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Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13
Hebron Lodge Elects officers.

At a meeting OF the Hebron Lodge
A. F. and A. M, Tuesday evening
July 4, the following officers were
elected to serve the ensueing year;
o. Poisson, w. NJ.
E. F. Elliot, S, W.
o. Martin, j. w.
A. O. Barnes, Treas.
]. j. Steele, Secy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

QUITE number of Audrain people
are in favor Of an old fashioned county
fair. This matter should be agitated
and arrangements made for such an
enterprise next year
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

La Crosse Lumber Cos Ready Mixed
Paints; guaranteed strictly pure. Over
100, 900 gallons sold to date, sales in.
creasing, which is selt-evident fact
that our paint is all we claim.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

G. r. MADDOX, OF Monroe county,
expended 20 cents in Mexico for din
ner. He is the only Farmer in the
State that has it in for Audraln or
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Harry and Wanda Gordon, Of Ool-
umbia, returned home Thursday after
a visit with their uncle, A. Hutcher-
son, In this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

It's pretty hard to get lumber now
but we bought early and have good
stock, but we had to hunt from the
lakes to the Gulf and even out on
the Coast. We can supply you with
most anything you want in that line.
La CROSSE LUMBER co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r. Wise expect to
leave in short time for q lengthy
visit in California. Mr.. Wise may
stay until cold weather.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Go to the Windsor Hotel for your
meals. The best table and cooking
guaranteed. Sunday dinner q spec
ialty. d&wtf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

THE failure OF several banks
throughout the country does not indi-
cate by any means that there is going
to be a money panic. At the same
time individuals and corporations will
be conservative and careful regarding
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

J. G. Trlmble and wife, OF Kan
sas City, returned home saturday
after attending the funeral oil MIS- a.
Fl. Buckner In this city
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Miss Mary Highsmith has returned
to her home In Carrolton, after visit
with Miss Louise Lakeland In this
city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Judge and Mrs. S. NJ. Edwards are
home from Cherokee, Iowa. They
were accompanied by their daughter,
Mrs. Charles E. Moore, and daughters.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Home dressed meat, choice corn fed
beef, juicy and tender spring lamb
veal and pork. Carter's market, Har-
per block. Phone, 534. w2-dtf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Game Warden ]. FL. Rodes is in
Mexico on visit to his wife, who has
been the guest of relatives here during
the last week or so.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

AN active committee should at once
secure the s240 necessary TO bring the
state Poultry Show TO Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Rev. q, @. Selecman left July for
Denver and will be absent for two or
three weeks, His pulpit will be sup
piled during his absence
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

George V. Elliot and Miss Alma
Morris, both Of Macon county, were
married in this city wednesday even
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

IT is time to begin to get ready for
the big street fair and carnival. Every
citizens Of Audrain county is interest
ed in the success OF this enterprise
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Williamson re-
turned to their home In Kansas City
after pleasant visit with relatives
In this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

A steam shovel is in action IN 'ne
west part OF town, tearing away an
embanEment to make room Tor ene
new Wabash stock yards
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

p. w. Harding is the guest Of his
son, Will, at Columbus, Indiana.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

MEXICO and Andrain county are one
and the same when 1t comes TO what
is best for the public good
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

The railroad commissioners want
Mexico to have railroad depot. That
settles it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Arnold Hughes has gone to Eureka
Springs for rest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13
Placed in q Vault.

The remains of Mrs. A. W. Koken-
doffer were taken TO Louisville, KY,
and placed In vault In the Cave Hill
cemetery for en- indefinite length Of
time.
Mr.. KokendOffer will remain in
Jacksonville, Ind, for short while
before resuming his pastoral duties
here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

t. p. Harrison, of McCredie, was in
Mexico on business this week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

l.. P. Paisley, of Rush Hill, was a
business visitor to the city Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Miss Edith Elliott OF England, is the
guest of her relatives, r. Il. Elliott and
famlly,in this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

]. w. Reed, Dentist, N. E. Corner,
Public Square. d&wtAug
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

FOR SALE-Young calves.
d2-wtf WARREN HEDGES.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Hon. ]. A. Potts, president of the
State Fair, is home from a business
visit to Sedalia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Miss Lila Gellum returned to her
home in Bowling Green after visit
with Mrs, w, w. Bolts,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

David II. Robertson is home frome
Kansas City.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

MEXICO must have the state poul-
try show.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

