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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13
ArithmetisaI.

"Yes," said the old mathematician,
with CLEAN in his eyes, 1--WE always
looked at it that way. Marriage is ad-
dition, when the little ones come it's
multiplication, when dissension looms
up to cloud the horizon of their happi-
ness it's division and when the final
parting comes it's subtraction"
"And how about davs&ses" asked the
listener.
"Oh, guess that would come under
the denomination of fsetfens."- New
York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13
A Wise Scheme.

mo matter what opinion is offered,
you express a contrary view," said the
impatient friend.
"Well," answered Mr.. Bligglns,
"thats a way l have of acquiring
knowledge. A man is more likely to
give up all he knows on a subject If
you get him to warm up with little
controversial Indignation" - Washing
ton Star
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13

"Just set it for 5 O'clock" said the
young lawyer, who was purchasing an
alarm clock. "I'll never want to change
It."
"Do you always get up at that hour
in the morning?" asked the clerk.
"Oh, no. That's the hour in the after
noon when l always close my office
and go home.'-Philadelphia Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13
Fame.

Fame is the Inheritance not of the
dead, but of the living. 1t is we who
look back with lofty pride to the great
names of antiquity, who drink of that
flood Of glory as Of river and refresh
our wings in 1t for future flight
Hazlitt
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13

Wife-You were talking in your sleep
again last night dear. Why do you
persist in doing it? Husband-Good
gracious, Maria, man ought to be
allowed to talk sometimes, ouehtn't
he e7-Bohemian.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13
Modern Existence,

To dress better, live better and occu-
py better houses that are better fur
nished forces men to work harder and
longer than their predecessors did. The
result of this is that the ordinary man
Is separated from his wife and family
almost as much as If he were absent
Truth.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13

lawfully simple, isn't hep
81 should say he was. Why, it's an
actual fact that he played poker with
a stranger on an ocean llner."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13
His Influence.

"Do you think a mans influence lasts
after he is goneT' asked the philoso-
pher.
"Well, should say!" cried the young
woman. my husband tied my prop
erty up so that l can't ever marry
againr'-Detroit Free Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13

We have no right to say that the uni
verse is governed by natural laws, but
only that 1t is governed according to
natural laws.-Carpenter.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13
want I. Know the Reason wby.

Costique-~It's funny that some peo-
pie are never satisfied to know thing
10 SO and SO, but must ask the why and
wherefore. Sappy = Yes. 1 wonder
why it is
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-13

Evil spreads as necessarily as dis
ease.-Eliot.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
The New FLORENCE Picnic.

The old settlers 25th annual re-
union and home coming at New
Florence is to be held August 4.
City Attorney Thomas L. An
derson and Circuit Attorney Ar
thur N. Sager of st. Louis will de-
liver the addresses. Judge Mat
Shelton of Macon and former
Lieutenant Governor d. A. Ball,
former citizens of Montgomery
County, will welcome the hOmers.
Doctor j. L. Jones, of Jones'
burg, president of the Old Settlers
Association, aud A. H. Kallmeyer,
of New Florence. secretary, will
also speak,
A mammoth wigwam is to be
erected for central rostrum
and to shield the speakers from
the sun. The old folks are ia
listen to speeches aud the young are
be entertained with foot races,
shoe, cracker, egg and sack races,
Prizes will be awarded to the sue.
eessfUl contestants
The event is to be held on th,
associations grounds. beautiful
park Of twenty acres near New
Florence. Gort Stuart, Of Nes
Florence. will be marshal Of ID,
day. The Montgomery Band vii
give two concerts.
It is planned to be the creates
gathering that has ever been held
lin North Missouri.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

Mrs. Bailey frequently stood ct the
desk in his store and wrote letters
TO Lawder.
Bentley also denied having put
his arm around Mrs. Bailey and
said that lie did not hit her on the
head with a loaf Of bread. as the
attorneys for the defense attempt
ed to intimate.
The letters Of Mrs. Bailey writ
ten to Jay Lawder, which we re in
troduced in the trial of her husband
were read again to the jury.
The defense restricted its testi.
mony almost wholly to an attempt
to show that Prosecuting Attorney
Orear promised partial immunity
to Mrs. Bailey IN the event that
she would confess that she had
told her husband that Lawder had
wronged her and that she intended
to kill him.
Mrs. 1ena Clark, sister-in-law of
Mrs. Bailey, testified that she had
heard 0rear promise to help Mrs.
Bailey if she would make this con.
fession.
Prosecuting Attorney Orear took
the stand and made positive de-
nial ofany such attempted arrange
ments.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
MRS. BAILEY's TRIAL.

