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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Robert Treadway and Miss
Mary Shultz, both from near Van
dalia, came to this city last Thurs
day and were united in marriage
by Ed. A. w. KOkendoffer.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

The MESSAGE family enjoyed a
big watermelon with Mr.. and Mrs.
|. p. Dyer and their little son,
Gather, at their home southeast of
Mexico last Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21
Rem, mbered tho Text.

A little scholar in Sunday school
greatly amused her teacher by her re-
cent Interpretation Of familiar Bible
verse. The teacher was I'm the habit
OF giving out Scripture verses each
sunday, which the little people were
to memorize and recite the next Sab
bath. One little girl was given the
verse, 1T is |, he not afraid" and the
next Sunday she glibly recited:
~ me- dent get scared at me"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

"A resident of Clark, near Mobcr-
ly, who loopcd the loop in Kansas
City few days ago says of it: 1T
is one of the most deceptive ami
mails to ride that has ever come
under my observation. 1t starts
off gently and innoccntIy as tho
it felt rather sorry for you and
meant to be kind aud lumb-lkc.
Soon, however, II sticks mp It's ears
and starts off on a brisk trOt; then
II little faster and finally it humps
its back, jumps, snorts, kicks,
raves, picks You mp and stands yOu
on your head; doubles YOU up;
throws you with all lis might and
main over lis head; breaks every
bone in your body, and to add 10
the horror Of the situation, fright
ems you almost to death. Then ii
quiets down and comes around and
lovingly rubs its nose against
you and begs your pardon
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

The Rush Hill School opened
last Monday. Misses Eighty One
Turley and Mary Cross, both of
this city, are teachers in said
school.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

G. F. Clark bought the 16O acre
farm of A. M. Trimble, near this
city, for 81 900.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Henry Kunkel, southeast of
Mexico, lost haystack by light
ming last Friday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

The MESSAGE bows thanks for
comp" to the Centralia Fair,
which will be held Aug. 26.7.8-9.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

j. F. Vigal, of Bennington, ILL.,. /,
bought the Alex Carter farm, pay
ing $50 an acre.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Guy Rodgers of this city has ac-
cepted a position with the G.. 4 A.
railroad in st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Frank Turner has accepted a
position in a clothing store at Jop-
lin.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

A Wellsville young lady has set a
cage for a Martinsburg Bird.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Is. Waddington of near Benton
City is at Grelton, Colorado, on a
visit.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Audrain land is in great demand
and the price is steadily advancing.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

State fair in progress at Sedalia
this week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Benton City M. w. A. camp in
itiated nine new members recently.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

The Mexico creamery has been
re-opened.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

During n thunderstorm at Cof-
feen, ILL.,, the other day lightning
struck Mrs. Frank Neller, of st.
Louis, melted II gold watch chain
which was about her neck and four
gold rings on her left hand. The
rings ran together into one piece.
In her hand was an umbrella with
a steel rod and the rod was twisted
out of shape. Her left shoe was
torn off. She was rendered un-
conscious for an hour but fully re-
covered. Mr.. and Mrs. Ncller had
stepped into church doorway to
get out of the storm. The spirc
was struck aud running down, the
lightning stunned Mrs. Ncller.
Neller was also severely shocked.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

Laddonia will get two rural mail
delivery routes October /.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21

School days will soon be here.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-08-21
Isow Arc Your Kidneys .

DR. Iobhs sparagus Pill cure all Kidney ih- 'am
ple free. Add. Sterling Rcmedy Co, Chicago or NY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-24
resting Facts About Recent Heads OF Our Army

