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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Metal Market

New York, May 1.-Standard copper quiet; spot and May, sl1 .5O@11.7O June, July and August, $l1 .65@11 75 London firm; spot, 954 Is 9d; futures, 954 1Ss 3d. Custom house returns showed ex- ports of z7,445 tons for the month of April. Lake copper returns showed ex- ports of 27 445 tons for the month of April Lake copper, SIP. .371kd12, 50; electro lytic. SIP. .121s@12. 371a; casting, $11.S71sQG 12.121a
 Tin quiet: spot, s42 6o@4S .12&; May, 342. .7O943. .12s; June, $42. 3O@42. .S71a; July s42 M42 375h; August, s41. .75aD42. .25. London firm; spot, a195 los; futures, e192 5s.
 Lead quiet, s4. 4Od4.5o New York; s4.25@ APO East St. Louis. London, ZIP 16s Sd.
 Spelter steady. $5.4O@5.45 New York; s. .20d5. 30 East St. Louis. London, G24 2s 6d
 Iron: Cleveland warrants, 46s 41ad in London; locally iron was barely steady; N. foundry northern. l5.25@15.75; No. 2, s,5G15.5O; No. southern and No. south ern soft, s1550d16.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Poultry and Eggs

(COrrected by Garrett & Hfne.)
 hens-Medium. 4oQ50c; live, per b., 15c. ' Large Fryers, 35@4oc; zoe per lb.. medium flyers, 25Q DOC; 25c per h.; small, 200 per ID.
 Ducks, 40@45c; guineas. BOG; roosters, 500 S5c: geese, 400 soc; live turkeys. per lb., 1S1 200: dressed turkeys. 22hcs Eggs-Fresh, IS and 17c per dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Coffee Market

New York, May 1.-The market for cof- fee futures opened firm at an advance of 3 to points in response to higher Eu- ropean cables. covering of near months shorts and renewed bull support. Europe seemed to be buying Brazil. and while there was nothing to indicate any inn provement in the spot demand the scar city of supplies available for delivery on contract seemed to render the near months short interests uneasy. At any rate, the market ruled generally firm, with a fairly active business. The close was at net advance of to 15 points. Sales, 76,500 bags.
 May, 0.65c; June, 10 062c; July, 1O.57c;
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iron
Cotton Seed Products

Corrected daily by Buckeye Cotton On
 Company.)
 Oil, prime, 4Oa471ac per gallon: meal. prime, 71bc per cent ammonia, s27 per net ton; hulls, sacked, s11; hulls. loose, se.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Naval Stores

Savannah. May 1.-Turpentine, nothing; last quotation, 74c; sales, none; recelpts' 7o4; shipments, 2649; stocks, 56S2 hosin' quiet; sales, none; receipts, ls94; snlp- ments, 779s; stocks, 37.S43. Quote: B. Sl.p' D, s755: E, $7.671h; r, S7 E5' G. si."1s' H. $7.S21a; l. S STE: K, s79o; M ana N $7. .921a VIC, 7.9$5; wv $S.
 New Orleans, May 1.-Receipts. 7So rosin: AT barrels turpentine, 32 ports; five barrels rosin for Costa Rica. e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-02
Cotton Seen Oil

New York. May 1.-Cotton seed oil was ca asier today under scattered selling for western account. easier crude markets and liquidation by longs. Buying was thought to be for refining interests in inc endeavor to support the market To- tai sales, 14,3OO.
 Futures closed 2Gi12 points net lower May (. .26d6 2Sc; June, 6.29@6 31c; July, e e9G,s 34c. August, 6.37@6.S sc; September s 99Sl6, a5c. Prime crude, 5.2O@5. .27i4c prime yellow, 6.25@7c; prime summer white, CPS M6 soc. , nr,poe refined in barrels, per pound, (. 20c choice meal, per cent ammonia, per long ton, s2s; choice cake, per cent ann summer yellow. 627@6 .35; prime winter monia, per long ton, S2o.52.
 Elgin Butter Market
 Elgin, H., May 1.-Butter, hrm; 2zc;
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New Orleans Cotton Futures
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
FOR A GOODSTOMACH
This Offer Should Be Warning to
Every Man and Woman.

