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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20
THE PEOPLE AND THE CUR
RENcY.

In dealing with the complicat-
ed and difficult question OF the
reform OF our banking and cur
rency laws It is plain that we
ought to consult very many per-
sons besides the bankers. not be-
cause we distrust the bankers,
but because they do not neces-
sarily comprehend the business
Of the country. Notwithstanding
they are indispensable servants
Of 1t and may do a vast deal to
make it hard or easy. No mere
bankers plan viii meet the re-
quiremsnts. no matter how hon
sstly conceived. II should be 9
merchants and farmers plan as
well, elastic In the hands OF
those who use 1t as an indispen-
sable part Of their daily busis
nsss.-From Woodrow Wilson's
spesch eceeptins the Demo
cratic nomination
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20

A Dunklin county man is said
to have bet 400 bales of hay on
the election results in the primary
and lost.
An insurance agent at Rock
port. Atchison county, recently
sold 800, 900 in automobile insur-
ance in three days.
The project of damming Jacks
Fork in Shannon county. to fur
nish electric power to neighbor-
ing towns 10 likely to be dropped
as q civil engineer who inspected
the proposed site was not favor
ably impressed.
The Missouri potato crop for
this year is a big one. tits prob
able that the yield will be more
than double that of last year,
when the entire state grew but
2,983, 900 bushels, or an average
of only 33 bushels per acre.
A large land owner in Stod-
dard county has recently closed
a contract to have cleared 1000
acres of land near Dexter, and
will ouild two fine farm houses
and fence his entire farm, con-
sisting of about 5000 acres.
Missouri Democrats did wise
thing when they selected VIM. r.
Painter of Carrolton as a candi-
date for lieutenant governor. Mr..
Painter lost out by few hundred
votes in the election of 1908, but
this time his majority will be
large enough that no recount will
be necessary.
Recently a man at st. Mary's
bought a chicken, paying by the
pound for the same and the fowl
appearing quite heavy for its
size. When he went to sell the
same to a customer an examina'
ton was made and it was fount
that quite a large sized piece CT
iron had been fastened under tht
chickens wing.
DR.. Cutler, commissioner o.
food and drug inspection, has is
sued Circular Of Information No
q, in which he calls the attention
of millers to the fact that corr
bran constitutes an adulteratioI
when mixed with wheat bran. |
has no food value and only re-
duces the value Of bran for feed
Farmers should be careful to re
ject all bran containing corn bran
Circular of Information No. 2
OF the department of food ant
drug inspection, issued by DR.
Cutler, calls the attention of drug
gists to the fact that all old
moldy, and rat-infected drugs
and all drugs which have becom
inert with age, constitute a mis-
brand and adulteration under th
law and must not be dispense
under any circumstances. The
must be destroyed.
Col. A. M. Benton, aged s
years, of the okantagan Hilii
Washington, with his wife, hu
completed a 2,0O0-mile journe
to his old home In Henry count
to visit his parents, who are II
years old. cts been long tin
} since the old folks have seen the
'kid,'" said the Colonel. 81 can
out west in the days OF 40 an
have lived everywhere from Alai
ka down 10 California"
The third calamity within
week recently struck the home
G. D. Huff, q farmer near Mon
gomery City. Monday, when b
t6-months-eld daughter fell in
Q we'll and was drowned. Mr.
HUFF, alone on the place, reco'
cred the body with a garden rak
On Wednesday before the Hi
home was destroyed by FIRE, 81
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20

