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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-03-06

D. L Francis. Who has been spend
ing several days With his family here
len on the noon train Monday for
North Carolina to look after the
timber interests Of the W. y. Ritter
Lumber Company.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-03-06

The NiIier's Greek coal field not
jet developed. IS great and win pro-
duce q very high grade. equaIing the
MUDDY Branch product The MiIIeTs
Greek field win soon be operated By
a company with = great financial
hacking. and viii. II is said. have
the largest and best plant installed
OF any mining section N Kentucky
C. W. Watson. the Baltimore mutt
millionaire is at the head Of the com
pany that viii operate the MiIIers
creek s.-.s 4 branch railroad is to
be constructed 10 this field
Herald
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-03-06

John n saeraves has leased the
Tom vanhoOse residence in the East
end and vii move his family there
the first Of ne1f month Mr.. Van
hose and family are going TO Ash
snd
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-29

Pretty and Interesting Function to be
Held Friday Evening, Feb. 9TH.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will give their third Valen
tine Social at the home of Mrs. G..
q. Baxter, on the evening OF
February z. on which occasion the
following program will be rendered:
Piano solo-Miss Andrews.
Piano Duet-Tela Calvin, Helen BROKER.
Vocal SOlO-Ina hastings
Piano SOlo-Ivanelle Critchlow.
Vocal SOlo-Miss Sabin.
Piano SOlO-Emily Roberts.
Song-Ivanelle Lewis. =
Piano Duet-Marie Knapp. Ruth Ziegler
Vocal SOlO-Mrs. Martha Baxter Bennett.
Comic electiOn-BaSsie Glenn.
Piano SolO-Beth Edwards.
Piano Duet-Misses Jessie and Bertha
Ziegler.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served, for which a charge of 1C
cents will be made and the concert,
OF course, is free. The ladies will
have homemade candies and val
entines for sale and the proceeds
derived from the sale and luncheon
will be devoted to home missions.
The two preceding functions of this
character were very successful af.
fairs and 1t is the hope and purpose
OF the ladies to have this one sur
pass either of its predecessors. AL
are welcome and a liberal patronage
IS solicited.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-29
PRAISE cor LIE UNIVERSITY.

This university resembles the
endowed universities of the east
more than any other university in
the country. Not only In It's organ
ization and curriculum is it on a
similar plane, but IN Wisconsin
there is kinship of nature and a
FesOlute purpose to stand by each
other under all circumstances.
In these words, President Charles
w. Eliot, of Harvard university, in
q c0nvocation address at Madison, a
Hew days ago, alluded to Wisconsln's
state university, of which every
citizen of the Badger state is proud.
President Eliot's address was, in the
main, a contrast between state and
endowed universities. He said that
Harvard is continually profltlng by
the experience of Wisconsin and
will continue to do so.
President Eliot said in part:
Il feel very much at home here,
because this university was built as
Harvard University was bullion a
strong college of liberal arts. It is
this largely which makes Wisconsin
resemble the eastern endowed uni
versities more than any other state
university in the country. There is
one great difference between the
people of Wisconsin and those of
Massachusetts; you support Ii a
most liberal manner a state univer-
sity which Massachusetts has never
been called upon to do.
Harvard University was estab-
lished through the will of John
Harvard. About him and his
family for 200 years we knew moth
ing In the last &c years their
whole history has been brought to
light. John Harvard was a Puritan
minister, young in years. His
family were all tradespeOple. Young
Harvard was educated thoroughly
at the University of Cambridge. He
dIed when SO years old -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-29
VALENTINE SOCIAL.

Pretty and Interesting Function to be
Held FRIDAY Evening. Feb. 9TH.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
rNEMENDoUs POWER or WATER.


