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Use to 60 with mel am penniless. I
am not selfish enough to accept your
sacrifice"
A soft hand covered his mouth and
EleanOr's bright hair touched the pill
low beside his head. "Tve set my
heart on making a rich marriage.
John, don't disappOint me, please!
Listen-twO weeks ago l heard my
stepfather telling that man who bought
the Lesson place next door that he
was positive that there was a vein Of
coal beneath your place that meant a
fortune to the man who acquired the
property.
~ thought the matter over and de-
cided that he was the author of all
your troubles. 1t Is he who has baked
all your enterprises. He had hoped to
discourage you and send YOU away,
that the place might become his" She
whispered in his ear now. II am
afraid he set fire to the hall as u last
resort, but for mothers sake" her
voice broke.
Maxwell found strength to encIrcle
her waist with his right arm. 1.-The
matter is forgotten already" he said
generously, "As for the coal mine,
that is a Chimera-"
"No-Uncle Jake's overcharge of
dynamite has opened a huge hole in
the ground and disclosed what Col
onel Pike calls the richest vein of coal
in Lees county. ] will be poor beside
you"
Uncle Jake gave one glance at them
and then tiptOed from the room.
Great crap" ne chuckled, softly,
"plant dis hcah Dynamite in de chin
blcy ana git er hahvest oh coall DE
Lo'ds ways am wunnerful-wmnerful
indeedy! !"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-01-03
Stockholders, Meeting Notice.

Notice is hereby given that
the stockholders Of the Traders
Bank will hold their annual
meeting at the Banking House Of
said bank on Monday the 18th
day of January, 1919, b. giming
at 10 o'clock a. m, Of hat day,
for the purpose of cleo ting di-
rectors for the ensuing year and
for the transaction of such other
business as may come before
the meeting.
Lee j. Slusher, VIce-Pres.
j, G. Crenshaw, Secretary,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-01-03
Italy Lost 2.SOO,OOO Men.

Italy's total losses in killed,
wounded, dead of disease, disa-
bled, missing, and prisoners, ag-
gregate $500, 900. Disease alone
took a death toll of 300, 900 men
in the war zone, while the num-
Der killed was 100000 and the
wounded, missing, and prisoners
1000, 900.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-01-03

Rev. r. N. Allen arrived We'd
nesday morning for a brief visit
with friends and to attend the
meeting of the Twenty-Third
Masonic District Association
last night.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-01-03
100000 Frenchmen Killed In
The War.

Announcement has been made
that Frances losses in officers
and men Killed up to No vember
l of the present year aggregate
1,O71, 300, divided as follows:
31,30O, and men 1,O4O,-
600.
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-01-03

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seph Tuesday morning on bust
ness.
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MaxWell's
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BY CLARISSA MACKIE


Copyright, 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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fore said meeting.
Sanford Sellers, Sr., Pres.
Sanford Sellers, Jr., Sec'y.
Lexington, Missouri December
8, 1918.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

tricks with them-the ancient Roman
twist, he Byzantine flare, the cold Greek
motive and they have even adventured
occasional notes from Hindustan, the
South Seas, the Aztecs and the aborigi-
nal igloo. And still they must search
because the skyscraper is new and un-
expected thing that must inspire forms
and lines of its own. To say cruel things
about early examples is hardly far.
Would Judge Patterson willingly walk
Chestnut street in the clothes he was
proud to wear twenty years ago?
When Mr. Miller and Mr.. Pennell are
most eloquent one cannot but be dis
turbed by the haunting knowledge that
artists make etchings Of old European
bridges and say violent things, about old
bridges in America. Old buildings IN
London are very ugly. But they figure
largely in contemporary art Here we
are told to destroy old buildings and
make 'artistic" ones. A little while ago
horsehair sofas were called damnable.
Now they are slipping nobly into the
class Of antiques.
If thing is old enough it usually
satisfies the critic. 1t is the middle age
of art and architecture that the critic
cannot endure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
Jefferson on Socialism,