blown into q yard 1876 steps away |
aud killed Virgil McCauley, aged |
II years. His skull was crushed
and an arm broken.
A tramp who was given a few
hours work by a Springfield wo-
man last Thursday rewarded her
by paying a $50 grocery bill for
her. He paid it with q forged
check for $50. However, he car
ried away the change.
Ozark, the county seat of Chris
tan county, is to be connected
with Springfield by macadam-
lied road. Work is finished in
Greene county and began in
Christian county last week The
1S miles will cost $4,000.
The total output of silver, cop.
per, lead and zinc in 1911 was
valued at $64 ,519, ,444, nearly half
of which came from Missouri,
which production was valued at
$50, ,311, according to report
just issued by the United States
geological survey.
There is a war on at Monett
between the city light plant and
that of a private company, and
the city council has had a lot of
wires and cables Of the latter cut
on the alleged grounds that they
were in a dangerous condition.
The courts will probably settle
the mattle.
The worst piece Of road to be
found on the Cross state High
way between st. Louis and Kan
sas City is in Boone county, ac-
cording to the report Of state
highway engineer Curtis Hill,
who has printed a report OF the
condition of highways, following
his recent automobile tour Of the
roadway.
10000 car loads OF hay and
grain worth S14,O0O,OOO, market
ed in Kansas City in the last five
weeks. Kansas City will receive
at least 50,000,000 bushels OF
wheat during the crop year and
enough hay and grain to make
up a total of $50, 900, QUO worth ol
these products marketed in twelve
months.
After being in operation thres
years, big sawmill at Hender.
son, Mississippi county, has beer
permanently closed down and will
be removed. 1t employed from
125 to 100 men per day. Th'
company owning. it also own
some 1000 acres OF land, all o
which will now be cleared ant
prepared for cultivation.
In batch of new divorce suit
filed in Springfield one plaintiff
man, says defendant nagged
abused and beat him." A de
serted wife accuses her husban,
of striking her with his fist, Will
five other women say their hus
bands called them vile names
; And Springfield is in the Ozarks
! the land of mellow air and happ,
| sunshine, too.
According to the Lathrop op
. timist an 18-inch garter snak
! attacked q chicken at tViles black
] smith shop, buried it's fsngs i
3 the chickens side, and had to b
I beaten off with a wagon spoke
r Calm yourselves, boys. Tn
weather has been extremely war;
in Lathrop and maybe you woul
: have seen things too, if you ha
. been down that way.
Several weeks ago the Missoul
Ruralist announced that Jane
: McCutcheon of Cooper count
was living upon a farm to whic
q he held Q patent issued to hi
d grandfather August %, 1872.
ii Now comes Mrs. L. C. Debo, VIII
says: 81 have a deed made
my great-grandfather, Jacob Nc
y Farland, by John Roberts an
9 wife on November IS, 1918. M
d little girl is Of the fifth gsneratio
Q TO live on this farm. 1t is stu
atcd five miles south west Of Boon
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20

no one but myself can beat the
bosses" says the man who was alone
N Cuba and beat the Spaniards.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20
SENATOR CORE OF OKLA,
HoMA:

The closing sentence Of his
speech will become the battle
hymn Of Democracy in the pond.
ing campaign: I thank God and
take courage. Il is ct once a
paean Of praise and IL . sum
mon to patriotic duty"
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20

WAS the tariff raised or loweredf
has been an insistent question ever
since the Payne-Aldrich law was en-.
acted three years ago The tarin
board avoided answering u
In making my Official report 20 the
board ! submitted a table that did
ansver this cusetsrr {. respect TO each
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-09-20

In Webster county last week
while road workmen were using
dynamite a section Of stump was
blown into q yard 1876 steps away
aud killed Virgil McCauley, aged
II years. His skull was crushed
and an arm broken.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13
a Strange Rem ark

