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Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17
Twentysix new Folk clubs organ
zed in st. LOuis last week.
To Santa Claus.

Dear old Santa Claus: l am a
little girl years old Please bring
me little doll bed aud rocking
chair aud some candy aud nuts.
aud please bring my little sister,
Mary Lee, something nice, aud l
have little cousin, Jesse Beam,
living in the cnuntr, please dm't
forget him ~ a. 'ind.
by. MARau4s,liE FISHER,
WANTED-T TRUSTWORTHY LADY
OR GENTLEMAN 70 manage business
Ia this eNnty and adjoining territory for
m standing so
H Apenses paid
r.Rl headquarters
90, in advance
lss,u .ddress Manager,
6b Monou buliolng, Chicago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Said by the Auxvasse Review:
A young man of near this town
1--WE won't say who) had a peculiar
and novel experience lately. His
best girl lost fur collar aud a
careful search failed to reveal its
whereabouts. The matter dwelt
upon his mindSuntil he dreamed
three nights in succession Of see
ing the article under the crossing
near the school house. He told
the young lady Of his dream aud
she suggested that they investigate.
They went straight to the cross
ing aud the young man thrust his
arm beneath the boards and came
in contact with a bundle of fur
he proceeded 70 phil ont. He was
glad to bury his clothesi in the
excitement the skunk got away and
the young man has lost faith in
dreams,
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17
PEOPLE TO BLAME.
Citizens Are Inactive and
CrlmlnalIy Negligent.

ue hhSSAGb WISHES all Clo WV
ers of Mexico could have heard
Father Coffeys's lecture at Hardin
College last Friday night. Prof.
Million introduced the speaker and
referred to the subject that would
be discussed, interfering a little
thrust at the State Supreme Court,
intimatiug that in matters political
and polity of government it some
times makes one wonder if we are
not in the days of the abomiua-
ton Of desolatiOn spoken of by
Daniel the prophet" Father COT
fey's talk was good natured and
hopeful, yet he had some straight
talk to the voters. AS to what he
said, in a general way, we cannot
do better than quote the following,
which appeared in Kansas City
paper:
Mexico, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE
Rev. Father James Thomas COT
fey, the priest in politics." who
has been appointed by Archbishop
John j. Glennon to the passionate
of st. Leo's church in st. Louis,
created a stir here with his
lecture at Hardin College last
night, and his interview with citI-
zens this morning. He was heard
by Professionals as well as Catholics,
nearly every denomination being
represented. He did not mince
words in his announcement of the
ring rule" and the corrupt poll
ticiaus who have been allowed to
manipulate the politics of Mis-
souri,, especially in st. Louis. He
said Seibert is unfaithful, aud
blamed Dockery for appointing
him excise commissioner in st.
Louis. He said the police hoard
in st. Louis would do its duty if
the political bosses would instruct
them to do it. He said it was time
for the good citizens of Missouri
to become aroused and went so far
as to say that the good citizen who
failed to 10 his duty was the real
criminal.
I'VE all know the real bad citi.
zen, the corrupt politician, the
slum product, the bOOdler. We de-
test and execrate him. But it is
not about him that am going to
talk. After reviewing the situa-
ton in st. Louis and in IN my of
our municipalities for the last
quarter OF century, we are in-
clined to lay all our troubles at
the door of the slum boss and his
hireling-the slum politician. This
is wrong. They are the mere
creatures of adverse circumstances,
aud we are responsible for the adj
verse circumstances. The good
people are at the bottom of all our
political corruption. They have
made their citizenship subservient
to personal, family and business
interests by looking out for their
own selfish ends in private aud
commercial life. They have sadly
aud lamentably failed in their sa.
cred duties of citizenship.
I'VE might be led to believe from
all we hear FROM the pulpit aud
roswpm today that Doodle and
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

% ,'''t'dI Etit OF
Sa letter print
E IN th. st Louis
a." h 'Il papers, written
h'""' h free distribution of
AIT r,ralure for which
lh"n>'r,tS # dollars have already
been appended 10y Folks enemies.
The letter says:
Troy, Mo-, Nov. %, 1908. Lee
Barton. Editor Clayton Argus,
Clayton, Mo.-Dear Sir: If there
is any place in Northeast Missouri
where your paper will assist in
the opposition to the Hon. Joseph
w. Folk, we will suggest that you
send your special copies there in
Stead of here as 80 per cent of the
rank and file of the Democratic
party in this section of Missouri
is with MIR. Folk; all the insinua-
tions Of THE ring" upon his char
acter and official record to the con.
trary Notwithstanding.
(Signed) John T. Henry,
Treasurer of Lincoln County.
n. II. Lane,
County Clerk of Lincoln County.
Abe Stephens,
Circuit Clerk of Lincoln County.
James A. Cunningham,
Recorder of Lincoln County.
Wiley Huston,
Sheriff Lincoln County.
j. &. Ellis,
Judge of Lincoln County.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Capt. q, T. Allen, of this city,
will, as psrreaaest Of largely
signed petition, deliver his famous
lecture, The Confederate Soldier
IN History, at the Mexico court
house touight. tits needless to
add that he will have large hear
ing,
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

