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AN EMBEZZLING DOG.
Of Wasted oa.Beer Funds Keant for
Chanty.
A ;i.l story of animal depravity
rxnos i'aun a l.ortlicrn coal district.
Xr foir.t jur? a wtll-ktown colliery
Briox ha lur. l'usul with thesirv
of a lir.r. rttrievtr. who, with a
lllictir.j; h. .-nai'i'ul addlc-ise
jro.-i hi; h..ik. wa aiTiistomod to
tn.l fri 11. pit to pit luring coppers,
j tva; !::$::. r contrilauion?, on be
alf if a -ii k and Lcr.cvolmt
fkiml. 1;; thi? way ht- lias some-fliiKij-
(li;..::..l a lniu-h a? 22
rfjillii:- in .-:rg!o vtk, says the
SLoEtloi! Kx'i?-. ar.J tin- fund iiself
Has i n ti. means of doing an im-snir.n-
;::r. cr;: of good. (If course the
jKirujf ;'ii!i.nlv(s have Win coritrib
nticg out if their weekly earnings,
3ut the diig ixeitid so uiueli inhrist
anjor.gtluni ly the faithful perform
ance of h'.r n.i-rion that they readily
put their spare coppers into the box ,
fee carried, j
Sniue time agothedoghappenedto '
grf nt a public house, where he know i
a good many e,f his patrons would be (
afseinbiid. 'nids dropping pen- j
aifi into his box and ngaliru him ;
i
with bi-i u;:? sMiie of t'm m used to let .
Hum take a sip or two nut of their -wiugs
of bt e r. In this way the unfor- 1
innate ;.r.:n.al aennin-d a liking for
Jrink. w ill: t hi- most e'epiorable re- '
)lis. I; wa- rot that hi e.ec.'.sioEallv !
3e-can;c ir.toxi.-atu! and was thereby
. (
tD;ibii to i::-;:c h.is i:::.r.d of mercy,
Ini his .!'.,-;. u oral rati! re Kcamede- ;
;jravoi. sxu-h an extent had this
iett-riira;ioi p.w that somedaysago '
Hp wt.s di.-c -., red l.y the- side of the '
STKid in a pi rfn-tly helpless condition, J
rilh nothing rvtnainirg of his boxes-
.qi the straps. He was taken care
tW. and iventtially got sober again,
when his coi.uuct bee-aine such as to
xcite the utmost wonder.
lie whined pitcously and tried to
jt3ipe. iy and by lie In came very vi
olent, and the mint i theught he was
mad. Thi y would not K t him go,but
ffcJhered him lo a long string, and
Sim he led them to a pkee on the side
f a rocky hill, where they discov
ered fragments of the collecting box
aed alsn the h.iding place of the con-
3t seemed that after going his usual
ocpnd on the preceding Saturday the
Joghad gonetothissj)ot.and by some
means probably by rolling over and
ewer on his back broken the box to
splinters and released the money. He
Hid then concealed the coins, and,
Helping himself to them as his degen
feratt cravings prompted, had spent '
more thau half of the money in bee r at
warious public houses in the neigh
borhood. Great indignation is felt
frith the publicans who supplied him,
Jor they knew the dog w ell and ought
to hare noticed the absence of his col
lecting box. And, moreover, after the
Wret four or five drinks his condition
vnnsi have been a matter for remark.
The tiog k now under careful re
tstraini, and it is hoped that he may
wet again resume his useful labors.
-A SEIGHBORHOOD NURSERY.
