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Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
petit jury in Mexico.

petit jury in Mexico.
DR.. o. b. Maycs and wife. of
Centralia, visited friends here the
first of the week.
Jno. Bcal, editor of the Mrs.
SAGE, was in the village Saturday
Buddic Crcascy is home ON "A
visit.
MP. :. Morris had II disc cult
vator torn up 10y team running
off,
Mrs. Robinson has returned to
her home at Darlington after Il
weeks visit To her sister, Mrs. G..
Il. Pool
Miss Harris, of Ccntralia. re-.
turned home Saturday after visit
with the family of DR.. Downing.
W. y. Foucrtt is getting his
nursery stock ready for sale this
fall.
Miss Matte Pool, of Mexico, is
visiting friends and relatives here,
Fred Bocgcr, of Mobcrly, was
on our streets Monday.
\ traveller had II good horse
killed on the {. 4 4. Il. Il. cross
ing IA miles east of here SUNDAY
night. He had turned it loose to
Craze,
Miss Sadie O. Brieu closed four
months successful school Friday.
The exercises We're splendid.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
Johns Branch.

The crops are looking fine in
this community.
Mrs. Annie Edwards invited a
few neighbors in to a nice dinner
and quilting bee Thursday.
Louie Barth, whose health was
so poor, returned to his old home
in Ill. We hope he will be bene-
fitted thereby.
Lilly Smith is at the bedside of
Mrs. Lilly Page, nee Scroggins,
who remains very poorly.
j. a. Edwards, Mr.. Huffman
and others went on a fishing
trip last week. They brought back
lots of fish and they say it took
cash to catch them,
We are proud of b. w. Hale,
the young man who captured the
second prize on his analysis of the
trust. Mr.. Hale is Il highly in
telligent young man and one who
will make Il record in the political
world. This community can claim
not only him but several other
Young men who are keeping tab on
the trusts, combines etc.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
YOuneS Greek.

The nice rains continue.
Pastures fine.
Crops look we'll.
Spring chickens ripe.
Flowing about over.
Hay harvest on.
j. q. Crawford had quite time
saving his 20 acres of heavy wheat
which was twisted down in every
direction 10y the wind about two
weeks ago.
Bro. Rocker brought his wife to
the Oliyot meetings Saturday aud
Sunday.
The citizens of this neighbor-
hood had a successful fish fry in
the Bob johnson pasture on We'd
nesday of last week. Another ON
Elk Fork Tuesday of this week.
Mrs, W. l.. Crawford and chill
dred have returned to their home
in Paris after spending week
visiting relatives and friends ON
our creek.
Miss Allie Patterson, having
spent several months in Chicago,
reached home Tuesday. Every
body near here are glad to wei
come her back.
Miss Ncrtic Crawford left here n
few days since to visit relatives in
Saline county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
Audrain Courts.

CIRCUIT COURT Bird Monday in
January, LIST Monday in June,
Sd Monday in September.
COUNTY COCRT-lst Monday
in February, LIST Monday in May,
LIST Monday in August, LIST Monday
in November.
PROBATE CoURT-2d Monday in
January, ID Monday in March, I'd
Monday in May, ID Monday in
September.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
Circuit Court DOtngs.

Haycraft vs.. Grigsby; plaintiff
files motion for new trial.
State of Missouri VS.. Edward
Spencer; time for fling bill of cX-
ceptions extended to, on or before
18th day of August, 1900.
Copeland VS.. Wabash railroad;
time extended TO, on or before 18th
day of July, 1900.
State vs.. Lesly Clay; defendant
withdraws plea of not guilty and
pleads guilty of assault with intent
to kill without motion. Punish
ment assessed at > years i'll state
prison.
State of Missouri vs.. Rube Mel
son, No. ,; ease dismissed.
Fountain VS.. G. x a. railroad;
motion for costs overrulcd; motion
to sue as poor person sustained.
Fidelity Deposit Company VS..
Calven & johnson; verdict for de-
PENDANTS.
w. II. Triplett VS.. Bette Sims
plaintiff files motion for new trial E,
also files motion arrest of judg-
ment.
John w. Million VS.. A. f.
Guerne; defendant files motion for
new trial.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
FOrty-One Persons Killed.

