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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
REPENTANCE CAME TOO LATE
Small Boy Had Taken Drastic Ac-
tlon to Avoid Being Invited
to Party.

A small boy had something to say
to his father at the dinner table the
other night, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. Papa" he said, Johnnie Bur
ton is going to have party mex week,
an he said he'd invite me. An l got
to take present" "a present? What's
that for?" ITS for Johnny's birth
day. All the kids take presents"
Things hadn't gone just right during
the day with the boys father. He
was not in an agreeable humor
That's all nonsense" he declared.
Every day or two it's a present here
or a present there. If you can't go
to a party without taking a present
you might as well stay at home" The
boys lip trembled, but he made no re-
ply. The next day the father regret
ted his hasty words and that night
turned to the boy. George" he said,
there are a couple of new books
in my overcoat pocket. You can take
them to your friend Johnny's party"
IT'S too late" said George, gloomily
81 licked him to-day so that he
wouldn't invite me-"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Man with the conundrum Again.

Here's one you can use any time
you like" says the man with the gilt
tering whiskers, bending over the
desk of the pale, plodding slave with
the recalcitrant fountain pen. 81 fig
ured this one out last night. What is
the difference between an army Off
Ger who has been on a furlough for
six weeks and has received an order
to return to duty and a psychical in
vestigator who reads The Raven to
the spirit of his departed ancestor"
What is the difference between a
man In an airship and woman max
ing mincemeat? Because they both
look for currants," mutters the pale.
Flooding slave.
"Oh, well, If you don't care for any
suggestions l can take them else
where" haughtily declares the man
with the glittering whiskers. "The
answer to mine is that one reads his
Go to the post and the other reads
his Poe to the ghost, but you can't use
II now"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Yet you never told a lie,
Never learned to use deceit,
Never laid a path awry
For some fellow beings feet,
Never caused a single tear
Save upon the day you died
And they say your end is here
Though eternity is wide.
We can count a hundred things,
Brave, bold things, all done by you
Deeds such as heroic kings
Had not been ashamed to do;
Most of all, though, II is fine,
To recall the heart you had
And to know that, dog of mine,
You were always, always glad.
Dog-a dog-and that's the end!
End Of comradeship and play?
Listen, dog that was my friend,
II you wait upon the way
That leads through the outer dark
When my time comes to go,
Let me hear your welcome bark
If you may, you will, I knowl
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
DOCTORS PRESCRIPTION.
Quickly Cures Rheumatic Pains, Also
Splendid System Builder.

Go to any good prescription drug
gist and get the following and mig
them: If he does not have these in
gradients he will get them from his
wholesale house.
One ounce compound syrup Of
sarsaparilla, and one ounce Toris COM
pound. Add these to a half pint of
first-class whiskey, and use a table,
spoonful before each meal and at bed
time. The bottle must be well shaken
each time. This simple remedy is
one of the most effective known. The
restorative action will be felt after
the first few doses.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
ECZEMA COVERED HIM.
itching Torture Was Beyond Words
Slept Only from Sheer Exhaustion
Relieved in "a Hours and
Cured by cutioura in a Month.

81 am seventy-seven years old, and
some years ago was taken with &C.
zema from head to foot. l was sick
for six months and what 1 suffered
tongue could not tell. could not
sleep day or night because of that
dreadful itching; when 1 did sleep it
was from sheer exhaustion. 1 was
one mass of irritation; it was even in
my scalp. The doctors medicine
seemed to make me worse and l was
almost out of my mind. got a
set Of the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Resolvent. l used them persistently
for twenty-four hours. That night 1
slept like an infant, the first solid
nights sleep had had for six months.
In a month I was cured. w. Harrison
Smith, Mt. Kisco, N. Y, Feb. 8, 1905"
sotter Drug q Chem. Corp, Sole PropS, Boston.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
A Motor Hint.

Miss Lillian Russell, who looks
younger than her daughter, was talk
ing about age at a dinner in New
York. Miss Russell, who is always
witty, ended with this mot:
1T is a sure sign of age in wom-
an when she begins to get out of her
motor car backwards"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

clusively settle all the questions arising
therefrom, that on October 20, 1904, at San
tlago, DlenipOtentiaries of the two countries
signed the treaty of peace and friendship
which put final end to all disputes between
Bolivia and Chile and secured in addition
concessions to the former
In the preceding year. 1903, was signed
the treaty of Rio de Janeiro with Brazil
Under this treaty an exchange of territories
between the two countries was effected. 30.
hVla acquired on the southeast the strip of
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

