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Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
SAVE THE ORCHARD.
Constant Spraying the Method Recon-
mended to XIII Parasites


This has been an ideal season for
the development of the fungus en-
cmies of the orchard and garden
Moisture and "mugginess," combined
with occasional coolish temperatures.
produce ideal conditions for the
growth OF vegetable parasites. Fine
weather it is for apple scab, plum rot,
grape mildew and the like Rain al
most every day! The experiment sta
ton man in Ithaca says spray to pre-
vent the growth of these diseases. Gull
tivated plants are protected from IN
gus enemies by covering them up with
a film of blue stone and lime in COM
bination. This is effective as long as it
stays on. The question then arises is
there any good in spraying during this
showcry weather? Experience and COM
mon sense both say yes. Spraying dur
ing rain certainly kills some spores
and the plants will be protected to that
extent. This matter is discussed some
what fully in Lessons on Orchard
ing" in the Farmers Reading Course,
Cornell University, which are free to
New York State farmers.
Peach curl is doing n great deal of
damage This can be controlled by
spraying with Bordeaux mixture be-
fore the buds swell: late spraying
is ineffective. Now is the
time to look out for apple, pear and
ounce scrb The soft rots of the plum,
peach and cherry are likely to cause
much injury. Spraying at intervals be-
tween now and the ripening season
will do wonders in saving the fruit
New York Press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
Mexico Market.

High grade $. G. Brown Leg
horns, Light Brahmas now for sale.
Will be higher later. Ogre Poultry
Yards, breeders of prize winning
poultry. Thompson, Mo. Cor
respondence solicited, tt
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

THAT man David II, Harris, Of
Galloway, named to succeed Champ
Clark in Congress, says he did
not authorize that dispatch sent
out from Fulton and that he is no
such thing Il candidate. Thought
he was little fast.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

SEEMS to us the laugh is on the
Republicans as to conditions of
the States finances in years agone.
The Auditors report shows that
the only discrepancies were before
the Democrats took control.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

THE Angora goat has buttcd
the Belgian hare craze clear off
the brcastworkS. The rabbit fad
didn' last long, but we hope the
goat will stay longer and prove
himself of more profit and practi-
cal use. Angora bucks sold for
an average of 1914 at the Kansas
City fine stock show recently, Il
higher figure than the average
paid for either Shorthorn or Here
ford bulls. Look ont for the An
CORA goat, he seems headed this
way.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

PRESIDENT Roosevelt is opposed
to the practice of docking the tails
of horses Wants no bang-tailcd
animals in his stables. Good
horse sense there, Teddy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

THE army is to be equipped
with contemporaries and corn
doctors. After this they can go
for the enemy teeth and toe.
nailr
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
State OF Missouri. In the Circuit Court.
County Of Audrain January Term, 1902.
Fannie Barton, Plaintiff,


State Of Missouri, ! In the Circuit Court,
County Of Audrain January Term, 1902.
Fannie Barton, Plaintiff,
vs..
Philip Barton, Defendant
And now on this day November 4th,
1901, comes the plaintiff, Fannie Barton,
by her attorney and files with the Clerk of
this Court in vacation her petition for di-
yorcc. duly verified by afiidavit, stating
among other things that the defendant
herein, Philip Barton, is nonresident
of the state OF Missouri, so that the ordI
nary process of law cannot be served
upon him. 1t is therefore ordered by the
clerk Of this Court in vacation
that publication be made here
in notifying said nonresident defendant,
Philip Barton. that suit has been COM
mcnccd against him in this court the oh
jet and general nature Of which is to OBJ
tain decree of divorce from said defend
ant and for such other orders and judg-
mcnts as to the court may seem just and
proper.
Now, therefore, you said nonresident
defendant, Philip Barton, are hereby no
| titled Of the filing Of this suit, and unless
| you be and appear at the next regular
| term Of this court, to be begun and held
at the Court House in the City of Mexico,
county and state aforesaid, on the 3rd
| Monday in January, 1902, next. and upon
said date answer or otherwise plead To
said petition the same will he taken as
confessed and judgment rendered in ac-
cordancc with the prayer Of the plaintiff.
And it is further ordered that copy
hereof be published in the Mexico Mis-
souri, Message. n weekly newspaper pub
lishcd in said county Of Audrain and State
of Missouri, for four weeks successfully,
the last insertion to he at least fifteen
days before the commencement OF said
next term of this Court.
State of Missouri, -.
County Of Audrain.
| I,J.C. Buckncr. Clerk of the Circuit Court
within and fOrthc county and State aforc-
said, do hereby certify that tho above and
foregoing is a full, true and perfect copy
OF the order OF publication in the above
entitled cause as full as the same appears
ofrccord In my office.
Witness my hand and official seal. Done
at Office in the city of Mexico, county and
State aforesaid this 4th day of Novcm-
Der, A. H., 1901.
SEAL J. G. BUCKNER.
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

