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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-05-12


sus count.
A Boonville editor says it
seems like downright sacrilege
for some people to play on an up
right piano.
The best inheritance for the
rising generation would be good
roads around the farms, says the
Warsaw Times.
Speaker Champ Clark, il order
to attend the special session of
congress, had to cancel SO, ,0O
worth of lecture engagements.
Generally, says the Jamesport
Gazette. it is, all right to take
things as they come, but it is
dangerous to take a goat that
way.
Claude D. Long OF LaBeile,
Lewis county, has been appointed
state inspector of automobiles by
Secretary of State Cornelius
Roach.
Anyone fighting shy of work
would do we'll to avoid Sarcoxis.
Mo-, where the strawberry asso-
citation is advertising for eight
thousand berry pickers.
Mobiles livery barn and Bal
LEWIS lumber yard at Bloomfield
were burned Saturday of last
week. The loss is about $40, 600.
One horse was burned.
Springfield bankers and busi-
ness men are happy. The state
will coon pay back to the donors
the money advanced two years
ago to the state immigration
board.
While cleaning up a brush
patch the other day Jahu Watson
near Grant City cut down hazel
switch that was 144 1-2 inches
high and measured only one-half
inch in diameter at the butt.
The marshal arrested Mayer
Bonfoy Of Unionville one day last
week for splitting on the postoffice
floor and the mayor paid into the
city treasury St1.10. Expec-
torating comes high in Unionville.
The recent disturbance in
France caused no surprise on the
part OF the editor Of the Taney
Traveller. As far as his observa-
tions and experience go. said the
Taney editor. champagne always
causes more or less of riot.
Farmers of Petds county re-
port that myraids Of green bugs
are attacking the clover fields
and running the crop. The in
sects are of the came species thai
damaged growing wheat in pasl
years.
Secrstary OF State Roach issued
a charter Friday to the Missouri
Arkansas and Gulf Railroad com
pany. The company has a capi'
tai stock Of $4,000, 900 and char
tered for period OF fifty years
Five per cent Of the capital stocl
is paid up.
Marian Lemp. q grand daugh'
ter Of the late William j. LemT
began q legal fight for her share
of his $40, 900 900 estate by filing
suit In st. Louis, asking tina
the court decFse her one-eightf
OF the estate. Being q minor sh'
brought suit through her mother
All heirs of the Lemp estate ar,
named as defendants. Miss LemI
les daughter of the late FredericI
w. Lemp. William j. Lemp lef
bic estate in the hands OF hi
widow, and when she died, he
will said that the interest o
Marian Lsmp and her mother hst
been purchased, and che accord
inely left them nothing.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-05-12

for the Hannibal & North Mis-
souri, railroad, q line now being
constructed from Palmyra to
Kirksville. The appointment was
made on the application Of the
stockholders who alleged mis-
management on the part OF Frank
W. Latimer, the president, and
other officers. The officers re-
sisted the application, insisting
there were no good grounds for
the appointment Of receiver.
Mr.. Latimer and the officers will
appeal from the decision.
A fire which started about 1890
O'Clock Saturday night in the rear
of a livery barn at Bunceton,
spread through the business part
of town, destroying five other
buildings, including the post
office. Two pool halls, a meat
shop, millinery store and one
vacant building were burned with
a loss estimated at about 500, 900.
Not a thing was saved from the
postoffice. The postmaster, C.
NJ. Zeigle, says his personal loss
in the postoffice win be about
81, 900.
The canvas OF the township
enumerator of Houstonia shows
that the census bureau was
slightly in error in its figures re-
|garding the population of that
town. The census gives Hous-
toniai $40 inhabitants. TIE town
ship enumerator found 43S per-
sons, The town canvasser admits
that be went little beyond the
city limits in his canvass, but that
doesn't worry Houstonia. "Sub-
urbanites" belong to Houstonia,
just the same.
Jhis one is from a Randolph
county editor: "Not a Thousand
miles away from here on a recent
Sunday farmer in church very
eloquently supplicated the Lord
to help the needy and poor in the
community. When going home
his little son very artfully re.
marked: "Say, pa, If | had az
much wheat and corn in the barn
as you have I'd help the poor my
self and not bother the Lord
about it."
A commission man at Willow
Springs who owned the /. X. In
abinet Commission Company has
Pdecamped leaving lot of credi-
tors to hold the bag. A firm at
Mansfield from whom the man
with an unspeakable name
bought some eggs is 81 400 in the
hole. Other produce dealers
around Willow Springs mourn the
absence of the man whose name
it is difficult to pronounce.
Mrs. Alma James was arrested
soon after she asked the police to
call al her home and aid her hus-
band, Leo James, who, she said,
was dying. The police found
James dead with two bullet holes
in his head. A revolver with two
empty cartridges was found near
the bed. Mrs. James refuses
to discuss the shooting. Her hus-
band was stationary engineer.
Evidently another delinquent
subscriber has died in Sturgeon.
The Leader says: "Once in a
while, when some old skinflint
dies, a newspaper pines for de-
sire to tell the whole truth about
the deceased, but it cannot. In
private conversation one may say
what he thinks, but q reporter
dare not put in print all that he
knows to be true"
A. "gone gosline" note from
the Oleon Independent: MRS. j,
III. Flint entertained her class
Sunday with an egg hunt. Prize
awarded 10 Opha Norfleet, ten
cents worth Of candy; second tc
lMaleJm Etter, u big goose egg,
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-05-12

