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Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
TeIephone Lines conneeted.

Frank w. Buffum of Louisiana, who
is at the head of the company owning
the Buffum telephone lines. and &. d.
Glandon of Pittsfeld, ILL.,, have signed
a contract with President C. H. Brown
and Manager H. G. Conger of the Bluff
City Telephone Company whereby the
three systems will be connected. The
companies are also to build long
distance line through to st. Louis this
spring. Mr. Buffum has about 400
miles of lines, and Mr.. ,Glandon is
president of the Pike County Tele-
phone Company, owning lines in Pike
Adams and Calhoun counties in Illi-
nois.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05

HE has been known to hurt his
children"
'gFhat was long ago. His fires are
all burned out Where once they
famed there is a lake Of beautiful
cool spring water that gives us lie.
There is perfect confidence between
us and Mont Pelee."
So st. Pierre gave her faithful hep.-t
to the god-mountain even when
shaken by the thunders from his
mighty breast and when the lightnings
from his heart famed over the city
which proudly dwelt in his fancied
love.
I'VE are quite safe" said Jeanne
to Wilfrid a few days after the meet.
ing at Morne Rouge. "The Commits.
sioners from Port de France went half
way up the slope yesterday and en-.
joyed the excursion and reported that
there is no danger"
Anything must be amlable that
would not kill Commissioner"
Wilfrid had come to America and
might be permanently aggrieved on
the subject of Commissioners.
When arrows of flame began to fan
near the town Wilfrid entreate1
Jeanne to let him take her away.
You do not love st. Pierre" she
said, "and you need not stay. | am
not afraid; you are"
yes, l am afraid, but shall not
go and leave you here. Will you go?"
mo. think not. ! should fall un.
der the disapproval of the Governor.
too, you know Yesterday a crowd
of panic.stricken people tried to leave
the town and the Governor sent
troops to drive them back. He thought
there was no danger and did not wish
business interrupted"
From the balcony one brilliant May
night they watched the fame pictures
that Mont Pelee was making against
the night sky. In the street below
the youths and maldens OF gay St.
Pierre talked and laughed as they
passed. A girl wore q white rose in
her night-black hair. The youth with
her bent over her pleading for it. She
took 1t out, touched it softly with her
both laughed happily.
The sun of Ascension Day rose
brightly over st. Pierre. People went
early to devotions in the old cathe.
dral. At the door Wilfrid met Jeanne
How like the Jeanne" of his vision
she was with the early light falling
over her. Out of the dead centuries
she had come to meet him and now
must he lose her to the long pent-up
and suddenly freed wrath Of Mont
Pelee?
A carriage dashing furiously by
drew up suddenly. A face that Will.
frid knew looked out.
Lancaster, come with me-" cried
an American voice. There are places
for two. Let me take you and
Mademoiselle from this accursed
town"
Wilfrid stretched out his hand. No
word was spoken, but the appeal in
his eyes met response in her heart.
She put her hand in his, he lifted her
into the carriage and they drove
southwark. They were miles away
when a defamation as of the thunders
of the universe rent the air and shook
the earth. The refugees looked back.
A heavy cloud of smoke descended
upon the doomed city followed by
shower of fire, and st. Pierre was no
more.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Three Hrothers in Prison fOr Llfe.

Sheriff H. M. Murphy of St.
Francois county arrived in Jefferson
City Friday morning, having in Gus
toby Henry, John and Anton Niebbek-
ker, three Hungarian brothers, whom
he placed in the penitentiary, where
each has been sentenced to serve a
term Of ninety-nine years. Inc men
killed a companion while all were on
a drunken spree, two of them holding
their victim while the third one
plunged butcher knife through his
body several times. 1t is stated here
that never before in the history OF the
prison have three, either brothers or
not related to each other, come under
so severe a sentence for the same of
Tense,
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
MISSOURI TREASURY REPORT.
Statement Shows Monthly Balance Of
$3,27e,4es.49 or Hand.

