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Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30
Our Message.

Here is an editorial from the
Martinsburg Enterprise that hits
the nail squarely on the head at
every stroke:
There's a paper in Audrain
county which got $500 from an
unknown source for standing on
the right side of a certain PROPOSE
ton. This should be encouraging
to an honest, fearless press. The
people are always on the side of
right. The difficulty is, there are
so many people who are ready to
pat the editor on the back aud
say, Stay with it, old man, we're
for you," and yet they are a year
in arrears at the time and don't
seem to thinka newspaper man
needs anything but pleasant words.
Many u newspaper man shrinks
from telling the truth, because he
knows he will be in disfavor and
may lose some patronage thereby.
This is wrong. 1t is cowardly.
Brethren of the press, we believe
that the great common people"
whom Champ Clark loves to talk
about, will always rally to the sup
port of the newspaper which con-
ducts itself uprightly, respects the
law and demands that others do
the same. The man who grOvels
at every reproach of the press-muz-
zler is no man at ALL
Tell the truth, stand up for your
community, do your professional
duty and the gates of wickedness
shall not prevail against you. This
is our message; this is our expert
ence. Try it.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

The Lamar(Mo. democrat COM
plains that Folk is digging up lit
tie scandals about Officeholders
who had to put up money to legis-
lative sandbaggers in order to
hold their salaries, when there is
not the slightest chance of prose-
cution" But the only bar to
prosecution is the statute of limi-
tations. The exposure of boodlers
win at least keep them from run
ming for Office again. A statute
of limitations loophole is not a
certificate of innocence or moral
publication.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

The following, from the Mont
gomery City Standard. is concern
ing brother of Circuit Judge R.
D. Rodgers of this city: G. d.
Rodgers, recently president of the
bank at Slater, Mo-, was in Mont
gomeIy Monday, spending a few
hours with his wife's relatives. and
aud incidentally representing the
Strahorn- Hutton Evans Com
mission Co. He left for Chicago
the same day where he assumes
the management of the Chicago
branch of that company, filing
the vacancy caused by the death
of the former manager. Mr.. Rod
gers is not only a good business
man but is popular among those
who know him. He win hnd that
several Montgomery people ship
stock to his firm, and his presence
there will doubtless draw more
trade from this section. Mr.. Rodg-
ers is an Audrain county product,
having gone from Mexico to Slater
to establish the bank there. and
his wife, who was Miss Fannie
White, daughter Of the late Arch
White Of this place. Is a Montgom-
cry county girl. Mrs. Rodgers
also left Monday for Chicago,
whore they win take up their resi-
denee.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30
An Audrain Democrat.

The MESSAGE has received the
following letter from a gentleman
of this town who has temporary
employment in st. Louis; all Mex
leo knows him; we are proud of
what he says;
AS a citizen of Mexico, Au-
drain county, Missouri, l want to
congratulate you on the stand you
have taken against the State
House Ring and State boodlers in
general. Push the good work
along; the people are with you. 1t
is time to cut loose from this ring
which has controlled the machine
politics of this State. Hope You
may prosper in your undertaking;
good people should stand close to
you in the fight against boodling
and corruption. Excuse me for
writing you but l want you to
know that | am one Audrain cOun-
ty Democrat who endorses your
action"
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30
BIGG's WORK.
Site Selected for the Binder
Twlne Plant.

Jefferson City Mo-, July 23.-
Warden Frank Woodbridge, to-
gether with the penitentiary board
of inspectors, to-day picked out
the site for the binder twine
factory to be established in the
state prison, and instructions have
been given the architects to rush
the plans and specifications as ex-
peditiously as possible.
State Treasurer Robert P. Will
liams, who is a member of the
board said tonight that the board
hoped to have the building under
way in short time. Mr.. Will
liams, of the State board, and
Warden Woodbridge recently visi-
ted the Kansas penitentiary to
inspect the factory in operation
there, and since their return have
been i'll correspondence with the
manufacturers of the machinery the
establishment of the plant will
make it necessary to purchase.
1--WE hope" said Col. Williams,
to get the plant in operation
speedily. Of course we have to fit
it out from the start even to the
erection of a building, as there is
now no available room within the
prison in which the work could be
done The last legislature APP
propriated only $500 for the
building, while we find it will re-
quire more than double this a.
mount to erect the sort of struct.
ure we would like to have to make
the factory a success. The output
of this factory is to be sold to
farmers only, and only to those Of
NJ issouri and at the actual cOst
of producing the finished pro
duet"
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

