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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
GETTING WHAT YOU WANT
Many Wish to Prosper, But Do Not
Wish It Enough to Make
Sac crifices.

You ordered your steak we'll done
The waiter brought it to you rare
You ate it, although you do not like
rare steak. You could have sent the
steak back and had 1t the way you
wanted 1t. You didn't take the
trouble. You wanted well-done steak,
but you didn't want it-enough.
That is the way lots of people go
through life. They wish to be pros
porous, but they do not wish 1t enough
TO make the self-sacrifices necessary
for saving. They wish to be well-edu
Gated, but they do not take the time
to read the books that would increase
their knowledge Yet the old Ger
man proverb, What a man. wills he
can." is true. You can have what you
wish. If you wish hard enough.
Suppose you make up your mind
that you are going to get to the top
in your Office. II you really wish to
you can. There will be opportunities
TO master details in positions above
yours. If you are really working for
your wish. you will grasp these. even
if it means unpaid overtime or the
sacrifice of personal pleasure.
Map out the course in life you wish
to follow, set as a goal whatever place
you wish to attain. then keep con-
sistently ork-wishing, doing every
thing you can to attain your end. You
will get there every time.-Exchange.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
method of undertaking to do for
people what it now delegates to
the corporate monopolies.

President Corey of the Steel
Trust has resigned. This is the
same job which Chas. NJ. Schwab
held a few years ago at a salary
of one million dollars year
Meanwhile the directors of the
corporation have indicated that
they will not elect Mr.. Corey's
successor for some time. Which
goes to show that our great in
dustrial organizations are helped
about as much by the man at
their head as a fly on the per-
iphery of a wheel assists the lat
ter in turning. They run them
selves, that is, the men who han
die the entire process Of opera
ton are the motive power Men
like Mr.. Corey, acting as the
head of the whole, are merely flies
upon the wheel, although unfor-
tunately they absorb more than a
fy's share.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
WHEN YOUR WIFE FAINTS
New Method Of Resuscitation More
Effective Than Usual Way Of Ap-
plying Friction.

When my wife faints, which is
miserably often. do not apply fric-
ton in the usual absurd way-rubbing
backward and forward, which must
alternately check and accelerate the
passage Of the blood-but taking hold
Of one OF her hands with my left hand
l place the thumb and finger Of my
right hand tight around her wrist and
pass them firmly up toward her elbow.
Having brought them back loosely
to the wrist I pass them firmly up
again. and when l have repeated the
operation two or three times, some
times on both arms. have the pleas
ure Of hearing the ejaculation, Il feel
better now" When l first had recourse
to this means of resuscitating my lady
she exclaimed instinctively on two
different occasions, without being at
all aware that l had had any parties,
lar intention, "Oh, that is what seem
to want"
From the invariable and immediate
effect of this mode of friction f1atter
myself that 1t is not unworthy the no
tice of the medical practitioner in the
friction Of cholera patients, process
which should be much oftener resort
ed to and more energetically persisted
in than it generally is.-Letter to the
Lancet.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
Mother Of 13 at IS,

Perhaps the nmelight of publicity
never would have shone On the family
of Mr. and Mrs. w c. Seiglar of East
23d street II the gauntlet had not been
thrown down.
Somebody down in Pensacola. Fla,
sent out a news dispatch to the effect
that there lived there the mother OF
thirteen children at g. years, Six OF
the Florida children were twins too.
and for this the Missouri family be-
lieves the Florida folk should be pen
allied a few points. None Of the Mis-
sourians are twins. And <he Missouri
mother WAS only 35 when the thir-
teenth baby was born. This. Mr.. and
Mrs Seiglar believe. should establish
incontestably for Missouri the record.
They didn't appear at all grieved
over the situation when q vfsitox call
ed. All of the children are at home
the eldest is 10 and the youngest AZ.
Six are girls and six are boys. A son
died In infancy. None II married.
XAnsas City Star.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