The case of Mrs. Bailey went to
trial Friday morning at $3.50
O'Clock. The line of defense was
similar to that set up in the case
against the husband.
The star witness of the trial was
J, Bentley, merchant of Farber.
who testified that Mrs. Bailey
wanted to borrow revolver from
him with which, the witness said,
she expressed a desire to kill Jay
Lawder unless be came across
with the money
Bentley says he refused to give
the revolver to the woman, and
that be also told Lawder's broth
er. Ed Lawder, Of the threat.
Bentley further testified that
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
Assaulted the Editor.

j. N. Lavender, at one time edi-
tor of the Farber Forum of this
county, had a little fun over at
Jones burg the other day and tells
of it in the following words:
Because we published the court
record in the Fleaham VS. Wyatt
became very wrathy and came into
our Office and used language alto
gether unbecoming a gentleman,
and assaulted us by striking and
biting, Friday afternoon. Monday
morning a state warrant was
sworn out charging him with as
sault and disturbing the peace.
Tuesday his lawyer, G. r. Ball en-
tered a plea of guilty to both
charges aud a fine of $25 and cost
was taxed against him on each
count, amounting in all to $5S. 60 j..
1t is an expensive luxury to come
into the Office and assault and dis
turb the peace of au editor.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
tits He'll to Be Poor .

Its He'll to Be Poor"
Tue following editorial appeared
short time ago in Kansas City
paper:
One more unfortunate has been
driven to self destruction thru
lack Of moral stamina to fight the
battle Of ng-getting. To
be sure in tbs case of Richard Mar
riner there were extenuating cir
cumstances. While working at
his trade as cornicemaker he was
injured by the fall of a scaffOld,
and this accident appeared to have
resulted in dependency. But it
is quite evident that the thought
of being poor so weighed upon his
mind that he preferred death to
life without money.
Gee, but it's hell to be poor"
This was the dying message Of the
suicide, an expression taken from
current play. Infinite pathos
turks in the lines, altho to the
merely superficial there is apt flip
paney in them. A great majority
of us know what it is to be poor;
to fight the battle against such
odds as sometimes make the con-
test appear an almost hopeless
one. Poverty, however, is rela-
tive term. To the man who is low
in the scale poverty means acute
physical suffering for lack of nee
essary food and shelter. To others
poverty means the surrender Of
certain comforts in which every
man feels he has a right to share.
But of all poverty. that classed as
genteel" doubtless causes more
widespread suffering than any
other kind. This is the poverty
of the families that are trying to
keep up social pace which they
cannot afford; the poverty of the
woman who cannot get along"
on her husbands salary and wear
what she considers suitable gowns
for her club meetings; the poverty
Of the young man who tries to
shine out of true proportion to his
income; the poverty Of the made
over gowns and the shiny coats.
Those who are in this class know
better than the man who is down
and out" But the hell is of their
own making, a product of false
pride and shallow pretense. 1t is
the hell that small souls feel who
do their own hOusewOrk, sweep off
their front steps or wear their old
clothes.
Those who simply lack IOod are
richer than those who lack respect
able dress, for food may be OBJ
tained for the asking aud the re-
cipient does not suffer the an
guish of laceration of self-cOneeit
in accepting it. The world is full
of institutions of charity for the
man who is down aud out" but
how unbending is the priggishuess
of social condescension to those
who lag behind. Ask the man and
woman in the expensive mansion
or garnished apartment about pow
erty. Nine out of ten of them
know the tragedy. Gee, but it's
hell to be poor"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
ANONYMOUS WAS AN Enormous" word.
That Is CIsssic-ROunded Sentences and "Ble
Words Confused Intelligent and Experienced
Business Man.