The Rev. Bro. l.. Landreth, edi-
tor of the Nashville Cumberland
Presbyterian, touched on Missouri
politics in a lecture at the Chau-
tauqua at Clinton, Mo-, the other
day, saying that honesty is the
best policy. If you have any bad
men send them to the peniteD-
tiary, not to the legislature" he
said. When a man sends bood-
lers to the penitentiary, send that
man to a place where he can send
more boodlers to the penitentiary.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

H. G. Turnerof Mexico, has ar
ranged for series of lectures aud
concerts to be given at Hardin
College in the near future, They
win be Of refined and elevating
nature and the people of Martins
burg will not be disappointed
should they attend. Mr.. Turner
has arranged several series Of en-
tertainments in the past and all
have been successes We can give
these our personal recommendation.
Martinsburg Enterprise.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30
PLANETS INHABITED.
Man Will Go From One
World to Another.

columbia, MO-, July 2z-DOctOr
w. T. Moore, dean emeritus of
the Missouri Bible College at Col
umbia, has just completed the
manuscript of a book which will
cause a sensation among theologi-
ans and scientists.
Doctor Moore is a Theistic
evolutionist, though mis- new def
milton of evolution will be quite
satisfactory even to conservatives.
He traces man in his origin, his
tory and destiny, and in the con-
Guiding chapter of the book, en-
titled death and the Other Side, 4"
he attempts to show the meaning
of the numerous worlds which now
roll i'll space without inhabitants.
Doctor Moore's theory is, in
brief, that man will go on pro-
crossing through the cycles of
eternity, and when he assumes his
spiritual body at the resurrection
he then will be prepared to inhabit
some of the planets or stars which
are now uninhabited.
He concludes that the infnitude
of space and the almost infnitude
of worlds become ineligible from
his point of view. He believes
that the spiritual man will be the
inhabitant of all these worlds and
that, as emigration from this earth
is the future evolutionary process
by which these worlds are to be
inhabited, the inhabitants of the
whole universe will he of the same
family and constitute great
spiritual brotherhood for all the
ages Of the future.
Doctor Moore thinks that the
numerous worlds now inhabited
are in a state of preparation fol
glorified man, as the present earth
was a long time in preparation fO
original man,
Doctor Moore is theologiar
and journalist of reputation, both
in America and Europe. He was
for many years a resident of Lon
don, England, and is still editor
of a leading religious magazine
published there. His wife is presi,
dent of Christian Female College
at Columbia.
Don't want to discourage DR.
w. I. Moore up at Columbia on
his theory as to where we are al
going when we die; if to a star Ol
a planet, every little child ha:
thought of that for centuries
agone.
Sometimes things occur out Of
TIE usual order" says one of oul
exchanges. "A printing Office il
Michigan is opened
and closed with prayer. The gen.
eral rule is that the printing offices
are opened by the devil and
closed by the sheriff. And the devil
is to pay all the time"
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Boone (Ia. democrat; For bra
zen effrontery and wanton insult,
the recent editorial in the
Chicago Chronicle under the cap
ton, "Bryan's Impudence Re-
buked," takes the cake. For
years the Chronicle had persistent
ly knitted every democratic meas
ure and every democratic candidate
in the state or national campaigns.
For such a sheet as that to wan
tOnly impugn the motives and
purposes of Mr. Bryan, is more
than any honest democrat can bear
with equanimity. =" 1t says the
gentleman from Nebraska has in
sisted upon and commanded per-
petual reaffirmation of the plat
forms on which he made his dis
graceful campaigns in 1896 and
1900" We submit to the decent
and intelligent citizen regardless
of the party, if those were dis
graceful campaigns. If they were
not fought out with the purest of
motives and OH the highest plane
of the best interests of humanity.
We also submit that had it not
been for such traitOrous vermin
as the Chronicle aud others of its
ilk among the daily press of the
country, subsidized to aud con-
trolled, body and soul, by the gi-
gantic and corrupt corporate in-
terests of the country, he would
have been triumphantly elected,
and the country would have been
saved from the twin curses of com
mercialism and industrial serfdom
and of Imperialism.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

