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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
REBELS SUE FOR PEACE
With Revolutionists for Peace
in Mexico.

Mexico City.-The Mexican revolu-
tonists have sued for peace. The
government will grant their terms and
President Diaz has appointed a peace
commission.
The rebels sued for peace after
overtures had been made to them by
representatives acting for the Mexican
government, who made it known the
Diaz regime would meet the revolu-
tlonists half way with concessions.
However, tremendous influence had
been brought to bear upon the govern
ment before it consented to offer con-
cessions to the followers of Gen. Fran
cisco Madero.
The chief demand of the rebels, it
Is reported, is general amnesty for po-
litical offenders. The commission,
which is now at San Isidor, is treating
with representatives of Modero.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
soothed Roaton nahs.

Thu Boston infant was restless and
peevish. It's nurse had crooned
"Rock-a-by, baby, on the tree top,
when the wind blows the cradle will
rock" long time in vain. The babe
would not fall under its influence.
Then fits fond mother sang to It gen.
uy: THE vibrating atmosphere
causes the soporific receptacle where
In the babe lies ensconced tooscillate
In the arboreRl Apex" No need to
chant further. Instantly soothed. the
babe, with satisfied smile. fan sway
IN slumher
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
N27X10F oe0o RF00RD mr. ,Vn2FD rs

telegraph is used and in each state Uncle Sam
has a salaried state agent who devotes his
whole time to travelling over his state and Sizing
up" the situation sending in his conclusion by
telegraph but taking the precaution to write his
messages in a secret code or cipher so that no
person, not even the telegraph operators who nan
die them, could catch their meaning and thereby
gain a hint as to what might be expected in
forthcoming crop report
1t is at the crop reporting headquarters at
Washington that this scheme of keeping watch
on the maturing cotton crop involves task that
taxes human endurance. To convey idea OF
its magnitude IL is only necessary to explain that
during the cotton growing the statisticians
are in CORES pondencG with more than sixty thous
and public and private ginneries and upward OF
fifteen thousand bankers, merchants and others
who are in position to form opinions on the cot
ton yield The advices from all these volunteer
Intelligence officers" are looked up received
at Washington and kept closely guarded until the
day appointed for preparing the monthly report
Then the body Of experts known the Crop Re
porting Board is locked in room and, taking all
the accumulated information, goes over it and
prepares general summary that embodies their
fndings-the average as II were, Of all the re
ports received from every quarter Conditions may
vary greatly in different parts of the country but
the general report will give the people of the
ton birds eye view OF the whole situation in a
broad sense. II is this report which at the ap
pointed hour is made public and inside of few
minutes is flashed to all parts of the country and
to foreign parts.
AseEeRez&EeE&Ee EezeEeEeEeaeEAHes@
Throw out the mail sack. ordered the man
with the rife
'T reached down and nung the sack into the
road.
Better throw out the wells-Fargo box. too.
guess he added
Il kicked over the treasure box ordered.
That's all, said the man, eurtly, Drive on!
II touched up the team and went bowling
merrily down the canyon There was not word
spoken for a full ten minutes. Then the young
woman, turning TO me. said, guilelessly;
" That looked like mighty lonesome place &c
have pOstoface'
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
TRAINMEN AFTER RAISE
Representatives In Conference With
Managers-Reported Engineers
Vote FaVors Strike.

Chicago. Representative of APP
proximately $4,000 conductors and
trainmen employed ON the 60 railroads
west OF Chicago, who have demanded
an increase in wages averaging about
is per cent, are holding daily confer
ences here with the general managers,
1t is reported that the engineers Of
several of the big western railroads
have already completed their strike
vote, showing 90 per cent in favor of
going out.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
VENDING FOUND GUILTY
Slayer of Eisht-Year-old Alma Kellner
in Louisville, KY, Escapes the
Death Penalty.

Louisville, Ky.-Joseph Vending
was found guilty here Of the murder
of Alma Kellner, an S-year-old girl.
The jury fixed his punishment at life
imprisonment.
Vending was captured in Califor-
MIA after a 10,0O0-mile chase He
claimed that as he was a citizen Of
France, he should be tried in the fed
eral court, but this was denied him.
The girls body was not found for
weeks after she disappeared and 1t
was believed she had been kidnapped.
The body was found, dismembered,
In the basement of a church where
Vending had been employed as Jan.
ltor.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08

