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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-03
w1ArH1R PREDICTION

Rain in south portion, rain or snow
In north portion tonight. Thursday
fair. Colder except in eastern Maine.
Colder Thursday. Fresh southerly
shifting 10 westerly winds.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-03
Burning Verse.

II wouldn't care If that poet would
bring in hundred poems day." said
the country editor.
He knows how to write 'em, does
he: asked the office bore.
HE certainly does" replied the ed
1tor. He brings them in written on
shingles. "-Indianapolis Sun.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-03
The Use of the Preno.,t.o,

The Use of the Proposition.
In addressing his class on the correct
use of the parts Of speech, this is the
way a college professor caused con-
siderable merriment at his own ex-
pense:
Gentlemen" he said, "a proposition
10 a bad word to end sentence with"
New York Times,
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-03

TO RENT-Small tenement with barn
room on quarry road. 81 p r month In
1Hire BY telephone or address Charles
Perrin, E Barre Vt 1904
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-03

at 70 Prospect Of Family with children
need not apply 1904 :.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
MYRA DAVIS.
Hardin College Girl Advances Prom
Chorus Girl to Prima Donna.

From the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This is the end OF it ALL said Miss
Myra Davis when she graduated from
Hardin College last June. (Which
shall il be, matrimony or the stage?'
fGet married, = advised her friends,
''you never can get ahead on the stage.
1t will be an awful life and a chorus
girl has no standing anywhere
Myra Davis, the most populaE girl
in school, went to Chicago three weeks
ago without saying a word about it,
and the next thing her intimate friends
heard she is the leading lady in the
Dearborn Theater, and all Chicago is
singing her praises. She has over
thrown all the operate traditions,
and although scarcely out of her teens
she has accomplished in a few days
what hundreds Of singers have spent
their lives in doing. 1t is rarely ex-
perienced in comic opera that a girl
has all OF the accomplishments to
make her a prima donna.
Miss Davis, with due modesty, ap-
piled to the manager of 1.-THE Storks''
three weeks ago for a place in the
chorus. She was astOnished when she
was offered, after a test, a position as
principal. Mr.. Tillotson recognized
at once that he had secured a prize.
Her splendidly trained and sYmpa'
thetic soprano, her yonth, her grace
full figure and beautiful face, com.
bined with her ease OF manner anC
charm Of expression had been noted
instantly by the keen-eyed manager
and he Immediately engaged her Il
I'll the leading role Of Helen, which
she did after a weeks rehearsal, max.
ing a wonderful success at her first
appearance.
Miss Davis college days began al
Hardin, where she became acquainted
with a number Of st. Louis girls
spending her vacations here, where
she is well known and a popular IA
yorite. Two years ago she passed
through NEARLY fatal siege OF typhoid
After a term at Jacksonville she en-
tered the musical department a
Champaign, where she has just grad
uated with highest honors. She ha!
been fairly besieged with dlsconsolat'
suffers, but the divine light OF genluI
has been brightly burning and he
fate lies In another direction.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
PUT TO THE TEST.
Mexico People Appreciate a Good
Thing.

Everybody has their hour OF trouble.
But people having any itchiness Of
the skin,
Have many hours Of trouble.
Nothing so annoying. Nothing so
irritating.
Scratch 1t, II becomes worse.
Leave 1t alone and you can hardly
stand the misery.
Itchiness comes in many forms,
Eczema and horrid itching piles.
Relief and cure are here at last,
Mexico has put it to the test.
DOan's Ointment cures every form
or itcnfness OF the skin.
People at home are learning that
this is 50.
Here is a proof in a citizens state.
ment.
w. ii. Fink, Of Mexico, Mo-, says:
"For at least twelve years II / was not
annoyed with itching hemorrhoids ]
never knew the moment when an
attack vas sur to bother my very ex.
istence. During that time l was
treated by more than one physician
and 1 used several patent medicines
guaranteed as sure cures, but l never
received any lasting benefit. Always
on the outlook for something thai
might at least give relief il not radi
eally dispose Of the annoyance 1 went
TO Buckner & Whitney's drug store
for DOan's Ointment. 1t absolutely
cured the last attack. Should others
recur ! now know what preparation tC
employ"
For sale by all dealers; price 50 cents
Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
sole agents for the United States.
Remember thu name-Doan's-anc
take no substitute.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
q JoRDES KILLED.
stepped Away From One Car In
Front Of Another-Body Brought
Home For Burial.


