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Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Think on thy wants, on thy
faults. RecOllect all the patience,
all the kindness, all the tenderness
which has been shown thee. Think
also on thy life-how short it IS;
how much unavoidable bitterness it
possesses, how much which it is
easy either to bear or to chase
away; think how the power of af-
fection can make all things right.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

a paper at Cle6rmont declares
that the barbed wire fences must
least from the business
streets. They tear ladies' dresses
by day and the jags fall over them
when going home in the early
morning hours.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Prof. Prof. j. N. Cross of this
city has bought the interest of T..
A. Craghead in the School Inde-
pendent, lately published at Full
ton by Profs. Craghead and Hale.
The paper will hereafter be print
ed in Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

DR.. w. M. Houston of this city
called on the MESSAGE Saturday.
The doctor is one of the youngest
men of his age in the State. If he
lives till the 9th of next month he
will be 50 years old, He still owns
his farm near Santa Fe. This ed
itor used to steal big red apples
from his orchard when small boy
DIR. Houston has known us since
our earliest infantile days. This
farm is at least Is miles from Mex.
leo, but whenever DR., Houston
takes notion to visit it he strikes
out on foot and ''hoofs it' there
as Quickly as could the youngest
native. DR.. Hotston is in sympa-
thy with every good work, loves
humanity, keeps himself posted on
all world eyents--it is indeed a
pleasure % meet such a man.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

DIR. M. E. Crawford had a very
serious siege with the measles. Got
out too soon and took a backset.
The disease settled in his right eye
and he has been treating with a
st. Louis specialist to save the
sight.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

w. NJ. Thompson and F. M.
Tinsley, carpenters at Thompson,
have the contract to build Ia large
barn for Lakenan & Barnes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

A. G. Taggart has moved his
family to Mexico from Indiana. Mr..
Taggart is secretary of the compa-
ny that will open a factory here
soon for the making of mill ma
chinery.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

The Burlington r. R. Co. last
week bought 25O,OOO brick from
the Mexico Brick Co. The Bur-
lington's new cutoff is making
some business for Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

A Vandalia young man who
wished to marry sent "a one-cent
stamps to Chicago house to
learn how to make an impression.
When the answer came back it
read, "Sit down on a pan of
dough" "
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Henry Imam. near Santa Fe, just
over the Audrain line, paid the
MESSAGE a pleasant business call
Monday. Mr.. Imam says his com
munity wants a R. F. D, route.
We say they should have III every
community Of the whole country
needs the best possible mail facili.
tiles
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Four new daily passenger trains
have been put on the Wabash,
passing thru Mexico. You will be
interested in noticing the time ia
bic elsewhere in this paper.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Arnold Edmopston returned
home last week and plead guilty
to four charges relative to the
bomb shooting and electric wire
cutting at Hardin College com
mencement week. He paid in faes
and costs $97.50. It was costly
lesson.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Our people, says the Wellsville
Optic. News, are arranging to have
a grand 4th of July celebration,
which will include a grand excur-
sion on the new Burlington from
BelIflo wer and Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

P. H. Ecton, at Thompson, is
suffering very severely with one of
his eyes and fears he will lose the
sight.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

The sweet potato crop will be
short in Audrain this year. Seems
that but few could get the tubers
to sprout the plants.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

The little two year old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bird of st. Charles
drank carbolic acid and died from
the effects. The burial was in the
Catholic cemetery at Martinsburg,
this county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

The Auxvasse Review naughtily
observes that a newly married cou-
Pile, who received among other
things, d pretty little piece of
crockery as a present, used it for a
sugar bowl two weeks before they
found out it wasa a cuspidor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Mrs. VIM. Settle, at Rowena, is
teaching a music class of six pu-
pills.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Rev. E. l.. Rogers has moved
from Farber, this county, to Mar
shall, Mo. He is district mission
ary for Saline Baptist Association
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Miss Mary Garrett has returned
to her home in Mexico from her
school duties in Chicago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

A lady, Miss Minnie Higgin-
smith, is the day operator at
Thompson for the G. & A.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Charlie Williams, of Mexico,
graduated at the Missouri Univer-
sity last week. He has chosen civ
il engineering as his vocation.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Price johnson, the nominee for
Sheriff, is able to get around again
after quite a severe illness result
ing from carbuncle.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09
Oscar Kent is a bookkeeper for
the North Missouri Trust Co.

Thos. Coleman of Santa Fe is
now with Tom Bass, the horseman
of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Prof. G. l.. Humphrey of Cor
der, Mo-, succeeds Prof. E. l..
Rogers as principal Of the Farber
schools, this county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Messrs. Lesh and Norris have
sold the Ringo Hotel building for
$40, 900 to Joseph and John Ad-
cock and w. L. Weir.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Alex Carter on the Governor
Hardin farm, northwest of Mexico,
is erecting a fine new dwelling. 1t
is 50x52 feet and two stories high.
Robt. McDonough is the contrac-
tor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09
Cheer Up.

