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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Missouri
Legislature
PUBLIC UTILITIES MEASURE.
Spirited Contest is Expected When
Bill Comes Up.

A spirited contest is promised in
the house. when consideration of the
public utilities measures is taken up
as special order, which probably
Will be continued until some definite
policy has been established.
Majority and minority reports are
both pending from the committee on
private corporations, and back OF
these are about thirty bills, no two
of which are exactly alike, and yet
they could all be divided into two gen
eral classes. subdlvlded several times.
The committee is composed OF thir-
teen members. and seven have report.
cd a substitute, favorably, that pro.
vldes for the regulation OF utility
charges by local commissions, with a
court review clause.
Six members OF the committee
Sosey, Of Marion: Barry. OF Rails;
Kiefner Of Perry; McConkey. Of Tia.
ney; Whitecotton. Of Monroe, and
Emerson, of Clay-reported minor.
lty substitute which empowers the
cities to regulate such charges by
ordinance and also to provide for a
local commission to aid in arriving at
a fair rate TO charge for all utilities
furnished by public service corpora
lions.
Both measures will come up at the
same time for consideration, and the
presumption is that the contest will
be to a finish.
Tha main ~ hn Vt,fpnr.
ity measure, which will undoubtedly
be pressed with as much vigor as pos.
sible, after giving the cities full pow.
er to enforce rates by establishing
penalties for their violation, are as
follows:
Amy rate so established by any
such city or town which is unjust and
unreasonable, shall be void and un.
lawful, and all suits brought in the
courts Of this state against any such
city or town to enjoin, set aside or
annul any rate so fixed by ordinance,
or any ordinance establishing any
such rate, shall have priority in hear.
ing and determination in the trial
court and all appellate courts over
all civil actions.
ANY such city or town may, by or
dinance provide for and establish a
commission to make investigation OF
all the facts and matters touching the
establishment OF such reasonable rate
of charge, and after such investiEa
ton such commission shall report It's
findings and recommendations to the
city council.
And all such cities and towns shall
have power and authority. by ordi
nance. TO require and enforce the pro
duction OF books and papers and com
pei the attendance OF witnesses be
fore the city council or any duly con
stituted committee or commission
thereof for the purpose OF ascertain
ing what is a just and reasonable
rate"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02

the matter have been sent to the
Congo.
Probably the most used peanut is
what is called the Spanish, an on
shoot of what used to be exclusively
grown in Spain. This is the little
round peanut so much used for salt.
ing. In Virginia greater part OF
the crop grown there IL called Span
lsh No. /.
When the crop Is short in Virginia
the original Spanish is imported from
Spain, but, In fact, II 10 grown In
northern Africa. The conditions Of
the Virginia soil mako II superior for
this nut over any other section in
the world except tho Congo district.
The jumbo variety brings the high.
est price, however, and naturally II
was that variety that Mr.. Ryan select
ed for his crop. He will later grow
the Spanish peanut, which, although
cheaper, has a greater sale than the
jumbo. But Mr.. Ryan's advisers,
knowing that the Jumbo would have
the greater sale IL the price were
lower, have advised him TO try that
grade FIRST. And that is the grade
that Mr.. Ryan will grow in the Congo
district, and from the proceeds
thereof he hopes to be able to pay no
inconsiderable part of the expenses OF
the working of hiG rubber plantations,
gold mines and copper enterprises. 1t
is said that Mr.. Ryan will go to the
Congo before very long.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02

views Of the speaker upon controver.
sial religious questions are never
sought to be impressed, not only for
the reason that the rules forbid any
attempt at PROSECUTING or any attack
of creed upon creed, but because the
audience enjoys the unique privilege
Of answering back; and the clergyman
who speaks for the first time from
the Cooper Union platform faces the
novelty OF -haying crude thought or
inapt statements challenged. and per
haps refuted. by his hearers.
According to the statement OF Prof.
Charles Sprague Smith. founder and
director OF the institute, an occasional
roll call OF the audience by 'isms"
discloses philosophical anarchists,
socialists of every phase. single tax.
ers and adherents of every creed un.
der the sun as well rs adherents OF
no creed 1T ALL"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Round About New York
Gossip of People and Things
in the Great Metropolis
RYAN TO RAISE PEANUTS
In HIS CONGO DISTRICT

