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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

who has borne the Drunt Oh the battle
and is prepared to do more for the
party than anybody else can go in
restitution. Selah!
just now the country needs every
man at his post in this critical time
with Mexico. This is one reason why
Congressman Hensley stays at Wash
ington attending to his duty. The
friends of Congressman Hensley will
look after his political fences over the
Thirteenth, and he will be renominat-
ed without doubt, and Of course elect
ed in November to succeed himself,
The Thirteenth Congressional Dis
trct needs a man such as is Mr.. Hens
ley in Congress. And added TO this
fact, experience and acquaintance
brings to a man added prestige and
power in the halls of our National
Legislature. Now that Mr.. Hensley
has elevated himself to recognition
among his compeers, and as well has
not forgotten his District, but labored
necessarily for those whom ii is his
honor to represent, with wider
reach, the entire citizenship of the
whole Republic, it would be a calam-
ity truly to send some one TO fill his
place. This will not be done. The Old
Thirteenth will roll up big majority
for Hensley both in the primary and
the general election. just wait and
see.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29
Moose Elect and Install Officers


and arranging about sixty young men
met at the Moon Hall here Sunday
evening and organized local branch
of the Moose Club.
National director Gahan was pres
ent and gave instructions in the or
der and headed the meeting. Officers
were elected and installed during the
evening after which few "eats" were
placed before the crowd and quickly
disposed Of. Four towns, Bonnie Terre
Flat River, Desloge and Elvins were
represented in the meeting.
T. P. Degonia and family visited
relatives in Desloge Tuesday and at
tended the /. o. o. F. picnic.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Z. Armstrong de-
parted on Tuesday afternoon for West
Plains, Mo-, where he, Mr.. Armstrong,
has accepted n position in a drug
store.
Will Smith and Nick w. Keeling
departed on Tuesday afternoon for
Crystal City to again take up their
work in the glass factory.
Miss Myrtle Labryure of Bonnie
Terre and Mrs. II. Z. Thurman of
Silver Springs, were called to Lead
wood Wednesday because Of serious
illness of Miss Laura Thurman.
Fred Circulum Of Esther, visited
his son. Henry, in the Hospital here
Tuesday.
j. Scott Wolfe of Festus, passed
through Bonnie Terre Saturday morn
ing enroute to Desloge to attend the
/. O. o. Il. picnic and to deliver an
address there in the afternoon.
st. Louis Sunday afternoon after q
weekend visit with her father, Smith
Cruncelton, and family in east Bonnie
Terre.
Clarence Cole of Mineral Point
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

Tell them that you saw their ad in
The Times.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29
A SORDID STORY OF
GRAFT AND GREED
One That Puts to Shame the Tales of
Robbery and Loot Of Feudal
Times

hODDeTy anu LDOi VI Ecuudi
Times
Could any story NJ more sordid and
more illuminative than the tale that
Charles S. Mellen, late president of
the wrecked New Haven railroad,
while it was in the clutch Of the late
j. Jierpont Morgan Is now giving to
the public under the inquisition Of
the interstate commerce commission.
II is a story that seems to cover
the whole sorry field Of dishonest
railroad management-a public rob
bed and pillaged; stockholders robbed
and betrayed; public officials cor
rupted and made traitors to their
trust; kept newspapers and their ed
itors bartering their alleged opinions
and alleged influence for the blood
money; and grafters, big, little and
intermediate, fattening on the tainted
cash that flowed in an unending
stream from the Golfers of this great
corporation.
Ii Is Worth Immunity ..
The disclosures that Mellen is max
ing, the disclosures that may be made
by other officials, and by crooks who
may result in immunity for the wit
nesses, will be we'll worth the price
of that immunity. They will consti-
tute an unforgetabie indictment of
the evil of the management of rail-
roads by financiers and speculative
bankers rather than by railroad men.
They will serve to impress on the pub
lie mind the lesson that railroads must
be managed, hereafter, as railroads
themselves to their proper business
of managing the railroad, and not as
shell game outfits by millionaire or
Millionaire gamblers and pirates who
rely on their wealth, their church
membership, their patronage of the
arts and their wildly advertised phil
anthropies to gild them with a re-
spectability that will distinguish them
from other gamblers and pirates.
And this-the honest and efficient
management of railroads as railroad
properties by railroad men--is con-
summation that is fast coming about.
Neither the properties themselves nor
an enlightened public sentiment could
much longer endure such state of
things as Mr.. Mellen has been de-
scribing. 49,
j. Pierpont Morgan is in his grave.
With all the cutlery that had been
raised against him he died respected
and respectable. Now when it is i'm
possible for him to protect himself
against the truth, the truth is coming
out to play havoc with his fame and
name. Even were he alive, however,
and in the zenith Of his power, the
chances are strong that he would be
powerless to prevent the truth COM
ing to light. Mortal hands, no more
than dead hands, can stop the mills
of the gods.
Will Scare Away Imitators
The lesson, be sure. viii not be
without its effect on those who could
follow in the Morgan footsteps. There
is not financier in New York or in
the country; there is not n banker or
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

