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Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Woman Bound to succeed.

Miss Helene Preda of Buda-Pesth,
Hungary, though not blessed with a
fortune, made her way through col
lege and earned a degree more than
year ago. Armed with this, she
fancied she would have no difficulty
in getting employment as a teacher
She spent several weeks in search Of
q place, but was unsuccessful. 1t was
then she determined to try a trade.
She set about to learn the trade of a
stone mason and within few months
had mastered it. Starting out to find
employment in her new field, she went
first to the village mayor and secured
a permit. An hour later she was boss
ing the construction Of a stone wall
around large private park and had
twenty men under her.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
PAYING THE TRUSTS PROFITS.
Whole People Taxed for the Benefit Of
the Few.

the Few
It was announced the other day
from Washington that for the first
time in the history of the country the
export of manufactured products from
the United States to foreign countries
exceeded our exports of agricultural
products.
On the face of it this seems to be
a very gratifying exhibit. American
manufactures are able to compete sue
cessfully with those of foreigners in
foreign markets. We are great man
ufacturing people, and we are in a
fair way to supply the world.
But this is not all. Are we supply
ing our own people on equal terms?
If we are not doing this, what does
1t advantage us that we supply people
on the other side of the world? Should
not the home market" receive the
first consideration?
In short, who pays for this great
extension of trade abroad in manufac-
tured products-the foreigner who
buys at a low competitive rate, or the
American Industrial who is mulcted in
excessive rates because the Republic
an tariff shuts out competition?
And who profits by the arrangement
our American industrials, or the con-
sumers on the other side. or the trusts
which manufacture the goods and
charge one price to foreigners and an
other and far higher price to citizens
Of the United States?
During the year ending June 80,
1904, the sale of American manufac-
tured products to foreigners amounted
to 100000, of which fully IS per
cent was sold at cheaper prices than
are charged for precisely the same
goods when sold to Americans. The
average price of these goods in the
foreign market is 20 per cent less than
the selling price in the home market.
On some goods, such as paints and
varnishes, the difference between the
price to foreigners and Americans IL
only per cent; but on agricultural
implements, tools, machines and hard
ware the difference In the price to the
foreigner and TO the American varies
from 10 to so per cent. on wire, cart
ridges. playing cards, etc, the differ-
ence is more than 100 per cent, and on
such articles as wire rope and borax
the difference exceeds 200 per cent.
Here we have the real essence OF
the protective system. In order that
the trusts may prosper and gather
profit from the trade of the world, the
American people are made to pay ex-
tortionate prices for the materials
needed in their industries OF eonstTuc-
ton and IN the maintensnce OF the
conditions ~ comfortable living
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

abroad than here. That reform will
give the people of the United States
an even chance with the foreigners
and greatly reduce the enormous In
crease in the. cost Of living. The farm
err, workingman and those with limit
ed and stated incomes that do not in
crease or diminish with the cost OF
living must all favor such a change
in the tariff, because they do not par
ticipate in the increase Of trust profits,
but are called upon to pay them.
With their enormous profits de-
creased the trusts will not be able to
be so liberal to their friends, the Re
publicans, and the honest voter will
have his day IN court and all will
have chance to live and let live.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Cars on Enqllsh RalIroads.

We learn that the Great Central
Railway company. which has already
several thirty-ton wagons Ccars) in
use, has given orders for the manu-.
facture Of wagons capable of carrying
forty tons, and the first of these. man
ufactured by the Birmingham Railway
Carriage and Wagon company, is now
ready for use. This colossal wagon
is far and away the largest ever seen
on railway system in Great Britain.
It measures 40 feet az inches in
length, 8 feet 3 inches in width and
feet inches in height-London En-.
gineer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Farmsr Moo AedIdentaI Death.