Enjoy yourself while you can, "
said the late Bill Nye, for you
will be dead a long time"
Optimism is life. The man who
scowls at his fate habitually, who
is forever drawing about him a
shroud of gloom is surely killing
himself. Without the sunshine the
flower leads a pale, sickly life. Nel-
ther will human kind blossom and
gladden. itself and its fellows with
out looking upon the brightness Of
things.
Therefore
1t is your duty to cultivate
cheerful outlook, a duty You owe
first of all to yourself, and second,
to others.
AS to yourself.
Pessimism is slow suicide and
therefore immortal. What you
think determinates what you are
mentally and Ito some extent)
physically. AS man thinketh
in his heart so is he" Many a man
has failed in business be-
cause he looked on the dark side.
Cultivate sunny mental attitude.
You have many auXieties and sor-
rows' Granted. But why empha-
size them? Compare yours
with them2 Compare yours with
those who have ten times your sOr-
row and cheer up. And above
all
The man or woman who gets in
to that state of mind is lost. 1t is
the last stage of the disease called
pessimism.
As to others:
Abont you there are those who
never pondered the science of en-
joyment. They are miserable by
preference. A glimpse of your
hopeful face might brighten up
lives and give hope. Because
Cheerfulness is contagious.
Misery loves company, but it
really gives cheerful company.
Don't visit it with Il long face. Its
face will grow longer. BE a beam
ing sun aud watch its countenance
shorten and broaden.
Don t be a kill-jOy.
| n ypu Nvout tp b,,y- nuy. Mo,.;oo
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

B. A. Thornburgh of Mexico
has been remodeling a residence
on G. F. CIark's farm north of
Thompson.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

Born, recently, to Mr.. and Mrs.
j. r. Shook, northeast of Mexico,
a fine boy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

George W. Nash has opened a
Variety Store" on the west side
of the square in Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

b. o. Sims arrived last week
from his home in Indian Territory
and is shaking hands with Mexieo
friends,
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09
SOME LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS IN PELLET FORM


Miss Jean Bragg of Mexico will
teach in Hardin College next year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

e IfyOu want to buy any Mexico
property, if you want to sell any
Mexico property or if you
want farm or some subur-
ban land or wish to borrow money
on good real estate, call on
LAKENAN & BARNES.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09

this county, is visiting her son,
Jesse, at Laporte, Iowa.
The Episcopal Council of Vir-
giuia, recently in session in Rich
mond, announces that members of
that church may indulge in dane
ing, card-playiug, theatre-going
and horse-racing. But the lives
of members must be of such a ma
ture as not to offend the cOngrega-
tion." " This is a decided advance.
Heretofore the lives of church
members were supposed not to of
fend the Supreme Being.
The days of the fifteenth century
when men were captured and held
for ransom, are recalled by the
story which comes from Morocco.
Mr.. Perdicaris and his son-in-la
Cromwell Varley, one an American
citizen, the other a British sub
jeet, were both kidnapped aud held
for ransom by Rasuli,a noted ban
dit, Immediate representations
were made by the American and
British ministers at the court Of
Morocco, the result being that pre-
parations were at once made for
the payment of the ransom aud re-
lease Of the eaptiyes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09
Galloway County, Mo.
Jas. O. Erwin.

Mrs. Sarah Langford, of Cuivre,
this county, is visiting her son,
Jesse, at Laporte, Iowa.
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27
TRANSPLANTED QUARRELS.

The United States says to aliens who
seek its shores, IF we admit you, you must
be free from disease and crime 1t might
well add: "You must leave your political
and racial quarres behind You have aban-
doned the Old World abandon likewise the
quarrels of the Old World In this country
you start anew, and you are not to be Eng
fish or German or Russian, but American >
| Last November an American Judge refused
to grant extraditiOn in the case of fugitive
from England, whose offense was alleged to
be criminal, but was regarded by the Judge
as political. The decision was Immediately
seized upon by Irish born Americans and
English born Americans as of partisan sig
nifcance: one party rejoced, the other
party deplored. They converted New
| World fact into matter for an Old World
quarrel.
Whether the decision was right or wrong,
certainly it was given or should have been
given, not with reference to political strfes
| in Europe, but in accordance with the best
Interpretation of the law
America is not party to other peoples
quarrels, and the United States should not
be the arena of quarrels not its own. Not
long ago an Armenian, naturalized Amer
lean citizen, threatened another Armenian
with pistol, in a quarrel which arose out
of sympathy with different parties in the
land of their fathers At the trial of the
young man appeared many respectable Ar
menians, who spoke of the boys good char
acter, and besought favor for him on the
ground that his impulse had been noble and
patriotic.
| So in Armenia it might have been; but
the Judge pronounced severe sentence. No
motives but American motives are recog
nized by our courts.
We may have sympathy with this nation
or that, with this foreign faction or that
The right of opinion is inviolable. But we
must not allow the divisions of foreign
lands to be incorporated in American life
There are no Russian-Jew Americans, no
limperialistic Russian Americans, no home
rule Irish Americans, no anti Turkish Ar
menian Americans, no anti German Aus
trian Americans, but only and always Amer
| leans.
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27
GOSPEL OF The STRENUOUS LIFE.

