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Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08
FROM TEXAS.
Rev. ]. S. Jesse, Formerly of Mex
leo, Writes the Message of His
Doings.

Quanah, Texas. Oct. 2G.-One
year in the State of the Lone
Star" l suppose you think we are
Texans by this time. The winter
came, and then spring, and the
flowers; the flowers are still with
us. Jack Frost has not come yet.
1t can rain, and sometimes it just
pours down; plenty of rain. In
fact. too much, for the quantity Of
farming in this country. Much of
the wheat crop was damaged by
rain; the finest crop ever raised,
but damaged badly in saving.
All kinds of crops are fine. Cot
ton is a good crop, but it would
have been larger and better quail
ity if it had not rained so much.
1t is coming in now in wholesale
lots. Our gin runs day and
night, making about 65 or 20
bales in the "a hours; 500 pounds
in bale, from 10 to lie per
pound; about q bale per acre.
How is this for Baptist
preacher3 IA brother purchased a
large farm for So per acre, which
many thought unreasOnably big
price. He will make cotton enough
this year to pay for it,"
That is but one of many who
have done equally as we'll last year
aud this year also. One of our
papers got out a Harvest Edi-
ton" and l sent you a copy but
it went to the waste basket" un-
noticed,
Our county voted bonds to build
$50, 900 court house. and will be-
gin work about the first OF the
year.
Our work has prOspered, we
think. About 60 additions to the
church. / have baptized 20,
married 16 couples, attended "a
funerals. Mrs. Jesse aud l have
made about $50 visits. Church
contribution increased so per cent,
and the PASTORS salary is increased
also. A fine Sunday school. Mrs.
Jesse has a class of young men
and ladies of about ten. and a
Home Department class Of 20.
The MESSAGE is just like letter
from home. Every week we see
something about some friend Oh
acquaintance. We extend a cor
dial invitation to any Missouri
friend who comes this way to stoT
and see us.
J. S. JESSE.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

Laddonia Herald: @, G. In.
gram and wife moved back from
Mexico first of the week, We are
glad TO have them with us again.
VIM. Brandon and family and Mrs.
Mary Quinn and family who were
occupying Mr.. Ingram's house, are
now located in w. H, Beal's
house in north Laddonia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08
How to Spend a Month
Profitably.

For $1,000 you can on the LIST
and Ord Tuesdays of each mouth,
buy ticket from st. Louis or
Kansas City to San Antonio and
return. good 30 days From Chi
cngo. the rate is $500. Yuu can
get away from the blustery wealth
er here and spend whole delight
ful month in suuuy San Antonio
aud South Texts, whore the mir IS
iuvigorating. dry aud warm
where. 1t is pnssiblr ." spr,d each
day out Of doors Leave 81 Louis
at night and arrive at San Anto
Mo fhe second morning Sleepers
both standard aud tourist without
change; through chair cars also.
You can, If You wish, stop over
IN either direction EN- route Ms
many times as you wish within the
tlnal limit or your ticket. This
will enable you to see something
of the Southwest country whore
the greatest activity and develope-
ment are manifest-where the OPP
portunity for men of average
means are better than in any
other section. A trip Southwest
now will profit you in many ways.
Excursion tickets are also on sale to all
points in Texas and TO Indian Territory
and Oklahoma at equally low rates. II
you are in any way interested In San
Antonio, or the Southwest, would like
to send you my paper, 'The Coming
Country" with full particulars about
rates. Write for it today. Address
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

One Way Colonist Rates to the
West and Southwest Via The
Wabash.
Tickets sold November and 20,
December 4th and 18th, 1906.
january LIST aud 18th, February
5th and 18th, 1907. Tickets sold
at one half of the regular one way
rate, plus $500 with certain mini
NUNS and exceptions.
To certain points in Arkansas,
Colorado, Indian Territory, Kan
sas, Louisiana, Mexico, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
South Dakota, Texas and Wyom-
ing.
For further particulars. call or
address I. M. RICHARDS,
Agent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

