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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1915-06-18

Z s y a
city" reads d sign posted by the
New York street cleaning DEPART
ment. 'sKeep 1t as clean as your
room In your house, A rather
exaoting request, but q good
mottu for any section Of any city.
Too many citizens, old and young,
seem 10 think that their obligs-
tions Of neatness and cleanliness
end at the front gate. King City
Democrat.
There was q greet deal OF ex-
citment at Jefferson City the 9th.
or day when at a ball game one
Of the players vanished as he
was trying to field q long hit.
When spectators ran to where
the player had last been seen It
was found that he had fallen in.
to a we'll. long since abandoned
and covered with planks which
had rotted andbroke with the ball
players weight. Fellow Nom.
bers Of the club effected Q rescue.
They say that an independence
man died and went to heaven.
That's rather funny, but it be.
longs to the story, and when he
reached the celestial abode. after
taking hong look around, dis
gustedly exclaimed: "Well, l
don't see that this place is much
ahead Of Independence" "But,
answered a gentlemen who was
resting against a pitch fork.
"this isn't heaven. ."-Blockow
Herald.
A Webb City physician grew
quite indignant the other night
when reused from slumbers to
answer a telephone call request
ing him to hurry down to see the
Piggs. After he had repeatedly
denied being a veterinarian, the
voice at the other end OF the
telephone convinced him that nc
Idisrespect was intended and that
several members OF the Pigg
family were Ill and needed medl-
cal attention.
A travelling tinker arrested OF
Kirksville on a charge Of drunk.
enness admitted to the police
that he had obtained liquor by
stealing it from the handbag Of
a solicitor for q "booze cure
sanitarium. He also confessed
having stolen a gold tooth which
he had sold later for $3.50. The
lcombination made the case one
OF the oldest in Kirksville In
some tins, commented the Ex.
press.
A novel ride was that taken BY
. Cliff White OF Nodaway county
Mr.. White lives about two milei
from Hopkins on the 102 rive
and after the recent heavy rain,
when the roads we're impossible
, he rode a floating log to town
Attired in a rubber suit he essay
cd the journey, travelling at tn
rate Of about fifteen miles al
hour. As the log started unde
the bridge at Hopkins. Mr.. Whit
seized the structure and climbe'
to safety without anything t
worry about but getting bacl
home again..
/. Recorded in the files of tn
Journal Of twenty years ago "
, find an account OF the capture {
/, Jim Owens at the Klute farm
! SIX miles west Of Westboro, o
; Monday, May "a, 1890, whs
/ Owens, who Was under deaf
sentence for murder and had es
I. capped from the st. Joseph jsi
4 was surrounded by aposse head
ed by ]. W. Young, deputy sher
iff, and shot to death while al
tempting to fight his way ou
y Many Of the older rasidsnts
= the county win recall the Incl
;. dent. Fairfax Forum.
10 vh.,,. n,r.r.ns.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1915-06-18

puIlIha conscIence.
Commit o sin twice. and you will
think, II, perfectly allowable. -Taimudk
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at all frightened: It seemed perfectly
natural that she should be there.
I'D been worrying over q difficulty
that threatened to cause US trouble. She
told me not TO worry any more. that
she'd take care Of things. A few days
after the dinhculty vanished. l haven't
any doubt at all that the spirit Of my
mother. knowing of my trouble. came
back to help me-"
That spirits don't come back. and
that messages from the spirit world are
all Imagination is the theory Of Assistant
Prosecutor Sam Doerf1er. Of Cuyahoga
county. However, he believes in dreams
sometimes. He admits the dream.
oft repeated, Of a business acquaint-
ance endeavoring to climb Q brick
wall and always sliding to the ground
As. he neared the top. The dream
became wearisome; Doerher looked
up, the friend and found he was
on the west coast. The dream persisted.
Doerher. guessing at his dihculty. wired
him money. A reply came promptly;
and Doerner's wire enabled him to put
through the business for which he had
gone west.
Attorney John w. Leahy. 725 Society
for Savings building.s Cleveland.
also tells Of peculiarly pertinent
dream. He had visited . brother
at Bay City. Mich, and while
there had seen . building which the
brother intended to remodel. Some
time after his return he dreamed
that the building collapsed. Subse-
ouent messages from his brother in
formed him that remodeling had been
commenced, and that some time pre-
vious-on the night Of the dream It
turned out-a wall fell in.
I've never been able to explain II.
said Leahy. 1.-The wall fell Just the
way that / dreamed Of 1t. 1t couldn't
have been thought transference or telep-
sthy, for didn't know they had begun
work on the building"
Mrs. Susie o. Mathews. wife OF Attor-
new James E. Mathews, Illuminating
building, Cleveland, tells Of dream pre-
vious to her mothers death. They were
walking together through field OF wheat
in the dream when suddenly the mother
paused.
you will have to 80 the rest Of the
way alone" she said. 1T was the next
day," Mrs. Mathews said. that l re-
ceiyed word Of her illness. She died
soon afterward. l have regarded the
dream as a premonition."
William E. Seegfeld, 213 Williamson
building, tells of inexplainable circum-
stahces attendant on the suicide OF an
uncle few years ago.
He ended his life shortly after mid
night in an upstairs room." Seegfeld said.
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NJ NA< RQX Eea0 ne Ea0e AD R46kDM ANHe SAexGnse

