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Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
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style IN Han dkerclleIs.

New York Evening Sun: The wom-
an who cares for the details OF her
toilet is ever on the watch for new
ideas. One of the latest fads is said
to be in regard to the handkerchief.
1t may be colored nowadays, but must
be governed by the gown with which
II appears. A gown that shows pale
blue as a contrasting shade may also
show pale blue in the accompanying
handkerchief. II 1t isn't In sympathy
with the costume. the handkerchief OF
color becomes a simple bit of gaudiness
and deserves instant suppression.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
Figures for Farmers.

1t is as the Omaha orld-Herald
says, the farmer who carefully
notes comparative prices will not
easily be deceived by the admins
tration cry of progressive pros
perity." The fact of the matter is
that that the is getting the worst
of il all the time, and with increas.
ing regularity. He takes note of
the prices prevailing now and the
prices prevailing ayear ago and
two years ago, and finds that it
lakes more and more of the pro-
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
KILLS HIMSELF.
A Former Audraln County
Boy-Was In Mexico
This Fall.

MONROE, La, Nov. lG-Fred II
Glascock, a barber, came from Mon
roe about six weeks ago from st.
Louis and secured work with Ed.
Mounger. He was found dead at
his boarding house this morning,
having ended his life by taking
morphine. On the back of letter
was the following memorandum:
Mrs. NJ. G. Glascock, Nevada
Mo; Please notify Miss Marguer-
ite Moynihan, Macon, Mo. My
photographs are at BrinkIey, Ark
Write to Chief of Police, Mr.. Bel
Ter
Mrs. Glascock was notified by
telegraph, and II reply was received
from the dead mans brother, in
structing the authorities to send
the remains to Nevada, Mo.
The young man was an adopted
son of cx-Sheriff Hodge elias
cock, and was raised to manhood
in Audrain county. He was in
Mexico during fair week this fall.
The remains of the young man
were brought to Mexico and rnterr.
ed in the city cemetery last Satur-
day.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
Stockings Cost 8AUO a Pair.

A noted Costumer of ondon says he
has designed 100000 worth of cos
tunes for one woman while a pair OF
stockings he provided for a noted belle
cost $500 and tea gown $500 The
designing and carrying out of these
costumes is done by men. In the large
tailors' establishments only the skirt
hands are women, and the principal
dressmaking houses in Paris are pre-
finest artificial flowers are the work OF
male hands, and the designs and draw
ings for embroideries are prepared by
them also.-From the New York Even
ing World.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
Spreckels neutrality-suspicious.
list.

CHICAGO, Nov. l7.-John ID.
Spreckels of San Francisco, II
member of the Republicans Ma
tional Committee, passed thru Chi
cago last night on his way East
Mr.. Spreckels will attend the meet
ings of the national committee at
Washington, December II.
1 am an anti-expansionist, ="
said he, and as | came thru the
great prairies of the West on this
trip, | could not help but think of
the great good that might have
been done in ourown country with
the money which we are spending
to maintain the army in the
Philippines.
If that money had been spent
in irrigation in the Western coun-
tries, | believe the United States
would have reapcd greater bcne-
fits from it than it ever will by the
retention of the Philippines.
Mr.. Spreckcls said that he
thought it was very probable that
the national committee would Sc
lect Chicago as the place for hold
ing the next national convention.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
The shah of Persia.

Muzaffir-I-D of Persia was made
the governor of a province when he
was quite a small boy, though he had
no work to do in connection with the
office. Owing to his fathers jealousy
and parsimony he was kept very short
Of money and desperately ignorant.
while he was also indolent and heed
less Nowadays he seems fairly
amiable sort OF gentleman. He spends
his time in shooting, taking snap
instrument, and pottering in his gar
den, in pea-jacket and Scotch tweed
trousers, setting and resetting plants.
He is still slovenly in his habits.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
Art of Making Furnitu @.

1t is difficult nowadays to know
when one is getting a veritable antique
or when he is having an imitation
palmed off on him. Carved worries are
stained with oil to give to them the
mellow tint of age. and to get the
cracked appearance supposed to be due
to antiquity they are heated to the
right temperature. The corroding to
which bronze Is subject is utilized to
get an antique effect ahead of time.
China Is stamped with old marks so
cleverly that even experts are deceived
and furniture has little holes drilled
in it to deceive the unwary with the
idea that worms have been eating ii for
generations.-New York Press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
A True Princess.