MaryVlile does not GET INTO the
5000 class. Her population as
given by the last census is 4,672,
an increase of 1856 over that Of
five years ago. '
Katie Seolipino, aged 21, died
in Kansas City just one day be.
fore the cour. Of appeals sustain.
ed verdict awarding her $4,000
for personal injuries, received in
an explosion Of dynamite on
March 4, 1907. 1t was from the
effects of these injuries that the
young woman died.
Twelve miles of the old "king's
highway" near Sikeston, Mo-, the
oldest road in Missouri, is being
rebuilt with rock macadam. Cur
It's Hill, the state highway engi-
neer, has organized a special
benefit assessment road district
to carry on the work. Later the
road will be extended to New
Madrid.
Governor Hadley seems to take
especial pleasure in veoting Dem
ocratic measures that passed the
recent Legislature, whether they
are good or bad. Many Of these
measures would make good laws
and laws that the people Of the
state desire, but because they
were introduced by Democrats
and passed by Democratic leg.
islature the governor vetoed them.
This shows the smallness Of the
man who now occupies the chair
of governor OF Missouri.-Mem-
Iphis Democrat.
Governor Hadley complains Of
the "unfairness" of the senatorial
redistricting by Secretary of State
Roach and Attorney General Ma
ljors and threatens to submit a
redistricting scheme Of his own
in 1912. When did the Republi-
cans establish a reputation for
political fairness" in this state
In st. Louis which was reds.
tricted by Republicans, Demo-
Gratis do not get "look in,"
though they cast larger proper
ton of the vote than the Repub-
licans do in the state at large
The "wolf in sheep's clothing" il
entirely too obvious.-Gallatin
Democrat.
Before the gaze Of his young
son, James W. Stewart, a farmer
residing four miles northwest ol
Kennett, Sunday night beat tc
death his bride Of four months
whetted a butcher knife, almost
severed her head from her body,
and drove the blade into his own
breast. Physicians believe he
will die. Stewart became enrageG
when his wife mortgaged team
of horses to obtain the release oI
her stepson from jail where he
was held on charge of forgery
Stewart is said to have been mar.
ried four times. Mrs. Stewart il
said to have heen seven times 9
bride, and the whole outfit are
pretty tough people. .s,..
At a fire in Sikeston this weel
it was discovered that the fireman
who had entered the burning
building to carry out furniture
had overlooked a, child sbou
three years old in one Of the bed'
left in the house. The mother
became almost frantic when thil
discovery was made, but IL wal
Thought there was no way Of saw
ing the child as the building wa
, a roaring mass Of flames. How
ever, Clay Stubbs and Stew,
Soroff, two schoolboys thirteeI
years old, ran into the building
and brought out the child un'
harmed. They were somewha
|, burned about the face and hand
aud had inhaled considerable
smoke, but they had saved tn,
tlf.s "a It'll - -
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-05-12

eod be praised that | am overtaken
with misfortune and not with SIM
saadi,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Got all the Blame.

An actress tells the following
story about a little boy whose
father was q great friend of hers
and who was at the time away
from home with his company:
As was passing the house one
day l found little Johnnie, who
is niue years old, sitting on the
steps sobbing most piteously.
"Why, what's the matter, John
nie?" said |. "Why are you
crying SOP"
"Boo, hoo, hoo!" sobbed John
ME. "We've got a new little
baby since father was home"
"Why, if you've got new
baby | don't see why that should
make you cry. | should think
you'd be glad"
"Boo, hoo! Yes, but you
don't know that father blames
me for every blessed thing that
happens while he's gone"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Threw Away the Yellow Scum.