"At what must have been the moment Of
his death. there we're knockings all
about the house, arousing every men,
Der Of the family. The knockings were
heard In the homes of two other rela-
tives. In one home, a go-cart rolled
back and forth over the floor. We have
never been able to account for it."
Another incident of the working out
Of a dream is told by Judge Martin A.
Forsn. Of Cleveland. 1t was during the
war when Judge Foran was member of
the Pennsylvania cavalry. He dreamed
that the bugle sounded and that he
mounted and galloped along a road to-
ward a rushing torrent. A bridge of
rails. on which he' attempted to cross.
gave way. in the dream, and 1t was only
after fight that he managed to get the
horse safely up the farther shore. He
awoke in answer to the bugie. Events
carried out the dream.
Interesting experiences are related in
accounts Of visits to seances. Attorney
Fred r. Truhlar, 61s Society for Saw
ings building, Cleveland. tells OF be-
ing one Of party to operate
ouija board. 1t spelled the name
Of . woman who had died short
time before the wife of a member Of
the party. Through the mediumship of
the board she told him that his sister
was about to come to Cleveland from
Omaha, to undergo an operation. She
said the operation would take place at
Wooster, and although 1t would be per-
formed by q Cleveland surgeon, the
woman's brother, an Orrville physician.
would care for her afterward.
THE following day" Truhlar explains,
"the man received the message from his
sister saying she was coming to Cleve-
land. She intended to be operated on
here by her brother. On finding that
her brother was professionally barred
from operating, she decided to have a
Cleveland surgeon instead. She went to
the Wooster hospital because the brother
from Orrville found it impossible to
come to Cleveland to care for her.
1.-The message sent through the ouija
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Experts in art and noted Psychologists
declared that this Aphrodite. In its mar
BILE, its conception and execution, met
every test. except that Of authenticated
history through the centuries, to assure
its origin under the chisel OF the great
est of antique scuiptors.
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art IN
1893 rejected the statue for loan exhibi-
tion,. the director asserting at the time
that the Aphrodite was not genuine as
an antique. Nevertheless floral tributes
continued to be sent to the art CLUB
where 1t was temporarily housed ana
verses were written to 1t. Its fame grew
rapidly and steadily.
Uncle Sam is now to be the hnai
judge. The statue was bought In Eng
land and must go through the American
customs office. 1t is very likely that ART
experts will be called in to decide its
value and all the old wounds OF the pre-
vious contests will be opened. II the ex'
perts of the treasury department connrm
the declaration Of the admirers OF the
statue that 1t Is an antique and the WORK
of Praxiteles, a valuation Of almost
$1.000.00O will be placed on 1t. It VIII
be priceless treasure to the land wnacn
now owns 1t.
The distinguishing characteristics OF
the Venus in addition to its beauty is the
coloring Of its marble Its admirers have
raved over the golden, satiny texture
lifelike, neshlike. they have called II.
Those who attacked tho authenticity OF
the statue used long list Of uncomph-
mentary terms. They called It the
tinted" the "mulatto." the fire sale,
the boiled" the Caffeine" the mel
low" and q score Of other names.
The statues recent history before the
Rockefeller purchase has been q pecu-
liarly interesting one. In q warehouse
In New York In 1900 there was . collec-
tion Of art objects valued q $1,6o0.00o
held In the name Of Lord and Lady LiR-
ton. A Omaha lswyer obtained juds-
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ment and execution against the Lintons,
who were in Italy at the time, for s6,0oo
and the art collection was seized to sat
isfy the claim. A statue certified to be
the work of Praxiteles was part Of the
collection. When the collection was Of
fered for sale the highest bid was 500.
This was the last Of the Lintons and
their collection until hve years later.
when Frederick Linton appeared in New
York as the owner of the Aphrodite at
tributed to Praxiteles. 1t was then placed
Whether or not Frederick Linton was
the Linton Of the enforced sale NO one
knew.
Then along came q man by the name
Of Goodman who said it was exactly like
q statue whose acquaintance he had first
made when 1t lay in a vat OF fuming acids
in q Jersey City back yard. He said ono
Of his friends had bought 1t at q IRE sale
and had boiled 1t in chemicals to remove
marks Of charring with the unexpected
effect Of extending the discoloration to
the entire figure.
THE suggestion Of Mr.. Goodman is alb
surd SO far as 1t tends to identify this
marble figure with the one he describes"
said Mr.. Linton. II bought It in 1891
from the deck Of an Italian vessel lying
in the Thames.
my attention was first called to the
Aphrodite BY signor orselli. . painter.
who called on me in London and said
there was aboard ship then lying in the
Thames great work Of art. I went
there and saw the Aphrodite. The owner
Of It was an Englishman. resident in
Italy. who said he dared not tell the
place from which he had brought the
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the Mediterranean.
Many experts examined the Aphrodits
before finally bought II, in 1891.
~ believe that this statue Is gem
uine ANTIQUE and the work az . Greek
sculptor. II Il b not geaufns I would
b disDoeed 70 deotrsy II.
Thts Freaeriak N1ntoo a,pons. - have
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Rockefeller Suspected of Being Victinized

