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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-07-23
Rare Opportunities.

Llano county farms and ranches
ranging in size from 80 acres to s,
900 acres and in price from $40 t
$4,000 per acre.
For particulars write,
E. MARSHALL,
Llano, Texas.
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
Leap Year Party

A leap year party was given at
the M. W. A. hall Wednesday
evening, Jan. 81. The girls met
at the hall and at quarter to
eight swarmed around Mrs. P. F.
Weaver, who held their fate in a
box in the way of names of boys to
be taken to the party. With
laughter and joking the merry
crowd was on it's way to the homes
and offices of their quickly chosen
partners.
Rook and forty-two were the
features of the evening. Then at
a late hour dainty refreshments
were served. Those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Weaver, Mr..
and Mrs. J. F. Weaver, MIR. and
Mrs. J. P. Jones, Mr.. andsMrs. A.
E. Johnston, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Tracy, E. Brendshl, A. Brendahl,
A. j. Baum, N. A. Ormsby, G. R.
Parker, G. S. Mahurin, 81. G. Car
others, e. w. Moore and Misses
Kathryn Harter, Kathryn Brown,
Loretta Clay, Esther Rowland,
Helga johnson, Maud Matsell,
Mary Dye, ROxana Rankin, Vir-
ginia Kraft and Ethel Kent;
Misses Lottie Aber and Daisie
Clarence HOagland, w.
E. Burke and A. r. Weaver of
Brookheld, and Ed. L. Love of
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
For Sale

Three residence lots west of city
park, 6Ox15O feet, including all
improvements, consisting of first
class ut-buildings, grape arbor,
fruit trees, rose bushes, cement
coal bin, stone arched cave with
drain, high pressure water system,
hydrants in yard and barn, large
steel tank and concrete foundation,
concrete walks everywhere, beauti-
ful lawns, concrete street curbing.
The improvements alone on this
place cost more than ST, 900. This
is an opportunity of a lifetime.
This property for sale at the
ridiculous price of 5000. Write
DIR. T. D. FAwCETTE, Las Animas,
Colo, or see S. NJ. Brown, La
clede, Mo.
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
Local and Personal

All hunters must keep off my
farm, F. G. Adams.
Good four-room cottage for rent
by DR.. q. T. Standby.
| Good red steer calf for sale by
j. L. Heath, route three.
A lousy hen can't lay. Electric
Compound gets 'em. Henderson
& Sons Produce Co.
A car of seasoned 7-foot hedge
fence posts and 8-foot corner posts
for sale in any quantity by L. B.
Jones. phone 78.
Electric Compound is self-apply-
ing. Good for your chickens
good for your purse. Sold by
Henderson & Sons Produce Co.
If a hen and a half lays an egg
and a half in day and half, it's
a sure bet that her owner uses
Electric Compound in his poultry
house. Try it. Henderson & Sons
Produce Co.
T. L. Humphfres was up from
Forker the first of the week and
had bills printed at this office for
his public sale to be be held We'd
nesday, Feb. 7. See list elsewhere
in the BLADE today.
j. T. Bassett came up from
Walnut, Kan, Monday morning to
look after matters on his farm
northeast of town and visit friends.
He reports that the Linn county
colony at Walnut is we'll and pros
pering.
The high school agriculture class
and their teacher, Miss Mabel
Kraft, visited Moberly Bros i'm
plement house Wednesday after
noon and investigated the working
of the machinery used in the cul-
ture and harvesting of wheat,
finishing with an inspection of T.
d. Mouser's up-to-date threshing
outfit.
The Missouri Farmers Hand
Book is an invaluable reference
book for Missouri farmers. 1t
contains nearly 400 pages of in
formation. The Missouri Farmer
and Breeder is the best farm paper
for Missouri farmers. You can
get the Hand Book and the paper
two years for one dollar. Sub
scriptions will be taken at this
Office, and it will pay you to sub
scribe TODAY.
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
Drainage Meeting