Eccentric, but perfectly straight
The words occurred to Huntington now as
he looked at the man from his vantage
point at the back Of the court where
he observed without being observed and
they seemed extraordinarily inappro
pirate ANY one less deserving Of the
adjective 1t would have been hard to i'm
agine. Mr.. SAKE had this morning pos
sibly out of respect for the melancholy
occasion. discarded his invariable wear Of
light gray and was clad In the convention
al garb of the city man. which appeared
by some subtle process to have trans
muted the elusive, un- English element in
his appearance to depressing respecta
bility The ladies' of the audience-for
to Huntington this crowd was essentially
one In search OF entertainment-mus
have been considerably disappointed in
the appearance Of the man OF whose
looks and millions so many fatterng and
fantastic tales were told No shopkeep-
er with comfortable suburban residence
from which he sailed forth to church
twice o. Sundays at the head of rising
family could have looked more prosaic.
CHANGING at SAKE where he sat, with
head bent over letters that had evil
IDENTIFY been gathered UP and carried away
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try Lydia E. Pinkham' s Vegetable Com
pound, and did. Today am well and
strong and do all my own homework. |
owe my health to Lydia E. Pinkham 8
Vegetable Compound and advise my
friends who are afflicted with any female
complaint to try it. " - Mrs. ORvMLE
Rock, R. R. No. 5, Paw Paw, Michigan.
If you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
For thirty years it has been the STAN
dard remedy for women's ills, and has
restored the health of thousands of suf-
fering women. Why don't you try it2
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from the office from which he had come
to perform this public duty. Rimington
was forced to acknowledge to himself
that the man was an enigma He did
not like him; he could not, for all his
effort. achieve anything more than the
most chilly Of intellectual faith in him,
although SAKE had fulfilled his promise Of
giving q perfectly lucid and satisfactory
explanation of his concern in the nights
tragedy at Tempest street. The f1nancier
had indeed-he recognized Illustrated
him with a frankness and confidence
that might quite excusably have 1attered
an older and more experienced man. Yet
for all that, Riningtons abiding impress
sion was of something secret and close
lIpped-a man Of granite who, in the
old phrase, used words TO conceal his
thoughts
a Staggering Story.
Take the mans expana ton Of his res
son for asking him TO call at Tempest
street, for instance
ITS a fairly staggering storv-I warn
you that" SAKE had said 1T beats
me- man Of the world that | am look
to you, as Miss Betty's fiance to give
light on the subject Why was she in
such desperate need for money? You
deny that she was-but l know that she
asked me to lend her two thousand
pounds on a matter of life and death. and,
for all we know, her acquaintance with
Fitzstephen may have had It's rise in
some such negotiation. I tell you quite
frankly that Is why, in the first in
stance, I wrote asking you to call that
night. 1t seemed to me possible that
you might be at the bottom OF matters
knew your resources, and the engage
ment had startled me. | admit. OF
course, the moment I spoke TO Miss Betty
face to face | realized how utterly my
shall I call ii envous spirlt?-had misled
me There was some secret behind it.
some very ugly secret that has nothing
earthly to do with a lover"
sitting there in the crowded court
coroners voice in his ears Rimngton
felt his face redden curiously, rs 1t had
not Redeemed when SAKE had spoken TO
him as they sat together in the low
ceiinged room Of the shop in Westmln-
ster Then he had been almost too
stunned TO take in the full meaning Of
this suspicion, so ingenuousy admitted
But nov
A staggering story-his brain reeled
with the shock OF 1T. Betty in need
Of money Betty going at night time to
this mans rooms to borrow two thou
sand pounds Betty acquainted with the
dead usurer Betty as he had seen her
yesterday in the gay gardn Of the house
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3 3 3 The Gates of Silence" 3 3 3
SmnnG4 uho o.
3 3
By Meta Sfmmfn5 Anfh0r Of flushed u

, at Weybourne The various facts and
scenes whlrled and shifted in Rimington's
brain like the changing patterns of a
Kaleidoscope.
Betty and that unsavory brute, Fitz-
stephen, It was unthinkabe that there
could be any connection between the two.
Yesterday he had given the lie direct to
SAKE with a good heart Today? Sake $
story had been so curiously explicit; how,
hearing the girl had been shown upstairs
to Fitzstephens room by mistake. and
| knowing the manner of man he was, he
had hurried up to intercept a scene. His
| tongue had drawn vivid picture for
Rimington; the half-intoxicated usurer
and the weeping girl facing each other in
the lamplit room across a table heaped
with Jewels
THE great ruby was not among them,
Mr.. Rlntnqton." Ssxes voice had taken
on a curious note when he spoke. "For
the great ruby was, as could plainly
sec, for all her little artifice, In Miss
Betty's hand. Afte~~srd, In my own
room, when she thought my attention was
otherwise engaged, saw her, In the mir
ror that hangs above my table, slip il
Into her bag. That was the reason | re
fused to lend her the money that night
Indeed. could hardly give you q logical
reason why ! refused But did. think
at the back Of my mind there was fear
lest the notes might in any way Illcrlfn =
mate her"
A staggering story, indeed still so far
az SAKE was concerned a perfectly plausi
BILE one.
II Betty could only speak But Betty $
| lips were sealed
He had seen both Mrs harrington and
the doctor on his visit 10 Weybourne
YESTERDAY DR. Hardinge was an init
mate friend who had known Betty since
she was a baby and loved her The old
man had been shocked and puzzled Mrs
Darlington was like a woman In dream
Betty's illness lay like q black cloud OF
horror over the house-this illness that
, was so singulary Of mind only, and not
OF body and that had been caused by
some unknown horror that no one there
who loved her could so much as guess at.
The Doctors Decision.
THE child is suffering from mental
shock that has acted on the delicate It's
sues of the brain as physical blow might
have done" the doctor told him IAN
remembrance of the past year Of her life
seems to have disappeared to have been
| spon ged out, as child wipes figures from
slate"
There had been tears in the old doc
before Rimingtons now that shut out the
picture of the crowded court room. with
the impassive coroner writing at his Ia x
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13