some day succeed to the command b.
virtue of seniority, even if he should no
be jumped over the heads of officers
who rank him-a not unlikely contin
gency, according to the departmental
gossip of Washington.
The fact that the head of the army
has so frequently come from private
life while not agreeable to the gradu
ates of West Point. is undoubtedly
pleasing to the average citizen. General
Young's career, interesting of itself, is
made dOubly so by reason of the proba-
bility that after the men now in sight
as his successors shall have given way
to General Bell it will probably be a
long time before any other eX-civilian
will attain to the lieutenant generalcy
of the army.
Young was born in Pittsburg in jan
uary. 1910. He received just about such
an education as is given to the average
youth whose parents are in moderately
prosperous circumstances. When the
war broke out, young Young was at
tackled with as bad a case of military
fever as ever fell to the lot of a strong,
husky youth passionately fond of out
door life. The outcome was inevitable.
In April. 1861, he enlisted in Company
X Twelfth Pennsylvania volunteers.
Private Young was excellent horse
man. and in consequence of that ac-
quirement his connection with Com
pany K was exceedingly brief. He was
appointed Sept. g. 1851, captain of the
Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry. From
that day to this he has been noted as
one of the best and most daring horse
men in the army, his experience in the
saddle standing him in good stead later
on in the campaigns against the In
dams.
Captain Young proved to be a gall
liant as well as dashing officer of cav
airy, and he was made major one
year from the date of his appointment
as captain. In October, 1864, Young be-
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was during the civil war and later in
the Indian campaigns. He is more un-
assuming in his manners than the av-
erage raw second lieutenant, and, while
he is a difficult man to interview when
he is not at liberty to give the informa-
ton sought. he is always affabIe to
newspaper men, with whom, as con-
sequence. he is exceedingly popular
By way of illustrating the absolute
fearlessness of General Young, his trou-
BILE with Colonel Graham at the Pre-
sidiO, San Francisco, may be mentioned.
Graham, who was in command, was
intensely unpopular with his officers,
but of course no one had ever thought
of doing anything to check their supe-
riOrs alleged discourtesy to his infe-
riors. Graham barely ranked Young,
and the latter had been at the Preside
but short time when he concluded
that his superior had not treated him
with the consideration due an officer of
the United States army. Did he gnaw
his mustache and say nothing? Scarce
ly. That is not Young's style. He went
to his quarters and little later pre-
sented to Colonel Graham formal
charges against Colonel Graham.
Graham was dumfOunded but he was
not given to hesitation either He or
dered Young under arrest and the az
fair created intense excitement in army
circles. although it was eventually
hushed up.
That little episode in the career Of
General Young gives a better insight
into his character than columns of TYNE
could furnish.
TRUMAN L. ELTON,
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regarded with reverence by their peo-
pie and as in order to become a mollah
a man must be well read, the humble
neighbors rfdiculed the pretensions of
the aggressive wife of the plodding
shepherd. But the woman eventually
won her way Having inherited a small
legacy, she sent her boy to the city,
where the lads natural intelligence
brought rapid advancement in his stud
les He won great favor with the holy
men, and within a few years of the
time of his leaving the shepherds cot
he was one of the most honored men of
his nation.
Still nothing occurred to make him an
international character until he raised
about 1000 men and, shouting Down
with the infidelsi' made raids in 1899
into the British and Italian possessions.
At first it was decided that it would be
better to ignore the raids except to the
extent of cautioning the Mad Mollah, as
he had come to be called. that it must
not occur again. That plan proved
Woeful failure, for the mollah, losing
no opportunity to spread broadcast the
news of his successes, soon had a much
larger force at his command. He was
then bold enough to undertake to fight
his way to the coast in order to estab-
lish caravan lines as preliminary to
securing an ocean opening for the prod
ucts of the tribes which through fear
or natural sympathy had allied them
selves with him. England finally woke
up and after a good deal of trouble sue
ceeded last spring in cornering the mol
lah. They killed many of his men and,
what was more serious to him, took
away many thousands of his sheep and
cattle.
This is by no means the first Mad
Mollah. Every fanatic who contrives to
secure a following of a few hundred
men is called a Mad Mollah. The orig
inal, or al any rate the greatest, was
the ahFoond of Swat He was also of
most humble parentage, as indeed were
most of the Mad Mcllahs who have crop
ped up from time to time. The present
mollah contends that he is impervious
to bullets, and his immunity thus far
appears to his fanatical followers to
confirm his claim. The English on the
other hand, contend that. mad or sane,
the mollah is Shrewd enough not to put
his precious body where the bullets are
flying. Another amusing assertion of
the mollah is that he can render his
followers immune if they will lead pure
lives. When one of them is killed and
he is asked for an explanation he
calmly disposes of the matter by the
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airy and retained that rank until April
:. 1888, when he became major of the
Third cavalry. In 1892 he was promot-
ed to the lieutenant colonelcy of the IA
nous Fourth cavalry.
During his civil war experience the
young officer had not escaped un-
scathed. At the action of Sulphur
Springs, Va, while engaged in cavalry
operations, he was wounded and
again at Kearnstown, Va, while COM
handing a provisional brigade, he was
put temporarily hors de combat He
was VIGOROUSLY reckless in exposing
himself, and no one expressed surprise
when told that Young is wounded
again. His injuries at the battles of
Hatcher's Run, Va, and Sailors Creek
were slight.
Most of General Young's experience
for twenty years after the civil war
was obtained in the campaigns against
the Indians. There was, however. a
four years break, from 1882 to 1886,
when he was senior instructor in cav
airy tactics at Fort Leavenwotth.
Young as major general of volun-
teers took an active part in the Span
ish war. commanding the Second bril-
gade of the cavalry division of the
Fifth corps. operating in Cuba He
was sent to the Philippines in July 1899,
and served there until March, 1901.
when he returned to this country and
was assigned to the command of the
department of California. From this
position he was relieved by President
Roosevelt March Is of the present year
and ordered to Washington to under
take the presidency of the army war
college.
General Young is, on the whole, re-
garded one of the best officers the
United States has had in its army dur
ing the past two decades He is one of
the largest men in the service, but de-
spite his size and his advancing years
ne is almost as good horseman as ne
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S. Duss, Unique Head of the Unique Economics

