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& the mid-heart Of unanIiness.

Of the mid-heart Of manliness.
Il wish you would tell me one
thing, Ormsby. Am 1 responsible for
for the present state Of affairs 2?
Ormsby stretched the truth little;
partly for Elinor's sake: more, per-
haps. for Kent's.
You have done nothing that an
honorable rival-and incidentally
good friend of mine-might not do
Therefore you are not responsible.
That is putting it very diplomatic
ally" Kent mused. II am afraid 1t
does not exonerate me wholly.
Yes, 1t does. But II doesn't put
me out of the running, you under
stand. I'm forninst you yet; rather
more stubbornly than before, 1 fancy"
Kent nodded.
That, of course; / should think
less Of you If you were not. And you
shall have as fair a show as you are
giving me-which is saying a lot.
Shall we go and smoker"
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for its fulnllment. On the Friday morn
ing there appeared IN the Capital Trt-
bune, the Midland City Chronicle, the
Range County Maverick and the Agri-
cultural Ruralist able editorials exoner-
ating the Peoples party, its policy and
the executive, and heaping mountains
of obloQuy on the name Of Duvall.
These editorials were so similar in tone,
tenor and texture as pointedly to sug-
gest a common model-a coincidence
which was not allowed to pass unre-
marked by Hildreth and other molders
of public opinion on the opposite side
Of the political fence.
But Hildreth did not pause at gener-
alities. Two days after the UNIVERSAL s
triumph in the Belmount field the Ar
gus began to hit it up boldly toward
the capitol. and two things came of 1t.
The first was an attempt by some par
ty or parties unknown to buy up con-
trolling interest in the Argus. The Sec
ond was the waylaying of David Kent
in the lobby Of the Clarendon Hotel by
no less a parsonage than the Hon. Mel
ton Meigs, Attorney General Of the
State.
In his first conversation with Ormsby,
Kent had spoken of the three leading
spirits of the junta as from personal
knowledge, but of the three Bucks,
Hendricks and Meigs, the Attorney
General was the least known to him.
Prior to his nomination on the State
ticket Meigs had been best known as
the most astute criminal lawyer in the
State, his astuteness lying not so much
in his ability as a pleader as in GER
tain oratorical gift by which he was
able to convince not only a jury, but
the public, of the entire innocence Of
his client.
He was a small man physically, with
womanish hands and feet and beard
less face of that prematurely aged cast
which is oftenest seen in dwarfs and
precocious infants; and his distinguish
ing characteristic, the one which stuck
longest in the mind of a chance ac-
ouaintance or a casual observer. was a
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With a pistol had twisted out OF Kent's
rrasp and was gone In a nash.
"By Jovel" said Lorfng. breathing
hard; ''he wasn't a. drunk a. ne
seemed 20 bel"
Kent drew down his cuffs and shook
himself straight In his coat
No. he wasn't drunk at all. ] guess
he was the man you saw when we came
out OF the square" Then, al q police
man came up putting. Let me do the
talking; the whisky theory will be good
enough for the newspapers"
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CHAPTER XXX.
The Winning Loser.

Editor Hildreth's prophecy concern
ing the probable attitude of the admin
istration newspapers in the discussion
OF the oil field affair waited but day
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CHAPTER XXI.

A Borrowed Conscience.
rhe conversation on the Brentwood
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stances In which you would aocspt .
bribe?"
He answered her in all seriousness.
They say every man has his price,
mine is higher than any bid they have
yet made-or can make, hope"
why don't you let them brSss
your" she asked coolly. 'Ts ie be-
cause 1t is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES thsrs
is more success the other wayf~
He tried to emulats her oooinsss
and made failure OF t.
Have done anything to mako YOu
and self-respect overboardf'' he ds-
manded.
Her answer was another question.
sharp edged and well thrust home
rs 1t any worse to take a nrfbe thAn
IL Is to give one7 You havo rust ad-
mitted that you are going 70 buy the
Governors neutrality. you know"
II don't see II In that light at an
THE other David Kent would havo
seen II. He would have said: These
men are public criminals. II I can
not bring them to justice can At least
expose them to the scorn OF all good
men. Therefore have no right to
bargain with them"
Kent was silent for a long tina
When he spoke II was 70 say:
Why have you done this. E1inorf
do less?''
Il suppose not It's In the blood
in your blood and mine. Other folk
call il the Puritan virus OF over
righteousness and scoff at It. / don't
know, sometimes think they have the
best Of the argument"
Il can't believe you are quite sincers
when you say that" she asserted
Yes. / am One cannot compromise
with conscience: that says itself But
I have come to believe latterly that
ones conscience may be morbidly
acute. or even diseased. I'll admit I've
been taking treatment.
That sounds very dreadful" she r.
Joined.
1T does. doesn't It? Yet II had to be
done. AS / intimated a few minutes
ago. my life has hitherto been a sort
OF unostentatious failure I used to
think II was because was outclassed:
/ know now it has been because
wouldn't do as other men do. Tt has
been a rather heart-breakiDg process
to sort out the scrUpies, admitting
the just and overriding the others-but
/ have been given to see that it Is the
price OF success"
IT want you to succeed she said
Pardon me: ! don't think you do
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17

