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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-12-06
is PROBLEM FOR SCIENTISTS
VIII Have Hard Work to Prove a d.
vision Between Animate and
lnanlmate Nature.

We refuse to be jerked from the
easy and virtuous tenor of our lives
by the news that Professor Schaefer
can produce life artifcially. Was it
not Sydney Smith who explained
Coleridge's great work on metaphys-
les on the theory that it was "onlv
his fun?" Possibly the learned
Schaefer is amusing himself, and
certainly he is amusing us, for we
have heard this story before. Be
fore any substance can be said to
have been artifcially endowed with
life it must be proyed-not merely
asserted-that it did not already
possess life, and as no one knows
what life is the proof would be hard.
But the professor "gave the show
away" when he admitted that "the
line between living and lifeless OBJ
ject8 is growing less and less sharp
as science %penetrates into the heart
of things" 1t may eventually be
demonstrated that there is no such
line, sharp or otherwise, except in
the mind of the scientist, and that
there is, in fact, no division between
animate and inanimate nature. Sci
ence might save itself much specu-
lative trouble by postulating a the
DRY that life and matter are insep-
arabic, that matter in its every form
contains some elusive property which
causes the cohesion of its parts and
which is indistinguishable from thu
life Of an organism.-San francisco
Argonaut.
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ENeLAND's LABOR UNREST OLD.

Labor unrest is no new thing in
London. In 1868 Benjamin Frank
lin was living in Craven street. He
was the most trustworthy Of observ-
ers and has left the record of what
he witnessed. Coal beavers pulling
down the houses of coal dealers /;
sailors on strike unrigging all the
outward-bound merchantmen and
closing the port of London till their
pay was raised; the very tailors
marching down in their thousands to
overawe parliament Chicago News.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-12-06

eve call that girl Juarez.'"
'Whyp"
"She's been captured six times al
ready this season. "-Pittsburg Post.
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HANDIcAPs AGRICULTURE.

"Well, said Hinkley, affably, to
the old countryman to whom he was
giving a bit Of a lift over the high
way, shows farming around here ?"
"Bad,' said the countryman.
Powerful bad. What with the
farm hands turnin' shutters and the
farmers turnin' garragers, farmin's
sort O. went out O fashi'n ."-Har-
per's Weekly.
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TRUTH has one good friend
left anyway, Time.
Time is the revealer of truth, as
well as falsity, Time proves the
truth and exposes the faults.

And you can ride down any country road in
this country, or any village, town, or city street
and see for yourself what Time has done to
bring out the facts about paint. Over there
you see a muddy, bleary-looking house dull
eyed, as it were low vitality, paint that is
dying-dead, may be.
And there in a stone s-throw away, one that fairly
CLEANS with the reflection of living light, bright, clear,
with that brilliant sheen and radiance of gloss that
tells you the story Of what's in it just as truly as if you
were looking into a mirror to see your own self.
Time has proven absolutely that Horse Shoe Brand
House Paint, manufactured by the Mound City Paint
and Color Company of St. Louis, is the truest paint
manufactured in this country or any other country.
It's the one paint that does what good paint ought to
do, and SO much more than you expect that any paint
will do. This is because it is made of nothing but the
highest quality white lead, zinc, and best aged linseed
oil. One gallon goes twice over a surface as high as
a ~six-footer and so feet long - and stays there at least
three years and sometimes ten.
1t pays to know what's good in paint. 1t pays to know where to
get it. All we have to say is that we know absolutely that Horse
Shoe Brand Paint is the ~sraightest, highest quality, honest priced
paint for honest work that we can get hold Of. Made by the same
house for twenty-sx years. Sold on its merits; on its character.
Remember, too, the Mound City Paint & Color Company manu-
features a complete line of the highest quality paint speciates "a
Horse Shoe Brand paint for every use; Floor Paint, Barn and Roof
Paint, To-Wauk-On Stain, Screen Paint, Wagon and Implement
Paint, etc, Grecian Enamelforthe Bathroom, Iron Beds and the like.
And SO we claim it pays to know that there's one paint store in this
town where you can get good paint advice: and there's some color
cards you ought to have, too, if you're going TO paint - they're
free to you here at the store - come and get them.
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ESTIMATED.

