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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
CHATTER VIII.

One early morning some days later,
Bishop Winstanley was shown into my
office. A glance sufficed to tell me
that he was laboring under unusual
excitement. He waited for my clerk
to leave the room, when he announced,
without prelude:
"A most astonishing thing has hap.
pened; Mrs. Arson Dimes has sailed
for America"
us 1t possible!" exclaimed. 81
thought she meant to remain abroad"
80 she did. So she did-indefinite
ly."
"And are you disposed to regard her
change Of plans as Significant" 1 In
quired.
He looked at me oddly.
'The question shows how little you
know the lady," he remarked.
l smiled. The situation seemed
amazingly funny to me. But the bish-
op was not inclined to regard it as be.
ing at all so.
Then you await her coming with
some anxiety" 1 observed.
CAS- a matter of fact, with the great.
est anxiety"
1 muttered my polite regret at this
unexpected and startling crook in the
straightness of his affairs.
He made no reply, but leaned back
in his chair, with perturbation writ
ten large on his handsome and ordin'
arily composed features.
Mrs. Dimes evidently believes in
going after what she wants--to use q
common expression" l remarked.
He nodded, dismally.
'She is famous for It," he said
What she determines upon neither
heaven nor earth can dissuade her
from. And she is evidently determined
this this marriage shall be carried
through"
BLESS mel" l murmured.
my own inclinations in the matter
seem not to enter in" he said grimly
"Then you have sent her an answer
to her remarkable document?"
ooh, at once"
MAY l inquire if it had the ring Of
finality to it?" l asked.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
Copyright, by ]. B. Lipplncott Coz
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens with scene at a box
party. Miss Henrietta Winstantley, sis
ter of Bishop Winstanley overheard
Banker Ankony propose TO Barbara Hem
ingray, whose brother Dan was in his
employ. Dan was one of the towns pop
ular young men. He showed some nervt
BUSINESS when Attorney Tom Twining told
him Barbara refused Ankony. Ankony
the following day, summoning Twining,
accused Dan Of looting the bank Twin
ing refused to prosecute Barbara per-
-suaded Ankony to postpone starting
prosecution. Twining learned of the en-
gagement of Ankony and Barbara, He
congratulated both. He, visited Miss
Hemingway and found her almost in
tears, He told her he had loved her, but
feared prematurely announcing his af-
lection. By actions alone she told him
she reciprocated Mrs. Arson Dimes,
wealthy widow, proposed a marriage by
proxy with Bishop Winstanley. The lat
ter consulted with Twining. The bishop
had been paying attentions to Miss
Streeter Dan consulted Twining, say
ing his sister was determined to marry
AnlSony, declaring she actually loved the
banker, though he could not help believ-
Ing she was making a sacrifice to save
him from Jail. Miss Winstanley, find
ing pressed rose in the bishops book,
scented a love affair.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
People
Easily
Grab at
H1rnbugS
By REV. FREDERICK E. HOPKINS

soil yoked together the theological dump cart that is
Jonah and the whale to the cleaners
a had few students for
the ministry mnar when city churches in many instances
selling their buildings and giving the fight throwing themselves
the bounty Of missionary society," when preachers quim uncomoab
pupts lonely array of empty pews while they
know every pleasure park in town gorg with and going
to hell fast they get drunk enough TO startt would
though times like these profd Christian teachers and preachers
would recall how churches only little while famous for REVEALS
make both ends meet.
The trouble is and always will be that denial of the supernatural
the foundation from under the church and it becomes
religious institution than public school, IT, affirm, the present
generation losing its interest in religion the principal that
average and has enough during the week to destroy faith
without going Sunday church to hear preacher who will
finish the job.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
CHAPTER VII.-contlnued.

