulda A. Davis by Admr. to
Mary NJ. johnson Admrs. deed
$4,000 lots SO, 81, 80, 80 and 40
Cauthorn Miller and Redds
Sud. division lot 81, 4th Add.
to Waverly.
Benjamin f. Davis to Carroll
Logsdon, w. D. 500, S. E. "a,
N. E. "a, 1-49-24.
August Deerhng to Carroll
Logsddon, w. D. $4,000 S. E.
"a, N. E. "a, 1921.
Eliza B. Lewis to Ada NJ. Mat
tox, W. D. $4,000 undivided 4
interest lot 20, block 5, Patter.
son & Smiths Addition t.
Odessa.
Butler Moore to Redden V
Fulkerson, w. D. $342,S4 un
divided 2-7 interest in N. E
"A, S. W. "a, 1882.
William p. Morgan to JOSH
Litchew, w. D. $4,000 lot 8
block "B" Meirond's Additio,
to Corder.
David B. Maxwell to Loui
Arnett, w. d. $4,000 l acr
part W p, N. E. Il, 1-4S-2S.
Charles H. Newland to Josep.
F. Newland W. D. $4,000, undiy
ided p interest, 10 and 95 acre
S. end, Sec. 16, Twp. 48, RgC
26.
Viola NJ. Smith to Robert {
Deisher W. D. 5000 1-96 interes
in E. Y See. II, part II
Twp. 40, Rye. 81.
Martin Wehrs to Julius Drive
W. D. $1.OO, 1S-49-24, containin
80 acres.
jerome B. Simpson to Laur
G. Williams, W. D. $500 stri
Is, p #. wide, 14-4S-26.
\ Beulah B. Mahan to Henr
= G. Kehf, w. D. $3.50, lot 80
of Corse's sub. Lot 10 suburba
Addition to Wellington.
John +. Larkin to Leonard
Mahan, w. D. 1915, lot IN
Cose's sub. Lot 10, suburba
! Add. to Wellington.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
Another Wonderful Discovery.

Another Wonderful Discovery.
Electricity, telephones, airships
and all the wonderful inventions
of this scientific age seemed i'm
/ possible a few years ago. But
it seems there is nothing so i'm
possible but what some scientist
will discover the means of ac-
complishment. Prof. Emerson
has now discovered a preparation
which will really grow hair.
Iowa people are amazed and as
founded by Emerson's new dis
coyery for the hair. Emerson
said that one bottle of his new
discovery would grow a full
head of hair to its natural color.
The people did not believe him.
1t was too much to expect and
too good to be true. They had
tried all the highly advertised
; hair restorers and had always
been disappointed and they could
not believe one bottle would
really grow a full head Of hair.
But now comes the most start
ling part of all-for Emerson
proved it-yes, absolutely proved
it. What do you think he did,
He made the bold and remarkable
statement that he would give five
dollars to any person who used
one bottle of his new discovery
|, and failed to secure a new and
= satisfactory growth of hair. The
people were astounded by the
unheard of offer, but they knew
. that Emerson was financially re-
sponsible and would do as he
q agreed if it cost him his fortune,
Thousands bought bottles of his
new discovery, though most OF
>, them had little faith and expect
ed to be paid five dollars for us
Il ing the bottle of new discovery
Out of the first thousand bottles
:. sold only seven claimed they were
not entirely satisfied, and they
Il Immediately received the five
dollars without question. The
rest of them were overjoyed to
find that Emerson's new Discov.
cry had really promoted a new
and healthy growth Of hair. What
is this remarkable new discovery
Emerson won't tell, and chemists
= have tried to analyze it and have
!. failed to find out what it is. En-
erson asks US to publish this SAM
offer to the readers Of this paper
He states that with every bottle
,e Of his new discovery, the price 0.
d which is 81, he will send {
al written agreement to pay yoI
five dollars if you r not en-
tirely satisfied with the resul
sr which is invariably a new heaC
y. Of healthy, vigorous hair. TIL
d. new discovery is not sticky, oil
or greasy and is very pleasant t
!, use. This is the most remarkabl
offer ever made by a responsible
!. firm, such as the Emersol
Chemical Co., which is backinI
Emerson in his offer. Just sem
at a 81 bill (money order not neces
M sary) to the Emerson Chemica
Is Co., scottsbluff, Nebraska, an
secure a bottle of Che neV
lie. Discovery and the agreement t
pay you $5 or grow a full hea
Of hair with only one bottle Q
10. this new discovery.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
Daye Proffit retnrned Sunda.

Dave Profit returned Sunday
night from a visit in Windsor,
Mo.
Miss Mary Lockhart spent Sun
day in Wellington.
Miss Della Trail of Kansas
City spent Sunday in Lexington
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. D. Knight
of Santa Anna, California, ar.
rived Sunday night to visit the
family of V. A. Kelly,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
DIFFERENT WITH HIM.

Towne-My wife's nerves are such
peculiar things. She always worries
when she's having a dress made just
as IT,
Browne (interruptingly)-Hu
My wife only seems to worry when
she isn't having one made CathoIic
Standard and Times.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
R HIS LESSON.

