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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-09

teal robbery of the state treasury, it is
because I'VE the people of Alabama In
convention assembled are less than the
theory of our governmental system, that
somewhere there is something superior
to do.
JOHN WITHERSPOON DU BOSE.
Montgomery April 8, 1905.
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Highly Favored.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Here's a good one. Jones. WHY are
tho garden seeds my little daughter.
planted last week like sauerkraut and
limhurger?"
Give it up
Because they're German-atin'."
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Mrs. WInelow's sco.hIno svr,,,

The best remedy Tor DILRRHOEA. Sold
by druggists in every part or the world
Be sure and ask fe Mr.. Winslow
sc othing Syrup an take no other kind.
Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
by MILLIONS OF r.OTHERS for their
CHILDREN WHILE TEEThING. with
PERFECT SUCCESS. 1t SOOTHES the
CHILD. SOFTENs the GUMS, ALLAYS
all PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC. and is
twenty-five cents n bottle.
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HOBSON CHALLENGE
IS TURNED DOWN
Colonel Bryan Refuses a Series
of Joint Debates
NAVY TO BE DISCUSSED
Hobson Wanted to Meet Nebraskan
on Lecture Platform, But Bryan
Doesn't Think the Naval
Policy Debatabe.

Copies of the following letters, ex-
changed by Col. William Jennings Bryan
and Capt R. P. Hobson, have been sent
to The Age-Herald by Captain Hobson.
The correspondence is self-explanatory:
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For those who treat only the svmntoms
need a different remedy for each. such
treatments are only palliative, the results
do not last A cure can never come in
disease of the stomach, heart. liver or
kidneys, until the inside nerve power Is
restored. When that is done. Nature re-
moves the symptoms There is no need
OF doctorin5 them.
My remedy-now known by druggists
everywhere. as DR.. Shops Restorative
is the result of quarter century Of en-
deavor along this very linz 1t does not
desc the organ c. deaden the pain-but 1t
does go at once to the nerve-the inside
nerve-the power nerve-and builds it up,
and strengthens it and makes 1t well.
There is no myetery-no miracle. 1 can
explain my treatment to you as easily as
| can tell you why cold freezes water and
why heat melts ice. Nor do l claim a
discovery. For every detail of my treat
ment Is based on truths so fundamental
that none can deny them And every in
gredient of my medicine is as old as the
hills 1t grows on. I simply applied the
truths and combined the Ingredients in
to a remedy that is practically certain.
l have made my offer that strangers to
my remedy may know. 1t Is not intended
for or open to those who have used my
remedy. They need no further evidence.
But to those who have not heard, or hear
ing may have delayed or doubted, 1 say
simply write and ask" l will send you
an order on your druggist which he will
accept as gladly as he would accept a
dollar He will hand you from his shelves
a standard size bottle of my prescription,
and he will send the bill to me.
VIII you accept this opportunity to
learn, at my expense absolutely how to be
rid forever of all forms of Illness which
are caused by inside nerve weakness
to be rid not only of the trouble. but of
the very cause which produced It'll Write
today.
For a free order Book on Dysrep-
g.. eel, aol1ar STA.
Book 2 on the
poteie YOU must "u Heart.
dress DIR. Shoop, Book on the
Box Key 1893, Ra- Kidneys.
cine. Wis. State Pooie lo ~ M
which book you Book on Rheu-
want. matism.
Mild cases are often cured by single
bottle For sale at forty thousand drug
stores.
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Kirk Was Famous MoonshIner.

Who on big Sandy" has not heard of
Amos Kirk. nov decea sed, the most noted
of all the many wild oatters' with whom
that section abounds, who had thirty-two
wild cat stills conflscated and chopped up
by Uncle Sans revenue officers, and was
arrested time ana time again, charged
with distilling and selling whisky illegally
but was never convicted on a single
charge. lie was man who cost the gov
eminent more money and gave the OFF,
GERS more trouble than any one person In
the state of Alabama. His face was as
familiar at each session twice a year of
the United States court at Huntsville as
was that of the judge himself He was a
perfect giant In statue, good natured and
docil as n kittn when not molested He
was as tender hearted as n child and
there was nothing he would not do to ac-
commodate friend The right was never
too cold or dark for him t. go miles for
the doctor for neighbor when sick On
one occasion he took off his only shirt
and tore it into bandages to bind IN tho
broken leg OF his favo.Ite dog that after
wards caused him to meet tragic death
| Kirk was perfectly fearless and would
court death for a pastimc. He was the
quickest man ON the trigger ON the noun
tain dead shot and a perfect demon
| When aroused
Ono bright morning on his return from
| his still I'm the gulch whore the waves
from the blue Tennessee were murmerino
softly to the rugged shore. Kirk sat down
TO rest placing his ever ready gun bv his
side. His dog came up. began fswnine
upon him ana struck the hammers OF tho
gun. discharging 1t and Utterly blowing
the side OF his face OFF. When found sew
cral hours later he was cold in death and
his dog. the Innocent cause of 1t an Iaving
beside the body on guard Kirk had made
his last run
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Complete Treatment, 81

