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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
was a tall, quiet man of middle age.

was tall, quiet man of middle age.
He did not go about the country pratt
ing of his knowledge, but sat at his
work, locked in his box car, and ''saw-
ed wood. Some time after Melbourne's
experimental work in the west the
Government of the United States sent
an expedition into the southwest un-
der General Dryenforth of the Army,
to try the old idea of producing pre-
cipitation by the explosion of powerful
projectiles. Bombs were hurled to
enormous heights and exploded by
mechanical device. Scientists who ac-
companied the party advanced sug-
gestlons as to the value of the control
of air currents in the artificial produc-
ton of rain, and in order to perfect
this idea ground shots were used to
alter the course of the air in accord
ance with their plans. The results
were Indifferent. Dryenforth came
out of the field under hail of criti-
cism and ridicule at the hands of the
press of the country, but he felt conf
dent and so expressed himself that his
scheme was wholly practicable and if
given but reasonable trial would
preparation limit was reached and the
"OIO uiopPOo. oSuSIdi
Dryenforth contended for the success
of his experiment on the ground that
he had produced rain in the desert
region of Texas, where there had been
no fall in ten or fifteen years. The
opinion of the press of the country was
that he was on q false trail and he
gracefully retired and kept still about
any achievements that he had thought
that he had accomplished. 1t will be
seen from this that raiDmaking in the
West is not new, and that some salts
factory conclusions have been reached.
The idea is so new and so thorough
ly at variance with popular notions
that it has been long time in getting
a foothold. but if investigations are
honestly conducted and if adventures
are not encouraged there is every rea-
son to believe that the making Of rain
at will may become, under govern
ment regulation as matter of obvious
necessity, mere affair of pressing
button
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
TOOK First PRIZE,

The state board of pharmacy re-
Gently analyzed twelve of the most
popular medicines in order to see
whether they were what they were
recommended to be. After two weeks
of careful work, they awarded the
first prize, a gold medal, to Messrs.
A. p. Ordway & Co., proprietors of
Sulphur Bitters, it being in their
opinion the best and only strictly
pure blood purifying medicine in the
market. Weekly Chemist.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
Aged And Heavy Men.

The Howard County newspapers
have been doing a good deal of
blowing lately about aged and
weighty citizens. They claim to
have four citizens in that county
whose combined weight is LOO,
also four citizens whose average age
is over S5. Audrain county as
usual can lay it over them in both
cases. We have four citizens whose
combined weight is a good deal over
1,100 pounds. Thomas Board
weighs over 1856, VIM. Kemper
about 260, Mr.. Toalson something
over $50 and Uncle Abe Hit presses
the beam at $50 without the least
trouble, making the total at least
calculation 1,175. Among our old
citizens is NJ. John Reed, aged SS,
VIM. West "a, Thos. Crouch S5,
John Charlton 81, making an aver
age age of these gentlemen Ss years
and 6 months.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
CHAMP CLARK VIRGINIA.
Our Congressman ExpOundS Dem0c.
racy to Tremendous Crowds at
Lexington - He is Warmly
Greeted by Lee, Tucker
and Others.
NO. 20.

LEXINGTON, VA, Aug. THE
Virginia campaign was opened yes
terday by Congressman Champ
Clark of Missouri, and he did it in
no uncertain manner. In the after
noon he spoke in the old Court
House to the old time friends of r.
E. Lee and "Stonewall'' Jackson.
He was introduced by Fitzhugh Lee,
to crowd that filled every inch of
space inside the walls. After the
speaker got warmed up the crowds
began to assemble outside the old
building and to struggle for admis-
sion. AS no more could find room
inside the windows were taken out
that those outside might hear. For
two solid hours the Missourian talked
to the sturdy old stock OF the Shen'
andoah valley in a way that elected
great bursts of applause. He
argued that nothing could be ex-
pected Of the republican party, as it
had proved its unworthiness years
ago. He acknowledged that the
country was in a bad condition, but
asserted and proved that the situa-
ton was brought about by some
thirty.odd years of republican legis.
lation. When he finished speaking
the first man to grasp his hand was
old John Randolph Tucker, the vet
eran who has been succeeded in
Congress by his son.
Before the speaking Mr.. Clark
visited the tombs of Generals Lee
and Jackson, and the University of
Washington and Lee, over which
Lee presided for years, and the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, in which
Jackson was a teacher before the
war.
At night Mr.. Clark spoke at
Buena Vista to the big, rough, hard
headed and intelligent Scotch Irish
of that region. His train left the
station afew minutes after 8 o'clock,
else there is no way to determine
when he would have ceased speak
ing. There are good democrats left
in the old Blue Ridge, and thousands
of them, at that. They found that
Clark had drunk deeply at the same
fountain ofDemocracy at which they
had knelt, and their enthusiasm
knew no bounds. At times he had
to discontinue until the applause
should die out sufficiently to allow
even his stentorian voice to be
heard. Heretofore there have al
ways been two wings of the party in
this county, one of which has OPP
posed Tucker. After the speech
some of the bigmountaineers waited
on Mr.. Clark and gave into his
keeping two large bouquets, to be
presented by him to Mr.. Tucker, in
sign that both factions are from now
on his friends.
1t is reported that Mr.. Tucker has
asked Mr.. Clark to exchange fields
with him for the fall campaign,
each stumping the others district.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

