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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
For Congress—
■ W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
R. E. JEFFERY
For Prosecuting Attorney—
HUGH WILLIAMSON
For Representative—
W. M. SHAVER / •
For County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN 2
For Sheriff— S ^
J. F. McCUISTION
For Circuit ^erk—
C. E. SMITH 1
For County Cleric— <l .
G. L. ROBINSON
For Treasurer— '1
J. H. CAMP ;
For Assessor—
W. M. TIMS
For Surveyor— * i k.
J. H. AITKENS
For Coroner—
W. H. NOLEN
For School Superintendent—
E. H. BOWMAN
For Justices of Peace—
J. M. BELL < _
L. B. HARRIS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
For Road Overseer—
W. F. HURLEY
Results of Civil Marriages.
Rome, May 22.—Civil marri
age with its consequential di
vorce, race suicide and juvenile
(criminality, or religious marri
age with its indissoluble family,
healthy birth rate and religious
ly trained children.
This is the question on which
all Italy is rent asunder at the
present moment as it has never j
before been divided in the en-;
tire 50 years of its national ex- j
istence as a united nation. Not
Only is its entire social strata
thus torn in twain, but perhaps
more than half of its thinking
population is firmly convinced
that Italy is now standing at the
cross roads about to choose the
path that will lead either down
to the racial extinction now men
r.cing France or the continuation
of the healthy growth in popu
lation which has marked it in the
past.
Sb This critical situation has just
■pbeen precipitated by the intro
jr Auction of a law in parliament
making it a criminal offense for
a priest or other ecclesiastical
ly authorized person to perform
a religious marriage ceremony
until the couple has first been
married according to the civil
ceremony and laws of Italy. A
divorce clause has also been in
corporated in this law and a
gainst the two the Vatican has
succeeded in arousing an un
precedented storm of protest
from every quarter of Italy. Of
the two, however, divorce anti
UMfBi a cm nan nan nan ran n ■ nrn ran Kan r
civil precedence in matrimony,
the Vatican is making the hard
est fight against the latter.
Previous to the overthrow of
the Papal States in 1871 by the
present kingdom of Italy, mar
riage amongst the Italians had
been largely if not purely a
function of the church. With
the constitution of the present
Italian nation it was naturally
made a civil institution. Any
one who so wished, and as a mat
ter of fact practically every one
did so, had the right to have
both a religious and civil cere
mony and could have either the
one or the other performed first.
The civil marriage, however,
was the only one recognized by
the Italian law and was the only
legal mariage in the eyes of
| the Italian courts.
Hunting Thorough!/ T»»t«i
In vary truth a modera b»ctl<*ob<|
does, In modern phrasing, carry sou*
! Bunting. About f1*0.000 is spent bf
I the United States nay/ for Hags eec*
year. Ever/ case of bunting costa tbe
government >500; every roll eoabi
111.25. The bunting cornea from Mao
•acbusetta. Every piece la subjected
to the most severe test. It mart
weigh five pounds to svery forty yards
and stand the weight teat of seventy
pounds to two square Inches. It la
steeped In salt water for six bouts
and then exposed to the sun for tbe
same period of time If after this
i treatment It continues to be bunting
of s distinguishable color It la poo
■ouncvd fit tor
Uncovered Family Group.
An Interesting discovery was re
cently made In Edinburgh In the
course of the demolition of the old
i church buildings of a parish church
, Vi Roxburgh Place A vault contain
ng the remains of Lady Glenorchy, a
member of the Breadalbane family,
' and the founder of tbe original church,
was laid bare
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MORE TROUBll ll» a (iArtOtw
Old Gentleman Went Too Par in His
Inquiry, and Demonstration
Proved His Undoing.
An elderly gentleman walking
through his garden one day stopped
before a fig tree on which were two
figs just, ripening. His favorites were i
figs, and summer often came and
went without the fruit coming to ma
turity.
Shortly after, he met his gardener, |
who, assuring him the figs were quite
ripe, was requested to send them to
the summer house, where his master
was about to rest.
Picking the figs, the gardener sent his
little boy of seven with the basket. On
the way the little fellow stopped and,
removing the leaves, gazed upon the
tempting fruit.
The attraction was too great; he ate
one. Covering the other with the
(eaves, he proceeded upon his errand.
On being asked if the gardener had
not sent two figs, the boy, after a mo
ment's silence, answered: “I ate one.”
"You ate one? How?” exclaimed the
old gentleman, angrily. “How did you
come to do that?”
Dropping his eyes to the basket. “I
took It like this,” said the child, taking
the remaining flg, “and I ate it like
•his.”
And, suiting the action to the word,
he consumed the second fig before the
astoniaksd eyes of the old gentleman.
LITERAL IN HIS THEOLOGY
Darky Preacher's Humorous Comment
on Biblical Text As He Under
stood Its Meaning.
Of old the right of individual private
Interpretation of the scriptures was
not accorded to the laity. Only the
priests or preachers were authorized
to say what was meant by the sacred
text. That has all been changed, and
no man will now be expelled from the
most orthodox church for believing
that Balaam’s palace mule did not
really address his fdllow citizens of
Judea or. the political issues of the
day, or considering that the statement
of the sun’s standing still at the order
of Captain Joshua was an illustrative
allegory and not the record of a frozen
fact.
