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Harmony and Tact.

Mrs. Mary Platt Parmele, author of
the Evolution of Empire series of
histories, is an accomplished musician
and deeply interested in ~vibratory
physics. Passing through Manhattan
lately en- route for Staten Island, she
1unched at the Holland House with a
friend who is noted almost as widely
for his Grass awkwardness as for his
scientific researches, relates the New
York Times. His admiration Of Mrs.
Parme1e's tact was therefore probably
Increased to infinitude when, with one
excited gesture, he swept his glass and
salad plate and fork to the floor.
but bark" said Mrs. Parmele in
stantly as the resonant echoes Of the
glass and silver rang back from the
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OF these Juices. With the body. ~fatfgued
away from the digestive organs, hence the
digestive fluids cannot be supplied. Natur-
ally this leaves a lot Of ~undfgested food in
the stomach that is not only useless but
arnfu Now what is to be done?
1t must be digested. A little stimulant
might help it temporarily, but that makes
the next meal still more difficult to digest,
as 1t draws on the digestive juices unnatur-
ally and soon exhausts them. The only cor
rect, common sense way Of treating these
cases is to furnish a substitute, which must,
in order to be effectual, contain exactly the
same elements in exactly the same proper
tions as the natural digestive fluids.
The one preparation which can be abso-
lutely proven to meet these requirements is
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It is not an expert
ment at your expense but the result of ex-
periments at our expense. It is not a mere
stimulant to aid digestion, but is itself a
combination Of all the digestants and actu-
ally digests the food by it's own individual
powers Of action without any aid whatever
from the digestive organs. 1t will digest
food even in a bottle under proper condi-
tions, temperature, ETC., so it certainly
can't help having the same action in the
stomach.
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By digesting the food without aid and
preparing it perfectly for natures uses in
nourishing the body. it gives the digestive
organs a rest; BY relieving. them of all
work, nature has an opportunity to restore
them to healthy condition.
Furthermore, you shoul eat all the good
food your appetite calls for while kin
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, because your body
must have nourishment and in no way can
it get it except through the food.
While the army Of people is large who suf-
fer continually from dyspepsia, there is a
still greater army of those who are troubled
only occasionally, caused by oyereating, eat
Ing when fatigued, eating when too warm or
cold, drinking ice water, especially just be-
fore, with, or just after a meal, or eating
some article OF food that does not agree
with them.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure not only instantly
relieves all distress Of the stomach, that
feeling Of f%ullness. fatulence, wind on the
stomach) belching, rising of a sour, watery
liquid in the mouth and all other results Of
a disordered stomach but it is an absolute,
positive and permanent cure for all forms OF
indigestion, dyspepsia and stomach troubles.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is a remedy Of I'M
usual merit and will bear out every claim
made for it.
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HUMOR OF THE HOUR
Another Scandal In Society.

announcer seaman IN society,"
"Good gracious" said Mrs. Kafippe,
you're surely not going to invite that
Mrs. Colbraith to your reception, are
youF You can't afford to recognize
her In that way. Of curse If you had
q frmer position in society yourself
if you belonged to one of b old fami-
lies here and. were rich enough to feel
secure-you might boldly put her in
the list Of your friends, out you're
comparatively a newcomer, you're
just getting a foothold, and it would
be extremely foolish for o to do any
thing now tina would weaker your po-
sition. You mustn't think of having
her here
Mercy sakes! What has she done?
I supposed she was a perfect lady.
She seems so nice, and | believe she
graduated at the head Of her class at
Wellesley too. She always appeared
to me so refined. I never dreamed
there could be anything wrong about
her. What is it? For PHYS sake, don't
keep me in suspense!"
"Why, don't you know? She nurses
her own baDy!"-Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
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The National Disease.