E. R. Coatsworth, late Of this
county, with whom the MESSAGE
made a trade for residence proper
ty in Mexico, is now located at
Fort LuptOn, Colorado, and is
prospecting.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Miss Florence Patton of this
city, returned missionary from ia
pan, lectured to the Golden Thread
Missionary in Fulton last Thurs
day.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Horn Proeker, of Moberly, vas
convicted in Justice In. Bass
court here last week of stealing a
pair of shoes in Mexico during the
street carnival. Procker got away
at the time and was not arrested
until few days ago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Joe Folk has been offered 800
a day by bureau in New York
for a series of lectures on Doodle. !"
He declines the offer and sticks to
his sworn duties in st. St. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

G. 4. Howard, in the Burke
district, southwest of Mexico, has
sold his farm, 20 acres, to w. T.
Phillips of South Dakota Price
received, $35 per acre.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Springfield has a Folk club of
226 members.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Near Appleton City is sign on
a tree reading; No huntering per-
missioned not by this farm on.
Keep init yourselves off der land
or you will putt me In Jail. Fritz
Bpepnickle.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Mr.. w. T. Murill and family of
Morris, ILL.,, have moved into the
Duly district to reside, northwest
of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

T. B. Sansberry at Thompson
has a hog that weighs $50 pounds
and it is but II months old. Larg-
est porker in that section.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17
SOME LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS IN PELLET FORM
S3333S93S 80 3SSSSSSSi


j. 7. johnson aud Alex Carter
shipped fat cattle to the Chicago
market last Saturday.
"
A. j. Settles of Greenwood,
Iowa, has been quite i'll at the
Ringo Hotel in this city.
Some sueak thief sneaked into
DIR. Charles Digges' dental Office
the other night aud carried away
$75 worth of gold-for Filings aud
crowns for teeth.
II is announced from Jefferson
City that the State binder Irvine
factory will be ready for operation
early in the spring. 1t will be re-
membered the bill creating this
institution was introduced into
the Legislature by Senator NJ. r.
K. Biggs Of Audrain.
"
The transcript papers in the change
Of venue cases of the minor chill
dr. n Of Mrs Pho he Stottl, KILLED
by the cars last spring-for IS 200,
damages against the q. & A. R.R.
and Of Eugenia StOttler against the
same company for $35, 900, have
been filed in the galloway circuit
court.
Mrs. E. A. Ellis of this city
tells the MESSAGE that she received
a telegram from her son, Lieut..
Nolan Ellis, who has been in the
Philippines three years, that he had
arrived at Victoria, B. c., and
would be home soon. OF course
all his old Audrain friends will be
glad to welcome him back.
The children of the Promenade
Methodist church of Mexico sent a
Christmas box, containing books,
clothing, toys, ETC., to Miss Mar
tina Frost, we'll known here, now
stationed at Nashville. Tenn, en-
gagged in settlement work among
the children there. Mics Frost, nc
doubt, will find good use for the
contents Of that box, among poor
children she will meet.
Reuben Harlow, the Sage OF
Youngs Creek" Audrain county,
was interviewed by the st. Louis
and Kansas City papers last week
1t was oyer a column in length
aud fine type. It was directed at
Harry HAYES, thanking him for
finding Joe Folk, but charging
him with standing with boodlers
aud against their prosecutors aud
warning him, also, notwithstand
ing that Hannibal speech. that the
country people are not simpletons,
Gov. Dockery has appointed
s. P. Emmons Of Mexico as one o
the eight delegates to represeu
Missouri at the seventh annua
convention Of the National Liy
Stock Association which meets a
Portland, Oregon, the nth o
next month, to be in session tou
days. Elnmous is the man be
one of the most successful breed
ers Of Ane cattle ia the Who'll
State,
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Rev. Bate Rice of Center, Rails
county, after eleven years pastor
Of Cuivre Baptist ehurc h in this
county, has resigned.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Rev. D. S. Smith has sold his
residence in this city to George P.
Haley. Bro. Smith will move to
California.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17
How Il rs Ia lincoln.