AGt - ~ SAh " NAA~As
What to Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root. the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver. bladder and every part
Of the urinary passage. 1t conects inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
It, or bad effects following use Of liquor,
wine or beer. and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity Of being compelled to 60 often
during the day, and 10 get up many tifnes
during the night. The mild and the extra.
ordinary effect Of Swamp-Root is soon
realized II stands the highest for its won>
derful cures Of the most distressing cases.
'tyou need a medicine you should have the
best. Sold BY druggists in SOC, and ST.. sizes.
You may have sample bottle Of this
wonderful discovery Et~
and a book that tells n ~ I s.ss$ls=sh s.s$s=
more about It. both sent 4;
absolutely free by mail. s1sE1szs =
Address DR.. Kilmer & Home Of swzmpROot
Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men
ton reading this generous offer in this paper
Dent make any rpistaks, but remember
The name, SwamplRooL Or. kilmer's
swaInp-Root and the address, 5inghamton
MY. on every bottle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

I. NJ. Greer is home from Louisville,
Kentucky.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13


of the United States have no
hesitation in lending their influence to
assist in letting the public know OF the
merits of Peruna.
Nearly one-half the people are in some
way affected by catarrh. Therefore 1t
Is almost national curse, and It is OF
national import that the people should
know Of Peruna.
Catarrh is an American disease.
Peruna Is an American remedy.
Catarrh is q result of changeable
climate. Peruna is result Of long and
careful experimentation,
Catarrb enters the system through the
nerve centers and affects the mucous
membranes. Peruna enables the nerve
centers to repel and expel the catarrh
from the system.
Catarrh is a systemic disease and
curable only by systemic treatment.
The remedy that cures catarrh must
aim directly at the depressed nerve
centers. This is what Peruna does.
Redeemer OF Public Moneys.
Hon. John @. Leftwich, Redeemer of
Public Moneys, whose Office is in the
Postofiice Building, in letter written
from Montgomery, Ala, says:
81 take pleasure in recommending
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13
A Fine WoOdlawn Home.

FrankR0bertson has purchased from
E. d. Graham two lots in Woodlawn,
just south of the Fish property, for
q, 900. These are splendid lots. and
we are glad to know that Mr.. Robert
son is going to erect a fine residence
sometime during this year.
Quite a number OF new homes will
likely be erected In Mexico this fall.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

sediment CT SET
ting indicates an
unhealthy condi-
ton Of the kid
neys; If it stains
your linen II Is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire ID
pass 1t or pain in
the back is also
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13
Mrs. Henry Lambert is i'll.

Charlie Patterson is here from New
Orleans.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Ruberoid Roofing, time tried and
FIRE tested. For sale only by La Crosse
Lumber Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Acme Plaster, king Of hard plasters
For sale only by La Crosse Lumber Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Portland Cement, Louisville Cement.
Plaster Paris, Hair. We have them,
La CROSSE LUMBER co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

Mobile, in a recent letterfrom
Mobile, Ala, says:
"Allow me to send TO you my
testimonial as to the good
qualities of Peruna. I have
used 1t for the past three
months and find IL ia .
most excellent tonic."--P. d.
BARKER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

nNE of the most wonderful
~ events in the history of
medicine is the multitude of
endorsements which Peruna Is
receiving as a catarrh cure
from men of national
Importance.
The most distinguished men
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13
What to Do.

convincing proof tina, the kidneys and blad-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13

MFR. G. E. Maddox, Monroe County. Missouri.
MEXICO, Mo-, July s, 1905 Dear
Sir: have read your letter to the
Mexico LEDGER, and note you say
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
WHERE FINDING WAS LOSS.

From the New York World.
 A man who found and spent s7600 seven- teen years ago sends now a letter of regret to him who lost the money. q have often thought" he writes, whether 1t would not have been better for us both if I had not found it. as I coti- vated tastes l cannot satisfie now" The spelling is weak in spots. The ethical sug- gestion is sound. And while we may be sure that the writer is moved rather by a "dark-brown taste' than by a pow erful moral sense-seventeen years is a long while for a conscience to take in moving-the incident is instructive.
 For a season the finder of the S76oo en- joyed himself fiercely. The letter tells that as plainly as though it said so. But the decline and fall of joy must have been speedy. and only repentance was slow. The sorry one clings also to a slender thread of human virtue. "If it was a poor man who lost it." writes he. 'I think I would have returned it.'
 The special plea is touching With his finding multiplied few thousand times instead of sunk in vanished delights one might fancy this repentant dividing with foreign mission boards or with per- sonally financed university
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Dynamite at BIossburg.

