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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-06

be straininE ner eyes over the water
for days, then succumbing to parox-
ysms of grief. then watching again
and breaking down again. II she did
not desist her Inxed would go. And.
oh, fhow bersGhlldren watched and
waited and told their mother that they
had dreamed father had come back,
and tfey bad a Feeling" that the
dream would come true. A~.-,---
At last Mary's friends began to think
it would be no gain to her to have her
husband return. They feared that the
intensity OF relief might either kill her
or dethrone mind SO nearly worn out
Had it not been that they felt sure he
would never come they would have
kept watch for him to prevent her
meeting him suddenly unawares. Mean
while her little ones, wearied Of keep
ing her up with prophecies mutely saw
her slowly fading away.
One morning little Billy, the youn-
gest boy, aged four, threw his arms
around his mother and said:
"Oh, nanny, l dreamed last night
that the Albatross came sailing into
the harbor, and papa stood on the
deck giving the orders, and they lego
the anchor, and papa came ashore and
kissed US all"
Such words had grown to have con
trary effect from encouragement In
deed, they only induced a greater de-
spondency Mary embraced the boy
in a paroxysm of tears. and his elder
sister forbade him to tell his mother
his dreams again.
The spring came. the trees put forth
their leaves and the children begged
their mother to take them to spend the
day on their grandfather's farm, few
miles inland. They drove there in
four seated wagon and after visiting
with the cows. the horses, the chick
ems. which all children love, in the
| evening they started back. 1t was
dusk before they reached the village.
and in every house shone light.
"Oh, mamma" said little Billy, ''see,
there's light in our house! Maybe
papa has come while we've been
away"
Tears came to the mothers eyes, and
the eldest girl placed her hand over
the boys mouth.
But who had lighted their lamp? No
one had been instructed to do so.
Doubtless some neighbor had kindly
interfered to prevent their coming to
| their home to find it dark. When they
drove up to the door a figure reached
out pair of strong arms to help them.
The light shining through the open
door was on his back, and his face was
left in shadow. Nevertheless Mary
Perkins uttered the cry:
"John!"
Her husband bore her unconscious
| into the house. clogged by his children
clinging to him and endeavoring To-
climb up to kiss him. He laid his wife
tenderlt on couch, and in moment
she had recovered her consciousness.
Cases in which the brain suffers
from joy are not of long duration,
Mary Perkins soon recovered sufficient
~ to hear her husbands narrative. Il
was the oft repeated story of ship
wrecked sailor being picked up at sea
and carried to distant land. 1hS
voyage was two months out and two
months back. and there was no way
of communicating except by ship
John Perkins remained at home, e.,
vesting his savings in marine insnr-
ance, from which he had benefited !"
the case Of his lost ship, and became
rich man.
MYRA c. EDWARDS.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-06
Twelfth Night Cake.

For Twelfth Night, Jan. 9, bake a
round loaf Of poundcake put pea and
a bean in the battery and ice with a
plain icing; When firm, arrange al
ternately small red and white candles
on the top so as to form five pointed
star, piping a rose Of icing round each
candle and garnishing with a wreath
Of holly-Table Talk.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24

Now that the excitement of the
election is over and people can look
at political questions and policies
calmly and dispassionately is the
time to investigate the economic ques-
lions that so greatly affect their well
fare. Everyone has probably made up
their minds that they would like to
see the predacious trusts curbed,
enough at least to prevent their sell
ing their products cheaper abroad than
here, though many have voted to con-
tinue that outrage. The trusts are so
strongly intrenched, through their
friends and supporters in the United
States Senate, that 1t will take a pro-
longed effort on the part of the peo-
pie to dislodge them. The criminal
trusts are making such large profits,
through the protection the tariff gives
them, that they can we'll afford to con-
tinue putting money into politics in
the future, as they have in the cam.
paign just ended. To Offset this, those
voters who are awake to the necessity
OF reform in our tariff system must
urge their neighbors to aid them in
the long struggle for equal rights to
all and special privileges to none. II
1t was not for the special privileges
that the trusts have been granted by
the Republican leaders, there would
be no trusts and combinations in re.
straint Of trade and they would be
powerless to plumber the consumers.
II the railroads were prevented by
law from granting special rates and
rebates to the trusts and the law was
fearlessly enforced, the trusts would
be on the same footing as others and
competitors would have a chance to
compete with them.
Every election in the future will
have to be contended for, until the full
victory is won, for II the concentration
Of wealth in the hands of the trust
magnates is allowed to continue. their
power will become so great that it will
require a revolution to uproot them.
Congress and legislatures must be
fought for, that the trusts cannot buy
or coerCe, and to arouse the voters to
their danger in the continuation of
trust domination, they must be alive
in the future, as in the past, to the
enormous power the trusts WELD and
how difficult it is to dislodge them.
When the voters fully understand how
the trusts are robblng them, they will
make short work Of those predatory
corporations.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
Cured Her Rheumatism.

