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Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01

Charles, the provincial agent in London, for a
bell of 1000 pounds weight. The superintendents
OF the state house, Isaac Norris, Thomas Leech
and Edward Warner, wrote:
Let the bell be cast by the best workmen and
examined carefully before it is shipped. with the
following words well-shaped in large letters round
it, viz:
by order of the Assembly of the Province of
Pennsylvania, for the State House in the City Of
Philadelphia, 1852
And underneath,
proclaim Liberty Through All the Land to
All the Inhabitants Thereof.-Levita 25:10.'"
This bell duly arrived before the end OF that
year, but in March, 1853, 1t cracked II was at first
determined to send 1t back to England to be
cast, but two artisans, named Pass and Stow, de-
clared that they could recast It, and they did so,
adding some copper alloy to improve the quality
of the metal. The enterprise proved a success,
except that the tone of the bell was not entirely
satisfactory. Pass and Stow were numerically
leased in public on the score OF having used too
much alloy. They asked and obtained the priv.
lege of again recasting the bell. The result Of
this second attempt of its kind in America was
the historic tocsin which 23 years later was lit
orally to proclaim liberty throughout the land"
Another bell was also ordered from England by
the assembly but 1t did not take the place of the
American bell until the latter was cracked again
in 1895, while being tolled the occasion OF the
death of Chief Justice Marshall.
In 1867 came the agitation over the tax on tea
and other imported commodities. John Dickin-
sons letters OF Farmer" rubbed this and other
object lessons, stupidity given by the British min
istry, deep into mems minds The act was re-
pealed in l777, except in so far as it related to
tea.
When news OF the Lexington Concord fight in
April, 1775, arrived, the bell in the state house
steeple again called 5000 people together and
they unanimously agreed to defend with their
arms, their lives, liberty and property. The eli
max OF the first period of the struggle was fast
approaching. The second continental congress
met in the state house on May 10, 1775, the Pro
vincial assembly having yielded to K the cham
Der that was ever after to be sanotihed by its
labors. In June, 1916 began the debating Of the
question of independence. The preliminary rCso-
luton proposed by Richard Henry lee Of uir-
ginia. declaring that the colonies fare Of right
and ought to be free and independent states," was
adopted in committee on the night Of June 10.
but It was not until June 20 that the draft of the
Declaration OF Independence was submitted 70 con
gress on July / congress adopted the reBolu-
ton, and THAI day and the three following were
devoted TO discussion in committee Of the whole
Of the Declaration itself II was passed on the
evening OF the Fourth.
Not until August was the Declaration & In
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Loan Companies Thriving.

The final report of w. L. Watkins,
who retired from the office Of state
supervisor of building and loan asso-
Citations. Gov. Hadley having appoint
ed to the post Sherman t. Gresham,
who vas chief clerk under former
Auditor Wilder, shows a gratifying
condition in those concerns. There
were In Missouri, on June 10, 1909, 1913
building and loan associations, whose
total assets on that date reached the
sum Of S1O,16S,631O1, the largest they
have shown since 1900. In 1905 the
associations of this sort showed the
smallest amount in their assets, which
was then $7,5SO,6OS.62, making an in.
crease, the past four years, of $685.
022.39, or an average annual growth
of $647,000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01

Nepoleonic era, and, so its lines be-
speak art, I will receive it, allowing
fits untitled interior to testify to my
spiritual consistency. Or, IL you
show me nothing that will satisfy the
demands of beauty save small ones,
will purchase several, placing them
here and there, like Grecian usAs.
And If, perchance, you have one of
precisely the proper circumference
and height, with Beauty shaping its
outlines, then would say 1t was Arts
reward for disciples adherence to
its laws"
Mrs. Blander was lost in thought.
Mr.. Booder seemed to be experiencing
vertigo. Then he pulled himself to.
gether.
Nov, that's not bad idea, ma'am,
about having several of 'em. You
could have one for handkerchiefs, one
for towels, another for sheets, and
another for"
Mrs. Blander raised tremulous
hand.
Spare me this ignoble difterentia-
ton. There is no need to dwell upon
their functions, for we all know that
as mere utilitarian objects they are
degrading"
Poor Mr.. Booder coughed guiltily
because Of his Identification with the
hamper department. He was clutcbed
by a feeling of helpless eriminality.
Furthermore" continued Mrs.
Blander, according to higher inter
probation, you misuse the word idea.
But, to revert to my proposed pur-
chase, have resolved to eliminate
from the transaction all the sordid, as
anything for use In the home, that
shrine OF the heart, must have a spir-
itual meaning"
Mrs. Blander glanced triumphantly
from Clarissa to Mr.. Booder, and
though she rightly read the face of
one to mean awe, she mistook the
struggle OF the ether TO indicate an
awakening soul. With a thrill OF Joy
she seated herself and cordially md.
toned to her auditors 10 do the same.
Clarissa, OF course, obeyed, but Mr.,
BooL.sr dug his heels firmly In the
door and faced her standing.
Mr. Booder was inclined to sulk,
but, habit being strong upon him,
marshslled one symbol after another
before his soulful customer who re-
! iccted them aolemnly, almost sorrow
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
: MISSOURI STATE NEWS
Lone Jack Trolley omosrs.

