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Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
MILITARY FUNERAL.
Guns and Horses and Impos.
Ing Array.

Columbia, Mo-, July l7.-John
Z. Stice died at his home three
miles north of Hinton yesterday,
aged about SO years. His funeral
took place at Dripping Springs to-
day and was in many respects
unique.
Mr.. Stice was an old COnfeder-
ate soldier, and during his term Of
service became impressed with the
grandeur of military funerals. He
left will appropriating $4OO to
pay the expenses Of his funeral
and directing that it should be Of
military character and that brass
band should be procured for the
occasion.
The funeral was carried out ac-
cording to the directions in the
will. The Ashland Band was Sc
cured for the ceremony, and all
the old soldiers of the neighbor-
hood were present with their guns
and horses and made an imposing
array. The procession was led by
Frank and Green Alton, who were
designed in the will as marshals.
Mr.. Stice's will had also directed
that salute be fred over hisgrave,
but the marshals decided to leave
this part of the ceremony out.
The funeral sermon was preached
by the Rev A. w. Paisley. The
pallbearers were w. o. Reid,
Thomas Ringo, Thomas Jones,
David Pollok, William Reid, and
n. Batterton.
Mr.. Stice's wife and ten chill
dren survive him.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

An exchange has discovered
that the moon gets full, but she
goes on shining; the rain drops
but it gets up again; the stars
shoot, but do not kill; the willows
weep but never shed tear; night
falls, but doesn't break; day
breaks, but doesn't fall; the fly
swallows and the swallows fly; the
bees buzz and so do the girls.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
AUDRAIN COAL
VIII Warm the State Capitol
Buildings.

jefferson City, Mo. July l6-the
State Commission in charge of the
permanent seat Of government yes
terday let the contract for furnish.
ing the State buildings with coal
for the ensuing year to the Van.
dalia Coal Co. of Vandalia. The
contract calls for about GO car
loads, and the price, which is the
same as last year, is to be $2.3l
per ton delivered.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

A young lady visited a cooking
school recently and her attention
was divided between dress worn
by a friend and directions for
making a cake. SO when she
undertook to write the recipe for
her mother, the old lady was para
lyzed to read the following:
"Take two pounds of -four, three
rows of plating down the front,
the whites of two eggs cut bias,
a pint of milk ruffled round the
neck, half pound currents, with
seven yards of bead trimming,
grated lemon peel with lace fichu;
stir well, and add a semi fitting
paletot with visle sleeves: garnish
with icing and passementeric.
Bake in Il moderately hot oven un-
til the skirt is tucked from the
waist down on either side and fin
ish with large satin rosettes."
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Champ Clark recently penned
this observation: Over in Repub-
lican Illinois strange things are
happening. In the northern part
of the state the other night they
had a train robbery, which recalls
those days of the long ago when
Jesse James was on the road and
when every Republican hypocrite
in the land who made stump
speech or editor of newspaper swore
that a train robbery could take
place only in Democratic state.
Isn't Illinois Republican, And
did not the train robbery occur?
Therefore the Republican SANDER
ers of Democrats in general, and
of Democratic Missouri in particu-
lar, ought to go down on their
marrow bones and exclaim:
"Peccavi! | have sinned!" But
they'll do no such thing: they'll
start new slander and work it for
all that it is worth.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
"Mess8ge" Readers.

The following are late new sub
scribers or renewals to the MES
SAGE:
Henry KOchs.
w. II. Turner.
Edward Grange.
Miss Doll,e Griggsby.
Prof. w. NJ. Jones.
Prof. j. w. Hancock.
q, b. klarenbach.
VIM. Machn.
Escue Brandon.
John Back.
Ote Freels.
s. Mcdaniel.
John Elzea.
w. s. Ellis.
Harry Weathcrford.
j. A. Pierce.
Philip Shire.
W. G. Duty.
l.. II. Sipple.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

