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THE DEMOCRAT CONTEST X The Scandal Monger MP Hi I 'SE, Ml w aaa Here is an opportunity to secure a first-class Adam Schaff Piano for a little hustling. It costs nothing to enter the contest. Send name at once and be gin work. Rules of Contest. FIRST ANNOUNCKMKNT. This l'iano Contest is conducted on Btrict busi ness principles of honesty and justice to all concerned and under such a system a Piano Contest has never failed, although dishonest methods never have done anything else than cause trouble. All inquires will be promptly answered. Coupons will be given on job printing aid sub scriptions from Sept, 20, 1904 and on advertising from Oct. 1. 1904. Earlier received cash will not be counted. The date of closing will be announced at least HO days before the final end of this contest. Any reader may nominate a candidate with out cost. For the present, at least, names will appear without figures. 2nd Piano and Candidates. -The most popular lady is the one who shall receive the largest number of vote9, and to her shall be awarded the beautiful new upright Adam Schaaf Piano by the award'ng com mittee whose decision shall be iinal All respectable white ladies, regard less of-where they may live, are elig ible ascandidates. 3d -Votes, How obtained. For all cash received on subscription, votes will be given as foil 'vs: -400 votes for each dollar when subscrip tion i9 not paid tivcyears in advance; when $5 is paid to advance subscrip tion five years in advance of date of payment, 3000 votes will be given, life subscription 20,000 votes for $25. Votes will begivenjon all advertising, except patent medicine, foreign and legal, and on all job printing. 100 votes for each dollar on advertising and 400 votes for each dolllar on job printing. No ballots given on ad vertising or job work until same is paid for and must be settled for not later than the tenth of month follow ing that in which work is done. Bal lots delivered only to party ordering work or on their written order. Mer chants coupons 100 votes for $1. Fractional part of a dollar not count ed. All ballots must be sent in within 15 days of their date. Coupon good for 25 votes will appear in Democrat after Oct 1. 4TH INSTTJCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Each candidate is allowed 25 per cent extra in votes on all cash that she collects. And another special is the additional 25 per cent in votes al lowed on all cash voted before Nov. 1, 1904. The week's voting closes on each Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock, In the paper each week the relative standing of candidates will bo an nounced. Ballots shall all be pre served in a locked ballot box. Cash or check must accompany report by each' candidate. Vote onoe oast can not be transferred. Postmaster and agent's cash commission is suspended during contest. Each candidate has the world as her territory and may solicit by correspondence. 6th Miscellaneous rules. Re sult of a week's voting will not be told privately. Votes will not be al lowed on subscriptions collected at less than regular prioe. No'olection eerlng is allowed within this 10(1106. No relative ( as near at second cous in) of . the editor, publisher or em ploye is eligible to candidacy. No employe is allowed to take sides in this contest, i 6th Special Instructions. In filling out the "Cash Ballot" write name carefully. Keep list of stiff sent In each week. Each candidate Is requested te send as seen as possible ft cabinet photograph for publication. 'He tbat is without sinamong you, let bim first cast a stone at ber." Would to heaven that we could boirow the pen of the R- cording angel, dip it in the i it K of inspiration, write on a pane of electric plate and portray with a Master's handjthe deep fathomless, unutterable loath, ing we teel for 'he vile, slimy tongue defemer of character. Would to heaven we had the power to huil ack to the giver the misery ami tears and sor row the poisonou tongue of a. babbler causes to cours -through the veins of innocent character. We read of the at sassin who creeps up in the dark and stabs his victim in the back; of the savage Indian who tor tures his captive with the scalp er's knife or at the stake, of him who takes the life of a lear