AI}!NyR
TIPS

Denver, Colorado Springs or
Pueblo and return, $23.O5. Ac-
count National Grange, Patrons Of
Husbandry, on sale Nov, 1912
and IS. Return limit, leaving
destination, Dec. 10th, 1906.
Gulfport, Miss, aud return
$23. 80, account United Daughters
Of the Confederacy; on sale Nov
10th to 18th. Return limit, Nov.
goth, 1906.
indianapolis. Ind, and return,
$12 10. account Presbyterian
Brotherhood, on sale Nov Hip
aud 10, Return limit, Nov 10Th,
1906.
Joplin. Mo-. aud return, SO 60,
account Y. M Q. A. Convention
Of Missouri; gu sale, Nov. 2l-25.
Return limit. My 26th, 1906
Kansas Ciiy. Mo-. aud return
So 55, account Trans Mississippi
Commercial Commercial Congress;
on sale Nov, 18th 10 2lst Re-
turn limit, Nov. 2slh. 1906. with
privilege extension
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

Miss Pearl Tucker Of Mexico is
teaching the Fox school, just west
Of skinner She has an enroll
ment 81 s6 pupils Miss Tucker
tells tbs MESSAGE that she thinks
she has about the best school in
the county She Is we'll pleased
viii her aeh00l and work.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

Perry Enterprise: q. Il. Menke
aud wife visited their daughter,
Miss Grace, at Laddonia Sunday.
Miss Grace is attending school at
Mexico aud met them half way.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

Perry Enterprise: JAS. Gala
her, the monument man. Of Mex
ico was here yesterday pntting MP
three fne monuments. His work
is flrst-class and reasonable ia
price.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

The fine residence Of w. w.
Boatman at Centralia was de-
stroyed by fire last week. Loss
was only partly covered by insur.
ancen
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

The postoifice at Hutchison, just
over in Rails county north Of
Laddonia. has been discontinued.
Free rural delivery did it.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08

Emmons' Shorthorn sale is No
"a, not the 18th as the
MESSAGE stated last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-11-08
Misses Clara Kombriuk and
Mary Doeblin of Rush Hill were
Mexico visitors last Saturday

The prop Osed electric railway
from Mexico to Perry, thru Mo-
limo and Santa Fe. according to
the survey completed last week is
25 miles and 5 feet in length. Mr..
s. l.. Robinson, the promoter, is
getting the deeds for the right OF
way signed up at Perry aud Santa
Fe, and he tells the MESSAGE that
he wants to see the Mexico bust
ness men in a public meeting lat
ter part of this week. He wants
TO explain his plans and may have
some proposition to make.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Like a Fcudal Castle
The Home Of the Stevens Family, at
Hoboken, N. J., Has Stood for Century


Commodore Edwin A. Stevens, father
of the present lord of the castle. "The
Old Commodore" was one of the
founders of the New York Yacht club
and Its first commodore. Edwin A.
was the clubs third commodore. THE
Old Commodore" was one of the own
ers of the yacht America and went
over to England when she sailed her
celebrated race against the feet of
the Royal Yacht Squadron.
In the drawing rooms and in the
rotunda are some handsome cabinets
in which are mementoes of the Wash
ington and Stockton families, with
whom the Steveneses have intermar-
ried. The Washington relics came
through the marriage of the present
Col. Stevens's half-sister with Col:
Parke Gusts Lewis, a descendant OF
Washington's step-daughter, Nellie
Gusts. Among these Washington rel.
les are dolls and trinkets given by
George and Martha Washington tC
Nellie GUSTS and one of Lady"
Washington's visiting cards, said to
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
! Wry. Fannie D. Fax

So-called wandering pains" may
come from it's early stages, or the
presence of danger may be made mani
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panied by unusual pain, from the
ovaries down the grcin and thighs.
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Your letter will be seen by women only.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
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the success / have had with your wonderful
medicine. Eighteen months ago my month
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physician and was told that | had tumor
on the uterus and would have to undergo an
operation
stS Soon after read one Of your advertise
ments and decided to give Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound a trial. After
trying five bottles as directed the tumor Is
entirely gone. have been examined by
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tumor now. It has also brought my month
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we'll "-Eannie d. Fox, Chestnut Street.
Bradford. Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Superb View From Castle.

