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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-11-12

Mrs. j. P. Patton is visiting rel
atives and friends in Shelbina and
Macon.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-11-12
Secretary Ministerial Alliance
Beautiful Homes Threatened.

Monday morning the fire alarm
sounded and the departm ent was
called to the beautiful home of W.
w. Longmire,, Fortunately the
trouble was discovered before much
damage was done. 1t caught from
a fiue and burned on the inside.
FlRe was discovered in the D. R.
Davenport home a short time ago
but was put out without nelp from
the fire department.
OvercoatS from So so to $500 at
Hanly & Green's.
Miss Irene Lyell who has been
teaching near Hunnewell, came
down Friday to spend the week end
with relatives. She had an attack
of appendicitis and was unable to
resume her work until Thursday
morning.
Mrs. Alma Vaughn and Miss Mae
McAllister motored to Hannibal
yesterday.
For the fourth time st. Louis
voted on the free bridge proposition
Friday. For bonds 1920 votes;
against bonds 13,148.
Mrs. ]. P. Patton is visiting rel
atives and friends in Shelbina and
Macon.
Miss Vireie Griffith returned
Tuesday from an extended visit in
Bowling Green with her sister, Mrs.
Roy Riegel
See the new styles in collars at
Hanly & Green's,
w. H. Saunders one of the pros
porous farmers of near Lakepan
was here on business yesterday.
J Begin to think about your Christ
mas shopping as Oh ristmas is only
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-11-12

Mrs. Alma Vaughn and Miss Mae
McAllister motored to Hannibal
yesterday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-11-12

Overcoats from So so to $500 at
1anly & Green's.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-11-12


W. II. YATES, President.
w. X. L. Jackson, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this, ,
9TH. day of November A. ID nineteen hun |
dred and fourteen. |
WITNESS my hand and notarlal seal the |
date last aforesaid Q Commissioned and |
qualified for term expiring July, l6, /
Roy b. MERwETHER,
Correct-Attest:
+ T : + + A % S%S5SsAsE. Directors
Miss Lena Nelson of St. Louis,
spent part of the week with rela-
tives here.
Miss Ruey Hardesty and nephew,
Master Kenton Hardesty, of near
Hunnewell. spent Saturday after
noon in this city.
Miss Vivian Clark spent the week
end in Quincy with her sister, Miss
Archie.
Boys suits $3.50 and up at Hanly
& Green's.
Miss Edna Stohr of Hannibal,
spent Sunday in this city with Miss
Norma Laneford.
Misses Carrie Hampton and Lucy
Gentry spent Sunday in Shelbina
with their aunt, Mrs. John Brown.
Mrs. Bette Durbin spent Sunday
with relatives in Hunnewell,
Work shirts 45c at Hanly &
Green's.
M. A. Knickerbocker and wife of
Abingdon, ILL.,, spent Monday in this
city.
Miss Lucy Hampton returned
Monday from Kirksville where she
has been with her niece, Miss Caro-
Ign Ely. The latter is being treated
for rheumatism and is improving.
Miss Hazel Turner of Hunnewell,
was here shopping Friday.
j. A. Jackson and family return
ed to Evasion, ILL.,, Saturday after
spending several weeks with rela-
tives here. Marvin Medcalf accom-
panied them.
Cotton gloves Sc per pair at
Hanly & Green's.
Mrs. C. A. Lawson spent Sunday
with relatives in Palmyra.
Mrs. j. V. Proctor left Tuesday
for Lake Village, Ark. Her parents
W. L. Ely and wife, accompanied
her as far as ST. Louis, where they
will spend the week.
Mrs. j. II. Lear OF Madison, is
spending several days with her sis
ter, Mrs. josephine HILBERT.
| DR.. and Mrs. w. T. Rutledge spent
Sunday with friends in Quincy.
Misses Gertrude and Virginia
Evans spent Saturday in Quincy.
Let Hanly & Green show you
their suits and overcoats.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-31
BABIES INJURED BY ROCKING
English Mothers Are Being Told That
They Should Stop This Time
Honored Practice.

