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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
GRAND TO LIVE
And the Last Laugh Is Always the Best

six months ago | would have laugh.
ed at the idea that there could be any
thing better for a table beverage than
coffee" writes an Ohio woman, now I
laugh to know there is.
Since childhood | drank coffee free
ly as did the other members Of the fam
lily. The result was a puny, sickly
girl; and as ! grew into womanhoOd I
did not gain in health. but vas az
ficted with heart trouble, a weak and
disordered stomach, wrecked nerves
and a general breaking down till last
winter, at the age OF SO, ] seemed to
be on the verge Of consumption.
MY friends greeted me with How
bad you look! What a terrible color!'
and this was not very comforting.
THE doctors and patent medicines
did mi absolutely no good. l was thor
oughly discouraged.
Then ] gave up coffee and COM
menced Postum. At first | didn't like
1t, but after a few trials and following
the directions exactly. it was grand:
It was refreshing and satisfying. In
a couple of weeks | noticed a great
change.
81 became stronger. my brain, grew
clearer. I was not troubled with for
g%etfulness as in coffee times. my
power of endurance was more than
doubled.
The heart trouble and indigestion
disappeared and my nerves became
steady and strong.
II began to take an interest In things
about me. Homework and home
making became a pleasure. My friends
have marveled at the change and when
they enquire what brought 1t about
I answer Postum, and nothing else In
the world" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little Book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a reason"
Ever read the above letterS A sew
csc appears from time to ti.se. Thsy
are genuine, true, SD fsu 81 ssoss
eDfeDe0t.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
ORGANIZING for Suffrage.

Clay Center, Kansas.-The women
OF Clay county have determined to
carry this county for woman suffrage
Clay county woman suffrage associa-
ton. Fifty women were present and
elected officers.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Aurora Goes "Dry" Again.

Citizens of Aurora voted to keep
saloons out of heir town for four
more years by giving a majority Of
30 for the "drys" in the local option
election held there. Ideal weather
brought out the temperance workers
in full force. Children carrying ban
ners paraded the streets and rallies
were held in the different wards. The
total vote was 762.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Would Increase Taxes.

Under the revised statutes of 1909
the city council Of Bevier voted for
a census to increase their taxes for
public improvements. The city wants
light plant installed by the CONNER
cial club. Water works and a eve
system and mail delivery are also
desired.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Injury Cost Him His "Toueh."

For the loss Of his billiard touch,
Charles Peterson. a 81. Louis pro-
fessional. was given a verdict of $4,000
by a jury. He was thrown ~ of a
motor car when a street car ran into
the machine and sued the street, car
company for $4,000, alleging his ner.
vous system was injured. He testi-
that he formerly did.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
County Treasurer Dead.

Mcpherson, Kan.-Frederick Gateka
county treasurer of Mcpherson coun-
ty. died at his home here from
ptomaine poisoning. Mr.. Gateka was
just beginning his third term as treas
urer OF this county.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Threw Cartridge Into a Fire.

St. Joseph, Missouri.-Tom Long
muir, 10 years old, threw an old army
cartridge, which he found on the site
ments here, into a bonfire. The
cartridge exploded and the boy was
struck by pieces of the shell. He was
taken 20 a hospital here probably
fatally injured,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Crushed by Engine.

EOIIO BOWcrS died from injuries re-
ceived while bringing a traction en-
CINE into Lamar. His coat sleeve
was caught in a wheel and his left
arm crushed. He received other in
juries on the head and chest. Bow
ers cut the fingers from his hand
when taken from the engine. He vas
Is years old and unmarried.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
A Bride In Knee Skirts.

Denver, Col,-The youngest mar.
ried woman in Denver Is Mrs. Ed
ward Walker, who has not yet cele.
brated her 18th birthday anniversary.
sho was Annie Dietrich. a pupil at a
grammer school. and she was married
10 Edward Walker. 10 years old.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Meningitis at Springfield.

Three cases of meningitis of the
epidemic type have been found at
Springfield by the city authorities and
have been placed under strict quaran.
tine. Two school boys suffering with
the disease have been watched for
several days and a third victim was
~Quarantined.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
More Smallpox in St. Louis.