The following pretty little story Of
England's future queen is vouched for
During the late visit Of her royal high
ness the princess OF Wales to her coun-
try home she called at the house of
one of the most valued members OF her
household, with whom was then stay
ing an aged relative, whom the prin-
cess had known for many years. This
lady, being at present badly crippled
by rheumatism, apologized to the prin-
cess, saying: Il hope you will excuse
me, ma'am, | can't curtesy, but may
kiss your hand?' mo, indeed" was
the gracious princess answer. You
shan't do that. | will kiss your hand"
And so, in very deed, she did.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
Popular Becuuss Familiar.

THE clamor for the so-called 'popu-
lar music,'" says Theodore Thomas.
makes it impossible to present good
program without the support OF this
influential minority and yet person
who clamors for popular music does
not know that he only means familiar
music; that Beethoven's symphonies
would soon become as popular to him
as The Star Spangled Banner II he
only heard them as often and that 1t
is only his unfamiliarity with the great
classic masterpieces which prevents
his enjoyment of them
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23

Snakes are the professional rat
catchers in the Philippines. Nearly
all of the older bungalows in Manila
possess what are called house snakes
huge reptiles, generally twelve or four
teen feet long and as thick as a fire.
engine hose-that permanently reside
up in the roof and live on rats. These
big creatures are harmless and rarely,
IL ever, leave their abodes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23

When ladies go to buy dress In
Japan they tell the shopkeeper their
age, and II they are married or not.
because there are special designs for
the single and double relations of life.
as we'll as for ages. The consequence
of this painful custom is that you can
tell the age OF every lady you meet.
and know whether she Is married, pre-
cisely as though she were labeled
Tid-Bits.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
THE MESSAGE
THURSDAY. NOV. %. 1899.

The MESSAGE editors family
moved up from Laddonia this week.
The MESSAGE and Kansas City
Star on year, $1.15. Cash in ad-
vance.
st. Louis has an epidemic of
typhoid fever. Impure water is
the cause.
Miss Lille Armstrong, of this
city, returned this week from II
visit to friends in st. Louis.
Centralia authorities sat down
upon the proposition to establish
billiard hall in that town.
Scarlet fever, in epidemic form,
has been raging at Moberly, and
there have been many deaths.
Sam Calbreath, near Rush Hill.
was badly frozen one night last
winter; for time it was thought
he would die. He has clung
to life however. Last Thursday
it was found necessary to ampu-
tate all his fingers
The New York journal says,
that there are two points on which
the Beers are wrong in Africa:
They forbid the Catholics to any
share in the lawmaking of the
country; they also bOrbid the jews
the same right. There is pop
ulatiOn of 200,0 in the Boer
Republic and only 60, 1000 of these
are Beers.
Roberts, the polygamist Con-
gressman-elect from Utah, shows
fight. Somebody down East re-
ported that he was going to re-
sign, and the following is his
denial: Il have seen many such
stories since | came East" said
Mr.. Roberts. but there is abso-
lutely no truth in them, and abso-
lutely no basis for the statements.
l will say, as emphatically AS | can
say it, that | do not intend to re-
sign, and never have had any such
intentions. | was fairly elected
and propose to fight it out to the
end with all the vigor at my com
mand."
The attention of the taxpayers
Of this county is respectfully called
to the following law passed at the
last session of the Legislature:
IF any taxpayer shall fail or
neglect to pay such Collector his
taxes, it shall be the duty of the
Collector after the first day of
January then next ensuing, to
collect and account for, aS other
taxes, an additional tax us penalty,
of one per cent per month upon all
taxes collected by him after the
first day of January, as aforesaid,
in computing the said additional
tax or penalty, II fractional part of
month shall he counted ms a
whole month.
A foreign surgeon has put for
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
Bear-FIghting In ItnIy.

Bear fighting by the high aristocracy
is one of the latest fads reported from
Italy. The prince of Molfetta recently
gave an exhibition in which he him
self fought a young bear which had
scratching. King Humbert was SO
pleased at similar exhibition given
a short time ago in Rome for charity
that he contributed $4,000 from the
royal exchequer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
vapor from smoK sIss. ro.asr.