Deep Valley, Pa, Oct. 31.-(Spe-
cial.)-There is deep interest in Green
county over the cure of the little
daughter of l. N. Whipkey of Rheu.
matism. She was great sufferer for
five or six years and nothing seemed
to do her any good till she tried Dodd's
Kidney Pills. She began to improve
almost at once and now she is cured
and can run and play as other chill.
dren do. Mr.. Whipkey says:
-"I am indeed thankful for what
Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for my
daughter; they saved her from being
a cripple perhaps for life"
Dodd's Kidney Pills have proved
that Rheumatism is one Of the results
of diseased Kidneys. Rheumatism is
caused by Uric Acid in the blood. II
the Kidneys are right there can be no
Uric Acid in the blood and conse-
quently no Rheumatism. Dodd's Kid
ney Pills make the Kidneys right.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
REPUBLICANS RULE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
For First Time In Thirty-sIx Years
They Will Control Legislature.

st. Louis, November 10.-For the
first time in thirty-six years, or since
Carl Schurz was elected United States
Senator, Republicans control the Mis-
souri, General Assembly. According
to the best returns obtainable last
night, the Assembly will have a Re-
publican majority of fourteen on a
joint ballot, thus causing the retire
ment of Senator Francis M. Cockrell
Indications are that the Republicans
have elected eigthy-five members Of
the House and the Democrats fifty
seven, Republican majority Of twenty
eight.
OF the seventeen new Senators, the
Republicans probably have elected
seven. There are three Republican
hold-over Senators, or a total of ten.
This gives the Democrats a majority of
fourteen in the upper branch of the
Assembly.
At present, the Democrats have a
majority OF twenty-six in the House
and eighteen in the Senate. On joint
ballot, the present Democratic ma
jority is fourty-four
On every side the landslide resulted
in the defeat of Democratic nominees
for the Assembly. The stay-at-home
Democratic vote was almost entirely
responsible for the complete reversal
of form and the defeat of Senator
Cocllrell for reelection to the United
States Senate, thus closing a term of
thirty years Of honorable service
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
laIta snIandld Reoord2

Mr.. Knox. who was the trust attor.
ney general of the United States, said
in his late speech that the amend.
ments to the antitrust laws were "a
splendid record of constructive legisla-
ton"
If 1t was so splendid 1t should have
shown some results, but as the trusts
and combines do not seem to fear this
splendid legislation and no suit has
been brought to trial against a single
trust under 1t, there is a very general
suspicion that this legislation was for
buncombe. Neither Mr.. Knox, Presl.
dent Roosevelt or his present attorney
aeneral seem at all disturbed by this
defeat Of their cherished purpose.
Meanwhile the people are still paying
high trust prices and have the SPLEEN
did prospect Of continuing to pay
them
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
Missouri Doings
SHOOTING
AT CLOSE RANGE
Fred stlermann's shirt Front Ahro
From Powder After Quarrel.

