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THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH R.1 fOUR TIIE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. WITH THE WITS SHORT STORIES TIE SPRIHLO MISSOURI REPUBUCIN SOUTHWEST MISSOURIS GREATEST Vagrant Verse Wide. Wide World The Scrap Heap NEWSPAPER. kuows b)w mean a until he makes ner A man never woman can be Jealous. Published by MISSOURI REPUBLICM THE SPRIN6FIELD KKE McJIMSEY.

Editor Ami Manager JOHN E. 8 ANGER, HARRY H. M1TCHE1JL BLIND ORATOR SWAYS THOUSANDS. A nan totally blind would hardly lecrn adapted for modern political life, yet one so afflicted has lought through three selling campaigns and just been elected United States Benrtnr from E. MJIMSEY.1 boma.

The blindness of Thomas Pryor Gore waa C. D. MORRIS caused by two painful accident. At eight a boy playmate injured his left eye with a stone; three yer.rt later he himself shot a toy arrow lno the other. When hie father sugg'wtcd bis attending school for the blind, he declared, 1 will S3 to school here.

A school for the blind will furnish neither the books nor the opporunliy I Events justified his choice, says the April Dcllnestor; ha Get In your garden as early its possible. Your helghbors chickens are hungry. Happy la the man who is broke when a friend drops In to sell him a gold The man who turns knocker gnins nothing but the enmity of his friends and neighbors. Republican Building "12, sii. SIC, 11 and 20 Soath Jefferson St.

FOREIGN ADVERTISING. Eastern Ecprerenlatlve, Frank R. Nortbrup, Bruns-wtek New York. Northern Representative Frank R. Northrup, Tribune Chicago.

THE PASSING OF THE EX-PRESIDENTS. (An Indiana college professor suggests killing our presidents at the end of their terms to put them out of their misery.) When eaeh president hss finished his last term, with head diminished Going back to life that's private, do not let him linger long, Eking out a painful living, by deportment lessons Civlng, Or writing for the Woman's Page soma recipes all wrong. Of course, we mustn't lynch them, and It would be wrong to pinch them. For their rude extermloatlon might make all tha country warm; No doubt, hanging wouldn't auit them and It would be mean to shoot them. Bo 'tie b-st to Ot'icrlxe them with some nice, clean chloroform.

But there they'll have a time with Teddy he'll die when he'a good and ready. He wont be the first man sacrifice to his high dignity; lie's too much Din In living and this Is no Josh I'm giving They'll have trouble killing Teddy off now jnat you wait and sea. By Josh Wink, Entered as Second CUs. Matter in the Postofflca at Pined the highest honor, there and at law school Springfield, Missouri. wH At 4t nominw legislature: at twenty-two, populistic delegale-at- Wstkly.

Every Thursday large in Mississippi, and was unanimously selected 1 -Mn 1900 as congressional standard-bearer tor the SUBSCRIPTION RATES. same party In Texas. Daily Edition, one year, la advanca Ci-OOj Hi ow IIKrc(i to bis power as an orator. Daily Edition, sis months, in advance. 12.00 nnulVy remarkable.

It le recorded that at Dally Edition, three months, in advene l.00 meeting with an opposition speaker Senator Dally Edition, one month, in 1 Money Gore asked for a division of time. Dis- Money Gore HOW CAMPHOR IB MADE. To make camphor," said a returned traveler, you put In chins at one hole, and out of another hole you drew the crude product. In coarse white grains, like salt. "Wherever camphor trees grow you will find camphor distilleries.

They are low building of mud brick and their odor ao aromatic that can be detected two miles off. In each building there are a dozen hre. On each fire to a kettle of boll-lng water, with a perforated lid. Fitted to the top of (his kettle to an Iron Under filled with camphor chips of the size of your little finger. Fitted to the top of tbe cylinder to an empty Inverted Jar.