A drainage meeting will be held
in the opera house at Linneus
Saturday Feb. 8 3,1912, at 1o'clock.
All persons owning Locust Greek
bottom land should be present as
Mr.. Jacoby of Kansas City, an ex-
perienced drainage engineer, will
be present and viii give some val
liable information on drainage
methods and results.
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
ALetter From India
Ny DEAR FRIENDS:

| III OEAh II
I am certainly very grateful to
you for the privilege of writing
this letter of thanks for the
splendid box you sent us this year.
It reached us about three weeks
ago, just in good time for Christ
mas, and / would have written you
sooner had not annual conference,
the Christmas rush and festivities
prevented me. The box came
through in good condition, owing
to it's excellent construction, and
in fairly good time. We always
get excited over a box from home
and we could hardly wait till this
was opened. And the contents did
not disappoint us. Such splendid
selection of cloth 1t almost seems
like you had made personal sur
vey of our needs and then had
done your best to fill them. Every
piece of cloth is very suita BILE as
we'll as very pretty. One is led to
wonder why every country cannot
or does not produce such pretty
fabrics as our American calicoes
and percales, but they don't seem
to have them. The gifts marked
for our school girls gave them un-
bounded happiness and also made
them the objects of envy from the
other girls. We kept them to hang
on the Christmas tree, so they
came as a great surprise to the
girls. The little gift books we
gave to some of the older boys who
read English well and they were
quite delighted with them. And
home made soap. 1t has been
many a day since / had seen any
and while it looked wonderfully
like tried and trusted old friend
l made myself divide with the
others. Those bandage materials
will bind up many wound and be
of great service to rs as we'll as to
many others. However the first
duty of some of the larger pieces
was to be costumes for some of the
boys in our S. S. Christmas en-
tertainment, who had the part of
the lawyers and Pharisees, called
by Herod to answer the query of
the wise men. They answered the
purpose splendidly. | was SO glad
that you. put the names of the
donors on the various things for it
made them much more precious to
me and was like a visit with old
friends. The packages specially
marked for me were the source of
great pleasure. The articles were
beautiful and much admired by
CONTINUED on fourth page.)
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
SHORT PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come and Go
During the Week

Miss Efie Mahurin visited friends
in Brookfeld this week.
Claud Crandall was over from
Meadville on business Wednesday.
Ed. L. Love of Hannibal is visit
ing Laclede relatives and friends.
Misses Elaine Irwin and Lucille
Smith of Brookfeld were Laclede
visitors Monday.
Mrs. w. M. Brott of Brookfield
was the guest of Mrs. A. j. Cay
wood Saturday,
E. J. Virgins moved from B,
s. Cross farm on route two to
Brookfeld this week,
Roscoe Rankin and Roy Kerr
spent Saturday and Sunday at the
latter's home near Forker.
Mrs. W. R. Barton and Mrs. H.
Markham of Brookfeld spent
Wednesday with friends in Laclede.
Mrs. E. J. Baker and Mrs j. G.
Lomax of Charlton county were
shopping in Laciede Wednesday.
DIR. and Mrs. 2. T. Standby at
tended the funeral Of DIR. T. P.
Oven at Brockfeld Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Louise Lippitt and little
son of Meadville were guests of
her parents, DR.. and Mrs. J. L.
Burke, Monday.
A. E. Johnston, manager of the
local poultry house, spent the
latter part of last week with his
parents at Fulton.
Mrs. Elsie Dorrell and two
children returned home Friday
from two weeks visit with rela-
tives near Macon.
Miss Leota Ayers, who had been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. g. E. Bruins, returned to her
home at Hannibal Sunday.
W. E. Burke, B. W. Welsh, A,
R. Weaver and Harold Butterfeld
of Brookfeld spent Sunday with
Laclede relatives and friends,
James Rutledge, who was visit
ing his sister, Mrs. R. L. Wells,
and family, returned to his home
at Humeston, Iowa, Tuesday.
Mrs. Dora Smith and little son
of Bethel, on their way home from
Kansas City, visited over Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Kraft.
Roy Welsh of Forker is visiting
his sister, Mrs. J. B. Jones, and
family and taking treatment from
a local physician for blood poison
ing in his left hand.
Mrs. Jane Umbarger, who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. j.
J. Deininger, and family on route
two, returned to her home at Mel
vim, ILL.,, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. A. Runge and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil
Mcdowell of Brookfeld and the
latter's sister, Miss Margaret
Banker of st. Louis, we're guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Bruins Monday.
A number of friends of Miss
Gussie Bruins spent pleasant day
Sunday at her home north of town.
At the noon hour the hostess
ushered the guests into the dining
room, where a dainty three-eourse
dinner was served. One of the
pleasant features Of the afternoon
was the recording of the guests
names and their voices on the
graphophone, to be taken by Miss
Gussie to her future home in Cali
fornia. The guests were Gertrude
Mccoy, Madge Kent, Viva Cav
woo5 Grace UaiUbt Nav Weaver.
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
WHAT HOME FOLKS DO AND SAY
Local People and Events Briefly Mentioned and
Other Matters Of General Interest