BILE, the row Of uninteligent faces Of the
jury, the windows behind them, with their
hint Of waving greenery. Betty-the girl
he loved, who on that golden day by
the river, had given herself to him, for
whom he had worked and striven and
achieved-lke child, but without a
childs future woman without yester-
day or q tomorrow,
The thought crushed him, it was Ike a
great black cloud. it shut out all other
uons-his doubts, his fear for
her safety. his uncertainty And yester-
day he had giibiy spoken Of demanding
satisfaction from the man he believed
was responsible for this wreckage of the
barque of girls life Satisfaction
His lips curled slowly in bitter smile.
His fingers clenched and unclenched He
was thankful, as men are thankful who
are walked from the ugly horror OF a
nightmare dream when stir in the court
told him that the principal case of the
day was about to begin
To Be Continued Tomorrow
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w little home town r'' to ' visit in "a
big city he shrinks. and shrinks.
and shrinks. until when he enters it he
isn't any bigger than a fly trying to
get through a screen door.
In the same way some men who are
important and of some influence down
town shrink, and shrink and shrink on
nearing wife and home until. like the
flies. they are so small they could all
most creep through crack when they
get there. ~
The description fits Lysander John
Appleton, whose words are of some
weight down town, and Of no weight
in his own family.
1t makes little difference to his wife
and daughter that he also has opinions.
He is never permitted to air them at
home
When the spirit OF Mental Unrest
seizes him he is denied the outlet Of
addressing Uplift clubs and societies.
me best he can do Is to chew the end
or a stubby little pencil and write his
Important Discoveries on the backs OF
receipted bills found in his pockets.
He recently chewed out the following
Definitions of Words and Expressions.
which he would disclose to the world
If he were only bold enough.
Lysander Johns Conclusions,
Notwithstanding more than
! loneliness.
( Inimitable-A word commonly used
to fiatter woman. and which invaria-
bly, pleases her, though she doesn't
know what it means.
Dim, religious llght-A poetic and
dignifed way of saying the windows
need washing
Endless grind-Expression women
use to describe homework, though a
more modern expression would be.
The housekeepers marathon"
Something up his sleeve-An express
sion used to denote all sorts of mys-
terry, though the only thing any man
that won't come down
| Romantic drama - Something In
which 1t is impossible to interest any
man who has wife and a lot Of
children to support.
Vivaoious-Used to refer to those we
like In speaking Of those we dislike,
"garrulous" is better
Love-That state OF mind which
changes a young mans idea of music
from steam calliope to guitar.
Mantle of night-Depends upon
man whether 1t is a night shirt or
pajamas
The good old times-A period many
years ago. when woman could get
hired girl for $3.50 week. and the girl
stayed with her as long as ten years
Wistful eyed-Of feminine gender
only. When man feels that way he is
called a Crouch beast or a sorehead.
Never "wistSul eyed
Hilarity-The sensation a thief ex-
periences when he reads in the morn
ing paper that the dollar watch he
stole the night before is valued at Ave
hundred dollars
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n Y name is Thomas Twitmoe. l
NJ am II years old and very ambi-
tious.
That is why. during the summer.
while | am not in harvard, acquiring
knowledge, am always hunting up jobs
With the object of acquiring money.
sometimes | think as we are taught in
college, that knowledge Is better than
money, but not very often.
knowledge will often enable you to
cut out your friend with some peach,
out nothing will buy her an ice cream
soda except money
However, as | was saying. every sum-
mer | hunt up a job that will bring me
In few plunks, as l have made UP my
mind to become a millionaire People
say it's easy after you get the frat
thousand dollars, but it seems to me
that with a thousand dollars you have
more chances to lose your money. If
you have only 81 you're not asked to in
vest 1t in ice farms IN Greenland or
prickly pear farms in Honduras.
When you stake your only thousand
dollars and lose it, you're just as broke
as If you'd bet your last dollar and
lost 1t.
But l must tell you about my nrst
Job
got one as waiter in summer
hotel. The reason | selected this job
was because waiting seemed so easy
and | had read walters made as high
as $50 day in tips. Also when | got
the Job the boss told me | could wear
my walters clothes-which the hotel
provlded-in the evenings If I wanted
to go to a dance.
The first evening l put on the new
evening clothes provided for NE and
went down to the dining room
! had three tables to look after, with
about four persons at each table At
high school ] had been noted for my
memory. ! could recite "Horatius at
the Bridge without stammering once.
So | had no fear about remembering
the orders
"Corned beef and cabbage and a
glass of buttermilk."
Let her go twice"
Clam chowder, stewed rhubarb and
vanilla ice cream
"HuckIeberry pie and fried eggs and
q cup Of coffee"
fCrulIers for two and single order
of shad roe
I kept repeating all these orders over
and over to myself on my way back to
the kitchen. I gave the order and the
chef, with a wild cry, rushed to the
boss, yelling. Watch him; he's crazy
has he knife"
What's the natter" asked the boss.
He (pointing to me) rushed up to
me and yelled through the door. 'Corned
keef and baggage on the ice-clam
showder-let- 'er-g o-stewed pie and
rhubarb crean-fried pie and buckle
berry eggs-disorder of single shad roe
and a cough of cuppee,
Take off my clothes" said the boss.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13
"HAIR THAT GIVES FATHER TIME
THE LAUGH"

