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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-12-30
CRENSHAW & YOUNG

Louis the first of the week tc
spend the holidays with his
wife and son, who are visiting at
that place.
Misses Nadine and Auale
Hackley arrived Sunday from
Morrisville College to spend the
Christmas holidays with their
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Hackley.
Miss Kathryn Fletcher and
brother, Edward, of the Warrens-
rensburg High School, spent the
holidays with their parents, N.
j. Fletcher and wife.
Orpheus Cook returned from
Kansas Wednesday, where he
spent several days with his sis
ter, who is attending the Uni
versity Medical College.
Mrs. Joan Tolle of Lead, South
Dakota, arrived Sunday for a
short visit with her father, Mr..
Henry Brunette.
Miss Minnie Thomas of indie
pendence and Joe Thomas Of
Pleasant Hill, are spending the
week with their mother, Mrs.
Thomas.
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in appreciation of his thirty
seven years of service. Mr..
Sinauer responded gracefully and
wittily.
After the banquet there was
public installation in the Masonic
hall. Then the third degree was
given to another candidate.
More than two hundred people
attended the banquet. There
were visitors from all over the
county and from lodges in
neighbOring states. The local
Masonic lodge is one of the
banner lodges of the state and is
now in the best condition of
its history.
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Celebrate St. Johns Day.

Lexington Lodge No. 149 A
f. & A.. M. celebrated st. John s
day Thursday in great style. In
the afternoon the third degree
was given to two candidates by
the lodge.
AT six o'clock the Masons with
their wives, sisters, daughters and
sweethearts sat down to a stump
tuous banquet in the Eagles
hall. A committee from the
lodge had attended to the ar
engagements and a score Of pretty
young ladies, mostly relatives Of
the Masons, served the food.
Between courses and after the
coffee Col. Fred T. Wilson as
POSTMASTER called on w. j. Ban
don, Henry Sinauef, DIR. W. r.
Eckle and Judge Xenophon Ry-
land. Judge Ryland gave a
splendid address. DR., Eckle in
his talk presented Henry Sinauer
with a jewel, the gift Of the lodge
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Ends Winters Troubles.

To many, winter is a season of
trouble. The frost-bitten toes
and fingers, chapped hands and
lips, chilblains, ~cold-sores, red
and rough skins, prove this
But such troubles fly before
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial
eonvinces. Greatest healer of
Burns, Boils, Piles, Cuts, Sores,
Bruises, Eczema and Sprains. On
ly % cents at Crenshaw & Young
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The little Pritchards are gone
When the west bound train pull.
ed out Thursday morning il
carried with it a precious cargo.
Five healthy, wholesome, rosy
checked, blue-eyed boys that have
been a delight to Lexington for
three years. No more will they
be seen playing joyously about
their own doorway or marching
sturdy down the street, a grey
coated little regiment. They
are marching westward now and
soon will make their home where
the stars and stripes float over
the palms and olives of away
Honolulu; but wherever they may
go they carry with them the love
and admiration of all who know
them here. Dear little bows.
gracious and polite, may the skies
be ever blue above them, and may
they always be the same fine
little gentlemen.
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Include in your New Years in
ventory a peep" at the label
ON your Intellig encer. 1t may
appear that you are due to part
with one dollar for another
years subscription,
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DR.. Sun Vat Sen has been
elected PRESIDENT of the republic
of China. President Taft, no
doubt, is glad that a sun still
shines.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-12-30

RuSsia'S refusal to admit the
Salvation Army is another ar
gument against government
ownership Of public utilities.
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Saloon Licenses Issued.

