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Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

The Hallsyille correspondent to the
Sturgeon Loader says: Prof. Bruce,
of Mexico, formerly teacher in our
public school, is spending few days
with w. d. Hulen and others.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Kansas Justice fines violator of pro
hibition law $500, sentences him to
jail for 1850 days, and placed him
under $4,000 bond.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Eli Stevens, aged 50, died Thursday
at Laddonia. He was the father Of
y. w. Stephens, President Of the
Farmers Bank.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29
MOT0BAc sss s sss 9 yg sssssgEs z u H.s ss

when worthy and criticise them when
necessary. Democratic newspapers
want Democratic leaders to be clean
and honest, and for this reason it is
the papers duty to do everything pos
sible to keep the best man of the
party to the front. Along this line
the Tribune editorially says: 'fThe
continual approval by any newspaper
of the acts of any individual, faction
or element gives the public to under
stand that the newspaper is the
organ of that individual, faction or
element. When thus looked ON by
the public the influence Of that news
paper is at an end. 1t can be Of no
more service to those whom it would
befriend, for its opinions are discount
ed in advance. Indeed, the individual
or faction for which it usually speaks
are commonly credited with all that
the newspaper says, whether they are
in any way responsible for its utter
ance or not. In consequence, the
sycophantie newspaper hurts rather
than helps It's friends. The newspaper
which adopts the habit Of constant
criticism or abuse finds such a course
equally disastrous Its readers soon
come to understand its position, rec
ognize the animus Of its attacks and
form their own opinions. There is a
proper and high plane which Missouri
newspapers may well occupy. 1t Is
the only safe and sensible position to
take. This is TO be committed to the
advocacy Of no cause or candidate so
completely that the cause or candidate
can not be blamed for wrong-doing.
This position carries with 1t the re-
verse as we'll, that the newspaper
should not be so antagonistic to any
man or movement that the good ex-
lsting therein can not be recognized
and endorsed. For newspaper TO be
led around by the nose hurts the man
who leads and the thing that is led. y
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Lewis Hubert, who lives nine miles
northeast of Mexico, says that he has
some corn that will average forty
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Hubert says
that the farmers in his part Of the
county are strongly opposed to bond
ing the county for rock roads.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29
Gill to Hawkins.

To the Editor OF the Ledger.
MEXICO NO., Aug. 22.-All right,
Doctor, l admire a live man. Glad to
see you set the pace in such good
shape. Don't let vain imaginations
interfere with the business in hand.
There is nobody lighting you-go right
ahead and success is yours.
Put me in ''line" with Bob and the
''apple-jack." Fraternally,
Il. NJ. GILL.
p. S. Keep the mustard plaster
for 'box-ankled" unregenerates,as the
''advicen had such powerful effect on
my gastrics that l am now eating
nails, umbrella frames, boot-jacks, in
fact, aything that is not too hard e
digest. ADIEU.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Mahala Jane Harding has, by last
will, bequeathed 70 her daughter,
Manda II. Harding, 20 acres In S52-e.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

| have two houses and lots and a
store building; will trade for farm
land. J. II. LANE.
oft Mexicn No
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Worth 500 to you to cure child OF adult
of incontinence Of water during sleep. "Anii
Diarstic' stops IL Immediately. g. Sold by
J. F. IAeweilyn Druggist
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Mrs. Bette Burks returned to Co
lumbia to-day after visiting her sister,
Mrs. George II. Clark.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29

Or. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
In little over thirty ysAyh Or. Pierce,
assisted by his medical stah Of nearly a
score Of physicians, has treated and
cured Thousands Of men and women who
had been given up as incurshle BY local
phyEicians.
sYoar medicine 4 the best have ever
takens writes MA Jennie p4zfuaaa, cf Rapid
cifT. waifn1ka CO, Nich sLfEt apTirg had
; bad coaEk rot - I'D had e = 4 bed al
fhe tiae NJ Husband thoaght had con-
sanptIea. He wanted ne 70 fet eocios, but
tho1E Il ws would tn pr, P.rrres Golden Med
teai nilc1TtTy, nnd btlore had tzksn one bottle
tke SEGA a1ppe1 and fhsve sines had no siEu
Il its feturnlnT"
Doctor Piercs's Pleasant Pellets cvEs
eonstfpahon
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-08-29
MEXICO AUDRArN COUNTY
6zI:I43E
Promote Digestion and Cure Dyspepsia.