$s,27s, 4ss.4s or Hand.
Secretary OIL State Sam 3. Cook re-
ports having received and paid into the
State Treasury taxes and fees for the
month of January, 1903, as follows:
Notarial commissions, s1,S10; do
nestle corporation tax, S14,S20; foreign
corporation tax, $4,000; miscellaneous
fees, $749.9O; Land Department fees,
$62.75; bank inspection fees, $840; re-
cording railroad contracts, $1S4.90.
Total, $22,177.55.
State Treasurer r. P. Williams fled
with Governor Dockery report show
ing the following transactions of the
State Treasury for the month of Janu-
airy:
Balance December 81, 1902, $685.
4O2,71; receipts during January, 1908,
$1,517,81224; disbursements during
January, 1903. 1895, 716.47; balance Jan
uary 81, 1908, $3,279, 49S. 40.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
LIBRARY TAX IS ILLEGAL.
KlrksvilIe Will Therefore Not Accept
carneale's Offer.

klrksville Will Therefore Not Accept
carnegle's offer
At hearing on the motion to re-
strain the collection Of a library tax
for Kirksville, Circuit Judge Shelton
made the injunction perpetual, and
Mr., Carnegie's 5000 win not be
Forthcoming.
The court held the tax Illegal on
several grounds. One was that ie was
an attempt to create a debt, contrary
to the Constitution. The court also
found irregularities in the record-the
passage Of the ordinance, notices Of
election, etc.
The suit was brought in the name
of Richard Brashear ct al. VS.. City Col
lector. Mr.. Carnegie had agreed to
give Kirksville $4,000 toward the
establishment of library, provided
the city would obligate itseif to sup
port it by a tax or not less than 81, 500
per year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Loulslana opera House sold.

e. A. Parks and w. B. Haley have
purchased the opera house at Louisi-
ana from J. X. o'Neil, who will go on
the road next season as the manager
of a company, which win produce a
play he has written. Mr. Parks is the
owner of the Parks opera house,
which win be converted into a music
store. This will leave the Burnett as
the only opera house in the city. It
will be much improved and made into
one of the best in the State, outside
of the large cities.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Experiments with Alfalfa.

The University of Missouri, in con-
section with the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, is making
more extensive experiments in the
raising of alfalfa than have hitherto
Seen attempted. Prominent farmers
all over the State are lending their
support. The university will publish
the result of it's experiments in book
form as soon as the experiments are
eomplete.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
FRUIT GROWERS coNvENTloN.
Meeting is Called for February % at
st. Joseph, Mo.

st. Joseph, Mo.
The fruit farmers of Northwest Mis-
souri, have been called to meet in st.
Joseph February 2S, to perfect the or
ganization of a Platte Purchase Horti-
cultural Society. At the meeting Of
the st. Joseph Horticultural Society
Saturday morning the secretary was
instructed to issue the call for this
meeting on the date named
The purpose of the organization,
as outlined in the call is to bring the
fruit-growers of Northwest Missouri
into more intimate relation, to discuss
those phases of fruit culture which are
particularly interesting to the farmers
in this section and to prepare a fruit
exhibit from the Platte Purchase dis
trict for the Worlds Fair at ST. Louis
next year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Asks for a Divorce.

Mrs. Mamie e. Archias has filed a
petition for divorce from her hus-
band, Louis E. Archias, prominent in
business in Carthage and heavily in
terested in mining. The custody Of
their three children and alimony are
asked by the plaiRtiff, who alleges in
the petition general indignities. The,
name of prominent young woman
Of Carthage, a former stenographer Of
the defendant, is brought into the
case.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05

Everybody knows of your famous
park. Do you think that little Mar
Unique could have one of the most
beautiful gardens in the world all to
herself?"
= never thought whether anybody
else knew of it; only know that we
love it.
Jacques looked away up at Mont
Pelee towering above pretty little st.
Pierre.
I'VE have two loves" he said. THE
Jardin and Mont Pelee. could not
say which we love best, but our love
for Mont Pelee is a different feeling.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Festus Bank Organized.

The Farmers and Merchants Bank
Of Festus was organized Thursday
with q capital stock of $4,000. Tho
following oficers have been chosen:
w. H. wagner, president; D. r. honey,
cashier; J, r. Donnell, J. w. Pickell,
Fl. O. Booth. ]. G. Ashbaugh, w. H..
Wagner. w. H. Wolf and william Corr
man, directors.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
skunis Make Home in Residence.

A colony of skunks was discovered
Saturday in the residence of William
Steinhaus, an electrician Of Carthage.
They had crawled from the cellar up
between the plastering and weather,
boarding to the garnet. and now rain
tain their nest despite all that the
owner of the property can do. TAPS
VIII be set and it is probable tnat the
house viii be vacated temporarily.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
WRIGHT County Teaohoro Meet,

The Wright County Teachers AS,
sociation and Reading Circle was in
session at Norwood Saturday. Many
subjects Of Importance to teachers
were discussed and the attendance was
large from all sections Of the county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Boys PLAYED Win Dynamite,

Seven large sticks of dynamite we're
found in the possession of number
Of small boys in North st. Joseph Fri
day. They admitted they had stolen
Il and were throwing the explosives
about in a reckless manner that gave
their parents great fright when they
learned of it. Some Of the boys said
their proposed blowing up Buchanan
Countys historic old fail.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
shot lierseIf In Inc Rreast.

