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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

There was large chunk of poetic
Justice in that runaway in which a
horse With n locked tail made n
bolt to escape from flies which mans
inhumanity had prevented it reaching
in the natural way.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

A clerk named Cash absconded with
a large sum OF money in New York,
but was promptly caught. II Is sup
posed some detective simply called
his name and he halted in his flight
through sheer force of habit.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
An Admitting Tribute.

A noted Missouri scrapper died, re-
Gently, and his admirers raised
monument over his grave bearing
these words:
He was always looking for a fight
with a man of his own size. '--Atcht
son Globe.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
Without the Paternal Check.

She latter the elopemenD-l have
received a letter from my father.
Dear papa is so absent-minded.
Hem wha. way?
She-He inclosed a lot of millinery
and dressmaking bills and forgot to
put in the money to pay for them!-
New York Weekly.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

King John has graciously informed
King Edward that II his Britannia
majesty should at any time be in
need of warships he can lend him a
few hundred without materially inter
fering with the regular business of the
seas.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
"Old Boy" Has Mortgage.

Tightfist-They say habit is so
strong that mans spiri, goes right
on doing the same thing after death
that he did in life.
Gainor-1nat cant be true about
your case.
Tightfist-Why not?
Gainor-Look at your habit of SHOW.
cling snow from your walk.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

That Red Oak old couple that mar
ried against the wishes of the young
couple one day and repented the next,
should serve as an example that In
this day and generation parents
should mind their children.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

The wedding presents received by
w. H. Vanderbilts granddaughter
who was married few days ago,
amounted in value to Sl,SO0,OOO. 1t
pays to marry a girl like that.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

The woolly west society man who
wears n pink shirt and tan shoes with
his swallowtail coat will not find any
thing astonishingin the announcement
that Parisians are being permitted to
attend the opera in straw hats and
dress suits.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

A Pennsylvania is said to have
eloped with his mother-ir-law. When
the truth of the affair comes out,
however, it will probably be learned
that he was kidnapped.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
Limit on Germ Theory.

Mrs. De Winnie has gone the limit
on her germ theory"
What has she done now"
why, so long as she only insisted
on boiling the water and milk the
family didn't object. but when her
husband and his brother invited their
Did chums to dinner and she got hold
IF the champagne and boiled it, then
there was trouble"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
Increased Interest.

did you call that trust magnate to
the stand?"
II did," answered the man who was
conducting the investigation.
81 suppose he added a great deal
to the interest of the case?"
He did. 1t is now more mysteri-
GUS than ever"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

A woman whom Thackeray once
called the prettiest woman in America
Is dead However, Thackeray never
saw any of the corsetadvertisem2nt
ladies'.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
An UnobIiainq Man.

mo, they haven't been friends
since they took an ascent together in
the captive balloon"
Did they fall out?'
Not exactly. She got angry be-
cause he wouldn't cut their names in
the balloon as a memento of the
trip"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Many a millionaire would give q
good slice of gilt-edge stock to be back
among the boys in the old swimmin
hole these summer afternoons.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Sullivan Is the most common name
in Boston. while the Johnsons are
most numerous in Chicago. Let's see
how many Sullivans were there In
the Mayfower?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

An Oklahoma editor fired six shots
at q man who had refused to pay 81
due on his subscription. 1t takes an
expert with the gun to nit a little
thing like that.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

The cars determination to intro
duce cottonsecd oil into his dominions
may be taken as proof that he Is past
his salad days.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

One of the financial papers says:
ut Is not hard for young couple to
get along on $40 week Especially
If their parents are rich.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

What the world needs just now is a
physical training course that Will rec
ognize the dishpan and the wood box.
--Atchison Globe.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
That's Different.

A Missouri man refuses to accept a
legacy of $4,000 conditional on
changing his name. There are plenty
Of girls in Missouri, no doubt, who will
change their names for half the
amount
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

The latest lady of note-or, rather.
of notes-to take q young husband Is
Teresa Carreno of concert fame.
Lucky youth.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Sea cooks have organized a union,
and they will probably send their IA
nous sons to see the posses in The
event of trouble.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Minister WI has to leave us before
he has quite finished his amiable task
of leading the American nation into
the paths of Confucianism.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
FruitIess.

Little Willie-Pa. what does this
paper mean by saying 1t was a fruit
less search?
Father-It probably applies, my
son, to the quest of some man who
was looking for pineappies on a pine
tree.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

If Lawton, o. T.. were really en-.
terprsing it would invite King Alton.
so of Spain to its harmless" bull
fights.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
His Trade.

