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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-26
Resolution On Sewer Connection.

BE it resolved by the Council of
the City of Mexico, Missouri,
that all persons connecting with
any district sewer or main sewer
wherein they have not paid dis
trict sewer tax, shall pay into
the City Treasury the sum of
$50 for each such connection
made with sewer, and secure
from the Mayor upon payment
of same a permit so to make said
sewer connection.
w. X. POTTS,
Mayor.
Attest: J. V. WILLIAMS,
Clerk.
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Terms Of Subscription:
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For President.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Of Nebraska.
For Vice President.
ApLAI T.. STEVENSON, of Illinois.
For Governor.
ALEXANDER NJ. DoCKEHY, Of Davies.
lioutrnant-Guvorn
ions A. LEF. ut st. Louis.
Secretary of state,
SAM u. CuoK. Of Audrain,
State Auditor,
ALBEIT o. ALLEN. 81 New Madrid.
Attorney General,
EDWARD G. Crow, Of Jasper.
State Treasurer.
RoBERT T.. WILLIAMS, OF Howard.
Railway Commissioner,
.JosEpu =. lIEHHINGroN. Of P"ttiS.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-26
THE MESSAGE
THURSDAY. JULY 2G 1900

John Beal, Editor and Proprietor
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-07-26
For Congress,
HON. CHAMP CLARK.

For State Scnator-1lth District
Nj. Il. X. BIGGS.
For Representative,
RHODES CLAY.
For Collector,
ALBERT HARRISON.
For Sheriff,
QUINCY JAMES.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
HOWARD l.. Buckley.
For Assessor,
j. M. SUPPLE.
For Treasurer,
j. Ii. SALLEE.
For Surveyor,
X. :. MCKINNEY.
For Coroner,
DIR. +. Med. BRIDGFORD.
For Public Administrator,
j. f.. JESSE.
Judge Western District,
j. a. LEWIS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

5rouses our misgivings by the state
ment that his slass had run low and
that he was expecting southerly wealth
or. One often expects sOutherly
weather and even snakes under such
circumstances. Yet with all our OPP
2ortunities for doubt in the KonaIa
case we refuse to mingle with the
scoffers. We feel assured that there
are sea serpents extant and local pride
behooves us 20 think that they are as
likely to visit the Paradise of the Pa
cific as any Of the Mainland watering
places Besides. the Island of Hawaii.
now that Brother Loebenstein is away.
is i'm a position. despite the continued
presence Of Sheriff Andrews and the
Board of Health. TO give other curios
a chance. And this suggests that if
Marshal Brown will leave Oahu for a
few days we may perhaps expect
visit from his snakeship here.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

Ii is hardly fair to assume that the
Beers advantages in these battles
were gained without the assistance of
capable generals, when it is taken into
consideration that there is a military
axiom which places the value of an
army relatively with the ability of it's
commanders. The Beers may exag-
gerate when they assert that one of
their soldiers is the equal in fighting
ability of five British soldiers. but the
results of the various battles show
that they have some slight foundation
for their theory.
Those who hope for a quick ending
of the present war. now that Roberts
and Kitchener are in the field, will not
find much encouragement in Mr.. Hille-
gas statements. many OF which. writ
ten before the war, have had recent
verification. The fact of most oppress-
i've significance seems to be that up TO
the present time the real defensive
strength of the Transvaal Beers has
not been tested. So far all the fighting
mas OCCuITtu III DIiliSH lcIIlLOiy Win
the Beers mainly on the offensive. That
part of the Tugela river which runs in
the South African Republic is yet some
distance from the scene of hostilities.
Ladysmith, Colenso and the other now
familiar backgrounds are part of the
Queens empire. The real test of
burgher efficiency awaits the attempt
Of the British to cross the mountains
that separate Natal from the Trans
vaal. Then there will be battles royal,
to be followed by others, If the British
go so far. on the long roads to the Gil
braltars of Pretoria and johannesburg.
At every defensive point the Beers are
capable OF making a sterner stand
than the Turks did at Plevna and
Shipka pass. Meantime their emissa-
ries in Cape Colony, among the native
tribes of South Africa and in Europe
will be tirelessly at work Should they
achieve but one CT their objects Great
Britain's hold on South Africa may
have to relax as It did one hundred
and seventeen years ago on the better
part of North America We may hope
differently without changing the ugly
facts of the situation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