TO Bolivia is railways. This need was recognized
nc certain extent prior to the war with Chine.
AS far back as June, 1868, the national assembly
authorized the president to enter into contracts
for the building of railways, and in 1868 con.
cession granted to a citizen of the United
States to build a railway from Cobiji to Potosi
with government guaranty of seven per cent
on the capital invested. In addition, the conces-
sion carried grant of land one league on each
side OF the line. A number of other concessions
were made in 1869 1873. 1874 1877, 1873 and 1879
In 1904 the Bolivian national Office of imm
grafton and statistics issued a volume of nearly
400 pages containing the acts, DEGREES and con-
scessions in aid Of railways, covering the years
1850 TO 1904. Every effort was made by the gov
eminent during this period to induce capital to
invest in railway construction in the country
perhaps nowhere else in the world were such in
ducements held out by any country to secure the
end sought as by Bolivia following the termna-
zion Of the war with Chile. These inducements
were offers of land, mines, exemption from taxa.
Sion and customs duties, government guarantees
financial aid and exclusive privileges. But unfor-
tunately for Bolivia the offers were not made in
the right quarter. In its eagerness to secure re-
suits, concessions were granted to and contracts
made with the most irresponsible parties in
many cases mere adventures without capital or
influence. The net result was naturally to retard
Eather than to help railroad construction
In 1904 all that Bolivia had to show in rail.
ways as a result Of 40 years legislation and in.
Vulnerable contracts were the Guaqui and the
Antofagasta roads. The former gave an outlet
from La Paz 10 Lake Titicaca whence passengers
and freight were transported across the lake by
boat TO the Peruvian port of Puno and thence by
the Peruvian railway to Nollendo on the Pacific.
The total length of the road from Alto of La
lPaz 70 Guaqui on Lake Tticaca was 81 kilometers
,l54 milesl. The gauge was one meter 1897
inches) and the rails weighed IS Kilograms per
meter-about ~ pounds per foot
The Antofagasta, Boliyias first railway, had a
fetal mileage Of 925 kilometers 1913 miles). a
gauge OF rs eentmeters (2s53 inches) and rails
weighing l74O Kilograms per meter, or about
Al pounds per foot
Il was not until rs years after the outbreak of
the war with Chile and 20 years after the signing
OF tbs agreement OF April 4 1884, which marked
abe close OF that war although Il did not con.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
WAITING.

walk in, sir" says st. Peter to
the shade who has been sitting on a
cloud for several days. Come right
in. told you It would be all right
for you to do 90"
THANK you" replies the shade. Il
want to walt out here, II may. until
the fellow who sold me cantaloupes
last summer comes along. want to
see you send him down the chute"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

lines serve as feeders to the Antofagasta line in
stead of playing the part of competing lines as
would have been the had the original pro-
gram of construction been carried out.
The Oruro to Potosi line of the original plan
would partly parallel the Antofagasta line. II is
very probable that a complete merger of the in.
terests of the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway
Company and the American concessonaires will
be made.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
- U/yZOA1L/yG RAILS
4, HT GLIAQUL BOLIVIA

bear six per cent. interest and the In
terest will not be guaranteed by the
government. The second-mortgage or
income bonds run for % years. bear
five per cent. interest and are a sec
ond lien on the roads.
Under an agreement made in Lon.
don in 1907 by the Antofagasta and
Bolivia Railway Company, which is a
British corporation. and Speyer &
Co., the Antofagasta Railway Com
pany agreed to guarantee the inter
est on the line from Oruro to Viacha
and in addition to make a payment
to the concessionaires for a majority
OF the lines stock. This agreement
made necessary the law. mentioned
above, signed by President Monies
on December l. 1908. The purpose
of this agreement is to make the new
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
In Cannlhal Land.

First Cannibal-That last mission
airy was a polite fellow.
Second Cannibal-How SO?
First Cannibal-Before l ate him he
offered me an after-dinner cigar.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
EFf76W 5TR770N n PUZACAYQ 60ZINA/

A RESULT of having lost its Pacific
seaboard province of Antofagasta, follow.
ing the war with Chile in 1879, Bolivia
found itself shut off from the sea and de-
pendent upon its neighbors for an outlet
TO the great world
Great as was the blow to national
pride, for the Bolivians felt the loss of
Antofagasta more keenly than even the
French that of the Rhine provinces, and
serious as was the loss to the national
treasury of the revenues derived from
the rich nitrate fields of the lost province,
yet the blow was perhaps less heavy than
the Boliyians themselves then thought.
il changed entirely the country's eco
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Smokers also like Lewis Single Binder
only tobacco in its natural state.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
has no substitute. No other remedy is so effectiv
for rheumatism, lumbaRo, Stiffness neuralgia O
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

