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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-05-27

Mrs. Fanny Weber returned
Tuesday from a visit in Kan
,as City.
Miss Adelaide Higgins arrived
Tuesday evening from Higgins
vile for a few days visit with
relatives.
H. F. Blackwell went to Kan
sas City Wednesday on legal
business.
Miss Floyd Green, who has
been teaching in GaIena, Kansas,
the past year, returned home
Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter B. Wad-
dell went to Kansas City Wed,
nesday to spend the day. Mr..
Waddell attended the Missouri
Bankers convention.
N. E. Basket went to Kansas
City Wednesday on business.
Frank Hoefer went to Kan
sas City Wednesday to attend
the Missouri Bankers Convention.
Edgar Cox went to Kansas
City Wednesday on business.
Oswald Winkler went to Kan
sas City Wednesday on bust
ness.
Mrs. Mamie Steele returned
Tuesday from a visit in Kan
sas City. She was accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. NJ. F..
Coekrell.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-05-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Fegert
went to Kansas City Wednes-
day to spend the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ardinger
arrived Tuesday from Kansas
City for a visit with relatives.
j. Reid Ryland went to st..
Louis Tuesday night on bust
ness.
j. R. Moorehead returned Tues
day from a business trip to St..
Louis.
Mrs. Geo, O'hara returned
Tuesday from a visit in Kansas
City.
Go to j. F. Vim for Walton
Shoes for boys and girls.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-05-27
MAYHEM Seats.

D. E. Herr, Washington Town
ship Constable, transacted busi.
ness at the county seat last Mon
day.
A. w. Marshall went to visit
his brother, Luther, last Monday,
who is reported seriously sick.
Mrs. John Wilson, a niece, and
Mrs, Myra Cassaday, a sister OF
A. B. Matthews Of M%oadsville,
Penn, is here on q visit with
Mrs. Albert Tyree, also Mrs.
Bessie Mcfarland Of Sedalia.
DR.. c. A. Nickel took his wife
and children over to Lexington
last Thursday for a short visit.
Miss Catherine Greene went
to Alma last Thursday.
Mrs. Hugh Smith Of Boseman
Montana, came IN last week for
a visit with relatives and friends.
Miss Edna Smith Of Corder
spent last Saturday here with
friends
Miss Viola Pickett came down
from Kansas City last Saturday
Tor an indefinite stay with her
parents
The vote here last Saturday
Tor the Mayyiew road district
was lOl-for lO4, against 3. [
was nearly unanimous.
Mrs. Ellen Tracy of Slater Wis
lied friends here the past week.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-05-27
Letter List.

The following mail remained
uncalled for at the Lexington
P%ostoffice Saturday, May
81, 1911.
Letters.
Miss Mary Anderson, Mr..
Frank BARLEY, Albert David
son, Thos. Fisher, Miss II. w.
Gessaman, George F. Marker.
Ed Moran, 0. f. Penn, Gertrude
Spamhur, Ernest Sims, Miss Hub
Warner, Joe Wingfield, Miss
Gertrude Williams.
Cards.
Biggs the Jeweler, Miss Kitty
B'ucy, Miss Jessie Kennedy.
Miss Bertha Martin, Miss G..
Rathmau, Miss Gwendolin Ratb-
mon, Mrs. julius Slauter, Mr., A.
A Wallace.
When calling for this MAJ
please say it was advertised.
JOHN X. TAUBMAN.
Postmaster.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-05-27
CRENSHAW & YOUNG

ooLoANo REconneNoED al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Congressional Apportionment

A good deal of sly political cum ming prevented the report of the ap- portionment bill by the Senate con- mittee to which it had been re- ferred. If the bill had been reported it would have been readily passed, and the politicians interested in op- posing it's passage contrived to have it held by the committee. The object of holding it was delay. They did not want the gerrymanders in some states, notably New York, undone and they wanted chance to elect in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois congressman "at large" In this way they had planned to carry the next Congress, but the extra session will, to some extent, upset their plans.
 The extra session will assuredly pass an apportionment bill, and it will perhaps have it ready for the signature of the President by May 1. This would enable the legislatures of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois to act upon its before adjournment. The legislature of Alabama may by means of recesses set until May, and in that case it would save the state perhaps the expense of an extra ses- sion, for many interests would call for a complete reapportionment of the state into ten congressional dis tricts.
 Each state will meet the problem of a delayed reapportionment in its own way, but no state will rest con- tent with an unsatisfactory repre- sentation in either Congress or the electoral college. An increase in the number of representative to, 433 would give Alabama ten members in- stead of nine, and twelve electors in stead of eleven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Alabama Needs More Farmers