THE following letter by Thomas Jefferson
L may be interesting reading to dense Dem
ocrats who wish the government to continue
to operate those private industries in which
it engaged during the war:
Monticello, July %, 1903.
To William B. Bibb:
Sir-I received your favor of July list,
covering an offer of Mr.. Mcdonald of an
iron mine to the public, and thank you
for taking the trouble of making the COM
munication, as it might have it's utility.
But having always observed that public
works are much less advantageously man
aged tnan the same are by private hands,
l have thought it better for the public to
go to market for whatever it wants which
is to be found there; for there competition
brings it down to the minimum of value.
I have no doubt we can buy brass can
non at market cheaper than we could
make iron ones. l think it material, too,
not to abstract the high executive officers
from those functions which nobody else
is charged to carry on and to employ
them in experimenting works which are
going on abundantly in private hands.
Our predecessors went ON different
principles; they bought iron mines and
sought for copper ones. We own a mine
at Harper's Ferry of the finest iron ever
put into cannon. which we are afraid
to attempt to work.. We have rented it
heretofore, but it is now without tenant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
TREASURE ISLAND

A LTHOUGH most of US were ignorant
4 of it the Boy Scouts of Philadelphia
have known for long time that they
could live in hope of visiting Treasure
Island and digging for hidden spoil.
The island lies in the Delaware between
Trenton and Easton, and is the summer
camping ground of the local scouts. 1t
has just been bought by Edward Box
and given to the Philadelphia Boy Scout
Council. The boys now have a pro-
prietary interest in all the Indian relics
on the island. There are many of them,
for the place was a gathering place of
the original Americans years before Co.
lrmbns discovered the new world and be-
fore his successors settled on the banks
o. the Delaware.
No more appealing place could have
been selected for boys summer camp
than an ancient Indian headquarters on
an island. There Is something about a
piece Of land entirely surrounded by
water which stiis the imagination of a
boy, and when fe can find real Indian
arrowhcads in such place his cup of joy
runs over.
The Boy Scouts are envied by many
adults the possession of this fascinating
place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
GREAT FOOLS

THE $50,000 prize for an overseas
= fight in an airplane, offered by the
London Daily Mail, has lured a number
Of aviators to attempt to enroll their
names among those of the "great fools"
Of the world.
Hawker, Raynham, Wood and others
are only awaiting favorable weather con-
ditions to "hop off, on a daring and
unique endeavor which may, for the first
time, link America and Europe by aerial
travel and give them rank with those
earlier pioneers who have bound the
shores of continents together by cable,
ship and wireless telegraphy.
From the earliest times those men who
have leaped into the dark seas of un-
known experiment and discovery have
ever felt the sorrow and sting of scorn,
yidicule and lack of sympathy from their
contemporaries. Some of them died of
broken hearts. But most of them were
as adamant against the shafts of a
world which thought them crazy or fools,
through an indomitable faith and knowl-
edge that they were to give to their de-
tractors and the world the instrumental
ties for lifting all life higher and higher
in its search to find and harness the laws
and powers of Gods great universe.
Often the people laughed at them
they called them fools, fools because they
themselves could not see beyond the sun.
set Of their present day or travel the
seemingly visionary roads which they
who blazed the inventive paths of prog,
ress did so greatly.
But whether it be Hawker, Raynham
or Wood who is the first to cross the seas
through the air, he will blot out the
name Of "fool," as they all have done
and leave forever, in golden letters, the
"great."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
RIGHT AT LAST