society, was born in Wurttemberg,
Germany. in 1910 and at an early age
conceived the idea that it was neces-
sary for mankind to return to the Gus
toms of the first Christians and that
man could only be freed from selfish
ness if he would rid himself of private
property and share with his fellow man
the works and profits of his labors.''
He preached that the Lord had cho-
sen him as the spiritual leader of the
people, that the second coming of
Christ was at hand, and that in order
to be saved the people must leave the
established church and form a colony
under his leadership either in the Holy
Land or the United States of America,
in which place Christ would first reap
pear on EARTH
In 1903 Rapp and his followers came
to America and founded their religious
communistic settlement in Pennsylva-
mia at place they named Harmony.
One for all and all for one" was the
motto of the band. Husbands We're
separated from wives, and celibacy was
one of the laws of the order. In 1915
the HarmOnists removed to a tract of
$1,000 acres on the banks of the Wabash
in Indiana and named their settlement
New Harmony. Nine years later they
sold out to Robert Owen, another So
cialist, and founded their present vii
lages Economy. near Pittsburg. Rapp
was an excellent business man, his fol-
lowers We're frugal, saving and indus
trious, and in century the society's
property has become worth at least
81, 000.0 600. At first members were freely
taken in, but as the Harmonists grew
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u Ohm s. DUSS, the famous band
master. millions of dollars worth
of property and few aged and
infirm women are all that remain
~ of the once fiourishing Harmony
society founded a century ago by
George Rapp. In a short time the aged
women who have so long awaited in
vain the promised coming of Christ viii
be laid to rest in the orchard" as they
call the society bGrying ground at Econ
omy. Pa. and the millions of the Har-
monists viii naturally pass to Duss as
sole survivor Of the community.
Since the death of Father Henrici a
few years ago Duss has been patriarch
or head of the society and the United
States supreme court has but recently
given a decision that renders impregna-
Bile his position as custodian, manager
and probably legatee of the society's
property. A number of years ago GER
tain descendants of ex-members of the
community brought proceedings charg-
ing Duss with mismana cement of the
society's property, alleging that the So
ciety no longer existed and demanding
that the communal lands be divided.
Duss fought the case with energy and
persistence. and the highest court in the
land the United States supreme court
found that a bylaw passed by the So
ciety in 1856 fixed for all time the prin-
ciple of communal ownership and pre-
vented any such action as the petition
ers in the case demanded The seceders
were declared to be without legal inter-
est in the community, and Duss had
won a great victory.
Rap. the founder of the Economy
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returned TO Economy and entered the
soclety's service. After a trip to Ger
many he taught German in the F1con-
omy school, Later he taught school in
Kansas, and still later he married ana
became Nebraska farmer After an
absence from the society of about nine
years Duss returned to take charge ~
the Economy school and in 1890 was adj
mitted to membership through the in
fluence of Father Heinrich who was
then head of the sect. Duss was made
a member of the board of trustees ;,ia
wife was received as full fedged Har-
monlst. and the couple lived apart in
accordance with the society's rules
His rapid rise to power caused dissan
sions; several members withdrew ana
when Father Heinrich died Duss, the
youngest member of the society. be-
came its patriarch or head man. The
society owed over 81. 500 geo, which Duss
promptly paid, and he has since of1ici-
ated as the master spirit of the Quaint
community which George Rapp founded
and celibacy doomed. While he was
struggling with the financial affairs of
Economy he organized and began con-
Quoting the Economy band. which has
been heard in many large cities and
which he describes on his programme
as peerless, pre-eminently popular. ne
culiarly progressive, predominantlv
powerful and practically perfect
EBERT o. WOODSON.
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he Mad M0lIah Whom the British Cannot Suppress