Atlanta, Ga, June 2J.-At least
forty one persons were killed in
the wreck of a passenger train on
the Macon branch of the Southern
railroad, near McDonough Satur-
day night. The train went from
a culvert into a creek, which had
washed out the track for 100 feet.
Every person on the train was kill
ed with the exception of those in
the Pullman ear. The wreck
caught fire and the Pullman ear IL
lone escaped burning.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
Thompson.

Farmers are beginning to har-
vest their wheat. Yield fine, SO
far.
Rev. Hanna, of the Mexico NJ
+, Church, preached To II larsr
congregation at tn" Hall TucSda,
night.
Mrs, Geo. Pool, who has been
low for several weeks, is not i'm
proving,
j, NJ. Daniel has been Oh the
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

James Young, southeast of this
city, was called to Palmyra to see
his father who had an accidental
fall and was seriously hurt. He
has since recovered. The father
celebrated his Goth birthday only Il
few weeks since.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
Prof ! w. Hancock. of Iadf

Prof. J. w. Hancock, of Laddo-
mia, attended court here last week.
Says he will move his family to
Jonesburg next fall and remain
there thru the winter. He has the
principalship of the school in that
town and his son, Rex, has the
second place of said school, The
family formerly resided at Jones'
burg and they will enjoy going
back to to the old home for a sea-
son,
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Mexico has a case of what is
said to be smallpox. 1t is IA fifteen
years old colored girl who came
here over two weeks ago from
Louisiana. The disease began to
break out on her last Tuesday
week. The authorities took the
case in hand promptly and placed
the girl in quarantine. No spread
of the disease is anticipated.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Mexico has two pupils and like
wise Vandalia two pupils attend
ing the University summer school.
From this city,. w. Llewellyn
and Amy Boone Hill; Vandalia,
John l.. Anderson and Benz. Ford
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Mr.. William Self and Miss Jen-
ME Swift were married in Laddon-
ia last Saturday night, Rev. j. b.
White officiating. A pleasant
young couple, and we wish them
JOY and prosperity all the way
down the path of life.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28
Breaks Fixed.

| will repair, clean andrevarnish
all kinds of furniture, picture
frames, wall-pockets, sewing ma
chines-anything YOU want. Bug
gies and wagons painted. One
door east lntelligencer Office.
:. II. DOUGLASS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Eleven Americans including two
officers, in an attembt to charge Il
Filipino stronghold, We're killed
near Manila last week. The Ameri-
cans were frustrated by Filipino
pitfalls and traps.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Five negro wenches engaged i'll
a fight in Sturgeon the other day.
The matter was arbitrated in court;
fine 81. so each.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Miss Maybelle McClannahan, of
this city, and Mr.. ii. X. Cheat
ham, of Galloway county, an in
structor of stringed instrument
music, were married in st. Louis
last Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

A young man from another
town went to Sturgeon the other
day to see his best girl and rs he
left the house to return home Il
couple of Sturgeon boys beset him
with rocks. They were assessed II
fine of So. 80 each.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Five little boys" engaged in a
game of marbles in the Court
House yard last Monday. They
ranged in age from 80 to g. years
each. The "boys" were j. f.
Sisk, of Farber; II. NJ. Long, Of
Mexico; Jesse Carter, of Cant; j..
NJ. Daniel, of Thompson, and b.
+. Pulls, of Centralia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

a Democratic Silver League was
organized at New Florence last
week. Silas Car is president,
with vice-president from each
township of the county. o. Il.
johnson was elected secretary.
Arrangements are being planned
for a rousing Democratic rally in
New Florence Nov. LIST.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Sturgeon has n new doctor. Il.
M. Tayman, a late graduate of the
Columbian school of Osteopathy at
Kirksville.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

DR.. II. X. Hinde and daughter
leave for their European trip to-
night. They will visit Kentucky
friends few days and take ship
at New York July 7th.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

"Our Human Slaves in the Phil
ippines" is the title of an interest
ing article by Frank Shepherd.
Twelve year old girls are sold for
SlJ.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

The MESSAGE man and wife with
Mrs. J. l.. Smith and Mr.. l.. y.
Bird. thru the kindness of Mrs.
Nj. n. Nelson, were shown thru
the county Jail Tuesday evening.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

The two Mormon missionaries
still think there are hopes in Mex
leo. They will endeavor to get a
hall to hold meetings.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

A II year old negro boy will be
hanged at Little Rock, Ark, Aug.
20. He killed VIM. Davenport, a
blind farmer, near that city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Eight persons were killed near
Green Bay, Wis, in an excursion
trains collision with freight.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

Alb Hubbard and wife, married
over Il quarter of II century, have
separated. They live at Sturgeon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

w. l.. Corner is u salesman in
the Solz shoe and clothing store.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-06-28

DR., Hays R"novator II perfect
system ronoyator Sold by j. +.
Lleweilyn at 2Jc and IL,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-16
HONOLULU STOCK EXCHANGE.