Hon. T T. H. Tibbles. Lincoln, Neb.-
Fusion Is dishonest and no such tree
can bear good fruit. If either OF the
old parties is right there is no excuse
for a third If both are wrong, we
should have no co-partnerShlp Win
either. Fusion with one In the west
becomes a temptation to fusion with
the other in the south. Allied with
democrats in the west and with re-
publicans in the south. the peoples
party becomes political prostitute,
which no decent man should recognize
The only hope we have is TO keep III
the middle of the road and combat
both the old parties
In this campaign have fought Dotn,
fusing with neither. Popullsts VINO
are in the fight on principle can DO
nothing else. Populists who are In the
movement for Office only can endorse
co-partnrship with the common roe.
Say to our comrades in the west tnat
I am enlisted for another four years.
say to them that l sail personally can
yass every western state, between this
year and 1908. Say to them that was
never more certain that we can finally
succeed Il we SO conduct our cam
paigns as to win the confidence OF sin
cere reformers. :,
Mr.. Bryan has no authority to bind
the democratic party to his populist
platform He is simply one demo-
crat among several millions. Ii he
was bound to the national platform OF
his party on Tuesday, November &,
1904, he is bound by it now. The ST.
Louis convention OF 1904 settled the
issues for four years. The law Of the
party is as declared at st. Louis, and
as accented by Mr.. Bryan, remains the
law Of the party for four years. He
can not change it. His support Of Par
ker is an endorsement ct what was
done at that convention. He has now
seized upon the populist platform and
declares that he will have the demo-
Gratis adopt it. If he is sincere why
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Letter Letter from Tom Watson
No Need for Two
psoopz1s...ss. pe..:es

does he not join the party which Tor
thirteen years has battled for that plat
form? If we are good enough to fuse
with why are we not good enough to
join?
If the democratic party should adopt
his platform we should have two pop
ulist parties. The country does not
need TWO POPULIST PARTIES. To
divide the reform forces in this man
ner courts defeat.
If Mr.. Bryan is sincere in his. pro-
fession of populist faith it is his duty
to unite with us. To declare himself
a populist in principle and at the
same time refuse to join forces with us,
creates that division among the re-
formers which insures the permanence
of the triumph of our common enemy.
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan played into the
hands of plutocracy by scorning the
populists who had been lured by Sem
ator Jones into nominating him for
president. In 1904 he missed another
glorious opportunity by not boiling the
st. Louis convention. He made that
mistake all the more irreparable by his
speeches for Parker during the last
weeks Of the campaign. He now steers
himself and the reform forces toward
browning disaster in 1908 by taking
possession of our own platform and
declaring his purpose to use it inside
the democratic party. Thus he pierces
us with our own sword
| repeat the statement: We do not
need TWO populist parties All hon.
Test populists should get into the pop
ulist party The man who accepts orr
principles and yet refuse to unite with
us shoulders the responsibility of Gre
ating that division of the reform forces
which means defeat. If Mr.. Bryan
would act as unselfshly toward the
populists row as they acted toward
him in 1895, we could unite forces and
achieve success in 1908. hope to
God he will yet do it.
THOS E. WATSON.
Thomson, Ga.
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Seward County Farm

Farm of 120 acres; 40 acres culti-
waited, balance pasture; fenced with 3
wires; land is rolling; running water
in the pasture and flowing well; A.
room house, barn for horses, corn
crib. Farm s miles from each of the
following towns: Germantown, Bee
and Valparaiso. Creamery and store
half mile from house, school house
across the road; rur-l mail route;
telephone line by house. Price $45
per acre. Easy terms. No. 7B. Weber
and Farris, Lincoln, Neb.
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Internal Cancer Cured