Thousands Die from Imperfect
Digestion. There is no reason why
the public should be exposed to this
danger, when the means of pre-
vrntion can be readily obtained
by the use of Eupepsia Tablets.
They give immediate relief and
cure permanently Indigestion, Dys-
pepsia and all troubles arising from a
disordered condition Of the stomach.
"we praise Eupepds Tablets. My wife has
suffered for IS years with much pain from indiges-
don, and al Other remedies have failed excepting
your .ablets." b. H. JoHrsos, DOwen, Ter.
al found immediate relief from indigestion after
using Hupspda Tables, and shall take pleasure IN
Recommending them TO my firnds."
Gro. W. caccKwKtL,
Tnseling representative Of L. B. Price MeScan-
die Co., Kansas CRY and Hannibal, Mo.
Two Weeks Treatment so Cents.
1T your Druggist or direct by Mail.
Esss,siA o.. sac Casa Avs. q. Lss's. Me-
II any one doubts the enhcacy Of Eupepsla
Tablets the editor win be pleased to vonch for
them, as viii all in Mexico who have tried them
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-29

green walk that moonlight night, she
is very lovely indeed; rich satin gleam-
ing, soft lace rising and falling as she
laughingly tesses back sallies to that
monarch, "who never said foolish
thing, or never did a wise one"
Aubrey Boucicault most admirably
portrays the character of Charles, and
divides with Miss Crossman the hon
ors. We see Charles as gallant, as
good fellow with his mobiles, as de-
fender of Nell's honor; the brave, wit
ty, cynical king is well suggested, but
in mistress Nell'' of course he is par
ticularly prominent as Nell's lovers
Historically, and in the play, the
duchess of Portsmouth is Nell's rival.
The duchess gives masked ball, from
which the player girl is excluded. But
Nell has sworn to go, and what Nell
swore to. do she usually accom-
plished. Made up as an Irish gentle
man, one Beau Adair, she gains en-
trance, and at once becomes the dar-
ling of the ladies. How admirably she
plays her part = what a delicious
brogue she has. She swaggers, she
pays compliments with Irish eXagger-
alton and charm; she makes love with
Irish ardor and wins kiss and a
packet of secret documents from the
duchess herself; in Irish fashion, she
goes about looking for fight, and
gets it; with Irish ''To hell wild yez.
gintlemen!" she fourishes her sword
and makes good her escape. And then,
bit frightened but still game, she
safely reaches the shelter of her bow
er and the company of her little
| orange girl protege. The poor thing,
worn out with the wild escapade,
| stretches out on a couch in the boys
garments and is about to indulge in
| needed rest when great knocking is
heard at her gates. Quickly throwing
| a feminine garment over her mascu-
| line attire, she awaits with trepida-
ton her intruders. In walk the king
and a chosen few close companions.
They wish to search the house, heard
a man was harbored there. Nell uses
her wiles and wits, and Charles is al
most convinced, when Portsmouth ap-
pears and announces her servants saw
a man lately enter through Nelrs win
dow. The king storms, Nell implores,
Portsmouth is triumphant. at last
poor Nell throws off her feminine
trappings and stands revealed-Beau
| Adair, charming, saucy, a little APP
pealing. Portsmouth, remembering
the documents, quails and retires.
while the king and courtiers applaud
Nell's last daring trick. And the cur
tain goes down on Mistress Nell. the
idol Of EnglaAd and of England's king.
THE AsTRoLoGER
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nature. A dissipated old rag-bags ap-
pears and proffers lachrymose disclo-
sures of his feelings towards Nell. A
little orange girl, in the intervals be-
tween carrying on her trade, tells of
Nelps beneficence to her. And when
we are all worked up to the proper
pitch of curiosity, and the orange girl
has been cruelty repulsed, and all are
grouped so as to leave room in the
center, in bounds Nell, radiant, beauti-
full, fit object for universal worship.
She, soon sets everybody right = the
orange girl is kissed and soothed, the
duke saucily answered, the tragic ac-
tor-manager likewise, the lachrymose
one co1nforted and enriched. Nell
takes the orange basket and, crying
her wares in musical tones, disposes
of the fruit at the highest price. She
proves herself able to take care of
herself, able to take care of those not
SO fortunate.
Her gowns are beautiful, but she is
so much more so they fall into the
background. though always becom-
ing background. In some filmy white
stuff, glittering here and there, her
arms filed with the flowers sent by
the King, she is a picture long to be
remembered. And when from the top
of the wall on the terrace she talks
to the king, who walks below on the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-29