st. Louis: Fred Sherman, 2S years
old, of No. 4403 Clayton avenue, died
at the City Hospital Sunday night as
the result of a quarrel with Dell
Murphy of No. AHA Clayton avenue,
in a saloon at Newstead and Clayton
avenues, Sunday afternoon.
Both men were employed by the
Davis Construction Company. A short
time prior to the shooting they quar-
relied in the saloon. 1t is claimed by
some Of the eye-witnesses that Stier-
mann struck Murphy in the face.
Murphy, It is claimed, left the saloon
and returned in a short while and re-
newed the quarrel.
Men in the saloon say that when
Murphy returned to the saloon he
went up to Sherman, who was stand
ing at the bar, and asked him to strike
him again. Sherman struck Murphy
and the latter grabbed him by the
arm, pulled him away from the bar
and began shooting.
The shooting was done at such
close range that when Sherman fell
the front of his shirt was on fire.
One of the bullets entered his neck,
two entered the abdomen on the left
side and the fourth entered the left
hip.
Immediately after the shooting
Murphy boarded a Sarah street car,
rode q block, then alighted and went
across a vacant lot The police have
been unable to locate him.
No policeman was in the neighbor-
hood at the time of the shooting.
Sherman was taken to the City Hos,
pital, where he died at 1880 o'clock.
Charge Broker With Embezzlement
st. Louis: Charles r. Horton, 6
ticket broker of 16 North Sixteenth
street, was arrested Saturday on com.
plant OF Aaron Bochner John Block,
Thomas Branan and John w. Curtis,
Worlds Fair visitors, who allege that
they left sums ranging from S12 to $14
with Horton in payment for tickets
which he was to secure for them and
which they allege he failed to do.
They also state that Horton refused
to return them their deposits. Four
warrants, charging embezzlement,
were issued against him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24

AZ wageearners are concerned, ana
wage-earners should vote TO reform IT,
The open.shop decision Of President
Roosevelt was the greatest blow that
was ever struck ut organized labor
II was an incentive for the great en-
ployers of labor TO demand that all
shops should be open and gave an i'm.
petus to the Parry organization OF
manufacturers that will be difficult
for organized labor to overcome. The
decision of the President was in line
with the action of the Republican ma.
jority in Congress who refused TO
pass any legislation that labor asked
for.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
Republican Policy Viii Result In
Disaster.

DlodSlGTs
II the Republican policy OF continu-
ing the protective tariff and allowing
the criminal trusts to continue their
plundering, there will soon be a panic
and hard times. Before the last panic
the Treasury was worse than empty
when the Republicans surrendered 1t
in 1893, for that party, which boasts
of its morality, had drawn on the
trust funds to pay the running ex-
penses Of the government and had
also engraved the plates for an issue
of bonds. No Democratic tariff was
responsible for that panic nor for the
panic of 1878, for both occurred when
the Republican party had full control
of all departments of the government
and high protective tariffs were in op-
Grafton.
Yet the Republican orators and or
gans would have the voters believe
that if the tariff is revised and the
criminal trusts are disturbed in their
plundering, we shall have bad times
and stagnation in business.
1t is perhaps possible to have worse
times for workingmen and those with
regular incomes than they now en-
dure. But as wages have been falling
and are still on the declining scale,
and the cost of living is abnormally
high, the workingman could hardly be
hurt by a reduction of prices, and
those With regular incomes, that do
not rise and fall with prices, would
certainly be much better off if the
cost Of living was reduced. There have
been endless strikes by workingmen,
under this Republican administration,
with its robber tariff and high prices.
There has been grating and stealing
without end and much more in the
background that will be uncovered If
the Republicans are defeated. viii
tariff reform and stopping the trusts
from plundering the people with their
high prices make hard times? Will
stopping grating and scandals stop
mills and workshops from running? If
so, reform will never come, and mat
tiers will have to go from bad to worse
until the threatened panic comes any.
way. Then will those people say that
now so fear a change: ooh, that we
had spoken in time"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
TERRIBLE SUFFERING
THIS YOUNG WOMAN APPEALED IN
VAIN FOR HELP.
when Hope had Almost Settled Into Utter
Despair Relief Came from an
Unexpected Source,