sincerity, which 1 hope you will
pardon.
Now want to get one letter
from you, that's plain, isn't iti
One can always judge character so
much better by things written than
by things said. SO if you will
write, l will call for the mail to.
morrow eve, and the next day, but
do not send anything after that.
'Tis only fair, Davie, for you have
1t in your power to make my name
q by-word here if you were man
of that caliber. Yet you know
probably better than anybody,
even excepting Ted, that 1 have
done nothing wicked, only foolish.
You see / have trusted you with
out reserve almost. I don't know
why have really. and now am
adding one more to your stock Of
Of waste paper.
You were speaking of the "good
old summer time" how much bet
ter opportunities one has then to
pass the idle time pleasantly. l
quite agree with you. Can You
fancy a scene like this3 A sultry
day in midsummer, the sun blaz-
ing as only late June sun can,
the dusty streets and busy thoro-
fares of the town left far behind,
and quiet country lanes leading
one further into the meadows, rich
with vendure and sweet, where the
Strawberries grow, with new-mown
hay. < x X
Then, if you are made drowsy
by the heat, lay your head on my
lap, lulied to rest by the gentle
hum of the birds and the murmur-
ing brooklets. 1 will crown you
my king with wreath of clover
blossoms, and we will have corO-
nation feast of the late strawber-
ries found hidden among the thick
stems.
Another thing, too, I must
mention. You said Ted wouldn't
be very we'll pleased if he saw my
letters. Well, no, but Davie,
there isn't a single statement that
l wouldn't stand up for, even to
Ted. / meant it when l said I
would't deceive him in this way.
l will do just as please in this
matter and should he learn of it
and ask me for it, l will tell the
whole truth.
OF course, l don't care about
him knowing everything. Why
should he,know3 l have respect
for my husband, too, but l am
awfully disgusted with the life I
am compelled to lead with him,
so l can see no harm in taking my
pleasure in my own way. Do you
think that rather radical view to
take, and do you think my NOR
ais perverted by thati You must
tell me for expect you to be as
openly candid with me as / am
with you. / am looking forward
to letter from you. have to
write long one to my father.
Yours very truly, ALvA B.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
Women Serve as Pallbearers.

Centralia, No.. July 19.-Mrs.
James Tate, of this city, 30 years
old, died last night. The funeral
services were held today at the
first Baptist church.
Mrs. Tate was a member of the
Knights and Ladies of Security,
and six women members of that
order acted as pallbearers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

Dan Quinlan traded a dwelling
aud four lots in Rush Hill, valued
at 81, 600, to c. NJ, Glass of Fair
field, Iowa, for a 100 acre farm,
~ miles southeast Of Benton
City, valued at $4,000.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

Harry Worley, who has a fine
business position at Haleyville, I.
t., is visiting his parents, Mr., aud
Mrs. j. D. Worley, at Molino, this
county.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
TIREp on PRosY PEoPLE.

Cincinnati, Ia, Feb. L, 1905
Davie: | guess l can add one
more to your list of married cor,
respondenee il you will be a good
boy. Do you know l got a cur
tain lecture last evening besides a
very bad cold aud sore throat. but
am still independent of what 9th
ers think. The few people in town
whom | know can't converse on
the subjects / likei they prose,
prose, prose all the time, aud if /
can make an agreeable friend out
side / will. would much rather
have one real true friend than half
a hundred doubtful ones.
Sometimes / think / probably
pin my faith too seemly to youi it
does seem almost too good to be
true that YOU should wish to be
my friend ! know you have your
lodges business and many social
demands on your time, aud did
not really see how von could find
a place for poor obscure me on
your list, Ia fact. il i understood
you right last eve, ! must confess
I am still a little doubtful Of your
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
Is HAPPENED AND HAPPENING d
Uncle" Shelton Hayden of
Cuivre took very sick last week.
G.. M. Pearson Of Mexico
was in Moberly last week.
U. g. Maskey of Cuiyre. this
county. has returned from a visit
to Ohio relatives.