NUu pau IN 4 large Wtd5UIe the expenses OF gov
eminent and with the loss of this revenue the
state was forced into consideration of the eco
nomic development of the country in other lines
than gold and silver production alone.
The settled part of Bolivia was then and is
70 large extent yet, that high tableland one of
the most spacious and elevated plateaux to be
found on the globe, which lies between the west
'ern and the eastern Andes. This tabe-land ex.
tends from about the Argentine border in the
south into Peru the northwest and is from
60 to $50 miles in width
On the Chilean border the western Cordillera
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The right kind of experience is
worth all it costs.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
FOR A Y Y Y
@@@.Doo

Friend that had the
honest eyes
That would CLEAN
at each kind
word
Or grow Swallowed
with surprise
When an angry
tone you heard.
Friend that never
tired Of play,
Willing. eager. all
the while
Have you found
some other way
To go faring mile
on mile?
Dog, they say you
had no soul,
That you persisted
as n clod.
Endless centuries
may roll
over this small
mound of sod
With its rudely-
whitfield board
Telling: I'll e r Q
Lies s po IA
Dog
That you had no
soul that scared
Onward through
this earthly fog.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Often the milk of human kindness
tastes of the can.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
T,HFE oMRR
HoDMlLV
I, W.T. MTlsUR D NEsBIr. /.

"a boy writes, asking: "wil you
please write a poem in memory of my
dog7 had him for a long time and he
was a good friend. He died last weekly
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Ezra Todd, after
successfully avoid
ing opportunities
to raise Bohemian
cats and Belgian
haraR. is going to
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

nomic outyiew and pushed it forward into lines Of de-
velopment which in all probability would otherwise
have been delayed for many years Even prior 1879
the nitrate fields for the part owned by for
egners the Bolivans themselves being engaged in gold
and silver mining. But the taxes from nitrate produc
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

A man who has managed to attend
meetings of an Ibsen club, a Shake
speare club, Browning club and a
Wagner club last week says that at
all of them the topic under discussion
was the new wide hats.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

or course you are true to your
friends, but how many times have you
stopped discussions of their faults?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
OLDMAN OIDDLES
. OBsERvEs.

The man who
has a reputation
of being able to
take a joke may
be one who gets
mad but doesn't
show it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

invest in a project to extract gold
from the sands of the Sahara.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Mrs. Lille Everett is mad at an ed.
itor. She wrote and asked him how
old Helen was when Troy was burned
and he wrote back and asked why she
wanted to know.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The man who says he sides with
the under dog, you will notice, hardly
ever owns a fighting dog.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

AS a general thing the call of duty
has q dollar sign somewhere in It.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The parrot has very small brain
which no doubt spares it the agony
of thinking about that endless inquiry
about the cracker.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The man that never worries is a
good mark for hard luck.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

is In reality less a mountain range
than line of huge cliffs. The table.
land is itself 10000 to 1900 feet
above sea level and slopes gradually
1000 or 5000 feet up to the crest of
the western hills and then falls away
abruptly nearly three miles down,
10000 feet. to the desert land lying
between the foot of this immense line
OF cliffs and the Pacific ocean. To
the east OF the table-land lies the
high Andes, the Cordillera Real, ris-
ing in lllampu, Illimani, Ancochuma
and Sajama over 81 900 feet. North,
'east and south from the Cordillera
Real the land falls away to the great
Amazon and Parana plains This
country, three-fourths of Bolivia in
area, is but little settled. but is in
natural resources and soil one of the
richest parts of the world
1t could easily sustain an agricul.
tural population greater than the
whole present population of South
America.
The first and most pressing need
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-13

For more than forty years death had
lurxed in an old wartime shell that ex-
ploded Thursday afternoon and killed
little ten-year-old boy and injured the son
of a neighboring family.
Wayne Hightower died at the Grady
hospital at 900 o'clock Thursday evening.
And Ing Bowden lies at the home of his
parents in the country near Atlanta, per-
haps seriously injured by the same ex-
plosion.
During all the years that have passed
since it shTieked over field and wood and
buried itself harmlessly in the ground,
the parrot shell of civil war days had
rusted and held it's terrible mission OF
death in reserve. Finally it was dug up
near the General Mcpherson monument in
East Atlanta. In latter days it had lain
about the farm house of the finder, pass
ing finally week ago to new hands,
when L. L. Hightower, formerly car
penter living at 80 Gasl1ill street, Atlanta,
moved with his family to the country and
commenced farming.
How Accident Occurred
At 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon the
sinister accident happened, on the High
tower farm near Fleetwood, a small sta
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-13