born or trained IN Europe The APP
pr0aches TO Laing's Mex, near the Ma
tai border. which have several times
been the battle ground of the English
and Boer forces. have been prepared
10 resist an invading army from Ma
tai. Much attention says this pros
phetic author-''has been directed. I'd
the preparations in that part of the re-
public because the British command
ers will find it easier to transfer forces
from the port of Durham. which is 3O6
miles from the Transvaal border. while
Cape Town is almost a thousand miles
distant"
The author discusses the armament
Of the Free State. the probability of
sympathetic Dutch uprisings in Cape
Colony, and the habit of the powerful
native tribes of taking the side of a
successful white combatant. and pro-
ceeds to say:
Military men are accustomed to sneer
at the lack of generalship Of the Boer
forces. but in only one of the battles
in which they have engaged the Brit
ish forces have the trained military
men and leaders been able to cope with
them. In the battle of Boomplaats.
fought in 1913. the English officers can
claim their only victory over the
Beers, who were armed with flintlocks.
while the British forces had heavy ar
tillery. In almost all the encounters
that have taken place the BOer forces
were not so large as those of the enc
my, yet the records show that many
more casualties were inflicted than re-
ceived by them. In the chief engage
ments the appended statistics show
that the Beers had only a small per-
centage of the men in the casualty list.
while the British losses were much
greater:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29
PROSPECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

A good idea of what the British have
still before them in South Africa may
be found in Hillegas' interesting work.
loom Paul's People the chapter en-
titled Preparations for Defence" be-
ing full of data that are even yet but
imperfectly understood by readers of
the current war news.
The Beers. says the Anglo-Dutcn au-
thor, Che wrote before the war; nave
been preparing, during many years.
for a bout with Great Britain. German
experts were employed to formulate
defensive plans and European artiuer-
lists to teach the arts of modern war
fare. Americans of military training
became instructors in the National mil
itary school at Pretoria: even the
women and children learned the use
of arms. Several million pounds ster-
ling were annually sent to Europe to
pay for the guns and fort-armor re-
quired by experts. The best of skill
was used in fortifying strategic points
and every farmers cottage was stocked
with arms and ammunition, so that the
commands. when called out, would be
instantly ready for the field.
Pretoria and Johannesburg. the
chief cities, were turned into admir-
able fortresses. The Boer capital was
fitted to withstand a siege of three
years, and to resist the onslaughts OF
a great army. The city stands in a
square on each angle of which is
steel-clad granite and earthen fort
which commands the valleys and the
surrounding country. Each fort has
four Creusot guns of the heaviest cali
bre. four more of fifteen miles range
and thirty OF the best type of Calling
guns. There are. besides, fifty light
Calling guns in the city which can be
easily sent to any threatened point.
| Three immense warehouses. well out of
an enemy's range. are filled with am
munition; also an arsenal with spare
| repeating rifles. Two refrigerators
with a capacity of 1000 oxen each are
part of the resources of the commits
sariat. The cost of all this NAV be
judged by the military budget of one
year. (the year preceding the outbreak
of the war; which foots up SO, 429 $50.
OF this sum but $685. went for War
Office salaries.
1 johannesburg is encircled by forth
/ fications so built as either to defend
the city or destroy it, The outside
country can be raked on the one hand;
! the city streets and the railroad on
the other. Residents have reason to
believe that the place has been mined.
/ Should an enemy assail he could be
kept off indefinitely; should the popu-
latiOn rise it and it's habitations could
be blown into the air.
The difficult mountain approaches to
the Transvaal are fortified nearly If
not quite as well-so say other author
tiles than Hillegas-as the Franco-Ger-
man border. Hillegas himself says
that they are fortified with vast guam
cites of French and German ordnance
and equipped with garrisOns of men
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29
KOHALA's SEA SERPENT.

