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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06
Observations of Uncle Jed.

hev noticed that nearly every
Teller is in favor Nv reform provided
it don't cost his nuthin.
Most every man hez a fool streak
in him but some air fortunate
enough to die before it develops.
The mule hez a good many pintS
in his favor but one thing ag'in
him is the fact that he is stuck on
his own voice.
When a teller falls over a chair
in the dark and don't say nuthin'
he is either real Christian or a
hypocrite,
Generally speakin' we are agin
bosses but to tell the actual truth |
don't see just how we air eoin' to
get along without 'em.
The idee NV a lazy man about
heaven is that it is a place where
there want be nobody botherin'
him by wantin' him to work
There air a heap NV people in
this world who air getherin' drift
wood on the shares and they don't
git the big end NV what they geth-
er either.
Z Every time l hear baldheaded
old duffer talkin' to a Sunday
school Nv little kids don't wonder
s that a good many Nv EN- shy al
religion"
When l see a young Teller car
ryin' cane don't feel like landin
on him with the toe Nv my boot.
ecollect when l hadn't no more
ense myself.
never interfere with a vino
suckin' boss. 1t seems to be a sat
isfaction to the boss and then the
wind he is film himself with don
cost me nuthin'.
never blamed Adam fur eatin
the apple but always hev been w
the opinion that he deserved to 81
it in the neck fur the coward,
way he tried to sneak out NV it.
Most every Teller makes fool in
vestments but the wise man keep
his head but about his and peOpl,
generally think him one Nv tn
wise guys that never dit caught.
When a teller gifts to drinkiI
hard it is common to say that he
eOin' to the dogs. This is a mea
Islander on the dog. l never know
ed a dog that had so little sense
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06
THURSDAY. OCT. 6. 1910
House of Too Much Trouble.

In the House of Too Much Trouble
Lived a lonely little boy;
He was eager for a playmate,
He was hungry for a toy.
But twas always to much bother,
Too much dirt and too much noise
For the House of Too Much Trouble
Wasn't meant for little boys.
And sometimes the little fellow
Left book upon the floor,
Or forgot and laughed too loudly
Or he failed to close the door.
In a House of Too Much Trouble
Things must be precise and trim;
In a House of Too Much Trouble
There was little room for him.
He must never scatter playthingS
He must never romp and play;
Every room must be in order
And kept quiet all the day.
He had never had companions,
He had never owned a pet.
In the House of Too Much Trouble
1t is trim and quiet yet
Every room is set in order,
Every book is in its place
And the lonely little follow
Wears a smile upon his face;
In the House of Too Much Trouble,
He is silent and at rest -
In the House of Too Much Trouble
With a lilly on his breast.
Baltimore Sun.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06
The Story Of the Big Tree.

Leland Stanford University, in Cal
ifornia, who is an authority on sys-
tematic botany has gathered some
interesting data concerning the life
history of a big tree there, belong
ing to the Sequoia Gigantea family
a kind of tree found nowhere but
in the Pacific States. The tree in
question, according to the authority
mentioned was fifteen feet in diam
eter five feet from the ground and
was 270 feet high, and its age was
placed at 2,171.
When felled this tree showed an
enormous surface burn on one side
thirty feet in height and occupying
some eighteen feet of the circum-
ference. This was aScertained to
have been due to a fire that oc-
Cured in the year A. D., 1897.
When cut the tree had already oc-
cupied itself for something over one
hundred years in its efforts to re-
pair this injury, its method being
the ingrowing Of the new tissue
from each margin of the great
black wound. When the tree was
cut the records of three other fires
were revealed.
Briefly summarized, the history
of this tree is about as follows: 1t
began its existence during the sec
ond century before the Christian
era. During the first of our era it
was about four feet in diameter
about the base. When little over
five hundred years old, about the
year A. D. 245, there occurred a
burning on its trunk three feet wide.
One hundred and five years were
consumed in covering this wound
with new tissue. For something
like 1896 years no further injuries
were registered.
When, in A. D., 1441, the tree
had attained the age of 1,712 years,
there came a second big burn-in
two long grooves, one and two feet
wide, respectively. Each had its
own system Of repair.
Then came 139 years of growth
including the time consumed by
covering the wound.
During the year 1880, when the
tree was 1851 years old, there oc,
CURED still another fire, this time
resulting in the great eighteen-foot
wide scar. One hundred and three
years, between 1887 and 1900, en-.
abled the tree to reduce the expos.
ed area of the burn to about four
teen feet in width.
! In each of the three other burns
there was a thin cavity occupied by
the charcoal of burned surface, bu
the wounds were finally covered
and the new tissue above was full
even, continuous, and showed NJ
signs of distortion or of the ole
wound. Harper's Weekly.
Sick headache, dizziness, bilious
ness, are the rerult of disorders
stomach. L. M. Wood guarantee
Mi-O-na stomach tablets to cur
: you, or money back. Large box 81
cents.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