1.-THE light of my life has gone
out" was the epitaph a Hannibal
man put on his wife's tombstone.
Six months later he married again
The other day he visited the grave
yard and was surprised to find
scratched beneath the epitaph:
"Ges, but you found another
match"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Chicago journal: Life is a
failure" said the tired looking
passenger, in a grave and far away
voice. "Man is fraud, woman a
bore, happiness delusion, friend
ship humbug; love is disease,
beauty deception, marriage a
mistake, wife a trial, a child a
nuisance; good is merely hypocrisy,
evil is detection. The whole sys-
tenn of existence-life, morality,
society, humanity and all that's a
hollow sham. Our boasted wisdom
is egotism; generosity is imbecility.
There is nothing of any Importance
but money. Money is everythin,
and, after all, what is everythingt
Nothing, Ar-r-r-r-r!"
"Glad to meet you SIR" said the
thin little man with the ginger
hued whiskers, extending his hand
cordially to the speaker. II have
the dyspepsia pretty bad at times
myself"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

a lawsuit between neighbors in
East st. Louis over the ownership
of 5 chickens ended in fight be-
tween the litigants in the court
room, during which the fowls
were almost denuded of feathers.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Four thousand cof1ins made up
the cargo of vessel recently clear
ed from San Francisco for the port
of Manila. They were, says the
Commoner, for the smallpox, bu-
bonic plague and cholera victims
in the islands that afford such
wonderful opportunities for Amer
lean enterprise.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Lightning struck the dwelling of
Mrs. ID. d. GraffOrt in Vandalia
last Friday night, tearing away
the gable end of the building. The
large stock barn of Thomas Cutler,
south of that town, was also struck
and valuable cow killed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

The late Thomas Board, of this
city, who weighed 400 pounds, was
such "big man" that Bryan's s
Commoner in its "News of the
Week" column made reference to
him.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
REMINISCENT.
A Writer Tells of Days In
Audrain Years Ago.
EDITOR MESSAGE:-

| write you a retrospective view
of the good old times in Audrain
before the war, when everybody
was good. Our country was sparse
ly settled, our people were content
ed, friendly and happy. We had
preaching somewhere in the neigh
borhood about once a month, and
everybody went. We had family
gatherings, first at one house and
then at another, and confidence
reigned supreme, and mortgages
were almost unknown.
Many of the foolish fashions of
today did not exist and people
were not financially strained to
keep pace with someone else.
Plain, neat clothing was worn by
all our people, and there were no
divisions in society among respect
able people. Our good old mothers
and sisters srun the yarn, wove
the cloth and made our clothing,
and before the advent of the rail
road we would take load of pro-
duce to Hannibal or Louisiana and
exchange it for groceries. The
boys would take a sack of grain on
horse and go to the horse mill,
and when they got there would
often find a dozen horses ahead of
them, and they would have to wait
until well into the night before
they could get their grist and go
home through the woods with no
light except the lightning bug, and
to break the mOnotony we could
hear the occasional hoot of an owl
or the bark of a pack of wolves.
In the fall when the corn was
ready to gather we would invite
the neighbors in and have corn
huskings, and great pens of corn
would go up as if by magic. In
the evening after the husking was
done the girls would begin to ar
rive, the big room was cleared and
you would hear the thrump of the
fiddle strings In our neighborhood |
the music was generally furnished
by Douglas Murry and Woodward |
La Waugh. Soon the dance would
begin and would be kept up until
we'll into the night, when the boys
and girls would mount their horses
and hit the trail for home.
The next thing after corn gath
ering was hog killing, when we
would haul up five or six loads of
wood, build high log heap and
pile on two or three loads of rock,
send out after all the neighbors
and their butcher knives, get up
long before daylight and set the
log heaps on fire, and by ten o.
clock would have ten or twenty
pOrkers hung on a pole. In the
meantime they would put a boy on
a horse with fifteen cents in his
pockets, with a sack across the
saddle, with jug in one end and
a rock in the other, and send him
to some country store for a jug of
whisky. 1t was not sod-cOrn,
forty-yard nor fighting whisky but
pure corn-juice that had paid no
taxes and wouldn't kill. Now,
when dinner was ready all hands
would go into the house where
there was a big, blazing fire in the
old stone fireplace, when a big
bowl of egg nOg was brought in
and everybody had some.
This was the life of most of the
hardy pioneers who came TO Aud
rain from Kentucky, Virginia and
Tennessee, and better people
never lived.
Vandalia, Mo.
L. L. DLnn.O 10 G ~. ;..... L.. - 4 L..
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Charles Winkler of Rush Hill,
lately graduating from thee. C.B.
College at Quincy, is now assistant
Cashier in the Farmers Bank at
Laddonia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

j. II. Canada, north of Centra.
liza, was kicked in the face by a
mule the other day; nose was bro.
ken.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Philip Shire says the farmers are
going to have trouble this fall
every man will have to have lad
der to gather his corn.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Nearly three inches of rain fell
in this section Friday night. 1t
insures the biggest corn crop ever
raised in Audrain.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