This item from the Farber
Forum Senator Biggs and son,
g. a. Biggs, were both slightly
hurt IN a runaway accident Mon
day morning and they were for
tunate indeed it was. no worse,
While starting a mower in the
field, the team Mr. Biggs was
driving became frightened and
started to run. One of the lines
broke and the team ran into a
machine that Henry was just driv-
ing through a gate, causing them
to run. AS resultof the runa-
ways Senator Biggs was thrown
from the reaper and received a
painful injury Just over the hip.
Henry was hurt IN the back aud
also in the head and was semi-con.
scious for several hours. Both
were soon able to be up again and
it is thought that no permanent
injury will result. The mowers
were pretty we'll demolished.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Says the Paris Appeal: The
st. Louis World is being sent
broadcast over the State. 1t is
making a very bitter fight on 10
Folk, but when you know that the
World is looked upon as the organ
of the boodlers yOu will not be
surprised at its course, as it is we'll
understood that Butler furnishes
the money to run the paper. and
when you know that Folk had But
ler indicted, tried, convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for
years you can readily see why Col.
EdBu.ler and the World are fight
ing Mr.. Folk. Every boodler,
bribe giver, bribe taker aud dis
credited sOrehead in the State ap-
pears to be arrayed against Folk,
but it seems that the great major
ity of the rank and file of the dem
ocratic party are holding up his
hands and bidding him God-speed
in his efforts to drive out corr upt
men from positions of trust in
Missouri.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

A Kirksyille young man sent a
dollar to Chicago recently to hud
out how to keep chiggers from
biting him. He received post
al card in reply upon which was
printed, Keep off the grass"
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Richmond Squirrel, handled by
Tom Bass, Of this city, took first
money in one of the horse show
rings at Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
last week. In the same ring was
Thornton Star, formerly owned in
this city by Hon. J A. Potts,
now the property Of Montgomery,
Ward s %. Of Chicago, Thornon
Star was given second place
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Miss Eugenia Stotler, of near
Laddohia, who was SO badly hurt
by the cars at the time her mother
was killed a couple of months
since, has brought suit against the
9. & A. railroad for $35, 900 dam
ages. Miss StOtler is still unable
to walk.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Stark Bros. Nurseries at Louis
ana have contracted for advertising
space in the MESSAGE. This is
the biggest nursery in the world.
They have the best stock and the
lowest prices. 1t always pays to
buy of Stark Bros.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Our good friend j. w. Middle
ton, formerly in the publishing
business in this county but now
connected with the Sentinel, at
Ashland, ILL.,, writes us to inquire
why he has not been getting his
MESSAGE two weeks in success,
sion. Can't stand that long, see.
Look me up and see what's the
matter with me-" He sends us u
clipping, too, about that man
Folk He thinks like the MES
SAGE that the st. Louis prosecutor
should be Missouri's next Govern
or.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

''Splint Barnett" of this city en-
jOyed the big horse show at Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

George and Samuel Newberry,
who formerly lived west of Mex
leo, are now residents of Carroll
comfy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Uuuer the neau OF "A HAPPY
lissourian" the Paw Paw Bazoo
'rints the following:
I've got my wheat all cutan threshed,
My oats air in the bin,
My corn's a-climbin' towards the sky
As rapid as II kin,
My pigs air gettin' heavy In
A way that makes me smile;
wouldn't trade my worldly goods
For j, p. Morgan's pile.
I've got dozen CROWN mules,
Each worth a hundred straight,
My land is goin' higher at
Almost boomin' rate;
I'd rather be 81 Hoskins uf
Missouri than to be
The King of England; Old Mizzou
: Is good enough for me.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30
SOME LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS IN PELLET FORM
NSS933S9SS 80 3S9SSS99;

The town clock got its four faces
painted last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

The st. Louis Republic last
week printed this item; The Wa.
bash Railroad Company is made
defendant in a $40, 600 damage
suit fled in the United States Cir
cult Court yesterday. The plain
tiff is 81. A Ricketts,, who states
that while he was boarding a train
at Wellsville, Mo-, on December
II, 1902, the train started throw
ing him to the ground, He says he
was caught between the station
platforrl and the moving train,
and was permanently injured. The
suit was originally fled in the
Circuit Oourtof Audrain county.
bnt on the motion ofthe railroad
company was taken to Ibe Federal
Court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. McCutcheon
and daughter, Miss nellie, are
here on a visit from Los Angeles,
California.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