A visitor calling upon a neighbor
one afternoon was asked to wait a
few minutes and the ~fve-year-Old
daughter Of the house volunteered ia
entertain her until her mother ar
rived.
GLOW old is your baby brother? p
asked the caller.
"1'm not sure" replied Alice, "but
we've had him nearly a year."-Har-
per's Bazaar.
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FAMILIAR LEGEND.

II ought to have some legends
connected with the place." said the
landlord. "They bring trade, leg
ends do. There needn't necessarily
be any truth in them, you know"
"Stick to the legend that you are
running a frst-class hotel" advised
the guest. "That legend will catch
a few suckers every year"
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ANYTHING TO ESCAPE.

"You can't come across me, sirl I"
"Confound your pesky hidel If
you'll keep still long enough I'll
walk around youP'
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COMING AND GOING.

"Mn. Merivale says she has a
passing acquaintance with you"
"Yes. When I was coming away
from Reno l met her going in"
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EASIEST TO GET.

'What brand of cigars do you like
best, sponger?"
'The brand you have in your
pocket. Boston Transcript.
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i OBJECTION.

Auto Salesman-Don't you think
your wife would like this model
Mr.. Sadlife-Yes, if no one tells
her / like it.-New York Globe.
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SOCIETY FAD.

"She has a naughty air"
"Some excuse for it, though. She's
been introduced to some Of the most
gunmen."
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FARM PROGRESS

Is the biggest semi-monthly
farm and agricultural paper
published in America. II is
unquestionably the best and
most reliable paper of its
kind publish e d. FARM
PROGRESS is of inestim-
able value to every farmer,
truck gardner, beekeeper,
hog, sheep, cattle or poultry
raiser, and In fact, to every
one engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
Missed Christmas Dinner.

Princeton. N. j.. Dec. 90 President
Elect Wilson slept most Of Christmas
day. recovering from a slight attack OF
grip. The governor caught cold on
Monday, and the automobile trip In the
snow to and from Trenton exposed him
again to the chill air. so that he devel-
oped a little fever.
"Mr. Wilson Is much better tonight
said Mrs. Wilson. as she came out OF
the bungalow attired In Il gray sweater
vest on her way to a neighbours house
He had q little fever. but slept most
Of today and Is much improved"
The Wilson's all got up early and
found their stockings filed with pres
ents. Gifts from friends, however,
came In great quantities In express
wagons and by messenger.
In the afternoon the Wilson girls
went on an old fashioned sleigh ride.
A little frame house erected just
across the road from the Wilson bunga.
low attracted interest. The secret serv-
ice men and the correspondents had IL
built so as to have O shelter and work
ing space. because the Wilson house
stands on a slope where the snowdrifts
are heavy.
The governor expects to leave tomor
row morning for Stanton, Va, for the
jubilee celebration there on his birth
day. Saturday. Dec. %.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
B0ATMEN HELD
WITHOUT BAIL
FOR DROWNING
Prosecutor Seeking Third
Man in South Amboy Cass
.-Strangs Stories Told.
MEN AT COUNTY JAIL
Body OF Captains Wife Not
Recovered Accused Claims
She Fell Into Water.

