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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
BIBLE WITH ROMANTIC HISTORY
1t Was Found on the Plains and Used
on Many Ceremonial Occasions

1t Was Found the Plains and Used
on Many Ceremonial Occasions
The Bible which was used In the
ceremonies beginning the celebration
in this city of the fftieth anniversary
OF the state of California has a history
that is very interesting. In 1S49 a
young man in coming across the plains
found pile of books by the side of
the road with a stick stuck among
them bearing note telling travellers
to help themselves. The young man
in searching through the old volumes
found handsome Bible, which he con-
sldered a shame to be left upon the
pack and carried 1t to Sacramento. He
presented it to DR.. r. II. Mcdonald,
who at that time conducted a drug
store in that city. Some time after the
advent OF the Bible into Sacramento a
meeting was called in that city for
Masons. That was on Jan. s, 1850,
and the lodge was to be known as
Connecticut Lodge, No. 10. 1t CHANGED
that the meeting place was adjoining
the premises occupied by DR.. McDon-
aid. When 1t was convened /. was
found that t re was no Bible al hand
with which to conduct the ceremonies
and DR.. Mcdonald presented the book
that had been given to him by the
young man for the lodges use. On
the 10th OF the following April the
grand lodge OF Masons was formed and
the Bible again played an important
part in the ceremonies. After the form
alton OF the grand lodge the name OF
Connecticut lodge was changed to Te-
hama lodge. No. 3, but ever since Its
establishment on Jan. s, 1850, the b.
BILE has remained in the possession OF
the lodge. X. o, Craven, n prominent
officer OF the lodge, has been appointed
to represent the lodge here during the
jubilee exercises and serves as the GUS
todian OF the priced old book during
its visit to this city.-San Jose (Cal.)
Mercury.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

The street fair fakirs are here,
thick and strong. The MESSAGE
last week stated that there would
be none of this thing-nothing to
Offend, that the whole atmos-
phere surrounding the fair man
agement would be clean and pure,
but in this we were slightly mis-
taken. Yet, don't be too harsh.
The street fair committee has had
a thankless job, are working with
out money and without price, and
if they have made n mistake, think
If you would have taken their work
and done any better.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

become a mighty struggle for the
survival of the iittest"--a condi.
ton that appeals only to the baser
passions and smothers all the no.
bier qualities.
Bro. Price seems as ignorant on
the pension question as on other
matters. He ought surely to know
that more pensions were granted
under Cleveland's last administra-
ton than any other. Pensions are
all right i'll their place, but great
many old pensioners seem to think
that the Governments treasury
ought to be thrown open to every
camp follower who applies. How
do you like McKinley's pension
policy! Are you aware that about
200, 900 old soldiers are condemn
ing 1t in the severcst terms! You
don't mean to fool somebody aud
hold Mckinley up as the pink of
perfection, / hope. Corporal Tan
ner says, "No one knows better or
feels more the injustice done the
veterans Of the country by McKin-
ley's commissioner than | do"
Tanner was pension commissioner
under Harrison, and knows what
he is talking about.
God save our nation from the
spirit of greed and ambition that
has wrecked so many nations of
the past.
Mexico, Mo. J. y. CRoss
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
NOTICE OF
Sheriff'S Sale in Parti-
ton.
Theodore Horn, Jr.. Plaintiff.

Walter Horn. Clarence Horn aud Erma
Horn. Defendants.
In the Circuit Court OF Audrain County.
Missouri
by virtue and authority OF "A decree and
order of sale made by the said Court. i'm
TIL" above entitled cause and of a ccrti-
fled copy thereof, dated September 4th,
1900. will. on Friday, the 9Th October,
1900, between the hours of Nine o'clock in
the forenoon and Five o'clock in the af-
tcrnoon of that day, at the East front
door Of the Court House, in the City of
Mexico. in Audran County, Missouri,
sell, at public vcndue. to the highest bid
der. the following described real estate,
viz:
The Northeast fourth Of the Northeast
quarter "a Of section fourteen 90 the
southeast fourth of the southeast quarter
% of section eleven Q1) and the west
half of the Northeast fourth Of the South
east quarter 90 of section eleven QD. all
in Township tfty-one t5l), Range eight
49,, containing 100 acres. more or less. sit
natcd in the County of Audrain and State
of Missouri.
Terms of sale as follows, viz: Cash.
NJ. n. NELSON,
Sheriff Audran County, Missouri.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
Miss Kiumpke's Good Fortune.