LADDoNGA has takeL II religions
census, too. About II per cent of
fine citizens of that town over ten
years of age are church members.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

TIE Cedar City Chronicle is
urging that the Democratic papers
in the State should be organized.
Thinks it would be good for the
papers as well as the party. We
like the suggestion. Nothing like
organization.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

YOU are unreasonable to expect
members of Legislative bodies to
work for $500 year. Pay good
salaries and get service. We could
then do with fewer sessions of the
legislature, too.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
GOT EVEN WITH JOKER.
Ptr's Man Gets Thorough ThrashinG for
Joke Of Years Before.

The world always laughs when the
practical joker is come up with" even
{ many years have elapsed since the
okor had his inning. It was in 1890
T. thCrCahouts that a Paris drummer
boarded a train I'm Bordeaux for home.
d. had made good sale in Bordeaux
a was feeling ripe for anything. II
gcUrrcd to him what a good joke 1t
"uu!d he to lean out of the window of
Re ear and slap some ones face as the
ram rolled out He did the act. pulled
bis hcoj in | chuckled all the way to
.ar.s as he pictured what the victim
of his joke was saying to himself and
20 others. Years passed and the drum
mcr prospered. He went into business
for himself. and consequently grew
laid and sober. A little while ago as
he was walking along one of the boule-
Yards in Paris man stepped up to
him and asked him II he had ever lived
in Bordeaux. The staid and sober
business man said he never had, but
when he used to be n commercial trav-
eler he frequently had been in the
town. WhereupOn the stranger re-
called the face slapping episode and said
he was it, and begged permission to re-
turn the compliment, which he pro.
ceeded to do vigorously, The staid and
sober business man regained his lost
youth marvelously quick, and it was a
lively scrimmage when the police
stenped in and ran both men off to the
station house. There upon reflection
the business man refused to enter n
complaint against the man with a
memory, and decided TO call the affair
even.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
DURoc JERSEY hses.s ~~
4 Few Points il Their Favor,

% Hardy, vigorous, least sub
ject to cholera of any known
breed. (2) Very prolific, ten to
fifteen pigs to the litter is the
average. (3) Rapid growth, cas-
lily made to weigh 200 lbs. at six
months, 300 at ten, 400 at fifteen
months. (4) Very gentle |lispo-
sition. (5) Best breed known to
cross with other breeds. Farmers
wishing to raise better hogs can
not do better than investigate the
merits of the Duroc Jersey.
A few choice male pigs for sale
by b. w. HALE,
Laddonia, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

WHISKY got in its work both at
Fraukford and Marceline, Mo,
last week. a shooting in each of
these towns by madness from
drink.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

DIR. MARY WALKER, the noted
eX-army-nurSc, who has worn mas
culne attire i'll recent years, is al
legged to have called the execution
of Czolgosz murder and the late
President himself murderer on
account of his policy in the Phil
ippines, and the pension bureau
threatens to lay her ease before
Congress and deprive the Doctor
of her pension.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
MEXICO needs factories

THE Boer war is daily becoming
a worse bore to the English war
office.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

4 three months-old male calf
for sale, Inquire at the MESSAGE
office.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
Committee.