Il did have trade onct, ma'am,'
said the tramp, but | gev it UP for
a profession"
And why didn't you stick to tho
profession?"
Il am stickin to it. I'm miner by
trade and striker by profession"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

The European nations that are
crowding around J. =. Morgan for the
purpose of obtaining loans should be
forced to get in line.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Out in Iowa twelve people have been
poisoned by beer. This looks like
clear case of treason on the part CT
the poisoned.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
Hard on the Doo,

"Billingsley has taught his dog to
sing"
Does he sing well?"
He sings as well as Billingsley
could teach him."
Il never heard Billingley. Is he q
good singer?"'
We'll, the dog has been shot at
seven times"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
ONLY Hammered Once.

The Bride ton the hoIeymoon)-
Why, you only bought one ticlie.,
dear.
The Groom--By Jove! I never
thought Of myself.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

King Edward i3 an L;C,..
POLITICIAN. He knows how to rally.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

ct. Joseph has mystery. A family
of eight in that city exists on 81
week and eats beef once O day.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Train robbers are seeing to It that
those who spend their vacations in the
west get heir moneys worth.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Somebody ought to arrest the two
Venezuelan armies and put them in
Jail on q charge of disorderly conduct.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

would wed me in the church as your
people do" and her form was shaken
by a passionate outbreak Of grief.
Come, come, Nita, don't take II 50
hard; you are something fierce. ! will
provide for you and see to 1t that
when trouble comes you will not
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
The sight that met MS gaze froze the
words on his lips.

The day the transport Freedom left
Manila for home Capt. Dick Johnston
identified the remains of a female,
which had been fished from the bay
by patrol boat, as all that was NOR
tai of "Nita"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Berlin and Rome are seen to be cen.
nectcd By telephone. But whc.c will
the interpreter come in?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
THE SPICE OF LIFE
LIGHT SIDE OF THINGS AS SEEN
BY TIE JEoTERs.

When He Was at MartiriGIc-A Bull
Egg Market-Professor Suggests
Path in Life for Warming Soul
Limit on Germ Theory.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
Thew Would Cure Him,

u wish" she sighed, Il could break
little Willie of the habit of calling
names?"
You can" responded the gruff
neighbor promptly.
How"
Discharge the nurse and send him
out to play with a few rough boys
some afternoon"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

When we read of rhine horrors liHc
that of Johnstown, 1t makes the price
of coal seem much smaller.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

n somebody would discover wire.
less politics what q world It's might
be.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

80 the show went through without
a hitch, did it?"
Yes; the success was tremendous"
How do you account for it?"
We'll, you see, eggs were tremen-
dously high"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14
One Definition.

What is q politician" asked the
boy.
"A politician" replied his father bit.
terly, that is n successful politi-
clan, is a man who can evade his
promises without seeming to break
his word"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-14

Tramp-Lady, can't yer help mar
who was at Martinique?
Lady (giving him a dime)-Poo
man. When were you there?
Tramp-About fifteen years ago.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-04-04
PHILADELPHIA MA
Gas Crates

All our gas CRATES have 5 row inn
proved multiple bufners. so con-
structed that each burner throws
its flame over entire face Of the
crate. Can be turned down very
low and eacbburner remain burn
ing. Perfect combustion, no eseap
ing gas, can be lighted Instantly
after gas is turned on, and Will ne
ignite IN mixer.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-04-04
WE HAVE GAS LOGS 70 BURN v
I o the Trade

We invite the inspection Of every
one needing this class Of goods and
achance to figure then, to you in
your home, and we feel sure you
will agree with US; we are the most
reasonable people handling this
class OF goods.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-04-04
II}fc y ri-1ttl iilii < ~ ..|I|11|
Spsoi
ttelQ
is

e .fe q t&,l7I,
no our line Of Tills
Carrying the larssssS
riety q oolors and
most artistic il dssigH;
found anywhsrs: os
special line conpslslS
yitrsoHs Floor Tlis B.
bath loom Ceramic
man Mosaic oHSss III
yestibulss and noon
The character6 40 nj
terial isthe highest I'D
the artistic colorans IN
combinations are 81 thsl
could beaesired spssI
Al attention gIyento conI
tractors wanting sllls
class otvsrx
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

she wished to set the style among the
other lady kline, but because of the
swarms of mosquitoes which arrive at
the same feeding grounds about the
time she puts in an appearance. AS
long as she stays they are content to
stay. too. few handfuls of them gal
lantly accompany her home when she
strolls that way as the sun is setting.
Before the mosquito bagwas invent
ed the cow refused to be bothered with
so much gallantry because the mos
quitoes were carrying it too far or she
was carrying the mosquitoes too far.
Consequently as soon as she heard
their gentle voices whispering in the
woodlets near by she pulled her
freight for home as fast as she could
go.
Her owner could not keep her in the
pa sture. All the other kline in the Vi
cinity were of the same mind, and it
looked as if there would be milk
famine until one cottager thought of
the bag method.
Down that way they humorously
call it mosquito saddle. N. Y. Her
4 Id
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20

