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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

Senator Lorimer will retain
his seat in the senate. although
his title thereto was legitimized
by a majority of only six votes
when the deciding ballot was
taken last Wednesday. The de
cision of Senator Lorimer's peers
in his favor will hardly change
the opinion the public has form
ed of the case, that he was guilty
Of the debauchery of a legisla-
ture to get the senatorial toga.
The senate has never yet expell-
ed one of it's members on such a
charge, or any charge, so far as
we know, and it would not es-
tablish precedent in the pres
ent instance. Besides that, GER
tain interests control the senate
and must continue to control it
to preserve their grip upon the
advantage they derive from this
control. LOrimer is an Interest
SENATOR" just as Secretary Bal
linger is the interest head of the
Interior Department. Both were
placed where they are by Big
Business, whose power stirred
the whitewash that has been ap-
piled to each to make them pre-
sentable as public officials-the
term is rather a misnomer.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

Fine society our plutocrats
cultivate in the European no
bles." One of the guests at the
Gould -Decies wedding in New
York recently has been arrested
for stealing to pay gam bling
debt, and On being searched he
was found to have a pair of brass
knucks, studded with sharp
steel spikes, upon his person.
According to such gentry steal
ing is less honorable than with
holding the payment of a gam
bling debt. But that may all de-
pend on how one has been raised.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

! to open such parts of the road s>
have been abandoned. and make
it an interesting Journey to tray-
ell. Oyer this road IN 1903 De
Lassus marched a military expe
dition, no doubt cutting it out
wider than it was originally
This expedition was organized &c
punish some Indians of New
Madrid, who mad killed white
man.
In 1oOS. under d law the Terri
tOrial Assembly OF the District
Of Louisiana, by which name Mis-
souri, was then known. Il road
was ordered opened from St.
Louis to New Madrid. preSum
ably following this route. At any
rate it was the great Travelled
road from the South to ST. Louis
on the West side OF the river.
The celebrated Virginia War
rlors path or trace. starting on
the Atlantic and going west
through Ohio, Southern Indiana
and Illinois, crossed the river
somewhere near Gray's Point,
where the Thebes bridge now is.
and went on west through South
ern Missouri to the great plains.
the Rocky Mountains and the
Pacific. The route Of this Nir-
ginian Warriors path is thus
laid down on Smyth's map pub
lished in 1920. This path was
the great Indian Appian way
from ocean to ocean. With this
path, Or trace, the Nachitoches
trace, coming from Texas CON
nected. Also trace or trail
from Red River passing near the
present Little Rock and going
north to the mouth OF the Usage.
The trace is so located on Fran
quelin's map.
Another early trace or path led
up the Saline from the Missis-
sippi west to the western bord-
ers Of the present state and the
villages of the Paducahs on the
great plains. Du Tinse followed
this trail in 100
1t should be remarked that
both the trail up the Saline. as
well as the Virginia Warrior,
Path. at least on the west side OF
the Mississippi. followed the
path Of wild animals ana buffalo.
The crossing over the river
where the Thebes bridge is now
located was narrow, and is known
as the Upper Grand Chain. ard
rocks put ont when the water j.
low here. make the crossing
easy, Father Gravied, who pass
ed down this river in 100, note,
that the wild animals crossed the
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08
THE PREHISTORIC ROADS
OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
BY HON. LOUIS hOUCk.