IL is the custom to ridicule the sea
serpent because il is as unfamiliar
as the buffalo and the great aux and
is 50 rarely seen that most people call
II a myth. Still there is as much evil
dence that the sea serpent exists as
there is that the great aux existed.
Some years ago a book-writer collected
the sworn testimony of people who
had seen great sea snakes-not all Of
them through a glass darkly-and the
findings were passed upon by eminent
judges as conclusive by rules of law.
Men whose word is good on every other
subject cannot be passed lightly over
when they swear that they have seen
a ~serpentine monster of the deep
writhing through the water and LASH
ing the brine into "suds and blueing"
Nor is there any sound reason in ma
ture why a sea serpent should not ex-
list. We have small fresh-water snakes.
Why not big saltwater serpents? The
question OF why. If these marine rep
tiles do exist. people see so little of
them, rs after all a matter of detail.
The big snakes may be bashful or they
may live and prey five hundred feet
below the surface, only rising to the
top when they are hurt. or sick or are
pursued by some formidable enemy of
the lower deep. Their seclusion in the
water may be like that of the construct
OF in the jungle. Or. again, the sea
face observations at night and so es-
cape, nine times out of ten, the sight
of man. Rarity of appearance does not
count for much. There was n tiger
hunter who said he had been in India
all his life and had never seen a mis-
sionary, to which a missionary replied
that he had been in India forty years
and had never seen a tiger-hunter-or
a tiger. either. when il came to that.
know there are thousands of deep-sea
forms the most experienced sailor new
err saw, AMI they might alphabetically
group the sea serpent among these il
1t were not for the fact that a great
many experienced sailors and lands
men, also. claim TO have seen it with
their eyes and heard it with their
ears" and that. too, without any prec-
edent state of spirituous introspection.
On all these accounts we are not dis
posed to ridicule the story of the Ko-
hala sea serpent with which the Ad-
vertiser's pages are graced this morn
ing. To De sure, the evidence in IA
vor of this particular reptile is not
strong. The one close observer was q
Jap. who thought the fins of the mon.
ster were some twenty feet long, In
which case the snake itself ought to be
pretty nearly big enough to wind It's
coil around one OF the smaller island.
OF this group and still have slack lef
with which to chase wild goats in thu
hills. Our informant confesses tha
he, looking from a considerable dis
lance from the shore, merely saw 4;
commotion in the water that Nigh
have been caused by a whale. He ais,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

The fire at Aala, whether incendiary
or not, was probably advantageous in
a sanitary way. Some places need
funerals to enable them to go ahead,
but Honolulu needed fires and Provi-
dentially got them. It is highly desir-
able, however, that private individuals
should not. be encouraged to interpret
the wishes of Providence in these re-
spects. hence the hope that If firebugs
really caused the Aala blaze they may
he arrested and punished. We want
no epidemic of arson to go with the
epidemic of plague.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29
ttttt
Residence Lots on Pacific Heights
Are Now Offered For Sale.

rag- No residence property having
similar advantages and attractions for heahfuness of
location having elevation of from 170 500 feet and
affOrng the grandes marine and scenic views; also it's
proximity the business part of the city, being less than
mile from the Progress Block has before been presented
to the people of Honolulu.
One of the main features of this property and procured
great expense the abundant supply of pure spring water
drinking obtanabe in the island which being
into storage % upon ne property o an tno
Government rates.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

4 There are cable bills galore before
congress, among them the Moreno der
ilict, which has been pulled off a lee
hore and patched up to go into trade.
doreno must be pretty old and feeble
low. but he has an undimmed eye for
and would probably be the
lappiest man in Washington if some
,ody would pay him to take his crazy
I'D corsair off the seas of legislation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

Speaking of the Johnson case, the
Independent remarks of one Of the
that Gin the stealing Of
he country and the political rights Of
he aborigines of Hawaii in 1893 he
was hardly setting a good example to
Toung men, Tut, tut! We thought
he Independent once said that Min
ster Stevens and the Boston's marines
we're the rascals who "stole the cOun-
ry?" How could the missionary
nave done it, too?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

The full text of the sanitary regula-
ions Of the Board of Health appears
u the BY Authority column and should
,e carefully studied and observed. If
IN Honolulu were governed by such
uIes there would soon be no plague.
he nearer the people get 70 them the
uicker the plague we have will disap-
,Aar
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

Mr.. Loebenstein's motto should
ienceforth be. 'Veni, vidi and they
red me. It will serve as a pleasing
.ariatiou to his III not. why not?'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-29

Only the highest grade OF RED RUB
Der is used In the Stamps made by
the HAWAIIAN GAZETTE CO.
The colored American., 1900-02-03
We are Up.to date.