Battle with and Cuicura Soap to cleanse
the skin the hckened cuce
rubbing, and apply Cutcura Ointment freely to
aay itching aons and infamaton and sothe and heal and
lastly Cutura Liquid Pills. to cool and cleanse
This and wholesome treatment affords instant
permits sleep and points speedy permanent and
the distgnng itching burning and
blood rashes and rtaons
romi % hair when all else falls
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Women Chew Tobacco.

The women nearly all chew tobacco and
go minus shoes or stockings all during
the summer At nearly every cabin there
are from forr to six mountain dogs that
very much resemble the gray wolf, and
are quite vicious.
The food of these people is of the plain
est. This, with the high, dry latitude
and pure mountain spring water that
comes bubblng from a towering cliff, may
in a manne~ account foI their loncsv ity.
They subsist principally upon corn pone,
bacon, game and fish, which may be had
from some of the numerous blue mountain
streams that empty into the Tennessee
river. This fare Is occasionally augment
ed by potatoes. cabbage and onions. The
sand mountain people are inveterate coffee
drinkers, but their favorite drink Is
mountain 'moonshine," pure as the dew
drops of Heaven. One drink of which will
make man tihge from his ears to his
toes. while three will make him "climb a
thorn three with a wild cat under each
arm and never get scratch" They have
all been reared by their forefathers to re-
gard 1t as a right by inheritance to CON
vert corn, apples and peaches into pale
face whisky. and woe to the intruder or
informer on their work, for they will st op
who tips off, to the thoroughly hated
revenue officer. a man they all dread.
Nothing will stop them from making
mountain dew" for it is their one
luxury.
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MyFree Dollar Offer

WY Free DOlldT OIlcT
Any sick one who has
not tried my remedy,
DR.. Shops Restorative,
may have a Full Dollars
Worth Free. | ask no
deposit, no references,
no security. There is
nothing to pay either
now or later | will send
you an order on your
druggist which he will
accept in full payment
for a regular, standard
size Dollar bottle. And
he will send the bill to me.
c. |. ShOop, M. D.
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Whole Body Mass of Itching Sores
and Scales. Awful Suffering
for Fifteen Years.
CURED BY CUTICURA

take the liberty drop few lines you know
wonderful by Cucu Ny head of scab and
forehead covered almost down had
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night and morning. also taking hot bath three times week.
and the Ointment freely after the BATH After using cake
and Ointment completely cured without
mark head body pleased felt like taking
my running every
Cucua had done shall other but
doubt this they write to me-
III Washington St, Allegheny, Pa H. B FRANKLIN
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Always Marry Young.

They invariably marry young and are
very profic--it being no uncommon sight
to see from eight to a dozen blue-eyed,
flaxen-haired children at one cabin, which
is generally built of logs with a shed
room the boards that cover the roof
being laid on the pole rafters. smaller
pole Is laid on top of the boards to hold
them in position, an entire cabin often
being built without single nail The
doors are never locked and are opened by
single simple string attached to a crude
latch. Very often the entire family of ten
or twelve children are reared on dirt
floor. which from constant Use is as hard
as a brick.
In this single room. which is parlor,
kitchen, dining room and sleeping room,
there are from three to four beds, and two
or three smalsr beds pushed under the
larger ones. that are drawn out at bed
time, and they are all covered with calico
patchwork quilts of every color of the
rainbow.
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my hat all the time. My legs,
arms, and body were covered with
spots in size from a pin-head to as
large as a silver dollar. A white,
crusty scab would form and itch,
and words cannot express how
suffered for fifteen years. tried
many doctors and all kinds of treat
ments and could get no help, and
thought there was no hope for me.
While in Michigan last summer a
friend told me to get Cuticura. |
got cake of Cuticura Soap and a
box of Cuticura Ointment, and in
three days my head was as clear as
it ever was applied the ONT
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-09
QUAINT PEOPLE ARE
ON SAND MOUNTAIN
They Live Long and Rear
Large Families
MEN STRONG AND BRAVE
Believe Firmly In Their Right to
Make Mountain Dew" and Wage
War on Revenue otfIoers-A
Famous Moonshlner.
sY n. M. HENDERSON.