If as DR.. Washburn GLADDEN. says,
the newspaper profession is just as
sacred as the ministry, no doubt the
editors would be very glad to have the
people unaerarnd this very thing.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29
"The Times Are Out Of Joint"


Last December, Richard Bartholdt,
Republican congressman from the
Tenth Missouri District, announced
that he would not be candidate for
reelection. There were many who
frankly doubted. Bartholdt's name
has been identified with the Tenth
District for nearly twenty-five years.
II seemed unbelievable that he would
loosen his grip without struggle.
81 long for a rest, at least for a
year or two," says the veteran Re-
publican in explanation Of his "vol-
untary" retirement. Possibly that
is the reason. Probably the close call
he had in 1912 is the real factor in
fluencing him. His vote in that year
was 33,242. as compared with O'Con-
nor, his Democratic opponents 3l,227.
Siebert, the Progressive's l6,l4,
Hoehn, the Socialists, 7,154, and
Polling, Socialist-Labor. 43S. 1t is
easy to see that Bartholdt represents
a Tenth District minority.
This year the Progressives are
more active in the Tenth than in any
other st. Louis congressional district.
The Democrats, too, are confident Of
carrying it. Congressman Bartholdt
has been told in so many words by
certain Republican leaders that he
must get out of the way. There is
a Bartholdt following, but the break
in the solid ranks of the last twenty
two years was evident even to Bar
tholdt. The forces that backed him
for twenty years have found them
~a1vac uv,nfhar randIdQta- y
In brief, the "times are out of joint"
for the erstwhile president of the In
tarparliamentary Union and the head
Of the congressional Arbitration
Group. He has lost his step with the
pcople, the times and national legis-
iation. He was q much greater fe-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

Said the Progressive to the Stand
pat, why should the tail wag the dog :?
And there is some good reason in the
suggested philosophy. Think of it!
The progressives polled over 1000
600 votes carrying six states with SS
electoral votes to four states and 8
electoral votes Of the Standpatters,
II would seem like there was some
thing to what Mr.. Progressive says.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

The editor of The Times acknowl-
edges the receipt Of an invitatian to
be present at the Forty First Annual
Commencement of the Missouri State
Normal of the Third District at Cape
Girardeau, May 30 to June 4. 1t may
be that there are those Of the com
munity interested, either directly or
indirectly, in the commencement eX-
ercises; those feeling an interest will
please take notice Of the dates on
which the event occurs.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

