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Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
HEROINE oF PHoToeRAPHY.
The First Woman Who Ever Sat foI
Sun Picture.

The First Woman Who Ever Sat for
Sun Picture.
The death last Tuesday morning at
Hastlngs-on- Hudson Of Miss Anna
Catherine Draper, the first woman who
ever "sat for her photograph" brings
forclbly to mind the fact that the art
of photography has been developed
from Daguerres crude invention to its
present perfection within the compass
of single lifetime,
In 1889, when DagueTos discovery
was first announced, the famous scien-
tist DR., John w, Draper, then a men,
Der OF the faculty Of the University of
New York, was pursuing his researches
in the chemical phenomena of light,
whose results are among his most val
liable contributions to science. Da-
queries announcement interested DR..
Draper greatly, and he at once made 1t
the subject Of special study. He was
the first person in the world to utilize
Daguerres process in the portraiture
Of human beings, His sister was the
sitter for the first Photographic por-
trait from life, taken siXty-two years
ago, on the roof Of the old university
building, Theodore Wlnthrop's Chrysa-
lis college, II tradition is trustworthy.
AS the length Of the exposure" was
six minutes, during which Miss Draper
had to sit absolutely motionless In the
full glare Of the sun. with her face
thlckly covered with a white metallic
powder her services to science in
volved sufficient Of personal incon-
venience and discomfort to give her a
claim to be entitled the heroine Of pho
Biography, and to be held in honor by
the countless thousands to whom the
art of photography, with all its cog
nate and related arts, is now a source
of pleasure, Of education, Of culture,
Of livelihood, of wealth.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND
At SASKATCHEWAN, WESTERN
CANADA.
A Michigan Farmer Visits sashntooA
and L. Won PIenaed.


and IL Well Pleased.
Mr.. 8, X, Lent was \ delegate sent
from the farmers of Allegan County
Michigan, to Western Canada, to re'
port on the prospects for successful
settlement, His report is as follows
| went from Winnipeg to Edmonton,
thence east one hundred miles by
wagon. found the country In that
Vicinity rich, black loan, varying
from ~ inches to feet deep; the
crops are simply something enormous;
wheat and oats by actual measure
ment often standing Ave feet In height,
have been farmer for forty years,
and consider myself fair Judge OF
tho yield Of grain, and / saw wheat
that would yield 30 bushels per acre,
and oats that would yield 100 bushels
per acre; not one alone, but good
many. AS for root crops and garden
truck, In no country have ever seen
their equal for all kinds except corn
and tomatoes;tho nights being too cool
for these to ripen well. As q stock
country II has no equal. East of Ed
monton, on the head waters of tho
Yermilllon River, I saw hay meadows
containing from 10 to 100 acres, the
grass standing feet high, and would
often cut to tons to the acre.
From Edmonton / passed through
some fine locations namely, Weta-
skiwin, Lacomhe and other points.
From Mcleod / went to Regina,
thence to Prince Albert, 247 miles
north of the main line, For the first
fifty miles Is fine farming country, but
the next hundred miles is more of
stock country, Then at Saskatoon,
Rosthen and Duck Lake found some
very fine farming country so good
that / found party Of Americans
from Minnesota buying land for them
selves-one party buying l2 sections,
and the other 20 sections of land for
themselves, which they proposed TO
improve at once,
have travelled over twenty-three
different States and Territories in our
Union, and never in my life time have
| ever seen such magnificent crops and
especially as fine stock country,
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
InlnstIce WIN Not Down.

In undertaking to stine discussion
of the wrong done to Rear Admiral
Schley the president is embarking
upon a very hazardous course. When
the French government found that a
mistake had been made in the con.
demnation of Captain Dreyfus the
whole power of official and military
discipline was applied to hush up the
scandal 1t was conceived that "the
honor of the army" required that a
shameful miscarriage of justice should
hot be discussed. But the scandal
would not down. The attempts at sup.
preston only gave force to the inev.
liable explosion, which overthrow the
ministry and threatened the integrity
pf the republic,
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
Too Many Political plums.

1t is a safe assertion that in q ma
jority of the cities Of this country
there are more officials than there Ii
any need for. New offices are created
for the purpose Of making places for
those who have political claims on the
party or faction in power or Of taking
care of friends of political leaders, and
1t is seldom that these Offices are abol
ished when the party that created
them goes out Of power. 1t 10 an easy
matter to create Offices, but it Is diff
cult to abolish them.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
DO Not Benefit by Prosperity.