II wish that l could tell you that
you are wrong" answered.
She nodded. Il knew 1t. told my
self the minute 1 heard it that there
could be but one meaning to it!
don't ask you what he did. 1 don't
want to know. All I'm concerned in
is how to get them both out of their
difficulties. Dan is a good boy, If he
has been weak. I'm not excusing him.
mind you, but my heart is with him
We are all assailable at times. Now
I may be adamant to-day and as soft
as a marshmallow tomorrow. Do you
see what l mean? Our moral nature
is just like our physical one: it has
its good and its bad days, and poor
Dan was tempted ON bad one. That's
all. But what l can't understand is
that he was willing to accept his good
name at such cost"
l told her what knew then, and her
eyes frightened and her head nodded
all through the recital like that of a
little marionette.
"Ah, that's what 1 like to hear! My
hope for the boy is restored. Wen
make fine man of him yet. But
and there was a clouding of the fine
eyes-"but the engagement isn't
broken? What does that mean?"
THAT she loves Ankony," said l.
For an instant she stared at me,
speeches. in the force of her amaze.
ment, then she actually smiled in her
scorn.
"Oh, you menl You let woman
make you believe whatever she wants
you to believe! l am provoked with
you, Mr.. Twining. You are clever
enough about most things. How can
you be so easily put upon in this?"
''You have only to see them togeth-
or. You know how much would like
to believe otherwise"
1T were preposterous impossibili-
ty! She, a Hemingway, to love him.
an Ankony! BAIL it's too absurd to
think off,
Love is an acrobat" 1 reminded
her, trying to speak with some degree
of lightness; "he lands where you
least expect him to-"
"oh, don't make your figures for
me! And don't try to hide from me
all that you feel. Come let us cease
to be at cross-purposes."
Most willingly; but, granted that
you are right, what is to be done?
You can't force her to admit to you
that she doesn't love him"
"Tve no mind to try to reach the
solution through her"
Dan can do nothing
"oh, quite understand that, too"
"Then where do you expect to go
with your prayer?" asked.
She hesitated an instant
Il think It isn't going to be pray
err" she said.
What can you threaten? Ankony
won't give her up. Besides, as / told
you II she isn't happy she IS the most
consummate actress have ever seen"
"of course she is. Now you are
sensible in your deductions. Some.
body says that Poverty is the mother
of all the arts. you know, but it isn't
so; it's Love who is their mother, and
Barbaras skill at acting is born of her
love for Dan"
She leaned on her elbow and was
silent for little. her eyes vague and
troubled.
you have nothing to oher--nothing
at all?" she appealed
Nothing, l admitted ignomini.
ously, 81
I'm going 70 see her" she said.
She patted my arm as she passed
me
Il know she murmured; Il know.
But don't give up. Wen find way
yet. Mark me. we willH She smiled
q queer little halftearful smile In
which there was spark Of the old
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
sERMoNETTE.

"They then called upon the
Almighty Lord to keep the
things committed Of trust safe
and sure for those that had COM
mitted them"
"Havlng done all, stand" was
Paul's admonition.
No one has a right to call
upon God for help who has not
exhausted every resource at his
command for the accomplish.
ment Of the task before him.
u Is matter Of works plus
faith.
Faith which Is not undergrad
ed with earnest, faithful work
Is Of none avail, and works with
no element Of faith working like
a Ieaven through and through
falls short of it's greatest posi-
bilities.
In this story from the second
book of the Macabees we find
that the people Of Jerusalem
exhausted every resource and
every argument to dissuade the
messenger from the distant king
from Ievying on the rich treas.
ure which was held in the tenn
Pile at Jerusalem by the high
priest as trust fund for others.
And when man had reached
the limit of his resources, and
faith reached up and laid hold
Of the power of God, then It
was that the almighty arm of
the omnipotent God was stretch
ed forth to deliver.
This appearance of a celestial
horseman and warriors to give
battle to those who would do
violence to the sacred temple
and its treasure reminds US of
the vision which came to the
servant of Elisha when the
prophet prayed that his eyes
be opened that he might see
the mighty forces of God which
vert encamped between them
and the hosts of the enemy.
"And the Lord opened the
eyes Of the young man; and he
saw: and behold, the mountain
was full Of horses and chariots
of fire round about Elisha"
\ The PsaImist says, 1.-THE angel
Of the Lord eneampeth round
about them that fear him, and
deIivereth them"
l And again in the sixty-eiehth
Psalm he declares that the
"chariots of God are twenty
thousand, even thousands Of an
gels: the Lord is among them,
as in Sinai, in the holy place."
Revelation gives US many
glimpses of the innumerable
host of heaven, Gods mighty
army.
"And the number of the army
Of the horsemen were two hun.
dred thousand thousand: and
heard the number Of them. And
thus saw the horses in the
vision, and them that sat on
them, having breastpIates Of fire
and Of Iacinth, and birthstone:
and the heads Of the horses
were as the heads of lions; and
out Of their mouths issued fire
and smoke and birthstone"
Il surely Gods power Is not
i limited.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
eeIqlan Coal Miners.

