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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

The Sturgeon Lender says that
it ought never to have appeared
in print, but we must tell it, A
well TODD farmer living uear Stur-
geOn built new home of which
he was very proud. Among other
conveniences he could pull a lever
and bath tub would come into
his bedroom. One day he was
showing a lot Of men his new
house and took them into his bed
room, where he explained the pat
ent bath tub. II will show you
how it works." he said. Touch
ing the lever, the tub came sailing
into the room-and his wife was
in it,"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
Old Time Country Life.

1t is not 80 years since the peO-
pie of our country villages lived by
farming; the men making their
own slpds, shingles, and ak hand
les, scythes, brOOms, OK bows,
bread troughs and mortars; the
women carding, spinning, braiding,
binding and dyeing. They sat
around great fireplaces with a
hanging crane, fire dog and spit
tnrned by hand or by clockwork /;
they made their own tallow can
dies and used, even on festive oc-
casions, wood blocks or raw pota-
toes for candle sticks; they ate
from pewter kept bright by the
wild securing brush; they doctored
their own diseases by hundred
different wild herbs. all gathered
near home and all put up in bags
for the winter or hung in rows Of
dry lunches. Soap was made al
home aud so was apple butter,
cheese, pearl ash, birch vinegar,
cider and baskets. Each farm wal
factory of odds and ends--a vii.
lage store in itself, a labratory o.
applied mechanics. Now, all tina
period of sturdy individualism il
as utterly passed as is the govern
ment Of the PhaPoahs. The rail
roads have killed it ali, Every pro
cess Of the farm has been reSOla
tiOnized by science or mechanical
invention; every article can b
bought more eheaply than 1t eal
be made at home. The mendipr
Of clothes now hardly marks th
good housewife. II is all gone
The old life NOW lives only 10 Ger
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

A Joplin man is threatening to
stop his local paper. He declares
that the perusal of it has caused
his good spouse to go bargain
crazy with consequences that are
hard for his purse to bear" The
announcement of a sale" he
gloomily declares, is a personal
challenge for her to go forth on a
shopping expedition. l can tell
the symptoms whenever the craze
comes upon her. She will stop
reading the paper and bury her
head in the folds. Then follows a
period of absolute silence while
wrapt in the study of the bargains
she pores eagerly over the sheet,
At bedtime she winds the alarm
clock aud sets the alarm to go of
at an early hour in the morning.
have to arise from my couch long
before the dawn Of day and We
don't have much of a breakfast as
usual thing-pancakes anG
breakfast food is the customary
allowance. When go home al
noon dinner is always late, aud il
is a short order meal, too. Stock
ed mp around the room are numer
GUS packages Of varied sizes anC
descriptiOns-the trophies of thu
chase. During the past tw'
months there have been sales of al
most every article Of household
use, and if my wife has missed be
ing on hand early at any one o
them, I don't kaow it. Why, on
day she became eQnfused 10 he
dates aud went to aetore only b
fird that sale didn't rome of un
! tll the same day next week. AM
when ! laughed At her abopt 4 81
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
no MEXICO.
Private Train Via Wabash
R.R., VIII Leave st. Louis
and Kansas City Jan.
~; One Feb. 20.

A private train to Mexico via
the Wabash Railroad will leave st.
Louis aud Kansas City January 81,
1904; another February 20, 1904.
The number of passengers limited.
Many new features, including Lake
Patzcuaro, Morelia and Ruins of
Teposteco in Mexico. The Petri-
fled Forests and Grand Canyon of
Arizona will also be included in
the tour.
Tickets include railroad fare,
Pullman accommodations, meals,
hotels aud every expense.
For particulars, etc, write to
q. s. CRANE,
Gen Pas. and Ticket Agent,
Wabash Railroad,
st. Louis, No.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
BRYAN EXPLAINS.
''Free SILVER Is Not The Su.
preme ISSUE"

New York, Jan. 27.-WilliamJ i.
Bryan wishes it to be understood
that his square declaration for
free silver at 10 to / in his speech
in Madison Square Garden Con-
cert Hall last night does not mean
that he considers the question of
gold and silver the paramount is
sue of the coming campaign,
II simply reaffirm my belief in
the 16 to ! ratio" he said this
morning, but l do not think
that the currency question is the
issue Of supreme importance at
present. There is a broader aud
more pressing issue. l have be-
lieved since the campaign of 1900
that the great question is: Shall
the money changers rule the Unit
ed Statpsi That question includes
all the issues-the currency, labor,
trusts and the rest.
Do You know of any measure
for the benefit of the masses that
the money changers have not OPP
posed! Free silver is only one
of the relief measures. They have
opposed all of them When"vr'
ANY measure is proposed tor ito
benefit of the MASSES there is i'm
mediate opposition from Wall
street. 1t is all right for party
to make "A fight against trusts, but
how can it be effective when the
Wall street bankers with their
vaults full of watered stock, con
tribute to the campo gn funds
And how can labor accomplish
anything.when its enemies are
high in the party cOuncilsi"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
Inc old Bav Mule.

