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The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30
MisSOuri'S Growth.

Completed census returns in detail
shows that between the years 1900 and
1910 there vas a decrease Of popula-
tion in II Of the ia counties OF Mis-
sour. Ii does not follow that any Of
the II counties with fewer inhabitants
than they had ten years ago have de
clined in material resources. But a loss
OF population is a loss OF wealth and
energy that calls for thought. There
is not a county in the state that is not
better eff in many respects than it was
aidecade ago. Improved machinery on
the farms enables fewer men to keep
up crop production. Rural conditions
have been improved in many ways.
Facilities for transportation and COM
munication in general have been de
cidely widened. Education has ad-
vanced. Manufacturing and mining
have expanded. But the fact remains
that in nearly two-thirds Of the counties
the population in recent years has fall
len off. The reason should be sought
and carefully considered.
A county that finds itself less popu
lous than formerly ought to look long
and carefully into its conditions. Is it
we'll governed locally and in the state?
Politics is, properly the science Of good
government reaching into the welfare
of each citizen and each district. Is the
county in the clutches OF a selfish, self
perpetuating ring2 Is it expected TO
vote er straight for the party label, re-
gardless Of the quality Of service render
ed? Are the county's representatives
in Legislature men Of capacity and
earnest public spirit or simply ringsi-rs
working TO get place for themselves
ia bigger ring? Does the county
vote ioY broad guage state officers or
members of some partisans combine
hustIing for themselve, first, last ana
| always? II these questions are sensiby
answered, and suitable action taken
he declining counties will make
better exhibit in the next census
Globe Democrat.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30
State CapltUl Bonds.

The Board OF fund Commissioners,
composed Of Governor HadIcy, State
Treasurer Cowgirl, Auditor Gordon ana
and Attorney General Major will open
bids Deccmbcl tst ior the bonds voted
for the bonds voted lor the new capi
tol last August. The bonds will bs
issued in two denominations 5000,
coo in bolds Of 100000 and $500
600 in bonds Of $500.O0. No bonds
will be sold for less than par value. All
Of them will be ready Tor issue january
I, 1912. They will be handsomely
engraved. The bids will be received
by Hon. James Cogwill, State Trcasur-
er, but must be made in the name Of
the State Board Of Fund Commissioners
and securely sealed, and accompanied
with certificate check or draft from a
solvent bank or trust company in Jeiier
son City, Kansas City, Chicago or New
York. The board may reject any o.
all bids.
| As Missouri has no bonded debt AMI
these bonds are payable out Of an an
nual levy Of 2 cents on each slOO @
taxable valuation they will doubles
comm a good rr minum. The
are to bear interest at the rate Of tine
and one half per cent. Payable semi
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30
Little Might be Less

The b,nds will be redeem,
able in eight year though payable in
:'..,.,.~ ~~,. n their date, which
will be January /, 1912. The val1a-
alton Of all taxable properlyin this state
for the current years taxes is Sl,804,
298, l9200. This valuation is apt
to increase to an average of more than
Sl,9OO,O00 600 year, for the next
eight years perhaps a vast deal This
State has no bond issue now outstand-
ing, and is better financial condition
than at any lime during its history. 1t
is noticeable fact that a number Of
banks in small Missouri cities were the
first to put in bids ior these bonds.
Missouri has the money no doubt about
that.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30
LaiOIIGttG and His Party.