Order sack of Electric Com
pound from the poultry house to-
day.
Miss Edith Mahurin is helping
invoice the Owl Pharmacy this
week. >
Moving pictures at the opera
house Friday night. Admission 8
and 10 cents.
Crushed corn, corn chop, mixed
feed, alfalfa meal, bran, shorts,
etc. at Laclede Mill.
Electric Compound destroys
poultry pests and prevents disease.
Henderson & Sons Produce Co.
Spend Friday evening pleasantly
at the moving picture show. Good
clear films and interesting subjects.
Graham -four makes a., whole
some breakfast mush and excellent
graham gems. Fresh at Laclede
Mill.
Joe Dye sold his residence near
the school house this week to
Wayne Anderson-for $500. S. +.
Thompson made the deal.
Foley Kidney Pills will cure any
case of kidney or bladder trouble
not beyond the reach of medicine.
No medicine can do more. La
clede Drug Co.
While here from Walnut, Kan,
this week, J. T. Bassett rented his
fine 16O-acre farm northeast OF
town to Roy o. Bailey, who will
move onto it about the first OF
March.
Guy Haley, who has been
suffering from diabetes several
months, has gone to Los Angeles,
Cali, to live with his mother, in
the hope that the change of climate
may be beneficial to his health.
w. G.. Love of Pomona, Cali. a
Former popular Laclede merchant,
in renewing his subscription com
mends our new advance"
plan and sends best wishes to the
many old friends of the family.
Mark Farrar, who has been
farming east of Linneus the past
wear. was in Laclede on business
Friday. His public sale last week
was even more of success than he
anticipated, nearly everything SELL
ing even better than expected.
The box supper given at the
opera house Thursday night by the
w. G. T. U. ladies was well at
tended and was a success in every
way. A delightful short program
was rendered and the ladies cleared
about 500, which will be used in
temnerance work.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Bigger de-
FightfuIly entertained the latter's
Sunday school class and a number
of invited guests at their home on
North State street Monday evening.
After a pleasant game of tag,
the guests participated in guessing
contests and the prizes were
awarded to Mrs L. F. Moore and
Mrs. J. B. Jones. After a social
good time a delicious four-course
luncheon was served.
DR.. Thomas P. Oven, for more
than thirty years a prominent
in Brookfeld, died Of
pneumonia Thursday of last week,
aged sixty-three years. BE was
3 native of England but came to
this country in infancy. BE was
one Of the most popular men in
BrOokReld and had many friends
all over the county. He leaves a
wife and one SON. Funeral services
- cI
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
TOWN AND COUNTRY IN BRIEF
Local Events Of The Past Week Recorded For
Busy Blade Readers.
Moving pictures Friday night.

ems healthy. Sold by Henderson
6 Sons Produce Co.
Have your horseshoeing and
other blacksmith work done by a
skilled workman at D. j. KeIley's
new shop, west end of Foreman
house block. Phone 81.
You can't fatten a chicken pro-
perly if you have to fatten swarm
of insects at the same time. Electric
Compound will stop the bugs.
Henderson & Sons Produce Co.
At the Office of the officiating
justice, Judge o. F. Libby, Charles
A. Cooper of Chula and Miss Edna
Labar of Laclede were married
Wednesday morning, Jan. 81.
They will make their home on a
farm west of Linneus.
j. B. Patrick's advertisement in
the BLADE this week and the weeks
to follow will interest both old
and young. The little folks will be
interested in the antics of the
Kid" and the older ones
will be pleased by the low prices
offered each week.
Bills were printed at this Office
Tuesday for G. E. Bruins big sale
of live stock, farm machinery and
household goods Feb. Is. See list
elsewhere in this issue. Mr..
Bruins and family expect to leave
Immediately after the sale for their
new home in California.
Mr.. w. II. Erskine of Akita,
Japan, will lecture at the Christian
church Friday evening, Feb. 2.
He has been a missionary seven
years. You are invited to come
and hear him. No admission, only
a free-wilI Offering will be taken
at the close of the lecture.
The clearance sale now going on
at J. w. Lomax & Co.'S dry goods
store has been drawing big crowds
to the store every day. Prices
have been made surprisingly low
and it will pay anybody to stock
up on dry goods this week as the
sale closes Saturday night.
The agriculture class at Laclede
high school will be glad to have
you visit them any Friday after
noon. Karl Jones, manager of
the Linn county experiment sta
ton, is giving the class some very
valuable information and his Fri
day afternoon talks on farm topics
will interest you as well.
Mr.. Talbot of Keokuk, Iowa, a
member of the firm of O. A. Tai
bot & Co., wholesale grain dealers,
rented the G. H. Hetrick residence
on South State street and moved
here with his family this week. He
will have charge of the business of
the firm in this part of the state,
his headquarters here, with
his Office upstairs in the Standby
building. Mr.. Talbot is an up-tO-
date business hustler and with his
family will be made cordially wei
come by our citizens,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Brunemer,
who removed from here to Cofey-
vile, Kan, three years ago, write
hat they have been having some
real winter down there. Their
Mrs. Ola Jones, and
family of Walnut, Kan, spent
yhristmas week with them. Mr.. !
md Mrs. j. J. Clough are we'll
md enjoying life. but MIR. Brune-
ner has been having the grip. |
Most everybody down there seems
o prefer T. R. for president. They
IL -ll..s- II |
The Laclede blade., 1912-02-02
Paw Your Taxes ROu