The view from the castle Is superb.
One looks far up the Hudson and far
down the bay, and all around and be-
low lie The great and teeming cities
The dining room has an especially
fine outlook, and facing the river is
great window composed of one
enormous sheet of plate glass; through
which the panorama of the day can
be seen as If one were out of doors,
and through which when at night the
family sit sat dinner the myriad lights
of New York appear floating, as 1t
were, on the tide, with the lights OF
passing vessels weaving changing
pattern on the rivers breast
The island-an island no longer
which Col. John Stevens of Revolu
tionary days bought, is now built over
solidly with houses-all except the
castle park, and this park makes the
Stevens home veritable rus in urbe
The park was originally larger, but
Edwin A. Stevens, father of the pres.
ent colonel of the same name, wheL
he founded the Stevens Institute OF
Technology, gave large slice of his
grounds TO that institution, and some
portions of it have since been sold
off. There used to be great graperies
on the place, but the land where they
formerly stood is now owned by the
institute. Also the great greenhouses,
which were formerly in the park for
the raising Of flowers, were torn down
not long ago, having become decrepit
from age.
The, Stevens Institute of Technology
is one Of the many benefactors Of the
family. The late Edwin A. Stevens
established it in 1867, giving block
of land, building fund and an en-
dowment of half million dollars to
set it going. In the days of the civil
war Commodore John c. Stevens built
an ingenious floating fertilization
known as the Stevens battery. 1t
was never used, and though he spent
great sums on 1t the family received
little or no return.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Chinese Ruler.

The Empress Dowager OF China
was sold into slavery at the age of
eleven, to save her family from star.
vation. Afterwards, she was present.
ed to the late Emperor, and, upon his
wife's death, became Empress. Her
feet were never bound, and she was
taught to read after persistent plead
ing. The sterling qualities of this
wonderful woman, like those of Pills.
bury's Vitos, have overcome every OBJ
stacle. And she holds herself at the
head of China, as does Vitos at the
head of breakfast foods.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
"Grandfather's Clock" in Library.

be written by the hand of the immor
tai George himself. In the sleeping
rooms are great four-post bedsteads,
many Of them richly carved. One OF
them once belonged to an ancestress.
Susan Stockton, sister of the Singer
On the walls of some of the rooms are
old pictures and tapestries of interest
and value. The amount of really old
and ancestral furniture in the castle
shows that when the second building
was burned the family succeeded in
saving the greater part of its price
less heirlooms.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23

,overexerted myself in the least de-
gree. At times | was weighed down
with a feeling of languor and depres-
sion and suffered continually from
annoying Irregularities of the kidney
secretions procured box of Doan S
Kidney Pills and began using them.
found prompt relief from the aching
and lamenes in my back, and by the
time had taken three boxes l was
cured of all irregularities"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23

Ter, N. T., writes:
Seven year s
ago | was suffer
Ing very much
through the fail
ure of the kidneys
to eliminate the
uric acid from my
system. My back
was very lame
and ached II I
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Handsome Hungarian Gypsiss.

The finest specimens of humanity
in Europe are the gypsies of Hungary.
Both men and women are shapely in
face and form, with large, clear eyes
and rosy compilations, and they are
seldom ILL.,
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Famous Yachtsmen in Family.