'FYou say you have quit smokngT"
"Yep; never going to smoke
again"
''Then why don't you throw away
those cigars?"
'Neverl | threw away a box Of
good cigars the last time | quit
smoking, and it taught me a lesson"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
Crawford S Laundry.

Our family washing service
saves the housewife work and
worry, and proves a real
economy.
We wash your clothes clean,
iron the flat work and deliver
the weeks washing promptly.
Our price is 5 cents per pound.
Try US.
CRAWFORD'S LAUNDRY,
Phone 100.
3l5 Broadway.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
HELP.

Friend Ito guide)-Why does
your wife always 60 round with the
parties that you take over the cas-
tie?
Guide-She always gives me a tip
at the end and 50 induces the others
to follow suit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
H AlRsHlP.

She-How fragile it looks, Jim.
Pm sure a puff Of wind would smash
it.
He (quite innocently)-Non-
sensel It would no more break than
ly.-The Taller.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
THE JOY OF COMBAT.

Citrate Ito wife beaten But, my
good man, can you and your wife
not live together without fghting5
LOafer-No, sir; not 'appily.-M.
A. P.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26

Employment Agent-You say you
used to thresh in Kansas-maybe |
can get you a job on some farm.
Applicant-You understand me.
Pm a school teacher.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
THE RULING ASSIGN

q know a woman who never reads
bargain ads"
Remarkable !"
"she's blind and has them read to
her"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26
A FOE TO GRAFT.

"Is he a foe to graft?"
q should say he is. He would
even prohibit linen showers for
brides-to-be.Y
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26

All kinds Of Bulbs, Cut Flower
Pot Plants and Violets. Ferns at
a reduced price. Floral en-
blems a speciality at Eggleston's
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-11-26

R. /. Redd Cockrels for sale.
Phone AL.
MRS. j. B. LOGAN,
Lexington, Mo.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
Explaining High Cost of Lining
Manufacturers and Dealers Deny Responsibility
for Advance.

Manufacturers and Dealers Deny Responsibility
for Advance.
Chicago, February 16-Defending themselves
from the charge of making excessive profits on
food products a hundred manufacturers, jobbers
and Fetailers at mass meeting here outlined
what they considered the causes for the present
high prices of food The causes, they said were
the high tariff the increase in the production of
gold, trusts, labor unions and the extravaganza
of the average American householder.
''The meeting decided to hold further sessions,
at which resolutions will be adopted offering sug
gestions for solution of the food problem
The above clipping was sent us by North
ern friend.
The only truth contained therein is the &C
cusation against ''the high tariff"
Nothing besides that has undergone any
material change since this time last gear.
Labor Unions have not been doing any
thing unusual. No sudden access to the in
crease of gold has taken place. The average
housekeeper has not suddenly thrown pru-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
PAGE SIXTEEN
Revise Court Procedure, Urges
IhOs. E. Watson
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE THIRTEEN

as far as he goes. But he did not follow the
subject to its logical conclusion. The right to
keep firearms In the dwelling should never
be infringed. The owning of revolvers and
repeating rifles, however, should be licensed,
and the carrying of weapons, concealed or
otherwise, should be carefully regulated.
Violations of such regulations should be pun
ished as felonies.
a. Negro secret societies must be taken
IN hand. The South Georgia negro who way
laid and killed a white man, some time ago,
declared on his way to death that he Oa0ed
has ruin to the secret society. There's aohere
most of the deviztry IS 6rea0ed. These socie-
ties should be required to take out q license;
the ordinary and sheriff should have the
right Of visitation; none but strictly charita-
BILE organizations should be allowed; and
these should be stamped out, on proof of
speeches and actions infaming the blacks
against the Whites or counseling boycotts of
white employers.
(5) There should be q mounted policeman
on eve7y public road, dag and might, until qUe
get better conditions. Every strolling negro
and white man should be halted and made to
give an account of himself If he is o. X. he
can easily do it. If he is not o. X. he IS a
eOazkl4g menace to the community and ought
TO be treated penalty as O vGgr011t The idle,
insolent and criminal negro bucks of the
towns and cities ought to have the same med
icine.
It would cost some money-possi5zy as
much as the Laymera's meetings are demand
ing for the heathen.
Being one of the cranks who are more
deeply concerned for the future of their own
people than they they are for the Japs, and
the Chinks, and the Hindus and the Congo
niggers [ don't mind saying that if it did
cost us as much to protect ON" a00m1e1o and our
homes as it does to MAINTAIN charity hospit-
ais, dispensaries, doctors, dentists, surgeons,
schools, etc, in heathendom-the money
would be we'll spent. THos. E. WATSON.
Thomson, Ga, February IA, 1910.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
A Terrible Indictment