B. G. Torbert and wife of Rush
Hill are on an extended trip in
Oklahoma.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

w. II. Caven and Miss Annie
Mcintosh, daughter of Street Com
missioner w. D. Mcintosh, of
Fulton, were married last week
under a large oak tree about one
mile from Fulton. Rev. j. H.
Jackson, formerly of this city,
officiating. There were only two
witnesses present.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Charlie Shoup lost two mules
by lightning ten days since. They
were i'll N. r. Hodges pasture
near Worcester.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

A. Q. Wilson, the attorney of
this city, has been appointed a
Notary Public by Gov. DOckery
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

A dispatch from Nevada says
VIM. Ratcliff, of near Vandalia,
has been committed to the Mis-
souri, state asylum there. In the
same asylum are his son and
daughter.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Says the Vandalia Leader:
Lightning struck a shock of oats
near jeff Lewellen's home Friday
evening and it was consumed IN a
moment. 1t was accompanied by
a loud clap of thunder. A cOlored
man who is working for Mr.. Lew
ellen and was eating supper in the
kitchen at the time, threw up his
hands aud fell backwards exclaim-
ing, "Oh, Lordy!" He was
neither shocked nor injured; he
was just frightened.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

The children of the late Mrs.
Phebe Stotler who was killed by
the cars at Laddonia about two
months since have brought suit
against the railroad for S., 900.
The children are George Stotler,
Theresa Stotler, Clara Stotler,
Charles Stotler, Alton Stotler and
Eugenia Stotler. The petition de-
scribes the killing of their mother,
and the children state that they
are fatherless and motherless. The
attorneys for plaintiffs are p. H.
Cullen and Walter Burch Of this
city and w. H. Logan of Laddo-
MIA. The same attorneys will APP
pear in Miss Eugenia Stotler's in
dividual suit against the railroad
for $35, 600.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Mrs. j. M. Sims, in her 77th
year, died at the home of her SON
in-law, Judge j. A. Lewis, in this
city last Thursday. She leaves
the following children; Mrs. Dan
iel Morris, Selma, CAL; Mrs.
Chas. Dingle, of Woodlands, Cal. !;
Mrs. Lucy Hensley, of Indpen-
dence, Mo-; j. H. Sims, of Lexna,
Kas.; Mrs. Chas. Lewis, Mrs. Jas.
Lewis, VIM. Sims, and j. D.
Sims, all of this city. The funeral
was held Friday morning, conduc-
ted by Revs. H. E. Truck and F.
M. Shoush. The pail bearers
were A. d. jackson, A. G. Tur-
ner, Jos. D. Morris, j. R. Brown
ing, Geo. johnson, NJ. Morris.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Henry Moore, of Perry, was at
our county seat one day last week.
Henry weighs 800 pounds. This
editor used to go to school with
Henry; he wasn't so large then.
He is the second heaviest man in
Perry; DIR. F. Nj. Moore of that
town beats him 20 pounds weigh.
ing 800.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

Vandalia has a "Let's Marry
Right Away club, composed Of
young women. They meet once a
week and try to devise means for
carrying ont the object implied
in the clubs name.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

The MESSAGE neglected to men
tion last week: Born, to the
wife of Q. E. Boyd, of Spring
field, H., who was formerly Miss
Jessie Gelyin Of this city, a daugh-
fer
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-30

All of our news letters last week
arrived early in the week, except
Martinsburg. This letter did
not reach us till after the paper
had been printed. Please mail
your letters not later than Mon
day or Tuesday.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-30
Killing Frosts.

The dates on WHICH the first
black frosts'' have visited Missis-
sippi for the past thirty years as
given by the department of eli
mate and crop service are of con
siderable interest at this time.
They are as follows:
1871, Nov. 80; 1872, Nov. Is;
1873, IS; 1874, Nov. i; 1876, Dec.
18; 1876, Nov. 90; 1877. Nov. II;
1878, Nov. i; 1879, Nov. 81;
1880, Nov. Z; 1881, Nov. "a; 1882,
Noy. IA; 1883, Nov is; 1884,
Nov. 4; 1885, Nov. "a; 1885, Nov.
IS; 1887, Oct. 81; 1883, Nov. IL;
1889, Nov. 8; 1890, Nov. 8; 1891,
Oct. 19, 1892, Nov. -; 1898,
Nov. Is; 1894, Nov. IL; 1895,
Nov. 10; 1896, Nov. g; 1897, Nov.
IL; 1898, Oct. 81; 1899, Nov. 8;
1900, Nov. IL; 1901, Nov. -;
1902, Dec. 6.
It will be noted that the month
of November appeared oftenest
in the record, and that leads to the
hope that the same may be true Of
this year.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-30
Small Boy Proves That FurlOugh Means
MUIe.