In his auto biography in the AMER
can Magazine Senator Laiollette re
peatedly declares that he was elected
TO office in his home county agalns,
the wishes Of the local republican party
.ola Eqn, that he was elected to
congress notwithstanding the opposi
ton Of parry leaders: that he was eiec,-
ed Governor OF Wisconsin in the same
way; and that he got into the Senate
despite the purpose Of the leaders oI
his party. If all this be true the ques
ton naturally arises, when was he a
loyal republican? And what claims
has he now on the republican party!
Does he mean to create the impression
that republican leaders in his state
have always been unworthy OF his con
fdencc, or that he has always been
bigger man in the estimation Of the
people than the biggest Of them? One
thing is certain he could not hay,
been elected to any Office in Wiscon-
sin at any time without the nomination
pf his Oarly. One can CaslIv infer.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

While all Of the democratic leaders
in this state are talking politics and
irving TO parcel ont party iayors and
make slate for 1912, Governor Had
ley is enthusing the farmers and town
people with the gospel Of good roads,
And the people are far more interested
in the problems Of good government
than in the political schemes OF dem
ocratic party leaders.
The good roads movement goes
steadily forward. 1t reminds one Of
the farmer and the lark" in the old
second reader. When the farmers aud
business men resolve to build the roads
the old mud holes will disappear. Aud
so it will be all over Missouri. Just
Keep talking and working and the re
suit will be a pleasing reality.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

MY defeat was a victory for Cover
nor Harmon. Members Of the State
Committee promised me votes it !
would pledge myself to Harmon, but
l refused" So spake f Y. Mitchell
Of Springfield at Kansas City, after Ed
ward F. Goltra was elected National
Committeeman. Mitchell's words
should not be forgotten. They are Of
interest 10 republicans es well as dem
ocrats. They are a headlight showing
which way the democratic machine is
going.
Governor Wilson Of New Jersey
thinks the next president will be dem
ocra,, and still hopes that his name
will be Woodrow Wilson. His thought
is deceptive and his hope will never
know iruition.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30
Gig Missouri M0RolieS.

s. TIrIs is Lirdar-d INV -CI ,I,nI
no,o,liss-,ba Terminal Ra:Iyp,gv
Association and tbe United RaiIwav
comnanv. The terminal comn,ny com
trolls everv railroad track. lerv and
5ridre on which Freight or PASSENGERS
can enter the citv from or den,rt east
across ,bo NTiesissinni. con,ro,s r,ilro,d
,o.i.ches and Terminals N, big nn,e,
n ,bo Fsds h,idqe and the hri4oa :,
g If. control. ,bo rres+ Iru;on Station,
3;,,.;,a ,bso,r,e,,, II, bo,4l.rn of
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

We wonder il the newspapers Of St.
Louis will be able to give the people the
testimony soon 10 be given the grand
jury BY Stone Shannon and Elsperman
ct. al, as promptly and llll as they did
the Doodle testimony when Joseph w.
Folk was Circuit Attorney? That was a
great stunt, and its repetition now will
be appreciated.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

The Folk democrats have been 50
meek and submissive that very few Of
them are now drawing pay for public
service and none OF them are mention
ed favorably for party honors. The
Old Guard democrats have fooled the
FJlkites but they have not fooled the
people.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

Missouri republiaanism is the steau-
lest and best behaved in the who'll
country. There is no unseemly bick-
ering; and the only purpose is to keep
both eyes open and be ready 10 do
the right thing at the right time.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

Governor Hadley is trying to lift the
roads OF the state out Of the mud,
while small democratic politicians are
throwing mud at him. No mud will
stick 10 a clean man like Herbert S.
Hadley, however.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

There is little DANCE. from a cold or
from an attack Of the grip except when
followed by pneumonia, and this never
happens when Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is used. This remedy has
%or It's great reputation and extensive
,ais Dy its rcma.Lble cures Of cciis ard
grip End can be relied upon wlSh IN
plicit confidence. For sale by All
Dealers.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

The regular session Of congress and
the regular iolhes Of Democratic leaders
will begin next week. God save tie
country! Business men in commercial
centres always dread the work oil Dem
Gratis,
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-11-30

