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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
England'S Shame.

London, Nov. 2O.-Lord Rob-
erts is arranging to leave Lord
Kitchener in command in Africa.
All the higher Generals will be
withdrawn, and the war cores
pondents will soon be sent home.
Kitchener will have a large force
Of irregular cavalry, now being re-
cruited for ruthless devastation in
the Transvaal.
The Leader says, editorially:
We shall go on burning farms
for no other reason than because
the men are away on command, or
because DcWet, unbeknown to
their tenants, has blown up rail
way bridge in the ncighborhood.
Our papers will still record day
after day that General Y. has re-
turned with so many thousand
head Of cattle and so many dozen
Bocr families; we shall know that
this means that the subsistence of
these families has gone forever,
while the women are sitting, think
ing of their ruin, in camp or pris-
on, guarded by an English sentry.
I'VE are not merely destroying
wealth-we are making life impos-
sible in future to thousands of our
fellow subjects, and in the mean
time are filling the hearts of mo-
theirs with shame that will turn
to bitter courage in their sons.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Mortgage Tax Again.

THE real estate men of Kansas
City and st. Louis are said to be
organizing fight against the con-
stitutional amendment recently
adopted proposing the taxation of
mortgages. We hope it will do
them no good. That law is a just
law, and has righteous end. Up
on this point the Centralia Courier
says:
What right have the Shylocks
of the East to lend their money
upon Western farms and avoid
paying taxes on their investment
If there is such thing as justice
in this trust-robbed, tariff-ridden,
internal-revenue-bled country il
should be invoked to make the
rich pay taxes on their ill-gotten
gains. No more righteous law was
ever proposed than the Third Con
stitutional Amendment. 1t is
highly to the credit of the State
that it was adopted. Now let it
be enforced to the letter.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Wanted, a POStOffice.

Washington, Nov. lS.-At the
White House these evenings the
lights are burning late. The clerks
are working until midnight, and
belated wayfarers on broad Penn
sylvania avenue might suppose
that great problems of State are
being solved. The executive man
sion and its overworked force re-
call the days of the great Spanish
war.
No foreign complications are be-
ing disentangled, however, and no
greater warfare is in progress than
attacks by weary clerks upon bu-
shell basketfuls of letters of tom
gratulations." They come from
every hamlet in the land and smack
much of the customary form of Of
fetal good wishes. How the pres
idential heart must quicken, if he
ever reads one of them. BY care
full computation ninety-nine and a
fraction per cent of these "con-
gratulations" are as follows:
"HOnOred Sir; The country is
safe. | cannot refrain from thank
ing God that you are reelected
and sending you my deepest con-
gratulations. Prosperity is as
sured. j. JONES.
"P. S.-The postoflice here is
horribly managed by your former
appointee, and am an applicant
for it. Please give me the office.
My application is attached"
These touching evidences of
good will and gratitude to God
and the President for favOrs yet to
come are answered by the genial,
hard-worked secretary, Mr.. Cortel-
you, precisely as if they were the
outpourings of an overburdened
heart. Then the funny part comes
in, The applicant, when he gets
the acknowledgement, on White
House stationery, sends the letter
back to the Postmaster General, to
show him how close the said APP
plicant is to President Mckinley.
Often it is the only Endorsement"
he can file with his application.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