Michael Jorden, OF this city, who was
employed In st. Louis as a track re-
pairer BY the Transit Company, was
killed by a car on Delmar boulevard,
near Walton avenue, about ) O'Clock
Thursday morning, September ..
He was engaged in repairing the
track when an east bound car approach
ed. In getting out OF It's way he step
ped In front OF west bound car No.SSS'
ia charge Of Motorman Edward A.
walton, OF No. S4l5 Olive street. Mo-
torman Walton saw Jorden when too
late 10 stop bis car.
Jorden sustained a compound frac-
tnre Of the skull. He was attended
by a Transit Company physician, but
died fifteen minutes after the accl-
dent occurred. The Transit Company
took charge OF the remains and sent
them TO this city on the STA Wabash
train Friday afternoon.
Deceased has lived In Mexico for q
years and was an honorable, upright
and hard working man, and leaves a
family OF a widow and six children
as follows: Mrs. Edward Koellingi
Of warrenton; Mrs. w. ]. Wetton, Of
Slater; Michael A. and Willie Jorden'
Misses Alberta and Katherine Jor
den, Of this city.
Deceased was a member OF the
Knights Of Father Matthew Lodge
and was insured for 5000 in that
order. He was a member Of The
Catholic church.
FUNERAL SERVICES
Funeral services ' e the remains
OF Michael Jorden were conducted
from st. Brendan's Catholic Church
at IL O'Clock Sunday morning by Rev
Father ]. ]. Dillon and intermeni
was made in the Catholic Cemetery
The pail bearers were: Thos. Roden
James Finn, Richard Moore, Johl
Quinlan, VIM. Dugan and Jerry Carter
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
Old Timers in Parber

From the FaToer Forum.
VIM. Maehln says that only IA PEG.
pie are now living in Farber that were
here twenty-one years ago. They are,
VIM. Brimer and wife, T. R. Gnllland
and wife, A. Z. jenkins, Mrs. Emma
Lee, c. NJ. Gilliland, D. II. Athey,
Miss Hattie Crary, Mrs. ]. d. Carroll,
J. A. Lea and wife, james Clark and
VIM. Machin. At that time Rev.
Taylor Bernard was pastor OF the G.
P. church, Rev. Marcellus Whiteslde
Of the Baptist church and Rev. Shu.
mach Of the Methodiit church. These
ministers took time about holding
union services In the building nov &C.
cupled and owned by the Methodists.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
STOCK N Farm NOTES.

Powell and Mundy, regular shipper
from Audrain county, marketed IL.
head Of 6s-lb. lambs that sold at $3.50
Lire Stock Reporter.
The receipts on the st. Louis lIv,
stock market Tuesday were made up Of
cattle, 6,4OO; hogs, 6,626; sheep, 2, 30s
horses and mules, 34S.
Beef and butcher steers sold from
s3.75 TO ST. 5;butcher heifers from 81 s.
10 Is; butcher cows from sl.50 TO s4.25
veal calves from $3.50 TO 81; stocker
and feeders from q. rs to s5.
Hogs - Fair 10 best butcher and
heavy hogs sold at s7.4OG7.95; good
medium weights and packers at s7.4s
.@L65, the bulk at s7.50G7.65; lights,
$50 to 100 lbs, at s7.S5G7.6O, the bulk
at s7.4OCd7.J0i lights, 100 TO $50 lbs, al
s6(g7.9O; pigs at S.50(d6.75 {; roughs and
culls at s6.50G7.
The tor Of the market was s7.p5 and
the bulk Of the hogs above $50 pounds
average sold at s7.4Oa7.05, against a
top ofs7.So and the bulk at s7.40a
1865 on Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
STRICT r~urELAuE.


Relations Of Apprentice and Master In
the Middle Ages
Apprenticeship was an important In
stitution in France In the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries, and was reg
ulated with the utmost care, as will be
seen by the following recount OF AN
Idler In Old France" BY the rules Of
the book the master was held greatly
responsible for his apprentice; and I'M
der a wise and kindly roof, the lad who
was learning to be a master workman
and a ruler in his little world might
lead a happy and profitable life. Often
be did so, and when the day came that
he might claim his freedom, he chose
to remain the paid servant, friend and
fellow-worker of te master who had
sheltered him from boyhood and taught
him all his craft, rather than to seek
a fortune less assured elsewere. Dur
ing the years Of his apprenticeship the
patron or master was to feed, cloths
and shelter him, in the homely word
ing Of the clockmaker's rule, to cher
ish him beneath his roof, at is board
and by his hearth" Nay, It was strict
ly enioined upon the master to treat
his apprentice "as his W son." and
in some trades he was hidden to re-
member that his responsibility did not
end on the threshold Of the workshop,
that the soul and morals" OF the little
stranger had claims on bis solIcitude.
In a day when the streets OF Paris we're
not very nice for anybody, and were
more or less dangerous after dark for
everybody, the master was instructed
to be careful OF what errand he dis
patched the youngster, and the pastry
cooks, whose apprentices we're often
sent to cry cakes and creams upon the
public ways, were continually warned
to prevent the lads from falling among
evil company. II seems certain that,
so far as the middle ages are concern
ed, the rules, preeepts and admoni-
tons were not only framed with great
good sense and care. but we're very rig
Idly enforced upon all masters who
had youths and lads In their employ.
High and low, in the society Of that
day, the rod and birch we're fourished.
withsmall discrimination and less nice
ty; and II the tutors OF little princes
had leave to whip them freely. appren-
tiees could not expect to come OF too
lightly at a masters hand.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11