died since. because the receipt for its
sale was signed by Charles Stewart Lin
ton, said to be the son of the previous
Linton. There have been many legal
complications over the statue and just
how the sale was made to Rockefeller is
not quite clear.
One of the most temperate discussions
over the statue at the time critics were in
the throes of excited discussion appeared
in the Craftsman.
"All artistic and literary New York
has nocked % see her, this read, and
weat on to tell of the alleged discovery
Of the statue in an old stable near Paler-
. mo. Italy; its sale by the workmen who
found 1t to sailors of a vessel In the har-
Dor, its voyage to England and it's sale
there to the Englishman from whom Mr..
Linton reported he had bought 1t after an
extended investigation.
American critics have declared it is
MODERN" the Craftsman continued, "and
a very clever copy, but Signor Folcardi.
the Italian sculptor, now dead, who was
sent by Mr.. Linton to make study of all
the famous statues of Venus, reported to
him in q telegram Of four words in rela-
tion to this Aphrodite, Buy, buy. buy.
buy,' Authorities who attribute her to
Praxiteles also assert she was intended
merely as q portrait statue of Phryne at
the moment she threw aside her draper
les and stepped into the sea at the feast
of Poseidon as sacrifice to the sea gods
for the gift of her wondrous charm. She
is attributed to Praxiteies because he put
the breath Of life into his work. The
likeness Of the Venus OF Medici, which
has been 20 often suggested. Il merely
superficial
''Ths long and continuing series Of
money troubles Of Frederick Linton over
his art collection helped possibly TO dis
credit clains made for the antiquity of
his Aphrodite. There was . situation in
the art world Of New York 1t that time
which might have made some artists hsfs
denouncs whatever esftain ethsr artists
might ehanpioA.
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I'D John D. Rockefeller when he
recently bought the famous
IL statue Of Aphrodite, attributed
to the immortal Greek sculptor
Praxiteles, buy one of the most beauti-
full works OF art in existence or the big
gest art hoax of the century?
He paid for it. it is said, no less than
So, 300. What art dealers are asking
of one another is not whether the statue
is worth that amount, but is it worth ten
times that price or only fraction OF It!
Thus a dispute as to the authenticity of
the statue which ragged furiously ten or
more years ago is coming again into
heated life.
The gardens and Temple of Love on
the Pocantico Hills estate of Rockefeller,
which cost a quarter Of a million dollars.
are to receive their final glorification in
being graced with this statue. The ped
estal in the center Of the Garden of Love
will bear the beautiful Venus.
For two generations the controversy
ragged over this statue. Some critics were
so wrought up over the suggestion that
sr' Doth marble like that in the Venus,
unroughened by atmospheric stress or
other wear and tear, could be the work
of sculptor Of 2.20o years ago that
they would not even go to see 1t. They
contented themselves with stalking their
regulations that it could not be the work
of any ancient master.
There was no one. however. who de-
MED its extraordinary beauty Of form.
outline and expression. 1t had to be
taken out of the art club where 1t was
being exhibited because the great thronss
which went 70 80 II would lsok ct noth-
iAg elsa
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rick related. my father and sister had
gone down to dinner. l was convalescing
from la grippe and remained in my room.
1t was in December and the lights were
burning.
81 had been reading and laid the book
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MERE coincidence may have moved
around events on the checker
board Of Cleveland mems and women's
experiences. Or friendly spirits may
have been interested. Nevertheless, the
inexplainable has happened; circum-
stancs that have been never understood.
Some have dreamed and some have re-
ceived messages, others have actually
witnessed visions. They all ask "why?"
Mrs. Gertrude Handrick, attorney. go
Society for Savings building. Cleveland.
O.. afirms positively that the dead come
back. She tells. in substantiation Of her
belief. story OF seeing and talking with
her mother several months after her
mothers death.
I'VE were living 1t the Forest City
houss after We broke up housekeeping.
telieviag mothers DEATH" krA HaaA-
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down a moment to rest my eyes. When
looked up mother sat on the foot of the
bed, watching me. She was dressed
just as I'd seen her round the house. In
a brown wrapper with a lace collar.
even saw the brooch she wore. l wasn't
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Remarkable Manifesta-
tions of a Spirit World
Beyond Experienced
by Business and Pro-
fessional Men and
Revealed by heir
Own Stories, of Un-'
doubted Verify.
with the wind at the
window curtains and shadows
drawing out of corners to meet