He }sas remained a devoted horseman,
alternately wild with delight when
the horses are put in, and overcome
with fear lest he may not be allowed to
| take his place beside the coachman. AS
reward for good behavior he is some
| times allowed to ride one of the
horses, and then his enthusias SIN knows
no bounds.
His first railroad journey was made
| when he was a year old and for several
succeeding years he took the round
trip. Taffy S sleeping car was the bag
gage car, where his friends. the bag
gagemen, greeted him royalty, never
insulting him by any reference to his
tag. On his last journey west few
years ago, wearied by monotonous
trip, he slipped from the car at Las
Vegas Hot Springs in order to enjoy
the air and scenery. The ,trainmen.
not sympathizing with his. ambition,
at once started in pursuit, but the re-
sentful Taffy made good his retreat de-
spite of an organized pursuit of all
hands, which delayed the great over
ldAu SApASSS, NlcSC 4OASCSeSl op AS Icu
minutes, four additional minutes. His
curiosity surfeited, he returned in a
dignifed way to the station, made him
self at home, and, hopping on the next
train, arrived at Pasadena safe and I'M
concerned with the satisfied air of
man who had seen the world. Once
after leaving him in Pasadena his mis-
tress telegraphed for him and he
Joined her here, coming on in the
charge of a Pullman conductor and
ada ting himself as quickly to sleep
ing ear life as he had to that of the
baggage car. The porter is said to
have wished that all his passengers
gave him as little trouble as Taffy did.
Taffy's character. as we'll as his ex-
periences, is out of the common run
of dogdom. Though devoted to horses
and other animals, including human
ones, he is utterly Indifferent to his
own kind, never mixing in street
brawls or with ordinary dogs. One of
the loves of his life has been big cat,
which he has raised from a kitten with
Jealous care At all times he is indie
pendent and curious. Driving he is al
rays on the coachman's seat. On a
trolley car his preferred perch is with
the motorman. And crossing the Mis-
sissippi he made a fgurehead of him
self in the prov of the vessel. |
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
THE DAIRY PASTURE.
No Part OF the Farm Will Yield Better
Results for Careful Attention
and TREAD menf.

The director of the Iowa experime Mt
station says: The problem as our lands
become more valua Bile will be not how
to do with less grass, but how to get
more of it Pasture lands may become
worn out. or what is more properly
termed, run out" quite as readily and
completely as tillable lands. No part
of the farm will yield better returns
for careful attention and good treat
ment than the pasture. Some simple
experiments conducted in the Iowa
college farm pastures have furnished
striking results in favor of pasture Gull
ture. The application of ten quarts of
clover seed per acre, 'disced and har-
rowed into blue grass pasture in the
early spring, increased the yield 65 per
cent. over pastures Immediately ad-
joining that received no trea tment.
Pasture lands thus treated produce
heavier, denser growth, and better va
riety of grasses, and stand drought
better and the improvement extends
over several seasons. This treatment
should be alternated with top dressing,
applied preferably during the fall or
winter. following with the harrow in
the spring. The best pastures are those
that are never disturbed by the pillow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
TOPS OF APPLE TREES.
Whether to Have Them Hfeh or Io~
IL Subject Holly Discussed
by Fruit Growers.

For many years there has been de.
sire among fruit growers to lower the
tops of apple trees. Attempts were
made in this direction some years ago
when rows were closer together than
they are now placed, and difficulty was
experienced in getting through between
the trees with teams for gathering the
fruit and also for hauling fertilizers
on the orhard and for cultivating them.
For some years, then, the tendency was
to higher" tops to overcome this OBJ
lection. In more recent years. how
ever, the tops have been coming down
until in some localitiesthe branches of
the trees almost lie on the ground.
There are some things in favor of this
plan. The fruit can be gathered with
out the aid of large ladders. There
will be NO grass or weeds growing I'M
der the trees, and high winds will not
have as much effect on trees of this
kind as on tall ones.
We do not recommen nd the practice of
topping the trees so low for general
adoption, but there are localities where
it would be a decided advantage to
have the tops very low. This is mat
ter of fancy with orchardists who know
the conditions and will be governed by
them.-Rural World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
Rules for Trim m ing Roses