When man goes in swimming at
the seashore and slaps the water
forcibly with his hand. or takes q
back dive from pier and lands
squarely ON his back, he realizes that
the unstable liquid offers not little
resistance. Yet 1t would surprise nj.
most anybody to zee what water will
do under certain conditions.
A stream from a firemRn's hose will
knock a man down. The Jet from a
nozzle used In placer mining In the
west eats away q large piece OF land
In a day. toys with great powders as
II they were pebbles. and would shoot
4 man over the country as though he
were a projectile from a cannon.
There IL a story OF an eastern black
smith who went west and made a bet
that he could knock hole through
the jet OF one OF these n0zzles with
sledge hammer. He lifted his arms.
swung the sledge. and came down on
the tenInch stream with a force that
would have dented an anvil. But the
jet. never penetrated, whlsked the
massive hammer out of the black
smiths hands and tossed II several
hundred feet away into the debris Of
gold-bearing gravel beneath crum.
bling cliff. After this the blacksmith
left out iron when he spoke of hard
substances.
There Is also a power plant near
Durango, Col. where United States
cavalryman one day thought he had
an easy job in cutting a two-inch
stream with his sword. He made a
valiant attack. The result was that
his sword was shivered In two and his
wrist broken.
A little thinner Jet II water descend.
ing 1000 feet TO a mandatory at
Grenoble, Spain, and travelling at
the moderate speed OF 100 yards
second. fractures the best blades Of
Toledo.
OF course some people will not be.
lieve such stories without having seen
the thing, and one may think It a
proof of the scientific imagination TO
say that an inch-thick sheet OF water.
provided II had sufficient velocity,
would ward OF bombshells as well as
steel plate.
Nevertheless, many persons, while
travelling, have seen brakeman put
a small hydraulic jack under one end
of car and lift 20 tons or 30 by a
few lelsurely strokes Of the pump han
die; and the experience Of riding every
day In a hydraulic elevator tends IA
remove doubts OF the magic power
possessed by water hitched to a ma
chine.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
squirrels Eat LImburqer Cheese.

The wlsest pair of squirrels known
In Connecticut are two reds on the
farm OF John oelschlegel. near Win
sted. Recently he found and confis-
Gated their hoard OF chestnuts In a hol-
low tree close by HIS bedroom win.
dow. and while sleeping by the open
window he was struck with a green
chestnut burr on his bald head.
Locking up into the tree he saw the
two red squirrels gnawing chestnuts
out OF burrs. The hunting season no,
being open. he didn't dare shoot them.
and after he had taken out all the
prickly burr out Of his scalp he went
TO sleep again.
Next oelschlegel was awakened by
a suifocating odor and saw the two red
squirrels eating limburger cheese on
the same limb. Particles OF the lin.
burger. which was as soft as putty
had dropped on the sill OF his bed.
room window. He keeps his lin
burger in a tin pail hanging on a
limb OF the tree and the squirrels had
found it.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
InedIbIe Chicken.

ut doesn't pay TO raise chickens in
a small way" said n suburbanite. for
the reason that you can only eat the
eggs. never the chickens themselves"
"But why can't you eat the chick
ens?" inquired the mans partner.
Gould you eat your canary or your
dog? No. And for much the same rea.
son you can't eat your chickens. For
they are pets. as dogs or canaries are
You have raised them. and they have
learnt to know you. they have names
that they answer to. they follow you
about the yard--in a word. they like
you. and you like them"
He shuddered.
Il remember when we killed and
stewed Mary Jane. She had stopped
laying; she was long past that stage;
so we murdered her and tried 70 ea,
her. But we failed. We felt like
cannibals. like ghouls. when Mary
James manglsd remains were SET
smoking before us. Sat? Why. the
very memory half sickens me now"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
BY ANIME WARMER
February first.

