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Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

alysis, made a temporary wreck Of tho her.
euiean frame, and in view of his advanced
age, his anxious friends believed that he was
not long for this world. The following is
his own account of his illness:
In the latter part of 1890, I was taken
down with a severe attack of typhoid fever,
which confined me to my bed for two months.
Two months is a long time to be in bed. but
l was not to get up yet, for infiammatory
rheumatism seized me, and it was worse than
the typhoid, for it was more painful. To
add 10 my trouble and make it more inter.
esting, the intiamInatory rheumatism was
followed by a stroke of paralysis, and I lost
almost totally the use of my legs and arms,
for / could not walk a step and could rot
feed myself. 1t would seem that l had
reached the depths of misery, but such was
not the case, for my kidneys gave out, and
this seemed to be the last straw on the load
that was to crush me.
"My friends all thought I would never re-
cover, and though the doctors came to see
me and prescribed, it was easy to see that
they were but trying to make my pathway
to the grave a little more easy, without the
remotest hope of recovery, and / looked for
ward 10 death with happiness.
While in this frame of mind, / was adj
yised by a friend to try DIR. Williams Pink
Pills, and began the use of them, taking one
pill after each meal, and this / continued
Tor one week, and began to fancy I perceived
Improvement in my condition. | then in
creased the dose to two after each meal, and
at the end of the second week there was no
doubt but what Pink Pills were making ne
better, so | kept on using them according to
directions, and in three months was a well
man."
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain all thu
elements necessary to give new life and rich.
ness tG the blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are for sale by all druggists, or may be
had by mail from DIR. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y, for 80 cents
a box. or six boxes for $3.50.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
sheep on the Farm.

1t does not require a large farm to
keep q small flock Of sheep, which
everything considered is the best. 1t
should be well fenced 80 that they can
be kept where wanted. Many arough,
wornout farm might be brought up
and made valuable by raising sheep.
There is no stock SO well adapted to
rugged hillsides or rough pastures, or
to prevent the growth of weeds and
bushes. Where sheep have the range
of q field very few weeds will 60 to
seed, and bushes will be thoroughly
cropped and they will either die or be
kept back. When a farmer can thus
easily turn the weeds and bushes into
excellent manure, and at the same
time have them converted into mutton
and wool, it is certainly a good thing.
Sheep will thrive in a pasture and
get fat where cattle would almost
starve. They also scatter their drop
pings over the field and never fail to
enrich the lands where kept. Feed
them extra, for this additional food
works to the profit of the raiser in two
ways---it not only insures a good
growth of flesh and wool, but it makes
the manure richer and more valuable.
To make the most profit out OF sheep
they should be well fed and cared for.
A sheep must be fed to make the best
mutton, but few conceive that a well
fed sheep produces more wool than
one poorly cared for. Wool is a pro-
duct from feeding, the same as fat, and
many farmers lose half the profits
from neglect to feed properly. Sheep
should have, besides good feed, dry,
clean quarters, sheltered from rain
and storms.-Southern Farm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

every day since. i have gained 20
pounds in weight and am feeling first
rate.
"My wife has also been taking it
for nervousness, and thinks there is
nothing like it. We both recommend
it to all of our acquainsances, and you
are at liberty to use this letter al you
see At, for it truly worked wonders in
my case.''
And Paine's celery compound is
working just such wonders in every
State, county, city and village of the
country to-day.
The reader must know some one
who has tried it. Ask that person if
he or she was not at once benefited!
Don't let a dealer palm off anything
else on you, however; for there ia as
much difference between Paine's cell
cry compound and all the ordinary
sarsaparillas, tones, nervines and
compounds as there is between an
sIectric motor and a boys windmill.
There is power to cure in Paine's
celery compound.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
UNDER STATE MANAGEMENT.
The Confederate and Federal Homes
of Missouri Will Likely Become
Eleemosynary Insti-
lions,

Hon. ". I'll. Kennan received a tel
egram Saturday stating that the bill
making both the Confederate Home
at Higginsville and the Federal Home
at st. James, Mo-, eleemosynary in
situations under the management of
the State, passed the House this
morning, appropriating S26,5o0 to the
Confederate Home for the next two
years, with an emergency clause for
the Home, and $4,000 for the Federal
Home for the next two years. The
State, under the bills passed and
which will become laws when the
signature of Governor Stephens is at
tached, will make sufficient appro-
.priations to maintain said Homes for,
twenty years and at the end of that
time the lands and buildings and all
property of the Homes shall become
the property of the State absolutely.
The Governor appoints a Board of
Managers of ex-Confederates, con-
sisting of nine members of the Con-
federate Home Association.
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The Mayfield Sanitarium,
9l2 Taylor Avenue or Southeast Corner
Taylor and Belle Avenues. st. Louis, Mo.

