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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

'Sneakin' away like that, you physical
in thief O. the night. you'll says he
If I'd had the gun that Jonas borTied
and hain't brung back yit, bet you
wouldn't a.done it, consarn his pictur!
But sence I'm on your trail I'll .foller
it, by cats, and show you some tricks
that maybe you hain't heerd on yit!'
says Uncle Jep, and he follered the
bar till night, and then bunked in at
Els, t'other side o. the swamp, SOS
he could be on hand early next morn
In to show the bar them tricks.
Aunt Hubby woke up in the night
some time and heerd the pig squeal-
in. She jumped out O. bed and run
to the winder. The moon was shinin'
bright as day. Aunt Hubby jest give
one look, and then says:
Bar arter the pigl' says she. A
sockin' big bar, and he'll have that
pigpen smashed down in less than q
jiffy,' says she. And there amt
gun in the house: II there was, says
she, I'd sneak out and blow the top
o. that bars head of, says she. The
idee o. Jeptha lendin' his one gun to
Jonas who haint brung it back yit,
and then goin' on with t'other one
and campin' all night on a bars traili
COnsarn that Jonas! II / had him
here rd-no, ] wouldn't, neitherl' hol-
lers Aunt Hubby, who'd been looking
out O. winder all the time she was
talkin'. No, wouldn't. neither!' che
hollers. clappin' her hands. IT was a
smilin' Providence that made J0ptha
| lend that gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas
from fetchin' Of It backj she boilers,
and then she scooted down to the
kitchen, grabbed her clothes line. tied
slippin moose IN one end of II. and
started out on a run lords the pigpen.
The bar stood on his hind feet
bangin' away al the plgpen, and the
! splinters was flynn tremendous Then
the door went smashIn in, and the
] bar reached in an yanked the pig
| out. He hadn't much more than done
1t, though, when from round the barn
Aunt Hubby come a rushin'. She give
! q yell. Che bar dropped the pig Ike
not platter. and fore he could turn
and see what It vas thst had skeerl
him Aunt Hubby dropped the moose
end Of the clothes line down over biz
head. pulled II tight and Jumped be
hind the big pine tree that stood Jest
e comfortable Jump away
i "It was a smiiin' Providence. saYi
she, that made Jeptha lend bis 6theI
gun 10 Jonas and KEEP Jonas from
fetchin Of It back Gays shs for 9th
erwise me and Jeptha would be ou
lest ten doliars says she,
.The bar come to himself AMI
sprung after Aunt Haldy he sluDi
his big fore less around the tree t
ketch her where she stood. holdin 81
to the rope. and IA less time lban
took him 70 fetch good breath Anh
Hubby had circied round that srel
enough times % hind him % the trqpl
as snas ana iastn IS 4 he'd been
knot CROWN there ana nhe hep r|sh
4 On Bipdin ne rome oQnd Elm ~.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
Aunt Hulda's Bear

his dyin' kick that the bar was com
in for him hot-foot before he had
even thought o. loadin his gun. And
the bar KEEP him dodgin' and skirmish.
in 'mongst the trees for half an hour
before he could git load into his
gun. And then see what that bar
done. Soon as be see that Uncle Jep
had his gun loaded, the aggravatin'
bruin begun to dodge amongst the
trees himself. and he done 1t so slick
and quick that Uncle Jep couldn't git
his gun onto him nc way, and the
first thing he knowed the bar had
lodged out O. sight.
IF that amt a dirty. mean trick
wouldn't say So! says Uncle Jep.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
THIS ACCURACY REVIEW
DEPART M ENT