All taxes must be paid before
March L. The penalty was raised
to 2 per cent Feb. 1.
W. s. SAVAGE, Collector.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-05

PEASANTS son disguised as the Prince
of Como, in the drama of love and
disappointment 1t was, according to
well authenticated rumors, of this
fashion:
Darling Helen, after the first Of
August | shall be a member Of the
firm and will be able to take care of
you as luxuriously as you are in
your mothers home. Come with me
tomorrow to call at our home. My
mother is away but my sister will
be delighted to receive you"
Next day he escorted the lovely
girl who looked so charming in her
summer gown of pale pink batiste
and her broad-brimmed hat that
dropped, heavy with its weight Of
pink roses, about her face, to call at
his home.
There it is" he said as they
ru.ned corner and came upon one
of the most attractive bungalows in
the seaside city. 1t was as nearly
paIatial as a bungalow can be,
stretching half way down the block,
its square brown outlines and huge
piaZza crowded with swinging
couches, gay hammocks and easy
chairs, suggesting all the luxuries OF
the Summer home of wealth in
mood of relaxation. They sauntered
past it that the Lady OF Manhattan
might better view it's breadth and
the effect Of the awnings that spread
green as the bOughs of q giant shade
tree at the windows.
"She is entertaining guests, but it
doesn't matter. Come on and with
his fingers resting daintily beneath
her elbow the pair mounted the
steps and were greeted pleasantly by
a young woman who rose at sight
OF them and came forward with
smile
Mrs. Steck Dodge-Mrs. Blank"
Young Mr. KirkmaH, in his white
fannels sat silent but smiling.
When they sauntered back to the
loteI where she was staying with
her mother Claude MelnOtte II. said /:
And now. darling, since you've
met my family, why not be married
at Once?"
Il would, George dear. only | am
afraid tmamma would not be
pleased.
'"Iet's be married first and tell her
afterwards.
An afternoon spin with her sister
snd the sisters admirer, New York
broker. had become a daily institu-
ton. Mrs StecF, complaining Of a
headache. told the quartette to get
on as best they could without
chaperon that afternoon and dark
ened her room, sought her smelling
salts, and fell asleep. While mann
mas nap, girls elope Mrs. Steck'S
younger daughter did not elope. but
leaving her sister and the New York
broker on some preteXt for a half
hour they went to aclergyman and
were married When Mrs. Steck
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-05