The newspapers and medical
journals recently have had much to
say relative to a famous millionaire's
offer of million dollars for a new
stomach.
This great multi-millionaire was
too busy to worry about the condi-
ton of his stomach. He allowed
his dyspepsia to run from bad to
worse until in the end it became in
durable.
His misfortune serves as a warn
ing to others.
Every one who suffers with dys-
pepsia for a few years will give
everything he owns for a new
stomach.
Dyspepsia is commonly caused
by an abnormal state of the gastric
juices, or by lack of tone in the
walls of the stomach. The result
is that the stomach. loses its power
to digest food.
We are now able to supply GER
tain missing elements-to help to
restore to the gastric juices their
digestive power, and to aid in max
ing the stomach strong and well.
We know that Rexall Dyspepsia
Tablets are a most dependable rem
edy for disordered stomachs, indi-
gestion and dyspepsia.
We want you to try them and
will return your money if you are
not more than satisfied with the
result.
Three sizes, rs cents, SO cents
and $100 Remember, you can OBJ
tain Rexall Remedies in this COM
munity only at our store The
Rexall Store. L. M Wood, Monroe
City, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
Uncle Sam as An Employer.

In 1915 there were approximate
ly 1927 names on the Federal pay
roll, or about one to every 1900 of
the population. In 1911 there are
384,088, or one to every 242 of the
population. Add $4,000 for the
army and navy, 1.415 for represen-
tatives abroad and nearly 1000 as
employees of Congress itself and of
the judiciary, and we have total
of 513,854, or one in $50 of the pop
ulation. Fourth-class Postmasters
apply on private account some 64,-
600 clerks, many of whom do other
than postal work.
Suppose that only the more plaus-
ible portion, even. of those schemes
that are preached for extending the
power and the functions of the Fed
eral Government were put into eff
feet. Suppose the half-million EN-
ployes of Uncle Sam became a
million, with the States. towns and
cities increasing their pay rolls in
proportion. Should we ever fall in
to that dry-rot officialism which in
continental countries hampers pri-
vate initiative by turning the atten-
ton of the educated classes SO
largely to Government employment
And what would be the effect
upon our political development Of
the interested support by ever in,
creasing thousands of the party
government in power?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
Sure Death To Mosquitoes.

Each day we pick the papers up and
read of some new way
To quelch the bad mosquito in his
irrigating play;
They tell us if we burn a lot of sui
pher in the room
Twill send the skeeter skurrying
ahead to meet his doom
But if you do not care to breathe the
sulphuretic mist
You'll find it just as certain if you
slap him on the wrist.
Also they've found a little worm-a
parasitic pest
That loves to hit the skeeter in the
center of his vest
And make him feel a bitter, green
cucumber sort of twinge,
And twist his spinal column till it
doubles like a hinge.
If there's no paragoric, then the
skeeter will be missed
But he is dead and done for if you
slap him on the wrist,
Tis said that giving him a bath in
crude petroleum
Will make him fold his vibrant wings
and make his voice be dumb;
Or if you spray him carefully with
strong formaldehyde
Into the dim hereafter he will most
serenely glide;
Some eucalyptus ointment, too, will
cause him to desist-
But you are sure to kill him if you
slap him on the wrist.
The latest theory is that if you will
find his key
The note upon the scale that he re-
CARDS with lively glee;
The zippy, zoomy, zizzy note he
sings as swift he flies
And play it for him; when you do,
the bold mosquito dies.
But why prolOng the agony? Why
finish out the list?
It's safe to bet he's dead if you have
slapped him on the wrist.
Exchange.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
Afraid of Freedom.

The Boston Traveller says: Here
is an utterance of rare wisdom. 1t
is from a recent speech by Senator
John Sharp Williams, and is one of
the finest and truest things ever
said in the United States Senate:
My friends, men in religion, men in
politics, have been afraid of freedom
ever since the world began. God
almighty seems to be the only being
anywhere who is not afraid of free
dom, and not afraid to give it to his
creatures. He gave it to such an
extent that he lets US 90 wrong if
we will l. even to that extent. From
the beginning religious bigots have
been afraid of it, political bigots
have been afraid of it, And yet
whenever it comes, we find it slim
ulates human intelligence, human
ambition and human industry to
such an extent that it more than
compensates for what seem to be
the plain and palpable and obvious
immediate losses by it"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
Just a Word to Husbands.