There is your whole apperntn simple thing, which work simply. The steam of the boiling water pawling up through the clytuder extracts from the camphor wo-d Its olL. This oil. mounting tilP upward with the steam, settles like brine on the sides of the Inverted jar at the top. This brine, when the fire goes out, dries into a substance like frost or snow.

"White and aromatic, the frostltke substance Is the crude camphor, it Is scraped off the side of the jar and refined and pressed into those attrac live balls and cubes that you buy st high price everywhere. Louisville CouricrJoufnal. A VALUABLE SERIVE. "The trareler in Ireland will do well," recently remarked an attach to our embasayat London, "when he engages Jaunting ear to make sure of the step to which, In mounting, he must trust, his weight The cabman does not help him to mount 'I am afraid that step i an America once said to the driver ne had engaged. 'The man took hold of tbe step and shook It 'Ah.

said he. It's too ithrong, it to. What are ye afraid of? As he was talking, the thing came off in his hand. This mishap did nor however, embarrass the Irishman, for, with the sunniest of smiles, he turned to hto fare, saying: Shu re, now, Ive saved yer honor from a brokjrn leg!" Harpers Weekly. Weekly Edition, one year 11-00 IN THE CITY BY CARRIER.

Daily, per month 45c; I months, 11-15; months, 2.70; 1 year, 55-40. Liberal commission al. lowed club agents. Ramps copies free. APPROPRIATE APPLAUSE.

Ho dura the poker scene go i your new Western play?" We always get a hand on if Baltimore American, CIRCUS APPELLATIONS. Thu circus baby elephant hss been named Abe Lincoln. despite the fortunate precedent of the war eagle, -Old Abe," who laid an egg Hi hi declining yean. New York Post. REASONS FOR IT, Your Norwegian friend seems to be always In the No wonder; he has just won the kl championship.

Baltimore American. NATURALLY "Gracious, but Smith ha au awfully rasping voice!" "I guess that's because he went to the dentist tbe other day and ha.l hi teeth Balffmoro American AN IMPORTANT POINT. Did you see- where King Menellk of Abyssinia hat sent two fine lions to the Pope!" Ya. and 1 do hope they won't fall afoul of the papal bulla." Baltimore American. ELASTICITY OP TERMS.

'That' funny!" What's that?" Here's an account of an airship manufacturing company that says they expert to do a land office buiP Baltimore American. OF COURSE SHE IS. The United States Supreme Court ha gravely decided that woman I ina class by herself." Isn't it coo. forting to have the highest Judicial authority confirm just what all of si have always known? New York Hse aid. THE CHICAGO METHOD.

'There's a friend of mine a host ling young Italian, who 1 thinking of opening a hlghvlast (restaurant in Chicago, making a specialty of Italian dishes. I'm afraid he wont make a I'Jbcem of It there. It's almost Imposslidu to eat spaghetti with a knife." Phil delphia Press. regarding bis youth and blindness, Money replied: "I will as King as I pieaw; you are at liberty to 1o rbe same. For three hours he harangued, thinking to ex-taust Gores patience.

The latter patiently bided his time, and then for four hours more entertained the howllrgly appreciative nuldence. Page after page of the Congressional Record he quoted from memory quotations that filled his antagonist with Now' rage, but stripped him of every defense, TELEPHONE NO- 102. Much In Little Mrs. Kidder Her husband was getting better, but yesterday ha suffered relapse. Mr.

Kidder I guess he saw tbe bill for "his wife's spring outfit. The present population of Germany la about The poor children of Exeter, England, are provided with breakfasts at school at a cost of a Thera is an average of one leg or arm amputated In New York city each day In consequence ol accidents caused by surface, elevated or subway cars. Judge Coffee, of California has decided that a bequest of 1,000 made to a pet dog is Invalid on the ground that it is impossible for a dog to Inherit money. KEEP THINGS GOING. Iy anyone will take the trouble to acquaint him- self with Lie true conditions of labor and Indus-j Gore's opponents realize that he is not a man to trial affair in Bprtngtteld at this time he will find i ue tampered with or Ignored.