declaration that the man was killed be-
cause he had sinned-
One of the brightest things ever writ
ten about the original, the great ah-
koond of Swat, was the following
threnody by George Thomas Lanigan.
1t was published a few days after the
death of the cyclonic fanatic:
What, what. what,
What's the news from Swat?
Sad news,
Bad news.
Comes by the able led
Through the Indian oceans bed,
Through the Persian gulf, the Red Z
Sea and the Med
Iterranean-hes dead,
The ahkoond is dead!
For the ahkoond l mourn;
Who Wouldn't
He strove to disregard the message
stern.
But he ahkoodnt.
Dead, dead, dead;
(Sorrow Swats)i
Swats wha haze wi ahkoond bled.
Swats whom he hath often led
Onward to a CORY bed
Or to victory.
As the case might be,
Sorrow Swatsi
Tears shed.
Shed tears like water,
Your great ahkoond is dead
That Swats the matterl
Mourn, city of Swat
Your great ahkoond is not
But lain mid worms to rot.
His mortal part alone his soul was
caught
because he was a good ahkoond
Up to the bosom of Mahound-
Though earthly walls his frame sur
round.
Forever hallowed be the ground.
And skeptics mock the lowly mound
And say Hes now of no ahkoondr
His soul is in the skies,
The azure skies that bend above hie
loved
Metropolis of Swat.
He sees with larger, other eyes,
Athwart all earthly mysteries;
He knows what's Swat
Let Swat bury the great ahkoond
With a noise of mourning and of lamenta.
toni
Let Swat bury the great ahkoond
With the noise of the mourning of the
Swattish nation.
Fallen is al length
Its tower of strength,
It's sun is dinmed ere it had nooned:
Dead lies the great ahkoond:
The great ahkoond of Swat
Is mott
CLAIMING A. BARLOW.
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THE MOLLAH HARANGUING
HIS WARRIORS.