he sitting up there pretty target as one ever
saw in a shooting gallery. Furthermore, the last
man they want to shoot is the driver, for that
would mean a runaway team-of all things what
the robbers don't want; they've got enough to
keep them busy, as It is. Perhaps cannot illus
trate better what occurs at a real stage robbery
than by giving you my experience when was
driving stage through southern Idaho in the early
eighties.
Il was driving from Shoshone to Boise City,
about dusk one evening going down the
canon road that leads from Camas prairie to the
headwaters Of the Payette-nct a settler for miles
around, There was only one passenger aboard. a
young woman from New England
Nov, while the country she had come from
and that she was going TO civilized all right,
the strip In southern Idaho were then trav-
cling over was pretty wild. But l didn't say a
word to her about it for fear of frightening the
little thing
"she was sitting up on the box with me and
admiring the sunset tints in the western sky
when, as we swung around bend In the canon,
q man standing in the middle OF the road about
fifty feet ahead, with Winchester rifle lying in
the hollow of his arm. flung up his hand to me.
He was the first human being we had seen since
we left Shoshone at daybreak that morning
though that wasn't the reason threw my leaders
back on their launches flung on the brake and
came to sudden stop.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
Admitted.

Women already do a lot of gov
erning," said Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont,
the brilliant suffrage leader, in an
interview in New York, Men, II
they are observant and frank, admit
that
"An editor, about to marry. was
asked by a friend:
"'What prompted you, old man, to
propose to Miss Dash?'
THE editor, who was, like all ed
itors, extremely observant and ex-
tremely frank, answered:
"'Well, to tell you the truth, think
Miss Dash prompted me more than
anybody else"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
KoLD.UP OF FICTION AND HoLD-uP OF FACT

There's nothing differs more from real west
nm life than the tales OF real western life as told
BY writer's who claim to have taken part and, in
Iced, played the star role in most Of the adven-
lures they 80 carefully describe, with adver
ased view 10 correct details" said an old from
aersman of the seventies And of all the tales
II western life there's none that differs widely
rom the real thing the tale of the stage-coach
hold-up.
"The breathless reader sees wildly the out
laws lying in wait along the edge Of the mesa
blur is too common a word to use--while the
toach tolls up from the iarroyo'-so is 'gulch-
NE leader, well masked in hts 'poneho'-likewise
b cloak-carefully surveying the doomed vehicle.
Then comes the attack, the killing Of the
Iriver the wild pursuit. the Staying OF the leader
Bf the band by the brave young mining engineer,
who has thrown himself in front Of tie beautiful
millionaires daughter just in time TO save her
life and get bullet in his arm that she nurses
through to marriage. the repulse of the outlaws,
etc. ali plentlfully garnished with mongrel MeHi-
can terms that are never heard except on the
melodraIna stage or seen outside the tale afore'
said
Nov in real life there is seldom any shooting
in a gtag coach robbery. One thing is certain.
the driver never gets shot The driver is never
even sht at, for he very sensibly puts up his
hands, knowing how suicidal would be any at.
tempt a. resistance against armed outlaws, and
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
Old Pete,s Little Joke.

Foolish questions and funny an
swers were under discussion in the
Trenton avenue and Dauphin street
police station the other day, and after
listening for a while to some amusing
instances, Sergeant McCay told the
following:
"Old Pete Flood was the attendant
in the Franklin cemetery some years
ago, and it became the custom to ask
him how business was, just to hear
his reply. 1t came in heavy bass
voice:
"'Ain't buried living soul today"
Philadelphia Times.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
PUTTING in the Time.

A gentleman was engaging a gen.
eral man and telling him what he
wanted him to do. you will have to
clean the windows and the boots and
the knives and go messages, chop
wood, cut short grass, mind the horse
and pony, look after the garden and
keep the house supplied with vege-
tables and do any odd job that is re-
quired and if suitable you will get
ten shillings a week."
'Is there any clay in the garden?"
asked the man.
what makes you ask that?" asked
the gentleman.
Il was thinking 1 could make bricks
in my spare time" said the man.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08

ing. Now it happens that it is only the national
government that has the necessary facilities for
Keeping tab upon the progress and development
Of each years cotton crop Cotton is raised in
30 many states and over so wide an area that no
single firm or individual has the facilities for IN.
forming himself of the yield in all sections Of
the cotton belt"
And yet accurate advance information as to
the state Of the maturing crop is of the utmost
Importance to tens of thousands of American
citizens and other tens of thousands of people
over seas for, be 1t known, the whole world de-
Ponds largely upon America for its cotton. Tho
business commercial and financial world likes to
have a peep ahead with reference to any agricul
tural crop in order to make plans accordingly
but in the of cotton such foresight is espe
cally vital. For, you understand, the condition
of crop reflected in the countrywide govern
ment reports tells everybody whether there is to
be good yield a poor yield of cotton and
this in turn indicates to the grower whether he
win get high price or low price for his fluffy
white product. And as the forecast hints to the
manufacturer whether he will get his cotton
cheap or not so 1t signifies to him what he must
charge for the completed goods as 1t comes from
mills And SO all down the line to the ultimate
consumer the cotton crop reports carry in their
hidden meaning message of low prices or high
prices.
As the summer and autumn season advances in.
terest grows more and more intense in each sue
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
In PerpIeSIty,