She was q city bride who had
never before taken hand in
housekeeping and knew but little
about things in the kitchen. A
few morning ago she got after
the milkman.
"What's the matter with your
milk?" she said, with great ve-
hemence.
81 don't know" he replied
"What do you find wrong with
it?"
"Well," she said, "every morn
ing it is covered with a nasty vel.
low scum"
"And what do you do with the
scum?"
"Why l skim it off, of course
and throw it in the garbage can
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
The Best Boss"

wonder if any of US have ever
used up so much energy teaching
our laborers that we were "boss''
(keeping them out of humor the
most of the time, thus making
them much less effective work.
men) that we flnd little time for
real, profitable directing of our
work. If we have made this
mistake let us change at once
and demonstrate our fitness to
boss, not by perslsting in the en-
forcement of petty demands, but
by showing that we have a COM
plete mastery of the work in
hand and are leaders by right of
greater knowledge and business
judgement. This will make for
more profitable agriculture, at
least. Progressive Farmer.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
A Compliment for Him.

She was Is and very shy, and
she never had been IN the city
before. There was no one at
Broad Street station to meet her
aud she looked about timidly for
a cab. Her mother had told her
to take hanson. She did not
see any hanson, nor did she
know that the cabbies wore a
livery all their own. She did
not see a policeman either, so
she approached youth who was
standing on the corner of Fiji
teenth Street with her bashful
question.
"PleaSe," she began, "are you
a hanson mani"
The youth raised his hand and
twirled his mustache ingratiat
ingly, smiling with deprecating
assumption of modesty.
81 am SO considered" he re-
piled.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16

The home paper is always in
terestfng to you, whether you
like it or not, says the Cuba
(Kan) Daylight. Some people
who do not take the paper, bor-
row it from their neighbors, and
while this inconvenience the
neighbors aud themselves, it can.
not help but make us feel proud
that they really care enough for
our paper TO walk half a mile
each week to get it and also save
three cents. 1t shows that these
people are economical and that
when our advertisers put an ad.
in our paper they will be sure to
read 1t carefully and take in all
the bargains.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Saturday Smiles.

Mrs. Highupp-"Your hus-
band has changed so that l didn't
recognize him."
Mrs. Blase-"It ISM It that. Ive
changed husbands
"Do you believe in signs" ask
ed the superstitious man.
mo. | advertise in the news
papers exclusively" replied the
great merchant. .
Ritualistic Wears Wife Ito
new cook)-"And you are a
high church woman, hope?"
New Cook-"Oh, yes, mum,
high church, and as the church
gets higher | get higher"
"Did he make a favorable i'm
preston at the dlnner?"
Slime. He had such cold he
only spoke for a minute or two,
and nobody understood a word
he said.'
Servant-You got cheated
when you bought a chiny vase,
mum.
Mistress-How cheated?
Servant-Why, it's weak. 1t
busted all to smash the first time
| dropped it.
The mule, being in a temper.
kicker a few boards out of the
barn.
"One of those fresh-air
cranks," commented the horse to
itself.
The doctor told little Mary she
was anaemic because she was so
white.
A few days after she exclaim-
ed:
sob, mamma! Come here and
look at this anaemic horse! He's
just as white as he can bel"
1t was after the domestic tiff.
81 have nothing to live for"
complained the wife bitterly.
"You forget my life insur.
ance," replied the husband, who
was, of course, a brute.
"Was the opera season a sue
cess in this city,"
"Oh, yes, splendid success. |
lost a So, 900 necklace and had it
written up in the papers and l
entertained Mary Garden at an
afternoon tea.'
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Prior to 1926 all women's shoes
were made without heels.
Barcelona, Spain, is to pay
$11, 476,000 for its new water
supply.
Except on the coast there are
no inns or hotels in Morocco.
The average length of life
among Paris-born families is
twentv-eight years and one
month.
Spain makes only about forty
thousand tons of PAPER q year,
half of it for the use of printers
India rubber nails for use in
places where ordinary nails are
liable to corrosiOn are German
novelty.
In some parts of Africa chill
dren will eat salt in preference
to sugar. On the gold coast
handful of salt will purchase two
slaves.
Last year Canada paid out $13,-
511, 931 in subsidies and subveu-
tlons, of which $1,736,372 went
for mail subsidies and steamship
suhvcntions.
Taking up Henry Ward Beech
er's declaration that "Yellow fe.
yer is Gcd Almighty's opinion of
dirt" writer says nobody would
die if he could keep perfectly
clean.
The Raja of Sarawak, Borneo,
has issued an edict prohibiting
white men from purchasing rub
Der plantations from natives un
der any condition. This is to
protect the land for the inhabit-
ants.
Only $40 Americans reside at
Shanghai, but they are energetic
factors in the foreign numbering
1885. The natives number 1885,
COS. The British total 4,465,
japanese 1851, and Portuguese
1,195.
Johnny's mamma had put sew
eral patches On his trousers, and
when the little fellow tried the
trousers CD he said gravely.
"Mamma, If you had made the
patches little bigger I'd have
had new pants. y
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Abe Martin SAYS.