go into the army.
Certain it is that William Booth proved
one of the most wonderful organizers the
world has ever seen. He was impracti-
cal fanatical, they said. But he built up
wonderful organization over the world,
and has retained to this day the absolute
leadership of it. His grip on its affairs is
as strong now as it ever was. He it is
who has planned every great aggressive
movement in the army work
At so, General Booth finds himself at the
head Of q trained army of close to 10O,-
900 men workers, with branches in "a coun-
tries. The only civilized country where
the army does not penetrate is Russia,
where the government fears the advance
of this impetuous kind of religion. Gem
eral Booth is now knocking iInperiously
at the doors of the land of thu car, de-
handing admission in the name of his
Master.
The work of the army Is the widest.
It has working mems hotels, where two
and a half million men year find beds
and millions meals, 1t has founded in
dustrial homes for girls, children's homes,
farm colonies, schools. 1t takes care OF
convicts who are released, gives Christ
mas dinners to the poor, finds work for
the hungry, brings food and clothing into
the homes of the destitute.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-13
OLD WARTIME SHELL BURSTS
CARRYING DEATH TO LITTLE
BOY AFTER RUSTTNG 40 YEARS

ton Is miles from Atlanta on the South
ern railway. Ing Bowden, 1s-year-old son
of A. G. Bowden, a neighboring farmer,
was visiting the Hightowers for the after
noon. There was no eye witness to the
tragic affair, though Mr.. Hightower was
standing ten feet away when the exc
plosion occurred. The boys were exam
lining the shell. Wayne had pushed the
head of II in, and was pouring the old
powder out on the wet ground.
Brought To Atlanta
Wayne was terribly mangled about the
hands and arms and face. He groaned
and muttered a few indistinguishable
words, and became unconscious. He was
carried into the house, and chloroform
and whisky administered to ease him. A
courier was sent after the doctor. The
Bowden boy, not so badly injured. was
taken home. Four hours passed, and no
doctor came. The parents of the High
tower boy decided to catch the 1880 train
for Atlanta with their son. At $40 o'clock
the dying child was received at the Grady
hospital; but too late. Nothing could be
done to relieve him, and he died an hour
later. His parents were by his bed when
he died.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-13

bleeding and wounded child to hide her.
The general belief is that If the boy
did kill the girl, which was the verdict
returned by the coroner's jury, it must
have been accidental, though. as stated,
he says he did not do the shooting.
BY a remarkable coincidence, just twen-
ty-one years to the very day, a little ne
gro boy named Lany Walker, while play
ing at a spring with a little negro girl
named SibbIe Ashe, guarded and stab
bed her in the stomach with a knife.
causing her death. After several months
in iaiI he was released on bond, and when
tried by a jury, was acquitted.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-13
EDUCATORS GATHER
rE- HERE WEDNESDAY,

The Conference for Education in the
South Is scheduled for April II. 10 and
I6 next Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day. in the Auditorium-Armory-
on March Is The Journal alone printed
the program. That program will be fol-
lowed with but one exception DR.. ;. I.
Mitchell president Of the South Carolina
university, has been added to it and viii
be one of the speakers OF wednesday
evening.
T-ba regular work of the society proper
viii be transacted at the morning meet
tnxs on the three days. Wednesday
Thursday and Friday. from 10 O'Clock
each day till the hour of adjournment
which will be about 1 o'clock. The az
ternoon sessions are given over to va
rious state conferences. The morning
sessions will. therefore, be more or less
technical in their character.
F3ut - = s.ening sessions viii be mass
rneetfne. OF q more popular nature
Their subjects will be such as will ofrer
interesting food for the thoughts OF
even those who are not directly interest,"
ed in education in the south IL Is at
these evening meetings, each OF winch
will be held in the larger OF the t"o
auditoriums. that the big crowos are eA
Darted. though the day sessions viii De
thai there will be about 1000 delegates 10
the conference proper, and prooaoiy as
many more from Georgia and nearby
states who are interested in the Work OF
the association. These, together Win
the large numbers whom the evening
programs will, attract. will NIL the larger
auditorium 10 the limit of its capacity.
such is the confident expectation OF
those who are preparing the way for the
conference
Al one OF the mass meetings In Lex
kpgton. Ky, where the conference hello
a. sessions three years ago. there were
AGO people present 1t is believed that
that record viii be surpassed IN Atlah'a'
for a lively interest in awaiting the con-
ference throughout the state. The rail-
roads entering Atlanta have all announc-
ed the one-fare rate for the rouno "Trip
2 cents per mile plus 3 cents.
Saturday afternoon the chairs Tor the
conference were being placed in the big
auditorfuul-Tnore than 200 Of them IN
Guiding those in the boxes The morn
ing and afternoon sessions will be held
in the other auditorium-the smarter
whose seating capacity is 1000.