Brunswick, Mo-; Cora Masters, a
young farmer living north of town,
while on a squirrel hunt, accidentally
shot and killed himself. Mr.. Masters
left home about o o'clock Thursday
morning. Soon after his departure
his wife heard shot, but gave little
attention to 1t. When night came and
he had not returned she became
alarmed and notified the neighbors,
who formed a searching party, but did
not succeed in finding him until past
midnight. He leaves a wife and i've
small children.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
OPPOSE NEW COURTHOUSE
Nineteen Citizens Of Springfield, Mo-,
File Restraining Suit.

Springfield, Mo: Nineteen promi-
nent citizens of Greene county have
filed suit in the Circuit Court against
the County Court, asking that that
body be restrained from disposing of
the present Courthouse and enjoined
from making further payment on real
estate purchased for a new Courthouse
site in the central part of Springfield
Last July the County Court decided
that the old Courthouse was made
quate and not centrally located and
purchased a new site at a cost of
$4,000 and were preparing to submit
a proposition to the voters for the cree
aion of a $4,000 structure, when the
suit was filed. The petition alleges
that the commissioners have exceeded
their authority in purchasing real es-
tate for a Courthouse site before the
proposition had been submitted to the
voters. The case comes up for hear
ing in the early part of January.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
CIRCUIT COURT CLERKS
PERFECT ORGANIZATION
7. A. Nicholson Of Greene County
Elected President of Association.

St. Louis: Clerks of the circuit
courts of the various counties of Mis-
souri, and st. Louis perfected a per-
moment organization and elected Of
ficers last week at n meeting in State
Hall of the Missouri Building at the
Worlds Fair.
The new organization has for its
objects the promotion of good fellow
ship, the unification of the work and
the betterment of the service render
ed to the public. 1t will be known as
the Missouri Circuit Clerks Associa-
ton.
John T. Fitzsimmons of st. Louis
was elected temporary chairman and
l.. NJ. Henson of Butler county tenn
porary secretary, T. A. Nicholson Of
Greene county was elected president.
Frank Dietrich of Jefferson county
vice-presidont and o. p. A. Heinrich
Of Howell county secretary and treas
urer.
Five committees are to be appointed
by the president. as follows: Execu-
tive, Ways and Means, Programme
and Arrangement, Laws and Duties
Pertaining to Circuit Clerks and
Books and Forms. Each committee
will consist of FIVE members.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
PRESS GALLERY WON VICTORY
Clash With Speaker Keifer That Re.
suited in His Defeat.

The Washington colony Of newspa.
per correspondents heard with inter.
est the news that ex-Speaker Keller
was coming back to Congress from
the Ohio district which he represent.
ed twenty years ago. While he was
speaker, Mr.. Keifer undertook to re-
form the press gallery of the House.
One experience was enough for him.
He took the control of the gallery
away from the standing committee of
correspondents and on interesting &C.
casions would fill it with his particu-
lar friends, excluding the newspaper
men completely from watching the
proceedings Of the House. The press
committee took the matter in its own
hands, locked the gallery doors and
excluded those holding cards from the
speaker. This brought on a clash
and the upshot of it all was that
Speaker Keifer was soon relegated to
obscurity.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Mics Actors splendid Jewels.

For a week before the wedding Of
Miss Aston in London detectives we're
employed night and day, guarding
the presents in her fathers house in
Carlton HouAe terrace They are still
talking in the British capital about
the splendor of the jewels displayed.
One table was reserved exclusively
for pearls among which was a neck
lace, the gift OF Mr.. Astor, consisting
OF seven rows OF magnificent black
pearls. A single row Of these gems
worn by the bride at her marriage. is
said 70 have been worth $4,000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Missouri oings
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
BUILDING COMPLETED
Louisiana viii Dedicate Her New In
stltuslon on January I.

