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Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Rev. d. L. Pelton will resign the
p~astorate OF the First Presbyterian
church at Bloomington, ILL.,, to enter
the Episcopal priesthood.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

T. B. Duncan, a Mexico boy, is now
superintendent OF the Weltmer infirm-
airy at Nevada, Mo. His many friends
in Mexico win be glad to know that he
is prospecting.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

John P. Newman and Misc stella B.
Dudley, both OF Auxvasse, were q
ried at the residence of Elder J. ].
Grifin, In this city, Tuesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Meyer desire
the LEDGER to thank their friends
for their continued courtesles during
the fatal illness Of their little son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

John Maxwell has rented the Nc
Trimble property On East Monroe
street. Mr.. Maxwell is going to help
make Mexico a city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Laura E. Stumpf has brought suit
AGAINST Sheriff NJ. n. Nelson and
Gather Berry. She asks damages for
$1,000, one half Of which she asks IS
punitive damages. The plaintiff says
that the defendants drove on and
converted TO their own use . COWS, .
mules and 1 mare on Nov. s, 1893.
Coroner Bridgford Is setting sherin
In the case.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

The retirement of Vice. President
Hobart SUR E vacancy in the pre-
siding chair of the Senate. Mr.. Frye
probably will be elected President pro
tempore.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

The Line Stock Reporter says: Geo.
E. BOothe, Sturgeon, and J.. A. stew
art, Columbia, had horse consign-
ments in the auction to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

More cloaks, capes and ~collarettes
TO select from at Blum's than any
other house in the city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

CHARLES Morris and Harry Wolf left
this afternoon for the "Kingdom" Of
Galloway to spend several days hunt.
ing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mrs. J. H. Shell, after visiting her
son, Frank Shell, of Kansas City, re-
turned home Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Pratt, who re-
aide in Fulton, we're here to-day en-
route to Hot Syringe, Arkansas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Geo. Gray and wife returned to New
Bloomfield this afternoon after being
in attendance at tho funeral OF Mrs.
John Umstead.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

My Favorite Cofee l have tested
side by side with allthe leading brands
and It has proven to be the best Of all.
1t lie far better than q cheap Mocha
and Java.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Geo. Daniel passed through here
from vandalla TO Centralia TO attend
q meeting Of the Missouri BANKERS
Association No. 8.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

The Livs Stock Reporter says; W..
II. Fountain, OF Sturgeon, was on the
mnrkat with 10 head OF Oil pound
heIfers at $4.55.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Miss Kathryn Miller returned to
Sturgeon this morning after q Yislt
with Miss Mary LonRi
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Roy Haislip, of Omaha, Neb., who
formerly lived here. is the guest OF
his cousin, Fred Hathaway.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Five inmates of a Tennessee insane
asylum escaped, leaving word that
they had started for Utah to join the
Mormon church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Full line Of Battenberg patterns and
materials at Blum's, the leading dry
goods house of Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mrs. Ambro Fry, Of Auxvasse,d ined
with J. O. v. Baskin and family to-day
while en- route to Marshall.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mrs. Guthrie is putting q granitoid
walk in front of her residence on South
Jefferson street.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

O. F. Bush, Of this county, left Mon
day for q three weeks visit to relatives
and friends in Kentucky and Indiana.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Gallop,
Of Columbia, q daughter, on Monday,
Nov. IS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Havana newspapers resent the crit
icism of American journals about
racing on Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Full line OF W. o. o. corss.s in all
shapes, lengths and styles at Blum's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Ed Lawder ships two car loads of
cattle and one Of hogs to East St.
Louis tonight.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mrs. Robt. Brown and son, Leonard,
are home from Moberly, where they
visited relatives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

7. 3. Hawkins returned from st.
Louis last night and from OentraIla
this afternoon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

r. =. HIsey is home from st. Louis,
where he shipped a car load OF horses
Sunday night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Ed Bass is home from Macon City,
where he has been tor the past six
months, to visit relatives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

A. 8. Miles and daughter, Mary, Of
Auxvasse, were In this city Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16
FLOUR!