To the man who works for stated
wages on salary, which is not increased
when money is plentiful and prices
high, the general prosperity is really
detrimental, because he gets no more
than he did when the necessarles OF
life were low, but has to pay more fol
everything he buys, This is one of the
inconvenience of a generally prosper
Gus condition of the country at large
which works hardship in individual
cases, but does not alter the conditions
as a whole.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
Tho ncclnrntIon Ont of INTO.

The declaration Of independence is
probably sneered at by new.fashioned
Americans who stride up and down
the earth while they assume to decide
whether this or that people, struggling
to be free, are flt or unfit for self-gov.
ernment, Nevertheless 1t is a docu'
ment which continues to command re-
spect in some quarters, That old char.
ter Of liberty is supposed to have laid
down the principle that all men are
free and equal before the law and that
no man nor race was good enough to
govern other men or races.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

When millions arc piled up in the
treasury in excess Of all necessities II
means that thrift is being retarded to
a great extent and that much money
is unjustly withdrawn from the chan
nels Of trade, investment and self-sup-
port. Furthermore It means that con-
gress is sure to be tempted to make
big log-rolling appropriations for prof.
ects of little or no merit, on the easy
come, easy 60. principle, which is just
as pernicious in national as in indl-
vidual finances.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

If anything is to be done ut all for
Cuba 1t will have to be done over their
(the sugar mens) dead bodies They
do not mean to yield one iotG Of thell
special privileges. Whether 1t be law
or treaty that proposes to allow Cuban
products entrance into our markets
they will fight it tooth and nail. We
saw what their cruel tender merciel
were in the case of the Porto Rlcar
tariff. They are prepared to display
the same callous inhumanity TOWARD
the imperled Cubans,
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
Traits OF the MIkado.

The Mikado Of Japan is man of
much energy and endurance, and is
constantly smoking cigarettes, He is
fond of outdoor sports and has warm
ly encourage the introduction of foot
ball into Japan. He is a hunter and
fisherman of no mean reputation and
is a good shot with rife. His devo-
tion to lawn tennis is marked and he
Is clever as a wlelder Of the racket.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
A Pueblo indian Book.

The Santa Fe has in preparation n
book on the Indians along its lines.
The material is being gathered and
arranged by an expert ethnoogst, and
although the primary object of the
publication is to advertise the'wonders
and interesting features of the South.
west the book is expected to have q
definite scientific value and great care
is being given to the accuracy OF the
subiect-matter and illustrations.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
"nunrer putlcsn In n.rmnnv.

Herr Bebel's phrase, hunger duties, "
for the proposed new German tariffs
on foodstuffs Ats them and ought to
lead to their condemnation, AS Bebel
said, the tariff would mean tax levy
OF more than 6OO,OOO,OOO marks-and In
Germany mark Is to the masses OF
the people almost as valuable as q dol
lar Is In this country, And the levy
would be upon the poor and upon the
bread of the poor, Herr Bebel's elo-
quent outburst was the warning of u
patriot, and Its superheated portions
do not Impair the stern facts and saw
age consequences he presented
Herr Bebel's phrase seems only hap
py now, II may become grlmly his.
torlc.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

We oifer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case OF Cptarrh that cGanot be cured by Halls
+. j, CHENEY & CO., Props Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known =, j.
Cheney for the last 10 years and believe him
perfectly honorable In all business transactions
and financially able TO carry out any obliga-
tions made by their Arm.
West s. Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.
O., Walding. Kinnan g. Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, aot-
ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system Testimonials sent free Price
TOO per bottle, Sold by all druggists
Halls FANNY Pills arc the best
To borrow is human-to pay back is
divine.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
Women laugh oftener from sense
of duty than from n sense Of humor
In winter Use Allen's Foot rosC,

q powder Your feet feel uncomfortable,
nervous, and often cold and damp. II
you have Chilblains, sweating, sore feet
or tight shoes, try Aliens Foot Ease.
Sold by all druggists and shoe stores,
25c Sample sent FREE. Address
Allen s. 0lmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

From the settlers cabin may como c
Clay. From the towpath of the cana
may come Garfield, From the woods
may emerge Lincoln, From the corr
fields may rise a poet and a scholar
But who looks to the tenemcnts Of
New York and Boston and Philadelphia
for our future presidents and our fu-
ture masters Of literature and art and
finance? Who looks to the slums OF
the great cities and to their fetid
sweatshops for the worlds leaders and
torchbearers? Yet the drift of this
country is steadily toward the tene-
mcnt, and the drift from the tenement
Is toward the slum.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
Something New In Grimes.