Anew YoRK.-when Thomas f.
~ Ryan interests himself in any en-
terprise he is more than likely to get
everything out of II that can be made
to yield a profit. When he acquired
the 10000 acres in the Congo district
1t was generally supposed that he
would be satisfied with the gold, cop
per and rubber In sight there. But
Mr.. Ryan, as a virginian, knows the
potentially Of rich soil. and as there
would be many thousands of idle
acres in the Congo principality which
he had acquired. and as this idle land
would not yield any OF the three great
crops from which the greater part of
his profit was supposed to come, he
determined to put II to practical use.
Virginia is n great peanut state.
Tho soil conditions in Mr.. Ryan's
Congo domain are peculiarly we'll 1T
ted for peanut culture. The best-pay-
ing grade OF peanuts that come from
the Virginia market are the so-called
Jumbo variety, n large, rich nut,
Astounding in oil and general all.
around nutrition.
Mr.. Ryan Is going to raise Jumbo
peanuts in his mid.African property.
These jumbo peanuts will bring q big
price In this market and will be In.
strumental in breaking many n corner
as now engineered by the shelters in
Mr.. Ryan's own state. Men with all
technical agricultural knowledge OF
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
NEW YORK WOMEN OUT
AFTER ENJOYS SCALP

she will return to Sweden and BE-
presented To the king.
Mr.. Graves stated a deliberate un-
truth when he said / did not offer
evidence Of an invitation TO be pre-
sented 20 King Oscar and that l did
not have the proper credentials" de-
clared Mrs. Won Claussen, when
shown the dispatch from Stockholm
70 the effect that Minister Graves had
written an open letter explaining the
controversy. He knows 1 was In
vited to be presented to the king. ana
ne says what Is false when he states
had nothing to indentify me. l had
4 eablegram from President Stires OF
cue OF the leading trust companies Of
New York"
Mrs. Won Clanssen intimatoa
strongly that perhaps Mrs. Graves
was jealous OF the gowns Mrs. Won
claussen wore. and that that fact
might have operated 70 prevent hsR
husband presenting an American Vtns
ltor to he swedish kiAg.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02

Good Roads Fund Not Available.
A blu was passed at the regular ses-
sion OF the general assembly, appro.
priatIng 100000 for good roads
fund. TO be apportloncd among the
several counties of the state. the
cities also TO share therein. The
money, however, will not be available
this year. as the law, which becomes
operative June lG. carried no emer-
gency clause. An amount equal 10
that to which the county is entitled
from the state must be applied to
road purposes by the county. The
fact that the funds cannot be obtained
this year was disclosed by the appli-
cation OF Jasper county for 81 900 for
the building OF a road from Carthage
to Cartersville. the citizens interested
having also collected $1,000.
First Oil OF Session Passed.
One bill. the first OF the session.
was passed by the house Monday. II
makes fraudulent signature 20 Pc
ttion for or TemOnstrauce against a
saloon license a misdemeanor, pun.
Ishable by n fine OF from S25 to 500.
The bill was introduced by Represen.
tative Polk Another bill. introduced
by Representative Barker. providing
that the possession of a government
liquor license alone should be conclu.
sivs evidence OF the Illegal sale OF
liquor, was tabled.
Local Option Bill ls Engrossed.
The BOttsford local option law,
which oauyed such n wrangle in the
house. was ordered TO engrossment
without q renewal OF hostillties. A
the bill now stands the chief changes
II makes in the local option law Is to
requie cities OF less than $4,000 In
habitants to vote with the counties liz
which they are situated when local
option is submitted. and TO cities OF
over 25.OOc local option is extended
to the wards.
Liquor Shipment Blll.
Representative McMurray wants to
put a stop TO C. o. d. liquor ship
ments into local option counties. and
has introduced a bill, through which
he hopes To accomplish Il. His meas
ure provides that no one shall keep.
store or deliver for or to another. ex.
eept for the use OF his own immediate
family. any intoxicating liquor what.
ever Ia any county where local option
has boon or may be adopted. Viola
ton OF this act are made punishable
by ine ranging from tsao 10 $1,000
for etch onense.
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Jumps on Eads Brldae.