1852 he had advanced to the rank of
captain of artillery, and about the same
time began to take an active interest
and participation in Mexican politics.
He opposed the elevation of Santa
Anna to the dictatorship of Mexico,
and when that fact was accomplished
he quit the army for time and gave
his attention to the study of law. But
two years later he was back in the mil
itary service, commanding a battalion
in the army that put Santa Anna to
flight, and for his part in this was ap-
pointed military and political chief of
the district of Yxtlan.
Two years later came another
change, and Diaz quit the reactionary,
or church, party and went over to the
liberals, and served with considerable
distinction through the bloody three
years revolution called "the war of
reform" When the liberal party had
triumphed he was elected q deputy to
the Mexican congress. but be soon
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-29
Some Interesting Gossip of the
Royal and Ancient Game of Golf

Chicago. There is lack of pictur-
esque features at Atlantic City, but
the greens are almost perfect and the
hazards and bunkers are assigned
with scientific accuracy. If Walter j.
Travis, the present champion, sue
cessfully defends his title on these
links this year he will be hailed as a
remarkable golfer. Myopia's course
is admirably suited to the open cham
pionship, and Baltusrol is an ideal
course for the women.
There has been no time this winter
that the golf enthusiast has not been
seen on the links somewhere in the
vicinity of New York city. The rig
ors of winter have had no terrors for
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NEW star has appeared in the
theatrical armament, or per-

~ H. ~ >
~ theatrical armament, or per-
haps it is better said a wander
ing star has reappeared-a star SO
brilliant SO dominant, that for the
moment we can see no other. The
ecintillations of wit, the vividness of
portrayal of character and time, the
flashes of feeling, all have contributed
to the ascendancy of Miss Henrietta
Crossman. And such a voice as she
is gifted with, such grace and beauty.
1t is in mistress NelP' Miss Cross
man has suddenly leaped into fame
this season, a play written by young
westerner, a Wisconsin man. No
mention of the queen is made in "Mis-
tress Nelr' and we are saved from the
observation of Nell as kings ight-o'-
love, we are given a pretty love story
with no dark suggestiveness. The
play gives absolutely no offense, and
when we remember Nell was deemed
of sufficient respectability-or was it
of sufficient notability-to have her
funeral sermon preached by DIR. Teni-
son, afterward archbishop of Canter-
bury, we do not feel ashamed of ac-
quaintance with Eleanor Gwyn.
If the real Nell Gwyn were half as
irresistible as Miss Crossman's, no
wonder Charles forgot state and
crown, no wonder Mr.. Pepys cad
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-29
Pyssident Po,7f,'o Diaz,
q 1NexiCun ReUOIufiOniu
Incidents in the Life of Has Ruled
Mexico Long and Well

ONSTERNATION, not alone in
~ Mexico, but in all parts of the
civilized world interested in the
development of the Central American
republic, followed closely the an
nouncement that President Porfiro
Diaz had lost his mind, and would
probably have to retire from the head
of the Mexican government. Capital
lists with financial interests in Mexico
heaved sigh of relief when the ramor
was authoritatively denied, and Presi-
dent Diaz had returned to the castle of
Chapultepec, from which it was al
legged he had fled because his disor-
dered brain had led him to believe
that assassins lurked in the great
building with an intent to kill him at
the first opportunity.
When we stop to consider the con-
dition of Mexico when the reins of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-29