Martha Webber, wife of Geo. Web.
Der, prominent farmer living eight
miles east OF Buffalo, committed sui
eide by shooting herself through the
breast. Bad health is supposed TO Sc
the cause She leaves q husband and
ona child.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Thrashed Wheat IN january.

Mat Holt, who lives in the Missile
sippi Bottoms north OF Fishery,
thrashed 500 bushels Of wheat Mon
day and shipped IL TO ST. Louis. he
received word that Il sold for IS cents
a bushel. This wheat was overhowed
by SAs river in July. and had never
dried sufacisBtly to thrash until freez-
ing weather.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05

n me United States court at JEFF
ferson City q petition In Bankruptcy
was fied By Las. Ritchle Of Sturgeon.
an insurance agent Liabilities, $1i,-
ssl: assets, 4s87. az whsch he cleine
teoo "a exempt
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
I'M, s. u. CLUB ls out Of Debt.

The Physical Culture Club OF the
University OF Missouri has paid on the
last Of the old debts which have been
hanging over It for years. The club
e now out OF debt and has money IN
the treasury. The last season has been
q profitable one for the club.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05
Walked OF I HIGH RIufI.

Carver Vance, an aged negro living
a Eisberry. while on his way home
Saturday night apparently got losh ln
the dark and walked on a 6O.fcot bluif.
killing himself Instantly.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-05

the ThralI Of Its Mystic Faselna.
ton.
Of the rose so sweet and the sunlight
in which it blossoms so bright as in
St Pierre.
Three days after Wilfrid Lancaster
landed on Martinique he went with .
friendly native to the Jardin des
Plantss, mile from st. Pierre. where
the foliage OF great trees Weaves into
an arch Of sparkling emerald overhead
and cool lakes glitter IN the green
moss and the music Of cascades
tinkles always in the air
1T IL more beautiful even than
had imagined It,"
Then you hal imagined TT Had
you known Of It before io-daysT
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28
MILLIONAIRE ITALIAN
Wearies of His Ancestral Estates and
Yearns TO Be Waiter

Weary already OF his vast italian
estates and fortune Of 1880, 900, Sig.
F'erreri Romolo, a millionaire for only
six months, is awaiting anxiously the
settlement of the restaurant strike that
he may apply for a position as waiter.
Experience Sig. Romolo does not lack,
for, until he came into his inheritance,
the now wealthy italian served in that
capacity at the Stratford hotel. and
previous to that at the Auditorium and
Grand Pacific. Only last Thursday
night he returned from his native
country TO his former residence at 1920
Indiana avenue.
Better fifty years Of Europe than
cycle of Cathay." Sig. Romolo says is
not half so true as better ten years Of
America than a lifetime in Europe"
He stayed in Italy much longer than
ne wanted to, although he had been
absent for tWenty-eight years. From
the very first he was obliged to fight
with the government for the possession
OF the estates left by his parents in
sale, Milan, on Lake Como, and at
other places in Italy. Finally one dis
pute was settled. and the former waiter
came back to America with enough
money to make him Independently rich.
The rest of the S1,S00,000 he hopes will
not be long in coming
Sig. Romolo has had quite as dra-
matte a career as fiction could paint
For twenty eight years he kent silence
as to his noble parentage and the
wealth to which he had been accus-
TONED IN his youth. But last Novem-
Der a telegram came saying that his
mother was very sick. and requesting
his immediate return home.
Sailing soon afterward he went di-
rect to Sale and inquired the way to
the residence of the Signora Romolo.
Inc palace was one he had not known
h0Vh0QG a- 1a
to inquire if his mother lived there.
After his long and eXpectant journey.
he says, the news that she was dead
oVercame him. He also found the gov
eminent in possession of the place, and
had difficulty in establishing his claims
as son and only heir.
But 1 would not stay there If I lost
all my fortune" said the wealthy
waiter yesterday. In America I am
Tree. There was not. They watched
everything I did. If I was seen in nv
shirt sleeves they put it in the paper.
II talked to this man or that it was in
the paper. And then l like to be lust
plain working man."
what shall do with my money? 7
do not know. l do not like society. and
do not care for designations or anuse-
ments. l have no wife. no children no
friends. do not believe in friend
Ships"
That Mr.. Romolo does not belong 70
the rank which he has chosen is evil
dent in conversing with him. He
quotes French, Italian and the English
classics He is more or less Of a phi-
Iosopher He claims TO have invented
a wonderful bridge, a seIf-infatins hi
cycle tire and an extension table. He
may use a part of his fortune to COM
plete his inventions.
Why Mr.. Romolo as bow deserted
ms palatial home. his aristocratic fam
ily and his native land he does not saw.
his friends assert that a young woman
was at the bottom Of it, and that that
Is why he has no wife and is suspicious
even or ordinary friendships.--Chica
go Inter Ocean.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28
TOnSOrial Art Is Becoming
a Complicated Mystery