Michael Dolan, an is 1t yoursefF-
yes; sure 1t is"
well, We know thot bletherin' spal-
peen. Wildly Castigan's second hus-
band?" "a slpsi
THAT l do"
HE bet me a bob to a pint I
couldn't swally an egg without break
in the shell ov It,"
AN ye did it,"
81 did"
Then phwat's ailin' yer"
ITS doom there" laying his hand
on the lower part of his waistcoat. "If
l jump about I'll break it and cut me
stomach wild the shell, an If kape
quiet it'll hatch and I'll have a Shang-
hal rooster scratchin' me inside"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08

30 pulled 1 could hardly see and my
feet and hands were terribly swollen.
Doan's Kidney Pills were advised and
began taking them. 1t required only
short use to restore my kidneys to q
normal condition"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. so cents q
box. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
cHRisTIoN SCIENCE LEADER DIES
OF PNEUMONIA AFTER ILL.,
NESS OF NINE DAYS.
PASSES AWAYIN SLUMBER
Information Concerning Her Condition
Is Kept Within Mansion, Where
She Reveals No Realization
That End Is Near.

Boston, Mass.-MTs. Mary Baker G..
Eddy, discoverer of Christian Science
and founder and head of the Christian
Science church, is dead, of pneumonia
and old age.
She passed into the life beyond at
1915 o'clock Saturday night in her
mansion at Chestnut Hill, but the
news of her death was suppressed for
several hours until an official an
nouncement was made by Alfred H.
Farlow.
She died while asleep and the only
physician who has seen her body, Dr.
George L. West, medical examiner,
says she did not suffer any pain.
For nine days Mrs. Eddy had been
i'll. but faith in the doctrine which she
has preached to millions in every part
of the globe kept from her the knowl-
edge that an illness had come which
prayer would not heal.
Natural causes, induced by old age
and a slight attack of pneumonia"
was the decision of Medical Examiner
George L. West of Newton Center,
who was summoned to the house by
Christian Scientists.
Fortune Estimated At 100000.
Washington, D. C.-Former Senator
William E. Chandler of New Hamp-
shire, who was Counsel for her chill
dren in the litigation over Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy's estate, said he be-
lieved her fortune-nearly So, 900, 600
has been given to the cause of Chris
| tian Science.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08

ceeding crop report until it reaches climax in
the case Of the November and December reports.
The department of agriculture uses every posi-
BILE precaution to preveIH any hint of the
tents of report becoming public until noon on
the appointed day when the bulletin is given
simultaneously to every person who is waiting
for it at the headquarters of the crop reporting
bureau in Washington. Then ensues a mad race
to telephones and telegraph wires and feverish
fight to be first to communicate the news to New
York and other cotton trading centers and to the
great cities Of Europe The regular newspaper
correspondents vie with one another in their eff
forts to be first TO get the cotton forecast ION
the wire" but even more strenuous than their eff
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased TO learn
that there Is at least dreaded disease that
has been able TO cure In all its stages, and that 10
CAtarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure 4 tho only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease requires eonstitu.
tional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure IA taken IN
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease, and irving tho patens
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have
much faith in its curative powers that they oneF
One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails y
Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
Wanfed a Channe.

Milkman-I see by the papers that
a Frenchman has invented new way
of Transforming water into milk.
Customer--Well, hope you'll adopt
It, I'm getting awfully tired of the
old way.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
Rock Wreoks FreIaht.

Johnson City, Tenn.--A double head
er freight train was wrecked on the
Carolina, Clinchfeld & Ohio railroad,
one mile north of Clinchport, va.
Three men were killed and one per-
haps fatally injured.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08

cause OF Dackacho,
headaches, urinary
troubles and dizzy
spells. To insure good
health, keep the kid
neys well. Doan's Kid
ney Pills remove all
kidney ills.
Mrs. Il. p. Dewey,
Neigh, Neb., says:
I'm 1909 1 had a
dreadful attack Of
Irn,,eu xny Rooo H,,tn.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
Bank Robbers Use Auto.