Mrs. Sarah Martin of Fairfax, S. d.,
suffered for long time with an in
ternal cancer. Under the care and
treatment of DR.. T .O'Connor of Linz
coin, Neb., she has been entirely cured.
Mrs. Martin will answer any inquiries
as to Dr. 1'CJnHOTS .eatnent- ansl
success in curing her Those who
have cancer should write her and at
the same time send full description of
cancer, its age, location, etc., to DR..
L T. O'Connor, Lincoln, Neb.
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our conditions, he will have to abandon
the theory.
The two applications Of the theory
relate, the one to payment of existing
debts, the other to business exchanges.
The one is re supply of debt pay
ing. Grey in len to the
occasioned by debts to be paid The
other is the supply of medium of ex-
Change in relation to demands occa-
stoned by business transactions and ex-
changes.
There is no more important-no
more tremendous economic fact tn n
the great sUluIae Of pHhlie and rapidly
increasing volume of private and COR
porate debts. The question of payment
Of interest, and when and how the
principal is to be paid, is little less
than appalling. What is to be the
ultimate standard of payment of this
enormous volume of debts is of vital
Importance, not only 20 the people of
this nation but of the world. When
statesmen, who are supposed to be ia
miliar with economic principles and to
be informed concerning economic con-
ditions, and to whom the people have
looked for guidance, lose sight of this
debt problem, of the when and the how
these debts are to be liquidated, AMI
1conclude, because the treasury depart
ment has reported an increase of
money, without considering any other
fact, that the money question has
decreased in Importance, what hope is
there that even the most intelligent
masses can ever be aroused and made
to understand the dangers thai
threaten
There is no monetary standard ex-
cept a standard of payment, something
with which 9 debtor can pay his debts
a standard fixed by law-legal tender
money. A creditor is not compelled by
law to accept anything in payment Of
his debt except the standard of pay.
ment Creditors may and often do &C
cept other things-even property-bu
, when they choose to exercise. the righ
! given by law, the debtor must pay il
! the legal standard of payment Before
the war the standard of payment
, was double--ilver and gold coin. Afte1
} the war it was, and still is, triple
silver, gold and government paper
J Gold standard" means no standard o
/ payment-no legal tender-except col,
J coin. It will mean, when we have it
5 that every creditor will have the RICH
, to demand from his debtor the pay
: ment of his debt in gold coin. Is Their
$ any doubt about this being what tn
e advocates want? Is there any doub
1 about the present tendency in that ii
Q rection?
e On November the entire genera
0 stock of money in the United States
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The 3 eb Problem

Editor Independent: Since my last
article in your issue Of November -,
1904, the November circulation state
ment has been received. The table |
saEa IL mSa last article was based on
the October statement. That table
modified by the November statement
is shown.
The actual increase Of money since
December /, 1896, to be as follows:
Cold coin including bull
lion in treasury ~ rs. 924
Standard silver dollars. 117,211,02o
Subsidiary silver $1,000. S5,lS9,656
National bank notes 49,. 221, S82,6l0
Total increase $4,000. 81 ,l03,O43,l 9o
From which should be de-
Quoted treasury notes of
1890 cancelled .........S 10000 ESQ
5 992, 97S,910
Increase in circulation-all
money outside treasury. 933, OBJ ,9l5
Amount OF net increase
not in circulation. .....$ 59,947 ,995
The November statement does not
change the general situation as out
lined before, 1t ought to be noted,
however, that during the last two
months (since September u there has
been a decrease Of volume of stand
ard silver dollars of $81S,009 and an
increase of subsidiary silver of ST.
534,3S0 THIS may, or may not, be i'm
portant, but in view of the fact that
there has been a monthly increase con-
tinuously for several years of stand
ard silver dollars 1t NAV become in
teresting to know why this decrease
occurs now, AID whether it will con-
tinue. 1t Is so far reduction of stand
ard of payment money. | call atten-
ton to it for possible further reference
| ended my last article with the
state ment that the "Quantitative the
ory of mor.y." under our economic
conditions, has double aspect and {
double application; that in one VIZ
are going towards a contraction and il
the other towards an imitation. 1t |!
the failure of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Town
to recognize this double aspect and ap
plication that has led then into tn,
very grave mistake they have made il
supposing that whatever of business
prosperity we have lad since 1896 la
resulted from the increase of III
money volume reported by the treas
ury department, when the fact is, a
think 7 have shown cOncluSiyely. til
demand has increased much faster thai
the money volume. If this is tn
basis on which Mr.. Bryan rests tn
quantitative theory in its application t
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Editor Independent: Since my last
article in your issue Of November -,
1904, the November circulation state
ment has been received. The table
~,o,yo Al. 49, Ioct orfic1n moc hocod IN
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25
GET MARRIED.
A Sturgeon Notary AdVer-
tises His Matrimonial
Business.