1t has been said: Every man is as the
Lord made him. Truly it Is of the sand
mountain natives-those living far back
of big Sandy
These mountaineers are a people OF
whom volumes could be written-born in
a cabin and reared in Gods bright sum
shine; and are as poor as poverty and as
free as the summer breezes that stir the
treetops of their native heaths. BY ma
ture they are very cunning and utterly
void of fear. They are as rule, clanisn
AMI will fight to the bitter end for their
relatives, friends, or to avenge supposed
wrong They are accustomed to hardships
and have remarkable powers of endur-
anee; are hardy and very athletic and are
strangers to tie comforts of life. AS a
class they are very ignorant, the major
ity of them can neither read or write
Their religious faith is divided by the set
Elements in which they reside.
In one neighborhood they are all Metho-
dist, and in another they are all Baptist,
but all believe in immersion and insist or
goir down under the water"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-09

The Gawk Engraving Co. makes the
best cuts. Phone Peoples 27C.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-09

For a free order
for a full dollar
bottle you must adj
dress DR.. shoop,
Box Key 1893, Ra-
cine, Wis. State
which book you
want.
Mild cases are oft
bottle. For sale at
cforao
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
Street Lighting.

The Electric Light Co. has made
the following propositions TO light
the streets of Mexico:
Cd We propose to light the streets
of Mexico for a term Of five years
with fifty Alt current series arc
lamps of twelve hundred candle
power, each light to burn all night
and forty two to burn till l. o'clock
all subject to the Philadelphia
moonlight schedule for the sum of
$40 per lamp per month.
(2) We will furnish same as
above for term of ten years for
the sum of 1925.
(3) We will furnish thirty of
the above mentioned lamps for a
term of five years for the sum of
s.. 80 per lamp per month. Eight
lamps to burn till all night aud -
till o'clock. All subject to the
Philadelphia moonlight schedule.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
Cupld's Captures.

Mr.. David NJ. DOwell and Miss
Iona E. Moore, both of Rails
county, were united in marriage at
Farber last Sunday, Justice A. E..
Jenkins tying the nuptial knot
Married, OF Farber last Friday,
by Justice A. +. Jenkins, Mr.. Rob-
ert Blackjack of Pittsburg, Kan
sas, to Miss Grace Santrack of
Wayne Co., Ohio. They will re-
side in Farber where Mr.. Black
lock is employed in the mines.
Miss Nettie B. Thomas of Mex
leo, accompanied by her sister,
Mrs. James Squires, left first of
the week for Dallas, Texas, where
Miss Thomas will be welded to
Mr.. Howard E. Arthur, a promi-
nent business man of that city.
The following card was received
by friends in Mexico a few days
ago: Mr.. and Mrs. james A.
Thomas announce the marriage of
their daughter, Dora B., to Luke
S. Simpson, Sunday evening,
March u, 1905, at 6 O'Clock, Far
Der, Mo. At home after March
10th, Farber, Mo-" The wedding
was at the home of the bride,
northwest OF Laddonia, ceremony
performed by Rev. d. II. McBee.
A number Of invited guests present.
The happy couple attended church
in LaddOnia that evening aud then
repaired to their future home
at Farber. The bride and groom
are held in the highest esteem by
scores Of friends and acquaintance
Mr.. Simpson is the Q. & A, depot
agent at Farher. May their joy,
increase as the months and years
roll by.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
MARTlNSRuRG.


This is fine spring weather, some
are getting ready to make garden,
Others have made, believing spring
has come.
Rev. A. NJ. Pennewell preached
at the NJ. e. church, both morn
ing and evening. The morning
was a memorial sermon in memory
of the late Mrs. l.. A. Bird. There
was also preaching services at the
Baptist church both morning and
evening by the pastor, Rev, T. M.
Green.
Miss NJ. +. Rogers has returned
home after a two weeks visit to
relatives in Pike Co., Nandalia,
and Laddonia. She will go to st.
Louis next week to buy her stock
of millinery.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. y. Belts of
Laddonia visited Miss NJ. E. Rog.
ers here Saturday.
The Misses Martin and brother,
Russell, visited at N. NJ. Fried
mans Sunday.
Miss Unice Walker and Hazel
Friedman visited in the country
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. N. Kent has sold her farm
and has moved to town TO live.
Mr.. Belcher and family have
moved to the Kent farm, west of
town.
Misses Ara McGrew. Addie
Squires and Fannie Stoneberg Wis.
tied Miss Annie HILBERT, north of
town, Sunday.
Rev. II. B. Rice was iuEtown
Monday to meet Mr.. VIM. Ball OF
Troy who accompanied him home.
Rev. 7. NJ. Green, pastor of the
Baptist church here and at Mont
gomery City, is engaged in Il pro
tracted meeting at Laddonia this
week.
Mrs. B. Holderman and hei
mother were in Wellsville Monday
Miss Minnie Ellis spent Sunday
in the country.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
Killed Three Persons.