The county court met Thurs
day and granted dram shop Ii
censes to the following
William Palmer, W. E. Gavin,
Mcintyre & Mitchell, Kyleen &
Anderson, John c. Glish, Shinn
q Ruby, Martin Collins, and Gus
tav Haerle, of Lexington; W. j.
Fette, Alma; Fly Kreienkamp,
Henry c. Augelbeck, and Hy
Augelbeck, Concordia Alex.
Denton, William R. Carter, and
John Gausman, Wellington.
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The Intelligence wishes all Of
its friends and patrons, and the
rest of mankind a happy New
Year.
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Issued weekly on Saturdays, subscrip-
ton Sl.0O per year, payable strictly in
advance.
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All communication TO 30 into print
IN the NTELLIEENCER must be
signed.
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Miss Minnie Martin left yester-
day for her home in La.
Grange, Mo-, after a few days
visit with the family of John D.
Slusher.
j. M. POage returned from
Kansas City Thursday night.
Bert Taubman returned from
Kansas City Thursday night.
Miss Cornelia Craig left yes
terday for FOrsythe, Mo-, after
spending a few days with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Craig.
Mrs. E. B. Campbell and
daughter, Miss Vera May, went Il
the day on business.
G. L. Kenney went to Kansas
City yesterday to spend the
day ON business.
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Entered as second class mail matter
at the Post Office in Lexington, Mis-
souri,.
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DICK JOHNSON.
10Th and South st. Phone 729.

WANTED-A man to take
charge of my farm in two miles
of Garden City, Kansas. Must
understand truck farming and
furnish his own outfit in way
Of teams, farm and garden i'm
PIGMENTS. Place supplied with
plenty Of water for irrigation
purposes. Large profits for
the right man. Onions and
Sweet Potatoes the principal
crop.
E. W. WHITE,
Garden City, Kansas.
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JOHN I. ASHURST.
Office Phone 437. Res. Phone 1926.

Oscar Andreen returned Friday
night from a visit in Kansas City.
Try some of our Limberger
Cheese, Brick Cheese and full
Cream Cheese, Fat Mackeral,
Smoked Golden Bloaters at
Long & Shinn.
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The Lexington Intelligencer.

A. W., ALLEN and o. R. SELLERS
Editors and Publishers.
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FOR SALE CHEAP--6 dining
chairs, l heating stove, l cook
stove, l kitchen cabinet, 2 kitch-
en- tables, lawn mower, garden
tools, shades and curtain poles,
l oak dresser, kitchen utensils.
Must be sold at once.
DICK JOHNSON,
10Th and South st. Phone 729.
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FOR RENT OR SALE On
College place a seven room house
In first class condition, water,
barn, fruit, and almost one acre
Of land. Phone 1874.
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Yes, We Do Love Work.

Don't forget us, we are in
town and we want to make your
side walks. We make the best
and treat you white. Others
come and make big talk then go.
We stay, WORK, and deliver the
goods.
JOHN 7 ASHTTPCT
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WANTS

FOR SALE-R. l. R. Orphing-
ton Hens and Pullets, at Eggles-
Green House.
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FOR SALE - Three houses
and three acres of ground at
Myrick, Also one house on
Southwest Boulevard. Apply of
w. F.. BARTELS.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-12-30

FOR RENT-Furnished or un
furnished or partly furnished to
persons without children. 926
Highland Avenue.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1911-12-30

: LOST-A gold cross with an
Amethyst setting. Finder please
return same to this office and re-
ceive reward.
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FOR SALE - Native lumber.
of all kinds and dimensions at
mill near Glen Oak mines or at
our yard in East Lexington.
Lexington Triumph Press
Brick Co. Phone 5.
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FOR SALE-A 200 Egg
Favorite Incubator and a Mann's
Bone Grinder. Enquire of John
J. Price, Phone 233:
FOR SALE-Both r. C. and
s. c. R. |. R. Cockerels and eggs
in season. Phone 447.
MRS. j. B. LOGAN.
Lexington, Mo.
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FOR table, Buff
fet and China Closet, as good as
new.
F. LEE WALLACE.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12

were planned to get and destroy pa.
pers that they supposed bound them to
degrading feudal service. The flood
of English visitors that poured into
France in 1914 found it transformed
as if by magic from poor country
into rich one despite the waste of
long wars. Divided estates and re-
formed taxation had worked the mar
vel. Never since has France been
poor. M%e4 rA$a .isg.ys,f{.s 10 ,.a
Great landed estates are being brok-
en- up in New Zealand by progressive
taxation, in Ireland by compulsory sale
and the use of public credit. They
were at the bottom of the recent re-
volt in Roumania. They cause much
Of the discomfort in the Balkan States
Of Austria. They greatly handicap
parts of Germany and Italy. Mexico
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
MExIco's MILLioN.ACRE FARMS
New York WORLD