The tip question bothers Monte
Carlo, too, and as n result Of the laXlty
due to giving and taking tips eight
crOupiers have been dismissed and
other employees of the gambling eStab-
lishment have been disciplined It all
came about through the dispute which
invariably arises when winnings are
made by persons other than those con
nected with the house" When the
wheel stops on winning number ar
gument begins as to who really put
his money on that number, and the
croupiers naturally have been disin-
clined to side against those who have
tipped them literally. The same is the
case when the dispute is left with the
presiding croupier. OF course the ag-
grieved player could go up higher and
appeal to officers superior to the crou-
pier, but this course usually is dis
tasteful to gamblers. The spirit of dis
satisfaction grew so strong that some
thing radical had to he done, for the
bank wins from $4,000, 600 to $1,000 900
a year from the players, besides what
the players win from one another. Nat
urally enoug", the managers of the
bank have decided to allow the crou-
piers to take no tips whatever from
any Of the CustOmers.-New York
Press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

THE Monroe City Democrat n
grccs with the MESSAGE as regards
n new capitol building over at JEFF
fcrSon City. The Democrat says:
1.-THE present building is good
enough for all the other parts of
Missouri and if it is not good
enough for jefferson City perhaps
arrangements could he made by
the citizens of jefferson City for
them to build and present to the
State of Missouri such building
rs would please the inhabitants
of the capitol city, provided it
should be II better building than is
the present capitol building. If
jefferson City does not want to
build and donate n new capitol to
the State it had as well shut off
the talk for Il new one"
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

TUE Vandalia Leader thinks the
County Court House should be
heated by steam.
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14

By the way, what has become
of Aguinaldo!
Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-14
The Next Meeting

OF the Central Audrain Teach
ers' institute, Saturday, Nov. l6,
at Beagles school house near Wor.
cester.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Hut the Suspected Chicken Thief
 Proved an Alibi

Now. then. I've caught you in the act" exclaimed the policeman as he came upon a colored man who was just coming out of an alley at midnight with something iu a bag.
 'Ycs. sah, you've got me" was the reply.
 "Pve been laying for you for a dozen nights past. and here you are at last! How many you got In that bagP
 "Ouly one. Sah."
 "Got tooth for chicken. ehT'
 "Yes. sah. drenul fond O chicken. sah. But de price Is awful high dis winter"
 even see about the price. Any one with youy"
 "No. sah."
 "Got scared before you filled the bag. chg We'll you come along with me-
 "Tes. sah- -whar you gwlne top
 "Tm going Co ring up the wagon and have you taken In. The judge will put you where you won't taste chicken again for three months. Where did you get it;"
 "Dc chicken. sahT'
 "Ncs."
 "IIaIn't got none. boss. I dun told yo' dc price was SO high dls winter dat | couldn't afford chicken"
 "So you don't call this a chickenr exclaimed the officer as he reached for the bag and shook the contents out on the walk
 "No. Sah," replied the man as a blg black and white eat was dumped out with a ycowl and ran up Che officers body Co his head and sprang Into Che limbs of a shade tree.
 'No. sah." hc went on as he reached for the bag and folded it up; "no, sah. dat amt no chicken. but an ole eat dat was carrylu on Co git losted Can't dun make ont. sah. how you calls dat chicken. but if you sez SO haln't gwluc Co dispute it. AS l told you befo' "-
 Rut the officer raised him one and or dcrrd him Co move on. NJ. QUAD.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20

For Rent and For Sale cards at this office.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
The nn,nrr. nf Time.

Mrs Wa.lc-lm sure the constant anxiety must have been terribly wear ins
 Mrs Wearing. Why. ln the last three years I've grown to look at Lsast siN months oller.-Lifc.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
Definition.

May Girls what do the papers mean when ,lcy talk of che seat of war;
 Eia don't know any morc than ! l0 what 90 standing army ls for.
 Eglp-Why. how ignorant you are, iears. The seat of war is for the stand- mc army c, slt down on whca it gets fired Yrlon Fun.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
Too Much statistics.

"NIy friend" hc began as hc sat down beside a tramp ou bench in thc park. "I want Co collect some statistics about Che labor movement For in- staucc''-
 "Gocd day. slrw interrupted the tramp as hc rose up Co make on.
 "Eut what's Che mattcrF
 "You'yc got a ton of coal Co hc car ricd up four flights of stairs. and you want mc Go do .t for lo cents and walt ao days for my pay Not on your life" -WaShiucton Post
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20

lInIas Bauks a, tbis odi,c.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
TALes OF POVERTY.
Pathetic Episodes In Daily Life as
 Told by M. Quad.
lCoprIslt. rm |, C Q Leuial