The hand that rocks the cradle and,
incidentally and metaphorically, rules
the world, is no longer to enjoy I'M
disturbed these notable functions.
The anti-rocking movement has begun
vigorously in London. the opening
declaration Of hostilities having been
made in a leaflet addressed to moth
ers by the public health department OF
the city Of London. This document
most solemnly adjures mothers never
to rock the baby. 1t is here set forth
that rocking the baby to sleep. far
from being the wholesome and a.
together admirable performance we
have been taught through centuries
to believe, is one that is rankly
diabolic in possibilities. Rocking the
baby to sleep. 1t is declared, is likely
to set up various digestive disorders,
1t stupef1es the child and may breed
In him or her various bad habits. A
healthy child, 1t is averred. requires
no rocking to sleep. the rocking being
after all merely a kind of mechani-
cal narcotic. scarcely less dangerous
than the poppy Juice Of the so-called
soothing strip. The baby should be
put to bed in the dark and allowed to
20 TO- sleep naturally. Cradle rocking.
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SAGE TEA OARKENS GRAY.
HAIR TO ANY SHADE. Tp
Keep Your Locks Youthful n
Glossy and Thick With Comm
Garden Sage and Sulphur

When you darken your hal,
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no o..
tell, because it's done so natunh|
evenly. Preparing this mir
though, at home is mussy and tu|
some. For so cents you can bv|
any drug store the ready.to-use \
called "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
Hair Remedy" You Just damn
sponge or soft brush with Il
draw this through your hair, n
one small strand at a time. By b
ing all gray hair disappears, and,
another application or two, your
becomes beautifully darkened, d,
and luxuriant. You will also
cover dandruff is gone and hair
stopped falling.
Gray, faded hair, though no
grace. is a sign of old age, and .
all desire a youthful and attractu
pearance, get busy at once with
eth's Sage and Sulphur and look y
younger.-Adv.
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Taste for Salt.

Concerning the African cravinl|
salt, Livingstone gives interesting
timony. Only the rich among
wants could afford to buy II, and
poor suffered from indigestion
lack of it. Native doctors accof1
ly made salt a usual ingredieui
their medicine, and Livingstone
cessfully gave sufferers teaspoo1
of neat salt. But now comes q Dog
point. Either milk or meat hal
same effect, though not so rapid1
salt. Long afterward, when
myself deprived of salt Tor
months, at two distinct periods
no desire for that condiment /
was plagued by very great longlp
the above articles Of food. TLs
tinued as long as was confined
exclusively vegetable diet, and VI
procured a meal of fiseh, u
boiled in perfectly fresh rainvs'4
tasted as pleasantly saltish
slightly impregnated with that 2
ment."
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And at that minute the door was
flung open, and Bath-house Mike stag
gered in.
THE old doctor!" he gasped. Hes
dead, Miss Minnie-died just now in
the hot room in the bath-house! One
minute he was givin' me the divil for
something or other, and the next
thought he was asleep"
Something that had been heavy In
my breast all afternoon suddenly
seemed to burst and made me feel
faint all over. But / didn't lose my
head
Does anybody know YETI" / asked
quickly. He shook his head.
Then he didn't die in the bath
house, Mike" | said firmly. HE died
ir his bed, and you know it. If II
gets out that he died in the hot room
I'll have the coroner on you"
Miss Patty was standing by the rail-
ing of the spring. got my shawl and
started out after Mike, and she fol
lowed.
IF the guests ever get hold Of this
they'll stampede. Start any excite
ment in a sanatorium," | said, land
one and all they'll dip their thermom-
eters in hot water and swear they've
got fever!"
And we hurried to the house to-
gether.
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FRIENDLY TIP.
Restored Hope and Confiden0

After several years of indigs
and it's attendant evil influence o.
mind, it is not very surprising
one finally loses faith in things
orally.
AN. Y. woman writes an interss
letter. She says:
Three years ago suffered r0
attack of peritonitis which left y
a most miserable condition. For
two years suffered from nervous
weak heart, shortness of breath
not sleep, etc.
MY appetite was ravenous
felt starved all the time. ! had y
of food but it did not nourisn m
cause of intestinal indigestion.
cal treatment did not seem 10 nss
got discouraged, stopped mediclns
did not care much whether | H''|
died. j
"One day a friend asked me
didn't try Grape-Nuts food, stop
ing coffee and use Postum. ] DIV
faith in everything, but to pleas
friend | began to use both anu
became very fond OF them.
1T wasn't long before / 8"
strength, felt a decided change
system, hope sprang up In my
and slowly but surely | got pew.
could sleep very we'll, the ev'
craving for food ceased ana
better health now than before
tack of peritonitis.
MY husband and | are SUI
Grape-Nuts and Postum" "A
Name given by Postum 70,
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road
ville." in pkgs. There's a he'
Ever rend the above letter.
one appears from time 70 ~ ~
are genuine, true, and fnh
interest.
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WHERF THERE'S ANVIL
% MARY ROBERTS RLNEHAR]
ono CIRCULAR STAI2CASE. GIe MAN
k9W YER TEHH W bHilT Se1FT iA oa al
G0eXpI0HT LaIe s. Ssess sss.. co.