mother or father, or munlers bis own flesh and blood, but there is mercy in all these enor mities when compared to the cowardly slanderers who feed U)on woman's virtue and a good m tn's name. The bloody knife can only kill the body and trans fer the soul, but the lying tongue those uneasy, serpent eyed, forked-tongued street loungers and gossips, in human form and demon soul, torture their unfortunate victim with all the torments of hell, gloat ing over the wreck aad ruin, the unutterable misery tbey have wrought, laughing in fiendish glee at the accomplishment of their ends. The purer, the nobler, the more elevated, the more worthy their victim, the greater their infernal joy A comiauuily bas no curse so blameful, so destructive to good feeling and good fellowship, friendship, faith and all tbat goes to make tbe social pleas ure and happiness as the slan derer. Beware of the man or woman who is ever ready to pour into your private ear some report or tale discreditable to tbe virtue and bonor of your neighbor. Avoid them as you would a blighting pestilence. Coward at heart, in your presence be is a smiling sycophant, wbile be hind your back he libels you. The tongue ot tbe scandal -monger should be torn out by us roots, as it was in olden times. Then it should have an inquest held over it by gboulsjfrom tbe uttermost sinks of perdition; it should then be picked up by some unknown, unloved and de spairing murderer and carried backward with red-hot tweezers in the dead hours of- nigbt, when all nature is busbed but tbe nigbt owl's screech, and taken to some distant, desolate demon-haunted cave, carried to its remotest depths and there over red-hot coals, burned to ashes, and tbe ashes scattered. Tbe day and hour is coming when tbe thunderbolts of D -vine wrath will visit upon these traducers of woman's fair name when they and their loved ones will be stricken by this curse, andjthey will know and realize what it is too suffer. Be ware how you defy the power of Omnipotence. Tell the truth if you know it to be the truth, but don't repeat lying rumors and street talk. If in bell there is one lower, hotter pit than another it is re served for bim or her who wan tonly or secretly assails tbe character and standing of a good woman. The very devil will blush with shame as he usb ersinto eternal toment tbe insig- nificant soul of the traduc-T Despised by men. Hated by tne devil, ignored by God, the hi v est, meanest, viltst and most cowardly and degraded of hu manity is the traducer of worn .mi, whose infamy only equaled oy the liliertliK who pres on ithe virtue ot innocent, confiding females, and then openly boasts ot his conquests He shou.d be roasted over u m fire, ins flesh should be stripped from his bone piece by piece with reJ hoi pinchers and bis suffer ings prolonged for weeks. Hi tortures would be mild compar ed to the sufferings of his vic tim and the desolate hearts of the ruined household. Tne lib nine should not be tolerate i in a respectable community The fathers of daughters should band together against him for mutual protection is they would against a wild beast for the libertine is a beast devoid of a single human impulse. As merciless as a savage tiger, as ravenous and repulsive as a hy ena. His mission is to destroy and desolate. A fiend in human form, a demon at heart, a devil ish vampire whose thirst is nev er quenched brutal and with out mercy. Social purity is the only safeguards of our homes. Until the tempter entered tne garden of Eden, there w.is no sin. So it is in our bones Keep the tempter out. and there will be no woe or misery. No heartaches or wretched lives We kill a sneep killing dug when caught in the act, or vith signs of guilt upon him, as that is the only remedy to pre vent a repetition. We should deal with the libertine likewise, as it is the only cure except the -urgeon's knife. Macon-Times Democrat. Kills Gern.s of Catarrh. Hyomei Goes to the Rooot of the Disease and Makes Astonishing Cures. Catarrh cannot be cured by the use ot pills, liquid medicines and so called system tonics. Under such treatment the germs of the disease will still live in tbe air passages and increrse and multiply. Hyomei is tbe only scientific and thorough way to cure ca tairb. Killing tbe germs in tbe air passages, it