AT the annual election Of officers
of the Kansas City Southeast Traction
company--the promoter of the Lone
Jack trolley line project. Charles A.
8. Sims was elected president; How
ard w. Gibson, vice-president; Q. G..
Minturn, secretary; B. F. Shouse,
treasurer; w. N. Collins, auditor;
George p. Norton, general attorney;
J. G. Herring, chief engineer; Charles
w. Mcdaniel, purchasing agent. These
with ]. II. Hulse, T. ID. Hughes and
NJ. d. Garner, constitute the board Of
directors. The road has been survey
ed to Lone Jack. Half mile Of
rock work preliminary to tracking has
been done near Raytown, and work in
another rock cut out near Little Blue
station is in progress. Earth work
will begin as soon as weather condi.
lions permit. 1t is expected that the
line will be built to Lone Jack by 1910.
Ultimately the line will be built to
Jefferson City.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Maker Of cordlals Beware.

DR.. w. P. Cutler, state dairy and
food commissioner, has been appointed
United States inspector of foods and
drugs, and commissioned to inspect
goods shipped from other states into
Missouri, hold inquiries and bring
prosecutions. DR.. Cutler has returned
from a two weeks inspection tour Of
the state. He will go to Kansas City
to bring suit against a manufacturer
who has placed a connection labeled
blackberry cordial on the market. A
chemical analysis showed no trace OF
blackberry. The analysis showed It
is made of alcohol, glucose, saccharine
and a few other ingredients.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
E1ASEAAA9S Ef6 aHENaaaFa
The Psychosis Of a Hamper
BY LOUISE AYRES GARRETT
Copyright, by ]. B. LIppincott Coz
By LOUISE AYRES GARRETT

Mrs. Blander, accompanied by a
pretty young woman, entered the will
low-ware room of a department store.
An usher, learning her wishes, sum-
moned with benign forefnger a lit
tie man who announced stolidity in
every line Of his well.nourished body.
"Mr. Booder, this lady would like to
look at Hampers. Understand, Mr..
Booder, hampers, and do your best in
the matter"
What style would you like,
ma'am?" inquired Mr.. Booder, solici.
tously.
Surely" exclaimed Mrs. Blander,
you cannot expect me to describe 1t
to you? / have but a nebulous pic.
ture in my mind. and rely on visuali-
Zation. You will have to show me
your complete assortment, as I wish
to make use Of an important function,
the power OF selection. You see,
Clarissa, l endeavor to Psychologist
each situation, thus developing mas.
cent qualities or stimulating matured
ones, In other Notwithstanding
Mr.. Booder with a serious look-"I
try to find the wings of every occa-
sion"
Mr.. Booder was astonished.
do 1 understand you, ma'am to
say that you'd just like to look at"
Hampers, hampers" interrupted
Mrs. Blander, firmly. 81 fear their
purchase is entered into too impul-
sively. You have before you the op-
portunity of ennobling this neglected
field for you may inform yourself not
only as to their physical certainties,
but their higher significance as we'll,
thereby acquiring the right to take
each customer by the hand and lead
her gently but compellingly."
Mr.. Booder flushed modestly and
thrust his hands deep into his pockets.
IF only you could tell me-" hs said,
feelingly, IF you'd like a large one
or a small one or a mejum-sized one
or"
Mrs. Blander fixed him with an out.
ragged eye.
"Size?" she inquired. "You ask me
what size? That. sir, is minor issue.
1t may be as large as a bed of the
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Prison for a Preacher.

Motion for a new trial in the case
of the state against Clyde Cow, the
former minister charged, with being
an accessory in the death of Miss
Elizabeth Gleason, at Elsberry, Mo-,
about year ago, was denied in the
circuit court at Mexico, and the dc.
PENDANT received the sentence of four
years, which was imposed upon him
by a jury at the trial last January.
Bond for an appeal was filed and the
case was set for the October term OF
the supreme court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Democrat Acting Governor.

Though Missouri has a Republican
governor and Republican lieutenant
governor. a Democrat temporarily fill
ed the office of chief magistrate ne.
Gently. Lieut.. Gov, Gmelich being
absent from the state on a health.
seeking trip, Senator Humphrey was
called to the executive chair by Gov.
Hadley when the latter left to visit
the bedside of his father, and until
the governors return Senator Humph-
rey acted governor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
To Pension It's Old Preachers.

