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Sunday morning ST- LOUTS POST DISPATCH -may 10, ioos. IS THE ORIGIN OF MISSOURI'S WORLD-WIDE TO POSTERITY? the stories of fabulous wealth to be dug from the ground on the Pacific coast, went to California. Their arrival In the then newspapers, and was copied throughout this statfi. Blew Out of Chicago. sourl party, 'we want to be shown.

"The story got out. and thereafter when a man hailed from Missouri be really had to be shown." At Home cn the Pacific -7aast. James It. Gray, clerk of the United States circuit court: "I am willing to bellere the expression had Its origin on the Pactfl coast. The first time I heard it St.

Louisans Are Agreed That It Is One of the Most Applicable of Sayings, But They Are Far From Agreeing As to Who. Originated It, When And Where. mining town of -risco was broadly tieralded after the manner of citizens of that country today, and it was not long before every sharper in the field was after them with everything from mines containing gome gold to the salted claim. On claim owner was particularly insistent, and worked night Charlie Van Studdiford: "It was up in Chicago. The Windy City man was showing his St.

Louis cousin around and blowing about the superiority of the canal town. 'Why, we could put St. Louis under a drawbridge In the Chicago river and never know It was he boasted. 'And build ings! O. say! It a shame to snow mem to you.

Why, it's a fact, on the clearest days you can't see the top of them with the rraked eye. And I wouldn't dare to take you on State street, the crowd would knock you down. And 'Say. gimme that again about the buildings and the bald the St. Louisan.

The voluble Chicagoan repeated. ond-hand shop a lot of bottles maker 'For "He espied a bargain and went in. 'A quarter for the lot." 'Have you got the 'I'm from Missouri, show "The man pulled out a roll of bills, which were snatched by the negro. The case 'Look said his friend from Eads bridge; 'I'm from Missouri, and I've got to be shown." Abe Slupsky Gives It Up. Abe Slupsky: "It came out two years ago from I don't know where.

I suspect some hct-alr merchant let it loose over a bar. It sounds to me like It was a hop dream. At that it is all right, but Just now the laugh is on the other fellow, and the boot Is on the other foot. It's up to Missouri to show them. We got off fairly well last week, but there were some bad breaks.

Them swell governors from the East should have been met by committees. We've been shouting too long about showing us, the other fellows are calling our hand pretty strong. It's up to us to make good." Cradled in Gotham. Rv Pnt Short: I have been told that it Thou m. dm ill -4 xll'zr o.

bat is Donbt. Wh'rh stands alert and peerlne- out the faintest fall of feet tVbkli bring the errant knare Deceit! IJVe templar In his great cuirass. Or knight within Lis eult of bras. MiBBor.ri's eon la armoured. He Doubts T'rytliln; and sajs ''io "Toil will have to showe me." He Is from Missouri.

All the United Btates knows that. It has grown in fame and favor with a sure and surprising stride. Missourians hear It even in Europe. Who started it and where? The Poat-X)ispatch has tried to find out. It has asked citizen, raconteur, the man of the street.

The answers are many and divers. Oesar raid, "We have crossed the Rubicon;" Wellington said, "Would to God that Blucher would A public office is a public trust;" Ziegen-tiein said, "We got a moon yet. ain't it?" BHa Wheeler Wilcox Eaid, "Laugh and the world laughs with you;" Jim Cronln said, "We ain't done nothin':" but who under the sun said "I'm from Missouri; you'll have to show me?" The aptitude and versatility of this lit-t'e expression are illustrated by the ease with which it Is applied to many stories of Its origin in the following statements. Like a blind mule, it hitches up with anything. Thinks; It Came From tlie East.

Joseph Franklin, vice-president and general manager of the William Barr Dry Goods Co. "I have head of that for six months, at least. I have no idea where it originated, but my impression is that it came from the East. Probably the stage newspapers are responsible for it." Originated in St. Louis.

Assistant Circuit Attorney A. C. Ma-roney: "There was once upon a time, many years ago, a man whose whole desire was to make money. Five cents to him in those days looked like five dollars to us now. Walking flown Poplar street one afternoon he saw displayed in the window of a negro sec came to trial, and Rastus was acquitted because it was shown that his customer frequented the place to play policy." They Kaised It in Colorado.

Speaker J. II. Whitecotton of the Missouri Assembly: Fifteen years ago a llis-sourian went west to Colorado or Montana. I don't know which. At that time the popular expression of incredulity was "show me." One day this man from the Imperial State was shown over some ranch property, lie discredited what the agent him.

"Show me," he said. The indignant man asked: "Show you, what for?" The local had no legitimate excuse, as it was plain that his figures would not be accepted, but he was equal to the emergency. "Why, because I'm from Missouri." Folk Has Heard It 20 Years. Circuit Attorney Folk: For 20 years that has been ringing in my ears. Its origin is unknown to me, but it certainly antedates that.