HU career In the much to warrant a most eiioouragtag view of the senate will be worth watching, future. Within the lan ten days there has been a most noticeable revival of activity in almost every line or business which has to do with the employ ment of labor Carpenters arc getting busy, painters are engaged In retouching residences and business houses wherever you go. day laborer are having Buie or no trouble In finding plenty of work for their erstwhile Idle hands to oo. The Republican is not g.Mag to rescind Ha prophecy of several month ago to the effect that the year ISM is to be one of the most prosperous and progressive la the history of ffprlngfleld. All we need to do in order to have things hustling here after tbe fas hi of a few months aro, ere tbe financial Surry set in, la for ns each and every one to take heart and go about his business with renewed faith and determination.

The signs all abojt ns are favorable. Good crops are la prospect. An abundant fruit yield la now strongly predicted. Everything that tbe producer has to sell commands a fair price- The constantly augmenting demand for American products abroad is the certain guarantee tha prices In this country will not go tumbling at least for some time to come. With these favorable general conditions obtaining there to little or no foundation which to base a gLmmy forecast for tbe future of the productive and Industrial Southwest, of which Spring-field is universally recognized aa an Important factor.

Things are rapidly on the mend bn in field, lvl't see Jo it that nothing shall be permitted to intervene to atop or even check the now whirling wheels of industry in this, tbe best city in the Universe. NOT A HORSELESS AGE. Tbe horealesa age that has been to persistently predicted is not merely slow in coming; tbe facts indicate that it Is farther sway than ever, and perhaps may never come. We hope It will not, while at the same time welcoming all the new aids to rapid and untrammeled transportation. People most be riding a great deal more than they ever rode before.

Tbe automobile, industry in this country has quadrupled in value in tbe last three year, and has developed at even a greater rate In the number of tnarhlnea manufactured. But tbe of horseflesh keep on expanding. There were more than 14.000,000 horses In this country in 1597, but according to the figures for the year just closed there are 19.740.000 horses In tbe United Bute at the. present time. This la a gain of nearly 40 per cent In a decade, a much larger one than the human element can sbw.

In spite of our large and continuous importations. Not only are there more horses, bnt evidently they are better ones, a striking triumph for the science of eugenics, since the value has Increased about fourfold, and Increasing prices of feed would not account for all the difference. The horse cannot be put down or relegated to obscurity. He survives the withdrawal of the stimulus of race gambling in Missouri, and comes out In hirer proportion than ever. As mechanical rivals multiply he rises In the scale of dignified personality.

The very fact of the high cost of the power machines increases his value, just as we have to pap more for corned beef when porterhouse steaks go up. To? last horse will take his leave at about the -same time aa the last man. Boston TranscrlpL French fishermen have recently been surprised and pleased by the appearance of fishes heretofore unknown In their water, including the sheepshead and tbe hluefish. eta-tlstlca Kelley and Penre, of In Grands Ore, have produced on their farm a potato weighing (Vi pounds, a fori long, and larger around than the arm of an ordinary blacksmith. CONCESSIONS.

How do you manage to keep your cook so long?" By cheerfully making such little concessions ss she demands. Bhe stays home one afternoon In the week, has the use the parlor every other night and the exclusive nse of the automobile on Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays. Baltimore HAD TO BE. Jlgsby to a regular muckrskrr." Why, I thought he waa such a mild charitable sort of a man. "So he to." "How, then, can he be a muck-raker He told me today he to going to have a suburban garden." liailinure American.

In Pern, the number of rubber-producing trees steadily growing less. Systematic planting nnd cultivation would be of Inestimable benefit to the country and the Individual. We hope that every old maid to not bolding off in tbe hope that she will become a June bride. We have often wondered whether any woman hss more worries than boardinghouse keeper. Tbe less some women know the more they Insist on talking about things they don't know.