Husbands who have good wives
land most of them have should
say kind words for the kind acts
before life is spent. Give the wife
all the love and sunshine while she
is living; don't wait till she is dead.
Tell her she has made life bright to
you by her loving words, cheered
and helped you when the way was
dreary Tell her how true and
helpful she has been. Don't wait
until she is dead, In the grave
there is no heartache Speak some
words Of hope and comfort now.
This the writer would do could he
recall the life that is gone Jacob
Faith. Eldorado Springs, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05

Sometime, away back in the dis
tant ages when the Scrap Bag man
was a small boy, he evidently stole
away one beautiful Sunday after
noon to a big pawpaw patch down
on the banks of Salt River and did
then and there eat, well he explains
it all. Hear him: "Pawpaws are
ripening ahead of the frost-and
that reminds US. Any man who
can squeeze the insides out of a ripe
pawpaw, eat it and deliberately de-
clare he relished it, is fit for strata
gems, treasonS and Spoils He would
eat posSum or peanut butter, and if
pushed would smoke a cigarette.
His real place is the foremanship of
a laundry in a founding asylum.
Pawpaw poetry is bum"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
Out of the Ginger Jar.


fall behind.
What three Vowels express troub-
lie? To- u.
1t will probably never be known
what the hand-saw.
Be sure you are right, then don't
make fuss about it.
There is many a man who isn't
worth what it costs him to live.
Every dog has his day, and too
many of them have their nights also.
The blacksmith may be an expert
forger without being arrested for it.
Nature is a good doctor, but she
makes her patients pay to the last
cent.
What the corn heard with its own
ears, the potato saw with its own
eyes.
Few men know what is good for
them until some wise woman has
told them
The money that woman spends
Is never for the bonnet,
But always tor the fancy things
The milliner puts on it.
The rich are known by their dol
lars, but the humble onion is known
by its scent.
The farmer who lost his half
bushel measure was in more than
peck of trouble.
The foolish trust to the safety-pin
but the wise see to it that the but
tons are well sewed on.
! 1t is easier to climb down d tree
than to climb up, which explains
why the top is never crowded and
why there is always room there.
We are none of us any better
than we ought to be and many OF
US are great deal worse.
The farmer has a good many
mouths to feed; he is even obliged
all through the winter to feed the
fodder cutter.
Sometimes when a man is pre-
tending to be looking for wife he
is merely hunting for a good cook.
Beware of such-Farm Journal.
A freckled-faced girl stopped at
the postoffice and yelled out:
Anything for the Murphys?"
No, there is not" said the post
master.
Anything for Jane Murphy"
Nothing"
Anything for Ann Murphy"
NO"
I Anything for Rob Murphy"
mo not a bit"
Anything for Jerry Murphy"
Nothing for Lie Murphy"
No nor for Pat Murphy, nor
Dennis Murphy, nor for Pete Muir.
ply, nor Paul Murphy nor for John
Jack nor Jim Murphy, nor any
Murphy, dead, living. unborn, ma.
tive or foreign, civilized, savage OF
, barbarous, male or female, black OF
white, franehised or disfranchised
natural or otherwise. No! there il
| positively nothing individually
! jointly, severally, now and forever.
The girl looked at the pOstmastel
in establishment and said: Pleas,
> see if there is anything for Clarence
, Murphy"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
Womanly Wisdom.
The choicest garb, the sweetest
droon

BLdCS, .Ef
Are oft to strangers shown;
The careless mien, the frowning face,
Are given to our own,
We fiatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless
blow
To those who love us best.
To remove potato, onion, and
other vegetable stains from the
hands, rub with ripe tomatoes
Get the stoves in order for the
first cold snap, when you really feel
the cold more than in winter wealth
er.
Be sure to keep a pair of old
scissors in the kitchen for the pur-
pose of cutting raisins, lettuce, Gel
cry, etc,
Skim the fat off the chicken
broth and use it to shorten biscuits.
These are much more delicious
than when you use lard
At the alter: Il, thee, with all
my worldly goods endow." Two
years later: More money? Where's
the dollar / gave you last week."
A bank lately received the fol-
lowing note from a lady: Please
stop payment on the check l wrote
out to-day, as / accidentally burned
it up"
Save all your coffee grounds;
rinse them and use them to stuff
pincushions' They will hold shape
indefinitely and the pins push in
easily.
If a tablespoonful of sweet milk
is added to each yolk of egg when
making custards, the mixture will
not curdle when added to the boil
ing milk.
When cake icing is too hard SO
that you can not spread it on, add
a little water a drop at time
When it is too thin, add sufficient
powdered sugar, first rubbing out
the Jumps.
When pairing vegetables, especial
| ly the humble tuber and odorous
onion slip over the forefinger of the
right hand a kid finger cut from an
old glove. 1t will save the hand from
an unsightIy stain.
By inspecting the canned fruit
occasionally, the housewife will bt
able to save any that has begun to
spoil, by carefully removing thai
which is tainted and cooking the
rest over, recanning it as in tht
start. !
! Use WORKOUT white stockings fol
wash rags. Cut away the foot. FOX
the top double and hem or over
cast the edges. The edges may b,
bound, and a strap fastened across
the center to slip the hand through
To cook eggplant, cut into slice
half an inch thick and let them Iii
for an hour in sailed water to re
move that bitter taste. To fry, pu
the slices in the frYine-pan with
small quantity of butter; tHrn whel
one side is done
Have you tried baking eggs
Grease haking-dish with butter
break ~ eggs into it. ccsNr wit
cream sd silt, IeprCr. SIG
table It'd of butteE Set II il
mod .ae9 oven a few minutes
Lem a 4 time depends on wEetl {
you like them son VI well-dCLe.
From October Farm Journal.
Up in Macon county there is
family consisting of two brother
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05