hand on the knob. Minnie, the old
place will be under the hammer in
three weeks, and if you know what's
good for you. you'll sign in under the
new management while there's a va
cancy."
If | were you" said. looking him
straight in the eye, 81 wouldn't pick
out any new carpets yet, Mr.. Thoburn
promised the old doctor Id help Mr..
Dick, and will"
so you're actually going to fight
it out" he said. grinning. We'll. TIE
odds are in your favor. You are two
to my one"
81 think it's pretty even" / retorted.
I'VE will be hindered, so to speak. by
having certain principles of honor and
honesty. You have no handicap"
He tried to think of retort, and
not finding one he slammed out of
the spring house in a rage.
Mr.. Van Alstyne and his wife came
in that same day. just before dinner
and we played three-handed bridge Cor
half an hour. AS I've said, they'd been
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over and kissed me. l could hardly
believe 1t.
why won't you talk about it," she
insisted. catching me by the shoulders
and holding me of. Minnie, your
eyes are as red as your hair!"
i don't approve of it." said. you
might as well know 1t now as later,
Miss Patty. 7 don't believe in mixed
marriages. / had a cousin that mar
ried a Jew, and what with him making
the children promise to be good on
the Talmud and her trying to raise
them with the Bible, the poor things
Is that mixed up that it's pitiful."
She got a little red at that, but she
sat down and took up the clipping.
He's much better looking than that,
Minnie" she said soberly, land he's a
good Catholic. But IL that's the way
you feel well not talk about ii. I've
had enough trouble at home as 1t is."
With that / began to blubber, and
she came into my arms like a baby.
You're all I've got" declared, over
and over. and you're going to live in
country where they harness women
with dogs. and you'll never hear an
English word from morning to night"
Stuff" She gave me little shake
He speaks as good English as do
And now we're going to stop talking
about him-you'rs worse than the
newspaper
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-31
Their Calculations Upset.

Sir George Biddell Airy, British as
tronomer royal, told the pioneers of
the first Atlantic cable that it was
mathematical impossibilty to sub
merge the cable to the necessary
depth, and If 1t were possible no sig
nails could travel through so great
distance. Sir George was also asked
about the possibility of making Big
Ben. the great clock in the tower
above the houses Of parliament, so
trustworthy that 1t would not lose
five seconds a day on the average.
He replied that no clock exposed to
the weather could run with so small
an error. The late Lord Grimthorpe,
however, said he would guarantee
that degree of exactness, and by de-
signing his gravity escapement he
produced a timepiece that is never
five seconds out with the observatory
at Greenwich, to which 1t signals its
time each day. and on most days is
dead true.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-31
DYSPEPSIA
INDIGESTION S
"Pape'S Diapepsin" cl,r.,
sour Stomachs in five mi.I'
Time Il!

Really does" put bad sto,.
order-"real!y does" overcomaa
ton, dyspepsia. gas. hearthu
sourness IN five minutes-th,,
that-makes Pape's Diapens,a
gest selling stomach regul.,.
world. If what you eat fern.
stubborn Jumps, you belch ~
eructate sour, undigested ~.
acid; head is dizzy and aches.
foul; tongue coated; your ipsiS,.
with bile and indigestible nv.
member the moment "Pape,s -
sin comes in contact with ,bs
all such distress yanishes. ~ ]
aStonishing-almost marveloD'
the JOY is its harmlessness
A large fifty-cent case OF Paw.
pepsin will give you a hundred NJ
worth Of satisfaction.
It's worth its weight in gold :,
and women who can't get tbs,,]
achs regulated. 1t belongs y
home-should always be kent h
IN case of a sick, sour, upset s,'1
during the day or at night nj
quickest, surest and most has,,
stomach doctor in the world -I1
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CTO BE CONTINUED)
OriQin Of Iron Duke,