February first.
My birthday and I exceedingly
merry thereat having IN divers friends
and much good wine beside two pas
ties and more OF all than we could eat
and drink had we been doubled. AZ.
forwards to the playhouse and a very
good play and hence to a supper the
which most hot and comforting with n
butt OF brandy and divers cocktails and
they being very full did make crest
sport and Joke me that I had never
taken wife to which replied neatly
saying that for my part ia my twenties
did feel myself too young and in my
thirties did never chance upon one
comely and to my taste az which great
applause. The applause being over
did continue my speech and say that
In my fortles had had little time to
think OF aught but my own personal
AFFAIRS, but that now being come to my
hfties was well disposed to share
them and they did all drink to that
and smash their glasses with right
good cheer prophesying my marriage
and drinking long life to Her and me.
My mind then q blank but home in
some shape and the maid did get me
to roy room and what n head this
morningl Mislikoth me much to be-
think me how did comport myself,
but a man IL 80 but once.
To mine Office where did buy and
sell as usual.
February eighth.
To dine with II. Nevll and his wife
aud she 4 monstrous pleasant lady and
the dinner good only the wine poor
and my vest too tight which vastly
misliked me. being 10th to grow
stout and yet all nj odds with my
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

belts. the which trying me sadly for
do pay my tailor AZ many do not. And
the niece striking fine girl modest
To the Country club for late supper,
the which well-cooked but my vest
much tighter and SO home and to bed.
Railway stocks risen two points
February twentieth.
Did take box at the play and ask
II. Nevil. lis wife and niece and sup
per afterwards and pretty TO see how
miss did refuse mine eyes and hardly
speak two words, the which greatly TO
my admiration and after supper did
lead her TO the coach and press her
hand.
March nineteenth.
Much agitated and all trembling and
Of q cold sweat The Lord have mercy
and me all unwilling until In some
strange way do find myself today be-
trothed the which ] do heartily pray to
DO for the good OF al concerned.
No heart for stocks. but the same
arising.
April sixteenth.
Do find the being betrothed more 70
my taste than anticipated and tell II.
Nevli he shall be remembered with
pointers when the market turns again.
Comes one LasseiIe and makes a
great tale OF a mine and with no time
Tor him, but do set the ONCE boy to
look him up IN Bradstreet.
These be busy days with a corner on
parsnips.
May tenth.
The business OF being director in
Lssseile's mine ended thla day and to
a great dinner that ho Giveth in my
honor and my portrait on all the cards
the which pieaseth me mightlly and /
al compllmented and congratulated
and sly hints ON my Approaching mar.
riaga TO the which / an smiles for
lord the thing being done one must 81
q good colrags.
Quotations low. beshrew them.
June seventh tths AIountsinsl.
Married this day ana 10 do IN tur'
moll wheat being ali a-rase and me
forced to 80 home 20 dress before
noon. Did scarce know where ! was
with Extras being cried outside the
church window and II. Nevil giving
the bride away and ON the wrong side
Of the market BY my advice. This
bride hyaeeflcky n the carriage and Al
me station wept 40 that was fair be
Sldo myself lid bathink me 70 kial
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
Youthful Confidence.

There il q period In every child's
life when he feels himself master OF
some profession. A little boy Of this
particular age-10 years old-was no
ticed making great efforts at his draw
Ing. g.
what are you drawing. dearI" hif
mother asked him?
"a picture OF God" was his ready
reply.
but, my dear. no one knows just
what God looks like, said the mother
softly and with an air of reproach.
They will after they see this" con
hdently answered this young prodigy
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
Loslns the Use Of ones Ices.

A French journal gloomily prognos
ticates that we shall have lost the use
OF our legs in generation or two.
The tendency of the age Is to invent
means BY which human beings are
conveyed from place to place as quick.
~ and cheaply as possible.
People certainly walk far less than
they did 2s years ago; they win walk
less In 50 years time. When a cen.
fury has paused. perhaps. as our
French contemporary suggests. we
shall altogether have forgotten how
20 walk. and our descendants win hop
like birds when they are on the level.
and ny whenever they get the chance.
But what win become OF their iiversg
And how are the poor things ever 70
enjoy the delights Of hooking az tie
shops9---Lady's Pictorial.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