His fight for the Mexican presidency
began in 1867, when he was an unsuc
cessful candidate against Juarez
With this defeat begins the time of his
revolutionary movements against the
Mexican government. He led plot
after plot against the government
some of them reaching the civil wal
stage and others being squelched be
fore the clash of arms had come. TIC
save himself from capture he escaped
to the United States three different
times, but was always allowed to re-
turn. The first of these revolutions
planned by Diaz came in 1s7O-71. The
second followed few months after
A third came in 1872. Another in 1876
and still another in 1877. The last re-
suited in the election of Diaz to the
presidency of the Mexican republic.
After his election he was called upon
to suppress number of instructions
against the government, but by the
time his term of Office was completed
had the satisfaction of turning over
the government to his successor with
peace reigning throughout the repub-
lie.
In 1884 Diaz was again inaugurated
president of Mexico, and before his
term of Office had expired the Mexican
constitution had been SO amended as
to permit of a president succeeding
himself, and he has continued at the
head of the republic ever since.
Under his rule Mexico has enjoyed
a great measure of prosperity. Manu-
featuring industries have been encour.
aged, railroads have been built, and q
development along all lines has been
going steadily forward. From a rev
Olutionist, ready at any moment to
take the field against government
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of golf in the east

1rOLLOWERS OF golf in the east
may never know or. realize how
near their official representatives
IN the United States Golf associa ton
brought them to split with the
great body of adherents of the royal
and ancient game in the Jurisdiction
of the Western Golf association.
Happily, however, the conservative
element in the U. S. G. A. prevailed
and the amateur championship for
this year will be played during the
first two weeks of September on the
links of the Atlantic City Golf club in
New Jersey.
Had the national organizat ton in
sisted upon ignoring the plea of the
west for a date later than June, golf
history of startling nature would
have been made. I am in position to
know that the man who represented
the Western Golf association in the
annual meeting in New York city,
Taylor, of the Onwentsia club, would
have communicated the ultimatum of
ehe west to the U. S. G. A. that the
sEestern Golf association would worry
aio1g without the national body.
In a nutshell, the west asked that
the big event of the year be set for a
date that would be late enough to
permit the western golfers to get
into form-that would mean, of
course, some time after the annual
championship of the w. G. A. The
facilities for play on the inland links
are not the best until June, at the
earliest. Sea coast courses have such
varieties of climate and physical
qualities that play all winter long
naturally affords the eastern golfers
an advantage over their western
rivals.
The telegraph furnished real SEN
sation when it was reported that
John Reid, ''the father of golf in
| America and first vice president of
the United States Golf association,
had made the motion before that
body that the annual championship
be held in June. He subsequently
withdrew his opposition and the At
lantic City course was chosen as the
place and September was assigned as
the a1l-important month. Mr.. Reid
is the "Grand Old Man of Golf" and
the founder of the ST. Andrews Coll
| club, named after the celebrated
Scottish club. With Robert Lockhart
Mr.. Reid introduced the game to the
United States and he has travelled ex
tensively to see the effect of his Gin
oculation." SO to speak. It was sup
posed that when the amateur cham
pionship was held at Lake Forest il
1899, and Mr.. Reid gave so many ex
pressions of friendship for the west
ern golfers that he would have beer
the last man in the national body tt
insist upon a date for the amateur
event which would shut out thou
sands of square miles of the United
States without a single golf repre-
sentative in the national tourney.
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government were placed in the hands
of Diaz and its condition to-day; the
millions of foreign capital that are in
vested there, and the probable re-
suits to Mexican investments should
revolutionary factions again disturb
the peace of the republic, this care for
the life and health of the Mexican
president is not strange.
But the strange feature of the case
is President Diaz himself. Born and
raised in hotbed of revolution; the
instigator of some of the bloodiest
and most costly revolutions that have
darkened the pages of Mexican his
tory; who has led instruction after
instruction against the organized and
legal government of the republic; that
such a man should ever become the
safeguard of Mexican peace is GER
tainly strange.
The autobiography of President
Diaz reads like stirring story of adj
venture, and, in fact, that is what it
is, and a true story at that, which but
lends to it more interest.
President Diaz is nearing II years
of age, being born on September Is,
1880. Until he was II he led the life of
the average Mexican boy of the better
class, receiving a liberal education at
an institution of learning in his native
city, Oaxaca. With the beginning of
the American invasion of Mexico be-
gan the military career of Diaz, a ca
reer that was to lead him through rev.
olution after revolution to the highest
place in the gift of the Mexican peo-
pie.
His military career began as a sub
lieutenant in the Mexican army, and
he served in this capacity throughout
the war with the United States By
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took the field again in a new revolu-
ton. He fought with distinction all
through the wars with the French in
vaders. Through the latter months of
the reign of Maximillian he consti-
tuted the main defense of the repub-
ican cause. The invading army paid
him the compliment of giving him and
his small band of followers, number
ing less than 5000, especial attention,
and he was finally forced to surrender.
but soon afterward escaped and again
took the field to oppose the troops OF
Macmillan with but 500 followers
and with these won several important
victories before his force was in
creased. During these campaigns il
is said that Diaz was almost mercileSs
toward the captives who fell into his
hands, and many charges of cruelty
have been brought against him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-29