Denver, March Outraged be-
cause of his defeat in lawsuit in
which X. Fill, the man whom he
pronounced his bitterest enemy,
had been victorious, and swearing
vengeance against him and his fam
lily, George Schistler, a teamster,
armed himself with a rifle today
and started out to do murder.
When the smoke of battle had
cleared away three persons were
dead, one was missing and three
Others lay wounded, two at least
quite seriously.
The wife of George Sehistler is
Frustrated over the affair, and
may die from the shock.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
A Half Million for a Vote.

Marshall, Mo-, March l2.-Sev-
eral pastors of this place commend
ed Senator Hicks in their sermons
this morning for changing his vote
on the bill repeating the breeders
law. The Rev. j. E. Hubert,
pastor of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain church, said in speaking of
the senator's vote that great infu-
ence had been at work on the part
of the race horse men and the
state fair management to have
Senator Hicks vote against the re-
peal of the law, aud that the gam
blers of the state, if they could
have been able to control his vote,
would gladly have paid . million
dollars for it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
Rush Hill.

Rather cool to plant you garden
truck.
Some of our early plaut-overs
have planted potatoes.
Farmers are generally sowing
oats.
A large acreage will be sown to
oats this spring.
The ground is working loose
aud mellow.
Our oldest citizen, who is 81,
says it will not rain until after the
full moon.
So many owners came on and
took possession of their farms this
spring the renters have to hustle to
find places.
Very little sickness to report;
our NJ. D. says it is distressingly
healthy.
We stopped in Benton City the
other day in our ramblings, and
called to see DR.. Douglass, but we
were informed the Doctor had so
little sickness to attend to he took
a day off and had gone to Mexico.
We found our friend Jacob Stauf-
fer in his field running several
teams putting in oats. Mr.. Stauffer
is one of Audrain's best farmers.
His farm and his bank account
are both in evidence and good
management. Now come on aud
I'll show you something. This is
what we call the Bill Sims farm.
Do sou see the man with his team
of mules, wagon and seeder
That is Lee Stuart. Do you see
those four boys and as MANY
disks? Those are Lees boys.
Look back at that 2O.foOt harrow
and six horses after the seeder,
that's another of Lees boys. How
many more has he got did you say?
Oh, lots of them, little fellows at
the house; two or three more will
be big enough next summer to
handle u team. That looks like
business, doesn't it? That's the
kind Of a citizen to build up a
country. Lee raises the boys and
teaches them to work.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
WORRELL'S CORNER.
WOFrell, The Jeweler, to
Greatly Enlarge His
Store.

r. d. Worrell is soon to enlarge
his iewelry store into one of the
handsomest quarters in the State
for goods in his line.
Besides the room occupied by
Worrell's present business, the J.
At. Brown store room and
the room lately occupi e d
by j. NJ. Pollard have been leased
and arched doorways will be cut
connecting all three rooms-and
here will be WOrrell's corner.
A large repair department will
be placed in the room now occu-
pied by Mr.. Brown; it will also be
the watch, silver and diamond de-
partment quarters. The Pollard
room will contain cut-glass, fine
China, stationery and optical
goods. The third room will be occu.
pied by the WOrrell-P Parks Music
Co.
New and up-to-date fixtures will
be placed in each room. E. a.
Parks of Louisiana will be a part
ner in the musical department
only.
The iewelry business will he in
corporated with the following
stockholders: Il. d. Worrell, T.
S. Riley, j. B. Moore and H. c.
Marshall.
'Rah for Worrell. Glad of the
faith he shows in the future pros.
poets of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
Thompson.