Little Mary was really very III.
Mother said she was sure Il was an
attack OF appendicitis. but Grandma
was equally sure the little one was
threatened with convulslons.
The argument waxed warm In
Mary's presence. and appropriate RENE
dies were used, and the next day she
was better.
Coming into her mothers room dur
Ing her play she said:
Mamma, two OF my dollies are very
sick this morning"
Indeed, dear, am very sorry. What
Is the matter with themT"
well I don't really know. mamma,
but | think Gwendoiyn has a pint
o'spiders' and Marguerite is going "a
have 'envulsions.'
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory II the right
Starch were used. In order 70 get the
desired stiffness, II is usually neces.
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste Of varying
thickness. which not only destroys the
appearance. but also Affects the wear
ing quality OF the goods. This trou.
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch. as 1t can be applied
much more thlnly because Of its great
4r strength than other makes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

Ylsterdee we had show in our Shed.
/ wuz a Clown with my face painted
RED!
Stub was a akrobat. supple and slim
lie did thee tricks and l parodyed him.
That Il thee way that a clown. looking
Keeps all thee people a laughing like
mad.
We got along very good with thee show
Till suspended myself by mi toe!
Stub cannot do this tall. and he sed:
you should fall over thee ring on your
head!"
Then climbed up on thee rope aud-by
Jing
1 walked across to thee end of thee
thingl
stubbie fell on every time that no tried.
SO he got angry at me and he cried:
II am thee one that In star OF this play;
way!"
sed, by jing. that knew what to be.
Stub bawled, "All right, Mr.. Smart, we
shall sect"
Next thing we knew we wuz fighting
like sin.
I Jared thee best. stubbIe's suit was so
thin.
He banged my eye but hit him crack
Knocking him head over heels on his
back.
Then jumped onto him there on Thea
Hay
Making him boiler "EnuH" where he
lay!
All of the fellers applnuded like mad
Even thee wimmon folks scanned 10 be
glad.
Billy sed. gist as he started to go:
That wuz the very best part OF thee
Show!"
q o o
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
EVENLY MATCHED.

Magistrate Ito witness) where
were you when this assault occurred7
Witness-Just across the street,
your honor.
Magistrate-Then why didn't you so
to the plaintiffs assistance when you
saw him attacked?
Witness-Faix, wasn't sure then
that he wouldn't be the defendant.
your honor.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
A Work Of Art.

Patience-And is he fond OF works
OF art?
Patrice-Why, sure! He married
one!--Yonkers Statesman.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
hla TIma EupIaInsa.

4 think IN 30 out for a drink amer
the second act"
Hubby, you'd know you swors on
Cor q year.
rnnt two years eiapae between aclu
one and lwo.s--l fansas cily Journal.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

Lewis Single Binder straight &c. You
pay loo for cigars not so good. Your deal
CT or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

For what the mind wishes, that Il
also believes.-HellodOru
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

A singer doesn't weigh his words on
the musical scale.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT ls guaranteed 10 cure any case
Of Itching. Blind. Blccding PTutruding Piles In
q 70 IL days or money refunded. Soc.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

Use Aliens Foot-EARe
Curestircd. aching sweating feet sc. Trial paekaee
free. A. ,. Oimstod. Ia HOY. NY.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

And Il sometimes happens that q
man Is married to his boss.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
FHteratlens.

twenty-five thousand umbrellas
are annually lost in London and re-
turned TO the police station" says an
exchange. II all the umbrellas
lost in London are returned
to the police station. the Eng.
lish have earned a Just reputation for
honesty. In Chlcago-well. I'm toting
one myself that-but, OF course, this is
another story.
Prepare yourselves for turkey.
turkey cold, turkey hash. turkey GRO
quettes, turkey soup and turkey in the
turkey. II beats all how long a single
bird will last in some households that
haven't bull pup.
4 Z q
The boy who knows enough to bot
tie up his laughter when the Joke is
on pa. seldom will be compelled to eat
his meals while he is standing.
would like to get a meal for Sc
like used to buy out in the country
for thirty.hve cents. That's how hun.
CRY am--sometimes.
Z q 2
There are any number OF safety
raEors on the market. Most of them
are safe, too. Now, who win invent
one that viii shave?
q y q
The errant husband usually knows
his wlfe's limit when advising her
how late II was when he got home In
the night before.
4 4 =
A resident OF small Wisconsin
town advertises for two lost pigs and
asks the finder TO please leave In the
barber shop"
The boy who gets the neck at the
Christmas dinner has a right TO ques.
ton the authenticity of that Santa
Claus story.
The mistletoe isn't an open seasame
TO a girls lips. It Is Just test 10
md out II she Is better dodger than
you are.
Those who think the most seriously
OF marriage frequently are sim single.
@ o %
saltlna the Calf
A farmer named smith hired an ex-
perienced boy 10 help him about the
place. One morning Ne told the boy 20
so and salt the ealf over IN the pasture.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
saltlna the Calf.