Home and hospital established and controlled
by Baptists, but admits of sick and afflicted Of
all denominations or of no denomination. The
medical staff is composed OF some Of the best
known physicians of the city and who are
recognized authority In their special lines Of
work. ANY physician OF good standing can
treat his own patients iii this sanitarium and
patients can choose their own physician IL they
so desire. It has q nurse g training school and
a woman's board of charity. The location of
the sanitarium is good and with It's many other
superior advantages, without a doubt, makes IL
one of the most attractive and desirable insti-
buttons of its kind in the West, and there are
hundreds of patients who need treatment and
yet they hesitate to come because they are not
acquainted with sanitarfum methods. To all
such we will say that the Mayfeld Sanitarium
Is q Christian Home and you viii feel that Won
are with friends; viii be tenderly cared for by
trained nurses and will receive such skilled
medical and surgical treatment as each indi-
vidual case may require, and we solicit your
patronage. Elegant accommodations furnished
at 50, 81, $40 and Sl4 per week. Nursing ut 81. so
to s. per week. Medical and surgical services
reasonable. Our aims in this new sanftarium
are just the same as when we first entered the
work twelve (l2) years ago. As in the past,
ministers of all denominations and their famf-
lies receive free professional treatment. Also
no charges for professional serv ices rendered
INDECENT persons whose board and nurse bills
are paid by churches, lodges. &c.
For further information address
w II. MAYFIELD, M, D..
Mayfiaid Sanffarfum. L Ioufa Mo
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There is more Catarrh in this zee
ton of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incur
able. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it a local disease, and
prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease and, therefore, requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca
sarrh euro, manufactured by F. ].
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonfuI. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it
falls to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
BsFSold by druggists, Toe.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
The Wade-Ringo Case.

1t now seems highly probable that
the United States Supreme Court has
sanctioned the Judgment of Justice
Harlan in granting the writ OF error
to Mr.. Wade and that the case will
be decided by that great tribunal on
the whole record and dispocing Of
every question in the case. Mr.. Bar
ker and Mr.. Buckley, counsel for
Wade, say they have never acknowl-
edged defeat, or that they are wrong,
and will not, unless the highest court
in the world, where it is now pending,
shall have so decided.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
How the World is Fed.
4 rom Inc NGW fUTK WORTH.

The extensive shipments of frozen
poultry recently made from New York
to Europe suggests the vastness of the
scale on which the improved arrange
ments for feeding the world are now
carried out. When America was dis
covered buyers in the largest Europ-
can produce markets counted by the
dozen at wholesale and had minds
habituated to the "great gross" as the
largest measure of numerical quanti-
ty. Now we r obliged to count our
eggs and chickens not merely by the
gross, but by the million dozen. Last
year England actually consumed 1885,
DOC, 900 dozen eggs, paying $40, 0o0, 900
for them. Ten millions of them came
from America.
In 1896 England imported SIC, 900
hundred weight of frozen beef from
Australia, and over three times that
amount from the United States. A
market in London or in New York
would often show within the space of
100 feet the products from every part
of the world, the shipment and pres
ervation of which over thousands of
miles of land and water have been
made possible by the process of "chill-
ing"
Although the horrors of plague and
famine in India existing while we
have food products unused in that
country, show that the machinery of
distribution is still very imperfect, it
is better now than it ever has been in
history.
The refrigerators invented during
the last ten years have practically
revolutionized distribution, and in do
ing so have confirmed the supremacy
of the United States as the worlds
greatest provider. Every one knows
that we raise grain by the million
bushels, but it is only when we begin
to export eggs and poultry by the
million dozen and Thousand tons, and
the humble hen promises to bring in
more money from abroad than the
naughty steel industry, that we begin
to realize the possibilities of our
greatness,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
Beware
OF the Knife.