Morning Session-Sales: On the
board, 10 Ookala, 16; 40 Ookala, 1915
nuntotiOne Rid A eIrad
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-16
RESuLT On Al LOKE.

Saturday night the rumor started
that Mr.. Sewall had been appointed
governor of Hawaii. BY Sunday morn
ing numerous men were telling on the
street that the special agent had re-
ceived a telegram notifying him of the
NOR started from a joke of a passenger
by the China.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-16
THE WEATHER.

Weather Bureau, Punahou, 1 p. IN.
Wind high north-northeast; weather
thick and hazy; heavy rain last night;
may rain again tonight.
Morning minimum temperature, 66;
midday maximum temperature, 20;
barometer, 8 a. M, SO.O7 rising (cor-
rected for gravity; rainfall, "a hours
ending 8 a. m. 80; dew point, 8 a. M,
81; humidity, a. M, 70 per cent
CURTIS ]. LYONS, Observer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-16
NO MORE PLAGUE.

This is the sixteenth clear day in
health circles, and the seventeenth day
will begin at II o'clock tonight. The
Board of Health and town generally
are now breathing easy. 1t is believed
that the danger is now over.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-16
FOR SALE.

Choice building lots on King, Young
and Beretania streets, so X 1879; artesian
water; terms one-third cash, balance
one and two years.
Three fine lots at Maklkl, rs X 125.
One lot, Wilder avenue and Kewalo
streets; a fine corner; 1875 200.
city, see
L. c. ABLES,
Real Estate Agent.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-16
NEW AIVERTIS EMENTS.
MEETING NOTICE.

MEETING NOTICE.
Lodge lie Progress Page l
PYTHIAN BALL.
oahu Lodge X. of P........,. Page l
DRESS MAKER.
Y. Yuen Tai ...................Pa Page 1
FOR RENT.
Rooms to Rent ................Pa Page l
WANTED.
Young Lady Cashier ...........Pa Page l
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sachs Dry Goods Co., Lid. Page 5
Golden Rule Bazaar Page I
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22


the horses became worn and tender
for want of shoes. Money was not
plenty. 1t never is on farms, but
there was a will and a way. They
bought anvil. bellows, tools and iron,
hired a blacksmith to do the work
and overcame their difficulties. One
day the blacksmith went off on long
spree. He was discharged When the
forge fire was lighted again there were
fair arms and hands 10 pull the bel
lows and swing the hammer. The art
OF sharpening picks and plows was not
hard. They burned the points off a few
to begin with, and had some funny ex-
periences while learning that castiron
Is not malleable, no matter how hot
you get 1t, and that 1t has a very bad
way of flying into red hot hail when
struck good blow with a hammer.
Blacksmith work became a pleasure
to them; they could fashion house
builders hardware that would set a
collector wild. Iron candlesticks CT
Venetian pattern were not so hard to
make, and their pride in their achieve
ments was reward for their pains.
Now, rudy and bronzed, they earn
good wages in doing work for sur
rounding farmers.-New England
Home Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

Superficial observation has defined
fear as that characteristic Cf living
creatures which teaches them to avoid
danger and thereby protect themselves
from injury or death. But If orr
study Of nature Is exhaustive we will
find that fear does not protect limb or
life. Indeed, nature has furnished ona
class of living organisms strictly as
the prey of another. There are multi
tudes OF creatures that feed upon other
forms of animal life and rarely indulge
in a vegetable diet In a state of ma
tuTe these animals hunt their prev
1t is, therefore, a logical inference that
II fear were given as a precaution to
life many of these living things would
be without the means OF subsistence
A number of scientists, prominent
among whom was Darwin, have given
profound study to the psychogenesis OF
fear and found that it has only a most
imperfect relation to the self-preserya-
ticn Of the creature that experiences it.
1t is supposed that the attitude OF
kneeling, which is the posture asso-
ciated with supplication and terror,
originally came from the inability OF
the muscles of the legs to support the
weight. thereby causing the individual
to sink 10 the ground. Dogs crouch and
whine when frightened and horses be-
come so tremulous that their legs cap
scarcely sustain them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