1t may be rather late for President
Diaz, 81 years old and 35 years in sn-
preme power in Mexico, to propose a
vast land reform in that country. But
whether his plan for breaking up the
great haciendas, as annol rced in d
World correspondent, was ostily
brought forward now for politl eff
feet or is the result of long and ma
ture thought, it would do much for
the peace of the country if carried out
in good faith.
There is one classic example of the
value of breaking up large estates. 1t
is France Arthur Young, the shrewd.
est critic of rural France in 17S8-90,
found millions of people in wretched
poverty, great wastes uncultivated,
faulty farming. Give a man a bleack
rock" said Young, "and he will con.
vert it into a garden" Twenty-Five
years We're to show that he was right
The first attacks made by French
peasants upon the lonely chateaus
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NICARAGUA is ON
EVE OF REVOLUTIO....
President Estrada Resigns and
Seeks Safety In Flight.

Colon, May Il Juan j. Estrada,
president of Nicaragua, has resigned
the presidency, and rumors say he is
fugitive vainly seeking to escape
from his own country. The procla-
nation announcing the governmental
change was issued at Granada, capt.
tai of the department of Granada,
Vice President Adolfo Diaz was des-
ignated by Estrada as his successor.
The resignation came as result OF
the clash with General Luis Mena.
minister OF war in the Estrada cabi.
net The trouble has been brewing
for months.
II Is said President Estrada at.
tempted to embark upon a steamer
at Corinto. He is quoted as saying
that the United States most certainly
would not be his destination.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
WOMEN TO HAVE PRISON
House Passes Senator Shaffers Re-
formatory Bill.

formatory Bill.
Columbus, o., May 10.-By a unan'
imous vote the house passed Senator
Shaffers bill for the erection of a
women's reformatory. All women
over 16 years of age convicted Of fell
ony or misdemeanor will be confined
in the new penal institution. The
bill also makes 1t unlawful to copfine
a woman In a workhouse or jail for
more than 80 days. The bill now
goes to the governor.
The bill provides for the appoint
ment of commission, composed OF
the governor, secretary and auditor
OF state and secretary of the state
board of charities, to purchase 200
acres of ground as a site and to SUI
pervise the erection of the buildings
The house defeated the Kimble bill
transferring Adams county from the
third subdivision of the Seventh judi.
cial district to the first subdivision OF
the Fifth district.
Among the bills passed by the
house were the following:
Mr.. Fulton of Licking Amending
the corner lot assessment law to pro
vide that side of lot shall be fully
assessed II used as frontage of build.
ings.
Mr.. Russell of Wayne-Requiring
registration Of lobbyists
The house, under suspension of the
rules, adopted the following resolu.
ton by Mr.. Fulton Of Licking: Pro.
viding that when the house of repre-
sentatives adjourns May 1S it shall
be until 10 &. IN. May 26, and that the
assembly shall adjourn zine die at 4
p. m, May 26,
In the senate the nomination OF e
II. Moore OF Youngstown as superin'
tendent of insurance was unanimous
ly confirmed.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
IN MEMORY OF SAILORS

Annapolis, Md, May 1.-THE first
memorial TO be placed in the Naval
Academy In honor OF the brave sca.
men OF the Revolution was unveiled
today with impressive ceremonies con.
Quoted in the presence of President
Taft representatives OF the Navy DE.
'partment at Washington and many
naval officers. The ceremonies were
An charge OF the General Society
s,langhters OF the Revolution, from
ewhRm the memorial was a gift to the
Naval Academy, The memorial con
.sists of a heavy bronze panel that has
been given conspicuous place in
Bancroft Hall OF the academy. The
panel, which was designed by William
cowper OF New York. is bas-reiei
showing a sailor In action. The pane
IS about 10 feet long and five feet
wide.
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KILLED
We're Two People When c.
A. 8 c. Train Hits Buggy