John Morgan Atkinson seems 10 be
fairly in the field for Attorney Genera
on the democratic ;i,ket, II will be
fortunate thing lor lin il the Old
Guard machine runs over him before
he encounters the reputl can rock
crusher later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13

such a result might not have been possible in a large city, but in Ches- terfield courthouse it came in the course of plain justice
 No more heinous crime could read fly be imagined than Beattie's. There was no reasonable defense. And every comment on the trial that has come to hand sustains the judge and the jury in the little Virginia town. The actual commission of the crime could not be proven. There was room for division of opinion if the jury had been swayed by anything except sense of justice. That Vir- ginia jury vindicated Virginia justice when it promptly brought in yer dict that was triumph of justice. A most brutal murder was thus avenged, and public sentiment fully sustains a jury that had the courage and the sense to do its full duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
-----so-------- KEMP AT EAST AURORA

Roy McCardell in the New 4ork World.
 True adventures, those of Harry Kemp, and especially when he was among the Roycroftersi
 With a volume of Keats and Caesars Commentaries, in Latin, he tramped it to East Aurora. where he was received with open arms at Fra Elbertus Hub bard of "Philistine' fame. The Fra needed at this time a strong, healthy poet to shovel coal. For shoveling said coal the generous hearted Hubbard thrust the princey sum of $1 upon our shrinking hero every Saturday night. In due time young Kemp was promoted to strong arm and high brow work in the blacksmith shop. Here he whiled away the tedium of the days tasks by in dulging in sociological and literary dis enssions with the head philosophical iron worker
 All would have gone well at East Aurora, said Mr. Kemp, if Fra Elbertus, the man who tanned the red corpusce hadn't printed a sonnet of Mir. kemp's in a Little Journey to the Home of Henry Thoreau,' without giving the young poet any credit whatsoever. This strained matters between the Fra and his young disciple considerably, but the b,eaklng point came when, in the brain- orium at East Aurora (blacksmithing and coal shoveling being over for the day and nothing for the young poet to do till tomorrow our hero, in sitting nonchal- antly on a Roycroft table, upset and shat tered rare old Erie county Greek vase, made very Roycroftie, and sent on sus- pcion for .4O.
 It was during a discussion the fancy shoveer poet was having with Randeg- ger, the pianist, over the lyric qualities of Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci, when this contretemps occurred.
 Just as the Grecian tear jar went over, Fra Elbertus had oozed in to suggest that it was time that the poet bedded down the furnace, and Randegger got out the paiamas for the cows-for they work with brain. hand and heart at East Au- rora.
 The rage of Fra Elbertus at the shat tering of the Hellenic amphora was korihc How long would it take to hold out s9 fl from the poets princely stipend as a coal shoveler of S1 a week? Oh, much too long. And when not winding up the universe or feeding the tame red corpuscles, Fra Elbertus is an emotional man. His words could not have been printed next to pure reading matter
 Our hero snapped his prehensile fin- gers under the nose of the enraged Father Hubbard. He taunted him with swiping the sonnet. He walked haughtiiy out into the night, leaving his good job at s1 a week and the Fra dumfounded. It was a regular Hubbard squash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
Alabama's Great State Fair

From October 5 to October IA, more or less, should be considered a state outing period. Low fares will be offered by the railroads; the tenn perature will certainly be reasonable, and every man who needs vacation, or whose family needs vacation, should prepare to enjoy this outing period.
 It should almost be called an edu- cational outing, for the fair will be educational beyond any previous fair ever held in this state. There will be more new and improved ma chinery, agricultural as well as in- dustrial, at this fair than was ever shown in one exhibition in this state; more live stock, more poultry, more county exhibits, and more miscellane- ous entries, all of an educational na- ture. No farmer who desires to keep step with modern farming can afford to stay away from this fair.
 The expense of preparing this fair has been heavy, and it becomes the duty of every Birmingham man or woman who has correspondents with in the state to make known the value and extent of the coming fair. It is to be an exhibition good in every de- partment. It is to be a mingling of the educational and the pleasing; and the state should get ready to come to it. It is less than a month away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
WHY WE HAVE FIRES