Ne are Just about as old as ue LOOK
People Judge us, by the way we LOOK.
The man or woman with grey hair is be.
ginning to get in the "Old Timers Glass. -
This Twentieth Century does NOT want
GREY hairsit wants the energy of Youth
The big things are being done by the
YOUNGER generation.
There's a sort of HAS Been" look
about those Grey Hairs. - There is always
one to crticise and smile scornfully.
Father Time is a stern disciplinarian
Get the best of him. Give him the laugh
Do not be Has Been. It's unnecessary.
Use HAYS HAIR HEALTH
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1t S a Hard
Life
No. 1-Thomss Lands His First Sum
NOR Job, With Disastrous Results.
By WEEK JONES.

n TY name is Thomas Twitmoe 1
V am 81 years old and very ambi-
tiouS
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Here is her own statement.

menu. l c0ul0 not
be on my feet for a
long time. Ny ply
sician treated me for
several months with
out much relief and
at last sent me to
Ann Arbor for an OPP
Grafton. | was there
four weeks and cams
home suferingworse
than before. M y
mother advised me to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13
WOMEN, AVOID
OPERATIONS
Many Unsuccessful $3.50 And
Worse Suffering Often Fol-
lows. Mrs. Rocks Case
A Warning.

The following letter from Mrs. Orville
Rock will show how unwise it is for wo-
men to submit to the dangersof q surgical
operation when often it may be avoided
by taking Lydia E. Pinkham' s Vegetable
Compound. She was four weeks in
the hospital and came home suf-
fering worse than before.
Here is her own statement.
Paw Paw, Mich. 1.-TWO years ago |
suffered very severely with a displace-
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GRAND CANADIAN TOUR

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Many already booked Names furnished.
Send for free picture Of Niagara Falls and
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Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
BY FRANCES L. GARsIDE.

XXTHEN a great man leaves his
w little home town to visit in a
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For Protection.

Small Nephew-Uncle. why do you
always take a dog with you when you
go shooting; are you afraid of the rab-
bits?
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A suffragstte Proposal

He took her hand "oh, pray be mine"
mot much" said Bsss
May l." he meekly asked, DE thtns7"
She answered, "Yes!"
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Health Note.

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The Harlowton news., 1912-02-23

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