Seven more persons were found SUI
fering from smallpox in st. Louis as
a result of the health departments
estigation into conditions found
at st. Nicholas p%arochial school. Five
were pupils of the school, while n
was a relative OF n of the eight
school children previously found IN.
fected.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
ForeIqn Affairs.

The town council OF SOllngen, TER
many, decided to pay no official at
tention to the anniversary of Kaiser
Wilhelm birth.
The repor: of a legislative COM
mittee at Manila shows half the rice
crop in the Philippines destroyed.
Gen. pedro Montero, the popular
hero OF Guayaquil, Ecuador, was shot
by a mob, then beheaded and burned.
Two unmasked men with revolvers
entered the Hill Creek branch of the
Royal Bank of Canada at noon and
escaped with 1899.
No basis for peace negotiations be-.
tween Italy and Turkey which are
likely 70 have any success has yet
been found.
NJ. Bathia', the aviator, flying in a
%monoplanc at Douzy, France, made a
new worlds speed record for 62 miles
of Al minutes 30 seconds.
Monks of the monastery of st. Paul
IN Poland sole precious stones worth
$4,000 from a painting of the Virgin
Mary.
President Madero says Zen. Reyes
will not be shot, but will probably
get a prison sentence.
An explosion occurred in the ar.
tillery barracks at %Guayaquil, Ecua.
dor, and sixty men were killed or
wounded.
ArchdUkc Joseph. grandnephew OF
Emperor Francis Joseph, was OPP
Grated on for appendicitis.
A memorial window for John Bun.
yam has just been unveiled in West.
minister Abbey, ga years after his
death.
Captain Won StuenZer of the Ger.
man army must serve three years in
prison at Warsaw, Russia, for espi.
onago.
Chinese republicans demand seven
million dollars from the China Mcr.
chants Steam Navigation company.
The Italian government will not
French steamer Manouba be re-
leased.
Commander Levi c. Bertolette OF
the l.. S. cruiser Yorktown, died OF
yellow fever at ~Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Articles of peace ending the revO'
luton in Ecuador have been signed
by the federal leaders and the revolu'
tionists at ~Guayaquil.
Affairs of STATE at Pckin are now
in the undispu,ed possession of the
Manchus and Yuan Shi Kai has aban
doned his task.
The royal commission on taxation
at Victoria recommends that British
Columbia adopt the single tax
Three million people are starving
in China as a result of the war.
The ministers of war and public
works of Brazil have rendered theii
designations because Of political un
rest.
The Turkish fortress at Smyrna ha'
fired upon the French steamship
Sinai, and serious complications al,
threatened.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Personal,

Frank and w. +. Kitzelman, private
detectives Of Denver. We're charged
with conspiracy to rob Miss Cora
Stokes, q manicurist.
George Hoskinson, a wealthy bust.
ness man of Turon, Kan, committed
suicide by hanging at Hutchinson.
Jacob +. Gmelich, lieutenant COVER
nor Of Missouri, is i'll with pneumonia.
A man claiming to be c. b. Frost,
manager Of a Pinkerton detective
agency. vas arrested at Salina for
flourishing a revolver in a hotel.
Charles Armstrong, n telepehons
lineman at Hannibal, Mo-, touched q
cable carrying 2,3OO volts and was
badly burned, but will recover.
Rutherford Page a wealthy young
New York aviator, fell 40 feet in his
Curtiss hiplane and died at Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Samuel |. Motter, wife of a
81. Joseph attorney, lost a pearl neck.
lace valued at $4,000 while shopping.
Senator Lorimer's counsel, Mr.. Han
ecy, Is i'll and the hearings are post
poned indefinitely.
VIII Toles, a Wichita llneman. re.
ceived a 30,000-volt current at Valley
Center. Kan, and was not seriously
injured.
Charles Wood. arrested for theft
at lola. Kan, took strychnine in hi,
cell. He will recover.
The Duke OF Connaught and his
family are In New York, the guests
OF Ambassador Reid.
Edmund Hastings. II years old, dice
at AtchisOn from spinal meningitis
following an illness Of four days.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
linemap Got $500 Volts.

Charles Armstrong, a Bell tele-
phone helper at Hannibal, received an
electric shock that sent 2,300 volts
through his body. He touched an cleo
trio light cable while on a pole and
fell unconscious across the wire. Eel.
low workmen rescued him and low
cred him to the ground with a rope.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01
Democratic Committee Meets.