Lincoln county, Mo-, usually
has a Democratic majority lurgsr
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Our good friend x. p. Ball,
down at Rush Hill, is discouraged
about his health. Hope to hear
that he is greatly improved soon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Art Wagner of Des Moines,
Iowa, has been looking after the
interests of his farm, northwest
of Mexico,
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Mrs. Mollie G. Moore, Of near
HOllensyille, has moved to Mexico
to reside.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

j. D. Pulls will have charge of
the Clifton T. Jesse farm, near
Thompson, next year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

" NJ VI AOhRAlN. january term 1904.
Hester VI. House and Laura p. House.
Bradford House and Dora House by Allen
Stallings, curator. Plaintiffs
VS.
JohnC. McGowen, James T. McGowen
Lizzie Boyd. William McGowen. .Iosepb
E. Sharp, William Sharp, Jacob Sharp.
Charles Sharp, Jane Sharp TripIett, Ruth
Humphreys, Sarah C. Charlton, Florence
Stewart. and 7. Irwin Stewart, Defend
ants.
Now on this day December LIST, AID.
1903, comes plaintiffs herein by their At
torneys and file petition, and affidavit in
above cause, with the Clerk of this Court.
in vacation, wherein among other things
Plaintlfs state that John c. McGowen,
James McGowen, VIM. McGowen. Lizzie
Boyd, Jane Sharp Triplett, and Florence
Stewart are non-residents Of the State
Of Missouri.
1t is therefore ordered by the Clerk in
vacation, that publication be made notI-
Tying said nonresident defendants that
suit has been commenced against them.
with the other defendants herein, In the
Circuit Court Of Audrain County, Nilsson
ri, the object and general nature Of
which is, that an issue be made nm
whether the will admitted to Probate
by the Probate Court Of Audrain County.
Missouri, be the will OF the late John b.
Charlton, and to have said will rejected.
set aside and for naught held.
Now, therefore, you said nom
resident defendants John c. McGoweu.
James 7. MeGowen, VIM. McGowen.
LizzieBoyd, Jane Sharp Trlplett and
Florence Stewart are hereby notified of
the filing OF this suit, and unless YOU be
aud appear at the next regular term Of
this Court to be begun and held az the
Court House in the City of Mexico, Au-
drain County, Missouri, on the ard Mon
day in January, 1904, and on or before
the first day OF said term, answer or 9TH
erwise plead TO PLANTING petition the
same Will be taken as confessed by you
and Judgment rendered In accordance
with the prayer OF plaintiff
And 1t is further ordered that a copv
hereof be published in the Mexico Ms
souri, MESSAGE, a newspaper published
weekly in Audrain County, Missouri,
Tor four weeks successfully the last in
serttOn 10 be at least Is days before the
LIST day next term Of Court.
State Of Missouri
County of Audrain,
l, W. II. Morris, Clerk of the Circuit
Court Of Audrain County, Missouri, 40
hereby certify that the above and fore
going Is a full, true and complete copy III
1rucr OF Publication IN the ubove en-
ut,rd cause, as fully AS the same appears
OF record IN my Office.
Witness my hand and Of
tieiai seal, Done at office Ia Mexico, An-
drain county, Missouri, this December
W. II. NORRIS.
,,. Clerk Circuit onfi
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Chas. Cassell is suing his wife,
Annie Cassell, for divorce. Defen-
dant alleges indignities.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Hogs dying in vicinity Of Sailing
from cholera.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17
Order of Publication
In Vacation.

STATE OF MISSOURI. In the circuit court
COUNTY OF AUDRAIN. January term. 1904.
Hester VI. House and Laura p. House
Bradford I!ouseand Dora Honse by Allen
StalIings, curator. PIaintifFs
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

WE. Mcdonald, late of Thomp-
son, now has a position with big
iewelry house in st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

j. 7. johnson aud Alex Carter
shipped fat cattle to the Chicago
market last Saturday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

A. j. Settles of Greenwood,
Iowa, has been quite i'll at the
Ringo Hotel in this city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Some sueak thief sneaked into
DR.. Charles Digges' dental Office
the other night aud carried away
$75 worth of gold-for Filings and
crowns for teeth.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-17