Political government is largely
a matter of comforting special
privileges. This custom is not a
development of our own period,
but dates back as far as history
runs. In olden times the favor
ties of kings were granted spec
ial favors for some service rem
dered the monarch, which often
took the form of an absolute mo-
nopoly in the trade of commod-
ity of common necessity: or,
again, it might have been a rake
off on tax collections. Whatever
it was, it enabled the recipient of
this favorable advantage to reap
great gains at the expense of the
community at large. With the
abandonment of absolute mOnar-
chial rule over enlightened ma
tions the special privilege advan-
tage has been conferred under
various guises upon business
corporations, often in return for
aid rendered to the political par
ty in power, and the wealthier
the nation and the greater its re-
quirements, the bigger have been
the gain of this advantage. re-
sulting in accumulations of pri-
vate fortunes computed as high
as half billion dollars, sum
that hundred years ago would
have placed a whole nation OF
people at the pinnacle of opul-
ence. The drift of political
thought in these latter days,
however, is to overcome this
special advantage of private in
terests and disseminate the re-
sulting economy among the
masses of the people. Hence
we see so many of our most emf
nent statesmen battling against
the private graft of politically
conferred privilege.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
The Advice Factory.

Nov. my son." said the Bill
vile father. though the advice
is as cheap as prices ought to be.
I'm going to unload. myself of a
little-aS it's the time of year
when advice is eXcusable in a
chap who has nothing else to give.
Don t saddle your sins on Sa-
tan. because he's a boss that will
stand for it, and don't waste any
time abusing the saints. even
when you see the wh!tewash
wearing off.
Don't imagine that YOU are a
statesman because a shelf of law
books happen to fall on yOu and
the town bands serenadeS YOU
and wakes the baby in the middle
of the night
Keep your eyes wide open to
the year 1911. remembering that
you may not be required to run
for president until 1912, and even
then you will be free to decline
in favor of the crowd.
Instead of worrying about the
money of Morgan and Rockefel-
ler hit a few hard licks and raise
some of your own, not forgetting
that if you get too much you may
die before you've had the oppor-
tunity to give it all away
Give passing thought to the
long time this wonderful old
world has been running itself.
and comfort your heart with the
reflection that it will be here
when you go to bed without leav-
ing a call for tomorrow.
Youth is excused for raising
the devil at times. but too much
of him doesn't win out. He sets
an example in this-that he is al
ways busy. but the road he
travels is too rocky. and the at
mosphere around him would
ScOrch a blizzard.
AS far as possible keep in
the middle of the road. and rush
the fellows you run over to the
hospital. Frank l.. Stanton.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
DANGER IN DELAY
Kidney Diseases Are Too Danger
Gus for potcsi People
to EeaieCt.

The great danger OF kidney troubles
j. that they get firm hold before the
sufferer recognizes them. Health ~
gradually undermined. h2"k&ch".
heatiat,ne. nervousness. ianeE"S".
soreness. Iumtago. urinary troubles, ,
dr;.n~y. diabetes ami irig'tt- liz ~ -
io.iuw in merciie>s Succession. Don t
neglect .oIr Kidneys. Cure the %I;-
neT. with tie certain and safe remedy.
ntsn-s Kidney Pills. which has @Ir-,!
people fig!., here in this locai.tE.
f. c. Rankin. icnle Hotel. lie soto.
Me-. saws: The cure Doan Kidney
Pills ERECT. in M rase several Years
ago has proven l,tsfm<snent. IIid there
fore. krlow 1i4at this remedy lives up
- the claims Tia, are made fnr II. Fer
several months ! WAS bothered s'y a
soreness ana ianicness IA my kidneys
and wnnr esw Doan's kidney fills
l.ighiv recommended: ior such trou-
ile~. procured h.x. Throug =, their
uSt. ~aS ri,i ~ kidney trouble and
have been in good nealti. since.
For sale by all dealers. Price M
cents. Fu.ter-Mi!burn Co.. Buffalo,
Eew York. sole agents for the ;salteti
States.
Remember the name-DoaE's Sand
take no other.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
Money and the Law.