1t is gratifying to note the respon.
biveness of the Porto Rican govern
ment to public opinion in this coun-
try concerning the case Of Iglesias, the
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

1t costs the government eight times
more to carry the mails than 1t costs
the express companies to have their
matter hauled. Postmaster General
Smith should animadyert on this fact,
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
A Remarkable Rernrh.

Modern steamship travel is so safe
that the English government has not
lost or injured in transit single man
of the 250.000 sent to South Africa.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16
MnnY Hnnds In a NH.

In Japan some one thousand hands
are employed in spinning mill Of 1O,-
900 spindles, whereas in America about
two hundred are sufficient in factory
of a similar capacity.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

Unless man has rubbed up against
the rough side Of life he never accom-.
pllshes much.
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-16

Minister'S marry people and lawyers
unmarry them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

49, 49," 1850
D. D. Woodward was dangerous!
III.
George Swan, aged about ~ years
died in this city.
There were $40 trotting horse en-
tries for the Mexico Fair.
Robert Luckle, ST., aged So years
died. He was one Of Audrain's oldesI
citizens.
Logan Mundy, aged y years, died a
bis home in this city. He was a most
highly respected citizen and a Mason
Lightning struck the handsome
new residence Of E. G. CANT az Cant
knocking Oh a chimney and damaging
the plastering and roof.
w. I. Darlington and family moved
to this city from Springfield. Mr..
Darlington was the newly elected
principal Of the public schools Of this
city.
The Republican county central
committee was as follows:
Prairie-W. S. Boyd, W. +. Prich-
EFT.
CuIvre-C A. Smith, J. A. Rendle-
ton.
Linn-Thomas Roberts.
Loutre-B. Waddington, ]. T.John-
son, John Donnelly, Lewis Kohn.
Salt Riyer-D. e. Shea, J. b. Bot
kin, D. NJ. Roberts.
Wilson Dick Robinson, Charles
Householder, L. Botkin.
Saling-Not named.
J. b. Botkin, Chairman.
d. f. Shea, Secretary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31
LAND SALES.


r. A. Lisenberry ct al 10 o. E. Wei
Ter, II south 25 acres east half north
east and northeast southwest, 2-5l-Si
500.
Robert Grange and wife to John B,
Schmidtr east half northeast, 1877
s., 1850.
A. F. Brown and wife TO Harvey l.
Young, 50 feet west side lot 4, block 5
Laddonia, $1,000.
James T. Scott and wife to JOSEPH
Hodnett, south half northeast south
east. 31-5l-9, $500.
Joseph II. Anderson and wife tc
Louis Phillip, lot 30, Barnes auditor
to Mexico, $3.50.
w. W. Harper and wife to JOSEPH
Woodbridge, 2 acres adjoining Benton
City, 5000.
VIM. A. Davis TO e. v. Harper, :
acres at Rush Hill, $3.50.
Jennie v. Beagles and husband TO J
]. Alexander, southeast southwest
25-52-7, s1,1OO.
Aaron McPike and wife 10 Charles
II. McPike, u acres in northeasI
corner southwest, 5-52-5, 5000.
Aaron Sef9xe 10 Mollie McPike
block IL, McPike's second addition Il
| yandalla. 1900.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31
JeHries Whius P-itz,Immops.

After fighting a battle Of eight
rounds that was fraught with brilliant
and courageous work, Robert Fitz-
simmons was knocked out by cham
pion James JefIries last night at San
Francisco. The Cornlshman had the
best Of the fight up that time, when
JefIries landed a smash in the solar
plexus and a punch on the jaw that
ended the contest.
III was tina drasebt horse and the
racer, but weight and strength finally
overcame speed and SKIN.
Following is the account Of the last
round:
Bob stood up straight, feinting with
his left and drawing JET on. Jeff
smiled through his bloody features,
ducking a left swing and landing a
hard left on the ribs.
They went at it. Fitz putting a
left on face and taking one on the
head. Fftz missed a right and took
a stiff punch on the body.
JEFF forced the fighting at this stage
cronchIng low and carrying his right
high and his left far back. They came
together and clinched.
In the break Jeff landed a left hook
to stomach, followed by right to jaw.
The body blow really did the work.
Fitz went down on his back.
He came up slowly, but before he
could get up on both feet the referee
counted ten and the fight was over.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