The Iron Duke is to be the next
big British battleship. The Duke. of
course, was Wellington, but he came
by the nickname In a roundabout way.
He was never SO called until long
after Waterloo. An iron steamship. a
novelty at the time, was built in the
Mersey, and named the Duke of Well
ington. and so the vessel came to be
known as the Iron Duke-the transit
ton being easy and obvious 1t was
the dukes union of resolution and
physical energy which made the pop
ular name for the Mersey-built steam
ship to fit him like a perfect cap.
Such, at least, is the explanation Of
his biographer, Sir Herbert Maxwell.
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to read or had told me the whole truth
instead Of part of it, | would have
understood and things would all have
been { 7erent. 1t is all very well for
her TO say that | looked worried
enough already, and that anyhow il
was family affair | should have
been told
All she did was to come up to me
as | stood in the spring. with her
face perfectly white, and ask m If
my Dicky Carter was the Richard Car
ter who stayed at the Grosvenor in
town.
He doesn't stay anywhere" said,
with my feet getting cold. but that's
where he has apartments. What has
he been doing now"
You're expecting him on the eve
ming train, aren't you?" she asked.
Don't stare like that: my fathers
watching"
'IIe ought to be on the evening
train" | said. | wasn't going to say
expected him. ! didn't.
The wretch" she cried, "the hate
full creature-as If things weren't bad
enough! | suppose he'll have to come,
Minnie, but ] must see him before
he sees any one else"
Just then the bishop brought his
glass over to the spring.
Hot this time, Minnie" he said
do you know, I'm getting the mineral
water habit, Patty! Pm afraid plain
water will have no attraction for me
after this"
He put his hand over hers on the
rail. They were old friends, the bish-
op and the Jenningses.
Bishop" she said suddenly, will
you do something for me?"
81 always have, Patty" He was
very fond of Miss Patty. was the
bishop.
"Then-to,night, not later than eight
o'clock. get father to play cribbage,
will you? And keep him in the card
room until nine"
Another escapade!" he said, pre-
tending to be very serious. Patty.
Patty, you'll be the death OF me yet
Is thy servant a dog, that he should
do this thing?"
Certainly not" said Miss Patty
Just a dear, slightly bald. but still
very distinguished slave!"
There will be plenty of slaves to
kiss your little hand, where you are
going, my child" he said Sometimes
wish that some nice red-blooded boy
here at home-but | dare say it will
turn out surprisingly we'll as it is"
Bishop. Bishop!" Mrs. Moody
called. How naughty of you, and
with your bridge hand waiting to be
heidi"
Well, knew Mr.. Dick had been up
to some mischief; had suspected 1t
all along. But Miss Patty went to bed.
and old Mrs. Hutchins, who's a sort
Of acknowledgements of hers. said
she mustn't be disturbed l was pref.
ty nearly sick myself. And when Mr..
Sam came out at five o'clock and said
he'd been in the long-distance tele-
phone booth for an hour and had
called everybody who had ever known
Mr.. Dick, and that he had dropped
right of the earth, l just about gave
up.
Luckily Mr.. Stitt was in bed with q
mustard leaf over his stomach and ice
on his head, and didn't know whether
It was night or morning.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-01-31
Rather Warm.

At a school in Dudley TED
with whom | am well acquainted
taking his class in their poetry, o
blanca" They came to the line, 1
boy stood on the burning deck
stopped the class, and asked
question, why did the boy stand
the burning deck?" He had q 1
show of hands, but one led In pr1
lar seemed very eager to give hs|
swer. The teacher noticed this
asked him, whereupon he got ths|
lowing answer. Because 1t wa
hot to sit down." which put the Z
class in an uproar.-London TIL
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on their honeymoon, and they were
both sulky at having to stay at the
Springs.
After the first rubber Mrs. Van Al
styne threw her cards on the floor and
said another day like this would finish
her.
She turned her back to her hus-
band, but he pretended to tuck the
hair at the back of her neck up under
her comb, and she let him do it. As
! stopped to gather up the cards he
kissed the tip of her ear.
Listen" he said, there's a scream
Of play down at Finleyville tonight
called Sweet Peas" Senator Biggs
and the bishop went down last night,
and they say it's the worst In twenty
years. Put on black veil and let's
slip away and see it,"
/ think she agreed to do 1t, but that
night after dinner, Amanda King, who
has charge of the news stand, told me
the sheriff had closed the opera-house
and that the leading woman was sick
at the hotel. q.
They say she looked funny last
night" Amanda finished, and guess
she's got the mumps."
Mumps!
My joint gave a throb at that min
ute.
Mr.. Sam wasn't taking any chances,
for the next day he went to the city
himself to bring Mr. Dick up.
He hadn't come back by the morn.
ing Of the sixth day, but he wired his
wife the day before that Mr.. Dick was
on the way. But we met every train
with a sleigh, and he didn't come. |
was uneasy, knowing Mr.. Dick, and
Mrs. Sam was worried, too.
1t had been showing hard for q day
or SO, and at eleven o'clock that day
| saw Miss Cobb and Mrs. Biggs COM
ing down the path to the spring.house.
Mr.. Van Alstyne is back" said Miss
Cobb. "but he came alone"
"Alone!" | repeated, staring at her
in sort of daze.
Alone" she said solemnly, land I
heard him ask for Mr.. Carter. II
seems he started for here yesterday"
But I'd had time to get myself in
hand, and II h9d a chill up my spine
she never knew it, AS she started
away | saw Mr.. Sam hurrying down
the path toward the spring and
! knew my joint hadn't throbbed for
nothing
Mr.. Sam came in and slammed the
door behind him.
What's this about Mr.. Dick not be-
ing here?" b. shouted.
We'll, he isn't That's all there is
to 1t, Mr.. Van Alstyne," | said calmly.
But he must be here" he said. 81
put him on the train myself yester-
day, and waited until it started to be
sure he was off,"
Exactly what was he doing when
you last laid eyes on him." | asked.
He was on the train"
"Sitting?"
No. standing. What the deuce.
Minnie"
Waving out the window to your"
of course not!" exclaimed Mr.. Van
Alstyne testify. He was raising the
window for a girl in the next seat"
PRECISELY" l said Would you
know the girl well enough to trace
herr"
That's ridiculous, you know" he
said, trying to be polite. "Out of a
thousand and one things that may
have detained him"
Only one thing ever detains Mr..
Dick, and that always detains him." |
said solemnly. That's a girl. You're
a newcomer in the family, Mr.. Van
Alstyne; you don't remember the time
he went down here to the station to
see his Aunt Agnes OF to the city, and
We found him three weeks later in
Oklahoma trying to marry a widow
with FIVE children"
IN have to tell my wife," he said.
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AJJTHOP,