If there is any disease entitled to such a
distinction it is certainly dyspepsia. It is
safe to say that not one person in ten enjoys
the blessings of perfect digestion, strange
though it may seem: Why is this?
Digestion is a slow process by which
nature transforms the food into a state
suitable for nourishment for the body. The
time required varies from one to six hours
or more, according to the food. In the
hurry, worry and hustle, the striving for the
almighty dollar, the Goth century American
fails to give proper heed to natures de-
mands upon his time. He gets up in the
morning, bolts his breakfast without half
chewing it, washes it down with hot coffee
or other liquid and rushes off to his business.
At noon, it's rush home or to the lunch
counter, eat his lunch hastily while fatigued
and out Of breath, then rush back to bust
ness. One Of the greatest essentials to pro-
per digestion is the mastication or chewing
Of food, to thoroughly mix it with saliva. II
this is not done, the food passes into the
stomach in a condition which does not per-
NIT Of it's being acted upon by the gastric
juices there, even though there be sufficient
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Disannofnted.

"Dat candidate was a greet disap-
ointment to me,' said the old colored
man. 81 dunno when I has been so
took down."
"Why, he greeted you cordially and
took you by the hand"
"Yessuh, he tuck me by de ham, but
when he leggo my ham ag'fn dar WASH
muffin in it"-Washington Star.
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Exidence of Ambition.

"There is a young man who is striv-
ing hard to rise"
I'm glad to hear it. Such young
men deserve all encouragement, for
there are too few Of them. Wants to
get to the top, does he?"
'Oh, he wants to go clear above the
top. He's putting in all his time try
irg to invent a flying machine."-Chi-
cago Post.
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AND FORh TO TIE FLOOE.
hard floor and then, catching up the
keynote Of the crash, hummed a few
bars, wasn't that the same-don't you
remember that exquisite little cadence
in Beethoven's ninth symphony? Now,
do you know, Professor X, that richly
illustrates my idea that just as all folk
lore has it's rise in distorted concep-
tions of natural facts, so what we call
music is but an Interpretation of the
rhythm of the universe, eve of the
common daily happenings perhaps as it
echoes to the individual soul?"
And the poor little man quite forgot
his modification in the interest Of the
discussion that followed.
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Didn't Appreciate Uncut Edg

Didn't Appreciate Uncut Edges.
A letter was received by a firm Of
eastern publishers the other day from
a prominent New England physician
who: had just examined a subscription
set of Mark Twain's books. These
books have uncut edges-the uncut
edges being a feature which it is diff
cult to get the average man to appre-
@ciate. Thereby hangs this correspond
.ents tale of woe:
Gentlemen-You do not find inc1osed the pay
1ment you are expecting, but you are no more
disappointed than we were when we opened our
package of books, for instead of finding what we
bought-viz, a set of nice finished books-we find
books with edges (al except the top edget which
looked as though they had been chewed off by
xrats instead of being cut smooth, only they were
mot chewed deep enough. There were left in
Vulnerable leaves still unchewed which the reader
must disconnect ere he could pursue his narrative.
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several years with dyspepsia and Indigestion.
I have often sat down to eat and had to give
it up after eating two bites. / used two
bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and am all
right to-day, and | eat everything and don't
stop for anything. l recommend Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure to all my friends as the best
medicine for dyspepsia and stomach trouble.
Wishing. you success, I aEa, Respectfully
yours, w. l.. Easton. Audubon, Iowa.
Can Now Eat Anything.
Dear Sirs:-For a good while I was In fee
bic health, could not eat anything but a
small quantity of soup. 1 tried several
doctors and mineral waters. Nothing SEEM
ed to do any good until / was induced to try
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure which cured me and [
can now eat anything l want and can certain
~ give your preparation credit for it. I write
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Should BE Happy

ST don't see why Long Jim Jones
shouldn't be happy" said the Georgia
native. "He's got six fddles, ten chill
dren an a moonshine still that AIM
never been spotted by the government
Atlanta Constitution.
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Her Opinion,

"Don't you think sarcasm is fmpo-
lite?"
"Not at ALL" answered Miss Cayenne.
cit enables one to get rid of a bore
without being absolutely brutal
Washington Star.
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this that some sufferers who are suffering as
/ was may be led to try Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure for I think they will be restored to
health if they will.-Very respectfully, W.
H. McCrary, Benno, Laurens Co., S. G.
I, W. E. Bell, a Notary Public of S. G. do
certify that the above Is the testimony as
given by McCrary. w. E. Bell, N. P. of S. O.
Sick Headache.
Gentlemen:-My wife was roubled for
years with dyspepsia. Her symptoms were
sick headache and vomiting every other day,
and she could scarcely eat anything. /
bought Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and she COM
menced taking it and has none Of the above
symptoms, and eats everything without
caution, but continues the use of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure at intervals.
w. 81. Caulkins, So. Edmeston, N. Y.
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Owed Her a Great Deal.