Joseph W. Folk, chief attorney for
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is stirring up the big rascals out in
the East pretty much as he did in St.
Louis when he was city attorney. He
is after the big swindlers connected
with the New Haven Railway system.
He is exposing the looting of that
railroad, and his work, it is believed
will unfold the most stupcndous story
of graft and swindling ever known.
For some reason not clearly under
stood by the public, Attorney General
McRevnolds sought to prevent Folk
from putting Charles Mellen, for
mer president of the New Haven, on
the witness stand. Folk would have
none of that, and gave the Attorney
General to understand that Mellen
should be forced to tell the story Of
graft and looting regardless of conse-
queRacs. The Attorney-GeHeral, it
seems, was apprehensive that putting
this big looter up as q witness would
give him immunity from criminal
prosecution by the government. Pres
ident Wilson is intensely interested in
the ~rogress of these exposures of
the wrongdoings of the big financial
kings, as the administration proposes
to prosecute them criminally. Here
we have the Democratic party's way
of dealing with the men who steal
millions in contrast with the way in
which Republican administration
dealt with them. The kid-gloved
hand of Taft, Roosevelt G. Co. has
given place to the mailed hand OF
Democracy. And Joseph w. Folk i,
there to see that the good work Eoc,
on IN his field of operation at least
Missourians are proud of Folk. They
knew he would make good anywhcr,
! thnv mt him.-Mn. Cash Book.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29

The people of st. Fransois county
no doubt read with some .lntercst
last week the resolutions as passed
by few Standnat Republicans who
met at Flat River on last Saturday
a week ago, in a County Convention.
But 1t was the same old gang with
the, same old story, and Furthermore
mad the audacity to announce an ad-
hcrence to the same ola tenets That
nave grown hoary with age.
The reason OF the suggestion OF m
tercst on the part OF the citizens OF
the county IS that IT has confidently
been expected that IN some way the
splendid principles OF the new century
and TINS new wear IN which we 1--we
would IN some way be voiced by the
0ld Guard. Alas. No hope from
these quarters.
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pa J'c all n,ado l., ths nratanso a of Ill I"
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n mn ,ralS i IL NOT tho c "r ,no
p neopIe the Great mass of citi%enl
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-05-29
Will Scare Away Imitators

The lesson, be sure. viii not be
without its effect on those who could
follow in the Morgan footsteps. There
is not q financier in New York or in
the country; there is not banker or
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12

result of complaint filed more than by the Arizona corporation of Within short time the commission vii on nay claim tariffs are excessive The commission the C. through Fl
  the Phoenix business of being uaatodc because they he  license them to do business on hiday This action from the fact and 9
   made 2167 He collected $690S0  prosecutions being being 
   Smith, Valley Herbert Convile; Stephens,  Payson Ira Spoon Duncan Thomas Nations Franklin Jr,
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
A Plant Factory.

''The maple tree is a great fac tory run by sunshine" ," says a writer in "Canada." ''The leaves of an av- craze tree have an aggregate sur face of half an acre to catch the rays. The green pulp in the leaf cell is the machine which the sun sets in motion. The roots pick up the raw materials from the earth nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, starch-and dissolve them, and the stem and branches pipe it to the leaves. Part of the leaf works as lungs and part as stomach to digest the food. These work day and night. The others, the starch fac tory, that-turn the starch to sugar, can work only in the sunlight"
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
LURES TO LAzINESs.
-cOeeanut Palms DemoraIize Those
 Living Within Their Shade.

-coeoanut Palms DemoraIize Those = Living Within Their Shade.
 "A-demoralizing tree" is-~hat the author of "A Naturalist on Desert Islands calls the cocoanut palm. He says it does too much for man without requiring anything in return.
 ''rhe cocoanut palm is exactly the thing that some of our 'unem- ployables' are looking for. You heed only summon energy enough to plant sufficient number of young trees, and time does the rest. All that the tree asks of you is to wait patiently for some seven years hntil it becomes full grown. Then it will produce on the average a hun hred nuts a year-not all at once, which might be inconvenient, but in four or five harvests at intervals through the year. And this it con- siderately goes on doing for sixty, seventy or eighty years, and you need never lift finger to help it.
 1.-The tree, in fact, simply encour ages you to be lazy, and if you have any energy left in you after living in it's company for any length of time the climate in which the palm fourishes will soon take it out of you.
 "With tree like that the south sea islanders never had a chance. Why should they either work or worry when few of these trees will provide them with everything they can possibly reauire-fber to
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
ANCIENT SHOP SYMBOLS.
From Them Were Derived Many Eng
 fish Family Names.