is for cooperation IN iNfOrmGtioR 10 reduce
mutH0lly erpeHsire miStdkes. It Is FOR DschdB-
zeal, commercial and professioR0E people; the
employer, eWplogs and customer: and eOHsists
Of extracts fGkSa bv permission from TIE copy
TQhted letters theIectWrts note boots and libraries
of Or. Earl m. Pratt. When you secure on any
subject an idea personally Ts6ful to y0U, and
you aeiah to 0ipe 10 TO hin, address him IN care
OF The JohR Cyerar Li6ToTy. Marshall Weld
building, CAicdgO he q huhttNg tte S0k0ls acOrld
oVsT for tafOryadtEon Of e0erp day Ns6 to yOp,
AID Ne regrsts his Inability, personally TO reply
70 contributors 50 for as possible no ttishes 70
have IN this epace hs psrY ideas yOp SDonld liks
"a fAd here You are az liberty 70 sead hin
any suegtstfoR you may care to- His ARCADE
IndeS libraries acre Ndrtsd IN 1872 aud aolo con,
tain unpublished Information dating back to 1886
trih systematic plans extending TO 1859. Your
short story Of some eDGnpIe Of J0rethORght dc
posted fR ne arcade IEdsr collection may prore TO
b. YOEr best Rloaumsht.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
superstItions.

II two persons raise their glasses to
their lips simultaneously they are In
dicating the return Of a friend or rela-
tive from foreign parts. The same In
timation is conveyed by bubbles in cof-
fee or by the accidental fall of piece
of soap on the floor.
A fickering flame in the fire or an
upright exeresoence in burning cam
die is interpreted as predicting the ar
rival Of guest, whose stature IS
judged BY the length Of the flame or
excrescenee.
II one drains q glass Of the contents
Of which some one else has partaken
he win learn the secrets Of the latter
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
How Foreknowledge Might Help.


When a boy / had a pet Brahma pull
let, plump and good looking, of two OF
three pounds weight One day en-
tered the hen park and on coming out
could not close the gate. There was
a rubbery,spring of resistance as
the gate came within foot Of the
post AS l opened the gate to In
vestigate. my pet pullet ran out yard
and dropped dead She had run in be
tween the gate and the building under
the lower hinge That lesson in ac-
curacy regarding gates and chickens
gave my affections a hard pull. II
my pet had been alive and my fathers
hens all dead would have suffered
less That was expensive experience
II never killed another chicken by
that gate-it made me think, look,
know more and it increased my accur
acy. Why could not have learned by
observation what ! learned by expen-
sive experience? / could have done so
had / had my observation trained and
have done so many times since that
event. An old German friend told
me that we stopped growing when we
stopped making mistakes, and must
be growing every day because am
making mistakes right along, but
there are many kinds Of mistakes and
want to grow by making those which
do not XIII pet pullets" IL possible
A Pennsylvania girl told me she did
not think It necessary to be poor In
order to be happy and am trying to
see II we cannot learn by the valua-
BILE experiences OF others and lessen
the necessity Of errors and mistakes
on our part. We should become more
accurate and grow faster than we do
and good reading is one way 20 do it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