enters the blood with the oxygen, destroys the microbes in the blood and ef fectually drives from the system all traces of catarrhal poison. Thousands of testimonials have been given as to tbe as tonishing cures made by tbis remedy. Mrs. Le Rendu, 76 Western Avenue, Cleveland Ohio, writes: "I believe Hyomei saved my life. I am better now than I have been in thirty years. Many doctors, both in England and Prance, treated me for catarrh, but I was not cured until I used Hyomei." Probably tbe strongest evi dence tbat can be offered as to tbe powers of Hyomei to cure catarrh is tbe fact tbat Wood Brothers will agree to refund tbe money if you say Hyomei bas not cured you. Tbe complete Hyomei outfit costs but 1 1.00, consisting of an iuhaler, dropper and sufficient Hyomei to last several weeks. This will effect a cure in ordi nary cases, but for chronic and deep-seated cases of catarrn, longer use may be necessary, and then extra bottles of Hyom ei can be abtained for 50c. The present Missouri legisla ture will receive the plaudits of the people if it will give us bet ter road laws. ..... mm Mum or- Cit y is much in need of a live Commercial Club. Temperature of Churning. Many a fr.rmer's wife spoils her butter by churning at too high a temperature. The result is that the product of her churn Is greasy ami poor in quality and keeps for but a short time. Some people also put hot water into the cream to make the but ter come quicker. The result of this rise In temperature Is to destroy the grain and at the same time incorpo rate with the butter a great deal of casein, which is the part that goes to make the body of cheese. This but ter is increased in quantity also bj the Incorporation of an unusual amount of water. If the butter is made when the temperature of the cream is at, say, 80 degrees, the kind of a butter will result that if it came under the eyes of United States dair Inspectors would be excluded from the market and the sellers thereof fined for selling butter with a water con tent above the legal 16 per cent. Ttu woman that wants to make good but ter must do her churning when the cream is at a temperature of noi above 65 degrees. It would be bette: to churn at as low as fifty degrees but this is rather hard for people that have to churn by hand. The peo pie that try to work the so-called two minute churns frequently have ti raise the temperature of the crean to about 80 degrees before getting th results that have been advertise! Taat is, the time of churning is :v ulated to some extent by the tempers ture. Every maker of butter slioni. Iiave thermometer. One can be pui I'haara for twenty cents, and, this hi ing the case, there is no reason whj jvery person should not have the ail antage l knowing the temperatun of their cream at churning time. The Song of a Summer Stream. A few months BR0 I was slncrinjr Ihrnnsh tlio snow. Hut now tne blessed sunshine is 611' Ini; all the Innil. And the memories are lost Of the winter fog and frost. In the preeenee. of the summer with her lull and slowing hand. N'nw th woodlnrk eomes to drink At my cool and pearly brink. And the lady fern is bending to kiss my rainbow foam; And the wild rosebuds entwine With the dark-leaved bramble vine. And the centuried onk is Kreen around the bright-eyed squirrel s home. Oh the full and ftlad content That my little song Is blent With the all-melodious mingling of the choristers around! T no longer sing alone. Through a chill, pervading moan, For the very air is trembling with its wealth of summer sound. Though the hope seemed long defer: -i Kre the south wind's? whisper heard 'lave a promise of the passing of the weary winter days. Yet the blessing was secure. For the 'iimmor-timc was sure. When the lonely songs are gathered in a mighty choir of praise. Francis Ridley Havergal. Famous Trees Diminishing. Our historic oaks are, with ever great storm, diminishing in number. Dumorey's oak, in Dorsetshire, 2,0-01 years old, disappeared from this cause in 1703. Wallace's oak, at Ellerslie. was 700 years old when it was blown down some fifty years ago. We have still, however, the Cowthorpe oak, near Wetherby, in Yorkshire, estimated to be over 1,000 years old, and William the Conqnerer's oak, in Windsor Or&at Park, has attained the ripe age of 1, 