The new officers of the G. T..
society at Laddonia are: Ed True
president; Della Quisenberry, vice.
president; Lloyd Morey, secretary
Kate Lasher, treasurer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

w. II. Logan as agent sold the
following farms near Laddonia
last week: The Foster farm, 1876
acres, to j. w. McCubbin for So,
$50; the Jennie Beagles land to j .
j. Alexander at $3.50 an acre,
and the John Davis farm of 173
acres to S. F. Slyder of Swygert,
Ill. for 81, 352. 80.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Alf. Moore, whose family resides
in this city, is at Pratt, n. D.,
where he has invested in land. He
is improving his property and will
likely move his family there soon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
u pound.

George Williams. of the east part
OF the county, sold two yearling
heifers to Jesse Gatewood at
$l5 per head.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
The Tennessee Federation @

The Tennessee Federation of
Women's clubs has made arrange
ments to establish, in the midst of
the mountains district, school
and a teacher who will endeayor
to instill among the Tennessee
Mountaineers some of the princi-
pies of higher life and civilization.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
John Watkins is the new Sec
tiOn foreman at Benton City.

Tom Moore, of Benton City, has
returned to his country home near
Centralia. His health is not first
class.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Farmers paid III cents a
pound for binder twine at Wells
vile recently-demand greater
than the supply.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Harry Weatherford of this
county is firing" in an engine be-
tween Slater and Roodhouse.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Thanks to Mrs. A. T.. Rogers
for Il monster cabbage head for
this editors table.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Burglars tried to enter the home
of w. l.. Rennolds of this city
one night last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

The MESSAGE received three
news letters last week too late to
get in type.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

j. W. Harris sold n drove of
lambs to Chess White Of Wells.
vile last week, getting -, cents
a pound.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Miss Ola Douglass has been the
guest of Laddonia friends for a
couple of weeks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

}. Il. Jerman and Jim Fields
of Mt. Carmel, bought new
threshlng outfit last week. Thresh-
ers thick in that community; five
fine machines within radius of
five miles.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24
Mrs. Sidney Coons near Hutchi-
son has been very sick.

F. M. Squires at Benton City
has moved to st. Charles.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Educate Your Bowels With Cssoarsts.
Candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
iVc, 2oc. IL c, Q. g. fail, druggists refund money
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Montgomery City is to have a
street fair this year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

Henry Mann is home from two
stay at st. Charles.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-07-24

h. Il. Phears of Cuivre has sold his
mill to Ed Gates.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

hardships and struggles, the narrow
escapes from death, and calls up
memories and manner Of death of
thousands of brave companions who
died In bis sight aud by his side.
Witnessed one lady at one of the
state headquarters meet an ex
soldier who bad gone through that
bloody struggle and messed with
her brother tili about the last battle
was fought whea this lady's brother
war Killed This ex-C0nfedeFate,
when Ice learned who she was, re-
lated to her for the fsrst time she
had ever heard Il the manner Of his
death ard said ta her as the tears
trtekled tlown his cheeks and hers,
your brother was as brave and true
a soldier rs ever gave his lifein any
cause" II is sad 70 think and
know that iii a few more years
lhere will be 10 more Confederates
So meet. Sat great many more
ffeeting years and the last brave ex-
Confederate VIII have crossed over
the river 10 rest under the shade of
trees With StoHewail Jackson, Lee
and Others 81 their brave and skiiI-
ful commanders
The Grand Army Of toe Repuallc
ia 10 the northern soldiers what ex-
Confederate reunions are TO the
southern soldiers. y Il g Grand
Army of the Republic, like our
soa hern soldiers, meets once year
and ex-union soldiers will go on
meeting forever, possibly, for their
number seems 10 be Increasing year
ly from the manner in which pen-
sion rolls grow
Last Thursday was the great pa
rade day and my wife and little
boy we are raising went with me.
AT the Farm and Ranch office on
Main street we secured a splendid
position where we could see the
grand parade pass. and at ii O'Clock
General Gordon, of Georgia, who
has been chief commander for many
years, appeared at the head of the
procession riding spirited gray
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