Jones (referring to the pleasant faced
lady who had just passed)-Ah, my
boy, I owe a great deal to that woman.
Brown-Indeedi Who is she?
Jones-My landlady.
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No Trouble About 1t.

81 don't see how you can appear in
such a costume!"
'It's very easy" replied the bur-
Iesque favorite, "un1ess o happen to
be lame. All you have to do is to walk
from the dressing room to the stage."-
Chicago Post.
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Costume All Ready.

dress ball?
Subbubs-Yes; I'm going as a tramp.
Backlots-Have you got your costume
all ready?
Subbubs-Yes. I'll wear my dress
suit. Ny wife forgot to put it out Of
the way of the moths last spring.-BW-
falo Courier.
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Elderly spinster (coy1y)-I think
there should be a tax on the 'single
state" don't you, colonel?
Ungallant Bachelor-Yes, as on al
other Observation-Disclosures Record.
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The Maids Advantage.

A small and cry unsophistocated
English maid of all work when warned
by her first and newly married mis-
tress to be home by 10 o'clock on the
occasion of her evening out" could
not conceal her amusement at the idea.
-''Lor', mum, l kin take care o. myself.
L kfn!' she remarked. "You amt near
so fit to be out alone as I be. Why, you
couldn't walk dahn the Pentonville
road after dark without being spoke to
an follered an havin' bits O. paper
pinned on your back!"
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Her First

"That's your husband rapping!" an
nounced the medium in a solemn voice.
my husband rapping?" said the
widow absent1y. "Gracious, he must
have forgotten his keyr'-Detroit Free
Press.
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IN to Him.

"Just say the word," said Stayleight,
"for whatever you say goes"
"Mr. Stayleightv' she exclaimed,
with a significant promptness that
didn't dawn on him until long after
Philadelphia Press.
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where She Tempted.

IF you call me by. my first name
again, I'll kiss you right on the cor
ner."
"But, Jack, I haven't any corners."-
Life.
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Real Bad Luck.

Explorer-You look sad, my friend.
Cannibal-Well, it is hard luck that I
should meet you on the very day my
cook has left me. Why didn't you
come yesterday?
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Suffered 40 Years

Gentlemen:I wish to inform the public
that I ave been a constant sufferer from
forty years during which time I have given
almost every medicine a trial in different
forms, such as the dyspepsia tablets especi.
ally but nothing has done me the good that
Kodo Dyspepsia Cure has. / have used
only two bottles as yet and feel sure the
third bottle will cure me of the disease I
have suffered from for forty years.-Alexan.
der Kerr, Rice Landing, Greene Co.. Penn.
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Dear Sirs:-I used to suffer from indiges.
ton SO that even eating a soda cracker OF
drinking a glass Of water would cause agony.
L commenced using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
ana it soon cured NEIL. L. Wharton, New
Berne, N. G.
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'"Then," said the gentleman who had
cardiacal weakness, my wife must
have used peroxide."-Baltimore Amer
lean.
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Only p1anati

"Faint heart never won fair lady,
quoted o%racularly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10
SOLD WIFE FOR EIGHT DOLLARS
Italian Then Let His Infant Go to the
Same Man for Two Kegs of Beer.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 3.-Nicholas 3.
Peloga sold his wife for eight dollars
and his 2-year-old son for two kegs Of
beer. The purchaser was Antonio
Abbiticha.
In Italy Doth men were in love with
Carolina Mareno. When Abbiticha
came to America to make home and
fortune Pelgoa wOoed and won and he
and Carolina came to America. When
Abbiticha learned of this he started
out to find them. Luck led him to
Pittsburg. Sunday he heard that an
Italian couple answering the descrip-
tion of the people he was seeking
and was living at Wilmerding.
Going there he found his former
sweetheart and his rival.
With Abbiticha the matter resolved
itself into business proposition. He
asked Peloga what he would take for
his wife. PeIoga named a price, which
Abbiticha beat down to Ss in cash.
Peloga said the child was worth
two kegs of beer and this was paid.
To-day Abbiticha started to go back
to Italy with the woman and child.
The steamship agent arranging for
the passage told the story.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10
"FOr those
who need a
good Catarrh
medicine 4
know OfnOth=
ing better
fhanPeruI1a." I"