While coal is mined at greater
depth in Belgium than In most coun.
tries, the number Of miners killed in
accidents is less in that country than
In any other. For the ten-year Do.
Rod from 1891 to 1900 the number OF
fatalities per 10000 workmen was
1884 per annum. In the metallic ore
mines the number Of workmen who
have been killed by accident Is one
third that in the coal mines.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
Proper
Manner
to Use
the Phone
By H. B. CLEMMONS

this hostess not wish to take into the part
which the telephone situated when frequently DONE
may prove a considerable expense to her.
Do not upon business hours if you possibly help
it be necessary to do so, be as brief as possible.
tell things which you do not known the telephone
often audible all of the the with the
person o whom you are talking
business conversation well to think what you going
to say Orders requests frequently misunderstood
through hesitation and ohangabnes Of the person giving them
Finally, temper justice with treatment of the young
operators who your calls Their business tedious
wearing and almost impossible to be always eagerly attentive
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21

Do not allow yourself to get into the
habit of long conversations over the tele-
phone. People who do this lose all percep-
tons of the times when they may be an
noying OF disturbing others.
Particularly in the case of party wires
is there call for consideration. Some one
else may urgently desire to use this same
telephone over which we are gossiping with
orr neighbors.
Do not use the telephone of the woman
upon whom you are calling, unless it is alb
solutely necessary. Thoughtless women
often make a convenience of their .friends
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
z>zs<.>.s~ 6~~.

It is astonishing how many people can
be induced to accept old failures under
new names. We have the old-fashioned
poke bonnet, with brim pressed flat, rag
ing as 'Merry Widow" just as we have
an unlined long coat that we used to call
an ulster, selling freely under new name.
So the century-old naturalism that pro-
duced generations ago nothing but unbe-
levers in the Bible is now very fashion
able, though just as deadly, under the title
of Historical criticism" and the unfrocked
Bishop Colenso has become a leader of the
Lords hosts and the dean and Col. Inger-
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21
Girl
F'lirtS
Easy Matter
for Wives to
Find Them
BY GEORGIANA CASS

Il HAS NOT been fortune to the opprobrlum
which who has been called irt must endure and there
fore am not ungrateful for opportunity to this
$1,000 question The hirt essentially womans word.
5II say that found the vocabulary of every
I while a delicate expression such "coquet
Ils&BUH for instance
I A0b Wives find the Air in their neighborood much
quickly than their husbands. Any dreamy-eyed brunette
vvacious blonde who from the west to visit her
married sister at the house the street tagged hr by all the
wives in that vicinity within "A hours
When wife and husband pay complimentary call their neigh
boris guest and the husband happens mention afwad that "rs
Soandsos mighty pretty g it's all off with the young
She is Immediately condemned only by the jealous wife but by the
sympathetic married that part of the street who hear from
the wife what the husband has said
The young may herself with all the becoming
modey that the rctes conynnaes demand she has inspired
the w of other members of her they find any
of misconduct her part they with swapping eyes and upurne
noses that she is can outrageous lirt"
If it happens that comey young occupies sempublc
position clerk snogphe and nsacts the business of her office
such to make the customers admire her ability she Gust
catches it" from other
Eventually watchfu dong mother learns that her only has
been turned down. by the capciou MINK and then it's un father,
the Indians upon u.s." Mother is keen for vengeance
81 used have very high opinion of that girl mother will declare
"but I'm disappointed in her She's good looking and she knows it.
Instead of settling down and marrying who if anything
good her. she chooses have dozen strings her bow She's moth
ing than a airt'
1t isn't difficult multiply such instances which feel most
petey illustrate theory. My conclusions that any attractive we'll
behaved young woman generously favored by nature and possessing
skill dressing that emphasizes her charms and who album
of attention from her friends according the dsap
pointed members of her (not all ~
unmarried by any means) out .E<p,a<a..<s R1~
and-out hirt ~ N
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21

l have learned by experience that
no mans character can be eventually
Injured but by his own conduct
Rowland HILL
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21