From the Cape Girardeau Republican
The earliest road through Mis-.
souri,, if road it can be called in
our sense. of which we have any
knowledge. is the road or trail
along which De Soto marched
from near the present Helena, in
Arkansas, along the Mississippi.
by the historian of expedition.
called the Rio Grande. to the
neighborhood of the present city
of Cape Girardeau. He started
from a village of the Casquins,
probably the kaskaskia Indians,
which was then located near the
mouth of the ST. Francois, to the
chief village Of these Indians. To-
Gated in the neighbOrhoOd of the
present New Madrid. From
here he marched farther north
as an ally of these Casquins to
the village of the Capahas, kap-
pas, Quapaws, then located along
the foothills near the present
Cape Girardeau. The road he
travelled followed a ridge all the
way, and many memories Of the
aboriginal inhabitants are still
visible along the route.
After the settlement of the
country by white people the
earliest road in Missouri was To-
Gated along or near this antient
trace, extending from St. Louis
to New Madrid and Little Prairie,
now Charlottesville. and this road
was then known as the Kings
Highway-El Canine Real.
This road is still a travelled
highway in great part from Cape
Girardeau to New Madrid. A
part of the road from Cape Cir
ardeau to Perryville and St.
Genevieve is also in a great meas
ure still a travelled road, but
north of ST. Geneyieyp the old
road, | understand, is virtually
abandoned. Beyond the Mera-
nee to St. Louis the road follows
this old Canine Real. and in the
city of st. Louis a boulevard On
the route of this old road is still
called the Kings Highway. just
below Sikeston the road to New
Madrid is still known by that
name. Several years ago | no
ticed that the people of southern
California were endeayoring to
preserve an old Canine Real OF
Spain from destruction by mark
ing out the route and repairing
it for travel. Why can not we
preserve the old Canine Real in
what is now Missouri, d road
which historically connects us
with the great colonial empire OF
Spain: 1t would be an easy task
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08
Sl.OO Per Annum.

Secretary Ballinger has re
signed-at last.
The President could not induce
congress to reciprocate in the
matter of the Canadian tariff.
Governor Hadley wants home
rule for the big cities that does
not spell partisan domination.
The Democrats are now in
charge of the House, but we have
noted on previous occasions that
they are poor housekeepers.
In applying tariff reform as
the cure for all political ills the
patient invariably discovers the
treatment worse than the disease.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

The ST. Louis Republic is Civ
ing notice that hereafter it will
not publish whiskey ADVERTISE
ments in its weekly edition.
Evidently our city contemporary
has observed that good, clean
country weeklies have followed
this course for years.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

Fruitville wants the state capi-
tai and offers free site and a
million dollars for the capitol
building to get it. Know where
Fruitville is: We didn't until
someone told us, it's tucked away
down in the wilds of Howell coun-
ty. But they must have gobs of
money down there to be singing
around a million at a throw.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

The estimated revenue Of the
state of Missouri for the years
1911 and 1912 is S1O,OOo.OOO. and
by the time the Legislature ad-
journs provision will have been
made for spending it all in the
same time.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

Strange how public sentiment
changes. A few years ago Emma
Goldman, the female anarchist
agitator, was generally regarded
as an undesira BILE and dangerous
character. and was occasionally
run in as such by the police.
The other day in st. Louis she
was received and dined by pret-
ty good people, not by any means
anarchists or even socialists.
This simply goes to show that
the American people have not
abandoned their love for person
al freedom in the matter of poll
tical thought and its expression.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08
Rock Spring.

We are having some line weather at
this writing.
Farmers will soon begin to hustle
about.
Walter Taylor Of the Lead Bell il
visiting hi~ old friends At Rock Spring
this week.
Mrs. Clark Carlynn is reported az
being sick at this writing.
Nr. Zeb McPike and son-ia-law,
Grover Thompson. made d business
trip 10 Leadwood Saturday last.
Mr., and 5lrs. Grover Thompson Wis
tied the home Of Mrs. Thompson :
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zeb McpiI,e.
last waei;.
Harry beuoi-t ana Richard lemon
Of Rock Springs attended the enter
tainment IL HopeHaii >aturI4v ui-ht
and reported xcJl! time.
Miss Lucy Lemon "as The guest oi
Mis- Myrtle N~fli:e ~undar alter
noon,
Rev. Brent viii iii ni> regular ar-
pointm-nt her saturday night, sun
day and sunday nigh..
We had ! large attendance a. prayer
meeting last sunday night.
tAESY.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

The Republicans have a mem
Der in the Missouri Legislature
whose name is Dollarhide. but
who is far from being a cheap
skin; nor have the Democrats
been able to tan him thus far in
the session.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

More time is given by the Mis-
souri, lawmakers to game laws
and road laws than to any other
class of legislation. Yet the
game continues to disappear and
good roads never appear.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08
Twenty-thousand Z. S. trool

Twenty-thousand Z. S. troops
have been ordered to the Mexican
border for "manuevers. A few
weeks ago the Journal predicted
that when J. Pierp. Morgan got
tired of having his investments
in Mexico jeopardized through
the revolution that has been in
progress there for some time.
he would send orders down to
Washington for your Uncle Sam
uel to get busy and protect his
Morgan 81 dear dollars. 1t looks
now like the order had been is
sued by the boss of the United
States.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never
disappoints those who use it for obsti-
nate coughs. colds and irritations of
the throat and lungs. 1t stands un-
rivaled as remedy for all throat and
lung diseases. Sold by all dealers.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