The question OF still further reduc.
ing the time Of the Journey between
London and Paris IL occupying much
attention on both sides Of the channel.
The Northern Of France company,
which owns the mail steamers Nord
and Pas de Salais employed on the
Dover-C als.s service. are considering
the introduction Of a vessel on the tur-
bine principle. This would revolution
ize the eross-channel passage. A Clyde
shipbuilding arm Is at present building
a passenger steamer on the turbine
principle. which will be ready for
launching shortly. II this vessel proves
a success II will have a speed OF about
thirty knots. enabling the time OF the
passage to be reduced TO about thirty
Ave minutss.-London Daily Mail.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
WALKS ORDERED CONSTRUCTED
Knights Of Pythias Lodge Given Use
Of Streets for Fair and Carnival
Other MATTERS Given
Attention.

City Council met in regular session
Monday night The first business OF
the session was the swearing In OF the
newly elected members: MeSSers. G. @.
Cleveland, from the Second Ward, and
+. A. Sannebeck, from the Third
Ward. These gentlemen sat as menu
bers OF the meeting. Mr.. KEENAN,, OF
the First Ward, was the only absent
member.
In the Street Commissioners re-
port OF expenses OF the street depart
ment for the past two weeks was con-
talned these totals:
First Ward, 5000.
Second Ward, sl6.65.
Third Ward, $1,000.
Fourth Ward, s9.e5.
In the Cemetery Sections report for
the month 4 burlals were shown for, ?
white and 2 colored.
In the Finance Committees report
a balance Of ss67.3T was shown.
In the report of the committee APP
pointed to investigate cost Of street
paving, made a report from which is
taken the following extracts:
q" We find the paving block
now In general use is s inches long by
3tx3f, with bevel edge, that what is
called the two-course work has been
generally discarded and In place a
course Of crushed rock 9 inches in
depth = = to be thoroughly
rolled and then 3 inches Of sand on
which is placed the paving blocks, to
be covered with 3 inches OF sharp dry
sand. 1t is claimed by all
with whom we talked 70 be the best.
The cost is about the same; we further
| find that the cost Of either method
will not be over s1.35 per square foot.
John ABBAY.
~. d.. PRATT.
sd. @. OWEN"
The report was accepted and the
committee continued.
A communication from the local
lodge of Knights Of Pythias, asking
the exclusive use Of streets Of Mexico
for the purpose Of holding a X. Of P.
street fair, carnival and horse show
was read and, by motion, the request
was granted.
The ordinance ordering brick side
walks laid in certain parts Of the city
was given a third reading and upon
being voted on passed by a solid vote
Of those present.
On motion OF Mr.. Buckner the vehi
Gle license was laid on the table.
Accounts and claims to the amount
Of s705. % we're allowed.
The committee on electric lighi
contract was continued until the next
regular meeting.
Council adjourned until Wednesday
night, Sept. 10, at ! o'clock, when TN
matter OF passing further resolution
ordering street paving around the
square will be considered.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
OLD TIMES.
Words From One Who Attend
ed the PikeEs Picnic.