st. Louis.-An unidentified man.
who appeared to be about 55 years
old. jumped from the second pier OF
the Eads bridge Monday night. Those
who saw the leap state that he must
have been dead when he struck the
water, as his head came In contact
with the piers. One OF the witnesses
asserts he saw reddish subtance on
the water near where the man went
under.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
NEWS OF MISSOURI
LewIs Quite Temporarily.

st. Louise. +. Lewis has sus.
pended publication OF the Womans
Magazine and the Woman's Farm
Journal. This was announced Mon.
day morning. The suspension is tenn
porary, and publication OF BOTH maya.
zines will be resumed In October.
Two hundred employees, mostly
girls, whose duty It was to open the
mail, were released Saturday, and
about half that number OF employees
we're dropped during the three weeks
preceding. These 300 employees were
about half the full force Of the maya.
zine publishing plant.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
sneed the sho, In

ST. Louis.--Edward Bates. mer.
chant OF Centaur, little town I'm St.
Louis county. near the Missouri river.
dIstanced 10 shots fired at him Sat.
urday night by two highwaymen, who
endeavored to rob him as he was on
his way TO his home from his store.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Death In Saloon Flnht.

Macon.-In a saloon fight at Ard.
more, Mo, near here, w. II. Yea.
key. a blacksmith Of Caseyvllle,
Mo. shot and killed Finis Peter.
son after Peterson had emptied his
revolver at Yeakey, shooting the latter
In the hand and fatally wounding n
man named Noble, a bystander Pc
terson had opened the shooting when
Yeakey interfered In n fight In which
Yeakey's brother and Peterson were
partlcIpants.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
spauah Given a Renplte.

Jefferson Clty.-Gov. Folk granted
respite Of GO days to William
Spaugh. Jr., who killed Sherin Polk
Of Iron county. Spaugh was TO have
been hanged in Reynolds county,
where his case was tried on u change
OF Venue. The case is being argued
on appeal in the United States SUI.
preme court by Assistant Attorney.
General Gentry.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Onpoana 2emhnrtnn ann

Columbia.-The city council Of Co.
lumbia has passed a resolution ask.
Ing the legislature not To pass the
Pemberton bill, which would make
prohibition district OF the territory
within n radius Of ave miles 81 Co.
lumblR.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Names New Judoe.

Jefferson City.--Gov. Folk has ap-
pointed Hickman p. Rodgers 20 be
Judge of the new court Of general ses.
sions in ST. Louis. The announcement
occasioned considerable surprise, as II
was generally believed that the plum
would fall to Judge C.. Orrlck Bishop.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02

Centerville.-A live baby, wrapped
In an old quilt. was found floating In
Big Black river by some fishermen.
Tho child is only a few hours old. a
rock had evidently been tied to IT,
but had loosened and allowed the
babe to float. The child was taken
to a farmhouse. given nourishment.
and II may live.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
studsnts FLIGHT Fire,

Parkviile.'--Sherwood hail. frame
dormltory connected with Park col
lege. and a one-story frame building
used as a dining hall were burned.
The dounitory was occupied BY thirty
girls. all OF whom escaped. savlna
their personal effects.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Dinner to Newspaper Man.

Jefferson City-A dinner was given
at the Madison hotel in honor OF Cur.
it's Belts, who has resigned as CORE.
spondent OF the Post-Dispatch to ac.
cept a responsible position In the ST.
Louis office of the Associated Press.
The dinner came as Il complete sur.
prise TO Mr.. Belts.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Ask Tor Andersen,. paraan.

kAnsaa City.--A petition 10 Presl.
dent Roosevelt containing 10000
names. asking that he pardon Charles
W. AnileFson. was forwarded 20 sen
ator William Warner nj Washington.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
FIXES Sleeper Rates.

Jefferson City, Representative Sta.
pei has introduced a bill 10 regulate
sleeping car rates between points
within the state. A lower berth is to
be charged $3.50 and al upper si25.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-05-02
Communication sanItarIur.

Mount vernon.-with the prospect.
i've opening OF the Missouri tubercu
loSis sanltarium here next Saturday
the state Will have lnaugurated the
first battle OF the warfare against con.
sumption.
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EEELSFEEFTOGDHUSDAND
HELP FROM HOME IN THE DAYS
or CASH SHORTAGE.