For two or three generations the
Stevens family has been interested in
shipbuilding and steam engineering,
and preserved in the library are mod
els and other souvenirs of early ex-
periments in those lines. Naturally
there are yachting memorials for
John c. Stevens, known as "the Old
Commodore" to distinguish him from
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23

Quite Edenesque is the business
street of st. Heller, in the Isle Of Jer-
sey, where Adam" Eve" Cain" and
abel" are all prosperously establish.
ed in business.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Eliot and Wealth.

President Eliot, of Harvard, now
seventy years of age, declares that one
of the most desirable satisfactions of
his life comes from having nothing
to do with the attainment of wealth.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Pathos and Humor In AID.

In the Situations Wanted" in the
London Express was this advertise
ment: "Galloping consumption OF
means: DIR. Work wanted. Address,
Patient, Bed 64S, Daily Express, Tu.
dor street"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
ENTRY JUST AT RIGHT MOMENT.
Professor Might Have Been Waiting
for His Cue.

UT TITS Sucs
Mr.. Dodge, sub-master and professor
OF Greek and Latin In the Salem
(Mass.) high school, was hearing a
Greek recitation. One of the most
popular girls in the class arose and
began translating. AS she neared a
difficult passage, Mr.. Dodge, caution
ing her, said Look out! Look out
for what Is coming!"
Just at that moment Mr.. Holman,
professor of English, and an exception
ally good looking young man, opened
the door and walked in. His entrance
was the cue for hearty laugh, in
which he Joined when the incident had
been explained to him.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Weather Station Near Toxic.

Prince Yamashima, who Is greatly
interested in scientific research, has
provided an all-the-year-around me-
neurological station on Mt, Tsukaba,
near Toxic, Japan.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Virtue.

People who consider 1t necessary
to keep continually drawing attention
to their virtue are likely to attribute
undue importance to outside appear
ance.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Telephone Girls In Trouble.

A queer situation was recently Gre
ated in Melbourne, Australia. by the
telephone girls of the central ex.
change. They suspended all tele-
phone work in the busiest hour Of the
day in order to have themselves pho
tographed in group. They were al
lowed five minutes for the purpose by
the head of the department, but the
operation lasted for nearly half an
hour, during which numerous fussy
subscribers were ringing up in vain.
The metropolitan fire brigade, failing
to get any response, dashed at full
speed to the exchange and retired dis
gusted on learning the true state of
affairs. The Melbourne papers are
flooded with letters calling for the
abolition of the ''lady telephonist." A
board is inouiring into the incident.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Lodge Entry.

exclusive of kitchen, servants rooms
and bathrooms, with, of course, pan
tries, storerooms and clothes
presses" in abundance.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23

A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding Protrudng Piles. Drug.
gists are authorized to refund money If PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure In to IA days. SOC.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23

Meat Luxury in Germany.
Butchers meat Is now more expen-
sive in Germany than In any other
European country except Russia.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Especial Correspondence


