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Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

Seud the MESSAGE to y"ur
friend as a Christmas present. 1t
would just be the capcr to please
him.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

Miss Kate Lasher at Laddonia
left for the State Of Florida this
week where she viii meet her af.
fianced and be married.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

The MESSAGE contains more
reading matter than any other pa,
per in the county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

If you owe the MESSAGE an ac.
count of any kind, please send MS
a Santa Clans better.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
BEAN CREEK.

I N"N'A ~ fANN'tf tiN Y tsRV ~ Nfftsf
weight $50 lbs. according to Bob
Smiths scales.
Misses Willingham have as
sumel the Initiative IN securing an
organ for Gilcad, which is a good
move.
Mrs. Clara Mortien entertained a
few friends last Thursday eve in
honor of her husbands thirty.sec-
ond birthday Oysters, ic5-cream
and cake were served.
j N. Beam aud wife of Mexic
ate dinner with their son, Frau, j.,
at Moline, Monday, that being I
birthday Of both father aud soi
Only once since the birth of The
son have they failed to eat dinner
together
H. II Jasper is putting u gravel
Iroof on his barn, j7xGO feet
A lady whom we know borrowed
coffee from II ueighbor. Later
paying the debt with watermelon
seed. We are not informed as to
lha eonoi''oh Oh salu he'g MOOR
nerves
Charles Daniels of Athens, H.,
WRITES mat nc "Iii spend the holl'
days WIN L. l. byars ana .. n.
Green. Mrs Byars' deceased ana
Mrs Green were sisters Oh MS
'ho'hef' hese Iamliles are the
Only known relatives OF Mr. u"
VINO mas Deeh absent IRON them q
years ana was Thought to be deaq
un'ii very recently.
Mrs. oeIe EnoonEs last week
visited her son. HarVe' at HigDee'
ana daughter at Pilot Grove.
A friend who hes no need Of Il
county paper borrows every issue
from a nelghOor after he gets the
same, even before the neighbour
that he may Whet his sarcastic
W., W., upou 'n' S'o''e u cr','c'Sln
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

READ the opening chapters Of
the serial story in the MESSAGE
this week, "Under the Red Robe
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
Fine Chickens for Sale.

b, Plymouth Rocks ct $1.0O
each Mrs. 7. B. Rjdgeway,
Mexico, Mo-, r. f D. 6, phone
No. 3, Standard.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

Mr. Ross N Buckley, q former
Mexico boy and a graduate Of lhs
Mexica High Sehooi, now located
at Pittsburgh Pa Is to be mar
Fied next Wednesday to Miss Jalia
Norris Capthorn Of Columbia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
THURSDAY, DEC. p, 1905

A MERRY Oh. istmas to all our
readers.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

WHAT about the curfew! Is it to
ring again in Mexico'
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

The new game law has already
helped the State treasury $2S, 900.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

The MESSAGE contains no patent
medicine advertisements.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21

This sale will continue until Januaryl, 1906,
and consist of Wagons Buggies, Surries, Victor
Talking Machines, Records, Ranges, Stoves,
Graniteware, Aluminium Ware, Tinware, Axes
and HatChets, Razors, Knives and Forks, Wash
ing Machines, Feed Cutters and Corn Shelters.
WILLIAM STEFFENS, ! Mexico, Mo.
&c. Would sell whole stock at wholesale.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
Removal Sale!
ESSS5SSssSS3s .SlsSsSys8
ElSS585.lsSS83

On January |, 1000, we
have to give possession of
our store, having sold the
same to Phillip Bros a year
ago. Now we want to sell
as much of the goods as pos
sible before moving
On a RGdlGdOl0f 10 per Gent from Our MARKED Price
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
Order Of Publication

State OF Missouri Tn the clrcnit court
County Of Audrain January Term, 1906
Alexander Carter, Plaintiff,
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
II r l S r M A S

COcoauut squares ....... 10
a Fiji Line
Oh
FANCY CHOCOLATES
AND
BON BONS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-12-21
Order of Publication.

State Of Missouri In the circuit court
County OF Audrain January term, 1906.
Alexander Carter, Plaintiff
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
What the World Owes to Doctors.