A farmer named smith hired an ex-
perienced boy 10 help him about the
place. One morning he told the boy 20
go and saltthe calf over IN the pasture.
The boy took about qaaEl % salt.
into the hair. a gang OF Gotta Ia the
pasture scented the salt and got after
the calf They licked the hair on the
calf'a hack and tried 10 hcK the hide on.
too. The farmer tried 10 catch the calf
10 wash Il. But che calf. thinking he
wanted 20 iick. TOO: ran throueh hole
n the fence. and Disappeared down the
SAD.
R-.sMa......
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31
Western Canada
AAoRE BIo cRoPe Do Ieoe
homestead and 100 at


a vast rich country and a eonisnted proc
porous people. "-ErfTacf Jv0ss c0yresfc1AesrE
% q Nafir7af Efffey. srAnH uffI 10 Hsffrya
CsHada. ~ dsFHIf. TooS, aaf a. fHStfrsfiss.
Many have paid the entire cost of tiseis
farms and had a balance Of from 5000 20
5000 per acre as a result of ono crop.
Spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, barley,
flax and peas are the principal crops, while
the wild grasses bring to perfection tho
best cattle that have ever been sold on
the Chicago market.
Splendid climate, schools and churches
In all localities. Railways touch most Of
the settled districts, and prices for produce
are always good. Lands may also be puT-
chased from railway and land companies.
Fer pamphlets, maps and Information re-
garding low railway rates. apply 10 SapeTina
tendsnt ofImmigrAtion, Ottawa, Canada, or
the authorized Canadian Government Agents
J. s. CRAWFORD, Iz5 ". Nlnih ST., Kaasas City, Ne,
G, J. BRouehTOh. Sl7 Merchants Lsaa { Trvst bl&s.
Chicago, tliinets.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

A resident OF a small Wisconsin
town advertises for two lost pigs and
asks the finder TO please leave In the
barber shop"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

The boy who gets the neck at the
Christmas dinner has a right TO ques.
ton the authenticity of that Santa
Claus story.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

Those who think the most seriously
OF marriage frequently are sim single.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

The mistletoe isn't an open seasame
TO girls lips. II Is Just 4 test "a
md out II she Is better dodger than
you are.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

The errant husband usually knows
his wlfe's limit when advising her
how late II was when he got home In
the night before.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-12-31

The boy who knows enough to bot
tie up his laughter when the Joke Is
on pa, seldom will be compelled to eat
his meals while he is standing
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27

was there ever anything TO transport
one into memory's land so sadly or so
happily as the heavy scent of fiowersa
So the people went down in multitudes,
and were driven in great wagons
through the clean cut grain fields,
hedged about by tall, quaint eucalyptus
trees and capped by a sky OF robins
egg blue that smiled upon the jeweled
ribbons of bloom as though it were in
the secret as to where the unrivaled
colors came from. Here two sun
Drowned young men, sons of the firm,
work and experiment through the long,
equablel California year, and as they
say: Raise by the hundreds of acres
and In the open air what we raised
under glass in Somersetshire, Eng
land In the English greenhouses of
the senior Bodger, even his children
were raised in flower potts." as one OF
the boys quantity remarked. This firm
has other seed farms in California, but
this immense acreage in sweet peas is
the most unique and noteworthy in its
conditions.
1t is in October, just before the first
rains come, that the planting of the
sweet peas in this all the year round
out Of door nursery is begun. They are
planted In the rich. black adobe soil