God designed the preacher to be a
poor man, but he never intended that
he should starve," said the Rev. R.
H. Cooper at Macon, special commits
sioner of the Missouri conference Of
the NJ. E. church, South, to raise an
endowment fund of 100000 for the
benefit of the superannuated clergy
men. Mr.. Cooper said he only lacked
$4,000 Of the sum needed. He said
the great majority of Methodist minis
tiers in the conference worked for less
than $500 a year and that they could
not lay by for the rainy day" on such
salaries. An endowment fund of
100000, it is said, will be enough to
pay all those whose work is done $25
a month.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Betsey Ross and the Rejected Flag

We often read and hear the statement: ut is to
be regretted that many Of the fascinating nara
tves of our colonial history are born of magma
ton, and among these favorite stories such as:
Captain John Smiths adventure with the Indi
ans. Putnam's famous ride Betsey Ross and our
FIRST flag. and Barbara Frietchie at Fredericks.
town"
There is abundance of proof extended to verify
that Batsey Ross lived. and that she was am
ployed by the continental congress to manufacture
flags, the government archives bear witness
Betsey Ross nag was first rejected and some
time later accepted.
Betsey Ross attended Christ church. Philadel
phia, and the pew in which she worshiped was
next to the one occupied by Washington. and her
pew is marked by brass plate bearing these
words: in this pew worshiped Betsey Ross, who
made the first flag"
OF late years the journals, magazines and school
histories our country have called attention to the
Srigin Of our national nag as having been sug.
geSted by the family arms OF the Washingtons.
This supposition comes from Martin Upper, an
eminent English poet and literateur. His first
reference 70 our Tag in this connection vas made
public in the fan OF 1850 The announcement did
n1t receive serious consideration until at public
banquet given in America At this dinner held IN
the city OF Baltimore the idea was heraded to the
world that the stars and stripes had their oriEia An
the heraldic symbols Of the Washington family.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Girl In Race With Death.

Miss Mary Harrison, a student OF
the University of Missouri, was awak-
ened after midnight with telephone
message that her father, ]. A. Harrl.
son, was stricken with paralysis at
his home in Auxvasse, 20 miles away
She started Immediately in a livery
rig to his bedside. On the road she
was met by an automobile and taken
home where she found her father al
ready dead. Mr., Harrison, 20 years
old, was in the best of health the day
before.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01

Washington preserved here Is by Peale, mere are
the chair and tables used by the presiding officers
of both bodies Hancock and Washington, and many
of the chairs occupied by the members or dele
gates On the presidents table is the silver ink
stand used in signing both the Declaration OF In
dependence and the constitution.
In the rear portion of the main lobby OF the state
house is the Liberty bell, useless except as sacred
memorial of the past. 1t is suspended upon the
same framework of timbers which formerly held
It in place in the tower, but which now rests on
the floor. Passing up the grand stairway, some OF
the most noteworthy portraits In the collection are
found upon its walls. Among them are those of
Washington, Lafayette, William Penn, Louis XVI,
George III, and Gov. James Hamilton, the figures
being of full length and heroic size.
The Long room, Banqueting hall, In the sec
ond story, contains sofa, chair and pew-bench
used by George Washington the last mentioned in
Christ church; Vests painting OF the treaty.ma-
king scene at the great elm tree portraits of
Martha Washington, the British sovereigns of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from and In
Guiding Charles H. to George H., and many notables
both civil and military of the revolutionary period
The two other rooms on this floor are similarly
enriched
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Independence paner Sold.

Independence Sentinel has been sold
W. N. Southern. ST.. disposing OF his
interests in the paper to e. c. Gordon
OF Kansas City, Kan Mr.. Southern
has been editor of the Sentinel for the
past 20 years.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
spanIsh VA veterans Meet.

The Spanish-Ameriean war veter.
ans closed their state reunion at St
Joseph with banquet at the Robidoux
hotel It was decided to hold the en-.
osnpment and reunion next year in
Kansas City, Juue 10 to II.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01

occasions of solem-
nifty. 1t is believed to
have been transferred
20 the cupola Of the
old court house in
High CNiarkeU street
about 1897, aud aft
erward to have been
placed temporarily in
the tower of the new
state house. In Oc-
tober, 1851, the me.
morable order was
sent to Robert
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
Fane.