Tbe two-cent fore has come to stay, which means that you never will be able to shake off your wife's kin. A model father to a man who steps on a tack iu tha middle of the night and doesn't blame It on the baby. Human nature never changes. Every man boasts of the things he docs even when he is compelled to do them. Did you ever read a novel in which the hero was pictured a a good provider end the heroine a good cock? A good Woman to the nob) eat work of God.

A good woman can make a and bad woman can break him. Many a girl who thinks she to too good to cook baa a dear old mother who haa worked in the kitchen all of her lire. How our heart goes out to the town farmer when we see him lugging koine a basket full of seeds and garden rake. This to the season of the year when every woman to poring over fashion magasines and attending spring bonnet openings. Novelists may put romance Into commonplace stories, but none ol them have ever attempted to-put the glamor on dtoh-waahlng.

After tbe November election BUI Jennlngsbrysn- will no longer be able to use the entire country to personal advertising purposes. There are all sorts of openings to attract women customer, but the only affair of the kind that a man to ever Invited to to a aakxm opening. DIES DF FUR OK A an evidence of China's progress, It Is stated that the number of newspapers published In that country has been Increased greatly la the last deride. They now number 100. EYES CAUSE OF MANY AILMENTS Twin slater named Moore, of Chicago, are ao much alike that Ur.

entries A. Street, a dentist. In love with one of them, waa forced to Identify hi sweetheart by her teeth. NOT EASY TO FIX THE BLAME. Somebody was criminally careless In that Collin-wood tragedy.

To fix the btome where It properly belongs on the janitor for not keeping the means of exit unbarred, on the school board for not providing a modern school building with all the modern safetly appliances or on the people for a false economy In withholding ample funds for the construction sad maintenance of the best school that architects mold plan nnd money buy docs not st this time seem easy of. aecompiiihmeaL All we know Is that somebody has been either criminally careless or economical. British returns show that per cent of the workmen of union membership in the United Kingdom were unemployed in December, as compared with 4.9 per cent in tha same month in 1906. One of the many methods proposes to rid Lon don of its fog nuisance was the erection of tower In different pert of the city through which It wns designed to pump the. foggy atmosphere and clarify IL It costa nearly ss much to pay the salaries of the municipal servants of New York city as it docs to support the entire army of tho United 8tatea.

The salaries amount close to (70,000,000 annually. SCHOOL FRATERNITIES. By the significant vote of to to I the Chicago schtnl board has decided to reform altogether" the fraternities and societies under It Jurisdiction Exclutl.m from various privilege. and honors having proved Insufficient, the heroic remedy of total prohibition, with suspension as the penalty for disobedience, is to be ttrled after September 1. It la nndenlable that the secret aorletiee, by their obstinacy and unreasonableness, have brought thli radical action on themselves.

The school board has certainly been patient deliberate, and considerate. The questl-m hss been under discussion for a number of yean, and educational oplnoln baa been thoroughly canvassed. It Is the firm opinion of the superintendent and the majority of the local principals and teacher that the secret octettes in the high schools are positively harmful to the Intellectual and moral phase of public education that they aro subversive or school discipline and school standard. Moreover, the movement against them Is general. Several states have had to legislate them out of existence, and the courts of Washington and Minnesota have sustained very drastic act Ion by boards of education.

Illinois and Chicago have thus had tbe benefit of tha discussion and experience of many other American communities In dealing with the problem. Chicago Record-Herald. It is rumored tnat another American heiress, with more cents than tense, is going to try the Duke of Yarmouth. Tha experience of one woman in matrimony is of no value whatever to another woman. They must test the proposition for thernaelvea In order to convince them that marriage is' or la not what it is cracked np to he.

New York, March 18. While surgeons were gathered yesterday In the operating room of the Williamsburg hospital to witness tbe delicate operation of Inserting a silver' plate la the skull of Asha Zorn, word waa brought to them that hs had suddenly died. Zorn had been looking forward to tba operation and waa in a sufficiently strong slats of health to undergo It, but at the last moment, It 1s thought, fear sailed upon hto imagination, and brought on tha shock that caused hto death. Zorn shot himself accidentally on January 28, and, while (he bullet waa removed, a cavity remained In the skull. At times hs suffered Intense pains In the bead.