Louisiana, Mo-: The citizens of Lou
isiana are displaying a justifable case
Of civic pride in the completion Of the
new Carnegie Library building, which
will be dedicated soon and opened to
the public.
The building Just completed is the
result of a contribution of $4,000
made by Andrew Carnegie for that
purpose, conditioned upon certain eff
forts on the part of the city and its
citizens in securing a site and add
tiUnal funds.
These conditions were fulfilled some
time ago, when a handsome lot, 65x120
feet, in the business center of the
town was secured and sufficient funds
raised to erect a building costing
$4,000. The corner stone of the
building was laid on May last with
appropriate ceremonies. The COM
pleted building was accepted last
week by E. ]. Russell of the firm Of
Mauran, Russell & Garden, architects,
of st. Louis. Arrangements are being
made for opening the library with elab-
crate dedicatory ceremonies about
January /.
The new building is constructed Of
native stone, with red tile roof, and has
q ground area of 3OxGO feet. The ca
pacity of the library will be 5000 vol
umes
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
&c ExPENse oE NAvIEs.
immense Battleshlps Certainly Doomed
70 Extinction.

immense Battleships Certainly Doomed
TO Extinction.
The battleship, with its seven OF
eight hundred men to die when dis
aster comes, is an expensive invest.
ment, says the Worlds Work. Those
who advocate its continuance do not
advocate its development No one ar.
CUES for the building of battleships
twice as long and broad and deep as
those that now exist, with twice the
thickness OF armor and weight of
guns. Yet, If the big battleship be
not developed still further, 1t will
cease to exist. For time its work
can be done by the armored cruiser;
then, as the speed and vision of the
submarine are increased and perfected
by the fast protected cruiser and fast
er destroyer; and II the speed and
vision of this deadly, unseen enemy
that strikes out of the unknown in
time and place finally encompasses the
destroyer, these, too, must give way,
as is probable, and adopt the subma
rine features Of their vanquishers
and become submergible suface
boats.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Trains Collide Head on.

De Soto, Mo-: Iron Mountain train
No 8, leaving St. Louis at $3.50 a. M,
met in head-end collision with a Cot
ton Belt freight train near Summit,
a station about twenty-five miles south
of this place. Fifteen or twenty pas
sengers were slightly injured. G. w.
McAmmon, Iron Mountain pilot on
Cotton Belt train, considably bruised.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Six Hurt in Bridge Collapse.

Pilot Grove, Mo-: A span of the new
county bridge being constructed
across the Lamoine river, north of
here, fell, injuring six nen, two seri-
ously. John McClerry was badly cut
and bruised about the head and John
Frady was injured in the hips. The
accident, It is said. was caused by
the false work supporting the span be-
ing poorly constructed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

week. Tor seventeen years DR.. Dab
ney had been president of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee. A Virginian by
birth, he has devoted his entire ca
reer to the educational and industrial
development of the South. His in.
terest is in the field of industrial
chemistry and the promotion of scien.
tiic agriculture. DR.. Dabney is 40
years of age.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

A Texas mans cotton was eaten by
the boil weevil. and his corn destroyed
by the drouth. His only daughter
eloped with a vagabond, and his son.
followed the Circuit. On top Of this his.
wife gave birth to triplets. He COM
mitted suicide by the rope and rafter-
route, and the coroner very properly
returned a verdict of iusti6able homi--
eide.-Halletsville Herald.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Burns Result in Death.

Jefferson City, Mo-: While Mrs.
John GTieshammer was cleaning a cot
with gasoline Saturday her clothes
caught fire, and she was frightfully
burned. dying in a short time. She
was a daughter of John Brakeman,
formerly superintendent Of the Indus.
trial Department OF Lincoln Institute.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Il Is said that the last artist who
painted the Campanile at Venice be-
fore It fell was an American, F. X. M.
REIN, who spent last summer in Ven
ice. He did a good deal Of work in
the famous city on the Adriatic, which.
viii be placed on view in New York
thia winter.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
win euIId $4,000 Hotel.