Right here I want to say it is one of the most forceful expressions that I have ever heard. Eattery A Boys Began It. Blake Collins, president of the St. Louis Stock Exchange: It originated with the Battery A boys at Chickamauga Park in ISM. The boys had been living on pork and beans, mostly beans, for ten days, and were beginning to growl.

One morning the commissary sergeant came down to the kitchen and said: "Never mind, fellows, we'll get some fresh beef at Lythe today." "I'm from Missouri: sight me," commented one disgusted gunner. That made a hit with the other St. Louis boys, and in two days it was known to originated one year ago In the East during a business transaction, a after a bill of goods. Both the quality ana the price did not appeal to him. The salesman was voluble and insistent.

Over and over he repeated that his wares were cheap at the price. "I don't see it." said the St. Louisan. "I'm from Missouri. You've got to show me." That seems to be the accepted origin of that striking phrase.

Congressman Vandiver the Originator. T5 ri pt Carmody: Congressman Vandiver is the author of that expression. and the incident that inspired It occurred in the halls of Congress six years ago. There had been a heated debate on a party meas- t- an when Mr. Vandiver arose on the Democratic 6ide he bgan his speech some thine like this: came a common comment among miners: 'Oh, he's from Missouri.

He's got to be Happened at Chickamauga. Frank L. Harris "I have heard it originated in Chickamauga Park during the Spanish-American war. The Missouri boys every man of the 43.0GO who camped on that historic field. Heard It and Never Forgot.

T. li. F.a'.lard, presiCent of the Merchants' Exchange: I think It was first heard In St. Ixuis, at least two years ago. R.

F. Walker, attorney-general under Gov. Stone. uod it in conversation with me. It Etruck me is belr.g so apt and forceful that I have always remembered It, and have been gratified by hearing It several times to good advantage.

First Sprung in Omaha. General 31. F. Walker "I ant not to be considered as a claimant to had been fleeced so often by sharps at Chattanooga and hangers-on at Lytho that finally one day a voluble shop keeper was and day to sell his holding. In glowing pictures he told what the yield would be and that the Pikers could not by any possible mish.ip fall to work out Independent fortunes in a few months.

Ha had to go East. He said the dfiath of his father had left him property Interests he could not neglect. The tenderfeet would give him no encouragement, and at last he demanded irritably: 'What do you fellows want? I offer you here the best claim In California at a ridiculously low price, and you won't take It. What do you want, anywayf drawled the speaker of the Mis- years ago. I was taking in the coast with my wife.

We stopped at a little pleasure resort a few miles south oS Portland, Ore. The night was chilly, and the guests aat around a cheerful fire. I was asked where I lived. 'In St Louis I replied. "A general laugh went up.

gentleman. noting my amazement, explained: 'You're from Missouri, and have to be "The phrase hit me as being very fetching, and I Inquired its origin. No one seemed to know other than that it had existed on the coast for many years." interrupted with: 'We're from Missouri, sight Started at the Races. By Tony Faust: My recollection of the THOUSANDS HE KIDNEY TROUBLE 10 DON'T KNOW 11 I kl IJws Hi 9 -i'5il 1: ''V-'i JJ origin of that state phrase Is that it came from the racetrack. A native of Kansas City drilled info St.

Louis and was put onto the Fair Grounds. He had a bunch to spend and was anxious to throw it away. th authorehtp of that fuelling slogan of ail Missourians. Th? fact Is, I heard It probably a year before I made use of It myself. I once asked where It came from, ani was told it was suggested to a comedian by a newspaper squib, and was sprung during the Omaha exposition In I asked Gov.

Stone not long ago. and "Mr. Speaker, I am astounded at the declarations of the gentleman on the other side who has just preceded me. If all that he states is true, this question has but one side. There can be no argument.

But I'm from Missouri: he's got to show me." The newspaper correspondents took the slogan up and the next morning it was being repeated all over the United States. Now I am told it has a strong foothold In foreign countries. I have endeavored to learn where the expression originated and I am confident Mr. Vandiver is it's author. Hatched on the Stae.

By Jere Hunt: That came oft the stage. Five or six years ago some comedian I cannot recaJl his name got It off at some vaudeville house here and it made such a tremendous hit .1 know I advised him to have it copyrighted. He assured me that was quite accidental and was hi own interpolation. "Missouri is lucky." he aid. "Had I been in any other state that commonwealth would have gotten it." It was an extemporaneous gag, and it went.

Forty-Niner Began It. By Col. D. r. Dyer: "Pike County deserves credit for that phrase so apt In its expression of incredulity.

I know this to be He was given a tip on a skate that had as much chance to win as I have of running to Jefferson City In half an hour. He thought the tipster was. his friend, how ever, and was determined to back his judg examination before the state board of health. Even old and successful practitioners fear taking the examination. As a result Kan-nas City doctors who have oases across the line have to "steal" to their patients.