1t would be commonplace to point out
the advances made in both medicine and
surgery during the last half century, for
in that time medicine has come to be q
real science and surgery both an art and
a science. Sanitation, hygiene, the
broad principles which upderlie the
health of communities and states, are
now we'll understood and the individual
is made safe because the public may be
thoroughly safeguarded against pes
thence of any kind The doctors have
conquered smallpox, diphtheria, yellow
fever, the bubonic plague and all but
one of the dreadful scourges that devas-
tated the homes of our fathers, and they
seem now en- The right track in the
systematic, relentless, intelligent and
heroic war they are waging against tu-
beculosis. Typhoid fever, pneumonia,
and scarlet fe'er are robbed of much of
| their terrors. for where either was once
| likely to prove fatal now they are very
| likely not to. Who. then, has done so
| much for his fellow man as the doctor?
| Who else has lived for him so self-sac-
riflcingly and died for him so uncom-
ainingly?-Portlard Oregonan.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
CAMPING IN THE ROCKIES.
Delights of the Evening Around the
Fire Described by an
Enthusiast.

About dusk you struggle in with trout
or game. The campkeeper lays aside
his mending or his repairing or his note
book and stirs up the cooking fire. The
smell of broiling and frying and boiling
arises in the air. BY the dancing flames
of the campfire you eat your third dinner
for the day-in the mountains all meals
are dinners, and formidable ones at that,
writes S. E. White. in THE Mountains"
The curtain of blackness draws down
close. Through it shine stars, loom
mountains cold and mistlike in the
moon, You tell stories. You smoke
pipes After time the pleasant chill
creeps down from the eternal SHOWS.
Some one throws another handful of
pine cones on the fire. Sleepily you pre-
pare for bed. The pine cones fare up,
throwing their light in your eyes. You
turn over and wrap the soft wooden
blanket close about your chin. You
wink drowsily and at once you are
asleep.
Late in the night you awaken to find
your nose as cold as dogs. You opeil
one eye. A few Goals mark where the
fire has been. The mist mountains have
drawn nearer, they seem to bend over
you in silent contemplation. The moon
is sailing high in the heavens. With q
sigh you drawsthe canvas trapaulin over
your head. Instantly it is morning.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

any pants, because what pants the Arabs
didn't tear were worn off on the stones,
so when he showed up in front Of the
spinks he was a sight, and he bought a
turban OF guide and unwound it and
wound it around him in place Of pants.
| was ashamed of dad myself, and it is
pretty hard to make me ashamed.
We went back to Cairo on the cars, and
what do you think, that dead camel that
the Arabs made dad pay for was with
the caravan going back to town, cause
we saw him out of the car window with
the hair wore off where dad kicked him
in the side. The tourists say the Arabs
have that camel trained to die every day
when they get to the pyramids, and they
make some tenderfoot pay for him at the
end of each journey. Dad is going to try
to get his money back from the Egyp-
tan government, but guess he will
never realize on his claim.
Well, sir, after dad had doctored all
night to get the camel rheumatism and
spinal meningitis out of his system, we
took trip by boat on the Nile, and saw
the banks where the people grow crops
by irrigation, and where an English
syndicate has built big dam, so the
whole valley can be irrigated, and tell
you it will not be long before Egypt will
raise everything used in the world on
that desert, and every other country
that raises food to sell will be busted VI
in business, but it is disgusting to take
a trip on the Nile cause all the natives
are dirty and sick with contagious dis.
eases, and they are lazy and crippled
and beg for living, and if you don't give
them something they steal all you got
You are in luck if you get away withou
having leprosy, or the plague, or chol
era, or feas.
So we went back to Cairo and Their,
was the worst connection you ever saw
about my fireworks in the tomb TIL,
papers said that an American dynamite
had attempted to blow up the great pyr
amid, and take possession OF the countr,
and place it under the American flag
and that the conspirators were spotte,
and would be arrested and put in iron
as soon as they got back from trip o.
the Nile.
Well, sir, dad found his career woul
close right here, and that he would prob
ably spend the balance of his life in a.
Egyptian prison If we didn't get out, S
we made a sneak and got into our hote
and bought DISCUSSES and are going t
get out of here tonight, and try to &c
to Gibraltar, or somewhere in sight c
home. Dad is disguised as shiek, wit
whiskers and white robe. like a bat
robe, and am going to travel with hill
as an Egyptian girl till we get throug
the Suez canal.
Gee, but | wouldn't be a Niger gil
only to save dad. Your innocent.
HENNERY.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
ENGLISH OF FOREIGNERS.
Their Efforts at Mastering the Lam
guage Are oftentimes Very
Ludricous.