enough to the people surrounding her
made up quite a stunning picture.
"A palace in Russia" murmured
one
"The proprietor requests her incog-
nito be respected" said another.
Diamond mines-think OF it,"
gasped third.
81 hear she speaks seven languages"
only four trunks. but ten are to
follow"
"A maid? No. Just an eccentricity
of royalty"
All, but the two weeks that followed
were a golden fortnight in the life of
Cora Dobson, Such a train of admir-
ers as followedin her wake. The dances
at the hotel which she honored by her
presence were packed to suffocation
with visitors from other resorts. She
ignored or denied haughtily any refer
ence to her exalted station. This re-
ticence but corroborated the rumors
current concerning her. Then there
was the great box of dollhouse flowers
which came over on the boat from Chi
cago every day, sent, it was declared,
by the diplomatic representative of her
country in the States. Not that any
one was quite sure as to which country
claimed so dazzling daughter-not
that this mattered.
But in the midst of all the crush and
gay doings one little girl was sad, one
cOnfiding heart was heavy For Harris
Fenwick had deserted lisa Verden open
ly, recklessly, almost insolcntly. After
all his assiduous attentions to her. his
passionate glances, his lingering hand
clasps, his attitude of tender appro-
priation, his whispered words of ad-
miration. he had ceased to offer her
more than the most perfunctory cour-
tesy. He had flung himself headlong
into the service of the mysterious
stranger of reputed fabulous wealth.
All his gamester blood was boiling.
lie was playing for high stakes-the
highest which had ever come his way.
And, indeed. to no other did the dis
tinguished lady show such leniency-
one might almost say such encourage
ment-as to him. She was even graci-
Gus enough to confide in him. She had
heard he was lawyer She needed ad-
vice. She. with some embarrassment,
had property in south Africa She was
thinking of sending a reliable man
to protect her interests there. He had
heard she was a princess. No, indeed.
Yes, he was right in supposlng Devere
to be an assumed name, but she was
quite free personally. No, there could
he no interference in her disposal of
her property, nor-wlth modest smils
In her matrimonial decision! He
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Hanna's Pigfeet.

Cleveland, o., Nov. l7.-Sena.
tor Hanna received a bill today fol
thirty six plgSfeet, and he ordered
it paid at once. The Senator haG
not eaten the pigsfeet, nor had he
seen or even received them.
The bill came from Mrs. Chris.
tian Dunlap, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
and the Senator was charged 81 sc
for the three dozen.
Accompanying the bill was q
letter from Mrs. Dunlap, in which
she said:
FL know you will think me a
very bold woman for writing this
letter, but am a poor washer
woman and my old man is a day
laborer, and between us we have
to work very hard to support our
five little children"
Mrs. Dunlap then writes that
she had purchased three dozen
pigsfeet at five cents each and had
put them on the stove to cook
Her husband had agreed to watch
them while she went ont to do some
work.
That was on the evening Sena-
tor Hanna spoke in Fort Wayne,
and Dunlap, forgetting all about
the pigsfeet, went to the political
meeting. When Mrs, Dunlap re-
turned home she found the pigs
feet on the stove burned to a crisp.
ITO think" concludes the let
ter, "that my husband, and n good
Democrat, would neglect his duty
and pigsfeet just to hear n big Re
publican like you is enough to
cause trouble in any family. Then
when he returned home he an
nounccd that Mark Hanna was all
right and he would be darned if
he would vote for Bryan "
Senator Hanna laughed heartily
when he read the letter and then
turning to Elmer Dover, his secre-
tary, said;
"Give her my compliments and
inclose two dollars. She needn't
mind the change"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
To a Finish.

MCKINLEY is reelected and the
war in the Philippine Islands will
be fought to finish.
"War is hell"
WET tits sweet to lay brother
deep within his grave.
ITO feel his death grip on your
blade.
"To hear the lannon's roar.
ITO drive the keen bayonet
home.
"Oh, it's grand to charge n wall
of men and tread their mangled
bodies meath your heel.
"Oh, It's brave to crush a weak
er nation.
ITO cut her soldiers down like
winnOwed chaff and earn the
worlds praise by doing it.
"But when before the Omnipo-
tent God You stand in the day of
Judgment, how will you answerR"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Ask Justice, Not Mercy.

Boston, Mass. Nov. 18.-"Thc
Filipinos neither ask nor desire
mercy said Senior Sixto Lopez
today, in reference to the state
ment from Washington that "no
mercy is to be extended" in future
to the Filipinos and that the inno-
cent are about to be made to suf-
fer with the guilty.
1.-THE Filipinos have not been
able to discover any special evil
dence of mercy in the past" said
Senior Lopez, "and if by showing
no mercy to the innocent it is
meant that nOn-combatants are to
be treated the same as combatants
| fail to see any difference between
the proposed methods and the
methods of Spain in Cuba, which
were so vehemently and Justly OBJ
jected to by the people of the T.
nited States.
apparently the scandal of the
reconcentrados is to be rc-enacted
by America.
but the principle is this: The
Filipinos neither ask nor desire
mercy and would not accept it from
America or any other nation.
What they want is justice.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
EGG EMBRANE
Used as Substitute For Skin Grating
For Surface Wounds.