The Globe Democrat has lately
had President Taft lined up with
the Democrats on the tariff queS-
ton. VIII the CD. be for Taft
in 1912:
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08

A ST. Louis man had a glue
manufacturer of the same city
arrested for threatening to shoot
him, but failed to make the
charge stick.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-08


| The path down the Saline wa,
made by wild animals frequent
ing the salt springs along tn,
stream. Du PRATT mentions the
great number of wild animal,
along this water course in 1880
| who were attracted by the salt
water.
Early in the last century the
Shawnee Indians. living where
| Bloomfield now is. opened d
trace up Castor River to Ste
GeneyisVe. where they traded
with Nenard 4 Vale. and Gilly
x Pryor. This path connected
with the one leading to Cane
Girarj"au. and which was open
cd after a Spanish post was eS-
tabIished at this place by Lori
nier. The Cape Girardeau road
IN the main seems to have follow
| ed the NachitOcheS trace to the
Mississippi, crossing the river
Very likely at the Grand Chain
already alluded to. This trace
passed the St Francois at Indian
Ford. Black River. somewhere
near Poplar Bluff. and followed
| the foothills of Current River.
crossing it near Pitman'S Ferry.
| Along this route the earliest Ar
kansas travellers moved into
what is now Lawrence county.
Arkansas. and further south to
where Batesville now is. on the
White River. This was much
travelled road in early days.
Featherstonehaugh gives vivid
picture of the desperate chal.ac-
trl's that infested this route. and i
the hardships and dangers Of |
travelling along it.
When the Indians had their
village near the present Bloom |
field they had a trail in Dunklin |
county and to Crawley'S : Ridge. |
crossing the St. Francois at
Chalk Bluff. This was their favor
lie hunting ground. The Indian
that killed Mrs. Burns near
jackson was captured by the
Bloomfield Indians on CraNIey'
Ridge, and they brought his
head back in Il sack to jackson.
where it was stuck up on 4 pole.
This was III 1890. and at that
time Il great many Indians still
lived on Apple Creek. although
Sone Of the tribe had removed
To Bloomfield. and where they
remained until about 1885, when
they returned farther west.
During Spanish times the path
leading from Cape G;rarleau to
Apple Creek. where the princi-
pal village Of these Shawnee In
dians Was located, was known is
the Shawnee trace.
IL 1~lJ a road was opened
from Bainbridge 10 New Madrid.
On what precise route | do not
know, Likely it was only road
leading u the old St. Louis. Cape
Girardcau and New Madrid road.
When this road was opened the
promoters OF Bainbridge had
great expectations OF its future
grandeur
In 1919 Major Long moved
from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
through the wilderness until he
struck what | suppose was the
Nachitoche> trail. and thence
came to Cape Girardeau: from
Cape Girardeau marched to
jackson. from jackson to St.
the present Frederick
town, and thence by way OF
Cook $ settlement. now Liberty
Vile, and the Murphy settlement.
now armingtOn. to St. Louis.
Another road was opened in g..
about l@1-. from point opposite
Cairo to the Finley settlement.
now Charleston. and thence toI
New Madrid. connecting prob
ably with the Kings Highway
somewhere near Sikeston.
These are the earliest trails
and roads in Southeast Missouri.
Rock Spring
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
Day Trip to St Louis.

By leaving Paris on L. '& N. train
500 a. M. direct connection is made
with the B. &. o. S-W. fast train
leaving Cincinnati liz o'clock noon
daily, arriving st. Louis at eight
o'clock same evening. This train car
ries elegant high back seat coaches
"of steel and cement construction. 4"
Parlor cars, electric lighted dining
car, and makes direct connection in
ST. Louis Union Station with all
Western, Northwestern and South
western lines. Other B. & o. S-W.
st. Louis fast trains leave Cincinnati
daily 2:l5 a., M. 9 a. m. and Gals p.
m. daily except Sunday. Night trains
have electric lighted sleeping cars
with individual berth lights. For in
formation as to fares and other par
ticulars consult your local ticket agen
or address
S. T. SEELY.
I. P. A b. & O. S-W. r. R.,
513 Traction Bldg, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24