Wo lot Harinz Children Cared For at
Small Cost
Establishing a neighborhood
arawry will not be difficult if you
Ktw any young woman whom all the
ofciidrcn love, and who has to work
Ebr a living.' writes Berthie Fogg
Xnthoine. in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. -If so. suggest to her that she
ftake charge of the neighborhood ba
Biiea from three to seven years old
fbr a certain sum per month. A largo
giayground and a big room are nec
eary. The playground should have
a. heap of small stories and several
anounda of nice dry sand. The play
room thuu!d have plenty of floor
sefrace. The governess should over
Hook the play and keep the tangles
straightened out. She should punish
nly in exceptional cases, and by the
ncilderi means, but she should inter
tkxe before a quarrel has reached dan
jjermis proportions. As to the finan
cial arr..i.-imtnts. circumstances
aaxst govern the details. The aver-j
fe female wage-earner receives five j
idlars a week, for six days' work of
fcht to ten hours' duration. To the j
10 a u.oi.-.ii add five dollars fur rent
-room a: o jilayground, then divide :
By the number of children enrolled." ,
Cieimenei in Siberia !
!
The production of buticrin Siberia ;
Saf increased during the jiast few
CJiirs lo a very marked degree. In
tLe vicinity of lianaul, for instance,
ffljcrc are at present 300 creameries,
Hgjiusl tw o in 189G. The demand for
miik vessi's has consequently as
sumed laige proportions. A factory
for the production of these articles
Saas lately been established at Kurgan,
but, as it cannot tven approximately
upply the demand, the greater part
lias to be procured from Moscow.
l lull In . .i)
A DIVORCE CHART.
States of the Union Where the Law b
Lenient
An enterprising publishing firm
has put on the market a rather unique
document. It is nothing less than a
divorce chart of the United States,
from which unhappy couples can
quickly karu in what state tluy can
get separated with the greatest celer
ity and ease, savs the Salt Lf.ke Her
ald. "By a mere g'ance," it explains,
"the particular information sought
may be id taiiu d. The form and man
ner in which the laws are placed be
fore the readir are as simple of com
prihiiision for the layman as they are
for the lawyer."
The chart, it is to be fiared, wil) den
much to put a damper on the divorce
industry of South Dakota. Idaho,
Nebraska and N'evada are equipped
with just as rapid-lire divorce laws as
the more widely-advertised state. In
fact, tluy In at South Dakota on one
very mate-rial point, for while the last
named state does rot permit the remarriage-
of a guilty defendant the
other three lay no restrictions on
either party. They also require less
notice of an action than South Dako
ta, construe causes just as liberally
and demand no longer residence.
But easy divorces can be had in the
cast just as well as in the west. Staid
old Connecticut, Main and Delaware
bother themselves not abouf length
of residence, so long as the cause ori
ginates on their soil. They also pro
vide a liberal number of causes for
persons desiring separation to choose
from. .
South Carolina is the most inhos
pitable state of ail to the would-be
divorcee. The laws there are strict, to
the verge of biueness. But in the ma
jority of state? this interesting chart
shows that to a couple so minded one
can be very easily obtained, and in
some the untying of the knot is not
much mure difficult than the tying.
HARD UPON ABORIGINES.
Hatoc Wrcu;ht br Dinii-i ani Vices of
CiT.l.zition.
The injurious influence of "civili
zation" upon aborigines has been
show n in a good many casts within re
cent years, and is now being once
more witnessed in Alaska. The de
cline in the numbers of the natives of
the Aleutian islands is most remark
able. Where there were formerly
about 120 villages, with a total popu
lation of from 1,500 to 2,500 persons,
there are now not more than ten vil
lages, while the population has de
clined to 1,000 individuals, and only
TOO of this number are full-blooded
natives. This strong tendency to ex
tinction of native populations has
been most strikingly exemplified in
Hawaii and Australasia, where tribes
were often annihilated in a few years
by their inability to resist the dis
eases and vices of civilization. In
the Aleutian islands a large propor
tion of the recent deaths are ascribed,
to measles and consumption both
unknown until a few years ago. The
population of Alaska is rapidly grow
ing, having about doubled from 1890
to 1900. and as the native clement
has dwindled, the increase of the
white settlers must have been much
more than 100 per cent. Similar
changes are in progress in Hawaii.
X. Y. Post.
The leading stoves and ranges in the world. Unequalled
for perfect construction, economy of fuel, handsome ap
pearance. Over 3,000,000 in use. Famous for 35 years.