What 10 called smokeless powder
really throws of a shadowy vapor.
This vapor Is perceptible only when
viewed through disk OF violet glass
inserted in an ordinary field glass
Colonel Sweet. OF the army medical
museum. Washington, made this dis
covery
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23

Mr.. Broadstairs-I have three
hundred hens on my place.
Young Quigley (solemnly) Well,
yon want to look out. for them.
Mr.. BrOadstairs (aStOnisheO-
Look out for them! Whys
Young Qnigley (still solemnly)
Because they are laying for you.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23

Mollv-Some girls are so dis.
agreeable.
Dolly--Yes; why actually
know several who have contracted
the habit of telling the truth.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23

A Bangor. Me, man has gone into
the business of breeding angleworms
for fishermen who have no time or are
too lazy to dig their own bait.
Mexico Missouri message., 1899-11-23
The Production of Gold for 1899.

The worlds production of gold for
1899, II Australia and South Africa
maintain the rate with which they be-
gan the year. will probably reach $780,
100000, or about 100000 more than
in 1898. At the end Of the current year
the three principal countries will rank
in the following order in the list Of
producing districts:
South Africa. 500. 900 900
Australia ................. $4,000, 900
United States. ............. 74,000,000
The state of Washington, 1t IL
thought. will far exceed its usual pro-
duction; and the Klondike, which In
1897 and 1898 produced respectively
6,027, 900 and 100000 dollars worth
of gold. it is estimated will yield in
1899 at least $2O,OOO,OOO In yellow
metal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14

whole world is now our salesroom."
Everyone who has eve glanced at the
figures of u foreign trade for 1893
and for the first month Of 1890, and
who has noticed, as everyone must
have noticed, the comparative e4tent
of our import and our export trade,
must feel the truth of this remark.
And recognizing its truth, they must
surely admit, If not blinded by preju-
dice. that the protective tariff policy
has been justified by its fruits. The
remark quoted above puts in a nutshell
the achievements fprotection. Through
it we have secured to the American
producer the American market, the
best market in the world; we have
given employment to American labor;
we have developed our home industries
and have cheapened the cost of produc-
ton, until now we can, in q large and
constantly growing number of cases,
undersell all competitors. and IRE in q
fair way to capture the markets of the
world.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
Reads Like an Old Story.


Reports received by the New York
State factory inspector from his depu-
ties show that in the course of 9,6OO
inspections made by them during the
months of December, 1898, and Janu-
airy and February. 1899, they found
that 373 new firms had gone into bust
ness, and that 100 old firms which had
formerly closed up had resumed bust
ness. 1t was found also that lilo
firms had increased the number of their
employees. 1t appears that the total in
crease in the number of employees from
all cause is 1882. The reports show
that 81 firms are working overtime and
90 working double time, and that the
extra number of hours worked We're
11.26S.
This is pretty good testimony to the
labor-supplying qualities of the Ding
ley tariff law. The report reads like
those to which we grew accustomed
when the Mckinley law was in force,
and it tells of an industrial situation
strangely different from that which
prevailed during the intervening years
of tariff reform" and Clevelandism.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
The Rise in waxcs.

Very rarely has there been such a
general increase in the wages of work.
ers as has been announced during the
past week, covering many cotton mills,
iron and steel works, and coal mines,
and in number probably more than
100000 hands, average advance being
apparently over 10 per cent. This in
wolves n large increase in purchasing
power of the people, with encourage
ment for all branches of business. Some
strikes for higher wages are in prog
ress, though none of large Importance,
but some negotiations to the same end
are pending.-Dun's Review.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
Brownie Bicycle.

A matchmaker in New York has
made the smallest bicycle in the world.
He took two years on the job, and al
though there is no chance for remu-
neration is nightly pleased with tile
outcome. The tiny wheel has all the
attachments of an ordinary bicycle.
has a lamp that will shed light on the
accustomed bracket. and would, II
some brownie could from the fairy
world be tempted to ride it, spin about
u tea table Mt a humming gait. 1t stands
n inch in height, has wheels n inch
in diameter, with regular pneumatic
tubes, and sports a real spring on the
saddle. The cranks are three-eighths
of an inch long, while the tread is only,
one-fourth. The entire machine a be
deposited in Il postage-stamp case, and
weighs less than an unc
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
ITO be continued,
Not IL, His Line.