 Perhaps there is no one respect in which we more completely fail to realize the town and village life of 300 or 400 years ago than in the use of business signs.
 At that time no doors upon the street were numbered. Shop fronts andwindows differed little from the fronts of dwellings,; no names ap- peared upon plates or signs; no lists of articles on sale nor of goods man ufactured were displayed. This was for the very good reason that most persons could not read. Such abil- ity as a child of ten now possesses would have been deemed much learning by the average man of that time
 Instead of signs like modern ones, symbols were used to denote the character of the=shop or the -in- dividuality of the owner. Some thing of this practice may be seen now, as when a boot and shoe may be painted upon a cobbler's sign. Still more striking examples of this heraldry are the gilded balls over the pawnbroker's door, the barber's pole yet striped with red to show that he combined blood letting with hair dressing, and the mortar and pestle of the apothecary.
 The device did not always speak directly of the trade. Whatever the fancy could suggest as attractive would be adopted. It was enough if it was calculated to arrest the at tention of the passerby and cause him to stop. This~will account for the number of mermaids and grif- fins, unicorns and centaurs men, tioned by early writers.
 The signs which were fancifully adopted for business purposes gave rise to many family names at the time when surnames came into use. Thus "Peter at the bell' became Peter Bell, and "Nicke, the sailor at the sparrow made a more re- spectable appearance as Nicholas Sparrow. This will account for many amusing combinations of names in the English tongue Harper's Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
The Word "PoIicy."

The "policy" which a man gets from an insurance company is no relative of that other word "pol- icy" which the statesmen use. The latter is a lineal descendant, along with ''polity'' and "police," of the Greek "polis," a city. But the for mer is the late Latin ''politicum," ''poleticum" or ''poleaticum," a reg ister wherein dues were enrolled, which is believed to be really the Greek '<polyptychum," a document folded into many leaves. If so, the development of the word may be paralleled by that of diploma, the parent of "diplomatist," which meant simply a document folded double.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12

make mats, shells to burn as fuef or to use as water vessels, cups or ladies; leaves to use as thatch for the house or as mats, screens and basketsa
 "Why should they go afeld when they can use the wood of the trunk or the midrib of the leaf in making the walls of their dwellings, when they can make rope out of the fibrous tissue of the young stem, when they can get oil enough to swim in from the flesh of the nut itself and soap from the oil mixed with the ashes from the burned husks, when they can eat the nut not only in it's ripe state, but in its young and unripe state, and in it's old and overripe state, and when, indeed. they can make the tree do almost anything but talk? ?"
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
bad AustraIian Animals.

Australia produces those lowest of the quadrupeds, the duck billed water moM and the echidna, or Australian porcupine ant eater. They. along with the kangaroos. may be described as the groundlings of the mammalian family, for in respect of their structure they are of much lower grade than, say, a dog or a cat. This inferiority is seen not only in the brain, but in many other details of their bodily anatomy In geological circles the prevalent opinion is that this mole is a link between birds on the one hand and mammals on the other. These lowest" quadrupeds lay
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12

came upon what he thought to be an unusually high spot of terra frma overgrown with water grass.
 He planted his feet firmly upon this spot, only to be precipitated headlong into a sink hole the like of which exists not out of Mississippi.
 His friend ran to q nearby farm house and asked excitedly for a spade, with which to dig his friend out of the mud. The old farmer looked at him in astonishment and asked:
 'How deep is he in?" = He's up to his, ankles" ," he shout ed excitedly.
 "Oh, well, then. why don't you lead him out ?"
 =. Faith, an'I can't-Re's in wrong end up."-Mack's Monthly.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12

the northern counties from Needles to sPnge through Hobrook and St. Johns Mexico through Douglas Bis
  Clifton
  Front to
 
  wing fund.- the    of
  
  declares to
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
He Showed the Way.