TT WOULD be difficult to state the
whole case for charter revision and
revision of the state constitution better
or more compactly than it is stated in
the resolutions adopted almost unani-
mously by Councils, whatever the in
spiration that evolved them.
The preamble calls attention to the eX-
istence of separate county and city gov
ernments with jurisdiction over the same
territory and declares that at is abso-
lutely essential for its development that
the city and county of Philadelphia
should have within its borders but one
government clothed with the fullest de-
gree of home rule"
The resolutions declare that while
there should be no postponement of legis-
lation which will aid Philadelphia, con-
stitutional convention should be promptly
held in order that the constitution might
be so revised as to enable the Legislature
to give the city complete home rule.
These are things which this newspaper
has been urging for many months. The
charter draft of the committee of citi-
zens was framed in such a way that, so
far as it went, it could remain un-
changed when the county government
was merged in the city government. The
passage of the bills which the committee
has sent to Harrisburg would "aid Phila-
delphia" in the language of the resolu-
ton. They ought to be passed substan-
TALLY as drawn.
If the members of the General Assem-
bly, have been hestating about the course
which they should take they can no
longer be in doubt. The legislative body
of the city has formally and officially
called upon them to pass bills to aid the
city. 1t can no longer be said that no
one is interested in the matter save
handful of disgruntled citizens.
As to the revision of the constitution,
that is necessary for more reasons than
that it prevents the Legislature from
giving to this city the home rule which
it asks. The plan under consideration
in Harrisburg to create a commission to
consider the need for revision and to re-
port in. two years is merely a plan to
postpone that which should be done at
the earliest possible date. Now that
Councils, acting, without doubt, on the
suggestion of Senator Ware, have called
for prompt action, instead of delay for
two wears, we assume that the Senator
himself will join with other men in Har-
risburg in fighting for the passage of a
bill which will provide for the election of
delegates to constitutional convention
next November and for the sitting of
the convention next winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
ART AND THINGS

V7ERY humbly the citizenry have been
giving ear to Mr.. Pennell, Judge Pat
srson, Leslie W. Miller and others con-
rated to the impeccable in art as it
ut found in skyscrapers and war me-
.morisls. Mr.. Pennell did the bawling
out of the newer park plans. Mr.. Mil
ler has the air of a man who will keep
war memorials chaste or die. Judge Pat
tsrson's speciality is skyscrapers. They
are sincere and able men and their criti-
cism has tonic quality, even if occa-
sionally it exaggerates.
This matter of art is discomfiting be-
cause It is not easy to understand. Judge
Patterson on "Skyscrapers," for exam
pIe. spoke much truth, but not quite
enough, when he verbally bombed some
~ the tall buildings near City Hall.
These buildings leave much to be desired,
II eourse. But so does everything else in
~ world.
0kyscrnpsrs are still in evolution. We
<r|s~ more about their architectural re-
7yoeu<<s poW than we did q genera.
j.. 8H<Aitects have tried III theil
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

ALL sorts of people have at one time
"A or another debated among them
selves in an effort to determine what is
the matter with Philadelphia politics.
It isn't easy to say what is the matter,
But there are times when it must seem
to any reasonable observer that the
mental habit which makes the record of
municipal affairs in this city what it is
is the same that causes so many people
to stand daily in the space at the for
ward end of trolley car to block traffic
both ways while there are, as the con-
-ductor mournfully reiterates, plenty Of
seats in the rear"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

l. Termagant: a shrew. The Crusaders
brought back the story that Termagant
was the wife of Mshomet.
2. Spartacans: the extreme ''Reds' in
Germany.
3. Rear Admiral Henry b. Wilson was in
command Of the American naval forces
in French waters during the war.
A. The sphinx: an emblem Of silence and
mystery. A monument near Cairo,
Egypt half lion and half woman.
s. New Haven is called "The City Of
Elms."
q. A. Mitchell Palmer is the attorney gem
eral of the United States.
Z. stabat Mater: Latin hymn on the Cru
cifxion.
s. Tammany Ring a set OF New York city
officials who looted the treasury and
who were exposed in 1871.
q. ''To sound ones own. trumpet: in al
lusion to the custom of knights in q
tourney. whose heralds announced their
entry into the lists with trumpets.
Means now TO utter ones own praises.
10. Trinity Church, broadway, New York.
4 the most richly endowed church In
the ppited States.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