The sale last year of farm prod ucts grown in other states in Morris avenue in this city aggregated $12,- 100000 is attracting wide attention. The Montgomery Advertiser consid CTS these sales of Birmingham com mission houses alarming. This i'm mense drain," it says, should not be permitted to continue. The remedy is more farmers and more intelligent farming. It cannot be denied that in systematic and intensive farming Alabama has greatly advanced in the past two or three years, but the cry ing need still is for more farmers. The leaders of thought, and the lead CTS in public life in Alabama should insist upon a liberal and energetic policy to secure more farmers for Alabama"
 This need will become all the more
 
 pressing when the boil weevil has scattered the vast numbers of negro tenant farmers in the black belt. No matter how much the tenant farmer is asked to face the insect bravely and intelligently, yet he will not do if He has m capital of his own as a rule upon which to make crop, and the merchants will not stand by him.
 This will temporarily cause trouble and losses in the sixteen black belt counties, but if it should operate to | clear the way for the incoming of white farmers in those counties mueh good would be the net result. There is no hope of better farming while we have tenant farmers. The stare needs white farm proprietors mho will themselves do modern intensive farming. No proprietor can well af- ford to do anything else, and when the tenant farmer flees before the boil weevil, it is then that the state and the people of the state should get busy in attracting here intelli- gent farmers regardless of their na- tivity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
the present century, are as follows:

In other words, this district over came last year the effects of the panic of 1907, and regained it's regu- lar rate of increase in production. The coal output of 1910 was dou- bled that of the year 1900, and if this rate of expansion should be main- tained to the end of the present de- cade the districts production will ex- ceed 90,000,000 tons. There is no req son to anticipate lesser output in 1920.
 The particular task before this dis trict in this decade is the dominance of the New Orleans market and those of other gulf ports, and an active participation, to say the least, in fur nishing bunker coal at Colon and Panama. Upon these efforts will depend the figures of 1920. If we become winners at New Orleans and Colon the production of coal in this district in 1920 will outrun the figures already given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Affairs on the Rio Grande

Tn the sea of rumors two things are too apparent to be gainsaid, namely, the United States had an un- >derstanding with Mexico preparatory to the present movement, and the dis content, if not insurrection, in Mex leo is widespread, reaching perhaps . majority of the population.
 It is simply absurd to doubt that Mexico was apprised of and approved the present movement of troops to the Rio Grande and of ships to near by ports. Otherwise Mexico would have reason to expect intervention and invasion. As a matter of fact she expects nothing of the kind She knows the bounds and limits of our warlike efforts, and it may be she desires a show of force on our side of the border in order to keep the British and French and Germans from considering intervention on the score of interests involved.
 From many sources comes infor- nation that the Mexican people are filled with discontent. No real cleo tions are held in any Latin American country, and those held in Mexico are simply make-believes. The govern ment secures returns in it's favor without difficulty. The discontent is therefore endured until it becomes uncomfortable and then it takes the form of an insurrection. A majority of the Mexican people are at heart insurrectionists today, and this is no doubt well understood in Washington. President Diaz no longer possesses the confidence of the country, and he 10 83 years old. Unless he resigns it e difficult to see how peace can be restored in his country, and he may dislike to resign while under fire.
 The United States is simply get ting in good position to watch events and to meet them quickly. Mexico bids fair to remain in a disturbed condition long time unless the aged president accepts the situation by stepping down and out, and he has inst begun a new six-year term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

Prof. C. H. Hawes in the March Wide
 World Magazine
 Peoples who are markedly broad-headed are more or less fattened at the back of the head Some of the fattest-headed people in the world are found among the Armenans and the tribesmen in the highlands of Asia Minor; and We know that some of them practice the custom of bandaging the babies heads In order to get them the approved shape. d.
 Knowing this, I was anxious to find out if the same cause had not produced a similar result in Crete. If we omit the better-educated people in the towns and in one village in the mountains, all Gre tan mothers bind the heads of their chill dren when tiny, in order to make them of a nice round form. In fact, when was pressing home my questions in order to make quite sure of the object the moth- CTS had in view. one of them told me that I had a Every bad head" and that my bumps and ridges ought to have been smoothed away in my infancy. Yet, after fairly exhaustive inquiry, I came to the conclusion that the bandaging in Crete is never tight and lasts for so short a time that nothing is effected. In cases of deformation at birth, however, the ac- companying massage probably restores the normal condition more quickly.
 if however there are no marked re- suits from the ad-bandaging, it is other wise with the custom of swaddling. It seems curious and even cruel to us to see baby bound tight, hand and foot and when 1t cries it is obvious that it is be- cause. of the awful discomfort of the prisoned feeling. Cretan mothers, how ever, cannot understand how we can all low the baby to be restless and uncom- fortable. Tightly swaddled, they say, the child lies still and contented, never able to overheat itself in hot wealth CT by kicking and throwing it's arms about, and in winter equally unable to throw off the clothes and so expose itself Whatever we may think of swaddling 1t appears to accomplish one thing-the prevention of bandness. One never sees a bandy-legged Cretan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Birmingham Well Advertised.