Sturgeon, Mo, Feb. 20.-Thom-
as M. Skaggs Of Sturgeon is be-
lieved to be the first man to buy
space in a newspaper to advertise
the advantages of matrimony. He
carries a regular advertisement in
the Sturgeon (Mo.) Leader, the
culy paper published in Sturgeon,
in which each week, he advances
some new reason why the young
people should marry. AS a result
Of his vigilant advertising cam
paigu the number of marriages in
Sturgeon and vicinity have been
greatly increased.
Mr.. Skaggs is not INSPIRED by
wholly unselish motives. He is a
notary public and performs mar
riage ceremonies for which he re-
ceives a fee. 1t is necessary to
make application for a licence be-
fore a notary public, and he re-
ceives a fee for that service also.
AS Sturgeon is not the county
seat prospective brides and
grooms must secure their licenses
in Columbia. To simplify mat
tiers and make the road to matri-
mony easy, Mr.. Skaggs has made
arrangements with the marriage
license clerk in Columbia to send
licenses by mail on his application.
This saves the young peOole a trip
to Columbia, and when they are in
a hurry to marry, he can secure a
license by telephone. One Of Mr..
Skaggs' characteristic advertise
ments reads as follows: Take my
advice, young man. Get married
and let me send for a license for
you. 1 can keep IA secret. "
Altho local preachers did a thriv-
ing business in marriages before
Mr.. Skaggs began his vigorous
campaign, they have been left far
behind by his progressive methods.
He performs nine-tenths of the
marriage ceremonies in Sturgeon
and many come from a distance to
be married by him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25
-CUPID'S CAPTURES

Mr.. r. Crews and Miss Nellie
Filter were granted marriage Ii
cense Tuesday.
Miss Laura Covington and Mr..
w. G. Hale Of near Shamrock
we're united in marriage by Rev.
A. w. Kokendoffer in Mexico
Tuesday afternoon. Miss COving-
toms former home was also at
Shamrock but since last fall she
has been keeping house for her sis
tiers who are attending school here.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25

from Virginia in 1857. He iden-
tilted himself with mercantile
company. When the war broke
out he returned to Virginia, en-.
tering the confederate service, join
ing the famous Black Horse Troop.
He was a valiant fighter and the
winter of 1863 was shot thru the
thigh with a Federal bullet. r. H.
Edmonds Of this city was a com
rade of Major Ricketts, in the Con-
federate service, Mr.. Ricketts, was
a man, every inch, in whatever
way employed.
After the war Major Ricketts,
settled in Virginia and for a cou-
pie of years made big money in
contracting railroad ties. In 1868
he returned to Mexico and engaged
in the clothing business with s. P.
EmmOns. Twenty or more years
ago he was made cashier of the
Southern Bank and later made its
president. Was a director of this
bank at the time of hi death.
He was married to Miss VERDE
ma Galloway in this city in 1868.
who died about ten years since.
From this union three children
survive-Mrs. w. l.. Craddock
and Miss Mary Ricketts, of this
city aud Mrs. E. B. Talbot of Per-
ny. Mr.. Ricketts, was married
again in 1896 to Miss May Ross
who died in less than a year.
The funeral was held Monday at
the M. e. church, South, of which
church Mr.. Ricketts, was mem
Der. A good man is gOne-he will
be missed.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25
Barnes and hurry.