The wrecking of houses occupied by non-union miners at Blossburg was dastardly and cowardly in the ex- treme. Dynamite was the destructive agent employed, and the villains who used it knew beyond all reasonable doubt that innocent little children were sheltered in the houses assailed. One little girl, 12 years of age, was killed by the explosion at the Alex ander home.
 Sheriff Burgin and Coroner Paris are at Blossburg, and they will no doubt endeavor to detect the perpetra- tors of the crimes. The innocent life that has been sacrificed calls aloud for the full vengeance of the law.
 The strike of the miners in this dis trict has heretofore, with few excep- tions, been conducted in an orderly udHHSI. it oiiiSidiS VI ihS "AiOh miners express themselves as shocked by the crime, and they denounee it as freely as men can.
 It seems to have been the act of irresponsible criminals. More than one villain was probably connected with it, and every effort should be made to unearth the foul conspiracy. Blossburg seems to have become a storm center. and the intensity of the passions there aroused have culmi- mated in a crime that touches all hearts. This crime must not go un- punished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
People In the Dark.

"In view of the fact that so much mas been published about ParsifaF In the last year. it is Remarkable what appall- ing ignorance is displayed by people one meets now and them said a professional man yesterday Ut seems that everyone has heard of Richard Wagner's sacred music drama but in some minds there are hazy ideas regarding it's theme. one lady of my acquaintance ventured the opinion that it was the Passion play brought over to America and another thought t was something on the order of The Pilgrims Progress.
 AS a matter of fact, Parsifaf tells the story of the search for the Holy Grail by Parsifal. who was a perfect knight-a Sir Galahad The plot is similar to that suggested by Tennysons Quest of the Holy Grail
 Much interest is being taken In the coming presentation of Parsifaf but some of the natives are fearful lest they won't be able to understand it. That should not cause them worry, since the American who can understand grand opera in German is the exception rather than the rule"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
OLD TIMES, OLD FRIENDS.

By Eugene Field. There are no days like the good old days The days when we were youthful, When humankind were pure of mind, And speech and deeds were truthful; Before love for sordid gold Became mans ruling passion. And before each dame and maid became Slave to the tyrant fashion There are no girls like the good old girls Against the world I'd stake 'eml As buxom and smart, and clean of heart As the Lord knew how to make 'eml They were rich in spirit and common
 sense, And piety all supportin'; They could bake and brew, and had
 taught school, too,
 And they made such likely courtin'l There are no boys like the good old boys When we were boys together! When the grass was sweet to the brown
 bare feet
 That dlmpled the laughing heather; When the pewee sang to the summer
 dawn
 Of the bee in the billowy clover. Or down by the mill the whippoorwill Echoed his night song over. There is no love like the good old love The love that mother gave usl We are old, old men. yet we pine again For that precious grace-God gave us, Sos we dream and dream of the good old
 times,
 And our hearts grow tenderer, fonder, As those dear old dreams bring soothing
 gleams
 Of heaven away off wonder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Perry County Tobacco,

Alabama tobacco is coming on hand somely The clear Havana flavor is in the cigar that contains a filler that sprang from Alabama soil. Such filters are grown in Perry county, and Rep resentative Underwood started the movement. He first induced the Az ricultural Department to make soil survey of Perry county, and then he asked the department to follow it up with actual tests of the soil when set in tobacco plants.
 It is Perry county tobacco that Is making it's way round the world, and So long as the true Havana flavor is in it we may be sure there will be an extension of it's cultivation. Other Ala bama counties, may have red soils that will produce filters possessing the clear Havana flavor, but it is officially known that Perry is equal to all the Havana demands made upon it.
 Besides supplying clear Havana fillers for cigars the Perry crop has other advantages. It is the one crop grown in this world that a goat will not nibble. No animal will touch it.. No fences are necessary. It is good for man, but not for beasts. But it outranks cotton or even garden truck, for it is good enough to constitute the interior of 50-cent Havana cigars straight from Perry county. Perry county should fill the country full of such tobacco. Oscar Underwood's az ricultural efforts should not go un- seconded Perry county should not neglect gold mines. Clear the way for Havana filters straight from Perry county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
MAN BEATS EIGHT HORSES
 IN GREAT STEEPLE CHASE

had made the run up the mountain many a time.
 | "Kalakaua didn't ask for any handicap allowance for his man. The man runner toed the scratch with the horses and they got off together at the crack of the gun.
 'The horses distanced the runner from the jump, and he let them distance him. He just took up his steady lope and let the cayuses get out o fhis sight. For ten miles the cayuses were so far above him on the trail that he couldn't see them, but this Kanaka knew how to wait
 The horses began to come back, as they say, to the runner long before the Kanaka was just galloping along at the same long stride he had started with There wasn't a short breath in him when he fetched up at the Halfway House. He stopped down there to a spring beside the road and took just a couple of mouth- fuls of water. The capuses were up ahead bit blowing their heads off, for they had never been pushed so before.
 'The Kanaka forged ahead mile be- yond the Halfway House. and 1t was only romp for him the remainder of the distance. He took a position for the re- mainder of the journey about two city blocks ahead of the panting and exhaust ed horses and he just stuck to his lope like man wound up. He never let them | get nearer than a quarter of a mile of him for the remaining three hours of the trip and he occasionally looked back at the cayuses and grinned at their riders. When only three miles yet remained be- fore the Volcano House was to be reached the Kanaka riders whipped and spurred their horses. but 1t was no use. The Kan aka runned disappeared out of their sight along the tortuots trail, and when six of the ponies pulled up at the hotel veran- da about half an hour later tle runner was sitting on the steps, cool as a cu- lcumber. and enjoying his pot of saki. Two of the ponies had dropped dead in their | final effort.
 1 When I was reading about those young fellows who made the long-distance run during the Olympian games in St. Louis last fall, 1t struck me that any one of those Kanaka runners of Kalakaua could have made the whole bunch look like ale 1 uminium dollars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
FLORENCE ON A BOOM.