The struggle of foreigners who
have put their faith in dictionaries to
account for English as she is spoke
in New York are sometimes funny,
says the Times. An educated young
Italian asked an American who spoke
his language why the dictionaries were
so badly made
There are two expressions which
hear constantly" he said, "and neither
of them is in any dictionary l have
looked into. They are 'ahbetchu' and
'idono.'"
His American friend pondered for q
season, and then, with a cheerful smile
told him that "ahbetchu" stood for 81
bet you" and 'idono' was short fol
Il don't know"
But why" said the Italian, when {
person is leaving, do you call saloon
after him? | cant understand it.
thought at first it was a joke, to insin
uate that was going to a saloon. Blu
they call it after women. too
"Your saloon, my boy" replied TIT
American. 'is simply so long that i
New York dialect for addio, adieu
adios, auf Wiedersehen. farewell, o
good-by."
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

dad said he would go up or quit the tour
LIST business, He said he had come thou
sands of miles to climb the pyramids,
and sit in the shadow OF the spinks, and
by ginger he was going to do it, and so
we started.
Well say, each stone is about four feet
high, and dad couldn't get up without
help, so an Arab would so up stone
ahead, and take hold of dads hands, and
two more Arabs would get their shout
ders under dads pants, and shove, and
he would get up gradually, We got
about half way up when dad weakened,
and said he didn't care so much about
pyramids as he thought he did, and he
was rsady to quit, but the guide and
some of the tourists said We were right
near the entrance to the great tomb OF
the kings, and that we better go in and
at least make a formal call on the
crowned heads, and so we went in,
through dark passages, with little can
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
MARVELLOUS FRUIT GROWER
Work of Plant Breeder Who Has Been
Experimenting for Thirty
Five Years.

In the Country Calendar w. S. Har-
wood gives the following summary Of
the work of the marvellous California
plant breeder:
For IS years Mr.. Burbank has been
at work creating new forms Of plant life
he has created by breeding and selec-
ton more than $500 distinct species of
plants.
Some of his creations are:
THE primus berry, fruit unknown
before, made by the union of a black
berry and raspberry, which union sci
entific men said was impossible.
"The white blackberry, very beauti-
full, with delicate flavor.
Thee phenomenal berry similar
creation, cross between raspberry and
a California dewberry, having the color
of raspberry and the shape of black
berry but larger than either, far more
productive and with flavor surprising
both.
"The plumcot (result of the union Of
the apricot and the plum, of rare flavor
and richness, again disproving the die
tum of the scientists.
"A plum with no pit and one with the
flavor of the Bartlett pear.
"a walnut first so thin of shell that
the birds could peck through it, after
ward bred backward along the path 1t
had come until shell of the required
| thickness was secwed.
HE has produced new thornless
cactus. combination of many other va
rieties, which bears fruit, too, lor man
and beast, and which will redeem the
desert places of the earth; he has done
all these, and many other marvellous
| things"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