Cuyahoga Falls, o., May 11-Their
buggy struck by the Cleveland, Akron
& Columbus flyer on the Portage st.
crossing here last night DR.. A. II.
Bill and Mrs. Frank e. Fox were
killed and Mrs. Clarence H. Cox suf-
fered injuries which is believed, will
result in her death.
Trainmen on the flyer did not real
ize the tragedy until the train arrived
at Hudson, seven miles distant. There
the body of DR.. Bill, terribly mangled,
was found on the locomotive pilot. 1t
had been carried from the scene of
the fa.al accident without the know
ledge of the rrainmen.
Mrs. Fox's body was carried a half
mile Mrs. Cox suffered internal in
juries, but not bone in her body was
broken.
The women We're being driven to
their home in DR.. Bills buggy, after
meeting In a Maccabee lodge meeting.
The buggy drove onto the crossing
at $3.50 o'clock just as the flyer hurled
down to the crossing, running at more
than fifty miles an hour. DR.. Bill was
watching b. 60. train on an adioin-
ing track and did not note the ap-
proach of the flyer.
DR.. Bill, % years old, was one of
the Falls most active citizens. He
had been in practice for many years
Mrs. Fox, 38, was the wife of JUS
tice of the Peace, Fox, while Mrs. Cox,
ten years the senior of Mrs. Fox, took
an active part ip Falls society,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
FOR REFORM OF CRIMINAL LAW

New York, May 11-A notable con-
ference to discuss the reform of Grim
iDal laws and procedure assembled
today at Columbia University. The
participants include lawyers, jurists,
professional and bushes men and So
cial workers from various parts of the
country. The conference will close
with banquet at the Hotel Astor
Saturday night at which President
Taft, Attorney General Wickersham
and United States Senator o'Gorman
will speak.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12

can man of the future will be tall,
slender and serious, and the represen-
tative of American woman brown
haired and brown-eyed A margin of
a number of generations" 10 prudent
ly allowed for the production of these
types" from the melting pot of races
1t would be safer to reckon in cen
turtles. A typical American" to de-
serve the designation, must manifest
some of the, attributes of the Yankee
and the Kansas farmer, the eKntucky
mountaineer, the Californian, the
South Carolinian, the Fifth-avenue
promenader and the East Side dwell
er, all fused in one personality, but
severally recognizable by the student
expect such racial homogeneity short
of the millennium
The country is too big to be mold
for the reduction of humanity to phys
ical and physiognomical uniformity.
Nature chooses smaller nations for the
experiment and those less subject to
outside innuences. There was not
even an American Indian type. the re-
semblance of the tribes to each other
being mostly superficial The vari-
Gus streams of immigration help to
obstruct the development of type. No
doubt the later predominates of Latin
races is serving to modify the infiu'
ence of the earlier Teutonic immi-
grafton, but hardly to the extent of
contributing to the evolution of what
can properly be called a typical
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
THE BIGGEST LOCOMOTIVE

(Topeka, Kan, Cor. New York SUM
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway company is just completing
in its Topeka shops the largest rail.
way locomotive in the world. 1t is an
articulated compound engine and it
Is for use in hauling freight trains ov-
er the Arizona grades.
This locomotive is 121 feet long. 1t
will be operated tender foremost, as
the great length OF the boiler obstructs
teh view of the engineer. Oil will be
used for fuel as no man could shovel
coal into it fast enough to keep up
the 225 pounds of steam pressure re
quired. Da'
The boiler is of the sectional non
explosive type. The locomotive has
lduplicate compound air pumps, pow
er reversing apparatus and two elec.
trio headlights, one in front and one
at the rear. The locomotive weighs
100000 pounds and rests ON 10 pairs
of driving wheels, two leaders under
the pilot and two trailers under the
cab, making "a wheels under the loco
motive itself and 12 under the tender
The articulated' type of locomotive
is in reality two separate sets of en-
gines with their wheels connected by
one long rigid boiler of tremendous
steam capacity, The rear engine is
rigidly attached to this boiler, while
the forward engine supports 1t by a
massive slide so as to let the loco
motive go around curves.
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Woman Heads sohooIs.

Beaver Dam, o., May 11.-Beaver
Dam school board has followed the
example of Chicago in electing as
school superintendent woman. II
unanimously rendered the position to
Miss Helen Pond daughter of 8. p
Pond, newspaper publisher of De
Gran.
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American

American.
Norman and Dane as we are Slav or
Italian, and such we are likely to re.
main to the end of time further off
than the authropologist can foresee-
homogeneous socially and politically
but as varied in type" as are the rae
es OF man.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
ons Comfort,

Nothing Is so bad that It couldn't be
WORSE" quoted the wise guy.
"Yes," agreed the simple mug. "we
can't suffer from insomnia and night
mare at the same Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
rhree Killed In Wreck.