1t is seldom we come to crisis in
life without being buoyed up by a
strange exultation.--C. A. Dawson
Scott.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21

The greatest evils are from within
us, and from ourselves also we must
look for our greatest good.--Ieremg
TAYLOR.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-10-21

humOr. "The good always triumph.
you know"
And she was gone.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25
Items Gathered in
From Far and Near
Eioht Billions.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.-Al-
most incomprehensib!e figures come
out now and then in the reports OF
steel corporations, manufacturing In
terests, the carrying trade OF the rail-
roads. We read the returns from
mines-gold, silver, copper-and be-
cause of the growing output we think
of mines as the source of the greatest
wealth. But after all. it is the farm
er of the land who is of the greatest
importance The aggregate wealth
that he produced during the year 1908
borders upon the unbelievable. New
ertheless, Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson is on hand with proofs OF
nature that they must be accepted
The farmer turned out in dairy pro-
ducts alone last year nearly $SOO,OO0,'
OOO His hens worked for him to such
an extent that eggs and poultry were
worth as much as the cotton crop or
the hay crop or the wheat crop. He
raised corn meal to the value of ST.
615, 100000. With such figures to be-
gin with we are prepared to learn that
the farm products of the crop year OF
1908 totaled the tremendous amount
of Sits 100000. Would it be surpris'
ing to discover later on that for the
crop year of 1909 the total was fully
eight billions.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25
INITIATED JUGGLER
Young Son of Nimrod Johnson
Hurt by Breaking of
Two Bottles.
SAW FEAT AT THE CIRCUS

While attempting to initiate the Jug
glers at Barnum & Baileys circus,
Henry. the five year old son of City
Treasurer Nimrod Johnson, was Sc
verely cut on the hand yesterday by
the breaking of one of the glass bot
ties used in his performance 1t is
said the boy returned from the circus
with his young nina filled with the
wonderful feats he had witnessed. The
juggling stunt appealed greatly to his
boyish fancy and on returning home
he undertook to practice this feat with
direful results. Somehow it didn't
work right. There was a collision in
the air between the two bottles and
the fragments fell on his right hand.
The artery was severed and the wound
bled profusely. the boy being SO weak
ened from the loss of blood that he
tainted and was rendered unconscious
for some time. Medical aid was sum-
moned Immediately. but it will be
quite while before the injury is Ell.
tirely healed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25

Mrs. Eaton. Rear Admiral Eaton has
another summer home at Assinippi
and an abandoned farm which he pur-
chased recently and had renovated int
a modern retreat. Saturday afternoon
in an automobile Rear Admiral Eaton
took the infants body to the farm and
it was buried there.
The former officer was accompanied
by Mrs. Eaton and Dorothy Ainsworth
Mrs. Eaton's younger daughter by he,
previous marriage Mrs Eaton and hel
daughter returned to Scituate Sunday
morning. but the former officer re
manned at Assinippi.
Tells Neighbors Of "Piot."
Immediately after her return to Isis
cottage. Mrs. Eaton talked with some
neighbors and made her sensational
statements. She believed the baby had
been poisoned and attributed the &C,
to some demented person. At the same
time she claimed an attempt had been
made to poison her some months age
by placing some unidentified drug in
her tea. She said she discovered the
drug from the peculiar taste of the tea
and did not swallow enough of it to
make her i'll.
Mrs Eaton's statements are support
ed by her daughter, June, who is II
years old. The young woman today
said an attempt was made about a
year ago to poison her. She said that
drug was placed in her tea and that
she was made ill from it's effects.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25
Wants all Women to Box
So Murders May Decrease