If it wuzn' for unwritten laws
the country would be full o. fel.
lers wearin' flat straw hats and
Prince Albert coats. Boys will
be boys, an so will lots O. ole
men.
Rev. Wiley Tanger talks o.
quittin' tn ministery as his wife
don't care fer croquet. There's
julius three sides t. a divorce case
-th' husbands, tn wife's an
her mothers.
Elgin Tyler's wife has got q
divorce. She took tn children
an tn furniture an Elgln took
tn blame. After ever buddy
gifts paid in full tn family doctor
gifts a dollar on account.
Tryin' t. scrape up a relation
ship with somebuddy that's rich
an influential is one O. tn fifty.
seven ways O. shown your in.
feriorty. Figures don't lie, but
you can group 'em so they'll an.
swer tn same purpose.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Where the Shoe Punched.

Pat was giving Heinie a little
discourse on socialism.
SOCIALISM," he said, "means
dividing everything up so that
you have just as much as me end
everybody else will have the
same. It's gr-rand thing
"If you have $4,000 you will
have to give me $25, 0OO?" inquir-
ed Heinie.
"Sure."
"And if you own four houses
you will give two to me?"
"Surest thing you know"
"And If you have two pigs, dc
| get one of them?"
saw, 60 on" said Pat; "ye2
know pve got two pigs"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
The Cause of II.

More towns die of want of con-
idence on the part of business
men and lack of public spirit
than any other cause, says a
floating editorial. When a man
in search Of a home or a buslne ss
location goes into a town and
finds everything brim full of
hope and enthusiasm of the
prospects of the place and all
earnestly at work to build 1t up,
he soon becomes imbued with
the same spirit, and as a result
he drives down stakes and goes
to work with the same interest.
When however, he goes to q
town where every one expresses
doubt and apprehension for the
future prosperity Of the place,
moping about, indulging in
mournful complaints, he natur-
ally feels that it is no place for
him, and he at once shakes the
dust from his feet while he pulls
out with all possible speed for
some other place. Consequently
try to make a live. enterprising
town in which you live. When
you are working for your town
you are accomplishing all the
more for yourself.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Wolf Plans Dogs Death.

A remarkable and thrilling
tragedy, in which the cunning
of the wolf species was most
strikingly illustrated, was wit
messed on the Missouri River near
Council Bluffs recently when
three hounds belonging to John
Blair of Whiting, Ia, were lured
to their death by q wolf.
Blair was out with his pack
and started the wolf. After a
short chase on land the wolf
struck for the middle of the
stream over the ice, which in
places was too thin to support
Blair's weight. He was forced
to stand on the river bank and
witness the tragedy which fol-
lowed.
The wolf now and then cast a
backward look to see if the dogs
were following. When about
midstream the wolf made a
quick detour, then faced about
as if to give battle. The wolf
had led the dogs to an airhole
and to their death. Standing
upon the off side of the hole, the
animal bated the hounds. One
by one they plunged into the
hole and to their death.
Apparently satisfied with the
result of his strategy, the wolf
ambled to shore and safety.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Girl Dies; Loses Mind on Recovery.

Los Angeles, Feb. ga case
of dual personality, which has
been puzzling physicians for
year, has been brought to light
through the medical report of
DR.. P. Beasting. The patient is
Miss Pauline bearing, 90 years
of age, who, according to the
physicians, suffered a stoppage
of the heart, circulation and
respiration for'five minutes, and
recovered to become a person of
entirely different temperament
and with no memory of her life
before the experience.
On November Is, 1909, MISS
bearing was stricken with abso-
lutte paralysis of the body togeth-
er with complete failure of the
nerves of nutrition. On January
16 the pulse ceased, respiration
stopped, the blood ceased circu-
lating and rigor mortls ensued.
DIR. Beasting says. that after
this apparent death he happened
to touch the body and the skin
did not feel like that of dead
person.
81 felt the muscles of the neck
relax under my fingers and soon
she gave cry like that of new
born child" he says.
III worked hard and the circu-
lation was resumed. We gave
her warm water and she sucked
it down greedily just like a hum
CRY baby; later we gave her some
diluted milk in a nursing bottle
and she rapidly grew stronger.
M ISIS bearing recovered
strength, was entirely cured of
her paralysis and was free from
all pain; but her memory was
gone, she did not know how to
talk, and she was so far as mind
went just as new born child.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
An Old Sermon.
A country clergyman tells