would have enthused an almost
dead man, and as | Witnessed these
grand old men go by, some Of them
Emping and with empty sleeves,
yet their eyes sparkling as they
tramped along light footed and light
hearted for the time being, / could
understand why it was that
these old soldiers would quit their
bu Siness and go fifteen hundred
miles 70 reunion. Many from
Virginia and Maryland Travelled that
distance 10 get to Dallas to aga n
greet their comrades Marching in
Ithis happy, enthusiastic throng was
attached to almost every state COM
mand brass band of music. The
old army fife and drum furnished
r.asic Tor the narchers In nearly
every state command as the process
sion swept by Ladies We're IN the
procession marching with their
commands With a pleasant smile
and did not seem to be tired. Sew
eral companies OF state troops
dressed in regular United States
army uniforms with guns and bay
onets we're interspersed In the pro-
cessiou. One man, Mr., Thurston,
residing In Texas, who is seven
] feet seven inches tall and wore a
beegam hat and dressed la gray went
by with his arms locked with an old
army comrade who was on horse
back, and before the parade was
over he got into carriage and stood
mp and bowed to the veterans as
they passed and they in tarn yelled
at him.
One old crippled soldier hobbled
| up TO the stand at one OF the head
quarters and when he got there a
soldier was calling for some COM
rade, and the one who hobbled up
asked the one calling to spell the
name, and he did SO in his ear, and
when he got through spelling the
name the one or the ground grabbed
him and commenced hugging him.
He was his long lost brother and II
had been nearly forty years since
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30
TWAS A GREAT GATHERING
The Reunien this Year Was the
Largest Ever Held.

Since visiting the great reunion
two days / am fully of the opinion
that 1t is now lthirty-seven years
after the end Of the war one of the
biggest gatherings the southern peo-
pie can possibly have. Especially
IL this so with the men who partici-
pated in that memorable struggle.
These annual reunions loosen up an
ex-Confedcrate soldier from the
very bottom of his soul as he meets
his comrades who suffered and al
most died with him, falls on his neck
and weeps for joy, and then for four
days and nights lives over again the
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

charger. He had his hat of and
was bowing to the right and left In
acknowledgement of the cheers he
and his staff officers were receiving.
Following the general and his staff
came the ex-soldiers from each and
every southern state and following
each state command was their pref
ty sponsors, and the old soldiers
seemed to have selected The prc@-
test young LADIES' in their respec-
tive states to accompany them to
this reunion. Handsomely dressed
as they were and in splendid car
riages drawn by pretty horses they
presented lovely appearance. In
deed most of the Tennessee sol
diers wore gray uniforms and caps
and carried army muskets and bay
onets attached. Their officers
dressed in gray, riding at their sides,
it looked like war sure enough and
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30
Msrls 10 nsln oMsrs

~ had stomach trouble all my
lie, . says Edw. Mehler, proprietor
If the Unian Rottiing works. Erie,
Pa. "and tried all Kinds OF medi.
cines. went 10 several doctors and
spent considerable money trying to
get moments peace. Finally
read of KCdol Dyspepsia Cure and
have heen taking 1t, TO my great sat
lsfaction, | never found it's equal
for stomach trouble and gladly rec
ommend Ii I'm hcpe that may help
other sufferers" kodol Dyspepsia
Cure cures all stomach troubles, You
tion't have TO diet. kodol Dyspepsia
Cure digests what you eat. Herring
Sparks Drug Co.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

uan's neglect billouSness and eon-
stipation. 4our health will suffer
permanently If you do. DE lit s
Liitle Early RiserS cure such cases
II IL. Smith. RHtternat, Mich, says
a *DeNilt's Little Early Risers are
fHe most satisfactory pills ! ever
took. Never gTipe or cause Dausea.
Herring sparks Drug Ga.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