Prosecutor Geo. s. Silzer is MAX
ing a detailed investigation of the
alleged murder of Mrs. Annie White
of the barge Ralph" in South Am
boy, Monday afternoon. Captain
James Kelly. of the barge TROY"
of New York, who is accused of
pushing the woman overheard, and
Charles White, the women's husband
are being held at the county Jail
without bail. Kelly is being held to
await the action of the grand jury
and White as a material witness.
Other witnesses are being sought
by the prosecutor, as thus far both
the county and South Amboy author
tiles have been unable to secure
comprehensive evidence. The men
have told different stories and have
changed their own statements. At
first White said Kelly gave his wife
a poke in the jaw" and sent her
overheard from the deck of the
barge Troy. According to his latest
statements he Is not certain that
Kelly pushed her.
From Whites story told to Police
Justice Birmingham in South Am
boy, when he appeared at city hall
to make complaint against Kelly
Monday night, 1t was cleaned that
the woman had been untrue to him.
He testified to finding her together
with Kelly in the cabin of the latter's
boat, claiming he had been off his
vessel, which was at the side of Troy,
and returned to find them together.
That, he summoned her and as she
was leaning against the cabin and
talking, Kelly pushed her in the jaw
and knocked her overheard. White
claimed he threw a line cut, but his
efforts proved futile, as she sank.
The man appeared drunk at the time
and so little eredence was given his
statements, that he was let go and
Kelly was not apprehended.
Chief of Police Mcdonald and the
police justice made an investigation
on Tuesday, which caused the latter
to issue a warrant for Kelly's arrest.
He was arraigned before Police JUG
tice Birmingham Tuesday afternoon.
Before hearing the case, Che justice
called Prosecutor Silzer on the tele-
phone. He informed Mr.. Birming-
ham that he lacked authority to hear
a murder cas- and Kelly was accord
ingly held without bail to await as a
material witness.
While in a normal condition. the
latter stated that he did not know
that Kelly had knocked his wife
overheard. He said, as she was
passing over on her own boat, on
which he was standing, ne dropped
his pipe. He stopped to pick 1t up
and at that instant saw his wife fall
ing overheard and Kelly appearing
to be drawing back his hand as to
indicate he had pushed her. White
would not say positively that Kelly
knocked her over. Kelly, who Is
quite an old n an, denied putting his
hands on the m Futile efforts
have been made to o the body.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
TAFT Is READY
T0START HOME
Dynamite Explosion Last
Night Being investigated.
Special by United Press Wire.

Panama, Dec. 26.-President Taft.
completing his farewell inspection of
the canal as executive of the United
States, planned to start home at 6
O'Clock this evening IN the Arkansas.
With the President besides the party
that came with him, will be Col.
Cocktails, chief engineer of the canal.
and Major General Barry, who is
likely to become chief of staff of the
United States army. President Taft
announced that he would not decide
definitely until he vas back in Wash
ington as to the appointment of Col.
nal zone.
The President smilingly attempted
to belittle the dynamite incident OF
last night. Nevertheless, a rigid
Investigation is under way today by
the authorities. A few minutes after
the President and his party entered
the national theatre, where they
were guests at a Christmas ball, a
terrific explosion wrecked a kiost on
the towns principal streets by which
the President had passed but a few
moments before. Dynamite caused
the explosion. Several men were in
jured.
The governor of the canal zone,
when lie Is appointed, will hold the
post until the canal is formally open
ed January 1, 1913. Barring I'M
f~oreseen distractions the first ship
will go through the canal September
2, Of next year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
Two Persons Attended by Physicians
MANY Christmas Dinners Spoiled
Yesterday as Result Of Fumes.
STOCKTON AND FAYETTE STREET

Michael Loski and William Demp.
sey, of Passaic, Sophie Dempsey
a year old and her father, Mich.
ael Dempsey, of 341 Stockton street,
were most seriously affected by the
fumes. The child was near death
when found on a cot and Michael
Loski dropped unconscious on the
porch of the Dempsey home. All
three were attended by DR.. M. s.
Meinzer and are on the road to re-
covery. The child is suffering today.
The other victims complain of severe
headaches today, but otherwise are
not suffering from the gas poisoning.
Michael Loski and William Demp-
sey had come from Passaic to spend
Christmas with the %latter's brother.
Together with Michael Dempsey and
his child they were in tightly closed
because they were in tightly closed
rooms in which there were
large W outlets in a sink. Mrs.
Dempsey claims she smelled an OBJ
noxious odor about 8 O'Clock yester-
day morning. She was not ava
that it vas that from Illuminating
gas and thought no more of it, until
she found her daughter unconscious,
stiff and blue in the face as though
dead. On the verge of Mysteries. shs
snatched the child in her arms and
ran wildly from the house. While
she was endeavoring to give first aid,
Loski staggered from the house and
fell on the porch. She returned to
warn the other two men and they
came out. feeling dizzy and sickly.
The cause for the leak is not
known. Mr.. Reitemeyer said today
it. as it might have chilled the pipe
might have had something to do with
it, as it nigh have chilled the pipe
to such an extent as to cause the
joint to give way as it did.
Mr.. Totin was one of the irst to
notify the police. Sergeant Durham
in turn located Mr.. Reitemeyer at
Elizabeth and notified him, while
Detective Sergeant Huff and Mount
ed Patroiman Hartman We're sent out
to investigate. Huff learned that the
most seriously affected vistims were
members of the Dempsey family and
their visitors.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
ILLUMINATING GAS FROM BROKEN PIPE
ENTERS HOUSES BY SEWER AND |MPERlS
LVES0F 5OPE0PLE; TWO HORSES DEAD
FERRYBOAT HIT
BIG SCHOONER
IN DENSE FOG