When Alex Pope delivered himself of
tina oft-quoted couplet,
'One science only viii one genius fit
So broad IS art, so narrow human wit"
he had not reckoned with the versatile
1ty Of BARRIERS. For could the .1ittle
man of Twickenham" haxe foreseen
the finished product of the modern
man of Twickenham" have foreseen
himself, or, at least. added a few lines
to his essay on man. His prophetic
eye would have marked the man in a
barber chair, and the several operations
which he may there undergo, in de-
f1ance of the crude duties of the old
time barber.
-Tt has got so now" said a ST. Paul
artist" that mere shaving and hair
cutting are not enough. An up-to-
date barber must understand how to
massage the face, the scalp and the
neck. He must also know the formu-
las Of hair tonics, hair dyes, hair re-
storatiFes and hair eradicators, for
some men are as anxious to lose hair
as most men are to get it.
when [ began the business twenty
years ago a shampoo was the only
dainty served UP in the best shops,
but the field today offers limitless OPP
portunities for extras in our line.
eve even have barber colleges, you
know" and the shaver contorted his
features TO convey. his contempt for
such institutions. Yes, we're progress
ing, and every year We get something
new"
Electric Massage Is Latest.
A Globe man was permitted to
rubber" to his hearts content about
the shop. and to observe the work"
Of the BARRIERS which was in TO wise
connected with shaving or hair cut
ing. AT a signal from the foreman
the reporter directed his attention to
large man with little hair, fat, red
Dimpiy face and q nervous twitching
Of the glands OF tho neck. When the
barber had his man ready he swathed
him in hot towels, rubbed and kncaGed
his face, shook his jowls up and down,
wiped him dry ard then got the new
est machine in barhardom. This de-
vice consists OF an electrical apparatus
which receives its currcn. from an
electric light wire. The barber, OF op-
orator, connected Il Up. screwed a face
attachment" tc q pice OF hose, turned
on the current and tEoa applied If to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28
Has Cared for River Lights
for Over Twenty Years

'T would rather be lamp post in st.
Paul than be mayor of Minneapolis.
And why shouldn't l." commented
Capt. W. T. Eagon, the veteran river
man, who is monarch Of all he surveys
when he treads the deck of Uncle Sans
lighthouse tender, the Lily. For near-
~ thirty-five years have been making
this port and I really consider myself
one OF the Saints boys"
Since he was fourteen years of age
Capt. Bill Eagon, as he is called by his
friends who are scattered from the
head waters to New Orleans, has
known no other life than the unsalted
waters of the Mississippi valley and
twenty of them have been spent in the
employ of Uncle Sam in looking after
the beacon lights that dot the shores of
the Mississippi from st. Paul to Cairo,
Ill
Three times a year he and the Lily
visit them and just that many times he
drops in on his friends in st. Paul and
says "howdy." Gov. Van SAINT is one
of these friends. for, as Capt. Bill says,
Il did many stunt with Van when the
the river offered more opportunities
to those who would hustle than it does
now.
Il didn't think when I was on the
river with Van, twenty-five years ago,
that he would be governor of this great
state, unused Capt. Eagon reminiscent
~. But he deserved it," he added. Il new
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28