Despair Relief Came from an
Unexpected Source,
Mrs. Emma Heidebreder, Of No. 1923
Joy street, Burlington, Iowa, whose hus-
band Is an employee Of the Rand Lumber
Co., tells story of pitiable suffering:
"For about five years." she says, at
had a host Of physical ills that kept me an
invalid and puzzled the doctors. Some
Of them thought was going into con.
sumption. At times was so weak that
could not comb my hair or even wash
my face, Then excruciating pains ran
suddenly up my thigh and / had to be
carried to bed screaming in my agony.
/ could no longer do my work and the
drain upon my husbands purse was
very heavy. craved food but what I
ate only gave mo discomfort. Ny liver
was torpid, and often had to be carried
10 tho door for air to save me from suf-
locating.
"The worst was the pain which seemed
as If my thigh were being pushed out of
my body. The best doctors could do was
10 deaden 1t by narcotics. Once they
thought / could not live for more than
two days. In one Of my worst attacks,
a friend said Why don t you try DR..
Williams Pink PillsP They are the
only thing that ever helped my rheuma-
tism.'
II took his advice. After using one
box felt better, and I continued to use
the pills for three or four months with
steady Improvements until was well.
For four years have been able to do all
my household work, and no longer have
TO take medicine for any serious trouble.
gave one box Of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills to q man on crutches Because of
rheumatism and advised my market
woman to buy box when she was COM
planning Of the same trouble. Iheard that
he was soon able TO throw his crutohes
away, and she told me she had got rid of
the rheumatism by the use Of one box
and could not thank me too much"
Testimony multiplies as to the mag
nifcent curative powers Of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People in cases Of
rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous head
ache, palpitation Of the heart and all
forms Of weakness in either male or
female; They are sold by all druggists
throughout the world.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24

st. Louis: Ed. Butler signed the
$4,000 bond on which Norman M. Vaug-
han, manager of the Elks' Publishing
Company, has been held at the -Four
Courts on the charge of killing Hay
den Y. Loring, proprietor Of the hotel
at 4219 West Belle place, in a quar-
rel over a board bill on November 2.
and the prisoner was released. The
bail was approved by Judge Cum
mings, who is acting in the absence
of Judge Moore of the Court of Grim
inal Correction.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
rhe TarIff and cost Of LlvInn

When the Dingley bill was passed
in 1897 the average cost of food, cloth.
ing and other articles of necessity was
S72.45 for each man, woman and child
in the United States. This year on
Sept. l, after seven years of Republi.
can protection and trust fostering, it
was S97.S4, an increase of $3.50 per
capita, or $126.95 for a family of five.
This SHOWS an increase in the cost Of
living, not including rent, of over 80
per cent. These are 6facial figures,
published by the Department of Com
meTce and Labor, of which Mr.. Cor.
telyou, the Chairman Of the Republi-
can National Committee, was lately
in control, so the figures cannot be dis
puted by the Republicans. AS the Re
lpublicans claim that the Dingley bill
was to protect American labor, it is
proper to inquire II wages have kept
pace with the cost of living; If not,
VI shows that the protective tariff is
"a fraud. delusion and a sham as far
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
Dookory Names Thanksgiving Day.

Jefferson City, Mo-: Gov. Dockery
issued his Thanksgiving proclamac
ton as follows: THE President of the
United States, in pursuance Of estab.
lished custom, has designated Thurs.
day, November "a, 1904, as day Of
praise and thanksgiving. Now, there.
fore, I, Alexander M. Dockery, COVER
nor of the State of Missouri, do here.
by request the people to abstain from
their usual avocations, so far as may
be practicable, and appropriately cele
brate Thanksgiving day. In testi
mony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused to be affixed the
great seal of the state. Done at OF
fee at the city of Jefferson, this It'll
day of November, A. d. 1904.
(By the governor),
A. M. DOCKERY.
SAM B. COOK, Secretary of State
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24

There are no class of citizens who
are greater losers by the protective
tariff than the old veterans of the
civil war. Those of them who are IN.
capacitated FOR active business and
draw pensions do not find the amount
they receive increase with the vastly
increased cost of living, which has ad-
vanced over one-third since the Ding.
ley bill was passed. The widows and
orphans of the old soldiers are con.
fronted by the same proposition, and
even those veterans whom Fortune has
smiled upon more kindly and who
therefore have made no demand for
pensions are mostly depending upon
stated incomes from savings of their
more active years. The old soldiers
in all conditions of life, therefore, feel
the cramp of high prices through the
increased price Of all they have to buy.
Before the trust era, which began in
1897, Immediately upon the passage OF
the Dingley bill, $50 would buy what
now takes $50, and the trend is toward
even a higher scale. Yet the Republi.
cans haze determined to stand pat.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
For Monument to Gen. Stuart.