While women cried and screamed,
and some nearly tainted, during the
binding fog the ferryboat Perth
Amboy rammed the forepart of the
women's cabin into the stern of a
four masted schooner, smashing the
hood of the cabin to splinters and
breaking in the fore cabin door and
the first window next to the emit
rance, 1925 o'clock this morning as
the boat was on it's 8:12 trip from
Tottenville, after awaiting a late
train, about 100 feet from the Tot
tenville ferry slip. The cabin was
occupied by about twenty passen-
gers, most of whom were women.
They were notified of the impending
danger as they sat in the part Of the
cabin which was torn up, in time to
escape to the deck. When told to
clear the cabin, because the boat
was about to strike another, a panic
followed in which many women be-
came hysterical.
According to Captain Reuben An.
drovette the fog at the time was
much more dense than earlier in the
morning and a view for not more
than four feet could be obtained
across the water. The boat left
Tottenville about 1922 and was pro-
ceeding slowly on it's voyage, as the
captain, who was at the pilot wheel
with John Cerbo, a deckhand, knew
that the schooner lay directly along
their route. Anton Cerbo and Mich
ael Dalton, d~eckhands, were placed
on both sides of the boat to look out
for other crafts. They had come
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
Stories by Passengers.

New York. Dec. 26.-With Christmas
trees waving triumphantly at her bow
and stern flagstars and her search.
light swinging between the New York
aud Brooklyn shores with a Here we
come home; all well' message. the
derelict destroyer Seneca pushed up
the East river to Pier Is last night.
Fruit company's liner Turrlalba. which
ran aground north of Atlantic City
Tuesday morning. "AIl safe-all hun
gryl Merry Christmas!' was the vocal
message that the men and women who
mad been rescued yelled ashore to the
couple Of hundred relatives and friends
who came to welcome them.
The ifty-seven passengers and eight
een stewards that crowded the Seneca's
deck were without any question the
happiest company on land or sea when
the cutter swung to her slip at the
United Fruit company's pier at the
foot Of Fulton street. They were SO
happy that they danced and sang out
and shouted Merry Christmas" at the
d~eckhands who were cropping for the
Eeneca's landing lines. Some of them
and these were women who had been
very courageous on Tuesday and cheer
tul in the dismal hours when the Allan
dc hammered the Turrlaiba with titan
tc blows and did Its best to smash her
wept and bad a difficult time to find
their pocket handkerchiefs with gloved
fingers. And tiny Maxine Mutzner.
the pet of the Turrialbans and the
three-year-old heroine of the storm.
mothers Ecuadorean servant. and trill-
ed: Hello! oh. hello. am awfully
glad to see you people!"
So the Seneca was a very real Christ
mas ship when she came into port with
the people who had gone through on all
nights of the world-Chrtstmas eye-a
fearful experience. They were all safe
and unframed. They had preserved
their stateroom and hand baggage.
The terrors Of the storm were dim-
ming. and they crowded on zach others
heels to explain what a fine skipper
Captain J.. N. Lindsay of the Turrialba
was and how nice Captain Charles E.
Johnson and Lieutenant Philip Lau-
rfatt OF the Seneca had been and how
bravely the Briganttns life savers had
dared the pounding seas and In fine
bow splendid the whole world was.
Steamer Ders Up We'll.
They brought good news also about
Captain Lindsay and the officers and
CONTINUED on page ~
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26