George DeLashmutt, Of Burling-
ton. Iowa returned home Thursday
after a weeks visit with his parents
E. E. DeLashmutt and wife. His
sister. Mrs. Ralph Wood accompan-
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. Sarah Craig and Miss Hattie
Carson. Of Mt. Sterling. Ill, have
been the guests Of their sister, Mrs.
George Davis
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Misses Ada and Leila Awlgair
returned Thursday to Green Ridge
after an extended visit with their
sister, Mrs. Lambert Buchanan.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06
Gumption on the Farm.

Inc giant tree stands bare and brown
On hilly crest;
An endless stretch of leaders sky
Is bending low;
And silently comes Tapping by
A lonely crow
Gather and burn the rubbish.
One forward look is worth forty
backward chances.
How some folks do enjoy rolling
up their sleeves, and then bOssing
the job that somebody else does.
Gather pumpkins and squash be-
fore a hard frost, and store away in
a dry place (not in a damp celler)
Bring in the corn horse after you
are through with it. Even a wood
en- horse will show the effects if
stabbed out in field a few months.
Do not leave old cabbage stumps
sticking up out of the ground. They
look slovenly and breed fungOus
pests. Pull them up and burn
them.
When killed by the frost, NOW off
the asparagus tops and burn them.
Then give the bed and the rhu-
barb plants, too-a thick winter
overcoat of stable manure.
The cultivating season is over
and all tools should be cleaned up
and housed. One winters exposure
to the weather will do tools more
harm than several years use.
A good growth of rye plowed in
next spring will give you more and
better potatoes. But you'll have to
get it in right off or you won't have
much growth to pillow under.
Just because an ear of corn is
large, does not necessarily make it
the best for seed. See that the
rows are straight from tip to butt,
and that the kernels are all well
formed and plump.
Build the line fence strong
enough to keep your own and your
neighbors' stock on the right side
but do not have it so high that it
will prevent you from being neigh
bOrly.
We never like to put potatoes in
the cellar when they, are all wet.
In bad, catchy weather it is better
to store them in an clubhouse till
they are thoroughly dried off. They
will keep much better, then.
Hurrying wheat to market has a
tendency to keep prices down. The
wise farmer who holds on to his
grain will be likely to realize sever
al cents a bnshel more than the
hurry-up brethren are likely to OBJ,
tain.
About this time ofthe year things
get pretty hot in the political pot
Let EN- sizzle! You just keep cool!
If you talk politics with your neigh,
Dor, be reasonable. Loud talk and
yelling never convinced anybody.
Soon the hunters will be Out
from town, tramping over YOU
fields and pastures, killing your
feathered friends and disturbing i
not injuring your stock. 1t is vel
to be neighborly, but the birds
served you faithfully through thu
year by destroying millions of bug;
and insects, and it is your duty tt
protect them now. Do it.
Keeping cabbages: Select a dr.!
place in the patch, pull up the cab
bages and stand closely together
heads down. Cover with soil from
five to ten inches, thinly at first s,
they will not heat, covering onl,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. 0rville Wilson visited the
hOmefolks in Hunnewell part Of
last week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Miss Alice Harrison atten ded
the teachers meeting in Pal
myra, Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. V. C. Sherman. of Hanni-
bal visited her parents, Frank Alb
bOtt and wife. the latter part Of
last week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. S. R. Peyton, of Duncan
Bridge was in this city Thursday
enroute to Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Otis Yancey, of Hunnewell was
with his many friends in this city
part of last week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06
Call E. Y.