It waa then decided to cover tbs cavity In Zorns head with a silver plate. Dr. Parker and Gels, amlsted by Dr. Henderson, were to have, performed tha operation, and surgeons from several boroughs of the city were present Dr. Henderson went to Zorn's room to summon him to tbs operating room.

With a cheerfol, Well, get ready. Zorn, wa are waiting," he entered tha room, but received no response. The man was dead. Examination showed that death had coma tuddenly, and it waa declared by the attending physicians that heart failure superinduced fay fear dm to the excitement brought about by the thought of the approaching operation had caused Zorns death. Lions are plentiful In Portuguese East Africa, and that region to a paradise for hunters of big game.

In some sections the authorities offer a reward for each lion's head brought In, and they permit the hunter to keep the skin. New York, March 18. Basluc him self on hto records of nearly 1400 examinations. Dr. 8.

W. S. Toms claims that (0 per cent all tho suffering from reflex or neuralgia headache have ocular defects. Over COO of tha paitonta were altogether unaware of their defect. Fully half the cases were of only Might refractive errors or muscular unbalance, and It to Ibeae cases to which ciliary spasm to lbs direct factor In causing headache in person whose occupation calls for mar vl-lon that accommodative asthenopia results.

There is no apparent relation bs-, tween the severity of the baatische and the degree of the ocular defeat, and nothing especially characteristic, except perhaps the patient's noasus-plcion of the. cause. Richness or health Impairment may be the first inciting factor In some patients with considnrabla ocular defects which gave no trouble before. CANNED SHARK. They can shark In Sweden said a butcher.

They make of shark fla a palatable and nourishing meat extract For severs! years tha buMness has bsn going on, and there are now several factories engaged In It The stuff tastes exactly dike extract of best The fish taste to Mlmlnated a secret process. The sharks, which are plentiful la hose waters, are Drat chopped up fine in big hoppers, and afterward boiled down to a liquid of tha const-tency of thin gruel. The oil 3 skimmed off, a second boiling follows, then a filtering. A clear fluid then remains. Thl to evaporated to the thickness of malaises, seasoned with alt and sugar, and scaled up to Jar, after the- addition of some unknown chemical.

It to on excellent meat extract siuTt a sniptd.m of fishiness abort it. It builds np an anaomle person well as the best beef would do." Tf-Blts. When a man with peg leg and one arm In a sling was arrested for vagrancy over In Kansas the other day he reached down in his Jeans and pulled out wsllet containing 1. BOO. You can always sometime tell whether a man la broke or a bloated bond holder by bis Ieohs.

In 1871 there were 71.000 acre under hop cultivation In Kent county, England, which ha been reduced to 44,931, and during the past year hundredweight of hops were Imported, of which America sent 12(433 hundred weight Only a little over eleven months between now and tha inauguration of Cannon, Taft Fairbanks. Hughe, Knox, Shaw or some Dark-Hors Republican president, and the retirement of William Jennings Bryan to the Cbautaugua circuit until 191. TWIST IN TREE TRUNKS. Curious twists are observed In many tree trunks, nnd tha Inquiry Just oe-gun In Europe suggests tha surprising conclusion that they are produced by tha earth's rotation, Ilka the twist of storms and the whirls seen water. Van den Broeck, the Belgian geologist, points out that If conditions of growth were, the causa the torsion should follow the sun's apparent path.

In at least (90 out of 1,000 trees the reverse to true, and It may be that tbe twist to uiually to the left in the Northern Hemisphere nnd to the right or with the clock In the Southern Hemisphere Ilka tho turn of tha cyclonic storms and water vortices. This difference is due to the earthd rotation. Jean Brunhes notes that it was shewn ome years ago tnat tha winds due to the earth' motion blow steadily at a season when vegetation Is active and sensitive, and a Might continuous bending and turning then would be likely to affect tha tree permanently, Bulletin of tbe American Forestry Association. Four New Jersey wardens seized Friday In cold storage vaults of Jersey City thousand -f plover and grouse. The wardens came upon Us boxes of bird in tbe warehouse.

