Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-11-08
SAVE YOUR OLD STRAIN HATS.
War in China and Japan Has shut
OF the Principal Source of
Material.

Material.
WASHINGTON, D. G., November A.
One unexpected result of the war
the East, which will bring 1t home
perhaps to our W people. is des.
cribed in a report of the State De-
partment from United States Consul
Stephen, at Annaberg, Germany.
He said
The straw-plaiting industry, With
its seat in Dresden, Saxony, is be-
ginning to feel the effects of the war
in Eastern Asia. The straw hat
manufacturers usually draw their
material, put up into straw braids,
from China and Japan. The block
aiding of the ports from which these
braids We're exported has caused a
scarcity and higher prices OF the raw
material. Manufacturers are Begin
ming to look for other sources from
which TO supply their demands, and
expect to be on the spring market
having nothing better-with home
products.
The Visit Of a Good Woman.
From the Columiria Herald.
Mrs. Governor G. II. Hardin has
been the guest the past week of DIR.
and Mrs. II. K. Hinde, her old
neighbors in Audrain county, and
friends'in bygone years at Faiton,
Mo. Mrs. Hardin visited William
Jewell cemetery, where she has Il
handsome monument erected in
memory of the Governor, and where,
in a few days, she expects TO remove
his body from the family home. She
visited the University and other
points of interest in the city, attend
ing services at the Baptist church in
the morning and the Presbyterian at
night.
She met with many of her friends
in childhood and early life, and in
driving around the city pointed out
the residences of many of the early
settlers in Columbia, among the
others, the Governors old home and
her Aunt Barr'n old place, where
she boarded when a girl going to
school at the old academy, and the
old Hit and Samuel place (now w.
W. Garth's), where the Gcgas a,r
, IT, VISITED her. She also visited
her sister, Mrs. Cartwright, who
.ivea at the old Jenkins home, six
miles out on the Ashland road,
where her father settled in 1885, and
where she and the Governor were
married. 1t was a delightful privi-
lege of the writer to be with this
elect lady these few days, and to en-
10y the "reminiscences of her early
girlhood days, and as she read over
the histories Of Scott, Bourbon and
Harrison counties, in Kentucky and
see her living over her early Ken
lucky life and to hear her comments
upon many of the most prominent
characters of those days.
: AS [ stood with her at Jewel
uou1otory, by tho monument OF my
!, old and best friend, DR.. 7. R. Fl
, Smith, memory was busy with mo
running over the IS years of my life
spent with him at the State Lunatit
Asylum, at Fulton, in the most in.
5 innate association. One of the frs
3 | expect to meet me on the otheI
. shore, is my dear friend, DIR. Smith
Boone county is rich in holding tn,
remains of two such men as Gov. c
3 II. Hardin, the model Governor, ant
| DR.. I. R. Fl. Smith, the mode
superintendent. Fl.
s Military Brutality.
The Scientific American says tn
s German army has long been motor
r ious for the brutal manner in whicl
a the private soldiers were treated b,
+, the non-commissioned and othe
e officers. The system was inaug
urated by the great Frederick, an,
the military authorities since his da,
IS seemed unwilling to let it die out
Happily, the present emperor seem
determined to have noAe OF it. Hi
imperial rescript on the subject O
h forbidding any officer to striks hi
q men made some sensation when
was issued, though it was common
ly said in army circles that it woul
soon be q dead letter. A few recer
&c cases prove the contrary. 4 we
known officer was recently dismisse
II frum the service with ignominy fc
Il the offense of striking ii man in Ii
ranks-the emperor personally il
dorsing the order for his dismiss
s with d severe and cutting remarl
3 Last week, at Breslau, a sergear
d VINO was charged with i'll treating
~seifier was tried for the offense by
&c council of war, vas sentenced to tw
L. years imprisonment in a fortres
. and, when his sentence has expired
to rejoin his regiment as a soldier /
j. the second class.
Ii Clark at nj. Charles.
al From the st. Charles Banner,
Hon. Champ Clark, who arrive
in this city yesterday morning e
, route from Poplar Bluff, stare,
over to hear Gov. Stones speech
Mr.. Clark was on the stage apd tn
Governor made several corpplimen
tary remarks regarding HIN. As th,