Mrs. Porter Gregory of Mexico
organized a mission society for
the Methodist church at McCredie
last week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

A pompous citizen Of Mexico
you can believe this lie if you want
was asked for aims by a hobo
the other day. Go to the ant,
thou sluggard," answered the p. c.
'"Tain't no use, Mister" was the
hurried reply. Me aunt's jist as
tight listed as me uncle aud all the
rest Of me relashun."
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26
FROM MONROE.
People and Their Farms Near
Paris Some Comments.

fair in Monroe. Very dry but crops
are doing very we'll. Oats are
very light. Harvest is under
good headway, Meadows are short
but the crop is fine and stock in
general is doing we'll.
We have several very pro-
gressive farmers in our midst. j..
q. Majors on the Cherry farm
which contains 140O acres is one of
the most enterprising. He has
800 acres of corn, 300 acres Of tim.
othy, 80 Of cane, 25 COW peas.
His stock consists of 400 head of
cattle, 500 or GOO hogs, a good
bunch of horses, while his thrifty
wife feeds and cares for over 900
chickens and 200 turkeys,
Mr.. Raymond is our hog man
ou his farm. about III miles south
of Paris. He has close to 1000
porkers, ranging from little young
sters to 400. O.pounders, and twenty
Ave brood mares with five mule
colts by them.
Mule colts are selling well, We
see colts 60 for 800, and hogs
are a fair price.
l can't refrain from saying a
few words about the way the law
is understood and justice is meeted
out to the criminals of our State.
l notice the man who votes ille
gally and the man that shoots an
other man down in cold blood aud
in the back are both given the
same verdict, prison at har,l labor
for two years. The man that votes
illegally being a poor man goes to
the pen but the murderer having
money can give bail and go where
he pleases and shoot again if he
wants to, just as long as his money
lasts. Shame on such justice, if
that is the name of the law.
There is an unusually large crop
of fruit of all kinds, especially
blackberries, and our good wives
are making all sorts of good things
for the winter.
l read in the Appeal that on ac-
count of the large wheat crop and
the scarcity of hands there were
six negroes sent to the Kansas
harvest but Kansas being a Re-
publican State, very promptly sent
them back on account of their
color. Queer, isn't it, that the
colored vote is all the Republicans
want of the colored race, and
queerer still that when a Republi-
can and Democrat get to talking
politics the first thing the Demo
crat does is to throw the nigger
club at the Republican aud hires d
negro to do his work, and the
country full of idle white men,
oh, consistency, thou art a jewel.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

sorry TO the murder or Jay IaWder
by her husband, Edmund j Bal
ley, began to-day has startled
those attending the double trial by
the literary attainmeuts shown in
the letters, read in the court as ev-
idence.
A miner wife and the posses
sor of only a common school edu.
cation, her writings show the inn
agination and expression Of a
trained author of fiction.
This appeared in letter written
by her to David Steele, even more
than in those to Lawder. Yet the
Lawder letters were a great sur
prise to those in the court room.
Mrs. Bailey saw the effect they
created, and though she must have
realized that the letters would hurt
her case, she smiled with satisfac-
ton as she heard the well-turned
periods read.
The Lawder letters were first the
expressions of affection, then Of
frank jealousy of one more be-
loved, and finally open threats of
death4threats that were soon af.
Ter carried out when, by telling her
husband of her conduct with Law
der, she made him the instrument
of her jealous revenge.
The Steele letter is an idyl Of
passionate love and Of pastoral
scenes. Dewey dales, blooming
violets and murmuring brooklets
ill its picture of what we two"
might hope. +. AT the end is the
more practical question what her
husband would think of all this
sentiment and the avowal that she
respects him, tho her life with him
is wearisomely commonplace. 1t
was on hearing this read in court
that Bailey made display of re-
uewed affection for his wife yes
terday afternoon.
CALLED LETTER ENORMOUS"
David Steele, of Cincinnati. Ia,
to whom she wrote a letter, ,describ-
ed the message as enormous"
while testifying at the trial of the
woman's husband. Asked if he
did not mean anonymous" he
said:
mo. It was enormous. She
used such big words that I could
not understand them. They were
beyond my knowledge"
This is a young mau of good in.
telligence, a successful merchant.
The woman who wrote the ''enorm-
GUS letter" was the wife of one of
the humblest Of The young mans
fathers workmen.
TIRED OF PRosY PEOPLE.
Cincinnati, Ia, Feb. L, 1905
Davie; l guess l can add one
more to your list of married cor
respondenee ifyou will be a good
boy. Do you know / got a cur
/ 49,, lo,t,,r, I,,t a,,.,,,;,, =, t,ag;5as a
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