The following comments are
taken from the Columbia (MoO
Tribune:
Clarence Barnes, of Mexico, re-
ceived the endorsement of Boone
County Republican Convention for
the nomination to the attorney
generalship of the State Republi-
can ticket at the meeting held at
the court house this afternoon.
The resolution was more than
perfunctorY, as the party is expect
ing great things this year. The
approval of SO young man was
given in the hope that he might
have the opportunity to serve the
people in the capacity to which he
aspires.
1t is but singular that two old
students of the State University
and members of the same year
chapter of the Sigma M fraterni-
ty are seeking the same uomiua-
ton on their respective party tick
cts, Jerre Murry for the Democrats
aud Clarence Barnes for the Re-
publicans.
Mr.. Barnes is one of the most
popular students who ever attend
ed the university. In speaking OF
students who have succeeded in
life, this encOnium has become al
most a stock phrase, to be literally
discounted in the majority of cases ;
IN reality, Mr.. Barnes deserves it,
His college life in Columbia was O
model for all young men to follow,
and all Of his associates were such
as to make him strong in the Opin'
ions of the men whose opinions are
worth having. Mr.. Barnes home
county, Audrain, has endorsed hin
for the attorney generalship anC
it is more than probable that h,
will have but little opposition il
Central Missouri. His friends ar
congratulating him on account o
the favorable comment which hi
candidacy has won.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25
BAD BURGLARS.
Dodge Bullets of Officers
and Escape.

Monday night at Auxyasse two
stores were robbed. The first was
that of Mr.. Campbell; the thieves
here took two revolvers. They
then went to the dry goods store
of E. NJ, Dudley. Frank Dudley,
a son, was sleeping in the store.
He awoke about one o'clock aud
found two burglars pointing piss
tolls at him. He was forced to
open the cash drawer and the rob-
bers carried away $500. Dudley
was gagged and locked in the room
from the outside. But he managed
to get out and at once spread the
news. 81 R.Dyer and W. Atkiu-
son tracked the burglars toward
Mexico. Nightwatchmen Sims and
Kemp. near daylight located them
in the Mexico depot. The men
started to run and were fred upon
several times. In their flight the
fugitives threw off their ovarcoats,
and one of them was bloodstained
There were files and skeleton keys
in pockets of both garments. Pos
ses are still in search of the men
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25

YOUR NEIGHBoRS

Miss Una Nelson visited in Van
dalia last week.
Mrs. Sam Morris has been visit
ing Louisiana friends.
Mrs Lynn Banks Of Kansas City
attended the funeral of MajorRick-
etts here Monday.
Mrs. Annabel Griffin Lemon
spent Saturday and Sunday among
friends in Centralia.
Mrs. Louie DOss of Philadelphia,
Pa, is visiting her parents here,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Day.
Miss Maggie Torreyson of Mar
tinsburg was at the depot for q
short time Sunday on her way
home from Laddoaia, where she
had been visiting her brother,
Chas. Torreyson.
G. &. Baker, formerly of this
county, now in the real estate bus
mess at Prosser, Wash, Was in
Mexico Sunday telling his many
friends Of the advantages of his
adopted country. Says he has a
colony of 30, among them some of
our best citizens, that have con.
cludeo to go with him tothat coun-
try. He expects to start about
Mar. 18th.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-25

THE GRIM REAPER
zsz

Mrs. Ida BenfOrd, who is Il niece
of DR.. w. r. Rodes of Mexico and
who has visited here, died at her
home in Grand Rapids, Mich, this
week. The body was brought to
Moberly for interment.
DR.. Pope Yeaman one of the
ablest Baptist divines in the State,
died at his home near Columbia re-
Gently. His wife died only few
weeks before, his companion of
over fifty years, and he mourned
pitifully for her. She was loving,
sympathizing and had a brightness
aud cheeriucss that nothing could
destroy. DR.. Yeaman, upon her
death, longed to go hence, too, and
the Lord took him.
Mrs. Ed Atchiton of Worcester
died at the lowering Hospital in
Hannibal last Friday afternoon,
where the was patient. She was
the wife of Ed Atchison, the aue-
tioneer, who is a son of j. w. At
Gibson Of Mexico. Besides the
husband Mrs. Atchison leaves two
children, Clarence aud Pindall,
aged is and 10 years. To the be-
reaved all Audrain county friends
extend heartfelt sympathy.
Major II. A. Ricketts, died very
unexpectedly in his room at the
Windsor Hotel in this city about
Z O'Clock last Friday evening. But
a short while before he had been
about the streets. A few mo-
ments before he died he called Cor
doctor. DR.. J. B. Hawkins re.
sponded, who went back to his Of
Ace for some medicines when he
returned Mr.. Ricketts, was dead.
Major Ricketts, came 70 MsxicS