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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

This train is run by the Wabash
Railroad purely for the benefit and
information of farmers along its
lines, and we strongly urge that
all farmers in this locality make it
a point to attend these lectures.
There is no charge. and nothing
to sell or advertise.
Among the speakers are Prof.
Waters. Dean aud Director Of the
Agricultural College; Prof. +. b.
Mumford. Specialist in Breeding
at the Agricultural College; Prof.
NJ. F. Miller. Specialist in Soils
and Crops at the Agricultural Col.
lege. Prof. 9. F. Marbut, in
State Soil Survey; Mr.. 8. NJ. Jor-
don. extensive breeder. Mr.. p. II.
Crabtree. experienced corn breeder.
Secretary Ellis of the State Board
of Agriculture viii also accom-
pany the train.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

The regular Teachers examina-
ton will be held at the Court
House in Mexico March 22nd and
aud 23rd.
s. T. Davis, Co. Com.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

llke nnNuIhlUs, DUCK tOWhTu
Green, where Champ
Clark lives.
One day it occurred to Mr.. Row
ley that there appeared to be a fine
quality of shsle in Layers with the
limestone. He took some of it for
examination and found that parts
of the clay were of very high grade
and that other parts were not suf-
ficiently mixed with foreign mat
ter to render them valueless.
The limestone, too. under analy.
sis proved to be almo st pure. He
mentioned the matter in some re-
port and the news got to distant
maker of cement. This maker,
really a great and to builders fam
ods corporation. sent experts to
Rowley and got a report from him.
With the expert Rowley again
tramped the hills aud showed what
he had found. The expert was so
pleased that he made a favorable
report aud other experts were sent
sent out. They tramped up and
down the river for hundred miles
and, finally. at a little town called
Busch, south of Hannibal aud
north of here, they erected a great
plant that is now turning out many
carloads of cement each week.
Frank w. Buffum. a public spir-
tied capitalist here, took up the
matter aud has already interested
outsiders in the possibilities Of this
newest of Missouri enterprises in.
volving the products of the earth
SCENERY IN DANGER.
The only regretable feature il
connection with the discovery anC
} it's development is to be found il
: the fact that the beautiful ives
, bank of the Mississippi river will b
D ruined il the enterprise goes for
ward with. the same speed at whic
8 it it has started. Great gashes i
the magnificent bluffs that ovel
r hang the river have already bee
!. made.
5 MARK TwAIN's CAVE IN DANGER
Z Mark Twain will probably b
/. distressed upon learning that hi
n cave at Hannibal, made famous b
t Tom Sawyer aud Injun Joe an
d others of that merry group {
}, youthful pirates, is rich in ct
n ment materials, aud who know
that some ruthless manufacture
y may not in one Of these near-b
is days invade its recesses and cau'
the stalsgmites and stslactites
e be turned into common Portlau
o cement. 10 say nothing Of the wal
q and ceilings Of those infant n
ID nance at our timesi
J" Every une of the great Hills v
J. pass in going from st. Louis
es Keokuk is a hill of cemeut in Il
ie making. The great bluffs
Clarksville are cement wh'
t. crushed aud heated to a prop
Of temperature aud mixed with ella
ID The famous Lovers Leap"
at Hannibal is made of cement, tn
n giving sentiment a rude jolt. T
e- Nigger Head here at Louisiana
also cement, but in this instan
there is no shock to the sense
fitness.
aS .a What gold is to the KloGdiI
IT, aud the .Bull Frog to South A
nc rica. what zinc is to Jasper coun
as Missouri, that same is carbonl
Oi Of lime to st. Louis and the NJ
'er sissippi Valley-and it is not
nu s far from home.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Appropriations of Congress for
this year were 81. 1906. .l3l, $50, al.
most the two.billion mark. The
ship. subsidy bill met n deserved
defeat.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