OF Vernon county met at Nevada to
decide upon the method and time of
selecting delegates to the Joplin con
vention. About three-fourths Of the
township was represented. 1t was
decided to hold a convention at Ne
vada February IL.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-01

Marriage separates a'bachelor from
a lot of Illusions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18
The Government Through the Post
Office-ls Paying to Send Farm
Workers Out of This Country.
Continued from First Column.


GOVERNMENT intended to take farmers and ~
from America
It should be illegal and Mr. Hitchcock or some other govern
ment official interested the public welfare in the farm
interested the local EDITORS should it illegal TO carry
through the mails of the United States any advertising matter for
which the owner of the newspaper is paid
The regulation of the posoice which permits the con+
newspaper to circulate without charge WITHIN THE COUNTY
OF PUBLICATION intended enable the Canadian
government and the Canadian land schemers and dishonest NH
fishers of ready print distribute disguised living and harm
full advertising free.
We invite Mr. Hitchcock to investigate this matter We coll
the attention of which has recently inquired as 70 +b
of emigration from the United to Canada 70 -
into it.
The entire thing is swinde upon the American farmer first
of ALL and shameful swnde the country editor who * At
the mercy Of the dishonest ready print publishers
Mr. Hitchcock render a to the local editions &C. 49,
country than 10000 of them in aland he can and
service the farmers and the consumers and the busipe
and he compel the ready print publishers the av ~
duet their business honestly instead Of dshonev-if he will
regulations forbddng the carrying by the United States |
without charge of advertising for which the publisher 90
newspaper receives
1t is necessary hope, that this written for +h
sake Of the farmers and for the sake country
1t ought not to be necessary that does affect the news
paper organization to which this particular newspaner b
We don own and never expect country no1r
pers And there ism any publisher of readyprnt ingor;
cunning enough to get unpatrotc dishonest and dspa
dian land scheme advertising into this newspaper
We make this statement and urge Mr. Hnebcoc, t tl .;
for the sake of the farmers first and for the sake of the local
paper editors who the promoters guardians f H. -
try who badly paid and badly treated as If AMI WHO
OUGHT NOT TO BE SWINDLED BY A COMBIN ALTON ~ rI,
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT THE CANADIAN LAM curr+
Oilers. AND THE OTHER SWINDLERS THAT 1eoI+r
'READY-PRlNTS" WITH FRAUDULENT DISG1uCpn -
VERTISING UNPAID FOR IN THEM az
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18
ER. JOHN H. MARYLEBONE.
wi of Somewhere, Something,

TR. JOHN H. MARYLEBONE,
lV of Somewhere, Something,
South Dakota, rose in So
cialist meeting in the West the
other night and unburdened his
mind about marriage.
Marriage is a fraud" said Mr..
Marylebone, and every married
man knows it. The women who
have refused me refused me be-
cause l was poor The modern girl
marries the man with the automo
bile and turns down the fellow who
brings her a bag of peanuts and an
honest love for an evenings enter
tainment'
Fudge and fddlesticks. Mr. Ma
rylebone. The girls who refused
YOU refused you for the same good
old reason that made your mother
refuse the man she wouldn't look
at after she had seen your father.
She didn't like you--that's all
and judging from your speech, l
don't blame her, either.
A bag of peanuts and loving
heart! What a joyous gift to lay
at the feet of the fair A man who'd
give his sweetheart peanuts when
he could go out into the first va
cant lot and pick a nosegay. of pink
clover blossoms to take to her,
ought to be refused. and refused
without much of Thank you, sir,
thank you. kindly. either.
Honestly, now, wouldn't you like
an automobile yourself. Mr. Mary
lebone? Why don't you get one?
You had the same chance as the
young fellow who has just bought
the latest model and who will take
the sweetest girl in the world out
in it tomorrow night. Why don't
you do the same thing?
Honest and truly, now, don't fid-
get away from the answer The
reason you haven't the automobile
is because you haven't the ability
to earn one, isn't that about it?
You admire ability, don't you?
Wasn't it you heard yelling your
self hoarse over a man who threw
the right kind of a ball out at the
game the other day? Why did you
cheer that man to the echo and let
his brother walk by without ever
looking at him?
He hit the ball, didn't he, and hit
it at the psychological moment?
Well, don't you suppose a woman
likes the sort of man who gets
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18
About Marriage and
Peanuts
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