Ono Woman DAso9vered an Her D~rosemaker'S
s,ster q source Of Ready M~0ney-PawnS
brokers Appealed To, Nut Not Always
WHth sueoess-AmOunas were Limited.
Stories are beginning 20 leak out OF how
Jewels helped out things a bit for harassed
husbands In the days when 500 In cash
looked bigger than a $1,000 check.
In at least one instance the owner OF 4
well fIled Jewel case found 70 her surprise
that In this city tho women who have the
largest amount OF accessible cash are
not always the best known OftenSr than
not they are the women who pay very little
attention to Style and who live perhaps
in rooms in one of the tonements they them
selves own and who like to keep half a
dozen savings bank books in commission
won who once a month at least have
n stream Of cash poured into their laps.
for few tenement dwellers pay their rent
by chuck
In one Of the tales reNe rred to a money
lender OF this class figured prominently.
A woman o freputed wealth. after Watching
her husbands anxious face across the
dinner table and hearing him deolare that
he would give a good big bonus for the
use Of 81, 600 in cash for a few hours. racked
her brain for some means OF helping i'm.
She recalled a statement Of her dressmaker
that whenever she got in a tight place she
borrowed from her sister. who lived near
Tenth avenue In a tenement she herself
owned and was rolling in wealth.
Calling up her d~ressmaker she got the
wealthy sisters address. and taking with her
a diamond and pearl necklace worth five
times q, 900 drove early the next morning
over to Ten tn avenue and before noon
had the sum mentioned and the promise
Of another thousand IL she required 1t.
The sister Of the dressmaker couldn not her
self lend another thousand. but she knew
a woman living not far away who for such
excellent security and an equally liberal
bonus would be glad enough to lend that
sum. .
The extra thousand. however. was not
needed. and in a few days the necklace
was back in its owners keeping. The
borrower then told the story to some Of her
friends, Withholding the money lenders
name by the lattef's request. she said.
Asked why did not you go to a pawn
brOker?' she answered:
Because I had heard that pawnbrokers
were refusing to lend TO any but regular
patrons sums larger than $3.50 because
short OF cash themselves. and I bad not
courage enough to make a tour OF the
pawnshops.'
Another story is told by a young matrOn
whose husband 10 always spoken Of az a
promising ~financier. She herself TOLD It.
Said she:
"The telephone called and in answer to
my 'Hellol' my husband. to my astonish-
ment. asked in an agitated tone:
Cant you send NE dOwn $50 at once? 1t
may be two or three hours before / can lay
my hands on any cash at ali and I'm steamed
out. Send more IL you can. but let me have
Atty
when 1 remembered that 1 had just IS in
my purse. that l had already Overdrawn my
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ExERC1sE ron FIRE HORSEs.
Engine no Has q Private Speedway IN
Broad street IN the Evening.

Engine No kHas q Private Speedway IN
Broad street IN M Evening.
Some Of the fro companies downtown
ARD called u only once or twice n week
by alarms. In, order TO keep the horses in
condition It h therefore necessary to give
them other exercise than that which comes
from answering alarms OF fire
The captain Of Engine 10. housed in Stone
street. gives tho horses Of his company
half an hours run every evening when the
weather permitsL He has the three horses
hitched 70 the engine and the two other
horses hitched to the tender. the drivers
apparatus swings out Of the fire house at the
same speed used In answering an alarm.
When the apparatus reaches Broad street
the engine swings north at top speed. fol-
lowed by the tender, and persons not
familiar with the fact that the horses are
only being exercised naturally would think
that they were ON their way to a real fire.
IL 10 not for a crowd Of men
and boys TO run after the engine under the
impression that they are going to see a big
blaze in one oRthe Wall street skyscrapers.
This private speedway Of Engine 10 eI-
tends from Beaver street TO Wall street. a
distance Of two blocks. but the blocks are
long, and as Broad street is very wide it
affor Dis the apparatus the opportunity Of
making good speed without danger to any
other vehicle. The crowd which throngs
this part OF the city during the day has
gone home when the apparatus comes out
for exercise.
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Here 10 what