When you want your sales cried
and want Col. W. T. Youell, call up
Ebert Yates at the F. & M. Bank
and he will give you dates. Re-
member and call E. Y.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. viii Ballet and daughter
Miss Irene, Of Hunnewell were
Monroe visitors Thursday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

WANTED Cosmopolitan Magazine
requires the services of a represen-
tative in Monroe City to look after
subscription renewals and to ex-
tend circulation by special methods
which have proved unusually sue
cessful. Salary and commission.
Previous experience desirable but
not essential. Whole time or spare
time. Address, with references,
H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Mag
azine, 1889 Broadway, New York
City.
The Democrat has been to consid-
cradle extra expense recently and
is in need of the money due. If
you owe us please remit promptly
and do not put us to the extra ex-
pense ofnding you a statement.
Try Charlie Johnson when you
want cave trough and Spouting on
your house or barn.
Hyomei has cured more cases of
catarrh than all the catarrh spec
ialists on earth. Just breathe it;
very pleasant. L. M. Wood guar
antees it. Complete outfit $1.0O;
extra bottle SO cents.
Mrs. DR.. McNutt and daughter
Miss Ethel, went to Quincy, Thurs
day to visit husband and father.
Miss Linnette See attended the
teachers meeting in Palmyra last
week.
| -----
Miss Bertha Meyers went to
Center, Thursday to attend teachers
meeting.
Patrick Feeney has been visiting
in Ely.
Mrs. j. N. Settle has been Wit
ing in Springfield, ILL.,, and attend
ing the State Fair.
Otis Yancey, of Hunnewell was
with his many friends in this city
part of last week.
Mrs. 0rville Wilson visited the
hOmefolks in Hunnewell part o.
last week.
! Mrs. Sarah Craig and Miss Hattie
Carson. Of Mt. Sterling. ILL.,. have
been the guests Of their sister, Mrs
49,. TNn0rsa
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. J. N. Settle has been Wit
ing in Springfield. ILL.,, and attend
ing the State Fair.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Davenport & Mahan make Farm
Loans on best terms. If.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Patrick Feeney has been visiting
in Ely.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

DR.. Hornback Oculist and Aurist
Hannibal, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Miss Bertha Meyers went to
Center, Thursday to attend teachers
meeting.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Try Charlie Johnson when you
want cave trough and Spouting on
your house or barn.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Hyomei has cured more cases of
catarrh than all the catarrh spec
ialists on earth. Just breathe it;
very pleasant. L. M. Wood guar
antees it. Complete outfit $1.00;
extra bottle so cents.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Miss Linnette See attended the
teachers meeting in Palmyra last
week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

The Democrat has been to consid-
cradle extra expense recently and
is in need of the money due. If
you owe us please remit promptly
and do not put us to the extra ex-
pense ofnding you statement.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-10-06

Mrs. DR.. McNutt and daughter
Miss Ethel, went to Quincy, Thurs
day to visit husband and father.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-05
ROOSEVELT'S REPLY
TO BALDWIN EPISTLE