some of the cheers once in a while,
too? Why shouldn't she?
1t isn't the automobile she's IN
love with. it's the man who's able
to earn the money to buy the ma
chine that the girl admires. She
isn't in love with his money; she's
in love with his brains and his grit
and his fight and his hard work. 1t
takes all these things to make a
success in the world.
Women marry the successful
men and turn down the failures"
said one of your fellows at the
meeting the other night.
| could scarcely keep from rising
and saying Well what of it,"
Why shouldn't women marry the
successful men? Why shouldn't
they love them for the qualities
which make success?
What do l call success? call
success the getting of the thing
YOU go out to get-that's success
For the writer success is to have
his work published and read For
the painter success means good
painting and plenty of it-and
that's all it does mean. For the
business man it means good BUSH
ness with reputation and respect
and little independent money in
the bank,
Any woman with any kind of a
brain and anything at all in the
way of heart would marry the
man she loves if he's as poor as
Jobs turkey and be thankful to get
him-but who's going to love
man who can't do the thing he's
trying to do?
How about those peanuts, Mr..
Marylebone? Were even they the
best in the market and were there
plenty of them?
Hurrah for the girl who said No.
I'll warrant she's been glad of it
ever since.
Marriage a fraud? Not unless
the man and woman who marry
are frauds, both Of them. and even
then it sometimes turns out the
very thing they needed to make
real people out of them.
That little old bag of peanuts Won
talk SO much about may have been
all right, good Mr. Marylebone, but,
whisper, what about the heart that
went with it? Was that all right.
too?
1 doubt it-and so did the girl
or she'd have said Yes" the first
time you even looked as If YOU
meant to ask her.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18

That picture of Uncle Sam weepingrather feeble effort
supposed express the exaltaon the
cause good
especially good American farm WORKERS leave the United
States every year
Our states especially bitterly complaining
this draining of good workmen from the United States
o Canada.
the West develop the break in and
the Canadians get them by the thousands
fields and fields need of laborhe farmers and the
business and the suffer
We ask Mr. Hitchcock postmaster general
workers. which Canada this
exuanty taken disguised Advertising published
by the Canadian government AND CARRIED THROUGH THE
UNITED STATES MAILS FREE OF CHARGE
An outline of this system given
representatives Tuesday by Smith pres
den of the American Press Mr. Hitchcock
chooses probably Smith And
he get information especially FROM EVERY ONE OF THE
MEN EDITING SMALL COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS THROUGH
OUT THE NORTHUMBERLAND ALL ALONG THE CANADIAN
BORDER
Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. Taft and others
Country newspapers ape circulated WITHIN THE COUNTY
IN WHICH THEY ARE PUBLISHED free by postofce
of the United States This very idea indeed
newspapers imposed and compelled
the Canadian and Canadian land swnders
the free delivery by posoe of the local newspaper within
the county would be admirable
Unfortunately United States government not only delivers
the county free within The county limit BUT IT ALSO
DELIVERS DISGUISED ADVERTISING PUBLISHED BY THE
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE CANADIAN LAND
SCHEMERS
Unfortunately for thousands of country editors they
mercy the print happens
And unfortunately also Of the greatest
greatest readyp the United thoroughly
FOR IN THE PRINTED MATTER WHICH 1T SENDS TO
THE EDITORS. AND FOR WHICH 1T MAKES THEM PAY. 1T
INSERTS ADVERTISING DISGUISED AS PURE READING
MATTER. INCLUDING THE ADVERTISING THAT LURES THE
WORKERS FROM THE FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES
The editor of the local newspaper many editor
field his editorial coumn-egres bitterly that
PEELED publish his newspaper without charge the misleading
about Canadian opportunities that would accept
a any price if offered paid advertising
ready print advertisements circulated through
the local editors carried within county
United States government the distributors of lying
Canadian They the distributors
advertising put by the Canadian AND
PAID FOR AT a VERY HIGH PRICE BY THE CANADIAN
lin LastC
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18
By DOROTHY DIX.