Miss Sadie Bousil is the guest of
her sister, Mrs. VIM. Allison.
Joe Considine and family spent
Sunday at Centralia.
w. H. Handhausen was here
from st. Louis Monday.
Judge Baker Barnes was in Mex
leo on business Tuesday.
Mrs. Ben Franklin of Mexico
was Il recent guest of her parents
here.
Mrs. Chas. Clark is home from a
three weeks visit to Texas aud
Indian Ter. relatives.
j. Harrison Brown returned to
Mexico Tuesday.
Misses Mollie Williams and Car
RE Hunter of Mexico and John
Heller of Moline were recent
guests of F. Il. Cawthorn and wife
J. Owen Tinsley is q. & A.
night operator here.
Mrs. r. II. Brown is on the
sick list.
Ruben Tinsley is home from st,
Louis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
A Birthday.

The Sth of March Mrs. Jolly
celebrated her 18th birthday There
were present about % persons
children, grandchildren, great
grandchildren and other near rela-
tiyes. The table was loaded with
good things, prepared by Mrs.
JOlly's daughters and Willie Har-
per, an adopted grandson. Aunt
Mollie had always baked big
cake for grandma's birthday, and
little Willie, now that she was
gone, was determined to bake the
cake himself.
IT WAS 4 HAPPY GATHERING.
But alas, there was one missing,
Who had e'er bee n there before.
Was she smiling down upon them
From that fair celestial shore?
Yes, they felt her spirit presence,
And they banished grief and pain,
For they know, though their loss
be,
1t was Mollie's glorious gain.
And may you, dear children, live
so,
Through the days and years tC
come,
That when grandma bids you vel
come,
To a fairer, brighter home,
y on can take as true a record
AS she will to Him on high.
May there not a face be missing
At that gathering bye and bye.
l.. L. q, II.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
Benton City.

The Misses Watts of Galloway
visited their cousin, Minnie Hen.
dirk, several days last week.
Mr.. Jones of Iowa is visiting his
son, G. D. Jones, south of town.
Mrs. VIM. Reed of Moberly was
the guest of Mrs. VIM. johnson
Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. Elmer Bradley filed the APP.
pointment of Rev. Trower at the
Baptist church Sunday. Rev,
Bradley is a SPLENDID speaker.
Mrs. c. c. Douglass visite d
Martinsburg relatives severa day,
last week.
Born, to Mr.. aud Mrs. e. d
Jones, March 18th, a daughter.
Joe Jones has moved to his
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
SANTA FE

Emmett Fairbain and wife and
little daughter, LetO, of Perry Wis
tied relatives here Sunday.
Miss Eva Dull is in Monroe City
on business.
Jim aud Roy Fields of Monroe
City were in our little village Sun
day.
Frank Harlo visited very dear
FRIEND, also Joe Force aud fam.
lily, of near Centralia, the latter
part of the week.
Miss Media Beamer of Ash is
visiting friends and relatives of
this place.
Mrs. Doll Hanger is visiting hel
home folks of near Strother.
Wallace Quisenberry of Shelby
vile visited Phil Quisenberry and
wife the latter part of this week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-03-16
YOUR NETGHBORS

John Y. Brown is home from
Muskogee, l. T.
Ernest Lasher, for the past two
years located in Montana, is visit
ing Audrain relatives.
Jacob Atchison and wife have
returned from Eurkea Springs,
where they spent the winter.
Mrs. James Graham, nee Mar
garet Fisher, of Hannabal is visit
ing relatives at Moline and at San
ia Fe.
Sam Howard has been down at
Bellhower this week putting in
electric bells for the new hotel at
that place.
Wallace Bassford and wife are
home from Washington, D. c.,
where Mr.. Bassford was secretary
to the Hon. Champ Clark.
Royden johnson of Vaudalia
was in Mexico Monday on his way
to Montgomery City where he ac-
cepts a position in the Standard
printing office.
DR.. B. G. Tut, chaplain of the
Missouri penitentiary, with E. w.
Stephens of the Columbia Herald,
were in Mexico Tuesday to attend
a committee meeting from the Bap-
fist State Board of Home and For
eign Missions.
Quoted from the Louisiana Press
Journal: Frank Fletcher, of
Mexico, is visiting his uncle, Chris
Stewart, in this city. Frank is
now making his home with his sis
ter, Mrs. John Beal, ut Mexico.
His right arm is almost helpless
from an accident which befell him
at Independence, Kansas, last July
when he fell forty eight feet from
a church tower where he was lay
ing brick. Part of the bones of
his arm had to be removed. Mr..
Fletcher is a son of the late r. P.
Fletcher and left here about seven
teen years ago.