This advance tn theology Is Illus
trated by the story of the darky
preacher who delivered a sermon from
the text, “These eight did Milcah
bear.”
"Muffrlnd3,” said he, “you Is singu
larly blessed by de Lawd in dis gen
eration. If you wants some milk you
done goes to youah cow, and at one
milk you gets enough of de laciferous
fluid foh eight people. In de olden
times of which de Bible speaks It
took eight folks to milk a bear, en 1
specs dey gets mighty little milk at
dat."—Los Angeles Times.
Spiders Catch and Eat Fish.
Specimens of the spider known ai
Thalassius Spenceri are in the mu
seum at Durban, Natal, and the cu
rator, B. C. Chubb, has just made sci
entific announcement of the discovery
of a member of this species in the act
of catching fish for food.
One of the spiders was captured
several years ago by the Rev. N.
Abraham at Greytown, and it was
placed in an aquarium. A servant |
boy soon noticed the creature eating |
a pet fish, and the startled clergyman
left his study to watch.
The spider, three inches across ulth
legs extended, stationed itself at the
water’s edge, with two legs on a
stone and the eight ethers spread out
on the water. After a time a Ash
came under the outstretched legs,
which were suddenly thrown aronnd
It as the spider made a plunge, driv
ing Its fangs Into its prey, and then
at once climbing out on the rocks. It
soon ate a flBh of four times Its own
weight.
Bagdad and Queen of Sheba.
The Bagdad of the "Arabian Nights"
■till exists, but in a greatly diminished
form. In fact the grand old palaces
and mosques of its prime are nearly
all in ruins, and only a small popular
tion lives where once was a city of
2,000,000 people. A new city 1s
gradually coming inb» exietence on
the opposite (east) bank of the Tigris,
the site being valuable from a com
mercial point of view. The Inhabitants
number about 200,000, and are mainly
Bedouins. Ths famous palace of Ha**
oua-al-Raschlld has disappeared, and
the foreign consulates occupy Rs site.
It is only a tradition which asserts
that the queen of Sheba, who onea
visited King Solomon, lies burled un
der an eight-sided brick tower bear
ing her name in old Bagdad. The olti
iene have ceased to venerate it, ws
are told, and the tower is approaching
a state of ruin.
Concerning Men With Tails.
It would not be wise to build upon
the story of the coast natives that is
the interior of Papua there are men
with tails. Similar beliefs have been
held in many parts of the world and
many ages, sometimes from lmprea
slons of apes, sometimes from more
or less spiteful credulity about a peo
pie’s neighbors. For centuries it was
a common gibe on the Continent that
Englishmen had tails. It originated
from the story that the people ol
Canterbury gr Strood, having mocked
at St. Thomas riding upon a little ass
and cut off its tall, were punished
with the curse that thenceforth all
their boys should be born with tails
And the scoffs of other Englishmen at
the “Kentish longtalls” rebounded up
on the whole nation, so that even in
I the t>\e of Edward VI. Englishmen
| xw suffered from the taunt.
CONSTIPATION.
!ts Cause and How to Cure St
Eat too much,
Stomach feels bloated,
All out of sorts,
Don’t feel like work to-day. Gues.
I’ve another case of biliousness.
“Take anything^”
“Yes, some pills, but no results; sup j
pose I’m getting ironclad. Sometimes '
double the dose, then they physic me sc
hard I’m too weak to work. Think IT
have to try something new,”
“Ever try Prickly Ash Bitters?”
“No; I’ve heard a good de*l about it
but never tried it.”
“Well, you’ll be pleased with the re
suits.”
The purgative action of Prickly As’r
Bitters not only removes hard impac
tions, gas and impurities, but it strength
ens the muscular action of the bowels
which causes them to move regulany.
Prickly Ash Bitter* is a bowel tonic
and regulator in the truest sense. It
promotes daily evacuations, establishes
healthy movements and is the' best
known remedy for disordered digestion,
flatulence and a constipated habit.
D. M. Blackwelder. of Litchfield, 111., says i,
the Litchfield Ntvis: “I am perfectly wilting, in
fact glad to testify to tne value of Prickly Aib
Bitters as a medicine for the kidneys, stomach
and bowels. I ha”- ased it whenever I needed
anything of the kind for the last fifteen years
and it has always given satisfactitw."
Get the genuine with the figure
“3” in red on front label.
Bold by druggists. Price 21.00,
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earache and pains in the bowels and
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J. W SEDGR, Blue Springs. Mo.
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Cotton Chopping Sale 1
BEGINS SATURDAY, MAY 23 3
On account of the backward season, we must convert m
a large part of our stock into cash at once. f|i
MEN’S PANTS. SHOES AND OXFORDS.
$1.25 work pants will be 0ne lot children’s low shoes fg
at only -.98c ^ and values for Eg
.00 Worsted Pants, made per pair...98c fig
tunnel belt loops— gjg
in this sale .$1.39 One Lot Ladies’ Low Shoes,
$3.00 Serge Pants, all wool $2.50 and $3.50 values, brok
tailored .. $2.38 en sizes, while they last..$1.49 gj
$3.50 and $4.00 extra well $2 25 Wehster Low Shoes, 1
tailored pants, during cotton extra yalues.$L«9 9
... ..$2.98 D
in serges and light $2.30 Mary Jane Pumps, in HE
.$4.89 this sale.$1.98 K
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