dition. thinking he is worse than any
one else can be, and manifesting, not
only In his words and actions, but In
his facial expression. all the morbid
conditions within him. Our mental
and physical conditions react upon
each other, and in many Instances
originate in negative thought. This
not only applies to a dyspeptic. but to
all classes OF invalids. who are prone
to sit down and imagine their condi-
tons much worse than they really are,
allowing fear and apprehension (the
worst form OF negative thought) to
entirely possess them. We cannot af
ford to spend our lives In this unprof-
liable manner Nothing is to be gain
ed by it for ourselves or others. We
all recognize the fact that our morbid
thought quickly affects others unfavor-
ably. There is every reason why we
except those that are uplifting and
health-giving. We must assume posi-
tive mental attitude, and, instead of
harboring fear. anxiety, criticism, must
cultivate courage, hope. kind thoughts
OF others, and love for all. 1t will take
time to accomplish this, but 1t can be
done. Life Is too short to nurse ones
misery; hurry across the lowlands that
you may spend more time on the
mountain top New York Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
SOME FRONTIER STORIES.
Escapades In Real Life That Eclipse
Those of Fiction.

1T is a popular form of amusement
to manufacture jokes about the dime
novel and to poke fun at the Dead
wood Dicks and Calamity James who
riot through their pages" says John
Reading, Of Denver, but the doings of
those fantastic heroes and heroines
were not more wonderful than some
Of the things that did happen in the
checkered career of many a frontier
bad man of real life Take Wild Bill,
for example, some of his escapades
read like fairy legends. yet reliable
men have told me that they were not
exaggerated, and man | knew was
present in a barroom when Bill was
playing cards with a man, who, with
another, had resolved to kill him. The
other man was behind Bill. but when
the trap was sprung. he killed both,
shooting the other man over his Shout
der, with only a looking glass some
distance away TO assist his aim At
another time. after having been given
the customary notice that he would be
sQOI on SlSUl, W ia Dill WdlhSu illtO
the square of the town, to find himself
between the man who had served the
notice and a crowd of his friends. So
short was his time and so dangerous
his position that he was compelled to
fire at a single man from his hip, but
without a glance he swung around and
covered the crowd with his guns be-
fore they could take action against
him; but he knew his skill, and his
opponent was dead even before he be-
gan to turn Cody, while never a
killer like Wild Bill and his proto-
types. earned fairly his name of Buff
falo Bill My brother-in-law, who is
an army officer, told me that Cody was
once the scout of an army post to
which ne was attached. and one day.
coming in, reported buffalo in the vi
cinity and asked for detail to go out
and kill some. in order to supply the
post with fresh meat For some rea-
son the officer in command refused,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
TELEPATHIc COMMUNICATION.
Strange Illustration OF This Mental
Phenomenon.

In speaking about telepathic com
munication recently, well-known
Washington man said: Il never had it
brought home so closely to me as It
was the other day. | was visiting at
the house of friend who is a prac-
teal electrician and who has charge of
a dynamo in one of the department
buildings. He happened to be absent
at the moment, although it was past
the usual time for getting home. and
his wife and were sitting in the nar-
lor commenting upon his hardness.
for he was usually the most punctual
Of men. Just as | looked at the clock
for perhaps the sixth or seventh time
and had noted that it lacked fifteen
minutes OF being o'clock my hostess
gave slight gasp and sat rigid in her
chair. Every muscle seemed to ha
tense, and he gave the appearance of
one laboring under the greatest shock
For the space of perhaps a second she
remained in this condition and then
suddenly grew limp and helpless as if
some strain under which she had been
laboring had been removed. Almost
Immediately she revived and looked
around with questioning air. When
| say that all this occupied not more
than two or three seconds at the most
you will realize how queer it all was
Isn't it funny she said on coming to-
/ feel exactly as though had received
a terrible electric shock. | know the
sensation because my husband has a
small battery in the house and often
gives me electricity for nervousness.
At that moment the telephone bell
rang and | answered it. The message
was that my friend had taken hold of
the wrong lever al the switch board
that distributed the current from his
dynamo, and that the surgeons at a
nearby hospital hoped to save his life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
THE OCEAN GRAVEYARD.
Sable Isands Fight Against ~. Ga.
The Threads Made h, N. o.