Mrs. Nestora McPike, late Of
vandalia, has fled suit in the st.
Louis circuit court asking for a
divorce from her husband, Hardin
McPike. Mr.. McPike comes to
the Audrain circuit court and files
suit against his wife. Mrs. Ne
Pike alleges that when her hus-
band was intoxicated he sWore at
her and made life to her most un-
pleasant. MIR. McPike charges
also that his wife swore at him
aud called him horrible names.
Two or three months ago Mrs.
McPike was the principal witness
in Mexico in some whiskey cases
agalust DR.. T. S. Manning, a
druggist Of Yandalia. whom she
charged as having sold liquor to
her husband,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

The Fulton Sun tells a funny one
on John d. 0rear, Audrain coun.
ty's prosecuting attorney orear
was at Fulton trying the
Bailey case aud one afternoon he
thought 10 make aruu back to his
home at Mexico. lie losthis $500
straw bat out the car window On
bis way back tie next morning be
spied d piece Of straw by the road
side and pulled the bell cord aud
jumped of and made a sprint
up the track after the hat The
conductor when he saw the sitna
ton felt outraged and started the
train agaiu before Orear could get
aboard John ran madly after the
train, bat finally the conductor
slowed up aud the perspiring law'
yer was allowed to get aboard, but
IS was still without the hat
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

A crippled man from Vandalia,
who has been in the city two or
three days, had a fit in the saloon
of Anderson s. Pappenfort Friday
morning aud for time it was
thought that he was dead, says the
Louisiana Press. A physician was
hastily summoned and revived
him. They have no saloons in
Vandalia for fellow to have fits
in, and that's why this fellow
went to Louisiana.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

The Fulton Gazette referring to
the ladies' home mission society
organized BY Mrs. Porter Gregory
of Mexico at MeCredie says;
The oficers Of the society are;
President. Mrs D. g Atkinson;
first yiee-president, Miss Nan
nie Wallace; second vice-pres
ident, Mrs. ] w Leeperi third
vice president Mrs J q Nc
Clintioi corresponding secretary,
Mrs R G Crawford; recording
secretary Miss Cordie Leeper;
treasurer, Miss Anuie Kidwell.
The society has twenty members,
three lof whom have pledged
themselves to contribute one
tenth Of what they receive for re-
iieious causes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

Joseph aud John Wakefield,
north Of Mexico, had a serious ex-
perience in runaway last week.
Joseph was driving a rake and
John reaper. The mule hitched
to the rake ran away aud threw Jo-
seph to the ground. fracturing his
collar bone. The mule then ran
into the reaper and Mr.. Mule lost
one foot-cut off. John Wakefield
was injured by the last accident.
Both men were cared for by ply
sician and win soon be ali right
again.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

A former Hannibal lady relates
this experience on a recent trip to
the country. She became quite
interested in a flock of sheep.
There was something unusual
about them, but for the life Of her
she couldn't think what it was.
Finally it dawned upon her that
she had never seen as large animals
with no tails. She was perplexed
aud asked the farmer why it was.
He informed her that the sheep all
lost their tails when about four
months old. This satisfied her for
time, but she learned better
since.