TWENTY YEARS AGO TINS WEEK.
Sturgeon suffered a sl2, 900 fire.
Mount Pleasant College at Hunts
vile burned.
Bruce s. Lawrence, Of this city, were
boring a 70o-foot we'll for E C. Moore,
Of Boone county.
Dr. Reed, OF Kansas City, purchas-
ed DR.. I. A. Keeton's residence In
this city.
The money drawer OF A. Z. Po'
teet's depot restaurant was robbed OF
$40 by a sneak thief.
A petition was signed by all tho
leading citizens and business men Of
Jefferson City and Fulton asking The
C. & A. railroad TO put ON an addition
al train on the south branch. The
company promised to Investigate The
matter.
The following delegates from Au'
drain TO the Democratic State conyen
tion left for the State capitol;
Louis Phillip.
d. I. Gentry.
J. NJ. Daniel.
James Carroll.
Tho following gentlemen we're alst
in attendance from this city:
II. A. Ricketts,.
w. II. KEENAN,.
! II. " rvh,te.
j. d. Tucker.
b. +. Dobyns.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31
A stOckman's Warning.

From the fnfis Appeal
w. NJ. AAiick, one Of the most ex.
tensiSs stOckmen Of Union township
was a pleasant caller at the 1pped
ONCE Tuesday afternoon. In discuss
ing the record breaking corn crop and
the scramble for stock TO consume II
he said: my advice to the people Is
TO go slow. Cattle and stock OF all
kinds is now at the high tide and it /:
more than likely that manya mar viii
feed out his crop and next spring find
that his stock is worth no more than
to-day. / am judging by the ex-
perience OF 1895 when a bumper croI
was raised. | went to the city market.
and bought 26O cattle at a high price,
expecting 70 reed them myself. When
| got the last lead home | found the
people over in North Missouri simply
wild for cattle to feed. The prices
were very high, comparatively, and !
decided to make a sure thing by sell
ing out and saving my crop. The
cattle went like hot cakes. Men who
were short Of funds gave me mort
cages on the cattle, on their hogs or
anything they had. They lost their
corn, their labor and money besides
The prices deprecated until In one in
stance 1t took one lot OF cattle, a
bunch OF hogs and a mule colt TO pay
the amount due on the cattle alone.
Another lot which cost me s2.65 and
which / sold at 1915 were brought
back the next spring, after being corn
ed all the winter, at s3.25 / shipped
them to Chicago and received only
s3.35 for them. ] look for the same
state Of affairs to prevail next spring
on a larger or smaller scale. may be
wrong and hope ] am, but my advice
70 the nan with a big corn crop is to
hesitate about paying q big price for
cattle 10 feed IL fott
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31
WHY THE EDITOR KICKS

l am a newspaper publisher, and II
makes me mad every time ! think or
The man who changes his ad ONO a
year and then tells me, every time he
gets me in a crowd, that my paper is
no good and advertising dosen't pay.
The man who runs a four-inch ad a
couple OF weeks before Christmas and
expects us 70 keep his store full an the
next summer.
The man who won't and never did
advertise, and then ''hollers'' long and
loud when / advertise an alleged
sheriff's sale for an itinerant, fy-by-
night clothing concern.
The man who runs his I'D upside
down $50 it will attract attention
The man who expects a fun half
column reading notice with a two
inch display. He's the fellow VINO
weighs the wrapping paper with the
goods when you buy from him.
The man who always wants for his
ad the position be knows is taken.
The man who wants to "trade cut
the price, because advertising don't
pay nohow.
The man
Well, there are Others. III mention
them some other time. -"JKL" Glass
In Advertising Horld.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31
OUR STATE CANDIDATES.
Brief Sketches Of the Men Nominated
at ST. Joseph Each has shown
himself Well Qualified
For Office He Seeks.

The following are brief sketches OF
the lives Of distinguished Missouri.
ans who were nominated by the Dem.
ocratic State Convention at st. Joseph
and who will De elected in November.
", Z. Darlington is a native Mis-
sourIan. He was born January %,
1854, and since his youth has been con-
nected with the educational move
ment In Missouri.
He is a graduate Of Sugar Grove
Academy and Westminster College, Of
Fulton, and has taken special courses
at the Kirksville State Normal and
the Missouri State University.
He was Superintendent OF schools OF
Cape Girardeau and Mexico, and a
member Of the Springfield High
School faculty. He founded the Mis-
souri, School Journal. He has been a
delegate frequently to State Demo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