Current newspaper statements con-
corning the will OF Rosa Bonheur re-
call the fact that the principal legatee
was, until the last year OF the great
artists life, an entire stranger to her.
Miss Anna Klumpke, a young portrait
painter OF promise, greatly desired to
paint Rosa Bonheur, and wrote, ask
ing that privilege. Receiving a favor
able reply, she at once started from
Boston to Fontainebleau. France, and
entered upon her work. The two
women found themselves in such close
sympathy that Mademoiselle Bonheur
asked her visitor to make her home
with her, and at her death last year
devised almost her entire estate
chateau. park, library, paintings and
priceless manuscripts-to this young
American. The story is a romance in
real life. 1t underscores the poet
query; Who can answer where any
road leads?"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

New LONDON, Rails county, is
to have a third paper, the Rails
County Times" c. V. Hamilton
will be the editor. l.. a. Bird,
late of the MESSAGE, will be fore
man. May the paper prosper and
prove Il power for good in those
ends of the earth.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
A DANGEROUS GAME,
roman Fastime That Not Infre-
quently Ends In Tragedy.

A Roman Fastime That Not Infre-
quently Ends In Tragedy.
Italians in Rome have a delightful
little game, which is called the PAS
satella'" 1t Is played mostly nowadays
In low drink shops, and as 1t leads FREE
quently to murder, the police are anx.
ious to stop 1t. Round a table some
men are smoking. At the head sits
man with flask OF wine and glass
before him. He is the president Of
the party. All the company, incl,fd-
ing the president, have paid for that
flask of one, but not one OF them can
drink drop Of 1t unless the president
gives permission. He, however, may
drink as often as he likes. When he
passes the glass to another that other
may drink until the president cries
Stop" and the glass is passed to the
next. Sometimes the Stop" comes
before q single drop is drunk, This Is
the fun for the others who are allow
ed to drink A good-natured president
rarely repeats this joke, but 1t some-
times happens that he has a grudge
against one Of the men. and then the
unfortunate victim sits the whole ev-
ening, smoking and frowning, while he
sees all the others drink but himself.
This is making an "Olmo" of him!
And woe to president who would
make an "Olmo" of the same man
twice, for he would soon have a knife
run across his throat. 1t is the FREE
quency of such tragic end that causes
the police to try to prevent the game
when possible,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

THE dispensary law Of South
Carolina is Il socialistic idea. The
State ought to get more profits.
Accordingly the law of 1898. The
bar-keepers had to get out of bus
mess. The State took this bust
ness and the profits. In the seven
years that the dispensary has been
in operation it has made profit
of $1,000, 900. This is divided
among the State and counties and
towns.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
Skeletons of DerNIah es.

In London just at present the fad
dists and the curIo collectors are vying
with one another for the possession OF
skeletons OF dervlshes that have been
brought back from the bloody plains
before Omdurman Some $50 to 200
dervish skeletons are on the London
market; and experts in bones declare
that their superiority over the average
skeletons OF commerce will cause no
little stir ~ anatomical circles.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

If anybody had doubts rs to
Democratic enthusiasm in this
part of the earth before he went to
the rally at Nandalia last Saturday
he was fully persuaded on that
point before he returned home.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

THE Democratic rally here on
October 20 will be rouser. Hon.
Joe Bailey, of Texas, will deliver
an address worth coming miles to
hear.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