On the l6th. of August, 1907, Colonel Michel Ney. duke of Elch- ingen~ having received orders to charge, turned to his men and shouted to them in a voice of thun- der:
 My lads. I have an income of 100000 francs, and you haven't a centime, Keep your eye on your colonel as he charges and do as he does"
 So saying, he rode of as hard as he could tear in the direction of the enemy. The whole regiment fol- lowed him as though electrified.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12

The attorney general has ruled that to be qualified elector, and qualified to sign initiative petitions, one does not have to be a registered voter. The other qualificatpns such as residence, age and citizenship, are sufficient
 Another opinion of importance is sued by the attorney general is that only two tax commissioners are to be elected this year. The term of Com missioner CharlesSR. Howe extends to January 1, 1917. There has been some dispute as to whether the gov ernor has the power to appoint any one to serve in an elective position after the succeeding election. Gov ernor Hunt appointed P. J. Miller to serve on the tax commission til Jan uary 1, 1913; c. M. Zander to serve till 1917, and Howe to serve till 1917. As there was no election in 1912, how ever, Commissioner Miller is holding over.
 Rates on floursfTom middle western to main line points in Arizona must come down to sixty-five cents hun dred pounds August 1, under an order just issued by the/ interstate com merce commission. At present the rate to Tucson is S1 and to Maricoba SLIP, with rates to Santa Fe stations in proportion. Just how the reduc- tion will affect points on branch lines is not known, but all will benefit ito some extent. The I. c. c. order is the
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
Sure of One Thinq.

Mark Lemon in one of his books tells of a fat little boy who passed his instructor on the street without lowing.
 "What has become of your mau- ners. sir" cried the teacher. shock ed and drowning. '1t seems to me that you are better fed than taught. "
 "Yes. sir" replied the boy solemn- IY. "l feeds myself. sir"
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
Enthusiasm.

As you slide along past youth into middle age get a good grip on your enthusiasms. Life looks black after they are gone. It is a good thing, too. to renew your own life in an intimate interest in the life of some young friend. Few things are more helpful or more beautiful than friendship between the young and the old. They have everything to give to each other. What is most pitiful in both-youth's uncertain ty and need of encouraging sym pathy, ages unfulfillments and need of softening tenderness-is sooth- ed and neutralized by sharing of interests and affections.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
His Feet Were Dry.

Two men who had not been in the wilds of Mississippi long enough to know the dangerous places in the swamps started out one warm day in early spring with minds-and bait-to catch some fish. They had not gone far when one of them
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
On the Safe Side.

They had been engaged for fully thirty minutes.
 "I have surprise in store for you. Alfred, dear" she said. '1 can cook as well as I can play the piano."
 "That being the case, darling," he replied, cit will be we'll for us to board"
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12

eggs like birds, the young being subsequently, matched from the eggs, whereas in the kangaroos and all higher mammals the young are born alive and nourished by means of roiILr
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
Neos ...Ae0s
 From r'e Copitol sf6rlzoNa
(Arizona News BureauD

Petitions for the initiation of a constitu- tional amendment which will provide for a state road bond issue of $5,oO0,0OO are now in circulation. If this amendment is adopted at the polls in November the following will be constructed:
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
AL,fe Time Job.

A Life Time Job. The man who owes all to his wife" generally has to settle on that basis Houston Post.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-12
line Way Tt Sounded to Him.

The Professor-You say you ire quently have college professors on these trips?
 Porter on Western Pullman Yessah. We dun 'commodate all you big learned men. j The Professor-Then no doubt, like the others. l will have time to analyze specimens of the arboreal fauna contiguous to this locality when we come to the next station? ?
 Porter-Yessah. We dun stop long enough to gib. you gentlemen plenty ob time to get drink. sah. Satire
 Two of Kind.
 Peckham-Mv wife talks. talks, talks all he time
 Tnderrhum-You're wrong. She must listen part of the time or my wife wouldn't be with her so much. Exchange.