Following are the words of a
new song all the young people out
on Bean Greek are singingi
Now Thompson owned a big bay
mule,
And he drove him
Around TO the cart.
he loved that male,
Aud the mule loYed him
With all his mulish heart.
They knew
When the rooster crowed
That surely day would break;
de brushed that mule
With a three legged stool,
Aud curried him down with rake.
ChO-
And the mule he went
"Onk, onk, ouk, onk,
Ouk, 0nk, onk, onk!"
Aud he curried him down with a
rake.
Now this ERE mule
, Was very large,
Aud both hind feet were loose.
He let them fly
At thick Tipped Jim,
Aud cooked his royal goose.
That bigger though
That he'd been caught
IL Il very big cyclone,
And ,"u may bet
lie wished he'd let
That old bay mule alone.
Que day this mule
While strOIliLg DER u field
Came upon an old hoop-skirt;
More like a goat than mule,
Hp made II meal
or rusty iron aud dirt.
Then some hours later
He was taken with studded
cramp
Which settled in his feet.
Before the dawn
This mule was gone
To walk the golden streets.
Aud the mule went
"Onk! Onk! onk!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
Ernest Coils Success.

Speaking of Ernest B. Coil, a
brother of Mrs. P. II. Cullen of
this city, who made his start in law
practice in Mexico, the Bakersfield
Echo says:
E. b. Coil, the well-knOwn attor.
npy, intends to leave Bakersfield
and take up his residence in. San
Francisco. where he will continue
the practice of his profession
Mr.. Coil has practically concluded
arrange mrnts to enter the law de-
partment of a big corporation
Mr.. Coil has not resided long
in Bakersfield, but he has made u
success in the practice of law,
and his friends state that be as n
bright career before him. He is
considered to be one of the ablest
members of the local bar.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

A flower is to be chosen for
Hardin College. The colors of the
College are black and gold, and
the flower to be chosen is to further
assist in decorative schemes. Those
entitled to vote for choice Of flower
will be Mrs. c. H. Hardin with
members of the board, the faculty
and the alumuae.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

The Louisiana Press comments
that it is better for a better not to
bet but if the better does bet he
had better not show the white
feather. At St. Louis Tuesday
judge Bland sustained the decis-
ion of the Monroe county circuit
court in the Bud DoOley and Hugh
Mudd case, wherein w. r. p.
jackson, at Dooley's request, had
refused to give up the stake mon
ey bet on the Rodgers and Y ties
race for collector. Mudd gets tht
$500.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
PROBATE COURT
AL EYES ON ST. LOUIS.

The eyes of all the world will be
turned toward st. Louis during
the year 1904. Everybody will
wish to get, from first hands the
news of the greatest Worlds Fair
which the world has ever seen,
Our readers are advised, there
fore. to subscribe for the greatest
st. Louis newspspela paper
wbech acknowledges no eqnal or
rival in all the West, and which
stands in the front rank among
the great newspapers Of the world.
Subscribe for the ST. LOUIS
GLOBE DEMOCRAT and Get all
the news Of the Worlds Fair, al
the news OF the National cam
.paign, aud az the news Of the
earth. See advertisement else
here Is eena
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
HOmeseeker's Excursion.

nOmeSeckeT 5 EXCURSION
The Chicago & Alton Railway
will sell round trip tickets from
Mexico, Mo-, to certain points in
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indian
Territory, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Min
nesotO, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne
braska, New Mexico, North Caro-
lima, North Dakota, Tennessee,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, South
Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia
Wisconsin, Wyoming, at greatly
reduced rates.
Dates of Sale: Dee. /, 10;
Jan. 5, 10; Feb. 2, 16; March l,
10; April 5, 10.
For complete particulars, call
upon or address
l. M. Richards. ticket agent, al
Mexico, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
A. M. PATTERSON.