The manufacture of steel rails has done more than any one thing in re- cent years to advertise Birmingham m as the great industrial center of the south," said J. s. Crayton of Philadel phia. That and the splendid showing which Birmingham made in the 1910 census have attracted very wide at tention; and what is coming fast to the front as a big advertising card for the Birmingham district is the model industrial city of Corey. Many people one meets in the east spent a part of the winter in the south, and those tourists who stopped over in Birmingham visited Corey. Within the past ten days I have met a dozen men from my part of the country who had been here and everyone of them spoke of having seen Corey. They were amazed to see an elegantly laid out and a finely paved city adjoining Bir- mingham sprung up inside of twelve months time.
 T understand that the residences biult there for wage workers are pro- vided with modern plumbing, hot and cold water and porcelain baths, the same as the houses occupied by the rich. Corey is sure to become an ob- jective point for all students of social and civic progress"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
City Beautiful Movement.

"The city beautiful movement inaug- urated two or three years ago re- suited in marked improvement in the business district, as well as in the residence sections" said an old cit izen
 According to my recollection the leaders of the movement sought to organize a city beautiful association in every block Not only were back yards as well as front yards kept clean, but grass plots on the sidewalks be- tween the curbing and the pavement were kept in good order Now very little attention seems to be paid to these strips of grass and. consequent ly, the ground where the grass should be is unsightly
 Tt takes some work to get a stand of grass on the sidewalk and some work to keep it fresh and green. The trouble is that pedestrians, in their lack of civic pride or the aesthetic sense shortcut across the space intended to be an ornamental feature of the thoroughfare Many citizens, mindful of the appearance of the sidewalk in front of their homes. had stretched barbed wire around the grass which they had planted. In many cases the wire was broken down and complaints were often made that it was danger ous. But if young folks could be edu- cated to the city beautiful idea wire enclosures would not be necessary. would be glad to see the city beautiful movement revived
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
TETRAZZINI

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Tctrazzni has probably been singing for 15 years just about as she sang in St. Louis last night Twelve of those years she was unknown to what we in our vanity term ''the world" South America and our own Pacific slope constituted her "world,'' and we have the diva's own word for it that it's admiration was in every way equal to our own.
 The trouble with us is that we have very absurd notion about what 'rne world" is, and the Tetrazzini incident ought to do us good. No doubt there are in what we regard as space" other great luminaries quite as brilliant as those whom our near-sighted vanity sees. , Tetrazzin laughs while she sings, but probably not many of us know what she is laughing about
 Think.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10

is, all wonder that it had not been passed years ago.
 This new law imposes fine of not more than 5000 or improsonment of not more than one year, or both, upon any person who unlawfully gathers information concerning the national defenses, and if this information is communicated to a foreign govern ment, or any attempt is made to dis pose of it, the offender may be given ten years Imprisonment.
 Our forts, arsenals, warships and the like have been common property. No other country permits pictures and drawings to be made of national defenses, and Captain Hobson's bill stops all such work in this country. Paid agents of foreign countries will not only be watched but so also will mere curiosity seekers and globe trot- ters, for the information that the lat ter gather may become valuable to an enemy in wartime.
 The Hobson law is a good law, and the government will no doubt see that it is strictly enforced. It will be needed at the Panama canal and in the Philippines, and really wherever we have Qualifications or warships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Judge Pelham in Town

Judge John Pelham of the Seventh ju- dicial circuit was in Birmingham yester- day on personal business. Judge Pelham lives at Anniston, He was appointed yes- terday one of the judges on the newly created appellate court bench, but he hadn't been appraised of the governors in tention when he met a representative of The Age-Herald. Some of my friends have mentioned my name in connection with the postion." said Judge Pelham, but this is judicial place and I feel that the governor should be allowed to make the selection without political or other scramble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
IN A RAILROAD, CAMP