one az my friends, an intelligent old
Engllshman, told me about how his
predecessor and himself had fixed up
tho little house ID which he works. He
makes me think that useful little
schemes around one for convenience
and comfort ara part Of one's lie.
lie Is gatsman on railroad in q
suburb. He works hfteen hours day,
seven days 4 week Tor thirty-hve dol.
lars month. without ans holidays.
ne Is happy ana would not lose his
position for double colo eagle Ny
collection contains some written obser-
pations be has made
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Aunt Hubby had some amazin'
p'ints,' said the lOquacious and rem
iniscent man from the Knob country.
$50 had that bar. He was a genuine
speciment o. what the Knob country
could turn out in the way o. bar when
1t sot out to do it, that bar was, and
he had been raisin' the very old Ned
amongst the pigs and farm produce
generally for so long, and had KEEP SO
regular and aggravatinly shet of all
the traps and tricks that was sot and
tried to waylay and circumvent him,
that at last what did old man Nose,
over to the Eddy, do but declare he
would give 500 in cash for that bar
fetched in dead. or $50 IL anybOdy'd
run him in and hand him over alive.
""Alive!' folks hollered when they
heerd of 1t. Anybody that tries to
fetch that bar In alive they says,
will more than likely find their own
selves bein' fetched in dead! they
says; but folks didn't know it all. and
they hadn't stopped to consider Aunt
Hubby.
"Jeptha, says Aunt Hubby to Uncle
Jep one day, jest about that time;
'Jeptha,' says she, seems to me that
il | was you I'd sort o. take a holiday
this AFTERNOON and wander over lords
Big Injin Swamp. Mebbe you mowt
run foul O. that pesky bar. OF course
seys she, you can't hardly expect to
get him alive, but all things being
mortal here below says she, you
mowt accidentally git him dead. II
you do says she, it'll be 500, and $40
will buy a cow says she.
Uncle Jep didn't see but what
that'd be a proper idee, and he
knocked OF stumpgrubbin', took his
old smoothbore rife and started out.
Jonas went and borried that 9th
er gun o. mine, ding his pictur, and
haint bTung it back yit,' gays Uncle
Jep, as he started
THE bar II fetch Jest ezac'ly. as
much If you git it with the smooth
bore as it will if IL had come tumb-
lin down before the gun that Jonas
borried,' says Aunt Hubby. So don't
waste your time grumblin',' says she.
Go look for the bar
80 Uncle Jep went, sayin' that II
he got on to the trail o. the eunnin'
old varmint he'd foller 1t II he had to
camp on it all night. He got over
Jest this side o. Big Injin and hadn't
see no sign o. that bar or any other
bar, and was beginnin' to think that
II him and Aunt Hubby didn't git 9
COW till they got it with the price o
that bar they'd never quarrel about
who'd do the milkin', when he heer6
somethin' snort. He turned, and there
he see the bar, standin' right out in
plain sight, and actin as II he was
afeard Uncle Jep was goin' on with
out seem him. Uncle Jep knowed II
was him, cause that bar was the only
one in the hull Knob country that had
white spot on its brisket.
4 "'Tbis is the first time ever was
to a shootin' match for a GOVT says
Uncle Jep, and the idee tickled him 81
that he had to take his gun down from
his shoulder till he could git through
his laughin, A shootin' match for {
cow says he, and he hauled up a giI
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
AFiOfaI clocIx.

In the public gardens Of Edinburgh.
Scotland, Is great floral dial made
Of golden feather pyrethrum with the
twelve hours marked on it. A zinc
receptacle IN the shape OF clock
hand. planted with dwarf vegetation Is
moved BY clockworls and marks the
time With great correctness
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
Look over the Map.

How many cities could you mark
on the Mercator map of the world at
the top of this column? What do you
know about the desirable personal
forces of the different nationalities?
We are more likely to hear of their
undesirable tendencies than otherwise
in our every day reading. Are you
acquainted with any one in the differ
ent continents?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
opportunItlee ~ 3 eitegment.

After a sickness we have D chance
to put to use the good resolutions
made during sickness and improve our
methods. We can seek better food and
use greater care ID eating. A dimes
worth Of food we'll eaten does more
good than DOLLARS worth careIesaly
consumed. Pleasure IN eating Is 8
good condiment. but studied pleasure
just for pleasure alone leads us into
All kinds OF trouble.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Many confess that they lose their
"heod, thu lose a sale because they do
aof kH0sv hoe to do ofkeyzVise or
course tits 10 their interest to DO other
mise. Self-coHtt0I can BE- raised me.
same as ssecei corr. II yoH leafH hosp.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

4 healthy girl can tell by moral iriiGi-
lion the difference bet5VeeH right and
5VroHg detions h healthy man can ten
by business intuition the difference be-
taUeeH right aud 9Vrong methods. An Of
rs are tempted to diSobey our good iadg-
uetif.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

otter aolGekHg an eNemy-bcfore zee
cool off ace may hat friend Some sViSe
SCOrkcrS leGve their Club" at home
not to use at hOme--SO as 10 think be-
fore nSing it a5Ooy from home. Some
keep ii locked up aud ncVer use il If
possible TO get along gUithom il. Club
biug others dnlIS orr oxen brain.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03
orInln IN .Tall -.