day mark, beacon and buoy located by
the government along the shores of the
Mississippi river for the guidance of
the boats that traverse it's broad wa
ters.
There are 500 lights, 240 day marks
and II barrel buoys. All these must
be supplied with oil, repairs made.
changes in location provided for and
the men in charge coached as to their
care and maintenance.
For twenty years Capt. Eagon has
been doing this work and he can al
most find every lamp with his eyes
shut. Prior 70 his connection with the
government he ran with the old packet
line which covered the river between
St. Paul and St. Louis, and it was here
that he established such close. rela-
lions with Gov. Van SAINT. He also
knew him as a freighter
1--WE had a great deal of work to do
this time" said Capt. Eagon yesterday.
The high water Of the early part of
the month did much damage and COM
PEELED repairs to the lights. In some
places the river was ten miles wide.
When coming up this trip we were un-
able to find the Mason City light and
on investigation 1 learned that the
tender in trying to care for it during
the high water, was drowned. Damage
from the waters was general and it is
still much in evidence. Many of the
lights we could not find and my lengthy
stay at ST. Paul was for the purpose
Of waiting until the river had fallen
and then we could prosecute our search
more easily"
The Lily spends every winter at the
mouth Of the Tennessee river, and
Capt. Eagon does not expect any
change in the programme this year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28
Incubator Baby Weighs
g--... j.. s. But Two Pounds and Lives

NEW YORK, j une 27.e+A tiny face,
so brown that it suggested walnut
stain, wrinkled itself into a. thousand
lines; an in1nitesimald fist closed con-
vuIsively as if for ftr1netfiate business;
pair of muddy darksfyes opened and
blinked responsibility. The smallest in
cubator baby was awake and ready to
be interviewed
she's not very pretty vet, muir
INJURED the French nursesg who was
nevertheless regarding the baby with
tenderest admiration. Had she not
brought her back from the very verge
Of the shadowland? What she said
was perfectly true, but Jeanette was
conscious of her own Importance as the
nos11 sensational baby of the whole
LUsl park nursery of nine incubator
babies-the very heart of the Heart
Of Coney island" in fact.
Baby's Bath and, Breakfast.
Jeanette was wh4slxed away by the
nurse and was presently extended on
a dressing table shuts in by curtains
from the draughts. Here her costume
was revealed in its entirety. 1t is a
long piece of the finest French pique
and suffices for al. the bandages here
tofore considered de rigueur in a
haby's outfit. Rolled about Jeannettes
small body,it was turned up and pinned
into the shape of the little case affected
by an Indian baby on its mothers back.
+ Her sterilized dressing table is a
study in convenieneesn5In one of the
stationary boxes is powder; in anoth-
er the absorbent cottoa, which sponges
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28

keep them just so. One reason for this
is that they will get hair cut that
exactly suits them (and there is
great art in this), one which SETS off
the contour of their heads to advan-
tage. They do not want to lose this
effect, and they instruct their barber to
follow the same lines and take off ever
SO little hair every few days.
Hair Tones Going Out.
The use of hair tonics is still largely
INDUCED in. although a much better
class Of stuff is now on the market.
There are thousands of fake"
dandruff cures, itching scalp cures and
the like. but there is also any number
Of excellent preparations which will
keep the scalp healthy and clean. and
therefore free from dandruff or dis
ease. To name any Of these would
be invidious. but you barber, if he is
a good fellow, and he is if you have
used him right, can tell you the names
of a dozen of them.
There is one department of the bar
Der business that has fallen off amaz-
ingly in the last decade. That is the
dyelng department.. where formerly
men rushed for treatment at sight of
gray hair in their heads or boards.
But since lovely woman discovered
that gray hair is really beautiful, and
enNlouS man round out that his dlStin-
misunderstanding, gray-haired friend
was greatly admired by the ladies,
there has been no demand for dyes
warranted to restore the hair to it's
natural color"
There are all sorts of skin games
worked in the barber trade. as well as
In others. Given a shop much fire.
quented by hobos. and the curio hunter
would find some astonishing decoc-
tons. Bottles of tonic" to keep the
hair from falling out or from coming in.
others to make the straightest hair
wavy or curly, stuff to prevent the
eyebrows from getting an Goldman
look" dope" to keep the skin from
wrinkling, other dope to make the
mustache grow. and still other dope to
make the hair any color desired if Of
fered for SALE f
Making a Patron Over.
II could just put on a little of my
Seal Brown" said an artist near the
union depot, "and make you look twen-,
ty years younger. Gray hair is all
right If you are young, but when you
commence to get old the women don't
like it. My preparation fools them to
DEATH"
How about the gray hair in the
Deards?" asked the reporter.
"Oh, as to that. you've got to keep
shaved. Use the Seal Brown or the
Indian black and get clean shave