lC,pustt. uoo D., C.. O. Lcuisl ~-IoV muca:" sharply asked the pv.tuDLvr us hc t.vS tue glittering .us ts.m Che bauds of the pale faced lut p,lurhvd young woman.
 "ru.tour hundred dollars she stam- mcrcd
 ~I w.u give you . cents"
 ~Wha.Wtat do you mcanE
 ~rar ,toucS m this ring are only col sr,d gm>>. aud Che ring Itself Is only rullcd solL lf you paid l5 cents for it. ,ou have rtru sviudlcd.'
 ~Eut to was given mc by my Char I.. my beloved. Co clinch our bctroth- ,I" she pro,- ,tcd villain. how dare ,ou intimate that my Charlie. who Is tlr soul of houor would give me a worthless haUhicF
 "uh it was Charlie. chT Qucried the L.atur>~ man behind thc counter. -Ci,u rat ,Npa.ns have no less t.uu d dozen uf hts cu-uerment rings ...rt,L rr every year. and ail like this. llc buys them hy che carload and gets .g per cent oG Try Che cooper shop around tbc curuyr Please don't faint away u hyrv. as this Is my rush hour9 "l shall not faint No. never. l shall bc cool and calm and ] shall sic in Che parlor and walt for Charlic's ar- rival and when hc comes when his smiling face appears at thc door "Wuuot~ finished Che pawnbroker ns hc advanced iO cents on % hucksaw.
  This Bhlc" said Che pale faced young mau os hc extended Che well worn volume. "was given me by my dear and only mother
 "Aud she .s dcadt'
 "Shc iS She dlcd ln my arms Ave years u-o-that ls. she died while l was out after 90 glass ot beer"
 "Aud she is in heaven nowF
 "Shc .s She looked down upon me as | entered this place. aud though | heard it uot. have no doubt she said, Albert. my beloved son, anu sorry that it has come to this. but it is better Co pawn my last eift than Co starVe.' A...NN N.'..l''NN W .NHAN ''AtA ''sANan aaH s+ta ! want dollar on it."
 "lat~'
 "Ihcu a halC"
 "Nugr ut~"'
 "Gmm, a quarter. then. A quarter win enable mc tu cct new suit of clothes. pay up any back rent and go west to grow up with the country" cone dune only"
 "Wuat. thou scion of Adamant. Ton cents for my dead mothers last cIftr "l have ton of 'em."
 "Tr1 cents for thc volume which has bccu r.y ,olacc and comfort as stary- cd Iul tl.r,tgd ln my garrct room" "Iakr It or leave iJ"
 "t win take to. but iu thc darkness of tDu-at when that sllntcd mother rc- turns Co earth and hoycrs OCT my cuuoh"-
 "Eal, Git outr' M. QUAD.
 Definition.
 May Girls. what do the papers mean when tlry talk of che seat of war;
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
The chrrrfnIIhInt.

~ThaL" sald Jhe cheerful idiot "is what ] call hot number"
 What .sf" asked Che new boarder nsuSpect.uEly.
 "A dozen fried" answered the cheer. ful ll.0t-Inl.anapolis PrcsS.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20

Nl QUAD
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20

Fine clo,hiul a iair price is 9 sure preventative oi lul day n ou- -,ofc Ols,uu X Co.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
A splendid Title.

"I'vc got a splendid title for my lat. est story of crlmo and mystery"
 "What is itT'
 "T.ost ln @ Now York Department atoru. Cleveland Plain Doalor.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-06-20
THE WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE.

Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company. British Columbia Yukon Railway Company.
 British Yukon Railway Company.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-14
* CURIOUS EXPERIENCES With INSECTS. %
.rNDAy REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
NJ Deyaux, French Psychologist, recent
" made experiments with insects. his OBJ
ject being to ascertain how long they would
be able to resist asphyxiation after they
had been submerged In water.
An ant, he says, after being submerged.
doubles its body up three or four times
and then becomes absolutely inert. Though
apparently drowned, 1t soon begins to move
after It is taken out of the water. and at
the end Of five or ten minutes 1t walks about
as we'll as ever If they remain submerged
for several hours. say from six to eight,
ants require a longer period. at least half
heat Of the sun seems to benefit them great
ly. Even If the submersion lasts for TWEEN
ty-four hours most OF the drowned ants
come back to life. They do not begin to
move for half or three-auarters Of an hour
and their first tokens Of life are 80 slight
that they can only he seen through micro
scope. If an ant is lightly touched while II
Is making these weak movements 1t De-
comes more brisk and acts as though It
had Just been. aroused from sleep.
According to NJ. Devaux, some ants can
even be restored to life after they have been
in the water for sixty hours. Others, on the
contrary, though they manifest few signs
of life die at the end Of one or two days.
II have" he says, seen an ant manifest
a momentary return to life after 1t had been
submerged for ITO hours. left three ants
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-14