Physician and Druggist, north
west corner Public Square,
Mexico, Mo.
Full line of Staple Drugs and
Druggists Sundries, Patent
Medicines, Dye Stuffs, Etc.
A full assortment of Homoe-
pathic Medicines always on
hand. These remedies sent by
mail when ordered.
Will do strictly an Office prac
tice.
ADVICE FREE.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

There was a disgruntled book
agent in Fulton Monday. On his
rounds there he ran across an intel
ligenflonking man and broached the
subject Of books 10 him. The
man seemed interested and the
agent talked 10 him half an hour.
Then he said; vshull | put you
downforacopyiD The man straight
ened up and with an uneopeern re-
piled, Yon ear pnf me down for 5
nlilllnn cnniaa IIa helana.l "A
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
nerms Of Srbseription.
Pointed Paragraphs.

by the cry, you IL disrupt tue
party" Just tell them the people
are the party, aud will see to it
that the party is protected against
rascals and ringsters.
The people should see to it that
the man who is not willing TO
trust his case in their hands is not
elected to Office. II he wants to
get his Office by trickery, there is
something crooked about him;
don't trust him.
Would it not be nice to get Mr..
Folk to switch off from the main
issue to abusing Rcpublicaus!Th
is a contention among Democrats,
aud ought to be friendly one, in
which Republicans cut no figure; it
is not their affair. Time enough
to fight Republicans when the is
sue between the two parties is fair
ly joined.
BY what right do a set of men
claim that to oppose them, or
question their right to office, is To
disrupt the party BY what right
do they claim to be the party. Is 1t
not a ring Of party bosses that is
about to be disrupted! Have not
these bosses bossed about long
euough7 Would it not be better
for the rank and file to assert
their rights and priviIeges' Is it
not true yet that the will of the
people is the supreme lawl"
Never in the history of Missouri
politics was there a greater effort
being made to defeat the will of
the people There are candidates
for governor who have no hope Of
election and whose only hope is 10y
mamipulMi 90 aul combination To
su control TIN convention as to
defeat the ON" man whose only
crime T. h. huuc.t and fearless
persecution of Ihi~ves aud robbers.
Will they surcred! M one de-
MES the guilt of these men, not
even the Supreme Court. Ought
this not to be sufficient reason
why the opposition to Mr.. Folk
should be defeated by the peoplei
The day has passed when you
can brighten a Democrat from
voting his true convictions for
honesty and good government by
the cry that some republican is
going to vote for this or that Dem.
ocrat. Mr.. Bryan truthfully
says, I'VE, as a nation, are con,
fronted with a condition more APP
palling than any that ever threat
ened the destruction of Il nation;
bribery and corruption in our cit!
governments, aud in our state an {
national to an extent heretofore
unknown in American history
This condition is to be met ant
overcome. Shall we expect those
to do this who have brought i
about! Who but the people can
or will correct this cOrruptng in
fiueuce? Or shall we keep quie
for fear of disrupting the party
till we become a nation of robber
and plunderers? Let honest Re
publicans vote for honest Demo
Gratis if they want, but do not lie
the apologist for boodleism an
boOdlers drive you from your hon
est convictions of right.
Some men are full of patriotism
and sacrifice for the good of TIA
people till it becomes a fact thei
own name on the ticket wi
prove a load that the party canno
carry, aud then their patriotism
oozes out. Then they say, "
must have my Office, party or u
party" J.B.
Mexico. Mo-, Jan. %, 1904.
There was disgruntled boo
agent in Fulton Monday. On b
rounds there he ran across an int
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

Miss Alice O'Brien, about ten
days since, closed a six months
term of school in the Pleasant
Hill district. 1t was her second
term at that place.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
AUDRAIN COUNTY COURTS
CIRCUIT COURT.

CIRCUIT COURT.
Meets third Monday in January,
first Monday in June aud third
Monday in September.
COUNTY COURT.
First Monday in February, first
Monday in May, first Monday in
August and first Monday in Nov
embrr.
PROBATE COURT
Second Monday in February,
second Monday in g, May, second
Monday in August aud second
Monday in November. Adjourned
terms'are held regularly the second
Mondays in January, March, April
June. July, September, Octobe
aud December.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04

Special price made on 500 lbs or
over. Highest price paid for
grain Exchange with the farm
ers a speciality. Full stock of mill
feed on hand. Satisfaction guar
anteed or money refunded.
EUGENE E. JONES, Manager
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
ThG windsor CaTTiagG...