where you raise the salary of one
Democrat. Laughter and ap-
plause.
MIR. Boutelle. | am glad the gen.
tleman has got down to good Demo-
cratic argument. Laughter on the
Republican side.
Mr.. Clark. Yes; have got down
to argument. do not very much
blame a Republican for voting for
this kind of a bill-it is entirely con-
sistent with their record of extrava-
gance--but | should like to see the
color of the mans hair and the cut
of his eyes on the Democratic side of
this House who can vote for this bill
and tell the truth about it when he
gets home and satisfy his Democrat
ic constituents that he did right.
Mr.. Kilgore. "It cannot be did" :"
lLauSuteF.
Mr.. Clark. No; it cannot be
"did." | am amazed, Mr.. Chair
man, that such proposition as this
should ever come from Democratic
committee. [Applause on Demo
cratic side.
| do not desire to consume the
time of this House, and do not in
tend to unnecessarily; but want TO
give gentlemen fair warning right
here and now they are not going to
get this bill passed, and the two
other bills that are back of this, until
every method of obstruction is ex-
hausted that is left to lis under the
new rules of this House. Just one
sentence more. If had as much
parliamentary rope as the gentleman
from Texas Mr.. Kilgore] used to
have in the halcyon days of the
filibuster, they never would pass.
another l
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
BLAND FOR THE PEOPLE,
The MissOurian States His Views OF
the Tariff Situation.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. TO-
Mr.. Bland of Missouri is passing
around his petition to the House
conferees, requesting them to hold
ou. for free sugar and a permanent
income tax. Thirty Democrats
have signed it. Many would have
signed it yesterday but for the re-
port that an agreement had been
reached.
81 think it is time for the people
to stand up for their rights" said
Mr.. Bland to the Post-Dispatch cor
respondent. 1.-The sugar trust, the
iron and coal trusts, and all the
other combinations have been care
fully looked after. They have
made their demands and their in
terests have been we'll guarded.
The things in which the people are
most vitality interested, free sugar
and an equal distribution of the
burden Of taxation, have been care
fully ignored. A good many men,
bers are holding off from attaching
their names to the petition because
OF the rumors that an agreement
had been reached and because they
do not desire to do anything that
will embarrass matters. If that
agreement goes upin somke again
a great many will sign it.
81 am not certain that | shall
vote for the compromise bill in the
House. [ cannot approve of il
even with the changes that are re-
ported to have been made in the
measure as it comes from the
Senate. Without free sugar and a
permanent income tax there is little
left for the people at large"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
4 Sad Case,

"I'll tell you how it is,'' said the
Wild eyed patient to the asylum
physician, 81 met Il young widow
with q grown-up step-daughter, and
married that widow.
''Then my father met our step.
daughter and married her. That
made my wife the mother-in-law of
her father-in-law, and made my
step'daughter my step-mother, and
my father became my step-son.
See?
"Then my step-mother, the step
daughter of my wife, had son.
That boy was, of course, my
brother, because he was my fathers
son; but he was also the son of my
wife's step-daughter, and therefore
her grandson. Then my wife had
a son.
"My mother-in law, the step
sister of my son, is also his grand
mother, because he is her step-son's
child. My father is the brother-in
law OF my child, because his step
sister is his wife. | am the brother
of my own son, who is also the child
of my step-grandmother. Lam my
mothers brother-in law, my wife
is her own child's aunt, my son is
my fathers nephew, and I'm my
own grandfather-and | can't stand
itln
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
Corn Is King.