A survivor of the Crimean War publishes,
In Seattle Washington State, paper named
The Patriarch. This grim old soldier, Ed
ward Clayson, is the most fearless of editors
He uses language which makes mine resem-
BILE Sunday-school lesson. In his last issue
he gives Seattle piece of his mind. Only
the milder portions of this scathing indict-
ment of the wicked city can be quoted:
Seattle has witnessed during the past twelve
fifteen years, at regular intervals, the follow
ing shameful and wicked experiences:
''More Deaths Than Births; More Divorces Than
Marriages.
"Quack doctors, divorce shysters, degenerate
editors and undertakers are busy making money
with the victims of the amputation table, who
increasing in numbers every year, whilst the
of premature and violent death upon nearly every
household. This is as awful it is true! and
yet we find such pretentious knaves Long Rom
aid, George COtterill & Co., mOralistS, parading
the great virtues of prohibition and
suffrage There is more virtue in the average
saloon in this city than there is in the average
church I speak from experience in both places,
and in the degenerate church hypocrisy hides the
truth, and covers up iniQuity.
"Justice calls aloud for men, not scientific min
compoops effeminate mollycoddles. Justice
demands that every married should have
two votes and a half vote for every child in
his family under age The Government then
would be in the hands of fathers and husbands
where it ought to be. The home would then
have it's prestige, and the helpmeet at the domes-
tic hearth would receive an inspiration worthy
Of sympathy and affection, whilst the husband
and father Solomon says, would be known
in the gates when he stitch with the elders of
the land
"Take of the moral, then the material will
almost take care of ITSELF
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
0be Jefferson,an
Go and Write Your Name I'm the
Voters Book

If, by April 9TH, you shall not have written
your name in the voters book, kept by the
Tax Collector, you will have lost your right
to take part In any primary or election of
this year.
The new law is a premeditated scheme to
disfranchise two classes:
(D The country voters.
(2) The poor men.
1t is meant to do what those New Rules of
1908 had in view, towit: the concentration of
power in the towns and cities.
There is the gravest danger that this in
formally contrived registration law will place
the State in the power of the city politicians
WAKE UP COUNTRYMEN!
Don't lose day: 60 and write your own
name in the book.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
How a Republican PAPER Puts 1t

I'VE remember once before recalls the Ida
Grove Pioneer, that the people kicked about
prices being too high, talked about the tarlH
WALL and carried banners upon which was in
scribed, we want change They got the
change, got the free trade, and they also got
free souphouses and hard times.
The free trade referred to was the Will
son-Gorman Act passed during Clevelands
second administration. So far from that be-
ing free trade act it was one OF the worst
protective measures ever enacted. 1t was I'M
der that very bill that the Sugar Trust got
in it's first work and the Tobacco Trust start
ed it's oppression, that finally led to night
riding and all the horrors incident to it.
AS drawn by William L. Wilson, of West
measure reducing considerably the outrage
Gus duties which the Republicans had i'm
posed upon the country, but there wasn't
particle of free trade in the original act, be-
cause Mr.. Wilson, while probably free
trader in theory, was too wise a man to be-
lieve that he could destroy the tariff system
at one blow. When the bill reached the Sen
ate, however, German, of Indiana, became
the Aldrich of the situation. He framed up,
as [ remember, more than eleven hundred
amendments, every one of which represented
the greedy demands of protected capitalists.
These amendments SO revOlutlOnlzed the
character of the bill that Mr. Cleveland de
nounced it in his famous letter to General
Catchings, of Mississippi, as party perfdy
and party dishonor, and refused to put his
signature to the bill. He, of course, betrayed
the people himself by not vetoing it. A
President can't side-step his responsibilities,
and, therefore, Mr. Cleveland was morally
responsible for allowing that infamous meas
ure to become law.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
Why the Georgia Delegation Made
No Fight ON the Negro, Rucker

For thirteen years, Henry Rucker has been
at the head of the Internal Revenue Depart
ment in Georgia For thirteen years, this
sassy negro has drawn the fat salary of
$3.50 per annum.
Have the Democratic Congressman from
Georgia made any concerted and determined
effort to GUST Rucker? Have they insisted,
AND KEPT ON INSISTING, that a qohite
man shouzd hare that office?
No: they have not. Had they fought
Rucher, as Senator Ben TWznaao fought Dir.
C1uma, (the Charleston megr0,) Ruczer aoouzd
be out of that high position, just as Ca'up IS
out Of the Charleston custom house.
Why have the Senators and Representa-
tives from Georgia submitted so quietly to
this humiliating state of affairs?
[ will tell you. RWcher has held his place
mainly because Congressman Bill Hoa0nrd's
father-io-zaao holds the neat highest place IN
the service. DR.. King, the white man,
WORKS UNDER FUCKER, THE Ne
GRO, and gets $1,000 per year. This he has
done, for the last ten gears.
With Bill Towards father-in-law snugly
berthed in the Collectors office, and Lon Liv-
ingston's grandson nicely cared for in the
Postoffice, you can begin to see some of the
loneliness of "a working arrangement" be-
tween officials called democrats" and those
tagged Republicans.
You tickle me, and I'll tickle tits an
ancient game.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03

denoe and economy to the winds during the
last twelve-month.
There has been no considerable change IN
any system which affects everybody, eDcept-
ing IN the tariff.
The Trusts demanded higher rates, and got
them. That's all there is to it.
We pay more for everything, because the
mea0 AaaD giues the manufacturers and mo-
mopozists the poa0er to charge more.