AA8AA
To the Editor OF the Leader.
MEXICO, Mo-, Sept. 2.-As we are
a reader OF your papcr and attended
the Plker's reunion az Vandalia and
met so many friends Of bygone days
that brought TO mind many things
connected with our life, we feel like
saying something through your paper
about our visit TO your town. As
soon as we heard there was TO be a re-
union OF the Pikers, we felt deter
mined to be at that meeting, which
we hope win be an annual reunion,
August 29 in days to come.
We were born and raised In the lit
tie village OF ~Spencerburg, about 10
miles northeast OF Vandalia. DR..
Freeman, our father, was one OF the
earliest settlers Of that village, we'll
known to many Vandalia people, some
who have lived In S~pencerburg years
ago, before the prairie where Wanda
LA now stands was settled. My father
came every fall to hunt deer In COM
pany with Capt. Tribble and came
north of vandalia on the creek,on the
farm now owned by Muck Matson, OF
/ New London.
We met SO many friends that day
space f0rbids mentioning them all, but
we will name q few Of them.
John Terrell, father Of Mrs. John b
Lewellyn, who we remember with OuI
earliest recollection. he will be q
years old his next birthday. When
was a child / enjoyed going to his
home. My father was his family
physician and the families were in
innate, in fact, people, in those days
stood closer to a doctor than they de
now. There were not as many OF wert
better, l do not know which. Another
was William Gentle, of Frankfort
father OF your townsman, J. T. Gentle
whom we have known, with his wife
since childhood. Oh, what a pleasure
to meet friends that have been true
to you all your life.
We enjoy T. Berry Smiths tall
about Pixies early people and his poem
on the name Of Smith as It being thu
surname Of Adam and Eve and al
other names originated from thai
name. We cannot say about that, bu'
we do know Pike county is full Of
Smiths, and we are glad TO say we ar
a Piker, but are not a Smith.
Mrs. FANNY FREEMAN-HAwKINs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
ELKs' CARNIVAL
And Free Street Pair at Louisiana,
Missouri, Sept. % to 81.

The Elks at Louisiana, Mo, are
planning a week Of amusement at that
place that from the announcements OF
their attractive advertising matter
promises 10 be the biggest thing ever
attempted in that section. They
have engaged at heavy expense the
Wright Carnival Company Of three
hundred people to furnish their at
fractions and there win be plenty Of
amusementS. The Elks are a lot Of
good fellows banded together for sOcia'
times and, As the lodge at Louisiana i
composed Of its better class OF eiti
zens, nothing immoral or unclean VII
be tolerated. The editor hopes t.
take 1t in and in behalf Of the Elks al
Louisiana is requested TO invite hi
readers to attend and forget theil
troubles, debts and misfortunes III vol
have any for just six days, September
22nd TO 9th. Remember the date.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
WEDNESDAY,. SEPTEMBER 4
PARENTS. TAKE CARE

Now that schools are opening il may
be well for ambitious parents who are
asking the teachers to push their
children forward to take time to con-
slider the question suggested By the
following newspaper clipping:
brain fever at l2-and we are left
alone"
1--WE pushed her, and God knows we
have suffered for u mistake"
"She graduated, but she never re-
covered, and in two years we had no
daughter"
81 thought more OF a diploma than
/ did of my child. Now ! have only
the diploma"
Everything that love and skill
could suggest was done. But u eyes
had been opened too late
Promotion. Promotion was our
CRY. Then our little girl was promoted.
But not in the way we hoped"
"We placed an education above
health, and the life Of a promising boy
OF is is the price we paid for mis-
take
at was music and painting added to
a tired brain. Now our house is still
"a monument to our thoughtless-
ness
"What would not my husband and
give Of our means to-day II we could
undo the past and bring our child
back! That is the hardest part Il
bear, the feeling Of what we might
have done. From the housetops We
would cry out 70 parents to take care.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
Most Interesting Book.

Opie Read has flung down the
gauntlet in his new novel, "The
Starbucks," where he voices these
burning words Of Jim, the preacher;
81 think that there is one man who
is absolutely depraved. Not the
murderer, for he might feed the hun
CRY. Not the wife-beater, for after
ward he might beg her forgiveness and
kiss her. Not the man who might
rob the dead, for ne might give a pen
ny to a little child. But the man
whose soul is in love with money. /
don't mean his soul, for be has none,
but the man whose every thought is
money, money. He is a murderer, a
wife-beater, a robber OF the dead. He
can sleep at night when he knows by
his shrewdness, which has won him
friends among the rich, be has stretch.
ed out upon the near floor a starving
child. Christ did not die for that
man."
And who shall Isay the Indictment
is not Just? laird & Lee, Chicago,
cloth, $50.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
INTEREST IN PAVING NJ,
washington and fd'3 3.@,71,.Sa :,aI
to be Presented A sSsS y, ~

city council will NEE,
session tonight for ,ha '' 10 VI,
drawing up resolutions s pup&
paving around the sou S,u'fiSR
o S0,. will be drawn a'r m ~ ~
data as to the cost Of an, y slat
! IL Is understood be,o
council asking that ''y rase'l.
Introduced ordering pa ,I |
ington street south from !. %
ana on Jefferson street se a"s = /
the square. 1t is uuder oSos
IN case the paving be l,S
sne square jefferson Street ,st y.
paved clear out to Hardin ~
distance Of about seven h'o',a
property owners along the MN
the paving. '''sel 4
Mexico is going to koo,
Auoraln county in her big b M |
It Is predicted that propert ~, ~. y
town will al vance AUS
cent. within six months ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11