One of the penalties of eminent sue
cess in life is that the fortunate person
is besieged by numberless appeals for
assistance, from needy one who have
no claim upon him other than that of
charity, considered in it's almsgiving
III To heed all these appeals would
take nearly all ones time, to say moth
ing of ones money, and as IL rule they
come from the undeserving.
A distinguished musician was waited
upon day in his study by Il rather
seedy-looking stranger. who said to
him, with what seemed to be genuine
emotion:
May n humble brother musician
claim your sympathy for moment:
/ don't ask you to give me anything,
but will you lend me n dollar Dr. two?
You can command ten dollars a lesson,
or as much more rs you choose to ask,
while ! think myself fortunate if l can
get a pupil now and then ut a half-dol-
lar Il sitting"
My FRIEND" said the other, touched
by this appeal, perhaps l a help you
better than by lending you money.
What is your branch of music?"
81 give lessons on the VIOLIN"
"Well we will see what you can do.
Here is n violin. 1 will sit down to tho
piano, and we will play n duet"
He whipped a fine violin out of it's
case. handed it to the stranger, seated
himselfat the piano, and placed n sheet
of music before him.
The caller rasped the bow across the
strings, leaned forward, looked at the
composition, and shook his head.
"Sharps?" lie said. "Sharps? 1 never
play in sharps!"
The distinguished musician took tho
violin from him, replaced it in it's case,
and coidly remarked:
my friend, what you need is a job
as night Waterman in a soap factory"
Twill you get 1t for me?" eagerly
asked the caller.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
CHAPTER XIV.

Tongues would have babbled and Cos
siped a good deal about the doings at the
Priory had it not been for DIR. Deane.
Very quietly and skillfully he tells the
story of the illness and death of the IN
fortunate lady who. years before, had
been the cause of u terrible and unforgot-
ten tragedy.
When people hear that she lies dead in
the stately house whittier she had come
in the flush and fullness of her girlish
beauty, they are not so much surprised
as Denzil and his faithful coadjutor an
ticipated. 1t was only natural, they
thought, that she should have sought
refuge there at last-only natural that
she should be laid at rest, despite her
wrong-doing, in the vaults where all the
dead and gone Charteriscs lie Wondering
in the dust.
So. two days afterwards, she is quietly
and reverently laid there, and DR.. Deane,
Denzil Charteris, Lance Stapleton and
the clergyman are the only spectators. It
il not until after the ceremony Is over
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14

In two or three trades the wages
have been stationary. There has been.
an advance in all the others, an aver-
age of ~ per cent, approximately.
This is somewhat surprising, as good
times prevailed in the '7Os until the
panic of 10. But these trades do not
cover the entire field. Among the
rolling mill workers and among the
cotton operatives we think a large de-
cline would ice shown, and, possibly,
iii other. trades, but without regard to
these the showing is flattering, as there
has been nh impression abroad that
labor in the last twenty years has suf-
fered n great decline. These figures,
though they are limited, do not estab-
lish that impression.-Cincinnati Com
mercial-T Tribune
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
CHAPTER XuI.

In the late dusky afternoon a man hur-
RIGS through the woods which lead to
Bcechhampton Castle.
With the tread of one we'll accustomed
TO the deserted ways, he threads the moss
grown paths. till reaching n door he opens
ii. and finds himself in the room to which
lolandc had once penetrated in her OK
ploration OF the ruins. He goes straight
up TO one spot in the walls. and, touching
what seems TO be n small iron knob, Il
panel Immediately opens and reveals an
other room. 1t is small, but comfortably
furnished. \ fire burns in n tiny crate,
beside which Il woman kneels, stirring
something i'll an iron saucepan.
You have come, sir. l am glad of it,
she says quietly.
Yes. l got your telegram only ycstcr-
day. Am LIN time?"
YES" she says, looking up c%uriously
at his face. You would like to see her
now, l suppose? You must be prepared
for a great change"
He makes no answer, and she takes
the light and quickly leads the way to
another room, which is entered in the
same secret way as that which they are
just leaving.
1t is furnished as a bedroom, and. prop
ped up by pillows, on the curtaincd bed is
the wasted. death-marked figure of a
woman. Her hands are worn to skin and
bone: the long, sharp fingers clutch ncry-
ously and continuously ut the coverlet.
Her face is so CHASTITY and terrible that it
is little wonder if Dcnzil Chartcris shud.
ders as he looks on its married and pallid
outlines. remembering what it was once.
You know me, Alcthea?" he says.
"Denzil!" she cries; and over all the
dcath-like pallor of her face a faint warm
color iiushes. like the hue of a faded rose
leaf. "Denzil. 1 am glad to see you be-
fore l die: the end will not be long-now.'
Her voice is very weak; the sentences
hr-ssr forth only in faint, disjointcd
brcatl,s.
''Shc las told-mc-all,'' she goes on
presently, pointing to the nurse, who gives
her some cordial to revive her-"all your
'goodness--and the burden you-have
,borne-I cannot thank you; I can only
pray heaven may atone-for the suffer-
ings and shame l have brought upon your
lhead-your name-your life. How you
have kept-my secret-I cannot tell. Even
in my worst ~moments-the thought that I
was still hcre-that I was not shut up
with others midland morbid-as myself
e left me Since that-day-when
you found nj bending Y the beautiful
girl whom I SO terrified have known
and thought-@ore than you Imagine. II
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
CH.APTER NM.-Wontinucd.)