their employees for negligence. Sec
ton Of that act provided That any
contract rule regulation or device
whatsoever. the purpose or intent OF
which shall be 10 enable any common
carrier TO exempt itself from any LA
bility created by this act. shall to
that extent be void
In that act, Congress declared that
every employe should have new legal
rights for compensation for injuries
OccasiOned by the negligence of the
railroad itself In placing this clause
which l have quoted in the act, Con-
gress was no doubt influenced by the
we'll known fact that in England an
employers liability act. enacted many
years ago, was made a dead letter by
employers insisting that their employees
should sign contracts agreeing 70 waive
the benefits of the statute and so with
out the legal rights which the statue
proposed TO give them.
Liberty OF Contract Denied.
In the case decided by you which
I have criticised. you declared that this
clause was unconstitutional as being
in violation OF the fifth amendment to
the constitution OF the United States,
as tending 10 deprive the parties 10
such a contract Of liberty and property
without the process OF law You say
specifically, as 10 the railway emplOye,
1T denies them one and all, the liberty
OF contract which the constitution of
the United States secures TO every per-
son within its jurisdiction.
your declaration speaks for itself
In substance IL amounts to stating that
the employees right 10 give up their
rights under the law is a thing to be
protected and not their right 10 receive
those benefits. that the right TO con-
tract 10 get killed is property OF which
they cannot be deprived that the right
to get killed comes under the head OF
life, liberty and property, which the
fifth amendment 10 the United State,
constitution says cannot be taken away
without due process OF law.
Congress aimed al giving the rail
road emplOye a substance. You con-
strued the act as giving him shadow
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by solemnly declaring that to give him
the substance is 10 take away his
property in the shadow.
PerVersiOn OF Constitution.
Il criticised your decision because it
is 10 me an incredible peFVerslOn OF the
constitution OF the United States.
criticised it because l am against So
cialism, and this decision and every
decision like II makes for socialism or
something worse.
Every strained construction of the
constitution which declares that the
nation is poWerless to remedy indus
trial conditions which cry for law gives
aid to those enemi OF our American
system OF government who wish 10 fur
nish in its place some new, vague and
foolish substitute.
THE result which you attempted to
accomplish in this decisir II would pro-
duce, / am told, a strange anomaly.
The United States supreme court has
held that public policy would not per-
nit a railroad company TO make con-
tracts with shippers OF freight, that
the railroad company shall not be re-
spOnsible for its own negligence IN
Transporting that freight You say that
the railroad cannot be forbidden to con-
tract with its employees that IL shall not
be responsible for manning or killing
them by negligence.
Il protest that there is no public pol
icy which makes freight more impOr-
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DRAMATIC SCENE
At VANCE TRIAL
Young Daughter of Accused
Murderer Tries to Shield
Her Father.
CHANGES HER TESTIMONY
Child Undergoes Ordeal Of Witness
Stand for Two Hours and Then
Breaks Down.

Lena Vance. the eldest daughter of
Thomas Vance, was the figure yester-
dav afternoon in tine most dramatic
feature of tho trial Ia which the al
leged usorcide IS lighting the second
time for mis- life.
For two hours the 15-year-old girl.
with elrlish bravery. underwent the
ordeal on the witness stand, first adj
hitting for the sake of her fathers
Ffe that her former testimony, given
All the first trial. was untrue. and then,
under the ordeal OF denomination,
breaking down and giving way 10 the
abandon OF tears as she realized she
had been drawn into answers detri-
mental tl her father.
Lena Vance. now about Is years old,
was AZ the first trial Of Thomas Vance
ON the charge Of numbering his wife,
Mary Vance. one OF the states most
important witnesses. and the testi-
monv Of the girl was largely RESPONSE
HE for the conviction of the alleged
wlfe-murderer. I'm 1903. an AFFIDAVIT
signed hy the girl was equally as large
lv responsible for the new trial grant
ed Vance.
Called By Defense.
AZ the present trial the state did not
calI the glrL but the defense accepted
her as IFS most important witness TO
break down the testimony OF Amanda
vance ward. the states leading wit
ness At the lrsJ trial Lena Vance tes-
ded that On November 90, 1907, she
had heard her father. the accused man,
say 10 her mother with an impreca-
ton. 'Iu Kin you" and that she had
seen him then strike her mother with
his clenched INST. knocking her to the
floor. and then kicking her.
Yesterday. ou the witness stand, the
-iri. under direct examination BY the
counsel for The defense. stated that her
testimony given no the former trial
had been untrue. and had been given
unuuJhfuuy. because she had been
threatened by Amanda Vance Ward
thar 70 she didn't tell it that way she
would "g0 l1 jain. 100"
Denies Threat.
lena also denied yesterday that She
had ever heard her father threaten 10
Alll her mother or that she had ever
seen him strike her mother.
on the occasion of the DAYS Incl
dents on November %, all she recalled
was that when her father had come
home for lunch, and finding that his
coffee cup had been filed TO overflow
ing. he had become angry and that he
had pushed the mother 10 the floor.
Under direct examination the girl
also stated that on the day OF NOvem-
Der 2 = the day when Mrs. Vance lay
sick in bed, and when the poison OF BIZ
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COMMITTEE SETS DATE
FOR ANNUAL BANQUET
Commercial Club Win Hold It's Big
Celebration on the Evening of
December 80.