to supply them with the necessary food
and water. With the Europeans, how
ever, the case is very different. They
cannot subsist without water so long as
their enemies, and the climate affects
them seriously-so seriously, in fact.
that at one time a large percentage of
Cobbe's force was down with the Pc
culiar fever of the country There is
really no available base of supplies
and there is no possibility of living on
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Ef.<SE iNl al Mad Mollah had been
20 routed. his vast herds
- captured and many OF
~ his fanatical followers
hzz-az-. slain. 1t was also pre-
dicted by the British
war Office that within few days the
Mad Adollah would be either captured
or killed In short, according to the
official announcements. the Mad Mollah
as a factor in the affairs of northern
Somaliland had already as good as
ceased to exist.
Now, however, the British war office
has been compelled to admit that the
mollah is still a very live issue. That
cratic Individual recently impressed
that fact upon the English in the most
convincing manner possible. After the
nollah had been defeated last spring it
was decided that it was as well that
clean job be made of the affair; so Eng
land sent a large number of seasoned
troops to run the enemy to earth and
make good that vainglorious prediction
of the war office. This force was in
command of Colonel Swayne, an officer
of tried quality, whose previous expe-
rience was thought to particularly
qualify him for the work in hand. But
Colonel Cobbe. Swayne's immediate in
ferior. caught Tartar when he caught
the Mad Mollah. Indeed. that gentleman
did not wait to be caught, but most dis
courteously carried the war to Cobbe.
Result, so Britishers killed and about
100 wounded, and the molIah lis still
running"
But. barring some unforeseen sir
cumstance, the career of the mollah is
destined to be a short one, for England
is at last thoroughly aroused and her
forces win be increased sufficiently to
make the result of any clash between
the fanatics and the Britishers a fore
gone conclusion. The force recently
defeated was under the direct command
of Colonel Cobbe although as already
mentioned, Colonel Swayne was in su-
preme command of the troops operat-
ing in Somaliland. His successor, Cen
eral Manning. has about 5000 men. The
molah is reported to have about Il 900
fighting men with him, to say nothing
of the 5000 or more who are said to be
willing to enlist under his standard as
soon as the occasion seems to demand
their presence.
The ordinary civilian and even the
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THE MOLLAH IN FULL
REGALIA.

Colone! Swayne and his subordinate.
Cobbe, were compelled to very hastily
retreat over about 200 miles of as I'M
promising territory as was ever trav-
ersed by an army in a foreign land.
That of itself is bad enough in all con-
science. but matters are made worse
for these officers by the fact that the
Mad Mollah's recent victory has con
frmed his followers in their belief that
he is more than human. with the result
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was her tendency to underestimate the
strength of her opponents. He uttered
this opinion even after that same Eng
land had put him safely away al ST.
Helena, and it is doubtless founded on
fact. At any rate up to the time of the
recent defeat of the British troops in
Somaliland every one in England pooh
poohed the suggestion that the Mad
Mollah was to be taken seriously. They
affected to regard him a wild fanatic
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military man who has made no special
study of affairs in Somaliland will
scarcely appreciate the difficulties con-
fronting a commander in that benight-
ed land The mollah and his followers
find no trouble in getting about the
country. for the people are in full sym
pathy with them and go out of the way
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devoid of education and lacking even
in natural intelligence. How close to
the truth this estimate is may be ascer-
tanned by a brief resume of the career
of this really remarkable man.
The Mad Mollah was born in the hut
of his father, a poor shepherd of Swat,
just how many years ago even he does
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the country even were that country
not aggressively hostile, but when there
is danger that in every house passed
there may be lurking the advance
guard of large body of the enemy it
may be understood that Cobbe's reverse
was not an occurrence to occasion sur
prise
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that the entire country over which the
British must pass before they will
reach a place where it viii be safe to
halt for reorganization and to wait
re-enforcements is literally ablaze with
religious frenzy.
Napoleon once said that Englands
greatest weakness in military matters
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not know. His paternal progenitor was
the most ordinary type of man, but his
mother was a woman of almost gigan-
tic stature and an unbounded ambition
for her son. When the latter, as soon
as he was able to find his way back to
the cot from the grazing grounds. was
sent to tend cattle, she violently
declared that his life should not be
wasted in that manner. He must be a
mollah. she said. AS the mollahs are