The Flour | sell is fresh. 1t
is brought from the mills every
week and is guaranteed to be
strictly A No. /.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Jesse Shepherd was down from
Macon Sunday the guest Of his par
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Miss Frances Karnes has returned
from . visit In the country.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Capt. L. O. Mitchell Is home from q
business trip to Chicago.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Mrs. ]. v. Williams is home from q
Wait with Mrs. r. D. Chlnu, OF Van
dalla,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Miss Resale RsnnoIds is visiting rel
atives In Higbee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Ethan Howell is home from q visit
IN Oentralia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

Attorney Joe Mcintyre is home
e.osn Paris.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16
SiN8[Xa[R Tlat Wears

Is the kind we have been selling in this tow
for more than ten years. 1t is made especially
for us with the name WoyyeH stamped on every
piece and sold under a guarantee so plain and
straightforward that in its self denotes honest
made goods. 1t is guaranteed to give ~satisiac-
ton to the purchaser or new goods in its place.
We have never had to replace a single article in
these ten years that shows how well Worrel's
Silverware wears. We are showing the hand
some Arlington pattern in Tea, Dessert and
Table Spoons. Tea Spoons, S OF. silver plate,
$I.75 set. Dessert Spoons, S OF. silver plate,
$500 set. Table Spoons, S OF. silver plate,
$3.50 set. Same to be engraved free. A set
OF Spoons makes a useful Christmas present.
"STEP IN AND LOOK AROUND"
WOT0||, The JGW0I6T.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16

The many friends Of James Batter
ton, of Sturgeon, Will hear with regret
that he lie confined to his room by
fever. Jim Is well known in thiI
city and is q young man of excellent
characterization. We hope to soon heal
Of his recovery.
Charles and Thomas Vaughn left fol
New Bloomfield to-day after visiting
their brother, J. A. Vaughn, and at
tending the funeral of their sister
Mrs. John Umatead.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-11-16
~rHURsDAY, NOVEMBER is.

John Potts has TeIursd TO Skinner.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
TWO TYPES OF PAR AGUAYAN WOMEN.

state. To detect this impure condi-
ton is very simple and unfailing. Draw
tumbler of water from the tap at
night, put piece of white lump sugar
into it and place it on the kitchen
mantelpiece or anywhere that the tenn
perature will not be under so degeres
Fahrenheit. In the morning the water,
if pure, will be perfectly clear; if con-
taminated by sewage or other impur-
tiles the water. will be milky. This is
simple and safe test, well known in
chemistry.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
DATE STATE
ARID REGIONS WELL ADAPTED
TO THEIR CULTURE.
Grow in Great Big Bunches and Get
Ripe Whenever 1t Suits Their Indi-
vidual InciinatIons - We Consume
Millions OF Pounds Annually.
Especial Letter.

Luscious American dates are being
raised by the Agricultural Experiment
station at Tucson, Ariz. The choice
date palms imported and distributed
by the department of agriculture near
ly a decade ago are yielding fine
quality of dates. This is the first
success made in raising fruit grow
ing palms in the United States. The
climate and soil of the arid region of
central and southern Arizona and the
southwestern corner of California have
been found to be similar to that of the
natural date growing countries and
northern Africa. Crops of as high as
300 pounds of fine flavor and fair
size from single trees are reported. The
trees are not yet grown in established
orchards, but are scattered over many
of the larger ranches. Dates are
propagated either by seeds or suckers.
AS with other fruits, dates do not
come true to seed, hence, unless the
desire is to obtain new varieties, the
only sure way to obtain good dates is
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
SAW GOETHE.
The Last Man Who Interviewed the
Great German Poet.


John Forbes, a professor of Oriental
languages at Aberdeen university,who
died in January of this year at the age
OF 81, was probably the last living per-
son of any note to interview Wolf
gang Won Goethe. The incident occur
red in 1929, and is thus set forth In
Forbes quaint biography: This
morning we announced ourselves at
IL to the great poet of Germany by
sending up our cards. We were imme-
diately admitted and most graciousiy
received. The freshness of Goethe's
looks are astonishing, considering that
he is now in his Slst year. His face
is very like what is given in the last
portraits of him, his forehead very
high and full, his eye clear and pen
etrating His demeanor is grave, and
has apparently a good deal of that
stateliness which has been attributed
to him. His stature is rather low, but
his figure was quite erect, notwith-
standing his years. His face is a good
deal marked with smallpox; his gray
hairs are combed quite backward. He
spoke about the state of German
knowledge in Scotland in England our
universities and some other topics. and
then let us be announced to his
schwiegertochter. whom We found
very pleasant person"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
Finest Riding School.