Sable island belongs to Nova sco-
tia, is li5 miles from Halifax and s5
miles east OF Capt Canso." writes GINS
tav Kobbe in Ainslee's for February
1t Is treeless, shrubless waste saam-
ed by wind and wave and Of ever
changing aspect. A coneshaped hill
near the east end, once a mere undu-
latlon or sand, is now over hundred
feet high, and is still growing Other
hiiiocKs are gradually being moved
away by storms. The hillocks are H.
able to be undermined so swiftly and
swept out OF existence that thew are
carefully watched from the various
stations on the island, there being no
certainty how far an inroad Of the sea
will extend after each successful ar
tack. Even the coarse grass OF the
island grows in different manner
from that of the mainland II does
not bear seed, but shoots IN from roots
which run along the sand. During the
winter the sand is blown over the grass
and Duries It sometimes three or four
feet deep. But the hardy blades grow
up next season as If the island sands
had protected them from the cold in
winter IN order to make them all the
stronger. The island itself is fighting
for self-preservaton. 1t seems as IL 1t
drew ships into its fatal embrace as
rallying points for its loose and shift
ing sand thus TO protect itself by a
buiwark OF wrecks against annihila-
ton by the sea. Tradition saws that
when Sable island was discovered by
Cabot, in 1447, it was eighty miles long
and ten miles wide. In 1902 when a
rescue station was established there Il
was only forty miles long Since then
1t has shrunk to but little more than
twenty miles in length, and in width
it is only mile at It's widest. Within
twenty-eight years the western end
lost seven miles Shoals over which
the ocean now surges are pointed out
as former sites OF lighthouses. One OF
these was so swiftly undermined by
the sea that It had to be abandoned
with the greatest precipitation. The
spot where once stood the superinten-
dents house IS now under two faith
oms of water. The island, rapidly di-
minishing at its western end, is slight
~ gaining ut its eastern. Slowly, like
ship dragging its anchor, it is NOV
ing eastward. VIII it ever reach the
edge of the shoals. stand lettering on
the brink of the abyss till 1t receives
its coup-degrace and plunge over the
submarine bank forever into the
depths? Unfortunately, its end will
probably be less dramatic. There Is
good ground for believing that this
gray sand bar will slowly wear away
until it becomes another submerged
shoal added to an ambuscade already
some sixty miles in length-for line
Of breakers extends sixteen miles from
one end of the island and twenty-eight
miles from the other
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22
The Henefits OF EArlY RIslng.

II was once laid down by cele-
brated writer and historian that the
difference between rising at and in
the morning for the space Of forty
years, supposing a man to go to bed
at the same hour every night, Is nearly
equivalent to the addition of ten years
to the life. This consideration should
carry very great weight and be snffi-
cient to induce those who have not
hitherto practiced this habit to COM
mence to do so, more especially the
people who are always complaining
that life is not long enough for them to
transact all the work that they have
10 perform. There Is much founda-
ton for their complaint If they persist
IN wasting so many valuable hours OF
the day in bed. The advantages and
benefits OF early rising cannot be over
estimated; in the early hours OF the
morning the brain is clearer and more
ready for work and after nights
sleep we should be ready 10 attack the
work of the day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-03-22

the members to bring liquid refresh
ments with them, which they left in
their oyercoats in the coatrooms, and
when regular drink time arrived so
general was the exodus that even ex-
Speaker Reed would have found ii diff
cult to count quorum. A parson
from Clearwater, who, needless to say,
was an advocate of the blue ribbon.
noticed this regular departure OF his
fellow-members. and by shopping
around discovered the cause. And so
one day when they had returned to
their seats after the usual libation to
the gods and the gold fields he arose
and sarcastically asked Mr.. Speaker.
! arise to make parliamentary in
curry Have we a barroom attached
to the prcmises?" Before the chair
could answer, Maj. Burke of Shoshone
arose and said: las the honorable gen
tleman from Clearwater well knows no
place where liquid refreshments can be
secured is attached to the legislative
hall, but If It's drink he's looking for,
he'll find bottle in my overcoat pock-
ct, third hook on the left as he enters
the coatroC m