Toledo o., May IL. Three men
were killed, one fatally hurt and IL
others injured when a caboose on the
Lake Erie & Western railroad jump
ed the track near Erlin.
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THE AMERICAN TYPE"
(New York World)

The search for the typical Ameri-
can" continues, According to a Kan
sas professor who makes latest con
triDution to anthropological forecasts
of the kind, the representative Ameri.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-05-12
The Editor.

'what sort OF magazine do you
publlsh?'
''fhe official organ of the dentists"
II see. A sort Of mouth organ. eh ~
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-08

cate characters at the top of the first
sheet. In the Japanese phrase this might
literally have been translated as follows:
"Cross-current of, laying water thunder
on, work effect left hand respectfully"
Which in English is to say:
"A study Of cross-currents in their eff
feet on submarine mines submitted with
Difference"
This finished, he sealed It in an envelope,
took book from the breast OF his klmona
and began to read. Its cover bore the
words Second English Primer, in words
OF Two Sy1ables." Its inner pages, how
ever belied the legend 1t was Mahan' s
Influence Of Sea Power on History"
Yet Lieutenant Ishida Of the Japanese
In perial navy, one-time student in Monte
rey, Cal, now in the special secret serv-
ice. read abstractedly. He was wondering
why DIR. Bersonin should have in his pos
session a technical naval chart and what
was the meaning OF certain curious mark
ings he had made on IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-08
CHAPTER XI.


Under the frail moon that touched the
embassy garden to such beauty, Haru
walked home to the house "so-o-o small,
an garden bout such big in the Street.
of-Prayer-to- the-Gods.
On Reinanzaka hill the shadows were
iris-hearted. From its high-walled gardens
Of the great came no glimpses of phantom
lighted shoji, no sound of vibrant strings
from tea houses nor CLEANS of painted
lips and fingers of geisha.
She had come TO the newly built chapel.
Her fathers name was on the household
list of the temple across the way but she
herself walked each Sunday TO Ts'lIiji, to
attend the bishops japanese service in
the cathedral. When, influenced by a
schoolmate. she had wished to become a
Christian, the old samurai had interposed
no objection with the broad tolerance
OF the esoterie Buddhist. to whom all pure
faiths are good he had allowed her to
choose for herself. She had grown 90 love
the strangely new and beautiful worship,
with its singing, its service in tongue
that she could understand its Bible filled
with marvellous stories of old heroes and
with vivid imagery like that Of the Kojih
the Record Of Ancient Matters" or the
Man-yoshu, the collection Of a Myriad
Leaves" over whose archaic characters
her father was always porting,
For many days Haru had watched the
progress of the chapel building. The
cathedral was a good two miles distant,
but this was near her home; here she
Would be able TO attend more than the
weekly Sunday service Tonight, as she
looked at the cross shining in the moon
light, she thought It very beautiful A
tiny symbol like it. made Of white enamel,
was hung on a little chain about her neck,
1t had been given her by the bishop the
day Of the confirmation. She drew this
out and swung 1t about her finger as she
walked on
In the Street of Pray -to-the-Gods were
no huge and gloomy compounds II was a
roadway OF humber. shops and homes
bordered with mazes OF lantern fire, and
lively with pedestrians. At meager shop
pltifully small, whose shoii were wide open
Haru paused. A smoky oil lamp swung
from the ceiling, and under its glow q
woman knelt on the worn tatame. Beside
her on a pillow lay new born baby and
she was soothing US slumber by softly
beating a tiny drum close TO us ear. Sh,
nodded and smiled 10 lIaru's salutation.
'Ifai. Ojo-San," she said, "GO hgen 20
DeiRn augustly 10 enter"
Honorable thanks" responded Haru
but my father awaits my unworthy re
turn. DOmol Aka-San deska? So thi'
is Miss Baby! Ishikichi will have a new
comrade in his little sister
Poison not your serene mind with con
temptation Of my uncomeg last-sent one!