Hon. II. w. Ogden, Congressman from
Louisiana, was elected to the SD, 54th
and 55th Congress. In letter written
at Washington, d. O., he says the fol-
lowing Of Peruna, the national cataFrh
remedy:
al can conscientiously recommend
your Peruns as q fine tonic and all round
good medicine to those who are In need
of catarrh remedy. 1t has been COM
mended to me by people who have used
1t, as o remedy particularly effective in
the cure Of catarrh. For those who need
good catarrh medicine know ofnoth-
Ing better.s
Mr.. Virgil Rowlee, Fulton, oswego,
county, N. Y, writes: "I am an old SOL
dier, and have doctored with ave differ
ent doctors for stomach trouble for three
years. 1 could get no help. Itook your
Peruna and now feel like new man.
can recommend II to anyone suffering
with catarrh of the stomach. A great
many people want to know what took
that helped me so much. tell them it
was Peruna. One year ago I could
hardly do anything and only weighed
100 pounds. Now I weigh 40 and can
not say too much for your medicine, as
1t has done me so much good"
So many people think cstarrh affects
the head only. This is great mistake.
The stomach is liable to catarrh. The
kidneys are also very liable to catarrh,
producing all the symptoms of kidney
disease. Most cases Of weak back are
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10
The Bride weighs 41O Pounds.

DERBY, CONN, Jan. 4.-Miss Mary
A. Plumb, though were her name
Plump it welld be most appropriate,
because she is very plump, weighing
40 pounds, has just been married.
Charles NJ. Harang won her. He
weighs l26.
Miss Plumb was supposed to be the
heaviest woman in Connecticut, but
she did not mind it. She was always
and joking about her size, and when
she laughed she showed beautiful
teeth, for she is comely of face.
Her father, William 5. Plumb, is one
of the wealthiest men of Stevenson,
and is well known in Connecticut.
He is a firm believer in marriage,
and when his daughter reached her
twenty-first birthday he offered 81, 900
to the man who would marry her. He
liked Harang so much that he gave
him $1,000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10

At tacky party, given at the resi-
dence of J. r. Browns during Christ
mas week, in the southern part Of this
county, Judge Sims was to award one
of the prizes, which was a handsome
looking cake. Judge Sims, in neat
and appropriate address, was deliver
ing the cake, but insisted that he was
entitled to a slice Of it. He took out
a good-sized piece and our informant
says had gotten away with part of
it before he found. out it was sure
enough cotton cake, cotton from CEN
ter to circumference, from top to bot
tom. The Judge took the joke good
naturedly and said that things "are
not always as they SEEM" The enter
tainment was a delightful one and all
present enjoyed the evening hugely.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10

THE Montgomery City Standard,
owned and edited by John w. Jacks,
entered upon its thirty-third year this
week. John Jacks is well known
in Mexico and Audrain county as
conservative and successful newspaper
man. He was formerly in the news
paper business with the late Col. John
e. Hutton in Mexico and is known to
most of our readers, who join the
LEDGER in congratulating Mr., Jacks
on his prosperity. Jacks is not only a
good newspaper man, but lisa thorough
business man in every sense of the
word, and takes an interest in every
movement tending toward the better
ing Of Montgomery City or Montgom-
cry county. Such ne wspapper men as
John Jacks deserve the cordial and
hearty support Of the community in
which they live.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10
Armonrs Rnv Sale Abroad.