]. W. Weaver and wife Of Mo.
limo are home after several months
sojourn in Nevada, NO.. and in
Texas. Mrs. Weaver's health is
not much improved. They talk OF
selling ont and going south.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Josiah Martin. wife and little
son, left last Thursday for .heir
new home in JergeusOn, Okla,
They have bright prospects but
they regret to leave their friends,
Especially do they regret to
leave Mrs. Martins sister, Miss
Hettie Cawthorne. so seriously
i'll. Mr.. and Mrs. Martin are
whole. souled people and the com
muuity will sadly miss them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Mrs. O'Callaghan Of Thompson,
mother of Miss Julia 0'Callaghan,
well known here, who has been
i'll for some time is no better.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Frank Elliott Of MOlino believes
in writing long letters TO his best
girl. Ask him how many pages
his letters eantain..
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Mrs. T. j. Basket Of st. Louis
and Mrs. g. d. Mccall Of Fulton
visited relatives and many friends
here last week. Mrs. Basket is
pleasantly located on Morgan St.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Mrs. MeFall underwent an oper-
alton at the hospital at Colnmbis
last week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14

Everything comes to the man
who waits-sometimes a great
chunk of disappointment.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-03-14
Farmers Institute
on Wheels.

The Wabash Railroad, with the
CO. ooperation of the University of
Missouri College of Agriculture.
aud the State Board of Agricul-
ture, will run a Seed and Soil"
special train over its lines in Mis-
souri, March 18th to 10Th.
Sec. Ellis of the Board of Ag.
riculture. aud DR.. II. j. Waters,
dean and director Of the Universi-
ty of Missouri, have devoted con.
siderable time and study 10 the
soils along the Wabash Railroad
aud have taken camples from dit-
ferent sections. In these samples
of soil they have planted various
crops, and the results of this work
will be exhibited in the Seed and
Soil" train. showing what certain
soils produce under certain con-
ditions, and giving aH accurate
idea of the number of bushels per
acre which may be grown on soils
of the different sections.
The lectures will be conducted in
two audience cars. aud the lec-
turers are the most prominent men
identified with the agricultural
work of the State.
The Wabash Seed aud Soil
j Special train will leave Moberly at
700 a. m. Friday, March 10, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Real Democratic Principles

Tn his speech before the united de- mocracy q the District of Columbia MT. Bryan named the democratic doc trines that the President refuses to indorse, namely, tariff reform, the cleo tion of Senators by direct vote, the promise of ultimate independence to the Filipinos, and the restriction of the use of the injunction. To this list should have been added publicity of campaign funds, for oxen could not pull the republicans onto a publicity plat form. The entire republican party is not standing pat on the tariff, but to man it is standing pat on secret cam paign funds. They know how elections have been controlled In the past, and they expect money to repeat its task in 1908 That money will as hereto fore come from magnates and trusts and corporations located in good part in Wall street.
 This issue cuts deeper than robber tariff It goes to the root of govern ment of the people by the people for the people. If elections are to be con trolled in the future by trusts and mag mates of the Hartman or the Rocke feler sort popular government is as good, as abolished. A President elected by Wall street subscriptions Is a Pres ident who will appoint no judge who is distasteful to that street, who will advocate no policy against the wishes of the men who footed the election bills.
 There can be no graver issue than this. If the country after it's recent education is not ready to demand the full and prompt publication of cam paign funds, it does not deserve any thing better than plutocratic govern ment and it assuredly will not get anything better Mr. Bryan should have included the issue in the list that the President absolutely refuses to indorse or even to touch with 40 foot pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Montoomery's New College