Do rich and poor look alike to
the eyes of the law:
The courts and an army of le
gal lights have answered this
question in the affirmative.
And whenever or wherever the
answer is offered, the public reg
ister vigorous denunciation Of
it's untruth.
In St. Louis County court a
man reputed to be a millionaire
has been convicted of committing
bigamy; and all the penalty Of the
law exacted from him was the
payment Of a fine of S5O0-a sum
which could not have caused him
a second thought-and his prom
Use to behave.
If a poor man were subjected
to only the same degree of pun
ishment, specifically speaking.
it would mean financial ruin to
him; and thus the cases would be
in nowise similar. Or in the case
of man unable to pay a fine of
$500, there would be no alterna-
tive but that he must go to pris-
which, clearly, would be an
Imprisonment for debt, which
was at one time a disgraceful
possibility in England. but which
no longer exists.
The essential fact. however, is
that in a very great majority Of
cases the poor man is not given
an opportunity to pay the penalty
of crime by the payment OF
money. He is sent to prison,
quite regardless of the fact that
his family may come to moral
and material ruin in the absence
of their natural protector.
There is perhaps not peniten-
tiary in the United States in
which there are not men serving
sentences for the crime Of big
amy.
Are they in any way more cul-
pable than the man who was lib
Grated at Clayton, Tuesday:
What the defenders of our le-
gal system mean to tell us is, un-
doubtedly, that the poor man and
the rich man are the same before
the law-with exceptions st.
Louis Times.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

If the government really wants
to build up an American mer
chant marine, why not instead of
spending millions upon battle
ships-that are obsolete almost
before they are completed
spend the money in building
freight and passenger vessels to
be owned and operated by the
government. But this will not
be done, for it would interfere
with the profits of private ship
owning corporations, who want
those profits swelled through
government subsidies. The gov
ernment could break up any and
all the trusts in existence, give
the people better and cheaper
service. and better wages and
hours to labor by the simple
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

Some of our readers may ques
ton why it is that this paper, of
professed Republican proclivi-
ties, opposes the denomination
of President Taft, and also criti-
cises many acts of his admins
tration. Our answer is, that we
set party welfare above the per-
sonal interests of any particular
member of the party. Our belief
is that Mr.. Taft has seriously
hampered Republican progress,
and we need only point to the big
Democratic majority in the
House at the next session of Con
gress, and to the recent election
of Democratic governors and leg
islatures in number of states
heretofore regarded as being safe
ly in the Republican column.
When Mr.. Roosevelt turned the
helm of the country over to his
successor, the Republican party
had had an unbroken reign of six
teen years. The party had at the
election that made Mr.. Taft presi-
| don't still shown itSolf RI bo at tho
high tideof popularity. Roosevelt
had inaugurated a series of popu-
lar policies, which did much to
swell the Republican vote for Mr..
Taft, who was expected to carry
on what Mr.. Roosevelt had be-
gun. These policies, however,
were unpopular with certain in
terasts, and it is those interests
that the present admin
istration against popular clamo1
for reform. Mr.. Taft cannot bt
re-nominated without the sup
port of the progressive Republi
cans, and the political develop
! ments of the year just closee
have all been to the effect tha
progressiveness dominates th'
: Republican party. That the Re
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
Du Quesne's First Fight.

A monument of the gallant Admiral
Du Quesne has just been provided at
Bouchet, where he was buried in 1883,
and the story of his first fight Is there
fore opposite. He was the son OF a
ship builder. and at the age Of II was
placed in command OF one OF his
fathers vessels. He sailed forth, es-
pied a Dutch vessel, boarded 1t, COM
PEELED it to surrender and brought It
into port Not until he had been car
ried through the streets in triumph
on the shoulders of his fellow towns
men did 1t occur to the officials that
France and Holland were at peace.
That fact being admitted, legal pro-
ceedings had to follow, as the result
of which the youthful captain was
warned to be more careful another
time Richelieu, however, heard of his
exploit, and without considering the
comfy of nations offered him . COM
mission in the navy.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
Health.