Oxtail soup, now regarded az ma
tional English dish was first made By
the very poor OF Huguenot refugees
from France after the revocation q
the edict Of Nantes. because OK tails
then had no market Value
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

It is reported that Andrew Carnegie
thinks of starting newspaper in
Glasgow. This is the first intimation
we have had that Andrew also hank
ers for strenuosity.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

The latest system Of wireless teleg.
raphy is also poleless. Unhappily this
fact does not mark progress, so far as
the message senders are concerned
toward the cOstless.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Fighting Bob" Evans has been re.
eelyed in the throne room by the EN-.
peror and empress OF China, bat the
chances are good that be would rather
be travelling around with Prince
Renry, or on Sandy Hook keeping the
course clear for the racing yachts,
not to mention commanding the Iowa
10 the battle Of Santiago
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

When you learn that those cigars
you have'been buying SO cheaply were
struggled you wonder. with some in.
dignatiOn, why they were not sold still
cheaper.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Presently the orator who wants to
make a hit will refer to the boys not
as the future governors and Presidents
but the future farm hands Of our
glorious country.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

That Philadelphia grocer who was
found selling green tomatoes which
he had painted red must be aspiring
to q place in history side by side with
the man who Invented wooden nut.
megs.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

There is a girl in Chicago who has
worked thirty-one years for the same
family. Why should girl like that
hsye.to work for a ivingY She ought
to be able 10 get big money from the
museums.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Ron kHoV Nc eggs are tisrc ard ikdf
me hens puli 70 iay theat sVhen son
faii 70 re- results yoA kioup that Hleye
Is something sgfoHgiih ne aaaagcglcpi
al 'iea Can yoH fefeord thiS la uqh
e apply to yoHr spohf
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

The debts Of Alexander and Draga
are $4,000. They will now be paid.
Perhaps the massacre was not mat
ter OF politics after all. 1t was very
businesslike.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

It appears that the New York fruit
handlers are engaged in banana war
They certainly have their troubles
punched to begin with.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

It must make the women golfers Of
Halifax feel like swearing to have that
Halifax clergyman accuse them OF
swearing on the links.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

The chewing gum trust'has a sur
plus, after paying dividends. of $776,
600. The news has set great many
other jaws wagging.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Lillian Russell has an automobile
adventure every little while now The
automobile is apparently taking tho
place of the lost jewels.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

A mackerel weighing 800 pounds has
been caught OF Newport Trying tc
keep up with the size of the jags IN
that vicinity.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

The matter of preserving seal life
In Boring sea has very appropriately
been referred to high joint commits.
sion.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

The Los Angeles Herald says that
the new twenty.tWo-story building Of
the New York Times will be equipped
with special private stairway for
poeticnl contributors Why not use
the elevator shaft and save time?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Some real distress, nevertheless,
has been caused by the slump in
stocks. it has cut lot of promising
summer vacations in half
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

In time the name of the man that
made the arctic fox flea famous will be
forgotten, but the fame of the flea
will abide.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

4 II Is awful the way social duties
are telling on people At Newport. Some
of them have 70 get up as early as 8
and 3 O'Clock D ne morning to Keep
- with their eueafements.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Your dollar will buy a reserved seat
at the circus just as quick as John
Rockefeller's dollar. But he has the
dollar.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

The philanthropist is still undiscov
cred who gives his money back to the
people be got It from.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Lou Dillon is a terribly fast young
thing, but there is still quite a gap
between her and the twominute mark.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Russell Sage is So, but those who
tried to take money away from him
report that he is not childish.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

and whanged away At the wkite spos
on the BARS chist.
THE bar give 4 start, felt q. his
chist with one O. bis paws as 4 some
thin was ticklln Of him there and
then turned a look on Uncle Jep, as
much as 10 say
eLook a-here now! What 81 You
handlln that gum So ding keerless
around mere for7'
eTbe bar looked mad too, and Vneif
Iep was 50 took back At ne uumiti
1e.cd CRITTERS rei lnmRlin ana fiyiH
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Harry Lenr should be careful or he
viii sprain his wrist
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Women may live longer than men,
but do they live as much while they
are at it?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Diamonds have gone up 20 per cent
in price this year. This is a sympa.
thetic strike Of another kind.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

They are lawyers, not dentists, mind
you. who are going into the Sawtooth
mountains.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