The heirs of the John J. Flowers estate. the citizens of Montgomery and the two Methodist conferences Of Ala hama have acted unitedly in providing S150,OOO with which to erect in Mont gomerv fine college for the education of the girls of Alabama. True, the Methodist conferences have not yet acted, but as they are to meet soon the financial agent of the two conferences does not hesitate to express the opin- ion that they will raise the sums as signed to them. If so, the erection or the new buildings will be begun at once.
 The college when completed will have a capacity of 400 boarders. The administration building is to be known as the "John J. Flowers building It will be a memorial to the man whose estate contributed $50,000 of the sum needed to build the new college. The entire institution will probably be known as the Methodist WomanA col lege. and it will be no doubt valuable addition to the educational institutions of the state.
 The North Alabama conference Is now in session at Tuscaloosa, and the Alabama conference will meet next week at Enterprise. Favorable action on the part of the two conferetees will assure the speedy erection of group of fine buildings for the new college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
Portland Cement Industry.

w A. Burmeister, C. J. De Money and II. R. De Money of Buffalo are in Bir- mingham and will remain here several days in the interest of the Panama Port land Cement and Development company, whose principal offices are Batavia, N. Y.
 Our company" said MT. Burmeister, has bought on the Tombigbee river, in Greene county. Ala. 200 acres, that &C., eording to analysis. contains the finest deposit of argillaceous limestone in the United States. This limestone has been tested by the government and will be used by it for public works.
 "The utilization of Portland cement in all sorts of construction is one of the most striking features of architectural ana industrial progress. The company that I represent is capitalized at SlOOO'cOo. It will build a s40o,0O0 plant on it's Ala bama property with a capacity of 9,0o0 barrels a day.
 Tn one sense, the wide use of cement in construction Is a return to first princi- pies, for it is now known that the pyra- mids of Egypt, dating back about 40 cen turies. present examples of concrete con- struction of a remarkable character.
 "The United States Geological survey recently issued a pamphlet, prepared by F. c. Eckel, which presents an unusual amount of information regarding the ce- ment industry. According to this au- thority. the calendar year 1905 was the record year so far in the gain marked in total production of hydraulic cements in Ia ba in year. The increase was 8, S,427,051 barrels of cement in quantity and $9,S99,6l3 in value, which statement shows most clearly the great betterng of conditions in the ce- ment industry in this country in 1905.
 "The total production of cement for 1905 was 4O102, 30S barrels, having a value of $35, ,931 ,533 as compared with total production in 1904 of S1 ,675, 257 barrels, hav- ing a value of $26,O31 ,s2O. The production of Portland cement in 1905 was 35246,Sl2 barrels, valued at $33, 3,245.S67. The produe- ton of natural cement in 1905 was 4473,- 0l9 barrels, valued at $2,413,052 The pro- duction of puzzolan cement in 1905 was 3S2, Al barrels, valued at $272, 614. The val ues given in connection with the various productions of cement for 1905 are much more nearly normal than those shown in the preceding year
 For 1907 it is estimated that the output will not be less than 45,OOO,00O barrels, val ued at probably $50, 900. The rebuilding Of San Francisco is calling, and will call for enormous supplies of the material and every plant in the United States will feel the stimulus of the increased de- mand even if it does not send barrel direct to San Francisco.
 All over the country new and strong corporations are entering the field of ce- ment construction. and the prospects be- fore them leave nothing to be desired. The industry Is yet in its infancy in Ala bama, but in this state it will yet rise to the level of importance with iron and steel''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Demand For Peanuts.

Birmingham has gone wild on the subject of peanut eating" said Tas Nor ton last night. You can't walk along the business streets of Birmingham any time, day or night. without meeting half dozen people with bag of the lus- cious nuts in one hand, the other hand busy cracking some and his jaws work ing like a printing press running over time.
 The only reason l can assign to such sudden craze for them is the advertise ment displayed by the steam arising from the roasters at the different fruit stands. That steam looks awfully tempting these cool days. The First National bank corner Is a splendid illustration of just how bad Birmingham Is afflicted with the goober appetite No matter how often the sidewalk and street is swept you can always find this corner covered with peanut hulls. evidently thrown there by people who were waiting for cars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
ThanksniVinn Day