Mexico, Mo-: A company of Mexico
and Bellehower capitalists have con.
tracted with Henry H Meyer. OF this
city. for the erection Of $4,000 no
tel at Bellehower
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The police arrested man in Balti-
more because he said it would take
$1,000, 900 horses. 10000 derricks and
500 miles Of ropes and chains to move
the world. No doubt the police re-
garded this as libelous reflection on
the spellbinders.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Good Old Teddy" is the title Of a
song that is being sung in the London
music halls. II refers to the king
and, whatever he may have been once,
st must be admitted that he is getting
good and old now.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Mr. Rockefeller says the poorest
man is the one who has nothing but
money. Perhaps so. from the philo-
sophie viewpoint; but as a rule it is
precisely such a man who feels and
acts as IL he owned the earth.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Waa the chIef Entertalner.

Bragg was telling me at the po-
itical mass meeting last night that his
grandfather died very suddenly on the
platform at a great public gathering"
did he have the nerve to tell you
that?" Eyes; wasn't It true?" "Oh,
yes; executions, believe, were public
in those days when his grandfather
died"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

A New York telephone girl has mar.
Tied a millionaire. Remember this,
Central dear, every time some hor-
rid ran" rings in. There's no know
ing where the lightning may strike
next time.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
oldest missouri Man Dies.

Japlin, Mo-; H. H. Woods, said to
be the oldest man in Missouri, died
at CRANKY last week. 1O4 years old.
He voted at the recent election Up
to the time OF his death he was active
ly engaged in the drug business. and
he left a fortune of SI250,O00.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

A telegram from New York says
John L. Sullivan has signed the pledge
again. But this has ceased to be a
matter of public interest. John L.
broke the pledge-signing record long,
long ago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
WANTS SCHOOLS AND MISSIONS.

University President Deeries Expend.
lures for Warshlps and Armies.
Dr. Charles William Dabney, who IA
vors public expenditures for schools
and missions instead of for warships
and armies, is the new president of
the University of Cincinnati, into
which office he was indicted last
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The dean of Westminster expresses
the opinion that the serpent didn't
say a word to Eve, but he must at
least have wiggled his tail suggestive
1y toward the apple tree.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

There would be a fortune in the fly.
ing machine that could go up as cas-
lily and as gracefully and on such
slight provocation as can the price of
coal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

A physician says music is a great
curative agent AS a remedy for de-
'lirium tremens we imagine that BE
della" and "Hiawatha" would produce
wonderful results.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Wall street has been affected by the
quarrel between Russia and England.
Is there anything left that Wall street
has not been affected by?
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

However, this sour milk elixir OF
life would probably be more popular
II you could rub Il on instead Of drink.
ing It.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

There will be no disputes next sea
son between the new manager OF the
Clevelands and the second baseman
when Napoleon Lajoie is on the field.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The horses attached to a New York
wedding party's coach got scared at
ahe rice and old shoes day or two
aso and ran away This gives the
automobile a much-desired opDortun-
ny % claim that It's the only safe and
90 coaEeyanee 81 tie road.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Russell Sage has placed the seal OF
his approval on the New York subway.
This is rather strange, inasmuch as it
cost so many millions.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Rudyard Kipling is in a position to
look complacently upon his critics,
with 10000 copies OF his new book
sold before the sheets are off the
printing press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
Just PunlahmenA.

Fred Smith, a st. Louis coal dealer,
who delivered q short-weight load Of
coal to a patron, has been fined $500
in the police court Of that city, the
maximum penalty prescribed by law.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
aerman Insneetlon nf Meat.