Edward F. Croker. Worlds Work for
 September.
 Here are some reasons why we lose yearly something like s5,000,00O and 10 900 lives by fire.
 Carelessness in factories. which in most cases means dirt and rubbish and oily waste.
 Carelessness in the use of matches. Do you stop to watch where d lighted match falls after you have lighted your cigar?
 Bad electrical wiring.
 Careless housek coping
 Dark and dirty railways. People, q, night, scratch matches to find their way about, throw the match in cor ner into a pile of rubbish, and a few hours later there is q call for the fire men. Dark basements. Tenants go down after coal or wood with candle oi with matches. A startling number oi bad fires occur this way. | oil stoves. Old fashioned oil lamps. Cigar ard cigarette stubs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
A plague upon your epileptic visage
 king Lear.
Sugar, Coffee and White Potatoes

According to Bradstreet's, the prices of commodities were advanced in August, and the belief is that the approach of cold weather will carry the necessaries of life to still higher figures. Despite the fall in the price of flour the index number is becom- ing larger. The prices for all neces- saries are high. Even the price of bread stands just where it did year ago, although flour is cheaper.
 Sugar, coffee and white potatoes are leading all the articles in the race toward high prices. Hot, dry wealth CT throughout the northern states has carried the price of white potatoes to .S1.10 a bushel in the field. This must mean at least $2 a bushel to the con- sumner. In the south where sweet po- tatoes are abundant and excellent the consumption of white potatoes should be small indeed. The crop of coffee in Brazil is below normal and Bra gil is the leading producer of coffee in the world. Her coffee bears all sorts of brands, and when her crop is short all brands are just naturally marked up.
 Granulated sugar now sells at ' cents a pound at retail. The mark ing up of sugar is due, it is claimed, to short crops of sugar beets in Eu- rope, particularly in Germany, and to rather poor crop prospects Tn Cuba. The shortage in Germany and Austria is estimated at 1,45O,000 tons, and the cane producing coun- tries will not be able to furnish more than 100000 tons in excess of last years totals. This leaves the worlds shortage at 750,000 tons. Louisiana will produce this year 1000 tons of cane sugar, and she is rejoicing over the recent rise in sugar prices. Already s15, 900 has been added to the value of her crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
Across the Continent

Aviator Fowler left San Francisco on Monday in an airship. His avowed intention is to cross the great noun tain ranges and to land in New York in 26 days. If he succeeds in his eff fort without a tragedy and without change of airships, he will go far to demonstrate that aviation is nearing the point of commercial use. So pro- longed flight without serious acci- dent would indeed go to show that the modern airship in competent hands is trustworthy after all.
 Aviation should be judged by such flights as Fowler is making rather than by the circus stunts at fairs and meets. The latter exhibitions are and always will lead to tragedies, and they are, at the best, of small value in the respect of air flights. The aviator who flies straight away to a selected goal is the man who makes plain the possibilities of flights IT heavier-than-air machines. The en- zine in Fowler's airship is one of 3t horse power, and he believes it i' strong enough to carry him across the Sierras and the Rockies, for hi' path lies across the greatest noun tain ranges of the continent.
 Success on his part would doubtless be the crowning effort of the seasol in aviation, and every step of his lonl flight will be closely watched by al who expect to see the conquest of thu air for mans uses rendered as com plete as the conquest of the water ha become after centuries of invention and improvement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13