The celebration of Thanksgiving Day in this glorious November weather will no doubt be general. The sun shines brightly for all this day. Cotton is in demand It is going up, and the dec laration of the farmers for 15 cents does not seem so improbable as it did at the opening of the present month. Gold is pouring in by tons rather than by dollars. and a cash basis in New York is in sight. It is almost here.
 This holiday comes from New Eng land. but it has spread to all the states. It's appropriateness at the end of the harvest season commends it to all. The observance of the day cannot be too general, for we have much to re- turn thanks for in the present year. We have escaped a great financial calamity and the chances are that Con gross will soon put us in a position to face hopefully any troubles that re- late to the currency of the country. All of us enjoy bounties from the hands of nature that we should be thankful for, and a general observance of the holiday in the south is a thing to be commended and supported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Walthour Will Be In Races

'rhe annual six-day bicycle race will be pulled off in New York in less than two weeks and the south will have it's cham pion entered,' said an old eyclst last night. Bobby Walthour will reach New York in a day two from Europe, where he has just recovered from an accident, which would have killed any other person. In fact another rider was killed In this spill. Walthour has been entered in the annual siX-day race for a number of years and has always ridden well In them, having been winner in one or two. In most of them his part ners have met with accidents which pre- vented them from continuing the race. In instances of this kind Walthour has con- tinued the race alone and been in with the winners, despite his lack of a team mate. As it is he holds the individual record for the number of miles ridden in six days In this years race he will mate with Matt Downey of~Boston, who is a good one, and barring accidents don't think there is any doubt but they will cross the tape first. Walthour's con- slstent riding, combined with the clean life he has led, has made him friends by the thousands and the whole south will be pulling for the Atlanta boy in the long-distance struggle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Would Not Obey the Laws

If the big life insurance companies in New York had obeyed the laws that Governor Hughes drew they would be richer today by at least $100,O00,000. These laws provided that after Jan uary 1, 1907, no life insurance com pany should invest in any shares of stock or collateral trust bonds, and every such company should sell all the stock and collateral trust bonds which it then owned
 As matter of fact, they did not obey the laws, and the Mutual Lite and Equitable alone are losers to the extent of $40,000,000. The New York Life and other companies are not far behind. For instance" says the New York World, the Equitable has Inter- Met stock which could have been sold at 50 and is now quoted at 512, de- preciation of 90 per cent. It owned $2 ,050 .000 of Union Pacific preferred,
 
 which was worth par and is now sell ing at 80; $2,OoO,OOO of Manhattan Railway, which could have been sold at 145 and which is now 108, and Bank of Commerce stock, which shows a loss of $2, 100000. The Mutual owned $3,750,000 of Pennsylvania Railroad stock which it could have sold for $5,137, 300 and whose <parket value is now more than s1,oA9ooo less; New Haven stock, on which the deprecia- tion is $2,O00,0 900; National Bank of Commerce stock in which there is a depreciation of $1.S00000; Consoli- dated Gas stock, which has depreci ated $750,0OO; St. Paul, which has de- preciated more than $1,000,000."
 These great declines may not be per manent, but if the laws were obeyed today they would prove very real. After all, 1t is pretty good policy on the part of all corporations to obey the law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28

ally less, but it is still up to the aver age yield of the last ten years.
 Nor is this all. All the cereals are crops that can be shipped and even exported, and the aggregate value of a years crop is the true test. Tried by this test the crops of 1907 outrank them all. The crops of 1906 proved to be worth $6,794,O0Q, ,OOO, but it is al ready well established that on account of higher prices the crops of 1907 will cross the $7,OO0, 1000 ,0O0 line, and this is something the crops of the country had not done It is idle to talk of hard times and panies in a country whose harvested crops awaiting shipment are worth over seven billions of dollarsl Why, man alive, the mind cannot com prehend such a vast sum-how, then, can the country be hard up? It is inn possible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Owens Suggestion Is Good.