KANSAS CITY, NO., Jan. 3.--A large
shipment of salt from Lisbon, Portu-
gal, for the Armour Packing Co. has
just begun to arrive in Kansas City.
Thirty-fiye cars have reached here and
25 cars are on the way. Each car is
loaded with from 35 to 40 tons Of the
salt, all in bulk.
The purchase abroad of this enor-
nous quantity of salt by the Armour
company was provoked by the high
prices demanded by the salt trust in
this country. Salt might have been
bought from the Hutchinson (Kas.)
mines. The Armour company uses
about fifteen car loads a week. James
Ferrel, purchasing agent for the COM
pany, to-day said;
"Prices are now So ton, a figure
so high that we were forced to do
something desperate to escape the
payment of it. Instead Of buying salt
at point 2l0 miles from Kansas City,
we have sent more than 5000 miles to
another country for it, and after pay
ing steamer and freight rates and a
custom duty of s cents hundred, we
are still able to save money. This
shows what an outrageous profit the
the salt trust makes In this country" "
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10

Hon. f. E. BRUToN, prominent
business man of Sturgeon, Mo-, is an
applicant for appointment to the
Office OF Railroad Commissioner of Mis-
souri,. Frank BrutOn is thoroughbred,
progressive, working Democrat, al
ways found in line with his party. He
was an earnest, faithful supporter of
Hon. A. NJ. Doekery from the very
start. Bruton is not an Office seeker,
neither Is he political tramp, but is
a business man, and II appointed to
this important Office will transact the
affairs Of the Office in a business-like
manner. Frank is a genial gentleman
and good mixer, and makes friends
wherever he goes. His admirers all
over the State are working hard for
his appointment and those who know
him best are his most ardent sup
pOrtcrS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10
STOLEN GOODS IDENTIFIED.
0. Poisson Sees the Thieves in Quincy
Who Entered His Store in This
City Few Weeks Ago.

o. Poisson is home from Quincy
ILL.,, where he went to Identify the
goods stolen from the store Of j.
Blum, Son s. Co. a few weeks ago.
He had no trouble in identifying
goods in the hands of the Quincy po-
lice as those stolen from his store in
this city at the time mentioned.
There are four persons in custody at
Quincy, two men and two women and
it seems that they have been doing a
wholesale business in robbing stores In
Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Mr.. Poisson found but few Of the
81, 900 worth of goods stolen from him.
He identified four pairs of kid gloves,
one muffler, two handkerchiefs, one
chatalaine bag and ten yards Of silk.
He also recognized one of the men In
custody as being a customer in his
store in this city on the Saturday be-
fore the robbery.
The members of the party under ar
rest are being held under $4,000 bond
and will be prosecuted by the Quincy
authorities.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10

due to catarrh Of the kidneys. Catarrh
of the bladder is q common disease, and
is rapidly becoming more and more
common. 1t produces the host of dis
tressing symptoms which follow bladder
disease. In short, all urinary and pelvic
organs are subject to catarrh, and ca.
tarrh is more frequently the cause Of
disease Of these organs than all other
causes combined.
Mr.. ]. Edward Williams, Of Lebanon,
o., Box 43s, was cured Of systemic ca
tarrh by Peruna. Systemic catarrh is
that condition in which catarrh has per-
meated the whole system. Mr.. Williams
says; "I took Peruna for acute catarrh
of the entire membranous process.
~ suffered every conceivable evil
that can accompany chronic eatarrh
IN It's most aggravated form.
oogghed necessarily. My stomach
refused to do its duty at aM The In
festines became fnhamed, the kidneys
were paralyzed, the bladder lost its
tonicity. began with Pernna, and
realized q steady Improvement from
the first until 1 was entirely cured"
DR.. Hartman, thediscoverer of Peruns,
has written a book on the difrerent
phases and stages Of catarrh. This book
contains the doctors opinion as to the
treatment Of catarrh from an experience
of over forty years. Address The Peru
Medicine Co., Columbus, o., for free
copy Of this book.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-01-10
Rudasill-Mundy,

Lewis Rudasill, of Vinita, Indian
Territory, and Miss Addie Mundy
were married at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mundy, of near Molino, Thursday.
The groom is a prominent young
farmer of Indian Territory and has
many friends in Audrain county,
where he formerly lived.
The bride is quite a belle in her
neighborhood and will be greatly
missed from the society Of that most
excellent community.
The LEDGER joins the many friends
of the couple in congratulating the
groom and extending good wishes to
the bride.