The finest military riding school in
existence il in Moscow. 1t is $50 feet
long, 146 feet broad and Al feet high,
and, saving only the Midland terminus
in London, its roof is the largest in
the world unsupported by pillars. 1t
is lavishly ornamented, but in every
respect save its size it is quite eclipsed
by the subterranean riding school in
Welbeck Abbey. This wonderful apart
ment. if it can be called such, is 1856
feet long, about 100 feet wide and it's
glass roof is nine feet higher than that
of the Moscow school.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
The Managed Husband L. worthless.

Helen Watterson Moody believes that
the husband who can be managed is
not worth managing, land there is no
better principle" she adds, in the
March Ladies' Home Journal. for
both husband and wife 10 adopt in ad-
iusting themselves TO the new relation
than that of trying to do each by the
other what men are accustomed to call
the square thing Many woman un-
derstands managing n husband better
than she does doing the square thing
by him, and many man understands
and practices doing the square thing
by other men who would be affronted
II he were to be told that. judged by
his own business standards, he habit
ually dealt unfairly with his own
wife"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
To Shame Bird siau ughterers.

Mr.. Ruskin once said that if an an
gel visited England her sportsmen
would be out at once with their guns
to shoot the winged visitant. Mr..
Watts. R. A., is of the same opinion.
He hates the slaughterer of little birds
that they may be pillaged of their
plumage to make Bond street gay. So
he is painting for exhibition in Lon
don a picture with a purpose. 1t will
present an altar on which are heaps OF
feathers. and over which bends an an
gel of compassion. one of Dante's
birds of God."-The Academy.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28

would take volume to tell you all the
good it has done me. Pe-ru-na is the
best catarrh cure on earth, and know.
for l have tried nearly all of them.
Respectfully, Buck f. Taylor
Winter weather causes catarrh.
Everybody knows this. But everybody
does not stop to think that winter
weather delays the cure of catarrh. 1t
takes longer to cure a case of catarrh
in the winter generally, than in the
warm season. Spring is here. Now is
the time favorable to the treatment of
old and especially stubborn cases Of
catarrh.
Send for book entitled Facts and
Faces" Sent free by The Pe-ru-na
Drug Mfg Co., Columbus, o.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
GET A BIG "Ap" CONTRACT.
Largest Advertising Contract Ever Placed
In Chicago.

The N. X. Fairbank Company. whose
advertising amounts to several hun
dred thousand dollars per annum,
has just completed arrangements to do
all its advertising through the Mahin
Advertising Company. This includes
all advertising in newspapers, high
class magazines, street cars, etc. John
Lee Mahin, the president OF the Mahin
Advertising Company, is widely known,
and the securing of the n. X. Fair
bank Company contract is a compli-
ment to his ability. j. II. Snitzler. the
secretary and treasurer has had long
and honorable business career in this
city. Since opening their Office Dec.
2S last they have secured, aside from
the N. X. Fairbank Company contract,
forty-eight customers whose business
will aggregate 100000 per annum.
They will move from their present
rooms to the fifth floor of the New
York Life Building into greatly en-
larged quarters, to accommodate their
rapidly increasing business.-Chicago
Times Herald, Feb II, 1899.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
is A SELF-MADE MAN.

Senator Elect Porter J. McCumber OF
North Dakota is another distinguished
representative of American pluck and
talent, who will enter the arena of
national legislation on the 4th of next
March. Little is known of the per-
sonal biography of Mr.. McCumber, on
account of the fact that he has not fig
ured for any length of time in politics.
He is considered one of the strongest
men in the republican ranks of the
west, and much is expected of him in
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28