About 150 people living in the
vicinity of Fayette and Stockton
streets experienced a narrow escape
from death by a~sphyxiation and two
valuable horses were killed by illu-
minating gas escaping through sewer
lines from a serious break in a four
inch gas main shortly before. noon
yesterday. Several persons were
overcome while about to sit down to
their Christmas dinner and were
saved from death by being carried
out on the street.
Gas escaping from a broken joint
in the main at Fayette and Stockton
streets followed sewer pipes into
many houses in the immediate vicin-
ity and entered through a sewer line
to the stable of Michael Totin, a
grocer at 367 Fayette street, killing
a team of horses which he valued at
$1,000. Totin says he smelled no
gas in the stable as he fed them
early yesterday morning. When he
went to feed them again at noon he
was almost overcome with gas fumes
pouring from the stable as he was
entering. He found both horses
dead.
Christmas dinners of approximate
ly $50 people living about the scene
OF the leak were not touched In most
cases and in others were not relished
because of the %sickening fumes
which poured through almost every
house which had a sewer connection.
The matter was reported to the
police. They notified Albert F. Reit-
emeyer, secretary and treasurer of
the Perth Amboy Gas Light Com
pany, wner Of the leaking main,
who was at his home in Elizabeth.
He hurried to this city and had a
valve closed near the location of the
leak, thereby stopping the escape OF
gas. The main vas repaired by a
! gang of workmeu of the gas light
company this morning.
In the opinion of the police, had
the leak occurred at night while
most people were asleep at least $50
lives would have been lost. At 1t
was, those most affected have prac-
tically recovered.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
AN ATTACK ON
UNIFORM PRICE
Government Goes After
Breakfast Food Company.
specsa, b., United prs.s wsrs.

0eSStos W ' ASVoS
Detroit, Mich, Dec. 26:-New
application was made OF the Sherman
antitrust law here today in a suit
filed by the federal government
against the Kellogg Toasted Corn
Flake Company. The action is aim
ed against the growing practice Of
the manufacturers In attempting to
fix a uniform jobbers and retailers
price for It's product. If the govern
ment's contentious are sustained by
the court the way will be open for
the department Of Justice to materi-
ally aid in reducing the cost Of liv-
Ing by forcing manufacturers of
staples to remove all restrictions on
cut rate sales Of their product.
The bills filed here today attack
the plan by which the Kellogg COM
pany exacts an agreemen from job
bers and retailers not to sell at less
than a specified price, the penalty
for the violation Of the agreement
being forfeiture of future selling
rights. The government alleges that
the company has used its patent car
toon to bolster up and make possible
this. selling plan. This scheme of
taking advantage OF the patent law
to enforce uniformity in sale prices,
the government brands as a mere
subterfuge and desire to avoid the
Sherman law.
A monopoly Is formed, 1t is as
serted, because of concentration In
the hands Of those who abide by the
agreement and exclusion from trad
ing in the product of those who re-
fuse to enter into the selling plan.
The bill also calls attention that the
company does not sell direct to con-
sumers. A decision declaring the
selling plan illegal is requested In
fhe hill
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-26
Pieces Found Strewn Along
Pennsylvania Railroad Near
Metuchen Station.
LEG HALF MILE AWAY
Difficult at First to Ascertain
Whether It Was human Be-
in9~or Not
LETTER GIVES A CLUE
Believed to be the Remains
Of Lew Wilson of
LEG HALF MILE AVA
LETTER GIVES A CLUE
to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Metuchen, Dec. 26:-Parts of the
body Of a man, believed to be Lew
wilson, circus wirewalker from
lanesville, O., were found strewn
ziong the Pennsylvania tracks here
for about half a mile early this
mornh! 1t is believed by the local
authorities that the man fell from a
western train during the night, prob
ably while %enroute to spend Christ
mas week with his family in Ohio.
Chief Of Police Flaherty discover
ed parts of the body in front of the
Metuchen station of the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad early this morning. AS
he neared the station he saw q dark
object on the track. Upon investiga-
ton he found it was a mixture of
bone, flesh and bloody clio hes, but
at the time was not certain it was
part of a man. With the aid of other
members of the force the chief found
enough pieces to learn that they
were parts of a man. A basket was
secured and all that could be found
were gathered and turned owe to
James M. Petit, a local undertaken.
The greater portion of the body was
see~Rd e the Metuchen station. A
leg wps found at the Robinsvale sta
ton about half a mile away.
Mr.. Petit found a letter In the
clothes this morning dated Games
vile, Ohio, December 23." 1t was
addressed to Lew Wilson, care of
Mills Hotel, New York City" lndi-
cations are that 1t had been sent by
the victims wife. He appeared to be
thirty-eight years old and wore good
clothes.