Tnr sale bv leadin2 dealers everywhere. Look for the
trade-mark, and insist on seeing the genuine JEWELS.
SALT UNDER QUICKSAND, j
Industrial Possibilities Along the Coast
of Louisiana. ' j
The jTacticability of mining salt
through quicksand has been demon
strated on Weeks island, in Iberia
parish, and the success of the under
taking opens up a great industrial
possibility for Louisiana, declares the
New Orleans States. For more than
'oo years efforts have been made to
reach the salt through the quie'ksand,
and now the difficulties have been
overcome by the ilyles Salt company
by sinking a caisson and the applica
tion of other methods. . j
The process by which the caisson
for the shaft was suuk and secured is
interesting in many ways. The cais
son is composed of circular steel bands
some 18 inches in height, ar.d as one is'
sunk another is riveted to it, with1
pitch paper between to make it air-J
tight, the earth being taken out as the
caisson sinks down. It took 43 feetj
of this Einkinjr and mining to reach
the quicksand, when the water was
forced back by the application of com
pressed air, the caisson meanwhile
having been capped bv an airlock.
The pressure at the distance below the j
surface was from 18 to 20 pounds per
square inch, so a very powerful pres-!
sure was necessary to keep the shaft
clear of water, but this was done, and
passing through a stratum of 'clay
overlying the salt stratum, the base of
the caisson finally rested on the salt
bed and was sunk some feet further
into it.
Below that the salt was penetrated,
and a wooden caisson, running from
the water line 50 feet above to a pres
ent depth of 93 feet below the sur
face, w as put in. aud then the process I
ui iiuiiuiaiiuH ue i;.iii. ensi uiennii
salt was smoothed oil and cut in, when
it was heated to an intense heat by
the flames from compressed air blow
pipes, and the eeim-nt. consist ins of
pitch and asphalt, was poured over,!
filling up the interstices and sticking'
to every crack and cranny. Over this'
was laid a covering of cement, the'
whole not only securing the caisson,
but making it absolutely air and wa
ter tight and permittinjruninterrupt-
ed work of the miners. !
'But the mining will not stonat tl.;? '
4 liUA U.
WINKLE
Jewel SMTn are sold br
L Gillen, Lexington, Mo.
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A GEOLOGICAL FALLACY.
Soms People Btliere 0:1 tad Gat Can Be
Found Anywhere.
Probably the most wild and unjus
tifiable of all the crude beliefs respect
ing geological resources is that which
holds to the conviction that by going
deep enough the drill is sure to find
something of value, r.o matter at what
point the work of boring is com
menced. There are numerous wise
persons in every community, estima
ble, influential, and in the highest de
gree public spirited, who are con
vinced that the question, forexample,
of finding coal in their special local
ity, is simply a matter of the depth to
which the explorations are carried.
Bock oil and natural gas are recog
nized as desirable products in every
progressive community, and every
such community contains persons, in
other respects intelligent, who nre
ready to stake their own fortune and
that of their nearest friends on the
belief that oil and gas are everywhere
underneath the surface, and that
their sources can be tapped with the
drill, provided only there is sufficient
capital to kee p up the process of drill
ing long enough. Mines and Miner
all. I A Grleroui tolerance.
Every man has about one grievance
that he springs whenever he has half
a chance.- Washington (la.) Democrat.
depth of 93 feet. Instead it will be
sunk to a depth of from 300 to 4Ml'
teet, while tunnels will be run out
and big chambers will be blasted and
mined, and the pure rock salt brought
to the surface for distribution all over
the United States and Canada.
By the sinking of rods at various
points surrounding the shaft it has
been ascertained that the salt strata
is a mile or more in width, while the
bottom has never been reached, af
fording what is practically an inex
haustible supply of the finest salt in
the w orld.
A REMARKABLE CATCH.
Fiih Story That la Good Until the
Next One la Told.