From the ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
Cornmeal is an article OF luxury
at present. For the first time in all
time, so far as anyone-including
the Oldest inhabitant-has any
knowledge of, cornmeal is selling
for more money than flour. The
best patent -four can be bought at
s2.75 and ordinary every day corn
meal brings So. No wonder the
cornmeal miIlers feel trifie gay,
and if they pass their hour-miiler
brethren by now days with haugh-
ty to indifference, or with a commits
Grating sort of ''you poor thing"
glance, the flour millers must not
feel aggrieved, but simply lay it to the
extraordinary conditions of the mar
ket and acknowledge the corn"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16


THE Columbia Herald's National
Editorial Association souvenir edi.
tlon is one of the handsomest publi-
cations We ever saw. The Herald
always makes 4 success of every
thlng 1t undertakes, but on this oc-
easlon has surpassed anything of the
Kind ever attempted. 1t is not only
handsome edition but one which
Will pay the proprietors a magnifi-
cent profit, as il should. The people
oil Columbia and Boone county
should appreciate such an enter
Prise. This issue of the Herald will
10 more to advertise Columbia and
Boone county than could be done in
any other way fer thousands of dol.
lars.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
the upper han


In the death of B. f. Dobyns this
community loses an honest,patriotic
citizen, a Christian gentleman, de-
voted son and faithful husband.
Every man, woman and child, black
or white, in Audrain county, was
friend to Ben Dobyns. No man ever
lived in the county who was more
ready by word or deed to stand up
ior Audrain county and Missouri.
tie had kind word for all and an
open purse for the poor and needy.
lie held various places of public
trust always with honor to himself
and credit to his constituency. His
public life like his private life was
Without reproach. Peace to his
ashes.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
Major Day Was n Soldier,

The following letter has been re-
ceived by Chas. H. Day, of this city,
from M. A. Dillon, Commander OF
Medal of Honor Legion, Washing
ton City, which is self-explanatofy
To Chas. H. Day, Mexico. Mo.
WASHINGTON, d. c., August e.
DEAR SIR: Yours of July 22d, con-
veying the sad intelligence of the
death of your father, received. To
say that | am very sorry to hear it,
is but mild expression of my teel-
ings in regard 70 the same. Your
father, your uncle and myself met
under very peculiar circumstances.
On September 1, 1862, we were car
ried on stretchers into Washington
Street Hospital or New Hallowell
House, Alexandria, Va, your father
with a shattered arm, your uncle
with a leg off and | shot through the
lungs. We were laid side by side
on little cots from which three dead
soldiers had just been removed. We
did not know it at the time, and
might not have objected had we
known it, for there was but little life
left in either of us then, and your
uncle died soon after. Those were
horrid times. ! remember distinct
ly while lying there on beds of pain
and suffering we could hear the rat
tling of musketry and the boom of
canons, and around US we saw shat
tered humanity and heard their dy-
ing groans, and saw dead men car
RED out day after day and not know
ing but we would soon follow; but
thank God, those sights are gone,
and we hope forever. l will say for
your father and uncle that no better
soldiers ever carried musket or
sabre, and | believe no more honora-
bic men or good citizens could be
found. During the days, weeks and
months of suffering in our hospital
home we became quite intimate,
and in the death of your father l
feel that have lost a valuable friend.
Yours Truly,
NJ. A. DILLON.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

Whether Pasteur and Koch's pc =
Culiar modes Of treatment will ul.
timately prevail or not, their theory
of INSTRUMENTATION is the cor.
rect one, though not original, DIR.
J. c. Aver, Of Lowell, Mass, nearly
fifty years ago, formulated Ayers
Sarsaparilla.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

S. D. Ely, of Vandalia, NO., is
making arrangements to move to
Mexico at once to reside. Mr.. Ely
is a substantial citizen and We take
pleasure in welcoming him to Mex
leo. Mexico is being appreciated as
a permanent home for people who
have children to send to school or
who desire church advantages. We
know of no town anywhere with
more home advantages than Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