with the wind at the
window curtains and shadows
drawing out Of corners to meet
on the wall. Silence. Calm
that seems to wait. A dusky road creep
ing past the door.
Your eyes half closed. You shiver
with sudden chill. If you were fine
ly tuned metal point you would vibrate SO
to a wireless message. breath. not
from the wind, brushes your cheek and
fills you with fear. A voice is whisper
ing in your ear.
The whisper is a friendly inquiry and
q bit of advice. It's all very natural.
Afterward. in the light. you remember
that the friend, whose voice you heard.
is dead.
Or you dream Of friend being in
distant city. He is striving to accom-
plish something. Night after night you
watch him try and fail. You worry;
you look up the friend and find he is in
the distant city; you send him a mes
sage. He needed your help.
Or perhaps you awaken with the feel
ing of another presence in the darkness
hand clasps yours and is gone. Half
dreaming. you drift back to sleep. The
next day you hear Of an accident. A
relative died in the night.
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no the dead come back?

no the dead come back?
Thought force, electricity, coinci-
dence have explained away the incom-
prehensible. Yet can anticipatory dreams
or messages be forced thought of the
person who dreams? And is 1t only a
coincidence that one awakens from sleep
at the moment when friend dies? And
what electricity is so subtle as to carry
thought from mind and half way round
the world to another mind?
Yet what is the force? Is It possible
that friendly spirits. unhampered by
limitations of time and distance. work
In the interests of humanity? And is 1t
probable that such spirits may be the
psychic qualty-the souls-of friends
and relatives who have passed through
that mysterious transition called death?
After passing through that transition
do they live in sympathy with US? Are
they able to come to US with advice and
help? II they are why don't they come
oftener? Is 1t our fault or theirs?
Do the dead come back?
The Washington herald., 1915-09-12

I'D John D. Rockefeller when he
recently bought the famous
statue OF Aphrodite, attributed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-20
COUNTIES To GET
BOUNTY EXPENSE
But After That the Payments VIII
Be Made by the State
Authorities Direct

Legislation planned on the subject
of payment of bounties for the scalps
of animals and birds which are class
ed as pests to the farmer and poultry
raiser will place the disbursement of
funds in the hands of State officials
only and do away with the present
system of having county commission
ers make payments and then look to
the State Treasury for reimbursement.
1t is the opinion of officials of the
State Game Commission that money
can be saved in this manner and it is
proposed to authorize game wardens
and magistrates to take the affidavits
of hunters and after the pelts are
marked they are either to be handled
by q warden or forwarded to the of
flee of the game commission.
A bill has been prepared to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the reimbursement
of counties which have paid bounties
| in two years and thereafter it is the
| plan to make income from hunters
| licenses applicable up to a certain
point to the direct payment of boun-
| ties.
The bill in the Legislature appro-
priating $334,S00 to the Game Com
mission is to specifically set aside for
licenses now in the Treasury. It is to
be used for propagation, the six new
game preserves, creation of county
preserves If pending legislation is en-
| acted and other expenses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-20
XA2OMen tss!s Sss lnreReS S
Do Men Admire Girls Of
This Generation