Mr.. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshfeld, Mo.
writes: , "For six years I have been q
sufferer from a scrofl1lous affection OF
the glands of my neck, and all efforts
of physicians in Washington, d. c.,
Springfield, ILL.,, and st. Louis failed to
reduce the enlargement. After six
months constant treatment here, my
physician urged me to submit to a re-
moval of the gland. Atthis critical mo-
ment a friend recommended S.S.S.,
and laying aside a s1eep-rooted preju-
dice against all patent medicines, I be-
gan Its use. Before I had used one bot
tie the enlargement began to disappear,
and now it is entirely gone, though am
not through with my second bottle yet.
Had ] only used your SIS. long ago,
] would have escaped years of misery
and saved over $ISo.n
> This experience Is like that of all who
suffer with deep-seate1 blood troubles.
The doctors can do no good, and even
their resorts to the knife prove either
fruitiess or fatal. SsS.S. is the only
real blood remedy; it gets at the root Of
the disease and fon.es it out perma-
uently.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

Sunday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
Rev. N. r. Pittman preached a very
able ermon to a congregation of men
and boys. 1t is Mr.. Pittman's object
to interest the men and especially the
young men, in a weekly meeting of
this kind. In short,as Mr.. Pittman TX
pressed it, "a kind of a Y. M. @. A.
meeting"
The meeting will be a nondenomina-
tional one and it is desired that there
will be good attendance at this meet
ing next Sunday. 1t ID hoped that all
who take interest in such matters will
attend and help out, either by their
presence or their remarks.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
Paine's celery compound has never

Paine's celery compound has never
yet failed to cure.
When all other medical treatment
has failed to relieve Paine's celery
compound has succeeded time and
time again.
John w. Boyd, of Mishawaka, Ind,
says of his own case:
"Last winter / was taken down with
a very severe attack..of nervous and
musueular rheumatism, SO bad that l
could not lie down, sit down, or stand,
without the most excruciating pain.
l was all the time under the care of
the best physicians of the place, but I
did not improve. I took different
rheumatic cures and used an electric
battery q half hour each day for 10
days without any relief.
"Finally I concluded to try Paine's
celery compound, and to my surprise
after using one-half of a bottle 1 was
able to get out and vote on election
day, and before I used the whole bot
tie I went to work, and have worked
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
County News.
YOUNGS CREEK ITEMS

Correspondence of the Ledger.
YoUNGs CREEK, Feb. 1S.-Prof.
Strother closed a very successful
school at Bryan last week. He is q
candidate for County School Commits
sioner at the coming election.
There is quite a number of cases OF
grip and pneumonia ON the Creek.
DIR. Blankenship is kept busy night
and day.
Asbury & Carr are buying another
load of horses and mules for the South
ern market. This is an old firm and
ships out eight or ten loads each seas
on.
The farmers + preparing for big
crops this spring.
There will probably be a telephone
line extended from Skinner via DIR.
Blankenship's to Hollansville, thence
to Rowena. 1t wiIIsbe a great conven-
fence to the good people of the north
end.
We notice the County Court has ap-
pointed ]. II. Berry road overseer for
Bryan. No better appointment could
have been made. John is an up-to-
date business man.
There is a good number of cattle
being fed on the Creek.
Miss Cox will teach the spring term
at Bryan.
Miss Grace Hollanshead will COM
mence her second term at Gatewood
April 1.
T. B. Hill and Mike Peck, who have
been serving on the standing jury, are
at home.
The Skinner Bros. have rented the
Charlton farm from 8. 8. Galloway.
Otto Howard has moved to the Har-
low farm.
Frank Wilson has been re-appoint-
ed road boss for the Ellis and Weaver
districts.
Ernest Blum has rented the Bill
Hume farm.
There was a fine crop of ice harry
ested during the recent cold spell.
Corn is selling at 20 cents, oats at Is
cents and hay is worth about S. per
ton.
Mules have advanced from SIS to $40
per head.
Cattle of all kinds are selling we'll.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
Afternoon Service.

Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pill to take with Hoods ~Sarsaparilla.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
The rattlesnake bites you, the scor-

The rattlesnake bites you, the scor
pion stings,
Mosquitoes delight you with buzzing
wings.
The sand burs prevail, SO do the
ants,
And those who sit down, need hall
soles on their pants;
The heat in the summer is a ITO, too
hot for the "devil," too hot for men /;
The wild boar roams in the black
chaparal,
IT'S a Shell" of a place he has for a
"hell."
A country depends a great deal on
who inhabits 1t. Some of us think
Audrain County can't be beat for a
good home, while there are those
who think it HI, and they are par
TALLY to blame - who knows how
much? 1t is said we are the architects
of our hells. I am satisfied one could be
contracted for cheaper in Texas than
in Missouri, and, by-the-way, I no
tice a good many Audrain people are
moving here. r. M. WHITE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
SHAMROCK ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
SHAMROCK, Feb. 17.-LittIe Emma
Carver and Lizzie Owen have been
very low for the past week, but
through the skillful treatment and
kind care of Drs. Cox and Abraham
they are on the road to recovery.
Mesdemes Todd and Tratchel are on
the sick list.
Miss Dodie Tratchel, of Benton City,
lis the guest of her brother, Andy,near
here.
Mrs. Lula Sherman and husband, of
New Florence, are visiting at her
fathers, P. F. Maddox, this week.
Forest Covington returned from
Arkansas last Thursday with a lot of
cattle.
Maggie Oliver, who has been the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Todd, the past
week, returned to her home in Mont
gomery county Sunday.
Mrs. 8. e. Hall, of Auxvasse, is Wis
iting in Shamrock this week.
John Erwin and sister, Gertie, visit
ed at Geo. Sailors In Montgomery
county the last Of the week. Drucilla
returned home with them after a
months visit.
Walter Owen, of Williamsburg, was
in Shamrock Sunday.
Henry Brandenburg and family, of
Montgomery City, attended the burial
of Mrs. Maddox Wednesday.
Died, Feb. 9Th, at the home of her
mother, two miles north of Sham
rock, Mrs. Higginbotham, of con-
sumption. Her remains were laid to
rest in Augusta cemetery.
Died, at her home, one mile east of
on February 10th, Mrs.
Sallie Maddox, of pneumonia, after a
short illness. Mrs. Maddox was A
years Of age, was a member of the
church and loved by all who
knew her. She leaves q mother, sis
ter, husband and two sons and one
and q host of friends to
mourn her loss.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
Legislation at Jefferson City.

- ~"
The great work of legislation goes
hotly on in the Missouri Legislature,
and millions look at it reverently.
The same swift day beheld the pass
age through the Senate of an anti
trust bill (Which nullifies all contracts
for sales with trusts, and provides
that persons purchasing under con-
tract from trusts need not carry out
the contract" and the report by the
Senate Committee on Labor OF a bill
establishing a State Board of Horse
shoe Examiners. 1t is not often that
the world is blessed with a body of
men competent to settle, on the same
day, two such subjects as trusts and
horseshoes. Jefferson City is mighty
among capitals.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
In Memoriam.

III ldIu'
In loving remembrance of Elijah
Holt, who departed this life February
9th, 1897, at his home, near Hatton,
Galloway county, Mo-:
Where Grandpa's gone
No evening shadows linger cold and
gray,
No winds of winter chill the summer
day,
A fadeless springtime blooms upon the
way
Where ne hath gone.
Where Grandpa's gone
No wailing note awaketh sigh or moan,
The old glad songs take up a gladder
tone,
There's laughter sweeter far than we
have known
Where he hath gone.
Where Grandpa's gone
His sanity presence blesses mansions
fair
Glory beams about the head SO dear,
And our sad hearts will find their rest
up there
Where he hath gone.
Where G~randpa's gone
Time does not mark in days it's golden
flight,
The sun is dimmedby Heavens greater
light,
And there are never tears mol lonely
night
Where he has gone.
Where Grandpa's gone
We, too, some day, will all go, if God
so will,
And while transcendent raptures
through rs thrill,
Our souls shall meet, redeemed, but
loving still,
Where Grandpa's gone.
His loving granddaughter,
ID, G..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
A Mightier Foe than Armies
OVERCOME by 4 BRAVE UNION GENERAL AND HIS FAITH.
FUL ALLY, DIR. WILLIAMS.
From the Sentinel, Cherokee, Kansas.