stacles in their path. When they meet
a chain of mountains they skirt its base
till they find way through. They wind
about the valleys and spread out in the
plains, and when two of them meet they
automatically create a center at which
men gather and build a city.
If we mistake not, the peace commits
sioners have been following the law of
nature and have been turning out of
the way of all obstacles which have con-
fronted them in order that they might
continue on their course toward an
effective and effectual agreement.
The agreement that they are making
is the only guarantee in prospect that
the price of the war shall not have been
paid in vain. 1t is the only guarantee
that the men and women who are today
subscribing for the Victory Loan shall
not be compelled in the future to sub
scribe for more loans to pay the cost of
more wars. When the men on whom the
responsibility of ratifying that agree
ment rests come to consider the question
they are likely to abandon their hyper
critical attitude and to express their
amazement at the success of the peace
commission in accomplishing so much as
it has accomplished when five years ago
the idea of a league of nations had not
yet emerged from the shades of academic
discussion into the realm of practical
politics.
The Victory Loan will fail of its pur-
pose if it does not carry with it the de-
termination Of the nation that it shall
involve victory for permanent peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
What Do You Kn0W?
QUIZ

1. Who was called "The Expounder of the
Constitution? ...... -
.. Where is the Mammoth Cave?
3. Who is the commander of the United
States forces in northern Russia?
4. What is the origin of the phrase, THE
-, lions share?
5. What is the national air of France?
6. Who is Walker ID. Hines?
Z. Where is Letvia? .r
8. Which psalm is known as the Mis-
erere"? ,,. n
g. Where is Washington buried?
10. Who were the "Mollie Maguires'?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

The worlds revolutionary trend is
plainly mirrored in the fact that on the
committees to have charge of the reception
for the Twenty eighth Division eminent
citizens" are to be ignored as such and
place given only to men who are able and
willing to do things. 40
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

VirgInisn baker is alleged to, have
a crumbless roll. We don't be-
lieye it. 1t were as easy to believe that a
yirginian cotillon leader aad invented
danceless reel ..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

Eggnog is gone forever because next
Easter will be dry. There is no dry advo-
cate who would not say, in consequence,
that the Easter of 1913 marked the final
passing Of the deviled egg.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
FACES FROM WHICH
HISTORY CAN BE READ
First Complete Photographs Of Peace.
Table Members Furnish stlm-
uIating Clues to Great
Events In Paris
OF A certain ambitious statesman it was

OF A certain ambitious statesman it was
" written that his face was like a book
where men may read strange matters" Ex-
panded to the seventy third degree Of mag
nitude, the simile holds good for the un-
precedented portrait gallery TO which the
back page of this newspaper is devoted to-
day. The book-the greatest of all mundane
volumes--is the book of history. In this
instance something more expressive than
the pen writes therein. The human face is
the scribe, represented in the nearly
fourscore varieties revealed around the green
baize table at the Quai d'Orsay.
OF all the indces of the portcntous trans
actions of the Paris conference, this compre-
hensve achievement in photography is per-
haps the most significant. Dull indeed is the
imagination which cannot read "strange mat
ters matters of transcendent import, mat
ters upon which the very fate Of mankind
depends-in this revelation by the eye Of the
camera.
George W. Harris. of Harris & Ewing,
went to Paris recently to register upon his
lens the faces of every member of the most
august and deeply responsible assembly ever
organized since the human chronicle began.
Every picture is strictly contemporary. The
sense of reality conveyed by his galaxy is
extraordinary. With all due respect to the
platoons of correspondents and their cargoes
Of weary typewriters. it may be said that
no "story' from Paris is quite so vivid as
that which this notable feat in genuine por-
traiture unfolds
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

1t will be interesting to learn what
crime the courts find that man committed
who sold brown nonalcoholc liquid to
soldiers who thought they were buying
hooZe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