Towering on its hill above the
broad and busy waters of the North
River and surrounded by ten-acre
park in the midst of a city-the most
densely populated for its size OF any
in this country if not in the world
Stevens Castle at Hoboken, New Jer-
sey, is veritable ancestral castle ris-
Ing from sea of modern dwellings,
landmark of stability amid change.
The farms of the old New York
families have been changed into city
blocks and their dwellings either torn
down or become tenement houses. But
through all the changes of more than
a century the "Stevenses of Castle
Point" have kept their ancestral
home and, to large extent, their
wealth.
Hoboken was an island lying under
the Jersey heights when Col. John
Stevens bought it at the close OF the
Revolutionary war. 1t had formerly
belonged to the New York Bayards,
from whom Bayard street is named,
but the Bayards being Tories, their
estates were confiscated, and John
Stevens bought the Hoboken property
from the state On the only hill on
his new possessions, the present
Castle Point, he built his house in
the form of stone castle, construct
ed of bluestone and plastered on the
IN 1oil
around it and lived in almost feudal
style, while the settlement which is
now Hoboken grew up below his
castle walls. The John Stevens OF
those days was relative of the Bay
ards who had previously owned the
property, and he built his new castle
on the site of one which the previous
owners had erected and which had
been burned down by party OF
Wings from Hackensack in the trou-
blous days of the Revolution.
Original Castle Burned Down.
For the Hoboken property John
Stevens paid the sum of $4,000,
which was considered an enormous
amount in those days. The castle re-
built by Col. John Stevens was
burned down and the present struc-
ture erected about fifty years ago.
So. though there has been castle"
on Castle Point for nearly 200 years,
including the Bayard building, yet
the present structure is third in the
line of descent.
At the present the park surrounding
the castle consists of a triangular
piece of ground containing about ten
acres. 1t is inclosed by wall and
the entrance to the grounds is through
picturesque lodge gate, really castel-
lated in character. A broad and we'll
kept drive sweeps in a curve up the
hill to the front of the house. One
enters the spacious building through
vestibuie from which high arched
door, guarded on either side by two
great bronze statues of knights in ar
NOR, opens into the central rotunda
of the castle. This rotunda, or en-
trance hall, is filled with many fine
old pieces of heavy furniture, and on
the walls are family portraits of; the
Stevenses and their allied families.
There are eight rooms on the ground
floor besides the great entrance hall.
Three great drawing rooms, one fur
nished in yellow, one in red and one
in blue, open from the rotunda. Then
there is the great dining room, a spac-
ious library, billiard room, bedroom
and a bath and housekeeper's room.
On the floor above are twelve. bed
rooms and a number of bathrooms. In
all, the house contains twenty rooms
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
SEVEN YEARS AGO.
A Rochester Chemist Found a slngu-
IarIy Effective Medicine.

, William A. franklin. Of the Frank
lin & Palmer Chemical Co., Roches-
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
TUMORS CONQUERED
SERIOUS OPERATIONS AVOIDED
Unqualified Success of Lydia z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound In the
Case OF Mrs. Fannie d. Fox.

One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the conquering of womans dread en-
envy, Tumor.
The growth of tumor is 30 SLY that
frequently it's presence is not suspected
until it is far advanced. sea
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-01-23
Usr THE FAMOUS
Our Forebears In Business.

led Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz package ,
ents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-18
TELLS HOW TO MAKE
Esprit" PHOTOGRAPHS
"SPOOk" PICTURES DENOUNCED
AS PURE FRAUDS
1t Is Easy to Produce Ther-Any
Amateur Can Get the Hazy Effect
That Marks the "Spirts" and the
Trick Is Well Known
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SPOKANE, Wash, April 17-In the
course Of a controversy in this city
over series of alleged spirit photo
graphs a local artist named Carpenter
denounced the productions of a So
called spiritualist photographer as
flakes" Said Mr.. Carpenter:
ANY photographer who knows any
thing about the business can make as
many of them as he chooses.
1.-THE work is for the most part SIM
ply a double printing process, which
all photographers have amused them
selves with at times. A man who
would palm off such a palpable fake
as that on simple minded people ought
to be sent to Jail.
"Some of that work is very clever
and shows both skill and patience, but
a good part of it could be done by any
amateur in ten minutes I will make
you all you want of them on days
notice.
"The cleverest of those pictures are
made by copying a number of faces
and grouping them together. Then a
negative is made of the group and
from this negative is printed the group
until the faces show only in the hazy
way in which you see them in this
photograph-that Is, only partly print
the picture. Then take the same piece
of paper and upon it print a distinct
picture of the living person you want
on the photograph. The faces can
be grouped about the distinct face in
any way that you choose. While the
distinct face is being printed the hazy
faces must be covered by cotton to
keep them from printing up distinctly.
Or the faces could be put in one at a
time, several prints being made on
the same piece of sensitized paper To
do this a hole is cut in a piece of
cardboard, through which light passes
while the rest of the plate is covered
by the cardboard. This work is called
vignettinR or blending, and any COM
petent photographer can do it if he
cares to take the time"