ders of life seems as extinct In man as
the tail which formerly adorned him.
Not in all men. of course. but why
should she trust an absolutely I'M
known quantity, the hcivalry of an
other human being when she could
rely on perfectly known quantity
the force of good right arm scientii-
cally directed.
THE artificial helplesness of women
carefully cultivated through centuries
has made her the spoil of the strong
est. Yet women are strong. Nature
has furnished us as we'll as men with
weapons of defense. Why should we
not use them?
Girls should be taught that the
masculine defender is not always to
be trusted. Who is to defend her
against him? Only her own muscle and
science.
IF women knew a little more about
the art of self-defense our police court
would not be disgraced by the appear
ance of SO many wife heaters.
Il believe that the most puny and
understood woman by course of ath
letics, combined with boxing, can de-
velop herself so that she will be able
to defend herself against any one man
And having done this, she would feel
as secure from robbery or insult when
alone as her father or brother or hus
band does
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25

New York, Aug. 25.-"Girls should be
taught to defend themselves. The So
called manly art of self-defense, should
be womanly art as we'll. The news
papers are filled with stories of the
abduction or murder Of young women,
nine-tenths of which would never &C.
cur If the girls had been able to de-
fend themselves when attacked"
DR.. Maude Glasgow of no East
EightyFi street. we'll known among
the women physicians of New York,
spoke in support of an interesting ar
ticle written by her in the American
Suffragette for August on mission
airy Fairgrounds and Self-Protection -
IF Elsie Siegel had known the first
principles of self-defense there would
have been no Chinese murder to shock
the whole world said Dr. Glasgow
earnestly. Women have been taught
that they are not strong enough physi-
cally to fight for themselves and that
they must not even try to do so. but
this is untrue.
THE female of the lower animals
con and does fight we'll If not better
than the male when the situation de-
mands it,
She has, however. one advantage
over woman. She never has to defend
herself from the male of her own spe-
cies. The instructive consideration for
the female implanted in the lower or
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25
ASK THE WEEDS CUT

Caleb King, chairman of the COM
mittee of the West Side Improvement
association. has notified every member
of the association and other residents
OF the west side that it is the desire
Of the association that all weeds be
cut Immediately. This applies particu-
larly to owners of lots on which the
weeds have been allowed to grow with
out restraint during the summer.
The appeal is made in the interes.
OF hay fever patients Weeds are re-
garded as common cause for the pre-
valence of the disease and also aggra-
vate it as much as any other source.
Rag weeds are particularly obnoxious
to hay fever patients.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25
WHAT NOW?

Now that we have found out to the
can attain a very creditable speed
now that We have found out that a
tire can cause the death of several
people; now that we have found out
that even the redoutable Barney Old
field thinks 1t is better to retire from
an endurance contest than to run the
risk Of what he considers great dang
er-what now?
Does any one really know any thing
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25

From sardine packers at one season of
the year to Irish lacemakers at another
the strange labor Transformation
which takes place among legions of
workers at Bretagne, France. In All
vergne the field laborers turn from
their plows at certain times to the
manufacture of pillow lace. The Au-
vergne lacemakers receive but ) cents
a meter for their work, while the lace
sells elsewhere for 50 cents a meter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-25
Save Automobiiinq.

From the New York World.-The
automobile should be a beneficent in
vention. Properly used, it is safer
than a horse-drawn vehicle. 1t can
be guided more accurately and stopp-
ed more quickly. 1t knows neither
fright nor fatigue. OF proper weight
and speed and when unprovided with
spikes or chains it does not destroy
the roads. For trucking, for use as a
farm wagon, for omnibus work and
as a pleasure vehicle the automobile
should be invaluable. Such use of it
already is made, but the speed-mani-
acs, who destroy the roads. who try
to kill bridge-tenders and policemen
and who do in SO many cases kill
themselves and others have badly hurt
a great industry. Neither on track
nor road has the high-power auto any
legitimate function. 1t is an express
engine running wild, without guiding
rails, protected crossings or safety
Signals thing unthinkable. Prudent
men who use autos for pleasure or
business are at the mercy of the mani
acs.