THE east end papers think the
official ballot of the county this
year should be printed at about the
cost of white paper--by the two
papers that get the printing of the
advertisement of the ballot. The
east end papers, therefore. threat
to put in no bid for this printing,
which is to be let by the county
court to the lowest bidder.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
Terms of Subscription:
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For President,
WILLIAM j. BRYAN, Of Nebraska.
For Vice President,
ADLAI Il. STEVENSON, Of Illinois.
For Governor,
ALEXANDER NJ. DoCKERY, Of Davies.
bicutcnant-Gov
JONI A. LEE, Of st. Louis.
Secretary Of State,
SAM Il. Cook, Of Audrain.
State Auditor,
ALBERT o. ALLEN, Of New Madrid.
Attorney General,
EDWARD {. Crow, Of Jasper.
State Treasurer,
RoBERr I. WILLIAMS, of Howard
Railway Commissioner,
.JosEpu =. IIERRINGToN, Of Pcttis.
For Congress,
HON. CHAMP CLARK.
For State Senator-l1th District,
M. II. X. BIGGS.
For Representative,
RHODES CLAY.
For Collector,
ALBERT HARRISON.
For Sheriff,
QUINCY JAMES.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
HOWAkD l.. Buckley.
For Assessor,
j. NJ. SIPPLE.
For Treasurer,
j. II. SALLEE.
For Surveyor,
II. S. MCKINNEY.
For Coroner,
DIR. +. Med. BRIDGFORD.
For Public Administrator,
j. f.. JESSE.
Judge Western District,
j. A. LEWIS.
Judge Eastern District,
GUY MCCUNE.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

Washington special Chicago Jour-
nal: The work of distributing the mil
lions OF internal revenue stamps over
the country is performed in two ways.
They are bought by private individuals
in $1,000 lots, to be retailed by them
at the profit of l per cent permitted by
the law. The other way is by special
stamp commissioners appointed and
paid by the revenue department.
About 800 such agents are maintained
in the principal business centers
throughout the country. Commissioner
Wilson says larger commission
should be allowed for distributing the
stamps. Banks are quite unanimous
in refusing to handle them, and the
force of special stamp distributors has
had to be greatly increased. The COM
mission at one time was per cent, and
finally 1t was cut down to per cent.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

DoCKERY tells good one in ref
erence to Dick dalton supporting
Bryan for President but opposing
the Missouri Democratic ticket
Dockery says when he was "A boy
he used to attend the circus and
he has seen one man ride as many
as eight horses at once. 1t was II
matter of wondcrmcnt to his boy
ish heart, but he never saw such
n wonderful feat ms man riding
two horses each going in opposite
directions. So Dalton in this day
beats the old acrobats- he can
ride two horses, one going one
way and the other the other way.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
For Sale.

One of the best dwellings, in
Laddonia, Mo. House five rooms,
out buildings, % acre ground,
plendid water, plenty fruit, etc.
Address the MESSAGE, Mexico, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

DEMOCRATIC rally in Mexico
Oct. 20. Make your arrangements
to be here.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11

SURE enough, where is ID X.
Francis this year!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
Don't Tobacco Spit and snole Your life Away.

10 quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
notic. full OF lie, nerve and yigor, take MOTTO.
Bac, the wonder worker that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 81. Cure guaras,
teed. Booklet aud sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-10-11
Published Every Thursday.

Entered at the Postoflicc at Mexico,
Mo-, as sccond-class natter
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
HAD A PREMONITION.
Elephant Trainer Prepared to Meet
Death Under Tusks.
Patsy Had Seen Many Fights with
Angry Pupils and Anticipated
the End That Came TO Him
/. short Time Ago.

There Is an unwritten chapter in the
life of PATSY" Meager, better known
as PATSY" Forepaugh, the elephant
trainer who met tragic death under
the tusls of Big Sid at the barns of
Sells Bros. in Columbus, o., few days
ago. The chapter shows that Fore
paugh anticipated such a death as be-
fell him and illustrates the Fremont
tions to which mankind is subject.
Patsy" Forepaugh long had held
this premonition before him, and his
many perilous experiences of a similar
nature make the subject q peculiar one.
The most dangerous part of the mans
life was when he was chief trainer for
the Wallace circus, which has its win
ter quarters in Peru, Ind. In this pc
Rod of five years the man performed
acts of bravery and exhibited remark
able nerve and GOODNESS in the face of
danger. He dominated his massive
charges by force of viii. coupled with
kindness and controlled them abso-
lutely.
Pilot, the monster elephant of the
wallace herd, says the Chicago Trib-
une, formed the central figure in this
unwritten chapter. 1t was Forepaugh
who almost alone subdued this beast
when he broke from his quarters, es-
capped to the country and did great
damage to property and to the peace
of mind of the people. 1t was Fore
paugh, too, who passed through an ex-
perience such as seldom falls to the
lot of man, and which was termed by
those who saw it a battle royal. When
the show was at Richmond, Tex, there
was a quarrel between Pilot and an
other elephant while they were being
taken through the streets to the cars
after night performance. The beasts
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
Character That Counts,