Another good meeting was held al
the Christian church last night, A
large audience was present and the
services were enjoyed to an appre-
ciatiYe degree. Prof. Brewer opened
the service with song after which
Mr.. 1cboonover read portion of
the sixth chapter of Isaiah. The
preaetsr used as his theme, wis
i3n and service. Service. he said
was very essential bat II must be
preceded hy vision spiritual vision,
What physical and mental vision liz
70 the body spiritual visiou Is Ia the
u 1ul The sermon was directed
maiHsv 60 sbe chareh and was very
concise sNd practical eue.
RE eaeir IS composed Of several
good vote and a meeting is held at
the eburcb I'll fonr O'Clock each af-
tefneou Coz practice. Praf. Brewer
y ielisefius special lectures on
voices training and cgl&are,
TIE sefN tee wilI begin as 7.I5 this
evening ana the pabil has a eordilr
Invitation 10 attend
Foley II ,neF and Tar contains
40 aaia es. au3 will not couStipate
tkeTearty all other GOA 1a medicines,
re 8se substitutes. Sold hy Il. W
srt.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

procession tut
Ranch officdo J !.
then we strSae sPssiP
grounds whers g. - aasf asff had
somewhat of &sre Is <5n with her
family. Tryoa.rher brothers were
k.,,le3, III battle alone brother, Col.
John Simmons, whAnoW resides at
Mexia, is as enthusias a Confed-
crate as lives. We IL saiTn but
walthall's brigad@ak 10 en- Efswas
member, was having zzzA@as on
the stage and he tarried with US
only a short while. We listened to
pretty speech fresssssssssSstty Z ng
sponsor for this division al za
sented to Walthall g brigadaA had
some flag of which the MSAsisa
plans were proud and they5hed
themselves hoarse wFaamkhe young
lady's speech was concldN Ssssa the
pretty flag passed into theihos sses-
sion. aa
AS | was passing ardsnd byKen-
tucky headquarters W Ryburn,
who halls fraaa that state, was sur
rounded by - ten of his old
comrades and - him on the
shoulder and Ae at or aagan in
Producing me 8nd as shook the
hands of these biea6ue I0@king Ken
tuckians / sid to eacTT them he
looked like n drank gaod licker.
Finally Was ntroducaaMIne tof
lean looking Aud as held II
marked to hi i ,,,tfink
as good lick aid tr'lsers" and he
quichggKold AZ Sou and said he did
but6bj nef1, G,', Elder and more shrunk
up than the others. l.. H. Peters
was another veteran whom / ran
across on the grounds and with
eight or ten of his old comrades
around him he grabbed me and took
me to where the old captain of his
company was sitting and introduced
Evening star., 1902-03-03

tinguished The fish ponds near the bath
Ing beach were covered. and the water
found its way to the Monument lot across
B street. the sight recalling the flood OF
1SSi.
When the water reached the mouth or
the sewers on Il street near the Center
market yesterday forenoon some OF the
commission men between 9TH and lOth
streets employed help to remove their stock
from the sidewalks and first floors in an
tiCipation of repetition of the Hood or
lSs9 when thousands of dollars worth of
property drifted away to be carried down
The river or picked up by the self consti-
futed salvage corps and rot returned Great
rwaS the relief in the afternoon when the
,weather bureau reported that the river
would get no higher Then the watchers.
Iwho had been on duty during the night
land morning. retired.
| When the storm appeared about Ii o'clock
YESTERDAY morning il was feared that an
fOtber rise on the upper Potomac would fol-
How but fortunately the rain fell but
ishort time There a stiT northwest
.breeze blowing about the tline tne heaN.
'shower came and the wind had the effect
'of hurrying the water down stream ana de-
'creasing the danger.
The Floating Debris.
At the time the shower appeared people.
nsho were at Cabin John bridge and other
ypoints up the river witnessed a desolate-
Hooking scene. There was no trace or the
IcanaI left and the islands, with the excep-
tion of the one known as High Island. were
all covered.
! Here and there was seen a bateau or
fowboat of some description that had been
washed from some point up the river, PROB
ably from a club house or from the home
of some man who had used his boats as q
imeans OF gaining a livelihood. Then there
iwCre boxes, logs Of wood and large branches
,pf trees, as we'll corn stalks and other
Iproducts OF farms Occasionally log of
lwood which had much the appearance of a
human body. would appear. horribly sug-
tgestive. Later in the day the body of
Imam was seen to pass under the Long
tbridge. A number of persons saw it. and
lMr Browning. carpenter. called at the
tOfiice Of Harbormaster Sutton and gave
lnotice Of the discovery. The body appeared