to get suckers from trees OF establish
ed excellence. A large percentage OF
the suckers of bulbs usually fail TO
grow.
The necessity OF two palm trees
bearing different kinds of flowers, in
order that dates be produced, has been
known from ancient times, observa-
tions upon the date palm having first
led to a knowledge OF sex and plants.
The sex of trees raised from bulbs
is known by the sex of the trees from
which they were taken, owners of the
trees producing fruit of merit giving
to them names which are maintained
by bulbs from those trees. Hence
there are perhaps thousands OF varie-
ties, the fruit differing in size, sweet
ness. delicacy of flavor and in color
ranging from almost white to almost
black. To male trees, however, are
not given names. and the sex of trees
raised from seedlings is not known
until the plants are in blossom, usual
ly about the first of May.
The trees planted in established or
chards usually bear fine fruit five years
from the time of planting, and when
from eight to fifteen years old are at
their best With proper care they will
bear until thirty. though trees live
200 wears or more. At Maesaba, in Pal
estine, there is date palm in CON
vent courtyard said to have been plant
ed by St Sada, A. d. 490.
The dates of single bunch are usu-
ally several weeks in coming to ma
turity. a few ripening each day. AS
they mature they are picked or shaken
from the trees, dried in the sun, and
when hard put away for future use.
Eight fruit punches is the average
yield of a tree in Algeria, each bunch
averaging in weight about 1Ih pounds,
or may weigh as high as AZ pounds.
Each well-developed cluster bears as
many as 1000 dates. so that upon a
single tree there may be from 10000
to $4,000 dates. A tree in Fezzen is
recorded to have produced 44O pounds
of camel dates in a single season.
The growers of Arizona, as do those
of other countries, find that much in
jury to the fruit is caused by birds and
insects Birds are particularly fond of
the rich, sweet flesh, and when an
opening is picked into the outer cover
ing. bees and other insects usually
complete the work of destruction. This
fruit is protected more easily from this
source of injury than most other vari-
eties, as it is produced in a few large
punches, and punches may easily be
covered with cheese cloth sacks.
The Importance of dates to this
.o,,r.~,- &c Df suficient map0itude to
make it worthy of efforts to produce
them at home. Last year we imported
10000, 900 pounds, and in 1891, an un-
usual date year. we imported 20,091,O12
pounds. valued at $661 ,596.31.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
EMPEROR'S DEATH.
brought by Rehearsng KS Own
Funeral.

Funeral.
Emperor Charles V of Spain brought
about his death by rehearsing his own
funeral For the last two years of his
life, after resigning the scepter Of
Spain and the Netherlands to his son
Philip, in 1856. Charles retired to the
monastery of Yuste, in Estremadura
and there lived n cloister life in closs
intercourse with the monks, devotinG
much time to religious exercises. Dur
ing this period prompted, it may be
by the example of Cardinal de Ia
Marck, who for several years before
his death, in 1898, had annually re
hearsed his own ohsequles, the emper-
or, in the summer of 1858, formed til
resolution to celebrate his own funera
before he died. The priests assured
him-what the superstitious element
in his character readily inclined him
to believe-that the act would surely
merit and win divine favor. Accord
ingly, on Aug 80 OF that year, the
grim farce was carried out with the
most elaborate ceremonial. The i'm
perial domestics marched with black
tapers in their hands, and the emperor
clad in sable weeds, himself followed
wearing his shroud. While the solemn
mass for the dead was being sung be-
fore the high altar in the cathedral
Charles gave up his taper to the priest
typifying thereby his resignation of life
and was solemnly laid in his coffin
The ceremony closed with sprinkling
holy water on his body; then. all the
attendants retiring, the doors were
shut, and Charles rose from his mar
row bed and withdrew to his private
apartment. The dampness of the
grave cloths induced a chill, which
aided no doubt by the mental depres-
sion caused by the grewsome cere-
mony, induced a fever. which ended
/, in his death three weeks later, On the
21st of September. 1888.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
Business Partnershlp of Matrimony.