New York Special Chicago Tribune:
Medical science has discovered that
the hens egg provides an admirable
substitute for human flesh to graft on
human open wounds. The substitute
is the delicate membrane that imme-
diately lines the inside of hens egg.
The German surgeons first found that
this membrane can be success fully
used as the nucleus for granulation OF
open wounds. The surgeons of the
Seney Hospital in Brooklyn were the
first in this country to adopt and prac-
tice the Germans discovery. Conse-
quently Edgar A. Garbut will leave the
Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, and again
take charge of his laundry. Garbut,
SC years old now, fell from his bicycle
two years ago and so severely injured
himself that as the disease OF
the bones advanced it was
necessary to remove the bones
of his left arm. his shoulder
blade, and the left end OF his collar
bone. While Garbut rallied, the sur
geons soon saw that the wounds left
by the operations would not heal on
the surface. Garbut's wife, his nephew
and young man in his employ Of
fered OF their cuticle to graft on Gar
butts wounds. But on December 10 the
last one of the surgeons in the Seney
Hospital remembered that the German
surgeons say that the hens egg pro-
yides a substitute for human cuticle
in such cases. So the Seney Hospital
surgeons procured some fresh eggs and
from them took the membrane that
lines the shells. and pieces OF men,
brane were planted on Garbut's
wounds. Soon new skin was formed.
The egg membrane did not form any
part OF the new membrane skin. but
simply was a starter" for it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

go, l3 million dollars was paid to
400, 900 persons. About half of
the money went to those disabled
by old age. In Denmark $4,000
persons received million dollars
in pensions in 1896. New Zeal
and allows 800 year to every man
and woman above the age of 6J
who has been in the colony for %
years. This annuity is considered
as matter of right, not of chart
ty, in consideration of services
performed in helping build up the
colony.
a bill providing for the compul-
sorry insurance of workingmen has
been introduced in the French
Chamber of Deputies recently. 1t
is proposed that the expense be di-
vided between empl oyer and en-
ploye, the employee givingup a GER
tain per cent of his wages and the
employer paying a tax of an equal
amount. Any deficit is to be made
up by the Government. In Great
Britain, too, there has been much
agitation for a pension of 81 % a
week for persons over Go.
There are hundreds of thousands
of people in the United States ov-
er whom the fear of want in old
age hangs as II nightmare. They
are hard working men and women,
but their pay is so small that they
are quite unable to lay by II com
potency to serve them when they
shall be unable to work. If they
have dutiful children they may not
be compelled to go to the poor
house, but the thought of absolute
dependence even on children is re-
pugnant to most people. The pos
session of "A small income of their
own in old age would make all the
difference between happiness and
misery for multitude of people.
The basis on which pensions are
granted in New Zealand-in con-
sideration of services in upbuild-
ing the colony-is sound and SEN
sible. America pensions her sol
diers who have fought the battles
of her wars; the winners of the
victories of peace may justly ask
for consideration Old age pen
sionS for workingmen, who are so
largely responsible for the coun-
try's greatness, would be Il matter
of justice, not of charity.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

Hon. RHODES CLAY, Represen-
tative-elect of this county, takes a
bold stand for the Third Constitu-
tional amendment, proposing the
taxation of mortgages. He voted
for the law and presents arguments
in its favor which are simply UNI
answerablc. He says the decision
of the voters of Audrain and the
State in this matter must stand,
and that his vote in the Legisla-
ture will certainly not be against
a measure he regards as of so great
benefit to the people, merely to
crafty Il few gentlemen in the
money lending business. Hurrah
for Clay! He takes the side of
justice and of the people. Let him
ever pursue this course and he will
make no mistake.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
A Thought for Washing Day.