My boy was taken with a disease
resembling bloody fiux. The first
thing I thought of was Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Two doses of it settled the matter and
cured him sound and well. hearth
ly recommend this remedy to all per-
sons suffering from a like complaint.
! will answer any inquiries regarding
it when stamp is enclosed. l refer to
any county official as to my reliability.
WIN. ROACH, j. p, Primroy, Campbell
Co.. Tenn. For sale by Chas. A. Buck
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

THE oriental combatants are fully
up to the civilized standard of re-
porting on matters affecting tneir
differences. The japanese and the
Chinese have both been heard from
regarding their recent engagement,
and each claims to have given the
other decidedly the worst of it.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
COVERED HEAD & NECK
Eczema of Worst Type, School and
Society Abandoned. Felt "a 90
Would be Relief Eut!''.'..
Soon Put tu E.n,i -
all SUileriuGs.

Ever since was three years Gil .---,- ::''en
troubled with Eczema of the worst / J. -:
times completely covered nay head ana i,t''-. :
have tried all sorts of medicines, and t't ,'''H
,Iortored by many very eminent physicians. i"a
with no favorable result. Sometimes my Is ii.
was one mass of thick sCab that woHid ran a.-,'
bleed and in summer ~oaih be SO hlu''ii ""''' :
nv ears locked as though they Wouiu tail chi.
Coilld not 20 to school ur ms Hle Iai,h SpT.e -
the disease sinclt so lad. fT,t AZ times th.t
death would te relief. suffering a:'3 itcil'' :
untjI 1 hardly knew what /, at0. got s'',r
CuTIct;Ra REMEDIES tEc.i' al ,tatt':rJ iASt,ad
used them according oo.isr -, :'nt r;it liG'T
say that they soon pat an ri!'t ga; il i:i' iitf.
Words can never tell n.y :hari.> to Sog and yn|-
valuable medicine. and slait .-"s rt1niniiti-'i
them 10 whoeyerl scesHiieTi.;. sGt f.sc ''..''',D
disease. had spent money aa:i tied the G''S-
of doctors with hHt Hale rt.5rt. ..
Miss HANNAH WARREN,
Ley Cicnr..r S. rect, La Crosse, " =.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

Mr.. MATTHEWS, the rainmaker,
says he don't want any clouds in
sight when he starts his machine to
work. He says that he has made 81
attempts to bring rain and never
failed; that the chemicals he uses
go up into the heavens and create
new storm center. He has great
confidence in his ability to make it
rnin
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

THE blood on the moon, recently
seen by the prophets of evil, has not
become visible to the eyes of ordi-
nary mortals. The causes that were
to have produced revolution have in
reality given stronger guarantees of
peace than before existed.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

Mr.. Callahan,a prosperous farmer
near Benton City, NO., reports that
they will have fair crop of corn in
that neighborhood. He was at Al
ton, ILL.,, last week and says he never
saw corn look better there.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

Now, my friend from Illinois, who
generally speaks very entertainingly
if not intelligently [laughterl, laid
down the proposition here that those
men work fourteen hours day ;and
yet it is stated right on the face OF
this report that they lay off one-half
the time. That makes seven hours
a day. The gentleman who wrote
this report, Senator Mcmillan, urges
Congress to pass this law because
the railway mail clerks are compell-
ed to work more hours day than
the clerks over here in the Depart
ments. That is certainly strange
reason. | can suggest better
method of equalizing things among
them. That is to make these clerks
in the Departments work more hours
in the day. [Laughter.] 1t will
have a tendency to keep them outof
mischief.
A Member. Why not give them
less pay, too.
Mr.. Clark. Nobody ever proposes
more work and less pay. 1t is al
ways more pay and less work. These
railway postal clerks may not be
paid exorbitant salaries. | do not
suppose they are. But they are this
day drawing bigger salaries, a good
deal, than the majority of laborers
in the United States of equal intelli-
gence.
A Member. Are any of them 60
ing to resign?
Mr.. Clark. Not as anybody has
heard of. Thomas Jefferson said
that Federal officeholders seldom
died and never resigned. He was
correct in that as in everything else.
There is no imminent danger CT their
resigning, and if they did there are
plenty just as competent to take
their places. Every member on the
Democratic side, and many Repub.
licans, have among their papers, or
on file in the Post Office Depart
ment divers and sundry applications
of men who want these identical
places at the present pay, and it will
not do for the gentleman from Him
ois, or for gentlemen from anywhere
else, to say that these men who hold
these places are more intelligent and
better fitted for the places than other
people who want the positions.
Mr.. Kilgore. Did we not pass a
bill the other day to compel the
Government to employ, under GER
tain circumstances, three or four
thousand of those postal clerks who
Were "fred" by the preceding Ad-
ministration?
Mr.. Clark. Yes; we passed a bill
through this House to put back up
on the rolls of the Post OfficeDepart-
ment some 3 900 or 3, 500 competent
Democratic railway clerks
Mr.. Kilgore. Under the present
salary?
Mr.. Clark. At the present salary,
clerks who were bounced by Presi
dent Harrison for no other reason
than that they had the courage, the
patriotism, and the good sense to
vote the Democratic ticket in 1888.
+ Applause on the Democratic side.
What will be the fate of that bill in
the House of the Ancients | do not
know. Laughter.
Now, my Democratic friends, |
want to inform you what this bill is.
I might as we'll tell the whole truth
and be through with it. 1t is a
proposition to raise the salaries OF
five or six or seven Republicans
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
Comfy Court Proceedings.