cratic conventions; has been President
Of The State Teachers Association,
and has Just been elected for the
fourth term as director Of the National
Educational Association, and Is a
member Of the national committee
which will have charge Of the educa-
tional exhibitat st. Louis Ia 1904. He
has accomplished much for the rural
schools during his first term in organ
izing and ~systematizlng a course Of
study and is raising the standard 10
the efficiency in the teaching corps Of
the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Dr. Traughber has a lady assistant,
DR.. Etna KelsClC Curry, Of two years ex.
%perience, win treat all those desiring
treatment by a lady. DR.. Traughber
VIII treat here on his regular days,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. DR..
Curry viii treat Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. Once east Of post Office.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

tic columns, angular in circumference,
varying from three to nine in the
number Of their sides, rising to differ
emit heights and as closely packed as
sardlnes in a box. On their horizontal
surface some are convex and some con-
cate and they are split across horizon
tally at irregular intervals, filling one
an other ball-and-socket Most have
six sides: a large number five or seven;
three, including the smallest stone IN
the causeway, have four side, diamonds
OF nine-sided columns they are said to
be only three, and Of e~lght-sided, one
The Keystone, This peculiar for
nations so regular and yet 50 varied
As the resnltofa laya-stream, which GOV
cred this part Of country as II flowed
from volcano that disgorged Il; while
losing its heat the lava would natur-
ally contract and therefore become
cracked Now IL you have read that
you know what the guide, a yoluble
freshman, said as he took US this Sat
urday morning over the winding path
way under the ragged, wIndswept
cliffs. The tall basalt columns in one
place against a cliff suggest the
chimneys and battlements Of a castle
and It is said that the Spanish Anna
ia, Il tragic memory, bombarded It
for hours thinking it was really Dun
luce Castle. Shortly after the Ar
Imada sunk and thus, by the interposi-
tion Of an ocean storm, England was
saved from Spanish capture. After
more than seven months under a for
eign flag, II appeared to the pilgrims
from Missouri that the most impress
i've sight at the Giants Causeway
was, when climbing a great cliff, the
full sweep Of the Atlantic ocean
stretched before our eyes. "Yonder,'
said the guide, sis America and there
is no land between here and there"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Winston Churchill entertained 500
families Of hts neIghbors near Welch,
N. II. lie vas assured that his cleo
ton to the State Legislature would be
practically unanimous.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

John A. Knott was born In Gala
way county forty-nine years ago, and
when but a child was thrown on his
own resources.
When a young man he removed To
Usage county and engaged in news
paper work. He aftepss.sa went Il
Troy, LIneela county, and with his
bEOther, William J. Knott, established
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Japan has protested against the
seizure Of a guano island by an Ameri-
can exploiting company, the leader Of
which claims to have discovered the
island deserted thirteen years ago. A
japanese warship IS Fastening to the
Scene Of possible CONTROVERSY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Ben r. Middleton, the hustling
horse and mule man Of Mexico, spent
last week with the Hamilton Bros, Of
near Bachelor and bought os head OF
borses and mules at good prices-Aux-
vase Reriess.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Statistics compiled by Mai. Par.
ker OF the Adjutant Generals ONCE
concerning the recent war in the
Philippines show that there were g.
6l engagements and that American
casualties numbered 447o.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

The New York hard coal MARKET d
almost IN a state Of panic, supplies
being completely exhausted, and No
prospect Of a resumption Of work In
The Mines which have been idle near.
iF three mnnthA
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

The Audrain County Genital Com,
mittee will meet on Saturday, August
q, 10 set a date for the nomination Of
a candidate for Representative from
Audrain county, vice Rhodes Clay. de
ceased.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

A young Lieutenant in the second
Lfe Guards, King Edwards own reei.
ment Is whipped, cursed and dueked
~ his fellow officers sho consider him
entirely TOO hard 4 worker.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Mr.. and Mrs Geo. johnson win
leave next week for an extended trim
IN the west. They will first 20 to
Miles City, Montana, where their son
Clyde, is located, and will then tour
Colorado.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

Secretary Moody has discovered that
there are not enough commissioned
officers in the navy to properly man
the wafships.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-07-31

At San Francisco, Cal, tonight,
J. ,. Jeifrles, champion heavyweight
pugilist Of the world, and Robert
Fitzsimmons, former champion, will
meet in a 25-round contest to decide
the championship. The seat sale
amounts to go, 700, and Is the largest
on record. Jeiferies is a favorlte Of 10
to 4 In the betting circle