At the breaking ont Of the war Of the re-
bellion in 1861, General Wiles, whose por-
trait adorns our page, was Captain and own-
er of the then w~elf-known river steamboat,
"Charley Potwin." plying between Zanes-
vile and Petersburg, but he Immediately
disposed of his boat and became enrolled as
lieutenant in the 18th Ohio Infantry. AT
the battle of Fort Donelson, on February 16,
1852, Lieutenant Wiles was promoted from
lieutenant to Northumberland, for brave
and meritorious conduct on the field" and
at the age of thirty-six General Wiles was
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
1T WAS A VILE BOOK.
The Senator Denounced 1t Vehement
ly and Then Read it.

WARRINGTON, February 1s.--When
the Loud bill relative to the form of
second class regulations was pending
in tho Senate Committee on Post
oficeB and Post Roads, the room was
flooded with samples Of books that
are transported in great quantities ut
newspaper rates. A party in st. Louis
sent q box full Of sample copies Of OBJ
Gene literature that viii be excluded
along with the rest II the bill passes.
A Senator came into the room as
these books we're being placed in q
box to be destroyed, and, picking up
the most salacious one Of the lot,
looked over II and said:
"Thls is indeed q very vile book. 1t
should not be admitted to the mails
In any class"
Then the statesman turned over the
leaves, looked at the pictures, and ak
claimed:
"Horrfblel There should be . law
against the publication Of books Of
this kindip
Theieupon he sat down and read
the book all the way through.
THE Powers IRE not agreed on the
n>-A-.- m~>~~- 49, --xN.--
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

Rev. LYMAN ABBOTT may repudiate
Jonah II he likes; but the orthodox
world will continue to believe that he
was astrictly In It,"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
NAT HEIRS.
Garnishee Duestrow's Income for the
Dead Lawyers Fee.

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
A proceeding known as an equitable
garnishment was instituted against
the Union Trust Company at 1880
O'Clock Tuesday, as executor of the
will of the late Louis Duestrow, father
Of the double murderer. Notice of
the proceeding was served immedi-
ately upon the trust company. 1t was
instituted to anticipate Arthur Dues
trow's execution and make good a
1900 judgment against him, secured
Saturday in favor of the estate of the
late Nat @. Dryden.
With Duestrow's~ execution, his in
terest in his fathers estate ceases, his
creditors having no recourse save
against such funds in the hands of the
trust company as he has drawn under
the provision of the will giving him
an annual income. In order to protect
the Judgment, which was on a prom
issory note given Dryden az his fee in
Duestrow's defense, it was necessary
to tie up the funds in the trust COM
pany's hands before Duestrow's death.
Deputy Sheriff John Ouhrabka lev
led On Louis Duestrow's old residence,
2345 Lafayette avenue, Tuesday morn
ing. The attachment was made at
the request of Chas. P. holland, who
was Gov. Johnson's leading assistant
in the double murderer's defense.
Mr.. holland obtained a judgment
against him for $1,000. AS the muir
derer had only a life estate under his
fathers will, the attachment to be eff
fective had to be made before his
death.
Miss Hulda Duestrow will fight the
attachment, as she has spent nearly
$4,000 in repairing and remodeling
the family mansion since its partial
destruction by the tornado.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

Mardi Gras. New Orleans, La, March 2.
On account of the above celebration
the Chicago & Alton and the Wabash
railroads Will sell tickets to New Or
leans and return at S25. Tickets will
be sold February % to %, good to re-
turn until March q.
E. 8. WILSON, Ticket Agent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

Many cases of "Grippe" have lately
been cured by One Minute Cough
Cure. This preparation seems espec-
tally adapted to the cure of this dis
cas- 1t acts quickly thus preventing
serious complications and bad effects
In which this disease often leaves the
patient. For sale by Woodbridge s.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25

If you have ever seen a child in the
agony Of Group, you can appreciate
the gratitude of the mothers who know
that One Minute Cough Cure relieves
their little ones as quickly as it is adj
ministered. Many homes in this city
are never without it. Fer sale by
Woodbridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-25
Attention. Please

We have Eastern money to loan on
most favorable terms. We have town
property we wish to exchange for
small farms. We have some large
farms to exchange for smaller ones.
We have some choice bargains in the
way of farms and town property for
sale. MOORE & HOWELL.
43 st Mexico, Mo,