pens to me, Minnie, I'm counting on
you to do what you can for the old
place. You've been here good many
years. Minnie"
Fourteen years have been ladling
out water at this spring." ! said. try
ing to keep my lips from trembling.
Il wouldn't be at home any place
else, unless IL would be in an aqua
rum. But don't ask me to stay here
and help Mr.. Dick sell the old place
for a summer hotel. For that's what
he'll do"
"He won't sell it," declared the old
doctor grimly. "All want is for you
to promise to stay"
"Oh, I'll stay" | said. Il won't
promise to be agreeable, but I'll stay.
Somebodyll have to look after the
spring; / reckon Mr.. Dick thinks it
comes out of the earth just as we sell
il, with the whole pharmacopoeia in
it."
Well, II made the old Doctor hap
pier, and I'm not sorry | promised.
but I've got a joint on my right foot
that throbs when 1t is going to rain
or | am going to have bad luck,
and it gave a jump then. l might
have known there was trouble ahead.
1t was pretty quiet in the spring
house that day after the old doctor
left. | drew a chair in front Of the
fire and wondered what | would do If
the old doctor died, and what fool
I'd been not to be a schoolteacher,
which Is what | studied for. / was
thinking to myself bitterly that all
that my experience in the spring fitted
me for was to be a mermaid, when
heard something running down the
path, and it turned out to be Tillie.
the diet cook.
She slammed the door behind her
and threw the Finleyville evening pa
per at me.
"There!" she said, I've won a cake
Of toilet soap from Bath-house Mike.
The emperor's consented"
Nonsense" | snapped, and
snatched the paper. Tillie was right:
the emperor had! sat down and
read 1t through, and there was Miss
Patty's picture in an oval and the
princes In another, with a turned-up
mustache and his hand on the handle
Of his sword, and between them both
was the Austrian emperor
Well. | sat there and thought 1t over,
Miss Patty, or Miss Patricia, being.
so to speak, a friend of mine. They'd
come to the Springs every winter for
years.
In my wash-stand drawer I'd kept
all the clippings about her coming
out and the winter she spent in
Washington and was supposed to be
engaged to the presidents son. and
the magazine article that told how
Mr.. Jennings had got his money by
robbing widows and orphans, and
showed the little frame house where
Miss Patty was born-as IL she's had
anything to do with it. And so now
was cutting out the picture of her
and the prince and the article under
meath which told how many castles
she'd have, and / don't mind saying
| was smiling a little bit, for
couldn't get used to the idea. And
suddenly the door closed softly and
there was a rustic behind me. When
| turned 1t was Miss Patty herself.
She saw the clipping Immediately. and
stopped just inside the door.
You. too" she said. And we've
come all this distance to get away
from Just that"
well, l shant talk about It,"
replied, not holding out my hand, for
with her. SO to speak. next door to
being a princess-but she leaned right
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II Taxes the kim

Now, children" said the =,
teacher. can any of you tell t,
e greater power than a kingv
Yes, ma'am," cried a little
eagerly.
Very well, you may cell the :.
replied the teacher.
An ace, was the unexpec,sS ,
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True Helpmeet,

Striker-What's that y say? Yer
stopped takin' in washin'?
Wife-Certainly ave | struck In
sympathy with you and yer mates