Prom zoe s. L9uis 1--we Stock Reporter
Roy Z. Cable, Mexico, Mo-, will hold
a public sale Of shorthofns at Souti
Omaha, October ?. Many Of his offer
ings are Scotch or Scottlsh.t0pped
Those Of other breeding have the in
diyidual merit necessary 20 recon-
mend them Only three bulls will q
into the sale. Nr. Cable has onlJ
been living Ia Missouri 3 short time
He Is from Illinois and Is doing BID
part 10 further the thoroughbred
cattle breeding industry OF the State
Of his adoption.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11

handed into the ~unsubdued portions of the southern republics, with
ont capital behind him and cash in his hand, takes too many chances
on failure and defeat.
The men who viii win vast fortunes in developing the potential
industries of the continent to our southwark will be CAPTAINS OF
INDUSTRY and they will have their shoulder straps on before they
enter the field. More than this they will be provisioned for a long
and tedious campaign. The young man who intends going to Mex
leo, or Central or South America as a 6oday private with only a
weeks rations in his haversack would better stay at home. He can
accomplish more here than there with such a meager equipment.
Why? BECAUSE MEN N THINGS MOVE SLOWER
IN SOUTHERN REPUBLICS THAN IN H UNITED
STATES. Temperament, tradition and custom conspre to enforce
this result. The social and business rank count for far more there
than here. The gulf between the executive and the man who per-
forms the actual work, whether as a laborer OF an expert accountant,
is more difficult to cross than in this country. Consequently the
young man is wise who delays his entry into this field of action until
he can go in and executive capacity.
As TO the opportunities awaiting those young men who are able
to go with the proper equipment, it may be said that they are rich and
varied beyond the knowledge of all save the industrial experts who
have gone to spy out the land, Besides the timber, cattle, mining
coffee and fruit industries, there are scores Of other less familiar re-
sources which are waiting for the genius OF the Yankee" to be de
veloped into monster industries. The mere mention Of these prod
ucts is impossible in an article of this kind, but the purpose viii be
served if the young man who is looking for industrial worlds to con
quer will apply himself to the study Of resources and conditions in ow
sister republic Of this hemisphere and if he will heed the warning
that he should not go into the field unless equipped for a long cam
paign, involving tedious delays.
III
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11

The London papers record the death
81 Julius Lpman. nicknAmed LEATHER
Apron" a oobbler. who in 1859 fell IN
der suspicion Of being Jack the Rip
per-" He sAtaned the police Of his
Innocence. but the stigma never left
him Hs business gradually dlsap-
psAred. and he went 10 another neleh-
borhood. where be took to drink. He
oed of neglect and ssml-stArvaHon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11

As one who has Glanced to gain some
little familiarity with the general current OF
affairs in the republics of Central and South
America, l am constantly asked: Are there
not great opportunities for northern capital,
energy and business brains to the south
wardl
Ny answer is: Yes. The forests, the
plains and the mountains of the southern
republic hold almost unbounded rewards for
the genius OF men from the United States
But the conditions which prevailed when the
country west of the Mississippi was an UNI
developed wilderness have passed away, and
the young man who attempts TO 60 single
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11

German papers relate that Captain
Baron Hoizing recently covered a dis
tanee Of fifteen hlometers (nlne and
= quarter milesl on horseback IN
twenty-five minutes. His horse had
beta especially trained for the ride.
having been fed OF 8 prepared food.
instead Of oats. for weeks. The rlds
VA accomplished without e1traordl-
azry sxsrttoa. and the horse was al
anr more ~erh al the nhish.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
Delightfully."- Entertained.

NEVI Ut NEII DNI9
The Misses Carter delightfully."- en-.
tertained a number OF their friends
Saturday evening, in honor Of their
guest, Miss Maude Dowell, Of Mexico.
Ping-pOng and other games added
much 10 the enjoyment Of those pre-
sent, while the Fulton Mandolin club
discouned sweet music.
Refreshments were served at the
proper hour, and all present departed
for their respective homes expressing
themselves as being delightfully."- en-
tertained.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-11
To Bore for Ca At Hidalrn.

NATION, Ill, Sept. 81. +. Holt
a gas expert Of Indiana, has entered
into a contract with leading men o.
Hidalgo, Jasper county, 10 drill q
prospect hole nea that place. Holt
says the surface indications are as
good as be ever saw, and that there Is
surely gas there in paying quantities.
The contract provides for drilling b
a depth Of 900 feet.