Nii-AI 1iIiS
So it comes to pass that on this morn
ing. when Il letter from an almost IN
known correspondent lies in her hands,
Jane sees the opportunity OF at last pay
Ing oil some of the debt she owes her
unconscious rival, and grasps at it with
thu INSCRIPTIONS mcanncss of u jealous
nature.
III is as follows:
My Dear Miss Croft dare say you
will hardly remember INC. and, wen if
you do. will marvel why l should write
to YOU. But, when we met Il year ago
Llcwc,lyn, You as Il daily visitor during
the skating scascn-I learned that you
were staying at Llwynpia House; and
this fact has recurrcd to my mind in 81
season of great perplcNity. l have just
learned from my cousin. Mr.. Charters,
thar Il young lady. Il near nciglIbor of
ours. who is connected with Il horrible
scandal here. and been obliged TO leave
nome in consequence, is at that school as
sovcrncss. Her name is Yolandc Mer-
vyn. Will You do me the great favor of
informing me under what circumstances
She came there. also whether my cousin,
who. l fear. is foolisllly infatuated by
AtA liNtNt NAsllo u siliA IN
what pretrnses? For the credit of our
family and name l am anxious to do any
thing in my power To prevent his en-
tangling himself with 81 girl who is not
likely to he scruptllous in such n matter.
! therefore throw myself upon your kind
ness and discretion to enlightcn me.
Faithfully yours,
PAULINE RAY"
Tho cumo ttnrnipr that 1,r;nps f1,ic 1nf.
ter 10 Jane Croft and lays the train for
a base and dastardly plot in her revenge
full mind, brings flashing along the wires
from the West of England to the South
of Wales Il message for DenZil Charteris.
"From Mrs. Peters, Beechhampton, to
DcnZil Charteris-Come at once. She is
dying. but quite sane now. She has some
terrible secret to confess, which she will
tell TO one but YOU"
He says nothing; he only folds up the
paper and puts it into his pocket, md
then takes his way back through the gar
den paths into the house.
He goes straight to the old rector in his
study and says abruptly:
II must leave today. When does the
mex train Go?'
My dear Chartcris.' cxclaims the rec
tor-hc has known him since boylood,
aud knows. too. the secrets and shadows
of that troubled past-'wllat is it? No
bad news. / hope!'
"She is DYING he quietly.
't'Peters has telegraphcd. 1 must go back
Mt once"
''Thank heaven, Denzil, the burden may
be lifted from your heart at last. You
will be a frcer and a happier man. Have
you told Miss Mcrvyn anything about
this"
No. replies Dcnzil stcrnly; 81 could
not. 1t was no tale for her ears. Thank
heaven. the necessity of such a confess
sion is over now!."
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-14
CLOSING a Brilliant Career.

In an account given by u distinguish.
ed man of letters of a recent visit to Mr..
Ruskin this gentleman describes Mr..
Ruskin's appearance as singularly en-
nobled by the long, snow-white beard.
which descends nearly to the waist and
gives a patriarchial dignity to the finely
nodded face. The end of life finds MI.
Ruskin in a mood of perfect serenity;
the storm and stress have departed, and
all that is left is pure sweetness and
s%entleness. His favorite occupation is
sitting at his window looking On the
calm waters of the lake below. He re-
ceives great numbers of letters, but the
present day affairs Of this troubled
world make little impression upon him.