Pa, what is fameg"
Pane, my boy, is an inducement
that employers always hold out to q
man when they want him 10 work.
for small wages"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01

Washington as president and that
also Of John Adams took place in
what is now known as Congress hall,
adjoining the state house to the
west, which was not built until
1879. It was here that congress re-
ceived the news of the death Of
Washington.
Much work of restoration has
made independence hall what 1t Is
to-day. In general, this work has
been directed by careful study of the
past. Jealous cooperation of or
ganized bodies and individuals has
also brought together in the state
house many objects of venerable
value as illustrative of the early
DAYS of the nation. The stranger
naturally desires a succinct, service
able statement of the things Of pc.
cullar interest that the state house
contains.
The Declaration chamber, where
the continental congress and the
constitutional convention sat, is,
with the exception of a new flooring,
substantially in the same state In
which It was then. The walls are
hung with portraits of many Of the
signers Of the Declaration OF indie
nendence or of the constitution,
many of them painted by contem-
poraneous artists. A portrait OF
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-01
mai WHEREIN THE DECLARAT10I
or INDEPENDENCE MAS ADOPTED.

though provided with immense
chimney-places, and that these
stoves cost about E2S provincial
money. The second room pre-
pared for regular occupancy was
the western one on the ground
floor. The justices of the pro-
vincial supreme court who first
sat there were John Kinsey,
Thomas Graeme and William TIL.
A bell, probably brought from
England by William Penn, was
hung in a tree near the govern
ors headquarters as early as 1885
and rung when it was desired to
bring the people together or upon
The Press., 1909-07-07
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 And all this trouble is caused by the food that doesn't digest, but fer ments and oftimes rots in the stomach.
 And fermentation is caused by the stomach not being strong enough and energetic enough to thoroughly mix the food with the digestive juices.
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The Press., 1909-07-07
Crime and tha rnlanhnna.

From the beginning to the end of a transaction in crime the telephone comes into use, serving both sides with equal fidelity. says a writer in Appleton's Magazine. The thief uses 1t to determine which house he may safely rob. The man next door sees the burglar and calls up the police. The police arrive, catch the burglar and telephone for the Black Maria to take him to jail. The thief telephones a lawyer to defend him. The lawyer telephones for the bondsman to bail out his client, and the banker tele- phones the sheriff that the bondsman's check is good. When the day of trial comes the clerk of the court, being a kind gentleman, telephones to the burglars lawyer; the sheriff telephones witnesses to be present. When the burglar is convicted and sentenced the sheriff uses long distance to tell the warden of the penitentiary when hi prisoner will be delivered. After tha! the telephone line is kept hot by in fuential politicians petitioning the gov OTnor for a pardon.
The Press., 1909-07-07
A Wise Precaution.

Willie had not been very good boy that day. and in consequence of certain inexcusable derelictions he had been sent to bed with the sun. After supper his father climbed the stairs to the youngsters room and. throwing him. self down on the bed alongside of the delinquent. began to talk to him.
 "Willie," he said gravely, "did you say your prayers before you went to bed?"
 ''Yessir." said Willie.
 "And did you ask the Lord to make you a good hoy?'' asked the parent.
 "Yep." said Willie. ''and guess it'n work this time"
 "GoodP' said the father. 'I'm glad 10 hear that"
 "Yes." said Willie. but don't think we'll know before tomorrow. You've got to give the Lord time, you know"
 "And what makes you think it will work this time, my son?" queried the anxious parent
 ''Why, after. the amen put in an R. s. V. P.," explained the boy.-Har- ner's Weekly.
The Press., 1909-07-07

 woman, and I shall recommend it as long as I live" MRS. MAY FRY, Lindley, Ind.
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 For thirty years Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots andherbs, has been thestandard remedy for female ills, and such unquestion- able testimony as the above proves the value of this famous remedy, and should give confidence and hope to every sick woman.
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The Press., 1909-07-07
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Items of local interest taken from the columns
 Of The Press, thirty years ago.l
July 10. 1879.


 Milton Wilson has added a stock oi hootss0ud shoes to his grocery bust ness, Corner of East Main and South streets.
 On Wednesday evennR, July 2d, the relatives and friends of Frank Winter and wife, of this village, to the mum. Der of fifty or more. gathered en masse at his residence and took them by sur- prise, it being the 25th anniversary of their marriage The presents were presented in neat and pithy speech by + A. Harwood, after which a bountiful collation was served. Prayer and blessing was invoked by Rev. MT Towle
 The school in Village Hill, taught bF iss Emma Robbins, closed on the 27 ult. The fooll1wing scholars were not absent during the term of 10 weeks: Frankie Joslyn, Georgie Joslyn Mary Schofield, Forest Blair. Roy Blair. Nettie Royce was not tardy during the term, and Stella Stanton, Louis Stanton, Ernest Royce, Oscar Stanton, Aleck Schofield, were tardy but once.
 Born. In Stafford Springs, 7th, 8 son to Michael Moore; 9th, a daugh. ter to George Gerard.
 Married In Staffordville, 2d, by Rev. L. W. Blood. George Kay of Sturbridge, Mass and Ann Holmes of Stafford.
 In Stafford Springs, 3d, at Grace church, by Rev. Dr. Hawley. Henry B. Allen and Emma J. Goodness both of Stafford.