L w AS ASl1AME1 w lAl NJ oiblIE
dies that the guides carried and up and
down stairs, until finally we got into a
big room that smelled like morgue,
with bats and evil looking things all
around, and felt creepy.
The guides got down on their knees to
pray and l thought it was time to be
robbed again. do not know what made
me think of making a sensation right
there in the bowels of that pyramid,
where there were corpses thousands OF
years old, of Egypt's rulers never
felt that way at home, when visited
cemetery, but | thought would shoot
my last roman candle and fire my last
giant firecracker right there in that mos
eleum, and take the chances that we
would get out alive. So when the tour
lists were lined up beside tomb Of some
Rameses or other, and the guides were
praying for strength and endurance,
probably, to get away with all the mon
ey we had, picked out place up toward
the roof that seemed full of bats and
roman candle out from under my shirt,
and touched the fuse to a candle on the
turban of guide who was on his knees,
and Just as the first fire ball was ready
to come out | yelled: "Whoop-la-much-
a wano, pluribus unum," and the fire
balls lighted up the gloom and knocked
the bats gally west.
Holy jumping cats, but you ought to
have seen the guides, yelling Allah!
Allah! and groveling on the floor, and
the bats were flying around in the faces
of the tourists, and everybody was sim
ply scared out of their boots thought
| might as well wind the thing up glo-
rious, so touched the tail of my last
giant firecracker to the sparks that were
oozing out of my empty roman candle,
and threw it into the middle of the great
room, and when it went off you would
think a cannon had exploded and every
body rushed for the door, and we fell
over each other getting out through the
passage towards the door.
was the first to get out on to the side
of the pyramid, and | watched for the
crowd to come out. The tourists got out
first, and then dad came out putting and
Wheeling, and the last to come out were
the Arabs, and they came on their hands
and knees, calling to Mr. Allah and every
one of them actually pale, and l think
they were conscience-stricken, for they
began to give back the money they haf
robbed dad of, and an Arab must be pref
ty scared to give up any OF hi
hard-earned robberies. think dad wa
about the maddest man there was, unit
he got some of his money back, when h.
felt better, but he gave me talking t
that will never forget. g
He said; Don't you know bet
ter than to go around with explo
| sives, like train robber, and fir
them Off in hole in the ground, wher
: there is no ventilation, and make peo
I pies ears ring? Maybe you have woK
) up those kings and queens in there, an
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

footed and SHE'D all at the same time
and when one hump was not jamming
him in the back the other hump was
kicking him in the stomach. and if he
had a gun he would shoot the camel, and
the Arabs, and bust up the show.
BY the time dad got so he could stand
up without leaning against pyramid
the Arabs came up and they all talked
at once, and drew knives, and it seemed
as though they were blaming dad for
something. We found an interpreter
among the tourists, and he talked with
the Arabs, and pointing to the camel dad
had ridden, which was stretched out on
the sand like he was dead, he told dad
the Arabs wanted him to pay for the
camel he had ridden to death, and foun-
dered by letting it drink a wagon load Of
water, and then entered in race across
the desert, and the interpreter said dad
better pay, or they would kill him.
Dad settled for the camel for hun
dred dollars, and promise of the skin
of the camel, which he was going to take
home and have stuffed. Then a man
who pretended to be justice of the
peace had dad arrested for driving off
of walk, and he was fined $40 and costs
for that, and then all the Arabs struck
him for money for one thing and an
other, and when he had settled all
around and paid extra for not riding
back to Cairo on the camel, we got
ready to climb up the pyramid. Dad
said he wouldn't ride that camel back
to Cairo for a million dollars. for he was
split UP so his legs began where his arms
left off, and he was lame from Genesi:
to Revelations.
But never saw such lot of people tC
pray as these pirates are. Just before
they rob man they get down on theil
knees On rug, and humble something
to some god, and after they have got yol
robbed good and plenty, they get dowI
and pray, while they are concealirg thu
money they took from you. Gee, bu
when get home am going to stee
the train robbers and burglars onto tn
idea of always being on prayin!
grounds.
Well, told dad he hadn't better try t,
climb up the pyramid. that would g
up cause could climb like goat, an,
when got up to the top would fire
salute, so everybody would know that
star spang!el American was on deck hn
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
OFFICIAL cARELEssNESs.
Interesting "Reminiscences Of the
Irich Home Rule Bill Ex-
plotted in 1858.

Michael McDonough writes interest
ingly on THE Hunt for the Political Sc
cret' in the Monthly Review. Showing
how many important matters have been
revealed, he relates also how narrow
was the escape of others from the fate
Of premature publication. There was
the home rule bill of 1898, for instance.
Great as was the interest 1t aroused.
nothing of its scope was known authori-
tatively until Gladstone unfolded the
measure in the house Of commons. Yet
1t was near being disclosed long be-
fore the appointed time.
The rough draft was, as usual, put into
type at the Offices of the queens printers
and dozen copies struck off for the use
Of members Of the cabinet only. In ac-
cordance with the great care that is al
ways taken to guard state secrets, the
copy" Of the draft was distributed
among the compositors in portions so
minute that each got only three lines to
"set," so that none of them could ever
form the haziest conception of the pro-
posals of the bill from the bit he got to
put into type, and to one of the most
trustworthy overseers In the Office was
committed the duty of arranging these
innumerable lines of type in their con-
secutive order Then when the dozen
proofs Of the complete draft were
pulled" the type was Immediately brok-
en- up and distributed.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