Eecently there has been another
record-breaker in trout fishing in
Lake Keuka, say the Rochester Dem
ocrat. For several days it has been
nothing unusual for fishermen to take
seven or eight within an hour or so.
Almost everybody who tried got full
share, and some were fine specimens,
weighing from five to seven-pounds.
It is told of a man from Corning that,
while fishing near Bluff Point, he
hooked a trout which weighed, he I
thinks, about nine or ten pounds, but
in bis excitement he lost the fish at
he was about to take it into the boat,
with three branches of hisSeth Green
The following day one of the vet
eran fishermen of the lake hooked a
trout near the same point. As he
landed the fish he was much surprised
to find a second hook in the fish's
mouth. lie started to draw in the
loose line from this second hook, and
was again surprised to find that there
was still another trout on the line
which he had fished up. He landed
this fish and was nearly overcome
when, from the second fish, he dis
covered a third line upon which was
a third fish. The three fish, weigh
ing 2G pounds, were safely landed
and were taken to Keuka. where it is
1 said they we re viewed bv a larce num.
i 1
j ber of people.
j Economy in CoaL
1 Here is a simple method of making
j half a ton of coal go as far as fifteen
hundredweight. The plan is to place
a quantity of chalk in thegrates;once
heated, this is practically inexhaust
ible from combustion, and gives out
great heat.
Alaalca'i Farma.
There are only 12 farm, in Alaska.
These farms have a combined area
of only 159 acres, but the profit from
their cultivation in 11)00 was $8,0-1 1.
This was due, of course, to the high
prices prevalent in the local market,
President.
D. W. U.TBVI8
Vice Pre.
WALTRH II. WAKKKLL
Caaliler.
LEXINGTON SAVINGS BANK,
LEXINCTON,
PAID UP CAPITAL,
MISSOURI.
$50,000
Does a g-eoeral banking business. HoUclta account.
Liberal accommtxlutloDi to customers.
DIRECTORS
B V NICHOLSON W D HANK1N JOHN B KYLAND
B HOFFMAN
Walter B addell
D WBTerle
W D Uankln
Fannie W Barton
H B Duke, Curator
t Jackson Bradley
A G YOCNO
STOCKHOLDERS I
M Chapman
WALTKHB WADDKLL
0 W B TEVIS
K Hoffman
Bufus Young
Alice W Wlnirate
A O Young
Henry C Wallace
Jno E Kvland
Mrs 9 Benlck
BeUle W Smith
CE Chapman
B A Wallace
W 0 McCaualand
J Q Chambers
0 A Rrtehn
Henry Halnkel
B F Nicholson
LO Chapman
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RICHARD FIELD. Pa 1ST 8. J. ANDREW. Cam..-,
GEO. M.CATEON, Vice President.
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LEXINGTON, - MISSOURI.
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Walnut Coffins, fe,
Metallic and Wooden But
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INSURANCE!
Farm property idsup
:upied by tenant or i
isk.s written in ?nyt
:ounty. Will co-n- and
mrsor.al inspection, and
ate upon application.
Insure anything. W:
:all on him at oi:
Lexington.
REAL ESTATl
tor sale in Lexington,
or sale. Houses torf
ou have any real e:
ell place it in his har
cost if no sale. Or
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arm and City Property lor'
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MONEY TO M
iVlll loan money on improved
at 8 and 61 per cent toW
Office front rooa over Ten
Btore, Lexington.
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During Hie commie" f
linulon Koute will ''ve " '
very lowest excursion wa
ever been mmle. Tlie '"
th.-se rates, ilertinalM""-
varWd tlmt the i"'l'l'c 87h
nearest ticket tiRent fff'j
lo ns the fiivoi 10 '"
ci ii ive niiitter. etc.
C.lurailo. Utah ami K1
llomeseekers" excinio"3
weeks to the whole
wes . , ,,v
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iiiiiiid trip nit' l" I ir0nJ
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thousand eastern ic
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