Hogs dying in vicinity Of Sailing
from cholera.
Mrs. Mollie G. Moore, of near
Hollensyille, has moved to Mexico
to reside.
j. D. Pulls will have charge of
the Clifton T. Jesse farm, near
Thompson, next year.
Chas. Cassell is suing his wife,
Annie Cassell, for divorce. Defen-
dant alleges indignities.
WE. Mcdonald, late of Thomp-
son, now has a position with big
jewelry house in st. Louis.
Mr.. w. T. Murill and family of
Morris, H., have moved into the
Duly district to reside, northwest
ofMexico.
Art Wagner of Des Moines,
Iowa, has been looking after the
interests of his farm, northwest
of Mexico.
Rev. D. S. Smith has sold his
residence in this city to George P.
Haley. Bro. Smith will move to
California.
Rev. Bate Rice of Center, Rails
county, after eleven years pastor
Of Cuivre Baptist ehurc h in this
county, has resigned.
T. B. Sansberry at Thompson
has a hog that weighs $50 pounds
and it is but II months old. Larg'
est porker in that section.
Our good friend x. p. Ball,
down at Rush Hill, is discouraged
about his health. Hope to heal
that he is greatly improved soon.
Miss Florence Patton of THU
cit, returned missionary from ia
pan, lectured to the Golden Thread
Missionary in Fulton last Thurs
day.
G. n. Howard, in the Burke
district, southwest of Mexico, hal
sold his farm, 20 acres, to w. T
Phillips of South Dakota Price
received, $50 per acre.
E. R. Coatsworth, late Of thii
county, with whom the MESSAGE
made a trade for residence proper
ty in Mexico, is now located a
Fort LuptOn, Colorado, and i
prospecting.
Horn Proeker, of Moberly, wa
convicted in Justice L. N. Bass
court here last week of stealing
pair of shoes in Mexico during tn
street carnival Procker got ava
at the time and was not arreste'
until few days ago.
Capt. q, T. Allen, of this city
will, as psrreqaest Of a largel
signed petition, deliver his famou
lecture, The Confederate SoIdie
IN History, at the Mexico cOur
house touight. tits needless t
add that be will have a large heal
ing,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-30

wiped out $4,000, 0OO, 900 of wealth. This is donb+
less an extreme estimate. It is self-evident tba+
such destruction of wealth, even though # vo
largely so-called paper wealth. must have a most
serious effect on the country. Thousands of mon
who we're rich and ready to embark in new entor-
prises are now poor or financially crippled"
We do not look, however, for any very serious
shock to the general prosperity Of the country
An eminently sane view, in our opinion, is that
taken by an authority on matters of finance in the
July Worlds Work. con most previous occasions
when financial reaction of this sort has swept
over the country" he says, at has found the
c%ountry's trade and industry in an inflated and
more or less disorganized condition. The conse-
quences of the reimbursement turned out therefore
to be as serious to trade on such occasions as they
we're to the Stock Exchange. These signs are not
visible now. The phenomenon which has almost
invariably attended such reaction-a sudden
shrinkage in consuming power and mercantile de-
mand-has not been witnessed at all this season.
X X X
The Educational Campaign in North Carolina.
Few of our readers, we daresay, have forgotten
the campaign for better schools waged through
out North Carolina last SUMMERTIME "education-
al campaign" it was called. The superintendent
of Public Instruction selected the speakers and
arranged the program for them, and the Southern
Education Board paid their travelling expenses.
Governor Aycock paid his own)
A similar campaign is to be waged during the
next two months, and the following speakers have
agreed to participate: Governor Aycock, ex-Gov-
ernor Jarvis, Hon. c.. B.. Watson, DIR. @. D. Nc
liver, Hon. John II. Small, Hon. J. Y. Joyner,
Hon. r. n. Page, Hon. r. F. Beasley, DR.. Edwin
Minis, Prof. Plato Durham, DIR. John c.. Kilgo,
DR.. +. w. Skies, Prof. J. E. Carlyle, DR.. Charles
E. Taylor, President F. P. Venable and Prof. NJ.
O.. S. Noble. Other names will be announced later.
We hope that every reader Of The Progressive
Farmer will do all in his power to make these
educational rallies successful.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-30
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

The Hinterschlag Professors knew syntax
enough, and of the human soul thus much: that 1t
had a faculty called Memory, and could be acted
on through the muscular integument by appliance
of birch rods. Alas, so it is everywhere, so will
it ever be; till the Holman is discharged or re
duced to hod-bearing; and an Architect is hired,
and on all hands fifty encouraged; till communi-
ties and individuals discover, not without surprise,
that fashioning the souls of a generation by
knowledge can rank on a level with blowing
their bodies to pieces by Gunpowder; that with
Generals and Field-marshals for killing, there
should be world-honored dignitaries, and were it
possible, true God-Ordained Priests, for teaching.
From Carlyle's "SartOr Resartus."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-30
THE COST OF THE CATTLE QUARANTINE.