better situation at home. Here 10 what
he wrote:
when I get big 1 will be a driver. 1 will
make the horse 20 fast. He win nave TO
walk up hill. II a poleeCe makes me go
slow I will not stop for a n 1 will not
run over a lady: l will stop foc her TO
get over the street. Then 1 will not sec
the poleeoe stop me and will run the horse
fast. ] will go like fire horses"
What do you think Of thaE9 Isn't that
the Jolly boy for your Inquiry developed
the ownership OF q number Of fast horses
hy his father.
Here. 10 one who takes n different bent.
There is a streak Of vanity in her from
the tone Of her composition. Or 10 iE just
love Of fine Reathers2
Il am TO mako dresses II 1 no how to
make dress 1 can get lots Of money. l will
make a black dress for Sunday. When my
bow comes l will make him wait. He
will look at me and zee my new dress and
We will walk up to the park and I will make
h i'm come home to supper. IL rs bad to
talk to a bow on the street."
Some one has been dwelling upon the i'm
propriety Of Oorne courtship, apparently.
OF course h has IN elder sister who is
at the early stage OF Irritation. II not,
whence comes the idea that every girl
should make her love warm his heels in the
parlor for a time to be better prepared for
the parading Of a new gown?
Another:
Il will work when I get big II 1 work
1 can go away. I will take mama with me.
We will have fun. She will smile to me
for IL and say l am good for her. We will
run in the grass. II I see my papa I will
hug him. Mama says she will be too old
TO run when I nm big. She is sick for
papa 1 wish he came back to her. Mama
a I must save to go away and not spend
pennies for suoers lOandy suokersl."
In these disconnected thoughts It is
possible to read Of a missing husband.
There Is the teaching Of thrift in the declara-
ton that mama says I must save to 20
way" which indicates a struggle against q
handicap. The mother has succeeded in
pointing out a reason for harvesting cents.
There is method in the lesson which appeals
to the child. II she saves the money she
receives il will be possible for her to take
a vacation. otherwise not.
A great many of the compositions were
in the same strain. Any number OF the
girls wanted TO be d-ressmakers. Many of
the boys had a preference for horses. But
none Of the boys declared for the ministry
nor the girls for missionary service. Not
a single one wanted to be a Judge. nor a
banker, nor a doctor. A couple Of the girls
wanted to live ont, and one insisted that
she would never do washing.
The limited range of the ambitions may
be on account OF the environment. The
teacher who carried on the experiment in
sists that il is. The children are all from
poor parents. Not one is from the home Of
a professional man.
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necessarily very airy and spacious to give
the inmates, who we're seldom allowed to go
out, the chance Of taking bodily exercise.
The atrium was surrounded by state
apartments on the ground floor. while the
private rooms Of the Vestals were on the
upper floor. The house was built in an IN
healthful position against the cliff Of the
Palatine.
Here towers the Domus Caiana or House
Of Caligula TO the height OF $50 feet, whose
facade is represented in it's present ruinous
state, although only in its su~bstructures
built by Caligula to raise the slope Of
the hill. The palace, with its state apart
ments and halls and porticOes, is gone.
Here may be seen also the Domus Agus-
tiana or House OF Augustus, the very seat Of
the empire. 1t is divided into three sec
tions, the first, from the side Of the VelIa,
occupied by the propylaia, the temple Of
Apollo, the pOrtico OF h Danaids with its
fifty marble tatue OF the Danaids and
an equal number of equestrian figures of
the sons of Egistus, and the Greek and
Latin libraries. The middle section was
occupied by the shrine Of Vests, and the
last on the side Of the Circus, by the i'm
perial house itself, a set Of magnificent
buildings crowded with the masterpieces
OF Greek, Tuscan I'M Roman art.
Separating the House. of Augustus from
the baths of Septimius Severus Is the
Stadium Of Domitian, oblong shaped with
a curved end. 100 yards long and AZ wide;
the Circus Naximus, which unfortunately
is not visible in either Of the two accompany
ing illustrations; the Gardens Of Adonis. laid
in Oriental style. with large pots Of silver
in which were sown he special plants sacred
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to the god who represented the Sun and
was regarded as the promoter Of vegetable
life; the Palace Of Septimius Severus; the
Septizonium, consisting Of seven rows OF
columns symbOlizing the seven bands Of
heaven, and many other temples and
palaces, with columns, p~orticoes, statues and
gilt bronze decorations.
Underneath the Palatins e seen the
Forum. where tia destinies Of the ancient
world were swayed. Here every stone.
50 to speak. Is carefully reproduced. tri-
umphal arckes and columns. temples and