That she may be in still finer fettle
to fight for peace, Russia orders an.
other bunch of warships.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

A Berlin physician makes the claim
that arsenic will cure cancer. II
taken in large enough doses 1t will.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-09-03

Milwaukee has taken to golf What
is the matter with penuchle?
Rock Island Argus., 1903-01-07
ROCK ISLAND ISSUES
A GENERAL STATEMENT

The Rock Island system has recent
ly issued statement in the form of
series of comparative tables in
which the statistics of the road are
set forth and compared with those of
other large western systems, notably
the burlington, the Santa Fe, Great
Northern, and Union Pacific, the OBJ
ject of which is to show that the
Rock Island during the four months
of its operation under the new man
agement has made a very good show
ing and promises to do still better
are pointed out.
In nearly all of the tables given the
Rock Island shows up well above the
average of the other roads in every
thing making for a well equipped and
well patronized system. The equip
ment is more complete, the capitaliza-
tlon is less per mile, the amount of
freight, particularly of the local va
riety, has been very large, the pas
senger traffic has been far above that
of the other roads, and while there
has been very gratifying increase in
the receipts over that of last wear
there has been reduction in the cost
of operating. The system, it is point
ed out, has been hampered in making
good showing by the great amount
of construction work that is pro-
crossing and from which no revenue
is derived, as yet. The great handi-
cap of the road. it is admitted, lies in
the fact that its freight trains aver
age much less in size than those of
the other roads. The freight tonnage
per train is 40 per cent less and the
average number of cars per train is
25 per cent less. This is to be over
come by extending the use of the
larger engines now being introduced
on the eastern divisions as rapidly as
possible. Another change that is ex-
pected to be of great weight in in
creasing the earning capacity of the
roads is expected to come about
through the appointment of c. II.
Warren. formerly of the Great North
ern and n disciple of J. j. Hill. as
manager of the system. 1t is broad
ly limited that the movement now we'll
begun of reducing grades, straighten-
ing curves, laying heavy rails and
building new heavy steel bridges will
be kept up with n view of further re-
ducing the cost of hauling freight
and passengers.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-01-07
A COAL SCRAMBLE
Prospects of Blizzard Causes An.
other Run to Be Made on
Dealers
THERE is LITTLE FUEL TO BE HAD
Railroad May Take All Cable and
Sherrard Output Another
Year.

Indications of the beginning of a
severe blizzard this morning led to
| the besieging of the coal offices of the
city by anxious citizens whose piles
of black diamonds were running low.
They found very little satisfaction.
for while some outside coal could be
purchased at advanced prices the
amount received from the local mines
was the same as has been coming to
the city regularly for some weeks
past, just enough to skimp along
with.
There is no evidence of real suffer
ing as yet, and the extraordinary de-
mand may be in great part due to the
fear of want rather than the presence
of it. However, it is noticeable fact
thct longing eyes follow every well
loaded wagon as it passes along the
street, necks are craned to see where
it stops, and if the driver after un-
loading goes away leaving any pieces
lying about there is sure to be some
one along soon with sack to gather
them up.
Road May Take All.
There is some reason for believing
that the Rock Island road will in an
other year take the entire output of
the Sherrard and Cable mines, and the
tri-cities will be left to- lock elsewhere
for Il supply. 1t is denied that the
road is now taking any coal away
from here to sell in outside markets.
1t is said to be all used on the three
divisions centering here. None of it
is even taken to Chicago, coal for the
eastern terminus being secured at La
Sale and a point on the Peoria
branch.
This statement appears open to
doubt at first thought, but when ii is
known that the Rock Island has in
the neighborhood of 200 engines to
keep in coal on the above divisions
and that the type of engines used now
consume much more coal than the
smaller ones formerly used, it will be
seen that there must be large sup
ply drawn from somewhere. 1t is
claimed for the road that there has
been no disposition to even store up
an amount adequate to last very long
in case of emergency, the reserve be-
ing often limited to half n dozen cars.
The tri-cities are said to get all the
can possibly spare, and at
the same price as is known is the
same as has prevailed throughout the
latter part of the fall.