200 years. Perhaps the finest oaks of great antiquity In the land are to be found in the dukerles. About half a mile from Welbeck abbey is Gre"en dale oak, credited with 1,500 summers, and now a mere ruin sustained by props. Through its hollow interior a coach and four has been driven. London Daily Chronicle. NOT A TACTFUL REPLY. Farewell Might Not Be Construed as Too Courteous. The old friends had enjoyed their three days together, in spite of the fact that tact was not a conspicuous quality of either of them. "You have quite a pretty place here. John." said the guest, as he took a final look about him on the morning of his departure. "Quite s pretty place, though it looks a bit bare as yet." "O, that's because the trees are so young." said the host, comfortably. "I hope they'll have grows to a good size before you come again. Then you'll sco how much improved the place will be." and they shook hands with mu tual affection and good-mill. Youth's Companion. Marry Unseen Brides. Among the Bedouins of northeast Africa the seclusion Is equally rigid. On the evening of the wedding the bride Is brought to the groom by her girl friends. She is led to the tent while the merry-making Is going on outside. When the wedding Is over her husband may enter the tent and lift the veil. Her girl friends watt out side anxiously to see If she meets with his approval. If he Is satisfied he an nounces it by shrill cries of delight To the Arabs this shout of triumphant satisfaction Is one of the most inter esting sounds that can he uttered. It is cheaper and better to euueate the young than it i9 to board prisoners. Ouward to better schools. County School Supervision will give us better schools. Wl ere tb-y have County School Supervision the people are si veil pleased that they win Id not think ot taking a backward tep i is llir i nly of State and National legislative bodies to see that no laws arejpassed which will enable one man or a class ot men to wror t other men- un der sanction of law. "Twenty years hence the boys of to day will be men. There will be doctors and drunkards, lawyers and liars, senators and sneak-thieves, ed itors and idiots, ministers and murders, and so down the line," says the Farber Forum. Wealwajs wonder how tbe great Russian people can pa tiently submit to 'the arbitrary rule of one man. until we hap pen to think of how Messrs. Rockefeller and Rogers run things in this country. Then we cease wondering about the Rnssns. The C tnmoner. A fait and bnx m widow who lii ti buritd thite husbands, re cently v-tnt with a gentleman, who paid her marked attention in the days of liis youth, to in spect the graves oi her deor de parted. Alit-r contemplating them in moimful silence, she muimured to ber companion!: "Ah, Joe, jou might have been in that row, too. if you bad bad had a little more courage." W. C. B'ggs, representative fnm Scbuyley County has in troducd a bill which should be come a law. The bill provides for tbegpublication of legal no tices in net" papers printed nearest tu Hie cause of action. Should this bill become a law it will "prevent evasions of se crecy of attempts to take ad vantage of tbe present law per uiitting publications in any pa per in the Couuty. "A young man in Platte coun ty is in a quandary,", says the Smithville Herald. "He lives on a farm, but hasbeen court ing ajgirl in town. Finally he asked her to marry him. She seemed willing, but said she could never live on a farm. He then proposed moving to town and engaging in some other business, and she said if he was tool enough to do that, she wouldn't have bim. He is still figuring." tf Habit when using STEVENS ARMS hilling IV UVi yr and blinking do a your g-uue. All liqUsMtt firearm vir tue are embodied in out f.unous hue cf RlfLES, PISTOLS and SHOTGUNS. How can you I. rip hi.ung the sWI when shooting a STE.VE.NS? AiL jour le; or nail in- ; iMd 4 cents NiMM fr ut awpMSKts, i- :;vtor,iV!luiWf'J you cannot ol-tain the) r. c, adm out; tit, til STEVENS. c k.ii, ill- ' I tsMUil WINIH NMpMi i"'1' ,tU 1 111 MisajCii upon wejtpt of pri 0. ' fTu, Float. "IT CAN li.l i . .. . ..t no v and mitrmctKe in., tie of our, hut ttl.l k' .esing until "U solve It. Try your lu.u U 0 c tcuinjs. It s inc. J. STEV.HS A . . AS3 TOOL CO. p. c. .0?l CHIOOPEC K. . C3. U.8.A.