1t is ordered by the Court that
the Hence family be turned over to
their guardian and curator, it appear
ing to the satisfaction of the Court
that they have estate sufficient for
their support.
Guthrie d Son awarded contract
to furnish coal for Court House, Jail
and county farm.
c. J. Selhorst, petitioner for dram
shop license at Martinsburg. Re-
monstrance presented and leave CIV
en- Selhorst to withdraw petition.
The appointment of Ed. Cant at
torney for back tax suits city of
Mexico by w. H. Wallace, City
Collector, by the Court approved.
Bonds of J. M. Crockett and J. w.
Hanger, overseers of road districts
35 and Sd respectively, are by the
Court examined and approved.
J. N. Stephens, Sheriff, statement
of fees, quarter ending on July 81,
1894, examined, approved and Or.
dered filed.
School fund bonds of c. C. Gen.
try are by the Court examined and
approved.
1t is ordered that voting precinct
No. 8, the Mexico precinct, be di'
vided and all of said precinct south
of the Wabash Railroad be a sepa.
rate voting precinct known as voting
precinct No. 19.
Railroad and telegraph tax rate
State. 25c; County, 25c; road, 15c
and the average rate for school pur-
poses.
c. D. Dye ct al, petitioners to
change public road; continued to
November term.
G. H. Adams, petitioner to change
public road; continued to November
Court for payment of damages.
c. J. Beebe ct al, petitioners to
change public road; continued to
November Court for payment OF
damages.
Levi Watts ct al, petitioners to
change public road; continued to
November Court for payment of
damages.
r. B. Drown ct al, petitioners to
change public road; continued to
allow petitioners to put in proper
condition for travel.
w. T. Mcdonald ct al, petitioners
to change public road; dismissed on
account of impracticability.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

The Missouri State University is
now placing its advertising this sea-
son and is dealing directly with the
editor instead of through an agency.
This is the correct idea and we con-
gratulate the management of the Unit
versity on the change. a great deal
more advertising will ne bought for
less money.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

In order to introduce Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy here we sold several
dozen bottles on strict guarantee and
have found every bottle did good ser
vice. We have used 1t ourselves and
think it superior to any other. W. |.
MowREY, Jarvisville, W. Va. For
sale by Chas, A. Buckner.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

THE delegates from Audrain coun-
ty to the State Republican Conven-
ton were instructed to vote for ID.
A. Mcmillan for the nomination to
the office of State Superintendent
of Public Schools. Prof. Mcmillan
would not accept the nomination if
rendered him.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

MEMBERS of the "industrial'
armies at Washington having failed
in their attempt to work" Con.
gress, are now "working' the
churches. These men are willing
to do anything, except TO work
themselves.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

THE prize fighters are not to
blame for fattening at the expense
of the public; it is the public which
furnishes the fools to worship them,
and the money to support them.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16

BICYCLE riding is the fad of the
hour of the fashionable women at
Newport, and boomers their favor
ite riding costume. Thus the roads
and driyeways become rivals of the
bathing beach.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-16
"MOny to Loan

Money to loan on real estate for
long time, and at the lowest pre-
vailing rates. Large loans of So, 900
and over a specially. Call on or
address LAKENAN & BARNES, Mex
leo, Missouri. 3m