When these tinsel virtues appeal to
women, what more natural than that
sterling quality should find itself a bit
neglected in, feminine society, and
should either turn hermit or satisfy
itself in the society of other men of
like stability and like social unpopu-
larity?
The man who earns $25 q week
could afford to take a girl for whom
he cared to the theater If she would
sit in the balcony. a pound box of
candy would be gift we'll within
his means, but IL the girl has once
mentioned to him the delights of an
auto trip to Long Beach or a box
party or a dozen American Beauties
some lucky friend of hers received
from a wealthy admirer Immediately
between the $25 week man and the
girl for whom he might care the
breach widens.
On the other hand, this same $25 a
week young man strolls up Fifth Ave-
nue. and looks with admiration on the
limousine beauties and the stunningly
clad daughters of millionaires. I'm
mediately the girl who is earning SIS
a week, or who is being supported by
a father who earns but a moderate
salary, longs to emulate the we'll
dressed beauty who has attracted the
masculine attention.
Why the Worth-whiles Get Left at
Home
The girl of sterling simplicity, the
girl of homely ability, the girl of real
common sense is the one men truly
admire in their heart of hearts-but
they express too much admiration for
eXternals. And across the gap train
ing has made between the sexes girls
have no way of guessing what mas
culine nature really Graves.
4 a l.. H. l..
elegant trappings of their women
folk. Boys impress other boys by the
pert prettiness and cheap charm of
the girls with whom they are seen.
All of this repels worthwhile men
and leaves worthwhile girls a foolish
feeling that they must ape the tawdry
tinsel that attracts or stay at home
and be neglected.
Who is to blame? Who is at fault
for these trifling differences. these
silly misunderstanding which hold
acter apart?
I think the first fault lies with
mothers who fail in their sacred duty
to give their boys and girls an abso-
lutte standard of values.
The next fault lies with fathers who
are too wrapped up in their ambition
and efforts to stop and try to make
inc younger generation look at JnlnSS
from a sturdy viewpoint.
But most of all, boys and girls,
young men and women, have them
selves to blame. If they would be
honest with themselves, if they would
dare to be individuals instead of ex-
ponents of a type or mere members
of a sex it would be far simpler for
them to understand each other Sim
plicity and honesty speak no language
of sex, but one of universal hui
manity.
Do the things it is natural for you
to do, express your own nature, cul-
tivate the best in yourself. don't try
to attract by the method someone
else employs, don't have a false
standard of values, and try to live on
a scale you can't afford, and you will
find understanding and being under
stood by the other sex vastly sim
plified matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-20
Lebanon Valley College Head to Ad-
dress Mems Glass

Final plans for the big Washing
tons birthday banquet of the Mems
Bible Glass of Derry Street United
Brethren Church, Fifteenth and Derry
streets, were made at meeting of
the banquet committee last night.
The banquet will be held at 7:45
on Tuesday evening in the church as
sembly room. DR.. G. ID. Gossard,
president of Lebanon Valley College,
will be the principal speaker The
program, which is subject to change,
is as follows:
Class song; invocation, H. L. Carl !;
social committee busy with the turkey
and tiXin's; baritone solo, Fred f.
Lutz; address. The Man of the
Hour" DIR. Gossard; piano solo. Prof.
Il. j. Decevee; five-minute toasts, the
Rev. DR.. j. A. Lyter, oastor of the
church; ]. E. Gipple. Sunday School
superintendent; II. L. Carl. o. K.
Kines, president of class; tenor solo,
Sherman a. Allen; speciality, The
Million Dollar Artist: "A Good Joke" "
William A. Kitchen; surprise, o. G..
Brennaman.
Arrangements are being made for
ESQ men, all but about ten of that
number having already signed up.
The class orchestra will furnish mu-
sic for the event. A rip-roaring song
list will do the rest. The banquet
committee Includes: o. G.. Brenna-
man, chairman; j. Frank Bailey, Jr.,
John r. Henry, c. r. Gilbert, C. S.
Spangler, c. l.. Shepley. j. e. Dare,
II. F. Hayes, w. G. Starry and W. NJ.
Runkle.