The word 'furlougho occurring
in reading lesson of an elemen-
tary class in one of our large
schools, the teacher asked:
Does any little boy or girl
know the meaning Of the word
'furlough'g Whereupon one small
hand was raised and shaken vigol
ously in the eagerness Of the little
urchin to display his knowledge,
and, when permitted by the teacher
to do so he arose and with the
greatest assurance said:
Furlough means a mule. Z
Not whit disturbed at the teach.
er's oh no it doesn't, the small
boy confidently answered: q
have the book at home that says
so. ! Then the teacher told him
he might bring the book to school
and show it to her.
The next day he came armed
with the book and triumphantly
showed her the picture Of a soldier
astride mule, under which was
printed: Going home on bis
fnrlough. z
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-30
Young Plants

Every farmer knows that
some plants grow better than
others. Soil may be the same
and seed may seem the same
but some plants are weak and
others strong.
And that's the way with
children. They are like young
plants. Same food, same home,
same care but some grow big
and strong while others stay
small and weak.
SCOTS Emulsion offers an
easy way out of the difficulty.
Child weakness often means
starvation, not because of lack
Of food, but because the food
does not feed.
SCOTS Emulsion reallyfeeds
and gives the child growing
strength.
Whatever the cause of weak.
ness and failure to grow
SCOTS Emulsion seems TO find
it and set the matter right.
Send for free sample.
Scott Bovine, Chemists, 400 Pearl St., New Yort
soc. and $I.oo; all druggists.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-30
A Floral Clock.

"The st. Louis Exposition is to
have a unique floral clock, !" says
The Electrical World and Engi-
neer. This mammoth clock will
be installed on the side of the hill
north Of the Agricultural build
ing. The dial will be a flower
bed 120 feet in diameter. The
minute hand will be so feet long,
and the ring at the end, which will
be fastened to the machinery, will
be s feetin diameter, large enough
to support - men easily. A
hundred persons might promenade
on this hand without interfering
with the movements of the time
piece. The minute hand will
move 5 feet every minute. The
clock machinery will be in an ad.
iacent building. The flower bed
will be a masterpiece of the
florists art. The entire dial will
be a flower bed, and the numerals
marking the various hours will be
Is feet in length, and made Of
bright-colored coleus, foliage
plant with bright-colored leaves
that grow dense and may be
pruned and kept symmetrical with
out dangerof impairing its growth.
In a broad circle, surrounding the
dial, will be - flower beds, one
opposite each hour, each two feet
wide and Is feet long. These col
lections will repl esent various
flowers, but each will be so Sc
lected that the blossoms will oper
at the particular hour itrepresents
and at no other. In this way both
the hands of the clock and the
flowers will tell the time of day
At night the whole vast time piece
will be Illuminated with 1900 In
candescent lights
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-09-30
Notice of School Bond Issue by VII
Iaqe of Boque Chitto, Miss.

Notice is hereby given by the Mayor and
Board OF Aldermen of the Village of Bogue
ChittO, Miss, in accordance with section 3016
of the Annotated Code of Mississippi of 1892,
that said Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
regular meeting. to be held in the Mayors
Office in said village on Tuesday, October 9th,
1908, at O'Clock p. NJ, issue the bonds of said
village to the amount OF three thousand dollars,
for the purpose of raising money sufficient for
the purchase, enlargement, remOdeng, re-
pairing, painting, furnishing and equpping Of
the school building known as the Bogue Chitto
Academy building, to be known, when pur-
chased, as the Bogue Ghitto Public School
Building of the village of Bogue Chtt0. Miss.
Said building Is situated on lots lO0x20O TT. in
N. e. corner block 26, Porter's survey, in the
village of Bogue Chitto. Said bonds will be is
sued in accordance with the ordinances Of the
Board providing therefor, and the statutes of
this state in such cases made and provided.
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the village
of Bogue Chitto, Miss.
By g. HI. VERNON, Mayor,
Countersigned by j. N. YAWN, Clerk.