Miss Lizzie HummOns OF Winchester.
KY, was married TO Trooper Samuel
Wheeler of The 9th U. s. Calvary, Fort
Wingate. N. NJ, last Friday by tele
graph and telephone. A minister at
Winchester. magistrate at IL ton,
and chaplain st Fort Wingate perform
&c the ceremony. The messages cost
$25 90 and is the first colOTed wedding
ever solemnized by wire.
The colored American., 1900-02-03
Th Capital Savings Bank,

This bank has recently been made an
agent OF one OF the wealthiest corpora
lions in this country, or in any other,
that Of the United States Express Com
pany. 1t issues United States Express
Money Orders in sums to suit, paya BILE
eVeiywh here Gas bills may also be
paid at this bank. We are glad to see
the Capital Savings Bank people,
stretching out" in the business world
and enlarging lis field of usefulness
The colored American., 1900-02-03
Personal Liberty League Club.

The Personal Liberty League Club ls
increasing It's hold upon the affections
OF Washington's young men, and lis
apartments at $40 Pennsylvania avenue
are every day and evening filled with
just the friends you are anxious to meet
and have chat with. The order is
superb and the service is fret class,
Nessrs. Hawkins, Edelin,, Curtis
Bowie and others OF the management
are to be congratulated upon the sue
cess OF this hospitable Organz alton.
The Sunday evening imprOmptu con-
certs are 8 taking feature,
The colored American., 1900-02-03

sion, u new work started in the South
ern section OF this city, by the Episco-
palians. Rev. DR.. G. M c. Mapp Is in
charge. Among she clergy who as
sisted were: Revs. o NJ Waller, w.
V. Tunnell, w. ID. Devries and r. h.
Ri inelander. A vested choir, accom-
panied with violins and cornet, proved
an interesting feature Of the occasion
Among ths large congregation present
were many members of st. Monics's
League, an organization whose object
IS to look ate the work among colored
people.
The colored American., 1900-02-03
a Truly National Paper.

Dear EditoT:-TheTe Is no bill I de
light in saying NOR than the one which
assures ne OF The ColOred American
for another year. The new form adds
much TO it's appearance. You deserv
greas praise in giving US the only truly
national colored newspaper,
William A. Credit, d. D., Pastor
Cherry St, Baptist church, Philadel
phla.
The colored American., 1900-02-03
Hotel Walters + association.

Tue Head Walters Association held
an interesting meeting last week, at
which II. s. Locke, of the Shoreham,
presided, and William T. Nailor, of the
Richmond, acted as secretary, Messsrs.
Bruce and Nailsr made speeches on the
Importance OF perfecting the service,
and the members of the local associa-
tlon will make several suggestions to
the ational Organization waen 1t meets
In Pi!ttsburg in May next. Mr.. Lock q
is the national representative In Wash
ington.
The colored American., 1900-02-03

Ifvou are wise you will tske advan'
tage of our special rate OF one dollar
per year aud send US the dollar al once.
Money sent by express or post office
money order, or even postage stamps
Is prefera Dle to currency ,sent IN let
ter unless the letter is registered.
The colored American., 1900-02-03