The clothcs-lnc is a rosary
OF household help and care;
Each little saint the mother loves
Is represented there.
And when across her garden plot
She walks, with thoughtful heed,
should not wonder IL she told
Each garment for bead.
For Cclia's scarlet stockings hang
Beside Amclia's shirt.
And Bilbo's brccchcs. which of late
Were sadly smcarcd with dirt.
Ion kcrchicf small wiped bitter tears
For i'll success at school:
This pinaforc was torn in strife
'TwiXt Fred and little julie.
Aud that device of finer web
And over costly lace,
Adorned our eldest when she danced
At some gay fashion place.
A stranger, passing, | salute
The household in its wear,
Aud smile to think how near Of kin
Are love and toll aud prayer.
Julia Ward Howe.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

We've played more { an one Joke
together, Sam. won't let you think
I'm disinterested in this. though. You
know--you must know how feel
about lsa."
That's all right, old man. Good
luck!"
The next day n mighty mystery
made its presence felt throughout the
divers ramihcatiuns of the crowded
summer resort. Rumors were rife.
There were little whispering groups
here. There were voluble couples
there. There was expectancy in the
air. A pleasant intere5t--a repressed
excitement, set curiosity tinging.
What is It all about, Mr.. Fenwick?"
lisa asked her devoted partner of the
previous night.
Foreign lady of title here. She is
travelling incognito. but the secret
leaked out. She is here for rest and
recuperation. 1t seems she is Princess
in her own right, but prefers to be
known only as plain Mrs Devere.
They are saying an uncle Of hers who
was a friend of Rhodes-thc famous
Cecil, you know-has left her his in
terest in an African diamond mine"
rs she good-looking?"
The fever of the sensation had
claimed its latest victim A Princess
"a real Princess-in their midst And
"A diamond mine How extraordi-
narily romantic! 1t was just like a
fairy story!
Good looking! had only a glimpse
Of her, but she's a blooming beauty"
90" said lisa softly. She had a
queer, tight sensation at her throat.
She had never been jealous Of any one.
But this man had been her slave-hcr
shadow-for the last four weeks. His
alteration had been public and pro-
nounced. He had seemed to rejoice in
his servitude. And she-child that she
was-had been hattered by the devo-
ton of this well-groomed, cynical man
OF the world. Now he was looking be-
yond her with half-closed, calculating
ewes.
At the hop that night Mrs. Devere
was the center of attraction, the bright
particular star in the presence OF
which all lesser luminaries paled, quite
Intellectual fires. Her mature form was
strikingly, almost Electrically, attired.
a trailing robe of black satin swirled
around her feet. The daringly low cut
bodice, glittering with jet. restrained
'the audacious press of full-breathed
beauty" The artistically tinted COM
full in its youth. the languishing Orien-
tai eyes the black hair sparkling with
jewels-jewels which were genuine
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
HETWICE A WEEK REPUBLIC

Every Monday and Thursday news
paper as good as IA magazinc-and better,
for it contains the latest by trc graph as
well as intcrcS ding Storics-is sent to the
subscriber OF the Twice week. Re-
public, which is only 81 year.
The man who reads the "Twice-a-
Week Republic knows all about affairs
political, domestic and foreign events: is
posted about the markets and commercial
matters generally.
The woman who reads the "Twice-a-
Week Republic gathers IA bit of valuable
information about household affairs aud
late fashions and finds recreation in the
bright stories that come under both the
headings of fact and fiction. There is
gossip about new books and dozen other
topics of especial interest to the wide
awake man and woman.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Old Age Pensions.

HERE is a socialistic idea that is
getting Il great hold upon the Old
World, and if we mistake not it is
coming this way and in II few
years, ut least, will be a question
with much endorsement in this
country. Indeed, the agitators
are already shooting up here and
there. We do not care if the idea
is socialistic or where it came from
if it can be measured by the rule
of justice and equity it should
have fair consideration. The Kan
sas City Star is a paper we do not
endorse in several respects, but it
favors Old Age pensions and here
is how it reviews the situation in
EuropeNas to this question and al
so that papers endorsement of
pensions for the winners of the
victories of peace" as well as for
the veterans in battle:
After January LIST, all needy Bel,
gian wOrkingmen above the age of
60 will receive pension of $l3 n
year. The decree providing for
the pensions was signed few
days ago by King Leopold, Work
ingmen who are So years old will
have the same privilege when they
are 65, but others, to secure n pen
sion, must have paid into the
treasury $50. BY this last pro-
vision an element of insurance is
added. But the plan has more of
the pension than of the insurance
features.
The idea of old age pensions is
becoming more and more preva-
lent abroad. Germany already has
a system of workingmen's insur-
ance, under which, three years IL
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Order of Publication In
Vacation.
STATE OF MISSOURI
County of Audrain.
In the Circuit Court, January
Term, 1901.
DI.,l,. iI.,.,,I

Jacob Howard. Defendant.