They are liable to arrest and a fine if caught. hu also professed ignorance of its origin." A tout learned what horse the Kaw St. Loui3 Girl Invented It in Europe. man was "Vm," and, seeing a chance to Matthew Kiely, chief of police "I think make some coin, tipped him a good one. it was a St.

lvouls girl aDroaxl woo nrsi onto you St. Louis eharps." said gave that phrase prominence. ne was the man from near Kansas City, being lavishly entertained, and, as her par "but I'm from Missouri, and I've got to ents are very wealthy, was continually bo- CAN'T PRACTICE IN KANSAS. Kansas City Physicians Must Register for Cases Across the Line. KANSAS CITY, May 9.

The law recently enacted by the Kansas legislature requiring that all physicians and surgeons of other states shall be registered In Kansas before they may practice there Is causing considerable embarrassment 10 Kansas City physicians and surgeons. The statute contained a clause whloh pT-mltted foreign practitioners to register merely upon payment of a fee and upon presentation of their diplomas, providing this were done within a prescribed time limit Very few Kansas City doctors registered within the time limit, as but little attention was paid to the Kansas lw. Now. however, if a Kansas City doctor wishes to register In Kansas he must first pass an be shown." He was "shown" all right for pbout fifty. I The Inventor Is Dead.

STOLEN MONEY FOUND. The United States Express Co. Recovered $3000 in Britt, BRITT. May 9. Three thousand dollar of the money the United States express agent, Peterson, says wa stolen from him, has been found beneath the companv's building here, according tp- a statement made by Inspector Barnes.

The robbery was in the daytime and threo packages containing 4rt00 each are alleged to have been taken. Peterson still maintains his innocence and Insists that he was robbed. set by titled suitors for her hand. Sho listened to many stoiies of the possessions of the earls, lords ar.d dukes. One persistent and not too modest auitor finally bored her so much by wild stories of his castles and lands that she determined to squelch him.

rank Xagel: I don't believe I was ever told wher-e that expression came from or who started it. But I did hear one story 'Duke, I've- decidi to let you take me a fact, and I don't care who disputes It. This is the way it came about: "In 1S19 a party of Pikers, attracted by relative to its origin before the Spanish war, which I tell for what it's worth. A very celf-satisfled Missourlan was tour- to C. on a visit, shi went on evenly, ap-Irentiy unaware of the startled look on v-M 7.

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Kiwr itralin of my fatilly bf been using 8wami-Koot for four different kldnr dbeasea, with Jlit Mm good Ith many tbanka to yon I remain. Very truly yon-. UtJBEKT BKRNEB. 5 New York, N. Y.

i Gentlemen- I can recommend i A A 1 -wt It- 5 ing Colorado. He was fond of telling the natives that he knew more about mountain climbing and canyons than they would ever learn. "I'm from the Oxarks," he would say; "show ma some mountains." Finally he was taken through the Grand canyon country. "Nothing doing." he said. "Show me deeper canyons than this." He was so reckless that he was frequently cautioned, and only by the sJertneas ot his guides was saved several hard falls.

He always resented this and would plunge into new danger. The party was going along an extremely narrow path. "It's very dangerous here, sir," said the guide. The visitor turned to reply: "I'm from Missouri, show me." With that he hinged down to the rocks 1009 feet below. Tbe story found its way Into tha the nobleman's face-.

"I should like to see interrupted with: "We're from Missouri; you know, and have to be visit was not taken. The incident occurred about a year ago." Born in New York. William Desmond, chief of detectives: "A swell St. Louisan was down East ten years ago, and was beir.g shown New York. He was regaled one evenVig with stories of Qotham's greatness that awakened his Incredulity.

At the conclusion of the discourse he remarked dryly: 'I'm from Missouri. Show And there you art Pike County Claims It. Police Captain Peter Joyce "You're ht.ra of Joe Bower of Tike and his searcti O.l'r'orr.'.i for his brother. Ike. In '40? 1C 3.

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r.ni nSMITH. You may hare a sample bottle of this famous kidney remedr, Swamp-Root, sent free by mail, "postpaid, by which you may test its virtues for such'disorders as kid-aey, bladder and uric acid diseases, poor liver complaints. i W. W. WILLIAMS.

digestion, when obliged to pass your water 111. x.ava-' 4- SPECIAL NOTICE If vou have the symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble, onif there is a trsee "of it in your family hihtory. send at once to Dr. Kilmer N. ho will jjladiv end you bv mail, immediately, without coet tJou, a sample bottle of and a bo staining many of the i PROMINENT PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE IT.

ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT, inouwuiAn pan tnomstiai or tetimonti rrwitrg urn ana wor.e laW JV read this -urd. that ffer the JD wrlttnj be sure to ay w'i'' mJn 5.

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