Friday evening. December 80, was
chosen by the banquet committee OF
the Commercial club as the date for
the ninth annual banquet, this decision
having been made at a meeting OF the
committee yesterday noon at the Com
mereial club.
Of bringing some speaker OF national
repute here for an address on that
occasion. Details OF the event. so far
as tOasts and responses are concerned,
have been left 10 a subcommittee con-
sisting Of T.. o. Howard, Chauncey
Overfield, T. +. COlburn, c. ". Stimson,
Or. j. +. CritchlOw and c. r. Pear
sail.
Chairman Howard was authorized TO
name a committee of three on music
and flowers, another like committee on
invitations and a third on banquet. The
committee adjourned until next Fri
day
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tant than human lives, and I criticised
your decision because you say that the
constitution would not permit prOtec-
ton OF the lives OF every emplOye TO
the same extent to which, without
statute, freight is in the United States
protected now.
MY criticism is not. as some Of your
supporters endeaVOr 10 have the public
believe. a criticism of the judiciary in
general. 1t IS simply and solely a crit
icism OF you for having given an ex
traOrdinary and unprecedented con-
structiOn TO the fifth amendment OF the
constitution of the United States, so as
TO pervert its purpose and, by 50 doing,
10 nullify and destroy an essential part
Of a most important federal statute"
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Saturday Glove Reductions

Ladies' 6-button length English gloves; full pque
with strap; colors tan, gray black and white; $3.50
quality for $1.60
l-casp prx seam glove only; ;125 quality
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PerVersiOn OF CONSTITUTION

| by solemnly declaring that to give him
| the substance is 10 take away his
/ propertY in the shadow.
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Denver & Rio Granda Time Table.
CEffsetive June 10. 1919

tEIIecllNe June 10, 1910
DepaFf-Daiiy
Provo. Mantl and MarEsVale. 1850 am.
Bingham ana Bingham june. 500 ann
Park City ..--......-. 500 m
O8uen a. intermediate points. 1925 am.
ogden and san FFaucisco..-. 1-45 pm.
ogden, san Fran. and west. -:35 pm.
Ogden, san Fran, Portland. 2-I0 pa.
Mldvale and Bingham 1900. $3.50 pm.
Denver, Chicago and East - 4.05 pln.
Provo Iintic and inter PTS sos pm.
ogden & intermediate points G-1u nm
Denver, Chicago ana East ... 7:l9 pm.
Grand juno. and inter pts.-. 7.lO pm.
ogden, san Fran, Portland 1850 pm.
AFriVe-Daiiy.
Ogden. san Fran. Portland 500 a III
Ogden 4 Intermediate points. 1000 an
Provo, Iintic and inter, prs..10.20 am
Bingham and AldVaie- -...-. 1880 a ma.
Denver, Chicago ana East . 1880 PIN.
Ogden and inter points. 1890 1.45 pm.
Denver, Chicago and Easf---. 2-15 D.m
Grand juno. and inter ufs--- 2-s0 pm.
ogden and san Francisc0. 3d.. 500 pm.
Park city ...-.---.----.---- 900 pm.
Bingham and Midvale --... 5-45 pm.
Provo, Manti, Aarys Fale,
Heber ....--.-- -.-----.. sos pm.
Ogden. san Fran. Portland 1900 pm.
Denver. Chicago and East.-..11.15 pm.
Ogden, san Fran, Portland ID I.IO Pm.
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Saturday Specials for Men

Cotton union suits; fleece lined 800.
Any plated or plain bosom shirt in stock, S120.
French flannel night robes $3.50 800.
$225. ~ '' - "0''1 '@OV anu
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Interpretations

The Fraternal Federation Of North
America, with its principal office in
salt Lake City. filed articles OF in
corporation with the county clerk yes
terday. The association. which viii
have as its purpose fraternal life in
surance, has as its officers. William
Egard. grand president; August G.
Lehman first grand vice president:
Frederick Grove second grand vice
president; i. Bell, grand secretary and
treasurer; Whitford b. Wilson grand
auditor.
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DIED

DAVIS-At the family residence, AS
North Third West, NOVemDe i, 1910,
Walter Rodney Davis, age p years.
Remains al O'Donnell & Co.'S parlors.
Notice OF funeral VIII be given later.
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LINDELI-Funeral services over the
emains OF Kjesti Lindells who died in
his city October 80. 1910. VIII be held
At the Sandy Ward meeting house,
sunday. November 6. al u o'clock. In
lerment al sandy