Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-06-21
Talks With People.

County Collector Leeper: | am
quitting the use of tobacco. | dis
covered some years ago what Il
nasty habit it is, and | am resolved
that it shall have me in its grasp
no longer.
+. +. Jones: show YOU some
timothy raised on my farm ten
miles southwest of Mexico this
season. One of the heads meas
urcs 1917 inches. | call that II
pretty good growth.
Baker Barnes: My little boy,
paralyzed i'll one arm, seems to be
doing fairly well under his treat
ment at Kirksville. His mother is
there with him. We do hope he
will be fully restored.
w. II. Beal: | was in the mill
tia mt Mexico during the civil war.
Last week | located the house ON
Love street where Gen. Grant ate
his meals. | had not seen the
house since the COS. The late
John W. wilkins, of Laddomia,
was the jailcr then, and acted us
assistant quartermaStcr and also
owned the house to which | refer.
Sam Morris; was in Louisiana
and Bowling Green this week
Found business as quiet in those
towns as any place | have been.
But when | go down the C.& \. |
would like to get back in Il time
within the bounds of reason. The
G. 4 a. ought to put on that extra
passenger train. The people
would feel better toward the road
and be inclined to do more business
with it.
Street Joker: A mold for max
ing false teeth alarmed the police
department of st. Louis the Other
day. DR.. Morrow left the mold o,
Il street ear seat and the ugly thing
; was turned over to II policeman
who hurried it to the Four Courts
The police decided it was some kin,
of an Internal machine and wcr,
on the eve of throwing it into the
sewer when the doctor called for it
The explanation brought biz
laugh, and | have thought how
many Mexico people in making
such find would be taken in abou
the same way.
Capt, c. Y. Allen: am yer.
. much interested in politics thcs,
, days. | think we are hunkying /
good deal in the Chinese situation
If it is not trade and trusts anc
, imperialism more than Christian
[ lives we are wanting to save il
China, why didn't we take Il NOR
decided stand against that con
/. temptuous and despic able "Sicl
. Man of the East two or thrc,
T. years ago when hundred thouS
, and Christian Armcnians wcr
sliced and gaIrotcd and burned
and murdered! CommercialiSm il
{ soaring and binding the conscienc,
! of the leaders of our Republic.
A Thinker: | rather like tn
e stand the MESSAGE took last wecl
f against killing people legally.
| AS to II phase of this subject
= hand You the following clippe'
4 from the Central Baptist; Tire
e months ago Il new provision fo
$ dealing with cOnVictS went into ct
5 feet in Kansas. Anyone undo
h sentence who gives evidence tina
i he is sorry for his crime, and VIII
!. will give pledge of good conduct
may be released on probation. Tn
governor says that under this pro
vision eighteen men have been IT
n leased. They are required To II
port regularly their whereaboul
and their conduct. In every cas-
+ these eighteen men ale conductin
}. themselves well. Those with fan
e lilies are supporting them. Surel
: this method, which if divine rattle
e than human, of trying to save me
il is cOmmcndnblc and worth II fai
l. trial. Under the old system then
t was almost no hope of reforming
l. criminal. While it is not poSsib
e To know, rs God knows, when ge!
:. uinc repentance takes place, thel
e ought always to he door openiu