They took photograph of the birds for future evidence, and Sealed the noses, HUGHES OPINION OF HIB HALO. Gov. Hughes' habitual' reserve and modesty makes all the more significant the occasional disclosure of bte state of mind toward himself and hie tasks. In his fraternal talk with fellowBrunon-lans ha said that the halo of fame and of power was a little hot, so hot that at times he would like to take It off to rest his bead. He also said that the great satisfaction of high offlea waa the work It permitted one to do, Its distinction of renk and form being but mockery.

This variant of the eld string, Uneasy lies the head that weni a crown, has Its note of pathos end of gentle scorn for those foolish mortals who think that to become famous- or all powerful in affair of state to to be set free from care. Boston Herald. THE WATER CURE. Caller-Do you think the doctor to going to help you, Mr. Jones? Jones -He msy.

If I can only fo. low hto order. He told me to drink hot water thirty minutes before every meal but it to bard work to drink bot water for thirty Pittsburg Obeserver. Quoting Hetty Green to the effect that Taft win arise and nominate Roosevelt at the proper the Waahlngtoa Herald wants know that means 1911? Up to tha hour of going to press Mr. Taft had not responded to tha Herald's Inquiry.

An Indiana professor would have the Americas people shoot their presidents at tha expiration of their official terms. That to one way of forever disposing of that much-vexed question, what shall do with our An out-of-the-way profession for a woman la that of dinner-taater. Bha to a product of Parisian refinement, and Spends portion of each day- visiting house and tasting dishes. She suggests Improvements, and shows tbe cook new ways of preparing foods. Two neighbors living on West Twenty-third street.

New York Leo BL J. Martha and N. Mon tague Nieman have been snlng each other for live years fir four Inches of ground and a small rosebush. Costs and lawyers fees already have amounted to several thousand dollar. WASTED ENGLISH WATERWAYS.

Tbe Germans are aware of the foot which for some time has been suspected in England namely, that when railways were Introduced tbe country was too haatly In arriving at the conclusion that they would altogether supplant tho watorwiy. Country Ufa. A remonstrance to public Improvements to so much dead weight one tha wheels of progress. Bear this in mind when you are urged to sign your name in protest to any public-spirited movement. AN INDUSTRIAL AID.

Wlxe Ho say he has perfected plana that will enable him to build low-priced motor care, placing the machines within reach of all. Browne My! That mean a great business undertaking. LV Uo.nMn, undertaking bulimia." The Pathfinder. After three or fonr corks have been pulled st tbe other fellow's expense even the silent man becomes IN BOHEMIA. The attic poet tore, with js faint ripping sound, a Angling thread from the sswlike edge of hto cuff.

"Yon cant express the value of terms of editor penny worth. A Cleveland skyscraper. 200 stories high, will be topped by a Goddess of Liberty holding a torch, from which a leaping flams of gas will be burning at all times. The exact hour of the day and nlghl rill be Indicated by causing the flame to shoot high aiislY I writTyousn ordwr spring poem like this In mere dollars, he said. No, you csn'L" the rented.

Firty cents, Bird not more, to what the thing to Jnto the air during tbe minute preceding each hour. I The youth tacarlr assented. NOT A BIRTH MARK. Detective I never saw your bn band, you know, madam. Ha he an? peculiar feature or mark about hlml Deserted Wire Yes, Mr; Just abow hto right ear I think you will find mark shaped like a corner of a Iron.

Chicago Tribune. A. rich Missouri woman round her affinity in a poor house and married him. It to tha habit of Mlmouil woman to taka their own wherever they find It NOT IN THE HOARDING CLASS, lae man with a wife and several grown seldom hoards hto money. Chicago New..