The other day when Dr. Benjamin An
drews warned society that culture was be-
coming obscured and that there were dark
ages ahead, he declared, among other
things, that there was no fear that our pop
ulatiOn was too small, but much that it was
losing virility, says contemporary. He
said he hoped that President Roosevelt
would take early occasion to amend his plea
for swelling the census by urging quality
of population as more to be desired than
number, "thus undoing little of the meal
culable evil his recent words on this subject
have wrought among the poor and thought
less
DIR. Andrews seems somewhat Over-cOn-
fident about this evil that has been DONE
Elaboration is not lasting means of pro
ducing rapid increase of population. Hard
facts, like the cost of maintenance, may be
trusted to check any such tendency before
| it has become an evil, calculable or other
wise. But DR.. Andrews words suggest an
idea: that reaction usually follows energetic
action, and that we may expect in the natu-
raj order OF events that presently there will
be noticeable reaction from the various
sentiments which President Roosevelt with
such vigor, and indeed with such remark
able success, has impressed upon the Ameri
can people. He has had ideas, and most OF
them have been good ideas, and in season
and out, impetuously and persistently, he
has dinged them into the American people
No doubt the good seed that he has sown
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

will bear fruit; it has already borne much;
but if in due time the gospel of the strenu-
Gus life shall seem to give way for a time to
a look before you-leap gospel which favors
more contemplation and more repose, that
will not be an unnatural development. There
are fashions in ideas as we'll as in garments,
and the Roosevelt style of thought has had
a remarkably brisk run. 1t will not perish,
but it may presently subside and let some
other style of thought have an inning.
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

A Japanese friend has furnished THE
NUGGET the names of Japan's first class
battleships and cruisers of the first class
which seem to have done so effective work
against the Russian fleet in recent engage
ments. The first class battleships are the
Asahi, Hatsuse, Yashima, Shikishima, Full
and Mekasa; the first class cruisers are the
Azuma, Iwate Tokiwa, Izumo, Yakumo and
Asoma. Besides these vessels, all modern
in every particular, there are numbers of
cruisers of the first, second and third
classes, large number of effective torpedo
boats and torpedo boat destroyers, all in
excellent condition
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27
HERE'S TO you, LITTLE JAPAN.

We are sure that the sympathies of the
great majority of the American people are
with Japan in her present combat with
Russia. This we know is true of the citi-
zens of this section of Alaska not solely be-
cause it is a fight of the weak against the
mighty-in numbers-but because Japan is
the wide awake, progressive nation of the
Far East. In less than three quarters of a
century her people have emerged from a
state of absolute seclusion. The Hermit
Kingdom" has become great empire, en-
terprsing, intelligent active, with the
strenuous spirit of progress strong upon its
people. The letters that bound them to the
traditions and the superstitions of many
centuries were cast aside but yesterday,
metaphorically speaking, yet in a few brief
years Japan has taken immense strides in
all that goes toward the upbuilding of ma
ton and making it great and respected
among the nations of the earth. And the
nation has risen alone and practically un-
aided True, it has had for brief time, in
the history of nations, the advantages which
commercial and other relations with other
countries will bring, but the time has been
so brief that we cannot but admire the ad-
mirable progress that has been made.
While Russia, too, has made material
Announcements, especially in the last quarter
of century, it must be confessed that she
has not kept pace with her smaller antag
onist, except in the matter of population
Russia, 'the bear that walks like man,
is today the most grasping, INSCRIPTIONS
nation on the face of the earth. Hel
banalty is extreme. Her inordinate greed
and utter disregard of the rights of others
and of what constitutes international comfy
cannot be exaggerated. Always an OBJ
pressor, she has never stopped at augh1
that would increase her borders. She has
proved herself a bear in very deed, insatate
and insensate. She has wiped out self
respecting, Independent nations, in theil
freedom prosperous, only to reduce theil
peoples to conditions of serfdom. Russia
as the empire is constituted today, is {
menace to progress, an anachronism amone
so-called civilized nations.
What the result of the present war may
be is hard to predict, but, as we said at thu
beginning, the sympathies of all peoples
who value freedom, and who detest that ma
tional aggrandizement which is born of alb
solutism and nurtured in tyranny and crime
will 60 out to the brave little people, blu
yesterday manumitted from the chains o
mystical Orientalism and seclusion, who ar
making a fight single handed and alone il
the interests of human freedom, liberty ant
progress.
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

b NJ only authorized collector Nome for the
NOME NUGGET
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