The fact that no sane man expects to
see a perfect covenant come out, of the
Paris conference discounts the pessimistic
eackle OF the caSilers. The most we have
4 right to expect ~ a fair to lniddling ~,
stru,pent which may be improved upon as
occasion, arises.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

As Mr.. Brumbaugh says he does not
care to be state superintendent of public
Governor Sproul will doubtless
refrain from urging him to reconsider his
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

Germany, a headline tells us, is to be
permitted to digest the new peace terms.
With little practice Germany may be able
to digest food again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

Whatever the merits of the present
school controversy, there is reason to hope
that the children will be none the worse off
because of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

Once more it is shown that it does not
nav for a trustee to use trust funds in his
own business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

Governor Sproul is not in Harrisburg,
hut the man who has made several gov
erpors is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

When President Wilson sent Michael j.
Ryan and the other Irishmen in Paris to
consult Colonel House he evidently knew
that as falher the colonel was the best
listener In the two hemispheres.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

The Massachusetts
Wrecking a Wreck DemocPts who COM
plained~that Postmas
ter General Burleson is wrecking their party
are themselves pretty clever at that sort of
thing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
No! No!

The Back Road TO the
No! No! shore, say latest ad-
vices from the world
of gasoline, is best But any one who has
been snatching spring vacation will realize
at once this doesn't mean the road back.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
Famous Remarks

Veni, Vidi, Vici.
I appeal unto Caesar.
Consider the lilies of the field.
The kin. you will eventually buy.
Obey that impulse.
Revenge is kind of wild justice.
Your nose knows.
Lay on, Macduff.
Once more unto the breach, dear triends'
Ask the man who owns one.
None b; the brave deserves the fair.
v V V
We all have V. VS. eyes these days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21


We all have V. VS. eyes these days.
Desk Notices
Even the clearest and most pertecs CIR
cumstantial evidence is likely to be at 1aul',
after all. and therefore ought to be received
With preat caution.-Take the case of any
nenciI sharpeped by any woman: if you have
witnesses, YOU will find she did 1t with
knife; but il you take simply the aspect OF
tbe pencil YOU will say she did it with her
teeth. MARK TWAIN.
We hasten to contradict the rumor that
the Easter Parade at Atlantic CltS was
thrown into confusion by lady appearing
an Tho boardwalk wearing cotton stockings.
v w =.
We suppose that, like all our contem-
,,oror;es. we ought to set some definite date
for the Presidents return, but we are SO
afraid that he might not live up to it.
V v
Rebrth
nHY HEART, thought, died utterly when
Passed BY as in some silent night the snow,
Or shadow clouds that, wrath like, come
and go
And leave no trace. Then all the world
was blue
With yiolets, and daffodils' bright gold
Rrimmed high the world with spring-but
left me cold;
How could bear the lilac scented rain! q.
/ prayed Time would not bring them pack
again. .. .-
ASD rsss yss-'Ha 's'' now spring . s.'
you coming through the greenihg fields,
wind blown,
Or bending where but now the catkins
shone, :,
And from dusk violet haunts you smile
at me; 49,.
The scent of Glove and pink float through
the air,
The lilac plumes wave proudly, debonair,
And Love lives on in just remembering,
For you will come with every newborn
'gt JEANNE oLDFIELD POTTER.
v V V
II WAS a lovely week END, aud many a
dollar spent Sunday at home for the last
time-until the loan natures.
v V v
Every crowd has silver lining, and the
Victory IBan booths are goins to do the un-
hemming free Of charge.
v V V
ieebox Raids
THERE are two theories on the subject Of
i midnight icebox raids
One is that Of the husband.
The other is that of the wife.
The husbands theory is that II he takes
little Of each dish he finds In the icebox,
distributing his depredations cunninsly over
| the stewed prunes, the chilled and naked
boiled potatoes, the rice pudding, rhubsrh
and raisin pie, the scusrai eject q the raid
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

Limburg would rather be Dutch than
sin Dutch