''l think Dr. Thomas NJ Owens sug- gestion that the Birmingham Free Public Library association raise about s600O with which to employ first-class library pro- moter for two years is a good one" re- marked public library enthusiast yester- day. "The building of library is a tre- mendous undertaking, and especially where the ambition is as high as it IS with our local association. They wish to put up one costing eventually $3OO,O0 though they will be satisfied with s6o0lO for the present. As Dr. Owen said this promoter should be able to raise the full SS00 coo in two years time, and he could devote his entire time to it, which will be impossible for the gentlemen connected with the association. Of course. they would still he in control The men. wom- en and children of the community would also have to jsn in with the promoter Let's do this and get the library right pow''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
WHAT ALABAMA HAS AT STAKE

From the Washington Post.
 If Pittsburg shall ever be forced to surrender the primacy in the manu- fracture of iron and steel to another American city, it will be to Birmingham. Ala Pittsburg has coal and stone at her doors, but she must fetch her ores all the way from Lake Superior, while Bir- mingham has within a radius of % miles everything necessary to the production of iron and steel in quantities sufficient to supply the entire world for centuries at the present rate Of consumption. But P1ttsbuTg has an advantage that, if it can be held, will secure her domination in iron and steel ndefinitely-oheaper transportation A paternal government mas lavished millions to improve the waters of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, tributary to her, while her railroads the best on the hemisphere have done everything to stimulate enor- npous production in her immense iron works, glass works and other industries. The railroads are business concerns. and operated by men of brains. They know that production is the thing on which ioilioddo INt, dUu that cheap tranSDOr- tatlon is the very life of production. If the Pennsylvania railroad were a banxrupt concern 1t would work incalculable injury to the business men of Pittsburg. And if the governor and legislature of Alabama shall succeed in bankrupting the Louis Nille and Nashville railroad Birmingham will feel the injury as the tenderest plants feel the touch of frost and Wlther accordingly. The interests of the Penn sylvania railroad and of Pittsburg are identical. The one cannot prosper with out the other getting corresponding bene- fit and the one canhot suffer without the other feeling the status The Louis vile and Nashville and the city of Bir- mingham have the same relations-their business interests are absolutely identi- cal. But we have fallen on times when railroads are not to build up the coun- try and make cities opulent They are mere playthings for demogagues. cast for the role of statesmen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
Crops Grown In 1907

The department of agriculture at Washington has summed up the food crops of 1907, as follows: 2,450, ,000 bushels of corn, 625 ,000 900 bushels of wheat, TAI, 100000 bushels of oats, 147,- 00O,O00 bushels of barley, and 31,000,- 900 bushels of rye. The five crops foot up 3,995, 100000 bushels, as against 4,S39 ,000,00 bushels in 1906. The de- crease is nearly 20 per cent, and it extends to every one of the five great food products. But 1906 was very
 propitious crop year. It was favorable from beginning to end. This was shown in the unexampled corn crop, and, in fact, the entire cereal yield of 1906 was the greatest ever known in this country. The yield of 1907 is materi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-28
THE ROSES.

Stephen Chalmers. in the New Yor1 Times.
 Priscilla sent me roses,
 Roses white and red. Brought the roses to me
 And laid them on my bed. Her name Is not Priscilla, Nor meant for me her posies,
 But let 1t be,
 It pleases me, So pray you. for the time agree Priscilla sent me roses. But why call her Priscilla.
 Whom 1 have never known? An. you would have me whisper A secret all mine own. But once l saw her walking And gathering such roses.
 A Mayfiower lass
 Who, in her glass, For sweet Priscilla well might pase. To whom poor John proposes. Priscilla sent me roses,
 Their cheeks were pink and fair, And OCT them, dropping gently, Hung sweetest maiden hair Her name is not Priscilla, Nor meant for me her posies,
 But have your will,
 I'll swear so still. And. spite of all I'll drink my Ill Of beauty from her roses