On page 2 we are printing an article by DR..
TAFT Butler, State Veterinarian, on "The Cattle
Tick and the Cattle Quarantine'-the best state
ment that has ever been made Of the meaning of
the warfare on cattle ticks in North Carolina and
its vast Importance to our agricultural interests.
We think it quite fortunate that we are able to
present so clear and forceful a presentation OF
this important matter, for there is very general
ignorance of the purposes of the warfare on cat
tie ticks, and of the facts on which it is based.
North Carolina does sorely need more live
stock. The State is admirably adapted to beet
production. Every farmer who raises a diversity
Of crops can make a much larger profit by feeding
cattle than by selling feed to others. Soil fertility
cannot be maintained without more stock.
But the presence of the tick is a fearful stumb-
ling block in the way Of all progress in the cattle
industry. On every animal sent under quarantine
restrictions to Northern markets the tick IeVle0
it's tax of one-third to one cent a pound i've
weight. And by destroying their potential value
in Northern markets, the tick also levies It's tax
on all cattle sold in Southern markets. If its alb
sence means a saving of $15O,OOO every year to Sl1-
teen sparsely settled mountain counties, how niue"
would it's determination mean to the elghly-o"'
counties that are yet tick infested!
But DIR. Buffers article does not need 10 u i:
inforced by any words of ours. Read 1t ana lit -
away. He is doing a great work for the 0'ov,
and the Board of Agriculture and the 1arm'-4
generally should cooperate with him to the Iu"'''
possible extent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-30
CURRENT EVENTS: THE DRIFT OF THINGS
AS WE SEE 1T.

In this State last week the newspapers gave
more space to the Wilson murder trial than to
any other matter of news from a National stand
point the Postoffice Department scandals contin-
ued to hold the center of the stage; in foreign af-
fairs, the new King Karageorgesvitch's Inaugural
ton and ~triumphaI entry into Belgrade was the
most notable incident. In the political world, ex-
President Cleveland's angry denial of an inter
view in which he was quoted as renouncing all
further political ambition attracted much atten-
ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-30
Race Feeling at the North.

This month has brought two rather notable IL
Illustrations of race feeling at the North. Near
Belleville town in the State of Illinois on the 9TH
inst. g negro was lynched and his body burnt, and
at Wilmington, Del, last Monday a negro was
burnt alive by an Infatuated mob of Northerners.
The Delaware Negroes crime was a horrible one;
he had outraged and MORALLY hurt a young school
girl, the daughter of a prominent minister. The
mob is said to have numbered more than 1900,
and it's members were Enthusiastically preparing
for their bloody work for hours before the negro
was taken from the jail Monday night. Yet the
authorities took no such steps to protect the negro
as would have been taken in many a Southern
State. Says the Charlotte Observers correspond
emit: "The State and county authorities took no
action. The Wilmington militia was not ordered
out, though il it could have reached the scene after
the mob began to assemble in time to have saved
the negro. Police re-inforcements were not sent
to the prison until after the mob assembled"
The lynching in IIlinois-the State over which
the shade of Abraham Lincoln keeps eternal vigil
was even more shocking and indefensible. The
superintendent of schools in BeIleviIle refused to
renew the certificate of a negro teacher, and the
negro, feeling that he had been Disseminated
against because of his color, shot and fatally
wounded the superintendent. Harper's Weekly
asserts that few Illinois juries would have sent a
white man to the gallows for a crime committed
under such circumstances. But the negro teacher
had been but a few hours in Belleville jail before
it was surrounded by a tumUltuOus crowd. Over
towering the guards, they brought out the pris-
oner, beat him almost to death, hung him to a tel
egraph Pcle, and then burned his body to a crisp,
We submit that there is hardly a place in the
South where such a crime would have called forth
such barbaric punishment.
We hope that no Southern man will think of
these Northern outrages as III any degree palliat-
ing or excusing lynch law in the South. We refer
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-06-30

to them only to illustrate the fact that race pref
udice and mob law are not sectional evils. The
negroes who are now leaving North Carolina for
Northern States will not find better treatment or
better friends than they have here. They will not
find it easier to get work and they will not ind
their rights better safeguarded. Governor Ay-
cock told the writer last week that he has found
in his long practice in North Carolina courts
that here the negro actually has the advantage in
a civil suit with a white man-so DESTROYS are our
iurics of guarding the weaker race against any
form of oppression by the stronger.