The body has rights and We have
duties toward It. The body is the life
long companion of the mind, and it
cannot be unimportant how it il
treated.
One unbndled passion is enough to
destroy the beauty of life One excess,
If it does no more. can mar the grace
and harmony of the whole. He that
striveth for the mastery must be tem-
perste In all things
The duty of wise care for health
is bigger than Merely adding to our
personal happiness. To large extent
II determine es the efficiency OF our
lives. Many man learns after it is
too late that he would have been fit
for better and more work If he had
always preserved the sane and sensi-
BILE bearing toward the laws Of health
and life which experience teaches.
No one in these days has any excuse
for ignorance of the common prac-
tical rules Of health. There are a
good many popular books on the sub
tect--Hugh Black.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

A story has been going the
rounds of the press of a south
east Missouri farmer who sold
his corn crop last year for $6, $50,
when the same crop today would
only bring $3.50. Was not high
prices the chief issue of the re-
cent campaign: And if our
farmers voted the Democratic
ticket, were they not supporting
the idea that the farmer was get
ting too much for his corn? If
YOU voted for this, take your med
icine without kicking, until you
get chance to repair the dam.
age by voting the Republican
ticket in 1912.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

The United States Supreme
Court has upheld the constitu-
tionality of the Oklahoma bank
deposit guarantee law. So all
the Oklahoma state banks will
have to do to a depositor's money
is to pay it back to him when he
wants it. If the bank in which
he has deposited it cannot pay,
then the other banks must do so.
The Oklahoma idea seems to be
that it is better for the bankers
to lose as the result of bad bank.
ing than for the depositor.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

\ country editor died very
suddenly. His relatives tele-
graphed the undertaken to make
a wreath, the ribbon to be extra
wide, with the inscription, REST
in Peace" on both sides and (if
ROOM, We Shall Meet in Heav-
en-" The undertaken was out of
town and his new assistant han
died the job. 1t was startling
floral piece which turned up at
the funeral. The ribbon was ex-
ira wide, as ordered, and bore
the inscription, REST in Peace,
on both Sides, and if There is
Room We Shall Meet in Heaven. :"
Tx.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
pOTOSl, MO-. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY II

terests, their welfare his welfare
And the editorial lecturer who
advises the country brother to
keep still and let the editorial
writing-machine ON the metro
politan paper who hands out the
ideas of the plutocrats who own
him shape the opinions of the
people knows little about what is
required at the hands of the man
who edits country newspaper
jackson Cash Book.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

Old Andy Carnegie has just
given Kaiser William million
and half for German hero
fund" Andy is fond of heroes,
but fond as he is of them, he new
er seems to think of looking for
them among the men who daily
risk life and limb before the in
candescent furnaces and amid
the pOnderous machinery of the
iron works that yield to Andy
his millions. That kind of hero
ism is not theatrical enough for
him.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
The County Paper.

The Publishers Auxiliary of
recent date makes note of an ad-
dress delivered by Mr.. c. Pear
son before the School of Journal
ism. The speakers subject was
the editorial columns of the coun-
try weekly. He took the ground
that it were we'll for the country
weekly to dispense with the edi-
torial column in his paper and
leave the matter of editorial writ
ings to the editors of the metro
politan dailies. This piece of ad
vice to the young and sprouting
journalists of the School of Jour
nalism is little short of pernici-
Gus. About the only indepen-
dence of thought we find in the
editorial columns Of the newspa-
pers of today is to be found in
the columns of the country press.
The country editor alone now
speaks for the people at large on
questions of politics. morals and
other matters of public concern,
The metropolitan daily is nothing
but a money making machine
without soul or conscience, own
ed by corporate wealth and rur
for the money that is in it. The
country would soon be at the
mercy and the people at the fee
of the plutocrats if the thought:
and the opinions of the masse:
were to be moulded by the edi
torial writer's of the big daily pa
pers. On every important ques
ton in politics, Or in religion ant
morals also, if the financial inter
ests of corporate wealth are d
stake, the large daily papers O
the country invariably voice til
opinion of the financial lords VIII
own and control them. TIL
country editor, less able and les
posted. perhaps, on big affairs
/ speaks nevertheless in behalf Q
, the common people, of whom h
> is one; their interests are his il
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