MAKES Abb CRY CALLS, DAY
OR NIGHT. TELEPHONE VINO
SOR HOTEL.
o. F. CLARK.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-04
ADVICE FREE.
CHICAGoaaA ALTON RY.
T1MEZatSTABIE
Standard Time

Standard Time.
WEST-Bound Trains Leave
No. Z Colo. q Cal. Limited. 3:2h m
No. IL Kansas City Express. 9:O5 m
No. Is Missouri State Express 1:46 p IN
#No.l Way Freight. .,..........lO :40a N
EAST-Bound Trains Leave
No. 10 81. Louis Limited Express 1:55 m
No. IA Missouri state Express. 2:Os p m
No. 10 Cal. 3 Colo. Limited. .il:l5p
#No. ~ Way Freight,,...... 6;30 m
JEFFERSON CITY BRANCH.
SOUTH Bound Trains Leave
#No.2ll Fulton Accommodation, 0;25 m
ANo 2l5 Jefferson City Mail. 80. 2:l0 p IN
#No213 Way Freight. 1880 a m
NORTH Bound Trains Arrive
sNo.2lO Jefferson City Mail....,. $3.50 m
sNosl4 Fulton Accommodation 1858 p N
"No.9l9 Way eight......"..,,. $50 p N
HDaily Except Sunday.
I. NJ. RICHARDS,
Passenger and Ticket Agt.
GEO. J"CHARLTON,
Gen. Passenger Agt., C.&A. R.R., Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

GERS. upon which. legible to the whole fleet
and the enemy, were these words Don't
Give Up the Snip"
learned sad story that was revealed by
one of those small rolls i'm grandmother's
trunk. Rosycheeks and Trottie were seated
on the floor viewing the '1ikenesseS'' and
kissing the children in the looking glasses
BACK OF the pictures. Grandmother was
telling over the wedding roll-the one in
which were the pieces of wedding dresses.
There was a piece of white cloth of which
Uncle Sammy Broadway's wedding breeches
were made. They wove the cloth at home
OF the finest wool they could get, then took
it TO the fuller and had it fulled making
it like a piece of fine felt. There was also
a piece of mothers dress-white swiss
with red dots. Then. showing a piece of
blue silk crepe, she said: And this was
mine" Then a new thought came to
Curylocks-she had recently been TO an
aunts marriagc-and looking earnestly into
grandmothers face she said: "But-but.
where is-he?"
You mean your grandfather oh. my
dear child he has been. dead these many
years When your father was only three
years old your grandfather was killed.
Yes, he went with a party deer hunting
up in Ohio and he was accidentally shot.
He kissed me and the babies-there were
three of them-good- and went away,
strong and happy, and in few days they
brought him back-deadi
There was a muffied softness in grand
mother voice that struck an answering
chord in Curlylocks's heart. and. throwing
her arms roond grandmOther's neck. she
vept and Sob0ed. Presently grandmother.
lifting her head. said: Dear heart, don't
cry, and. smoothing back the curls,
pressed a kiss on Curlylocks's forehead that
sealed closer bond of sympathetic affec-
ton between them. which lasted as long as
life.
The views of the trunk nearly always
ended by looking at grandmother's PRO
h!e, which she kept in her Bible. and this
is its story: One morning she was sweeping
at her front door. when Traveller came
along. He stopped, and, looking at her
moment, said that if she would get break
fast for him he would cut her profile. That
traveller was a true artist. for il is a PEI
feet silhouette of grandmother she was
when young matron of twenty in the
year 1890
sublime. Ii never ceased TO be virtue
with her l smile now when | think of her
perseverance when teaching Curlylocks
how TO knit carriers on the large feathers
of a chickens wing Such awkward at
tempts would be rUinous to needles, but
feathers were plentiful. so when they were
bent or broken there was good supply of
new ones
Grandmother was a great lover of nature
and was especially fond of birds. When she
grew so old not to be able to go about
much 1t was a great pleasure TO her to sit
on the porch and listen To the birds, and
above all, the doves. Her own nature being
so gentle IL seemed fitting.
ANN ISABELLA EAIMONS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