a trace of Christmas bounty and gooo
will, and he called to the sea. which,
as of old, obeyed his voice. and Been,
the city of sin, was buried deep, clean
out of sight, beneath the waves. But
ever at Christmas up from beneath the
covering waters comes the sweet call
ing of church bells buried in Been. It
is a legend which appears to tell in
parable that nothing which ever be-
longed to the Christ, and was dedi-
Gated to his service, is ever wholly lost
from him and alienated from service;
that ever and again something Of their
inherent beauty and compelling sweet
ness rises from the depths through all
seeming ruin. 4
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
Toys for Baby.

given my baby there were two rattles
with hard rings at the ends-just
right for baby to stick down his
throat. There was a ball trimmed
with loosely sewed bells that the baby
Immediately pulled off and put in his
mouth. There was worsted ball. so
fuzzy that it furnished mouthfuls OF
lint The only thing that 1t was pos
sible to leave him with was a rubber
ring too large to get In his throat
Exchange.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
Found Valuable Pearl,

A negro pearl hunter the other day
found a pearl weighing AZ grains in
the waters OF Lake Bioteneau. near
Shreveport, La, said to be one of the
largest gems of its kind in the United
States. The finder sold 1t in Shreve-
port for $3.50. and the purchaser in
turn received $1,000 for the stone. The
second owner was a merchant, but the
third professional pearl buyer. This
las values the gem at $4,000.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24

AT nrst Christmas was what IS
known as movable feast, just as Eas-
ter Is now, and owing to misunder-
standings was celebrated as late as
April or May. In the fourth century
an ecclesiastical investigation was or
dered, and upon the authority Of the.
tables of the censors in the Roman
archives December 25 was agreed up
on as the date of the Sayior's natiV-
lty. Tradition fixed the hour of birth
at about midnight, and this led to the
celebration of midnight mass in all
the churches, a second at dawn and a
third in the later morning.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24

is I mot SO t5a many ~.s centuries ent hoS
= thorn at Glastonbury which
blossomed every Christmas, and, so
ran the legend, had done ever since
ST. Joseph Of Arimathea, having come
as apostle to Britain, and, landing at
Glastonbury, had stuck his staff Of dry
hawthorn into the soil, commanding it
to put forth leaves and blossoms. This
the staff straightway did, and thereby
was the king converted to the Chris
tian faith, the faith which preached
life from death.
The holy thorn of Glastonbury -four
ished during the centuries until the
civil wars. During those it was up
trees growing from cuttings from the
original tree, and those continued to
bloom at the Christensen, just as
their parent, which had grown from
st. Joseph's staff, had bloomed. And
about the middle Of the 18th century
1t was recorded in the Gentleman's
Magazine how the famous holy thorn
would not deign to recognize the new
style calendar, which had then come
into force but would persist in bios
soming as of old on old Christmas
day!
In those days the anniversary Of the
advent of the Babe had certainly
meant more to the common people
than merely a time for feasting and
revelry, for giving and receiving; it
had been also a season for holy OBJ
servances, for they refused to go to
church on New Christmas day, the
holy thorn not being then in blossom.
So serious became the trouble that the
clergy found it prudent to announce
that Old Christmas day should also
be kept sacred as before. Only an
other story Of mems weak, supersti-
tious minds? True. perhaps; but they
are better who evidence some spiritual
weakness than those who wallow in
the wholly material. and when We
cease to be careful of the cup and the
platter, We become not over careful of
their contents.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
A2gMzNfndS EDe Le0ends.
HERE are several exceed

XGSO ~ touching legends concern
ing bells, which are heard
ringing from buried cities and villages
at this season. One belongs to a vii
lage near Raleigh, in Nottingham
shire, and the story runs that once,
where there is now but valley, there
was a village which, with every trace
OF life and habitation, had been swal-
lowed by an earthquake; but ever
since, at Christmas, the bells of the
buried church are heard to ring as of
old.
A similar legend is told of Preston.
In Lancashire, and yet another and
more moving one comes from the
Netherlands. 1t is said that the city
or Been was notorious for it's black
and shameless sins, as well as re-
nowned for its beauty and magnifi-
cence. To the Sodom of the middle
ages came our Savior on one ami
yersary of his birth. and went as a
beggar from door to door, but not one
In all that Christmas keeping civ
gave the Master of the abundance. Sin
ne saw rampant on every side, but not
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24