Pruning is an important matter in
rose growing. Climbing and pillar
roses need only the weak branches and
the tips shortened in. Other hardy
kinds will usually need cutting back
about one-fourth or one-third, accord
ing to the vigor of the branches, either
in the spring or fall. A slight cutting
back also after their June Towering
in the case of the remontants will en-
courage more flowers. Severe pruning,
however, will only induce the growth
of vigorous leafy shoots without flow
ers. The ever-blooming roses will need
to have all dead wood removed at the
time of uneovering them in spring.
Some pruning during the summer is
also useful in encouraging growth and
flowers. The stronger branches which
have lowered may be cut back one
half or more. The rule in trimming
roses is to cut back weak growing kinds
severely, strong growers moderately
Rural World
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
FIGHTING THE BADGERS,
In the Early Days of the Far North
west Prairie Farmers Suffered
Great Loss from Them.

From Eleanor Gates Chapters from
the Biography of Prairie Girl" in the
Century, we take this description of an
experience familiar enough to the
farmer of the far northwest.
1t was the little girl who discov-
cred that the badgers were encroach-
ing upon the big wheat fields that
stretched westward across the Dakota
prairie, from the farmhouse to the
sandy bank Of the Vermillioa. In
bringing the cattle home from the
meadows one night, along the cow
path that bordered the northern end
of the grain, she allowed several to
stray aside into the field, which was
now family green with its new sprout-
ing; and as she headed them out, rid
ing her pony at full gallop, she saw a
fine shorthorn suddenly pitch forward
with a below and fall. She checked
her horse and waited for the animal
to rise again. But it could mott had
snapped fore ankle in freshly dug
badger hole.
The shorthorn was favorite, and,
as hettted her good blood, carried
across her dewlap the string of silver
sleighbells that in winter time tinkled
before the pung. So the news OF her
injury was received with sorrow at the
farmhouse, and when, later in the even
ing, the little girls big brothers went
down to the field to put the heifer ont
of her misery, they vowed that the last
feeble jingle of her bells should be
the deathknell of the badgers.
They found that the burrowing host,
driven out of their former homes either
by an unlooked-for seepage or the ad-
vent of a stronger animal, had been at
tracted to the field because the harrow
had SO recently broken and softened
the fallow. and they had dug SO rapidly
since the planting of a few weeks be-
fore that the north end, perforated
every three or four feet, would be ut
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
MIXING OF VARIETIES.
How Experienced Fruit Growers In
the East Treat Trees That Are
Self-Sterile.

Many varieties of orchard fruits,
especially plans, pears and apples, do
not bear satisfactory crops when
standing by themselves. Some do not
bear at all. The trees of such varieties
require to be mixed with trees Of
other more or less closely related va
rieties. or they require to be grated
with u mixture of two or more varie-
ties. This general condition is summed
up by saying that such fruits are self
sterile, and the problem of self-ster-
ility is the one with which we have
chiefly to deal. As soon as this matter
began to be observed the fruit growers
and experimenters both found that a
great many plum blossoms are i'm
perfect. In the majority of such bios
SONS the pistil, or female organ from
which the fruit itself directly develops,
is defective; sometimes it is entirely
wanting. 1t is evident that blossim
having no pistil cannot produce plum,
and it is at least fair to suppose that
any defect in the pistil renders the
chance of fruit-bearing much smaller.
Considerable attention was given,
therefore, eight or ten years ago, to
this part of the subject. 1t was found
that in some cases all the blossoms on
a tree were so deficient as to make
fruitage impossible. 1t has been
found that plums are very largely self
sterile, cases of self-sterility being al.
together rare; that a ma jority of pears
tested show more or less self-steril-
ity, and that the same is true of ap.
Piles. Perhaps one-fourth of the ap
piles in common cultivation are totally
self-sterile, and a third fourth need
eros s-pollination for the best results
The remedy for all this unfruitfulness
is the mixing of varieties either by
planting several together or by graft
ing two or more into one tree.-Troy
On. " Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-12-20
Lime n. n Preventative

It may be just the time to remind my
friends of the newer scheme of keep
ing fruits and yegeta bles in lime. Pro-
cure quantity of air-slaked lime. Put
a layer in a box; upon this place
layer of freshly picked, nearly ripe to-
matoes; then another layer of lime,
and another of tomatoes, and so forth
until the box is full. Keep this in a
cool place, such as an ordinary cellar,
and the tomatoes will keep for long
time in frst-class condition. Grapes,
pears and possibly other fruits and
vegetables may be stored in this man.
ner with some assurance of having
them keep all right for months. hope
that many of the farmer readers will
try this plan this fall. and be in position
to report about the outcome later on
in the season.-T. Greiner, in Practical
Farmer