vast numbers of admirably wrought ear
rings. as also the Anglo-Saxon tumui and
the burial places OF Scandinavia and the
Phoenician colonies. r,
ITO judge from these, earrings must have
seemed to the feminine half of the antique
world an Indispensable item of daily dress,
as they are to this day in India. where al
most every native woman carries pearl
set In gold in one or both ears, and, If
married, pierces the left nostril to suspend
from it golden ring set with a jewel.
"All over savage Africa both sexes dis
Indian people, the negroes enlarge the orr
flee in the lobe and use it as i conveni-
ent receptacle for pipestems. snuff-spoons
and the like
I'm the islands of the South Pacific the
Polynesian races insert large circular
whorls of shell, or brass. or wood in the
enlarged slot produced in the lobe, which
are by certain tribes drawn down till they
touch the shoulders
This is indeed barbaric. but who shall
dare to call by that name the Orient pearl
which glimmers against the roseleaf of a
lady's cheek. or the diamond that spark,es
like crystalized dewdrop through her hair.
$50 long as she does not st6op to nose
rings or carry her purse and cardcase in the
lohes of her shell-shaped ears beauty VIII
continue to do list as she pleases and the
| world to admire and applaud her.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-14

1.-THE poets are those perhaps to, whom
these fair sufferers would most readily
lend their ears on the general ques-
ton of taste.
.tPoets are the natural panegyrists of
Beauty. and she will, therefore, always
at least listen to their views.
but the bards. alas! are found to speak
with a double voice. A hundred passages
might be quoted where they have fallen into
admiration of the rich effect OF these adorn-
ments. as when even the grave Milton
speaks with rapture about Jewels on an
Ethiop's ear" or when Tennyson sings how
he would like to be the diamond that
sparkles near a certain cheek. On the other
side, we have a lyric writer prettily COM
planning:
THE tip no Jewel needs to wear,
The tip is Jewel to the ear
apd Robert Browning broke into something
like poetic Indignation at one Of his
heroines writing:
.'How could you ever pierce that perfect ear,
Even to put pearl thereT
las far. therefore, as goes the Judgment
Of Parnassus 1t is just as broad as 1t Is
long. and for every statement made against
earrings another might be cited on their
behalf.
even the physiological argument that
ears were not originally created with holes
in them can be circumvented by the little
trick of wearing an invisible loop round the
organs. g -
: No maxim, however. IL more cheerfully
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-14

accepted than that one must suffer to be
beautiful and the tiny puncture requisite
is easily endured and rapidly healed.
Meantime, If some in all ages have called
these ornaments barbaric and if few still
consider them SO they are certainly i'm
mensely ancient, universally popular and
Individually classical.
ut may not be generally known that
the marble ears of the matchless Venus
de Medici were specially perforated for
the gold and ivory ear-pendants which
the goddess was intended to wear.
Earrings must have been of familiar
use in the times Of the Hebrew patri-
archs. since we read that Jacob buried
those articles Of his family wardrobe
along with his strange idols at Bethel
"a passage also Indicating that they
were regarded as amulets or talismans
and had mystic siguifcances.
LAS for their antiquity, the earliest
find Of jewelry which archaeologists
make always include the now reviving
adornment
Doctor schliemann dug up at Troy, and
again at. Mycenae, exquisite objects of
the kind wrought in pure leaf-gold and
delicate wirework, and S!gnor Castellani re-
covered from the Etrurian sepulchres SINH
lar examples Of the most delicious and re-
fined goldsmithery. which had graced the
ears of the ladies of Lars Posena and the
Tarquins.
Modern craftsmen humbly initiate with
out pretending to surpass those marvellous
creations Of filagreed gold, twisted and
chased as II by fairy fingers and wonder
fully crusted with microscopic nodules
which give the pure, soft, precious metal
! the texture and the glow Of a flower petal.
Egyptian mummy tombs have yielded