IT some enterprising theatrical pro
Queer were to put on THE Lady
of Lyons" Lord Lytton's famous
drama, the most appropriate person
to take the title role would be Helen
steck Dodge Kirkman. .
Indeed, the unfortunate Helen mas
played the part so well and so talth-
fully that as a result she may now
be found in her fashionable New
York apartment nursing her wrongs
and poulticing her pride.
For this modern Lady of Lyons
has pride as great as that OF the
original Lady of Lyons.
She has a beauty as beWitchlng.
And a mind as credulous.
And relatives as relentless.
Her awakening from dreams OF
honor and affluence is as bitter.
And all has come about in just the
same way and through the same mo-
tive.
The heartbroken Lady of Lyons
and her counterpart, the equally
heartbroken Lady of Manhattan, had
suitors who loved we'll but not
truthfully, and who erected homes
for their brides which neither their
bank accounts nor the facts justi
ned. The young men builded airy
ana unsubstantial structures to daz-
zle the maids of their hearts. And
When the maids discovered that
lney had been deceived they did
precisely the same thing. Both
went straight home to mamma.
helen Steck Dodge is the Pauline
Deschapelle of this second drama of
me Lady Of Lyons, daughter of Ed
WIN StecK, the Pennsylvania opera
,or OF coal mines, and who is afFil-
'aIed with the Pennsylvania Rail
road, she has lived in as handsome
nome In Germantown as the
naughty and beautiful Pauline IA
lyons To them both came wooers.
Claude MelDotte, the peasant
loVer in the play by Lord Lytton,
described:
= palace lifting to eternal Sumner
Ils marble walls from out a glossy
bower.
me wCoing by George Krknau,
me employee of a real estate firm az
ttnterlaken, n. J., was less poet.ca
0ut quite as fervid as that OF ths
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aWoke she faced startling news and
a new son-in-law.
She cried a little, as mothers do
at weddings. or when news of wed
ulngs is suddenly broken to them
put the new-made bride comforted
her with little pats and kisses and
this logic:
Mamma darling, you know I am
only twenty and entitled to another
chance for happiness. After | mar
RED Walter Phelps Dodge and was
driven out by his spook wife I de-
termlned to marry young man next
time and to marry for love.
Z Mrs. Steck, who is fond indul-
gent mother, dried her eyes. kissed
her daughter and said "Well dear.
l hope you will be happy And
George does seem a nice boy. or
course, you met him on the hotel
piazza and without an introduction
but now since you've met his
family"
Soon after. Mrs. Steck and her
elder daughter returned to their
apartment near the park and River
side Drive. The honeymoon of the
Lady of Manhattan began. 1t lasted
for three days. At the end of that
time there was an eclipse of fhe
honeymoon. At least 1t was hidden
by a storm of tears.
The bride hurried back 10 Now
York. She rushed into her mothers
apartment, flung herself uDon bar
breast and burst into tears.
Mamma" she sobbed, 81 have
married an impostor. That lovely
girl wasn't his sister at all. And he
hasn't any m-mOney: hardly cent
We went to miserable little room
like a cell, In an inn. There wasn't
any bath room. Oh, 1t was DREADFUL
IF she wasn't his sister who was
she? Helen dear, are you mad?"
res, am, mamma, but not i'm tho
way you mean. When ! asked him
why his sister didn't call he said II
was Joke. [ went to see her and
she said, Yes, | had never met him
but once before, when his firm was
selling me the place | wondered at
the time why he called asked
him why he lied about his income
making it out to be several times
larger than it was, and he said "A
mans got right to lie TO a woman
when he's making love TO her. AIS
fair in love- Then, mamma, came
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straight home and I'm never going
back to him. l hate him"
George Kirkman followed his bride
to the city and tried to seq her He
saw. instead. her mother and sister
We are sorry, but Helen wont see
you, they said. He went away and
telephoned her Her replies over the
public communication were in effect
the angry words of Pauline to her
newmade lord
This is my bridal home and thou
my bridegroom
0 fool, o dupe, 0 wretch! | see it
all.
The briGe's FAMILY sent detectives
to Asbury Park TO make Inquiries
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HOlU o. Clerk in o. Real Estate
office Won His Wealthy Bride

for her hand. Mrs. Kirkman stead
lily refuses TO see him and at family
and friendly conferences the matter
OF the annulment of the marriage Is
considered.
In the play the despised bride
groom goes to war and returns a
general. In real life the real estate
employe Is dolefully and not very
successfully going about his duties,
caring little whether customers buy
bungalows or not. He hangs his
mead as he passes his sisters abode
or not In the play Of the Lady Of
Lyons relents and goes back to her
bridegroom. In the play the
Lady of Manhattan says with
every sign of truth that she
mates him and never wants to
see him again. Claude Melnotte was
IN his brides eyes handsome In his
Uniform Of a general. George Kirk
man, now that his becoming white
hannels must be laid aside, looks
oddly shrunken and countrified, his
bride thinks, when he comes to the
city apartment to ring the bell, but
is never admitted.
1t was the Dady Of Lyons's frse
marriage. Twas the lady of Man
hattan's second.
Walter Phelps Dodge, author, law
yer and son of millionaire, welded
her, but took back his gifts Of dia-
monds and laces to her, because he
said, his first wife's spirit came to
his bedside and demanded them. The
bride fed in fright and secured a
divorce on the grounds of spiritual
cruelty in the Pennsylvania courts.
She was recuperating by the sea from
the shock of this unhappy marriage
when Claude Melnotte II. began bis
ill-starred wooing.
lrs. Helen Steck- Dodge-Kirkman
the New Lady of LyonA
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"Oh, the visions
she had on the
porch as he
talked. Autos and
castles and every
TIM z II o n e v
could buy float 4
around her---in