Florence Special to the New York Com
 mercial.
 About two years ago the Hoxie-Kells Manufacturing company moved it's plant from Adrian, Mich, to this place. The plant was enlarged, and has been run ming along in a quiet way though it's business has grown beyond the antcipa- tion of it's owners. On last Thursday many of Florences citizens were surprised to see passing through the streets on 8 six-wheeled wagon, made by the Florence Wagon Works drawn by six mules, a large brick and tile machine, with a ca pacity of 000 brick per day being trans ported to the Hauerwas Brick Works, located in the northern part of the city. It was branded: Built by the Hoxie- Kells Manufacturing company of Flor ence, Ala, IT. &. A"
 The castings of this machine were made from iron bought of the oss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company. whose furnace, the Philadelphia" stands within a stones throw of the plant that turned out the machine. The ore from which the iron was made came from the mines twenty miles away.
 The wood used for making the wagon grew here, and was made into the vehicle by the Florence Wagon Works, which turn sout 10000 wagons annually The furnace turns out 6O,O0O tons of pig iron using 900 tons of ore and 10000 tons of coke. The cotton mill here is driving 20, GOO spindles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
geIasco and the Syndicate.

The suit that David Belasco is press ing against dummy of the theatrical trust is uncovering a scheme that strikes at the stage which is one of the great schools of the country. What ever cripples or injures the stage as sails public instruction and public recreation.
 It appears that Al. Hayman, Charles Frohman, Mark Klaw, A. L. Erlanger, s. F. Neidringer and J. F. Zimmerman constitute the theatrical syndicate or trust controlling scores of the better playhouses throughout the country. What they came together to accom- plish and have accomplished is beN set forth in the syndicate agreement which, after naming the theatres it controls, goes on to say, as follows:
 These theatres shall be booked with attractions in conjunction with each oth- CT; that is to say, no attractions shall be booked in any of the syndicate theatres or places of amusement Cor in any of which may be hereafter acquired as aforesaid) which will insist in playing an opposition theatre or place of amusement in any of the cities above named Cor any which may hereafter come under this agreemenD unless the party hitherto having the theatre or place of amuse- ment in said competition point, shall give his or their consent in writing to permit said attraction to play in the opposition theatre or place of amusement"
 If this does not constitute a trust in violation of the sherman act, then what would? The syndicate agreement goes on to declare that all net profits are to be pooled, and the share of each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13
Our Subjects in the Philippines.

The census bureau reports that in 342 islands of the Philippines there are 7.635, ,426 people. About nine per cent of that number are considered uncivil- ized. The population is about three times as dense as that of the United States proper. All are natives except about fifty thousand, and three-fourtts of the foreigners are Chinese. The Americans" in the islands number S135. The rest of the population would be Americans also if the supreme court had not deereed otherwise.
 The islands are practically inhab- tied by Malays, the Spanish and the Chinese clements being inconsider- able, and the persons of mixed blood are less than two-tenths of 1 per cent of the entire population. The civil ized Malays are all affiliated with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-13

Catholic church, while the Moros are Mohammedans.
 Over one-half of the population can read English, Spanish or a Malay dia- lect, but comparatively few can read and write-not over one-ffth of the population over ten years of age. There are now Sl1,715 scholars in 1862 schools, but only 97 per cent of the children of school age have been enrolled. Eleven per cent of the scholars in the schools understand the English language. and the expendi- lures for educational purposes are about $1.5O0.0OO a year.
 The census was taken for the pur- pose of establishing an assembly or parliament to share in the actual gov ernment of the archipelago. This as sembly need not be elected until 1907. When it is organized it will divide with the commission the responsibil- ity of government. All in all the cen sus reports show that the archipelago has no reason to complain of Admiral Dewey's action on a May-day morning, and when self-government is within the reach of the people, they will no doubt feel that they are treated fairly.