1t is announced from Jefferson
City that there would be no rail
road lobby on hand at the pres
ent session of the legislature,
that railroad interests would be
looked after by alegislative agent,
representing the interests of all
the railroads of the state. 1t oc-
ours to US however that a legis
lative agent can make himself
quite as effective as whole lob
by when it comes to handing out
passes and bundles of the long
Urppn {"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
The Missouri legislature seems

The Missouri legislature seems
determined to attend to Demo
cratic partisan politics before at
tacking public business. Wheth-
er it will have any time for the
latter after it gets through with
the former does not appear to be
considered of much consequence.
The main point is to keep the Re
publicans out of the state Offices
to which they were elected.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

publican party's prospects have
been set back for years from
where Mr.. Roosevelt left them
should be plain to anyone who is
intelligent enough to interpret
correctly the conditions that led
to the defeat of the Republican
party last November. The Jour
nal for one does not want any
more of the same.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

Tie papers are giving lot of
space to that man who died after
saving he never told Il lie to his
wife. We believe the old gentle
man has been misunderstood.
He was iust trying 10 prove that
he was a bigger liar than Dr..
Cook. 1t was a pity 10 have the
old tihber die 50 young. He
would have made u dandy poll
tician.- n.-FrankIin County Tri-
bune.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11

Prohibition Kansas shows a
gain of 220,454 in population.
The largest increase in popula-
ton was in the western part
where there is least rainfall-the
dry section. Eagle.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
New Years Thought.

Mr.. Roosevelt. I'm going to
keep quiet this year
The President. One more New
Years, and then
Joe Cannon. Well. I've been
there, anyhow.
John d. This is the year that
Standard Oil owns the earth.
The Steel Trust. May 40 per
cent dividends continue.
Uncle Rube. III have an auto
this year, b'gosh.
The Grocer. The more kicks
the more profit.
The Butcher, \ steam yacht
for me.
The Landlord. Another ex-
cuSe for me to raise rents.
The Railroads. We must put
| up freight rates.
Andrew Carnegie. One wear
nearer to Heaven.
The Aviator. May | come
down without Il bumb.
The Broker. Bring in the
lambs.
The Undertaken. Here's hop
ing it won't be so dinged healthy.
The Common Folks. Oh. what 5
the use.
While our great metropolitan
corporation owned papers have
not begun to mention the state Of
affairs vet. there are some pretty
iStrOng indications of an indus
| trial slump in the United States
at present. IN the steel indus
Try alone nU,tth' men are report
led out Of employment. and Stee
orders have reached d very low
ebb. In the nearby lead produc
ing district many hands are beins
let go. though the price Of leaC
is still at normal figure. L
may be that the recent Demo
cratic victory has no connection
with this state of affair. but i
, is remarked that they are a con
I dition that invariably trails i'm
mediately after a success of tha
party at the polls.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
a federal Judge in Colorado h

A federal Judge in Colorado has
clapped sixteen striking coal
miners in Jail for a year for no
other reason than that they
would not heed his injunction not
to strike. No one knows wheth-
er the miners were guilty or not,
they were afforded no trial. Yes.
this is free America.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-11
Sl.OO Per Annum.
It's pretty near time to jolly
the people along again with an
other antitrust decision.

Some one rises to remark that
we will all get back to the soil in
time. Yes, it is our common
destination.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-29

Wei improved laIIl. So acres N Ms
souri, near the Nebraska line Rich bottom
land near fnu,n. - 80 ner acre
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-29
Close In

A small payment down gets an All mod
en- H-ro0m house al almost cost Tele-
phone Harvey o. Harry II. Putnam. 5l4O
burt
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-29
Canada.
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NEW COUNTRY. OPENING


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The eyes OF millions are now turned TO
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For further information write or call
h MEYEL, GENERAL AGENT.
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