G3AS MOTHER of those spiritual
TAA parallels is the legend of
the Christmas rose, and it
tells how good things, fit for giving,
spring up ready to the hand which
earnestly desires, to give to the Child.
1t is said that a certain maiden of
Bethlehem was so poor that she had
nothing to give to the Babe to whom
kings brought wealth from afar, and,
as she stood, longing and mourning,
and angel appeared to her, saying:
Look at thy feet, beneath the snow"
and 10! on obeying the maiden found
that a new flower had miraculously
sprung UP and blossomed at her needs.
Every since then, runs this story, this
exquisite flower, with it's snowy petals
just touched by suggestions of pinkish
bloom, is to be found at this season;
and, indeed, its half-opened cups are
like chalices Of love, and its fully
spread petals are like a happy inno-
cence, fit symbols for the gifts for the
Babe Of spotless innocence, whose
heart was the vessel of love.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24

a gracious cline, which testify with
subtlety to the depth Of the appeal OF
the birth of Christ. Here divinely
spiritual symbolism and there sweet
human tenderness and pathos appear.
and, blended, they evidence the worlds
belief that this was both Son OF Man
and Son of God.
An Irish legend tells that, on Christ
mas eve, the Christi Child wanders out
in the darkness and cold, and the
peasants still put lighted candles In
their windows to guide the sacred lit
tie feet, that they may not stumble on
their way to their homes. And In
Hungary the people go yet further in
their tenderness for the Child, they
spread feasts and leave their doors
open that He may enter at His will.
while throughout Christendom there is
a belief that no evil can touch any
child who is born on Christmas eve.
The legend which tells how the very
hay which lined the manger in which
the Holy Babe was laid put forth liv-
ing red blossoms at midwinter at the
touch Of the Babes body could only
have arisen from belief in the renewal
of life through the Lord of Life.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
FOR SALE.

Between four hundred and five hun
dred barrels of corn in shock. For
particulars inquire of Earl ferguson,
E. T. Phone, Lexington. or VIM. Ken
ney Ferguson. E. I. Phone. Paris. St
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24

part of the mind that the prosaic
and commonplace can never crush
them. Until the youth reaches man
hood and independence, Christmas is
the happiest day of the year. It's gifts
and hearty good cheer impress family
affection, parental thoughtfulness and
brotherly love. The dullest and most
irresponsible of fathers and mothers
are uplifted to a vision of higher life
by the interchanges of souvenirs and
the merry meeting with children and
grandchildren at the table and fire
side. Few can escape and all enjoy
the meaning of the festival, the les
sons 1t conveys and the inspiration
it gives, and we enter upon a brighter
future and fuller appreciation Of the
beneficence Of the practice Of faith,
hope and charity. The loved ones
who have crossed to the other side,
the loved near and far who are still
with us, the old homestead with it's
precious memories, the old church
whose sacred associations tie togeth-
er childhood, maturity and age, love,
marriage and death; the schoolhouse
where the beginnings of education
were so painful, and the ever-increas-
ing pleasures of the pursuit of learn
ing through the high school, academy
and college are recalled and recited,
and there is exquisite delight in these
oft-told tales, and new experiences en-
hVen this blessed anniversary.-Les-
lies Weekly.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
FIRST Christmas Observance.

Christmas gets it's name
from the mass celebrated
in the early days of the
Christian church in honor
OF the birth of Christ, its
first solemnization having
been ordered by Pope
Telesphorus. This was In
or before the year 1873, for
in that year Pope Teles-
phorus died
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
Guard Against UndesirabIes.

About 25c,000 immigrants are turn.
ed back every year by the immigra-
ton officials of this country. To guard
the ports and boundaries against
those whom the law forbids entry,
the government employs nearly 1000
trained men.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-11-24
Wbat Christmas Means.

Christmas means hope and
it's realization. The child
grows eagerly expectant as
the time approaches for the
visit of Santa Claus. While
this fiction remains unQues-
toned, the imagination
opens new and wider worlds,
and ideals become so much