the winter golfers. The large class
of men who don sweaters, dress
warmly and traverse the links when
the mercury is hugging the zero
mark has no use for the Florida
courses. To play where women might
wear shirtwaists in February and
men might go in their shirt sleeves
would have no attraction for these
lovers of the sport on frozen links.
Washington's birthday there were
several clubs in the east that had
special tournaments scheduled. The
open tourney at Lakewood, N. j.,
February 21 and 90 attracted the at
tention of considerable number of
golfers. At the Dyker Meadow
course on Long Island several of the
METROPOLITAN Golf association courses,
notably Findlay Douglas course at
Fairfield county, the players have de-
rived a great deal of enjoyment out
of the game. Sometimes, when snow
has made it hard to follow the flight
of the red gutta percha balls, the en-
thusiastic golfers have engaged
enough shivering caddies to dig out
: the balls and scrape the snow from
the green's. One of the first remarks
that this sort of thing might cause a
stranger to the game to make might
be 'idiots, blamed idiots, all of them"
But if they are mad they are phys
ically strong, healthy, wealthy and
socially great ''idiots." Doctors rare
1y have to visit these red-cheeked,
broad-shouldered athletes. The cut
ting winds that sweep across the
| dreary wastes are braved and all
n ri scfo Of r;.yi
"Col. Bogey a hard rub the golfer
spends the evening in the clubhouse
dreamily gazing into one of the most
| inviting log fires in the big smoking
room of the clubhouse. To such en-
| thusiasts as these there is no par
| ticular sport in going to the Palm
| Beach, Belleair, Kissimee or other
! Florida courses during the winter.
Out in southern California, where the
conditions for golf in February and
| March are project, the annual cham
pionship has just been contested. On
| some of the Texas and Mexico links,
| to say nothing of the Audubon club
| course in the outskirts of New Or
| leans, there has been golf playing all
winter. But in the greatest center of
golf in the United States outside the
Metropolitan Golf association district,
the territory covered by the Western
Golf association there has been no
play since Thanksgiving day, unless
| the few spasmodic attempts of a
| small coterie of fun makers may be
| termed golf. Snow in the west and
north has been too much for even the
enthusiasts. In the vicinity of ST.
Louis, where it was predicted there
would be play all winter, no matter
what the weather would be, there
has been a pronounced bottling up of
enthusiasm. E. G. WESTLAKE.
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nave been informed by a gentleman
who was present at the meeting that
Mr.. Reds action was but part of a
friendly plan to get the argument
properly before the association so
that the west might triumph.
The new executive of the q. S. G..
a., r. III. Robertson, is rather aristo-
cratic in his ideas, but he is the golf
official that was unanimously chosen
by the east to be president of the
Shinnecock Hills Golf club, where
Miss Beatrix Hoyt, some time wom-
ans champion of the United States,
belongs and plays, he was selected
last year to head the list of officers
of the Metropolitan Golf association.
The latter is to the east what the
W. G.. A. is to the west. Inasmuch as
the executive committee of the U. S..
G. A. has failed to plan any decided
changes in the rules governing either
the game or the championships, the
duties of President Robertson will be
light. The women's championship
was assigned to the Baltusrol Golf
club in New Jersey-a delightfully."- To-
Gated course near the picturesque
Short hills. The officers of this club
have made extensive improvements
for the women's event, which will be
decided in October. The Myopia Hunt
club at Hamilton, Mass, will have the
honor of conducting the open cham
pionship at a date to be selected
later.
Harry Vardon, the greatest golfer
n the world, without any doubt, has
repeatedly said that the Atlantic City
course was the finest links he played
over in the United States. His views
are accepted by the majority of crit
les of the east. although: they know
| 'ull well how much Vardon thought
At Glen View Golf club course. near