From Harper's Weekly.
 | Colonel Greene, the copper man, is dead and Senator Frye. the Maine man. and Gates the Texan. The perennial wonder is, as week by week names widely known for generation or more go into the obituary column, that there l is anybody left to talk about But there always is. Even the young do fairly well as purveyors of topics. MT. Gates, who had by no means lived his time out, is an enormous loss to the news papers. Colonel Greene did his full duty by them MT Frye was always a serious topic, but an important one. Few men of his time contributed so much to government. He was 40 years in Congress and 30 of those years Tn the Senate, and in both houses continu- ously filled a place of great distinction and power.
 Possibly it was a waste of talent to use the materials that were in John Gates to make a millionaire. There was a great deal in him-courage, en- ergy, consciousness of all kinds-but he was not a very good millionaire. He seemed to lack the necessary consecra ton for complete success in that call ing He was ready enough to pile on to anybody's money, ready 10 corner the market, ready to go short or long according as the wind blew, and bold to sink or make port as chance should allot. And he was shrewd as well as bold in these adventures. But when he had won and had the stake in his trous- ers pockets he was still Beta Million Gates. a man who played with money; not serious enough to invite the trans fer to his powerful shoulders of the more considerable responsibilities of civilization.
 Dumas would have loved Gates, and really he seemed to belong more to Dumas than to American finance. He was kind to many people, generous when he chose to be, picturesque, af- fectionate, and sincerely democratic in his tastes and associations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
FROM OMAR kHAYYAM

 Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. sometimes think that never blows so red
 The Rose as where some buried Caesar blcd; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely head. moments halt--a momentary taste. Of being from the Well amid the Waste And Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from. Oh, make haste. The Moving Finger writes; and having writ Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure 1t back to cancel half Line, Nor all your Tears wash out Word of it. And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite.
 One Flash ofs It within the Tavern caught tsef r Better than in the Temple@lost outright And when like her. o Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star lscatter'd on the Grass. ftttfg And in your blissfuLs errand reach ,the spot Where made One-turn down an empty .sls.- $rAe'5os .. ...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
France and Germany

The negotiations in Berlin are pro- gressing. There are serious obstacles to be overcome. Germany seems in- clined to hand Morocco over to France, even, if it be as her naval year book for 1909 says it is, corner of a continent along which lie trade routes from Europe to South Ameri- ca and the Panama canal, besides the trade routes through the Medeter- ranean. Tt lies today" says the year book, ''in the center of the worlds traffic"
 Germany's trade in Morocco is light and there are only 193 Germans in that country, and some of these are Austrians and Swiss. No Ger man lives in Agadir.
 The chief contention of Germany seems to consist in the protection of its concession hunters in case the country is turned over to France. Agadir is in the province of Sus. This province is said to contain rich iron and copper veins, and the promoters of mining interprises in Germany have largely sought concessions. It is the demand for an undue protec- tion of these that is blocking the course of the negotiations between France and Germany.
 But a way will be found to over come the obstacleGn obedience to in- ternational public opinion. The world sees no sense in a war over mining concessions in the province of Sus, and in the end no doubt a settlement satisfactory to both nations will be agreed upon, and Moroco will become part of the great African empire of France, its corner stone and most valuable part. She has long sought it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
"JosIAH ALIENS WIFE,

Marietta Holly, in Harpers Bazar. I have been asked to tell how I came to write my first book, and to adopt the pen name of Josiah Aliens Wife"
 Thackeray. when asked if Becky Sharp, the heroine of his Vanity Fair, was a good woman, replied, T don't know"
 So I could answer the question. why did l take the name of Josiah Aliens Wife" as a nom de plume, l really do not know.
 Perhaps I may have had a thought that it was an original name that no one else would be likely to want. And though at that time decidedly unfash- ionable, my first sketches were as full of womans suffrage arguments as the most ardent suffragette importuning parliament today could desire. Proba- bly I thought that it would soften somewhat the edge of unwelcome argu- ment to have the writer>meekly claim to he the wife of Josiah Allen, and so stand in the shadow of mans person. ality.
 At any rate, I can remember dis | tinctly that the two leading characters of my first book, Samantha and Betsy i Bobbett, stood in my mind for the two sides of the argument. The plain, com mon sense woman who. although de- voted 10 home and home duties, was | still desirous of claiming all the just | rights belonging to our common hu- manity, while in Betsy Bobbett was portrayed the lackadaiscal romantic fe- male, who, in an endeavor to please the forever masculine, professed herself
 willing not to have any rights, and was | only too desirous to become a clingine vine if a tree were forthcoming to l tn lch she m e,ht Ncling