The time 10 begin to learn from each
other is when people are first married,
when life is still q playground to them.
and when romantic love condones what
in later years MIGHT seem nagSing or
carping criticism. We are all creatures
of habit. If we get used to the business
partnership of matrimony in our youth
it becomes second nature, and not a hard
ship nor disilluslonment If people
would take time to understand each
other. and to cultivate mutual confidence,
how much easier married life would be-
come-in fact, all lifei To be sure, we only
hear of the unhappy marriages., while
great numbers of people are plodding on
together silently and happily. But there
is enough friction to warrant this kind of
consideration, because even those who are
to all appearances contented might make
more of life If they looked upon marriage
as an equal rtnership.-Frances Evans,
in the January Ladies' Home Journal.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28

in as part of his remarks" an entire
sermon on the subject of expansion.
The purpose was not to get the min
ister's views before the public, but to
show the source from which senator
had drawn the greater part of his
speech a few days before. Another
recent occasion in which the Congress
sional Record was made an accommo-
dating vehicle was in the report of
controversy between two representa-
tives on the floor. One of them let
the bout go. so far as his part went,
as the Official reporter took it. The
other revised" his remarks so well
that he gave himself altogether the
best of the affair Some of the gems
of congressional oratory are never ut
tered. They are afterthouShts, so to
speak. Mr.. Cooney, of Missouri, has
inserted in the Record speech which,
If it had been delivered on the floor in
it's entirety, would have created great
sensation. He opens his printed
speech in this way: Mr. Chairman:
We have thrown the Spaniard down
upon his back, ducked him in the
pond. rolled him in the sand, sunk his
wooden toys, and. in a spirit of gener-
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28

When F. D. Underwood left Mime
apolis to come to Baltimore to take
the position of general manager of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad he
brought straw hat and linen duster
expecting to bask in the balmy south
ern breeZes that blow up Chesapeake
Bay sometimes. Within ten days after
he took charge two hundred miles of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were
blocked with snow and Baltimore had
a worse blizzard than any one in the
northwest ever experienced. 1t cost
the road about sixty thousand dollars
a day for four days to get the tracks
in condition to resume traffic, but the
officials are very proud of the fact
that they beat all competitors in get
ting trains through from Pittsburg and
other western points to Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York. All of
the through trains that were delayed
by the storm were fortunately tied up
at large towns, so that none of the
passengers suffered from hunger or
cold.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
PRETTY WOMEN or PARAGUAY

merical superiority of the women"
Article Of this law ran: ANY man is
allowed to marry two wives, but hus-
bands are advised that if the fate OF
two persons is intrusted to them they
must in turn behave with prudence
and discretion, providing for them suf-
ficiently and taking such measures as
may prevent quarrels.' Herbert Spen-
Ger may consider the Diet which could
pass such law civilized. And they
may have been, but to the casual OBJ
server it would seem that they were
also to a certain extent insane.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
Barnum's Advice.

In one of the last letters written by
P. T. Barnum, just discovered, he thus
advised young men: Keep your brain
free from the fumes of alcohol, your
blood free from its taint Avoid to-
bacco as the poison it really is. Keep
yourself clean. physically and morally,
Give your body the care you would
give to any machine of which you re-
quire much good work"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28
Queer Customs Of Land Where There Are More Women
Than There Are Men,

stations. You find them surrounded
by piles of golden fruit in every mar
ket and all along the Paraguay river
they are to be seen carrying oranges
from the land to the boats, which are
to take them to the markets of the
south. 1t is estimated that sixty mil
lion oranges are thus annually shipped
down the Paraguay river to Buenos
Ayres, and the loading of the fruit is
one of the great sights of the voyage.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-28


of the most beautiful is called the coo-
web pattern, the threads of which are
ms delicately joined as though maue
Inv one of the big spiders whlch iivs
here in the semi-tropics. some Va
these handkerchiefs are of silk others
n, linen and some of fiber grown III
the country. 1t takes long time 10
weave them, but there are SO many
at work that they are wonderlully
cbeap so that an article upon "hich
a month or so has been spent can De
bought for So and upward Oh gu,
money. A good hammock VIII cost
Won $40 and a lace shawl perhaps
twice that amount
Paraguay is land of oranges, 1t
is perbaps the only place in the world
where the orange grows wild. There
ara oranges in every thicket and In al
most every forest. The villages are
built in orange groves, and there are
so many oranges that they often rot
on the ground. The fruit is delicious;
It is tho best, believe, of its kind
in the world. 1t is eaten by everyone
and the orange girls are among the
picturesque features OF Paraguay. ao"
meet women peddlirg oranges at the