The committee Of the j. E. B. Stuart
Monument association has decided
that the monument to the confederate
general shall be an equestrian one Of
bronze on a granite base. The monu-
ment Is to be set up in Richmond, Va,
and the association still lacks $12,0
Of the amount desired for the purpose.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is president of the
association.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
A. NJ, DUChERH.
SAM B. COOK, Secretary of State
Farmer Drowned In Mire,

St. Joseph, Mo-: Nicholas White, :
farmer 70 years old, who lived Ave
miles west of Halls Station, while
intoxicated late Saturday night, be
came mired in the soft marsh alonG
the river near the Terminal track
and was suffocated.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
TRUSTS IN THE SADDLE.
workingmen at the Mercy Of the Ra.
paelous Combines.

paclous Combines.
The Republican policy or fostering
the trusts, under the guise of protect
ing the manufacturers and the work.
ing men, eliminated in 1897 when the
Dingley bill was passed by Congress.
The representatives Of the industries
that wanted more protection were in
vited by the Republican members OF
the Committee on Ways and Means to
write their own schedule and the bill
as passed was not very much changed
from what the future trust magnates
proposed. But there was one great
change made in the bill, even after
the tariff beneiciaries had fixed it.
The rates we're all raised 20 per
cent, to provide FOR the reductions
that might be made by reciprocity
treaties, which the bill also provided
for. That increase has not furnished
one reciprocity treaty, except the Gu
ban treaty, and the concessions there
made were promised to the Cuban
commissioners when they visited
Washington.
The trust era commenced in earn.
est directly the Dingley bill was
passed and trusts became so numer.
Gus and gigantic that even some Re
publicans sounded an alarm. But the
Republican leaders determined to
stand pat and would not even allow
the reciprocity treaties that Mckinley
had negotiated to be ratified, so the
20 per cent reduction to those foreign
countries that would reciprocate still
remains as a tax on the American
people and gives the trusts their ex.
traordinary profits. Thus came about
this era Of high trust prices which
the trusts are enjoying and which are
so despoiling to those of limited in
comes, or who are dependent on
wages for support.
After the trust era was in full swing
and the cost of living was fast in.
creasing, wages in some industries
were advanced somewhat, but not in
the proportion they should have been
when the trust boom reached its cal
mination in 1901. Then came the
Wall street panic of 1902, and the
wage Sbdlt bGBdll W ldllt DuJ Tue trust
prices kept about at the highest point
and are still over one-third above
what they were in 1897, when the
Dingley bill was enacted. And yet
the steady trend of wages Is towards
a lower level IN many industries. The
cotton weavers are still out on strike
because they will not accept another
cut in their wages, having already ac
cepted ten per cent reduction in
1903. The window glass trust has
just refused to make any scale Of
wages for this year. The anthracite
coal miners are working under pro.
test, rs the coal trust is not living up
to its agreement, and the result Of
the settlement of the coal strike has
not helped the condition of the miners.
The workers in the textile industries
centered in Philadelphia are on as
low a scale of wages as before the era
of high prices. Other industries might
be cited that are in similar condition,
and yet the Republican program is to
continue this abnormal state of affairs
and give no relief from trust eXac.
items. AS long as the present high
tariff schedules are not revised, the
trusts have the consumers of their
products at their mercy.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
Mitchell-Falor.

Nevada, Mo-: Col. Harry Mitchell
proprietor of the Hotel Mitchell, in
this city, and colonel of the I'd regi-
ment, Missouri national guard, and
Mrs. Myra Falor Of the north part of
this county, were married at the home
of the bride Thursday morning.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-24
Mother CTay's Sweet Powders Tor chIIdror

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IN the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
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