Surveys for Patent Estimates and Grades for
bitches and General Engineering.
ONCE: 23O Front Street, opp Bodega Saloon
Nome Alaska
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

The Nome News has at last awakened to
the fact that war is actually on between
Russia and Japan. 1t required a full week
for that paper to awaken from it's state of
somnolence. On February 10 THE NUGGET
published dispatches announcing the out
break of hostilities between the two coun-
tries and giving the result of the first naval
encounter. THE NUGGETS contemporary
followed with the same news exactly six
days later.
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27
days later

We are told by the Gold Digger that
when that paper published an article init
mating that Messrs. Duncan and Griggs, of
"Midas creek" notoriety, might be guilty of
taking, the manager" of the Gold Digger
at that time was the present manager" of
the News That settles it. Comment is
needless" Turning itself inside out and
attempting to perform impossible acrobatic
feats are we'll known traits of the ''Booster. -
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

The Booster has a new "editor" as well
as manager" Will the government sub
sidy of $3.50 per month which it now re-
ceives be doubled?
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

The NUGGETS telegraphic dispatches
are not "copyrighted;' neither has 'copy
right been applied for"
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

Admiral Yamamato is in command of
Japan's naval armament, while General
Terauchi is the head of the land forces
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

"Everything by turns and nothing long
applies with great particularly to little
sheet commonly known as the Booster.
The Nome nugget., 1904-02-27

The NOME NUGGET hereby circulation double
the combined circulation of all other papers published
in Northwestern Alaska Advertising contracts
will be made subject to this guarantee.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
The Cotton Situation.

The Department of Agriculture esti-
mates the cotton crop at over Il, 900. 900
bales. We do not believe there is a.
l2.OOO,OOO bale crop, says Prof. Massey.
Following the publication of the esti
mate cotton tumbled to nearly Z cents
pound, a price at which the majority
or the farmers cannot produce it at
present rates of wages and cost of
everything they have to buy. The spec
ulators know that large part of the
crop is still in the farmers hands. and
they nope to scare them into selling.
We hope that the farmers will not
be scared. If you need money, put
your cotton in warehouse and Dor
row on it, but positively refuse to sell
at present price Even if the crop is
as large as the department estimates,
1t Will all be needed at fair price, and
If the farmers will but hold it long
er they will get the better price that
the SPECTATORS hope to get. There is
not the slightest reason for a low price
for cotton when everything else Is I'D
to the top notch, and the farmers can
prevent the price from staying down if
they unanimously refuse to sell until
a fair price is offered. Even with a
H. 100000 bale crop the cotton should be
worth 10 cents pound, and it will
bring it if the farmers do not get panic
stricken.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
EarIfest Tomnto of All.

This is an interesting point to all
gardeners. and it is thus decided by
APP. NJ. Smith in Michigan farmer:
Our experience with the Earliana
tomato for three seasons past in this
climate convinces us beyond any doubt
that it is the tomato for Michigan
gardeners and truck farmers to use.
Three years ago l procured a few
seeds OF this variety for test among
twenty other kinds, which l set out In
my garden, side by side in the same
kind of sofia very sandy loan.
1t rapidly formed large-sized fruits,
however, and about the time the
tomatoes attained good size
there came dry spell in the weather,
and the leaves dried up, leaving the
stems and fruit bare For some days
1 ceased to observe them as often as
usual, when one day friend, passing
by my garden, called out to me that
he thought 1 had the earliest ripe to-
matoes ever produced in this climate.
ON going over to the back of the
patch, in very sandy spot, observed
the ground red with large, fine to-
matoes, weighing over pound in one
or two instances. and averaging near
ly half pound each. 1t was then the
18th of July. I sold tomatoes off that
PalcH at cents per pound Tor three
weeks. The next spring I procured a
large quantity of the seed that was
guaranteed to be first-class, and raised
many thousands of the plants, which
were disposed of to many producers of
tomatoes in this climate and in every
instance they maintained the results of
the previous year, came out from two
to three weeks ahead and yielded from
one-quarter to one-third more than any
other variety used in this section.
The past season they still maintained
their reputation as to earliness and
yield in this county.
1t is away ahead of any other to-
mato known here as a money-maker
for the gardener and trucker. 1t will
yield easily from 400 to 900 bushels
per acre, and on a special test for
quantity, 1 am satisfied the yield could
be pushed up to 1000 bushels per acre.
The past two or three years they have
netted the growers here from so to s5
cents per bushel. That is, they have
sold for enough to pay the freight or
express charges and return to the
grower from so to 65 cents per bushel
on the average.