From 'The Makers of the Grade" by
 Thomas Francis Ramsay, in the March
 Scribner.
 When started railroading was rather prejudiced against 'Dagoes'' and other alien immigrants, believing that their in- vasion of Canada and the United States was a national peril to both countries. But living with them has changed that view. They are certainly not "the scum of Europe.'' If you think of it calmly for a moment, it will dawn upon you that men who have the enterprise to emigrate to foreign country and the resolution to save money for that purpose, are not like ly to be the worst of their race. Nor are the most of them rough, ignorant peasants, as many ill-informed newspaper writers would have us suppose. On the contrary, the average of education, es- pecially among the men of the northern European nations, is much higher than that of the native-born Canadian rail- roader, French. or English. The Italians are an exception to. this rule, but even among them I have known men qualified by training and natural gifts to fill re- sponsible positions. One of them, whom we nicknamed "Caruso," had traveled widely in the chorus of an itinerantNopera company. He used to make music to the trees and the chipmunks by day, as he toiled at clearing the right-of-way, and in our "shackr at night he entertained us with "Ah. che la morte," and the tor eador song from Carmen" A very cul- tured Swede, who formerly kept gam bling hell in Vancouver until he was run out of town by the police, studied civil engineering every evening through the medium of a correspondence schools course. A young Russian laborer in a camp I stayed at for while used to spend his leisure reading a Russian trans. lation of Professor Draper's History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science" I worked for some time with a gang of Finlanders. All of them were men of education and refinement, and one had been a professor of singing in Fin nish university. Like many of the Films and Russians here, he was obliged 10 leave his country because of his lessocia- 1 ton with revolutionary politics. At nights, | in the sleeping shack. he would lead his comrades in singing Finnish hymns and I folk songs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
NEws-GATHERING AGENCIES

FTOn tne MdTCH 7oIfHllU.
 The world at large is divided for the purpose of news-gathering among four great agencies. The Reuter- Telegram Co.,, Ltd, of London, gathers and dis tributes news in Great Britain and all her colonies. China, Japan and Egypt The Continental Teegraphen Co. of Berlin popularly known as the Wolff agency performs a like service in the Teutonic, Slav and Scandinavian countries, and the Agence Havas of Paris operates In the Latin nations. The field of the Asso- ciated Press includes the United States, the Hawaiian islands, the Philippines and Central America, as well as the islands of the Caribbean sea-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
PRINCESS MAUD AND DICKENS

From the March Strand
 Every Christmas time at Birmingham, as I recall it many years ago. says a writer in the March Strand, "the royal children used to gather round to hear Princess Maud-known to her brothers and sisters as Harrie,' read the Christmas Carol.' and I know it was read very well indeed so that there was not dry eye among her auditors. 1 know, too, that King Edward and Queen Alexandra dhen Prince and Princess of Nales) and their children never tired of Dickens, whose works they in turn were taught to love as children. So that I feel sure the Dickens stamp, which his ma1es- ty has publicly called an interesting and well-designed record of the great novel; ist,' will meet nowhere with more cor dial and sympathetic welcome than in the royal homes of England and those mem- bers of our royal family abroad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
WHEN OLIVER ASKED FOR MORE

From Dickens "Oliver Twist
 nNHE room Gin the workhouse) in
 which the boys were fed was a
 A large stone hall with a copper at one end out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two of the women ladled the gruel at meal times; of which composi- ton each had one porringer, and no more except on festive occasions-and then he had two ounces and quarter of bread besides The bowls never wanted wash ing; the boys polished them with their spoons till they shone Again; and when they had performed this operation (which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls) they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could devour the very brick of which 1t was composed; employ ing themselves meanwhile in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast there on. Boys have generally excellent appe- tites. Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the torture of slow starvation for
  cous and wild with hunger that one boy who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cooks shop hinted darkly to his companions. that, unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he should some night eat the, boy he sat next to, who hap pened to be a weakly youth of tender age He had a wild, hungry eye; and they implicitly believed him. A council was held. lots were cast as to who should walk up to the master after supper that evening" and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist
 The evening arrived. The boys took their places the master in his cooks uni form stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out and a long grace was said over the short commons The gruel disappeared; the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
CHURCH BUILT BY ONE MAN

From the M aEch strand ,i-a
 Built by the priest" or leader of small handful of devotees of section of the Russian Greek church, ''one- man church's was until lately one of tho sights" of the foreign district in Win nipeg, Manitoba, Most of the stuff con sists mainly of old lumber, tin cans of all sorts and sizes iron bedsteads, chairs, iron wire. and rods of all kinds, most in geniously put together, and presenting a wonderful picture of great variety of colors and shapes. The church has been pulled down lately, as the owner got into financial difficulties and was behind in his payments on the lot on which 1t stood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Congressman Fred BIackmon

"The democrats will get a try at the bat in Congress pretty soon now,' said Congressman Fred Blackmon of the Fourth congressional district, who was ill Birmingham for a while yesterday.
 'eThe special session will probably be a very busy one and may be very import ant It will give the democrats and es- pecially the new members, who. by the way, are numerous, an opportunity to get a line on things and prepare for the regu- lar session in December
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
Captain Hobson's Spy Bill

The paragraphers do not hesitate % ridicule Captain Hobson's fears of on invasion on the part of Japan. He lv an alarmist but no one can intelli- eently question his patriotism, nor does any one say that his spy bill Q unnecessary or unwise. The fact