On April 1, 1903, Germany's new
meat inspection law goes into effect,
necessitating the erection Of many
new buildings for use as inspection
stations. etc,
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Much might be done to save the fast
vanishing alligator of Florida If the
Audubon society could be persuaded
to throw its protecting mantle over
that unattractive but interesting ami
NAL.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

I A University OF Pennsylvania pro-
fessor has discovered the germ of lazi.
ness. which appears to be about the
busiest Of the lot.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
fixes the responsibility. big sleeves
will be worn this winter" it says, "in
order to require the purchase Of new
cloaks."
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The statue which was discovered in
Babylonia recently looks like Chaun-
cey Depew. But 1t also looks like the
late Adam Forepaugh. The identity
of the original as an ancestor is still
in doubt.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

: Since West Point beat Yale at foot.
ball the Yale professors are unalter-
ably opposed to anything that savors
OF militarism.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

Those Thaw children act very much
as 81 their father had been a great
man.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

King Peter of Servia has been wear.
ing his thirty-pound crown for several
weeks now and he isn't one of the
soreheads yet. Good for Pete!
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The United States has granted $500
patents to women, but as yet there is
no device for keeping a hat on
straight.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

The open season for the man who
rocks the boat is over, but the prac-
teal Joker we always have with us.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

II isn't the coat that makes the
man, Of course, but the overcoat helps
somewhat.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

: A Chicago man was fined 5000 FOR
carrying a concealed weapon. He had
prepared himself for a possible hold
up, but the extent of the holdup must
have astonished him.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01

a COW in st. Paul tried TO get into
n theater TO see a show. A stock COM
pany must have been playing there.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-10-19

ing for $4,000. The call OF. a few weeks
ago being for the same amount. This
brings the floating debt down to the mid
die of August, but it is likely to be some
time before another call can be made.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-10-19

eral condition of the Russian troops al
the front are remarkably good.
Emperor William sent a 'good-luck''
message TO the Russian fleet, and it may
cause a protest by Japan.
Gen. Tasagawa will take charge of the
Japanese troops in Korea and the Ko-
rean army will be suppressed.
Preparations are being made to es-
tablish acknowledgement winter quarters
for the Russians about Mukden.
Activity In China means either danger
10 foreigners or preparation TO resist Jap
anese aggression after the war.
The Japanese gunboat Heiyen was
sunk by a mine near Port Arthur and
nearly all of her crew of 800 men drown
ed.
Russian papers say that Japan must
be crushed so that she will never be
able TO renew her operations on the con-
tinent.
japanese at Yentai retreated before the
Russian advance on Sunday, but were
REINFORCED and drove the enemy back
on Monday.
Kuroki is said to have crossed the
Hun river above Fushun ford and is
marching direct on Tie Pass. The Cir
cum-Bgikal railway is open.
Count Okuma, leader of the Progree-
sive party in Japan, estimates that a two
years war will cost Japan one billion
dollars, meaning a per capita tax of $40.
More than 100000 men are believed to
have been engaged in the fighting at Yen
tai. Another fierce Engagement has de-
veloped twenty-seyen miles southeast of
Mukdeu.
st. Petersburg military officials do not
regard the Yentai battle as a general en-
gagement, as Kuropatkin's entire army
has not reached the battle line. The de-
cisive engagement Is expected
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-10-19
Intere.ting News Items.

The Piedmont clothing plant, Char
otte, N. c., worth $4,000, was burned
Two blocks of buildings in Oakley
Kan, were destroyed by fire that caused
$4,000 loss. Several hotel guests had
q narrow escape.
A monument marking the birthplace o.
James Knox Polk, eleventh President OF
the United States, was unveiled near
Pineville, N. G.
Gov. Mickey of Nebraska admits he
uses railroad passes, but says he would
approve a law making their issuance OF
acceptance a misdemeanor.
After a running exchange of shots
three alleged h~ighwaymen, Henry Leslie
William Krepts and James Orris, wer,
lodged in Jail at Tarentum, Pa.
Hilary Altman, Charles Altman an6
Iver Harvey are being held in Florida 10
the Georgia authorities in connection.
with the Duncan-Altman feud murder.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy viii
hottie. Mrs. Lydia Mounts and Mrs. Myrs
McHenry broke two plate glass window
in the Mahan Wholesale Supply Con
pany's warehouse in Wichita, Kan, anc
were taken TO jail