west.
L. j. Galloway, special agent ia charge
Of the Negro exhibit at Paris, is gradu-
ate of Fisk.
The enterprising newspaper sensa-
tioaalists who caught Aguinaldo the
other afternoon, have evidently turned
him loose again.
An editor in Tennessee town, who
stated IN his paper that the new centu
ry would begin January /, 1901, was
ridden out OF town on rail.
ST. Louis has two very wealthy col
ored people. Mrs. Amanda Larbadie
pays taxes on 100000; and Alfred
White, caterer and confectioner, has
made SIS 600 at his business.
The Associated Press is responsible
for the announcement that Tom John
son, Negro, returned to his home in
Hannibal, Mo-, with $500, 900, which he
had made during his four years stay In
the Klondike.
In accordance with orders from the
War Department, Troop nj, Ninth Cav
airy. (colOred) has left Spofford, Texas,
FOR Fort Grant, Arizona, their regular
station. They were relieved fr0m duty
In Texas by troop Of the Tenth Cav
ally, Just returned from duty in Cuba.
Teachers, pupils and parents of
School No la, in Brooklyn, are aroused
over the appointment as teacher there
of William l.. Buckley, PHI D, colored
There seems to be no doubt OF question
OF Mr. Buckley's qualifications. Some
OF the pupils OF the school are colored.
One OF the leading and most plucky
citizens OF Cape Nome, that far away
land OF the midnight sun, is a coal
black Negro, Walter G. Beal, man
well known ia the western states
There Is not much done or undertaken
these days, but what "there's a Negro
in it," as says the poet.
Subscribers who are in arrears and
who desire to pay their honest debts
will take advantage of the one dollar
rate and send it within the next 1E
scription price Of The CoIored Ameri-
can will be one dollar per year. Those
who know good thing when they see
il Will send TX this amount by return
mail.
The financial status Of our race, when
known, will euthuae the people to aim
higher. We owned In 1890, 13 900, 152
farms and homes in the United States:
In the North Atlantic States ,204 farms
and 3a4, TAI homes free from debt
Wealth is power. Homes and money
ia what we greatly need, for poverty is
one Of the breeders of crime and bad
citizenship; wealth is barrier against
life of romance ana plunder
Prof. w. f. Wilc TX, of Cornell UDi
versity, the eminent soclOlOgist aud a
proven friend Of the Negro, has recent
ly shown that IN the Southern States
there are 20 Negro prisoners to every
10000 Negroes, while in the Northern
tstes there are So prisoners TO evtry
10000 Negroes, aid that the increase Of
prisoners IN the Southern States to eacb
million Negroes between 1880 and 1890
was 20 per cent while that for the
same number Of whites for the same
length OF time, was only per cent.
The colored American., 1900-02-03
ST. M onfCa's Mission.

Right Rev. 81. Y. S4tterlee, bishop Of
the diocese of Washington, presided at
the opening service OF 81. Monica Mis-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-03

The statements of the wounded
French engineer who fought on the
Boer side and who recently went back
to France are to be taken with many
grains OF salt. 1t Is the national habit
in France to deride and sneer at all
things British, and to insist that Eng
lish soldiers are worthless, and it is
not supposable that this trait has been
altered by Captain Icons recent COM
rades. He has perfect right to his
private opinion, highly colored though
it Is by prejudice, that the British
Generals, his late foes. are incompe-
tent; but what else could he be ex-
pected to say? Would it not be mar
vellous II he held any other opinion?
Doubtless the British Generals have
made blunders, but this Frenchman's
views about their doings are not to be
taken seriously.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-03

1t pleases the vealy Bulletin to de-
scribe Republicans who do not care to
accept its leadership as "Mugwumps,"
a characterization which, on that ba-
sis, includes nineteen-twentieths of the
Republicans of Hawaii. To these the
Bulletin-which ought to be called the
Calfetin-addressed itself yesterday in
this wise:
The people will conduct the Republican
mass meeting tonight. The efforts of a
clique to run the affair on the old lines
will die aborning. If the Mugwump ag-
gregation has an idea of acting for the
good of the party, they will lay low. Fail
ing to follow good advice, they will be
laid low.
Verify, verify, 1t would take a ton OF
the Bulletins brains boiled down to
make one teaspoonful of calves foot
jelly.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-03

Our best wishes to the Honolulu
branch of the Young Women's Chris
tan Association. The preliminary ar
engagements are in the hands of some
OF our most able, progressive and
broad-minded women, and the project
promises to take shape in an institu-
ton Of very great usefulness. There Is
a real need for an organization of the
sort proposed here, and 1t will be a
most valuable addition to our new
city. Honolulu has gone beyond the
stage when every newcomer went to
private house; and a boarding house
on the lines suggested at the meeting
the other evening, with adjuncts in
the way of swimming tanks, a gymna-
SUM, dining-rooms, where women at
work in stores and Offices or downtown
on shopping expeditions could obtain
nice luncheons under pleasant circum-
stances, would be real blessing. Con-
sidering the kind of women who would
make it their home, temporarily al
least, 1t would be a very different
thing from the dreary affairs in some
large Mainland cities. Also, 1t woulc
naturally. serve as a rallylng point fol
the women's interests of every sort
The plan deserves encouragement ant
help in all ways.