There is much being said and
written of late in regard to social
ism. and to hear some would-be
statesmen talk, one is liable to be
misled as to what socialism really
is. AS for my part | take but little
stock in any theory or plan Of gov
eminent which requires too much
to explain it, especially the amount
required to explain this so-called
socialistic system.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
The Reappesring.
By M. Charles Morice..

The Reappearing.
By M. Charles Morice.
This novel has y-created quite a,
stir in France. 1T tells what hap
pened when on December Id, 1910
according to the authors magma
ton Jesus Christ appeared in the
French.capital.
The object of the story is to show
how far out of accord with the
/ teachings of Jesus our life today,
with its graft, greed and selishness
is.
The Reappearing is a dramatic
application of the New Testament
to contemporary society 1t is a
new and reverent rendering of the
Oberammergau, wherein Christ is
recrucified in Paris, not upon a
cross of scepticism, but upon the
cross of modern intellectually
The Heart of Woman.
By Baroness Orczy.
This is an English story of the
present time.
Louisa Harris is a commonplace
English woman engaged to a young
man who is the nephew of an Earl.
Everything is lovely until the arriv-
of young man claiming to be the
only son of a brother older than
| Louisa's sweetheart's father. Troub-
lie ensued There was a mysterious
murder in a taxicab, a trial, etc.
The story is full of action and is
told in very interesting manner.
Marie-Claire.
| BY Marguerite Andonx.
Marie-CIaire is the autobiography
of a seamstress brought up in an
orphan asylum. 1t seems it is the
story of the authors own life, told
in her own way. The author wrote
this because she loved to write anC
without thought of having it pub
lished, beginning in a desultory
way, to set down her youthful rem
iniscenses. About this time she
became acquainted with a circle o.
literary people. They encouraged
her and this book is the result.
t 1t won the first prize in a literary
} contest in France a few months ago
The above are all published by
George H. Doran Co., New York
Price $1.20 each.
The Winning Of Barbara Worth.
+ By Harold Bell Wright.
This popular author has addeC
: another splendid book to his list.
1t is a present-day story of deser
life and the national reclamation
work. In his descriptions the au
thor has exceeded his own past ef
forts. He knows the desert ant
desert life. and has so wildly draw
his story with local color and West
2 ern atmosphere that we see an
q know the great silent land and fee
its spirit call
He has pictured the passions
\ longings, motives, loves and hatred
If men and women with skill an
re er. His characters are so life
Il, that you wonder if they ar
ri real people
Published by The Book Suppl
J., Chicago, Ill. Price $1.30.
a The BlOssOmy Bough.
s By Shaemas O'SheeL
$ A dainty little volume of verse
lI hO,,v,J 3, droxT ord ,.,l,fko
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05


Up ia Macon county there is a
family consisting of two brothers
and one sister whose combined ages
aggregate 298 years and neither of
them have ever been 100 miles
from the place of their birth. Their
names are Jordan, Betty and Perry
Elliott, and their wealth is estimat-
ed at not less than $250000. The
two boys" have been to Macon a
few times on the train, and on one
memorable occasion, Jordan trav-
eled as far as Chillicothe. They
own about 1000 acres of fine land,
worth 500 per acre. They live a
very simple life, eat plain food and
are never sick. They are perfectly
contented and do not care to see
more than their own domains.
Graphic,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-05

D0000'I1I ~SUoH'
By Shaemas O'Sheel.
A dainty little volume of verses
bound in grey and white
1t is composed of short poems,
most of them on love.
Published by Shaemas O'Sheel,
124 West 10Th ST., New York.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-06
Story of the Preacher.