changed dynasty, you little idiot. The
rest of the crowd wanted to throw me
down the side of the pyramid, but got
away from them and went up on top of
the pyramid and hoisted a small Ameri-
can flag, and left it floating there, and
then came back to where the crowd was
discussing the explosion in the tomb
and then we all went down the side of
the pyramid.
The guides got their nerve back after
they got out in the air, because they
wouldn't help dad down unless he paid
them something every stone they helped
him climb down, so when he got down
he didn't have any money, and hardly
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
The Bad Boy and His Dad Climb the
Pyramids The Bad Boy Lights a
Cannon Cracker in Rameses' Tomb
They Flee from Egypt in Dis
guise.
nv HON cENRGn w PECK,

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK,
(Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Former Edi-
tor of 'Pecks Sun" Author of Peck
Bad Boy" Etc,)
Copyright, 1905. By Joseph B. Bowles)
Cairo, Egypt.-My Dear Old Geezer:
I broke off my last letter in sight OF the
pyramids, when was left alone on the
desert, my jsckass having stampeded
with the camels, on account OF my nre-
works, and presume you think was
all in, but got to the pyramids before
the stampeded caravan did. saw car
coming along, and just got aboard and
in ten minutes | was at the base OF
the big pyramid, and the camel with dad
ON between the humps, was humping
himself half a mile away, trying to get
there, and the other camels, with the
Arabs, were stretched out like horses
in a race, behind, and my jackass was
right next to dads camel, braying and
occasionally kicking dads camel in the
Stats.
There were about hundred tourists
around the base of the big pyramid all
looking towards the stampede of the
camels, and told them my dad, the
great American millionaire, was on the
runaway camel in advance, and asked
them to form line across the trail and
save dad, but when the camel came near
er | was ashamed Of dad. He had his
arms around the the front hump of the
camel, and he was yelling for help to
stop his menagerie, and his legs were
flying in the air, and every time they
came down they kicked hole in the side
of the camel.
Well, sir, thought dad was a brave
man, but he blatted like calf, and when
the camel stopped and went to eating a
clump of grass dad opened his eyes, and
when he saw that the procession had
stopped he rolled off his camel like a
bag of wheat, and stuck in the sand and
began to say prayer, but when he saw
me standing there, laughing, he stopped
praying, and said to me: 81 thought you
were blown up when that jackass kicked
the can of dynamite. You have more
lives than cat. Now, get hustle or
you and we will climb that pyramid, and
then quit this blasted country" and dat
sat down on hummock and began tt
pull himself together, after the mos
fearful ride he ever had. He said the
camel loped, trotted, galloped, single
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
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EnfIr Kinds of Speed.

In the course of a case in an English
court the other day one of the counsel
said there were four speeds at which
motorists travel. They were (a) the
speed the policeman said; (h) the speed
the chauffeur told the magistrate; (c)
the speed he chauffeur told his friends
In pull, C house and Ia the real speed.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
Very Likely.

1--WE thought" said the reporter,
"that you might care to say something
about these charges against you"
mo" replied the crooked public Of
fetal, 81 believe that silence Is
golden"
Well" replied the reporter, per
haps the public might believf It's
merely gilt in tbs casa.'-CatholE
Standard and Tines,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25
Lazy Ases.

On landing in Australia, says Q
writer in Nature Notes. our hive bees
irdustriously collected quantities Of
honey. Finding, however, that there
was no winter such as we have In
England. it gave up laying in storesl
Its morals are corrupted, for 1t is no
longer busy" and los its a butterfly
AZ
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

The Upton County Farmers Institute
held two days session at Covington
last week, small crowd being in at
tendance. Interesting and instructive
addresses were made by w, w. Ogil-
vie, Commissioner of Agriculture, and
others.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

Near Readville, Cannon county, Hen
ry Bates cut and fatally wounded Sam
Cox. a kinsman. The men uuarreled
because Cox, who has been living at
Bates place, was preparing to move
away. Cox's wife, who was in bed with
a young baby, witnessed the stahhing
of her husband.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-08-25

1t is officially announced that the an
nual national meeting of the Order of
Red Men will be held in Nashville on
Sept. ll-l7. The report that has gone
out that the meeting would be helt
elsewhere is without foundation.