}4riGI>Nl err lis vanity and vocation of
e----1a1s~ spirit The task is too difficult
to start with, and it does not make it sure
that they understand the word, after all
We do the thing better in Indianapolis
After they have written the spelling lesson
we assign two words from it which they
are to use in sentences-or both in the same
sentence-in way TO show that they un-
dorstand the meaning OF the words Thus
it behooves the pupil. when he studies his
spelling lesson, TO notice the meaning of
the words and if there are any he does not
understand, to look them up, for he does
not know which words will be assigned to
him to in sentences.
Generally, the children acquit them
selves very well in this exercise but
sometimes some of them get careless about
looking up mornings and then an unfami-
liar word is assigned, and they get caught.
l gave them 'troughs' the other day, which
1 felt sure they would know, and nuptials,'
which L knew would catch those who had
been careless in preparation
You supposed 'nuptials' was a familiar
word? In print, ] grant you, but not in
the ordinary conversation of ordinary peo-
pie. and that is where children get their
ideas of the meaning of words Children
even in the seventh year of school. as these
were, know fewer words than you would
imagine. Well. here are some of the SEN
fences l got:
lie was a nuptals man.
The nuptials were not taken
'Nuptials are aims
Some people do not know what 'nup-
tials' mean
The nuptials have gone to the city,
The man was nuptials.'
The nuptials were large
The troughs were full of nuptials'
The last sentence. which contains both
the assigned words is the gem OF the coll
lection, don't you thnk?''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

I4TWe>l1 temper became crossed and no.
body would do anything to please
any one else, and when mother was tired
and worried and ii seemed if there was
nothing that would straighten the tangles;
then grandmother would say, quietly, but
ON rare occasions, II wonder who would
like to look in the trunk Instantly faces
would begin to brighten. and with Curly
locks at the head, shouting Il do. l do"
there was a rush for grandmother's room
How delightful the search through the
trunk! 1t always consumed hours, for
everything must be returned in precisely
the same order as when we began. In the
tray and tills were beads, large-headed
shawipins: combs: bags, needle books books;
them-knitting sheaths. goose quilts with a
piece of cloth sewed across and over one
end, which she pinned TO the right side OF
her waist when knitting to hold the needle.
There were also the rolls of samplers-both
hers and her daughter in all.
Grandmothers was 'raught" in the year
1920, and Aunt Rebeccas was made in
the year 1871. In that length of time there
had been a change in the manner of word
ing also difference in the possessive form
MARY Hatfield. her sampler" and Re
becca Sunderlands sampler" Grandmother
was always sad when showing us her
daughters sampler, for she had begun a
verse below the other work which she never
completed III was THIS. w men Il am Utdu
and in may gra"-and there is the long
thread still hanging with which she meant
10 finish ii.
There were fine lsces to be taken out of
their boxes. and. with heads close together,
the delicate patterns traced. There were
bead purses and reticules to be examined,
and quilt blocks spread out for our inspec-
ton. There were rolls and rolls of all sorts
of material TO be taken out. and with them
lying on her knees and turning the pieces
as though they were leaves OF Il book she
was reading there was much history and
biography recalled TO her. TO which we
listened with great interest.
Before me now is one of the needle books
whose home IS in grandmother'S trunk.
When opened il discloses pockets. The
back is fine cardboard worked around the
edge in red. A house and trees and green
grass are worked on the front cover. When
you open il you see the pockets are made
of a white silk badge. uncut and so ar
ranged that you read:
Miami Valley Convention.
In Commemoration OF
Perry's Victory on Lake Erie.
Held in Dayton
September 10th. 1910,
BY the Friends of
Harrison and Tyler.
At the moment that Perry commenced
the action he hoisted a large flag. until
then unseen and unknown to his OIL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
What Indianapolis Tailors
Say About Fashions for Men
Changed Little. But Show
DISTINGUISHING The Dinner Question

He Indianapolis man dresses bet
ter than the man of most any
other city. This is the verdict of
the leading tailors here. The rea-
son for this, they set out, is as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

IL season of flowers is near at
hand. In fact, it begins or
Easter Sunday, and, while there
will be a great demand for flowers
clear on until cold weather again
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20
Though Lost to Sight to Memory
Dear

The lark that builds by the meadow rill
And sings the meadow rails.
Flies far away when the frosts distil
And the wintry storm prevails;
But the happy lay OF the absent lark
In memory fingers long,
And the windy day and the sleety dark
Are cheered by his merry song.
Ben S. Parker.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

c. w. Kriel - ie distributor for Wilkie
Collins. 10 cent cigar. Tom Benton. 5 cent
cigar. Enough said.