y Jeweler in western town recent
ly found precious treasure in pe-
culiar place. His home coffee mill was
broken and he took it apart to find
what was the trouble. He discovered
that it had been wrecked by the action
of a stone of some sort that had even
cut its way into the metal OF the
grinders. He took the stone to his
Jewelry store, and, putting it under
a microscope, discovered that it was
large diamond of the blue tint vari-
ETY., and worth about $500. 1t is
thought that the diamond got mixed
up with the coffee when the grain was
screened in South Africa, where the
coffee was raised. The diamond was
about the size of a coffee grain and
had the same duh color. What strik-
ing illustration of the value of reality
over sham and pretense! The diamond
was plair and unpretentious, but being
diamond, wherever it was found, no
matter how humble the circumstances
or associations, it was precious treas
ure. So true character will ever come
to its own in the end. It may be neg
lected and forgotten for awhile, but
genuine manhood and womanhood,
however humble their associations,
will make themselves felt, and God
will honor them in His own good time.
-Homiletic Review
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
FACTS AND COMMENT.

HaZen, Ark, has gone "dry." There
will be but four saloons in Prairie
county this year.
OF 400 men who entered one of the
state prisons in given time 5000 ad
mitted that they were drunkards.
Under the Indiana PLAN" IS paid
'evangelists" are devoting their entire
time to prohibition party work in the
Hoosier state.
Through the efforts of members of
the Senior Loyal Temperance legion,
two saloon keepers of Ithaca, N. Y.
have been indicted and one of them
convicted for violation of the LIQUOR
tax law. The other one is yet to be
tried.
The mayor of Philadelphia says that
hundreds if not thousands Of women
in that good old Quaker city, women
of position and responsibility, are adj
dicted to the opium habit. ITO this
end" says Mayor Ashbridge, "our
laws need to be radically amended"
DIR. John Madden, professor of physi-
ology in the Wisconsin College of
Physicians and Surgeons, believes that
II is the province of a physician, even
more. than of the moralist or philan-
thropist, to do what he can toward
the suppression of alcohol.-North-
western Christian Advocate. e
Out of $50 towns and plantations in
Maine, 437 effectually prohibit the sa-
loon. Ont of population of 6s1, ose.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
EXPORTS OF LIQUOR.
Figures Which show the Quantities
Sent to Countries Where Mis-
sionaries Labor.

An examination of the records of the
bureau of statistics, writes William II.
Curtis in the Chicago, Record, shows
that during the last fiscal year there
was exported from the United States
to all parts of the world 1862, 029 gal
Ions of distilled spirits, including
whisky, brandy, alcohol, rum, wines
and everything else of that description,
of which 2,22O, 021 gallons were sent TO
countries where American missionaries
were laboring. OF this quantity the
larger part was sent to Japan, and con-
sisted of pure alcohol, which is used
for manufacturing purposes. Out of
the total of 1,366,s54 gallons of dis
titled spirits sent to Japan only 662
gallons was brandy, 6,s17 gallons rum,
5,402 gallons whisky and 116 gallons
wine. Deducting the pure alcohol sent
to Japan, the total exports of distilled
spirits to missionary countries
amounted to s66,244 gallons. From
this also should be deducted ], 1852 gal
Ions of pure alcohol sent to Colombia.
LOG gallons to Venezuela and 500 gall
Ions to British Africa. The total bran
dy sent to missionary countries last
year was 2o,944 gallons; the total whis-
ky, a44,91s gallons.
The total amount of malt liquor sent
to all parts of the world from the
United States was 1,433, 799 dozen bot
ties, mostly lager beer. OF this 272, sol
dozen bottles went to missionary
countries. The following table in
cludes all of the foreign countries to
which missionaries are sent by the re-
hgious organizations of the United
States, and the exports of distilled and
malt liquors to each of them is given
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1893:
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
THE WATERS HAVE GONE OVER
ME-"