Anecdotes in which the mean and
grasping man is outwitted or held
up to ridicule are popular every
where and always. Few ancient
towns are without their historic
or traditional instnces of ctingl-
ness punished or sharp practices de-
feated. In one village in New Eng
land there is still current such
tale concerning an unpopular par
son of more than a century ago.
Although a learned man of i'm
pressive manners, this clergyman
was noted for undue reluctance to
expend and readiness TO acquire. lie
had a habit of pleading poverty for
gifts.
The parish, although with some
murmuring, had responded with fuel
for the kitchen, hay for his horse,
Thanksgiving turkeys for his table
and a subscription cloak of black
satin for his wife when her we'd
ding mantal became shabby. The
murmurs increased when it was
found that the parson turned an
honest, but overshrewd penny by
selling, instead of using many of
these donations. But they were not
loud enough to disturb his state
ly calm, and he went his awy with
out condescending to notice them.
At last, however, fortune played
him trick for trick.
One pleasant winter day he made
a round of calls, and at each home
when about to leave he casually ask
ed his hostess if she could let him
have a little piece of cheese, as
his wife happened to have none in
the house and unexpected company
n nr-rttr In oh, h@
housewife instead of little piece
generously presented him with a
whole cheese, which he graciously
accepted. AS he turned from the
door stone at the close of the last
visit, while the mother OF the FAM
lily and her brood of nine chill
dren, stood politely gathered 10
watch him drive away, he careless
ly pulled the wrong rein-tho
sleigh tipped sharply on drift
and out from under the ministerial
lap robe rolled nine large cheeses
which spun friskly away in all di,
rections over the icy crust.
His hostess understood the stu.
alton at a glance.
Don't disturb yourself, pra!
SIR" she urged politely, as he made
a motion to descend. 1t is quite
unnecessary. The children will
gather them up and none be over.
burdened, nor will there he any
quarreling for the privilege. See, II
is just a cheese to a child.
So 1t was; and the embarrassed
parson, unable to escape, was oblig
ed to receive back his cheeses, with
due thanks to each giggling volun,
teer as they came up in gleefu
procession one by one.-Selected.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-06
SEEKS PARDON FOR w. r. JONES
Union County Man Convicted of
Numbering Wife.

Columbia, March 3O.-Special:
A petition for the pardon of w. T..
Jones, the Union county man con-
Vlcted OF wief murder, was to-day
presented to Governor Blease by
former Senator Ben Townsend. of
Union, who was in the case. All the
papers have not yet been filed.
for the pardon of w. II. Miles, the
Cherokee man who is serving a life
sentence for the killing of Frank
Deal. The papers in this case are
in the same shape, that is to say,
the full petition is not yet before
the governor.
w. II. Jones' case is yet before
the Supreme Court. The Supreme
Court has not yet handed down a
decision on the appeal from a Cir
cult Judges refusal to grant IA new
trial on after-discovered evidence.
PRESIDING Judge Sustained.
w. Il. Jones was tried and con-
ylcted ut the February term of
Court in Union, in 1909. Judge
Memminger presided at the trial
and in the case he cited the fam
GUS Hoyt Hayes trial. Hoyt Hayes
was charged with causing his own
wife to commit suicide and the case
" ao ooiiS"hdl olHulidT 10 the Jones
case. Governor Haywood pardoned
Hoyt Hayes on a handwriting ex-
pert's testimony that a letter was
In Mrs. Hayes handwriting, ss ling
that she was going to commit sui
eide. Because he cited this case,
Judge Memminger was severely
taken to task by the counsel in ar
guing the case before the Supreme
Court. In the decision handed
down March 3, 1910, the Circuit
Juoge was upheld by the Supreme
Court
Third Appeal.
The petition for a rehearing was
dismissed, then a motion for a new
trial was sought and upon the ap-
peal from such a motion being re-
fusedthe case now is before the
supreme Court. A final dicision
had been expected for some time.
Jones has been in the Union coun-
ty jail since his case was IN the
Courts. The charge against him
vas that he abused his wife SO that
she took poison and that he was re-
sponsible for her death He was
convicted of murder and sentenced
to life imprisonment. No case I'm
recent years has attracted the at
tention that the w. T. Jones case
has.