A country clergyman tells this
anecdote in London Answers
The Vicar was a very old man.
He had been ir the parish forty
two years. During my last year
there was practically in charge
of the services, but now and
then, when he was able, he oc-
cupied the pulpit. His eyesight
was bad, and he was altogether
unfit to compose fresh sermons,
so had to fall back on old ones.
One Sunday morning we were
alarmed with q discourse, as
nearly as | can remember, as
follows: "We are standing to-
day. he said, "face to face
with q great power in the East.
We are on the verge of war;
(Long pause.) "We are-we
are-er-we are on the brink of
war with Russia. I-er-we, 7
mean-we will not proceed to
consider the next point" In
the vestry, after service, | asked
him about this projected war, as
| had seen nothing about 1t in
the papers. "That Sermon" he
said to me, with a very far-off
look in his eyes, and a slight
suspicion of a smile-"that ser
mon | wrote in 1S54!'
e-A-&
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16

buried at the city cemetery Sun
day.
Mrs. Harris Scruggs and little
son, of Coalmont, are visiting her
mother, Mrs. M. E. Hall, for a few
days.
Mrs. w. o. Boulton returned to
Chattanooga Monday after a few
days visit to her mother, Mrs.
Margaret Oneal.
w. w. Kilgore, store keeper for
the Miners Mercantile Co, at Roddy
Springs, spent a short time in the
city Wednesday on business.
The Junior Auxiliary gave
bazaar at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
John Bailey on last Tuesday night
for the benefit of the Episcopal
Church. A large crowd was pres
ent and neat sum realized.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
Darkness as Substance.

49,
| had known darkness before
the darkness of the mine, dark
ness that meant q complete alb
sence of light-hut here was an
opaque, a darkness that the
presence of light failed to affect.
At my feet a board stretched out
into the smoke and disappeared.
STOPPING clumsily to my knees
under the weight of the helmet,
and peering forward through the
bulls eye in the dim rays OF the
electric lights, | saw that the
board passed over three feet of
blackness into the box which
hung in the middle of the shaft.
One side of the box, fastened by
heavy hinges, had been lowered
down like a drawbridge, and
from this open side to my feet
extended the frail gang-plapk
that we must pass over. Out
before me, in the smoke and
blackness, the box swung dimly,
its nearest angle half lost, like
the bow of a ship in dense fog.
One by one we crawled on our
hands and knees over the sway
ing board and reached the box,
but so dense was the smoke and
blackness that, holding my cleo
trio torch at arms length, try as
l might | could distinguish moth
ing but faint yellow smudge of
light at a distance that | knew to
be but the length of my arm.
The last man over, the watcher
in his helmet on the brink pull
ed back the board and, cropping
clumsily, and hampere1 in the
darkness, we pulled up the
swinging side of the box and
dashed it into place. Then clear
and vibrant, came the three
strokes from Delmer's hammer
on the saw blade. Far away we
heard the bell transmitting our
signal in the engine house; and
then, imperceptibly, without
jolt or sound, the faint smudge
of taWny yellow of the three
electric lights on the edge of the
shaft seemed to rise above US
and, standing silent in the box,
we sank into blackness unutter-
able. Instantly sense of dlrec-
tion was gone. There was moth
ing to see. We could not even
see through the BULBS eyes of our
helmets the walls of the shaft
almost within arms reach. Once
l held my light pointed close
against the bull eye of my he'll
met and found sudden relief in
it's yellow re.-Atlantic.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-16
He Wouldn't Come Back.

The conductor of a train was
having trouble with a German
who would not pay the whole
fare. In despair, he at length
stopped the train and told the
man to get off. This the Ger
man gladly did, and running
ahead Of the engine he began to
walk the ties. The engineer
whistled for him to get off the
track.
The German turned around
and shook his fist at the train.
"You needn't vistle!" he said.
81 Won't come pack"