Jacob Howard, Defendant.
Now ON this day. November IL, 1890.
comes the Plaintiff by her Attorney and
files with the Clerk of this Court in vaca-
ton her petition, verified by affidavit
stating among other things that the De-
PENDANT. Jacob Howard, is u nonresident
Of the State of Missouri. so that the ordi-
nary process Of law cannot be served up
on him.
1t is therefore ordered by the Clerk of
this Court in vacation, that publication
be- made notifying him. the said non
resident Defendant. Jacob Howard that
an action has been commenced against
him by petition in the Circuit Court Of
Audrain County, Missouri. the object and
general nature Of which is to obtain de-
cree of divorce from the bonds of matri-
mony heretofore contracted between the
Plaintiff and Defendant and for all fur
thcr orders and judgments touching the
premises as may be proper.
Now. therefore, you said nonresident
Defendant. Jacob Howard, are hereby
notified of the filing Of this suit and un-
less you be and appear at the regular
January term. 1901. OF this Court. to be
begun and held in the Court House in the
City Of Mexico. County aud State aforc-
said, on the 3rd Monday in January 1901,
and ON or before the 3rd day thereof am
swcr or otherwise plead to Plaintiffs pc
tition herein the same will be taken as
confessed and Judgment rendered accord
ingly.
And it is further ordered that copy
hereof be- published in the Mexico Mis-
souri, Message, II weekly newspaper pub
liShed in the said County Of Audrain and
State Of Missouri. for four weeks success
lively, the last insertion to be at least iif-
teen days before the commencement OF
the said next term of this Court
STATE OF MISSOURI, 80,
County of Audrain.
], j. c. Bucl>ncr, Clerk of the Circuit
Court within and for the County and
State aforesaid do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is "A full true and
perfect copy of the original Order of Pub
LEGATION in the aforesaid cause as taken
and copied from the records in my office.
Witness my hand and official seal. Done at
Office in the city Of Mexico, county and
State aforesaid, this November 18th, 4.
d., 1867.
- j. G. BUCKNER.
SEAL Clerk Circuit Court,
-
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

THE Paris Appeal editorially
observes: There is to be an in
crease in both the navy and the
army, according to late Washing
ton dispatches. OF course, when
we endorse imperialism, as it was
done on the 9th, it means big ar
mics and navies. On with the
dance of death.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

THE Carnegie armor trust gets
"A contract aggregating 81, 000,-
900, and the Midvale Steel Co.,
which underbid the trust in the
first place gets left. That is the
sum and substance of Secretary
Longs dickcring with the steel
trust for Il price on armor for our
new warships. The Government
plant idea is knocked out too.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

1t is interesting to note that Callfor-
MIA physicians are fixed in their hope
Of some time excluding eastern con-
sumptives from the state. The sub
iect. which has been discussed a num-
Der OF times in the last few months.
was again taken up at a meeting of
the state board OF health a few days
ago. DR.. Louis Bazet, OF the board,
read a paper on the dangers OF tuber-
culosis as contagious disease threat
ening California. He said that be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 consumptives
entered California annually. and each
OF these persons helped to spread the
disease germs.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22
Audrain Courts.
CIRCUIT Courts rd Monday

CIRCUIT COURT Bird Monday in
January, LIST Monday in June,
Sd Monday in September.
COUNTY CoURT-lst Monday
in February, LIST Monday in May
LIST Monday in August, LIST Monday
in November.
PROBATE CoURT-2d Monday in
January, I'd Monday in March, I'd
Monday in May, I'd Monday in
September.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

The dispatches say that the Ma
tional Salt Company has advanced
the price of table salt from $l.l0
to 800 per 100 pounds. The
same thing, it is thought, will hap.
pen with barrel salt. Indeed,
TRUSTS are good thing"-if you
own stock in them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

The third constitutional amend
ment was carried by majority
vote in the State of over $1,000,
yet the nullifiers and money sharks
are determined to defeat the will
of the people in this matter if it is
within their power.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-22

The Centralia Courier wants
Gov. Dockery to smash Lon
Stephens police machines" in st.
Louis and Kansas City. That S
right, and the idea is Democratic,
too; give those two towns local
self-government.