youth and beauty before him! Note
his gray old lips smiling above his
false teeth. Observe his vein
knotted old hands, shaking 50 they
spin the champagne he tries to
pour! Listen how his rheumatic
old joints creak as he attempts to
execute the nimble steps of a boy
He is barbered, and perfumed
and dressed UP TO the last notch
and he still believes with fatuous
self-conceit that he is a devil of
fellow among the women. And
you could smile-or cry-at the
truth. For his imitation of youth is
as hideously grotesque as the
dancing of a skeleton would be,
and among women he is nothing
but byword and kissing the
easy mark that can be worked by
the clumsiest feminine fingers.
It's a Grave Menace.
Old age without the dignity that
should belong to it, without the
honor it should command, fills us
with repulsion instead of the ven
GRAFTON that should be our tribute
to white hairs, but the gray bread
ed 1irt is worse than an object of
scorn He is one of the grave men
aces of modern social conditions
The old rounder is far more dan
serous than the young rounder. for
many reasons The most obvious
of which is that he has had more
experience. has more knowledge of
life and the Weaknesses of human
ity in general and women in par
ticular, and knows better how to
prey upon an unsophsticated girl
than a boy does.
The youth who is sowing his
first wild oats crop is an amateur.
The man who at sixty or sew
enty is still sowing wild oats. has
become an agricultural expert. and
knows how to turn the hardest and
stoniest and most resisting bit of
feminine reserve to his advantage.
Also the boy has a heart in his
bosom He has still some pity and
sympathy. something that makes
him hesitate 10 soil and desecrate a
white soul for his pleasure, but the
years have calloused the old ones
conscience and feeling until they
are as tough as an old working
mans hands He is incarnate sell
hshness and let's no sentiment turn
him away from the gratitication Of
his desires
Another reason why the old hirt
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18

Sleep to Yum was just delicious it was to
the next
He had no feather pillows nor comforters The
little box in the corner of the cafe was enough
Yum slept there unnoticed many night while men
in the saloon played cards and shot dice Yum
could do neither, his finances were always
tremely low.
When he kid of course he shot crusoe
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18

as long as the next one When he managed that
fighter he d bet much the next one, but those
days gone The rosy path that Yum saw at
that time had turned to of thorns and cobbles.
He figures now that there never was chance
and never would be for him He of those
guys who were born unlucky and couldn t shake
the jinx, he just let things slide and lived the
best he could.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18
Office His Hunting Ground.

On the other hand the old man.
whose business career is practically
ended. only too often makes of his
office a hunting ground for his
armours that renders it as safe a
place as lions den for any help
less girl who enters it. Protected
by the possession Of wife and
family. and his gray hairs. and his
position in church and community
the old masher is safe to prey upon
the helpless little glrIS that come
BIZ neg
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-18
81 The Elderly Washer Sc
Why the Aged Lothao More Dangerous Than the Young

~ HICAGO proposes to put the
clamp down good and nard
on the aged Lothario.
The other day one of those
bleary and Ieery- eyed old hirts was
arraigned in the court of domestic
relations in that city because he
refused to take his wife to church
in his automobile, and, instead, took
a young girl who answered to the
name of "Tootsey" JOY riding in 1t.
1t was shown that he was incura-
bly, addicted to the Tootsey and
Joy riding habit, and in disposing
Of the case the states attorney de-
ciared that the penitentiary was
the proper place for such frislly old
grandpas
So say we all Nothing would do
more to raise the general batting
average of morality than to corral
all of the gray bearded, bald head
ed Don Juans that infest society in
some nice quiet place, where they
could be kept out of harm and do
ing harm and have leisure in which
to think Of the Heavenly Choir and
other subjects betting their time
Of life instead of the pulchritude of
the first row of the chorus.
Our great cities present no sad
der nor more terrible sight than
that of the doddering old men that
we see chasing about with girls
young enough to be their grand
daughters, with their white hairs a
mock and a rdicule of their folly.
with everything that is good or
worthy of respect in them dead
long ago. and nothing alive but
their vices
Their Open Season Now.
You may see these senile old
FOUNDERS any time of the year. but
the summer. when their families
are away, is the open season for
~ them, and just now YOU can not go
VITO roof garden. or stop at a road
house without meeting CHASTITY
number OF them languishing across
a table al some squad of a girl.
Who only endures them because
they ride her about in their cars.
and pay for dinners. and can be
held up for presents Of fine wear
ing apparel and jewelry
It is a sight for gods and men,
Watch the old man with his age
faded, watery eyes vainly trying
to shoot killing glances at the