delicious as the opening scenes of life,
or the entering upon some newly dis
covered paradise, look into my desola-
ton, and be made to understand what
n dreary thing it is when he shall
feel himself going down a precipice
with open eyes and passive will-to
see all goodness emptied out of him,
and yet not be able to forget the time
1T was otherwise-to hear about the
pitiless spectacle of his own ruin;
could he see my feverish eye, feverish
with last nights drinking, and fever
ish looking for to-night's repetition
of the folly; could he but feel the
body of death out of which 1 cry
hourly with feebler cutlery to be de-
hvered, it were enough to make him
dash the sparkling beverage to the
earth, in all the pride of it's mantling
temptation"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
GOOD TEMPER.
No One Has Moral Right to Innict
Gloom mad Dependency
Upon Others.

a reader of Robert Louis Stevenson's
Letters" says they show how well he
practiced in everyday life the gospel
of courage, of the high moral value
OF good temper, and of the crime of
gloom and dependency. A fit of irri-
tation was to him a thing to be
ashamed of, and he apologies for be-
ing occasionally east down by his i'll
health. One cannot fail to be struck
by the buoyant and joyous note in
Stevenson, whose whole life was a
struggle with disease. BY pure will
power he prevented physical pain from
mastering his spirit. He felt that a
mans duty was TO be CHEEKY and help
full, for the sake of others; and that
1t was a miserably poor thing to let
ones own suffering shadow others
lives. Hence this heroic soul in weak
body was happiness-malxer, both in
his home circle and in that larger cir
Gle touched by his books. He Guilt
waited good temper because he realized
its moral value. When il comes to be
recognized more generally, as it ought
to be, that good temper is not ONLY
cuitivatable, but a Christian duty, and
that one has no moral right to inflict
gloom and dependency upon the home
members of the community. we shall
doubtless see a marked change for the
better. Doubtless n sunny disposition
is natural to some, and not TO others;
but all may acquire this, as well as
any other virtue; and its possession is
one of the strong recommendations of
ones religion. There is no reason why
one member of the family-say the
unsehish mother-should supply all
the sunshine for the home.-Boston
Waterman.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
QUEEN OF MEDIUMS.
Madam Zantille's Divine Gift
Conquers All Secrets.

Joy. happiness and success are the
three great blessings of this life, and
all three may he obtained throuah
knowledge of ones self. She holds the
key to every hidden mystery and IL
MT only the OLDEST PR A)rICING
ME9IUM IN TIE WORLD, but Is al
go one of the few relisble ones. beng
over six years OF age. Her experi-
ence and knowledge OF life 10 broad
deep a. d profound and when united
with her most marvellous powers OF
mediumsbip il makes OF her ell that
she claims Co be-. The earth reveals
unto this IA dunn the hidden treasured
buried in her bosom. She gives advise
on business, love courtship. marriage
everything. Madame camille wishes
TO state that she does not use a elob =
nor inspect the hand OF head, nor tel
~ sstrolegy or palmistry. but reveals
the past, tells the present and pred sc,
the future by HER CLAIRvoYAsr slas1
AND FRANCE MEDIUMsRIP. Hours-S q
N. tn p. m. daily. White and color
ed invited.
- Love, Marriage, Divorce. Mis-.
mased is the cause of so much trouble
therefore consult this powerful medi.
UNI ct once, as now is the time. Dom
forget the name and number.
MADAME q ANTILLE,
Permanent Home and Office,
9ls.N. 2nd Street
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-14
County without saloons.

The last saloon was voted out of
Isanti county, Mimi, in 1883. During
the last year of license the criminal
courts expenses of the county, all told,
amounted to $955.71; for the next year
the expenses dropped to $447.76, or less
than half; in 1891, to $347.99. In 1895
the liquor cases cost but $14.s2, and
in 1896, when many other counties
were indicting their officials for mall
feasance in Office. $40 represents the
entire criminal court expenses for the
year, and it was unnecessary to even
call the grand jury together.-Chris-
tian Work.