Hanover, Kan.-Five men robbed
the Taft State bank here Of $500 and
escaped In an automobile. The rob
berry was made In tho same manner
as that Of q bank at Beattie. Kan.
east Of here. few weeks ago.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
CZER1HS AT mr. rs. CRlP
RE60pZZIyG SlI0EHU

order to help the officials
at Washington compile a
thoroughly accurate sys
tens of reports which, ii
is recognized, is to the in
terest Of all concerned
To be sure most of thess
correspondents who con
tribute their mite to Uncle
Sans mine of informa
ton on the growing cot.
ton crop do not have to
devote much of their time
to the task. They merely
send a few lines to Wash.
ington once each month
each person giving his
frank opinion as to the
condition and prospects
of the crop on his parti
cular plantation or in his
immediate neighborhood
Most of these reports are
sent by mail but under
certain circumstances the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08

forts those OF the representatives Of the cot.
ton brokers and others trading on the stock mar
kets. Almost every successive cotton report is
sued by the government makes the price of cot
ton go up down according as It presages a
good or poor crop (or a crop that is different
In any way from popular anticipatlon) and the
broker who get Tip" as to the contents of
the report even few minutes ahead of his fell
lows may be enabled to make thousands OF dol
lars
An immense army Of people scattered through
all the cotton-growing states cooperate with the
government in compiling its cotton reports and
almost all Of them give their services free in
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHY
KIDNEYS.

Weak kidneys fail to remove poi
sons from the blood, and they are the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
How Inventory Was Taken.

The most expert accountants and
appraisers to be had were put at the
task. Their labors lasted over eight
months. Their report and its publ
cation by the company marks an ep-
och in finance.
1t began by recommending an adj
Justment of the difference between
the appraised and book values by a
charge of $5,595,OS9 against sur
plus. Book values of securities held
were reduced to market values, bad
and doubtful accounts were "charg-
ed Off" an allowance Of 100000
was made for depreciation" another
Of 100000 for reserve" and so on,
until the old surplus Of $18,S67, 900
came down to $4,000
It required courage, the publication
Of this statement to stockholders, say
ing in effect: 1.-THE property of
your company has been reval-
ued: the surplus isn't nineteen mill
ions, as you have been led to be-
lieve, but five millions" but 1t was
the truth, and President Vail did not
finch. Accuracy and publicity" he
declared, was essential. 1.-THE stock
holder has a right to know. The
shares Of this company are scatter
ed from one end Of the UAion to the
other. This is more than a private
corporation. It is a great national
enterprise. The public is entitled to
the facts
The report was ordered published
forthwith. Ffnanciers of the old
school and spectators generally were
aghast. What would happen? Would
the bottom drop out of Western
Union when the shareholders realiz-
ed that their property was worth
$13,OO0,O00 less than they had sup
posed? But the amazing thing
happened. The stock went up and
stayed up. The public had respond
ed to this remarkable display of
frankness and confidence; to the new
motto, Accuracy and Publicity"
The full significance Of the action
OF the new board is stated concisely
by Harper's Weekly in these words
is this policy Of publicity and of
open-handed dealing with sharehold-
ers and public the forerunner of a
similar movement on the part of 9th.
er big corporations2 Certainly it is
to be hoped that it is. In the case
of these big companies, dependent
upon public patronage and doing bust.
ness under public franchise, can
there be any question of the right OF
the people to known
THAT right is being recognized
1t is recognized now in this epochal
act on the part of the telephone and
telegraph interests. 1t is the dawn
of new era in corporation finance
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-12-08
TURNING ON LIGHT.
PRESIDENT WALLS BOLD MOVE
MARKS EPOCH IN FINANCE.
Accuracy" Reduced Western Unions
Surplus $4,000. ooo.-"Publleity"
Inspired Such Confidence That
Its Stock Went Up.

Are the great financiers of the
country beginning to see a new light?
Time was, until recently in fact, when
the men at the head Of the big cor
porations kept their business to
themselves" as far as the law would
allow Capable men at the head of the
big concerns, long realized the weak
ness Of their position, but what was
needed obviously, as in all great re-
forms, was an unmistakable occasion
and courageous man. The occasion
arose in the purchase of the Western
Union Telegraph company by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, and the man appeared in
Theodore N. Vail, President of the
purchasing corporation.
1t was last December when public
announcement was made that the
Gould holdings of Western Union had
been taken over by the Telephone
company.
On account OF the high esteem in
which the management of the tele-
phone company is so generally held,
great things were predicted as a re-
sui VI thS dDSOTpllOn Oh western
Union. By the press of the country
the deal was most fayorably COM
mented on, it being widely pointed
out that under the direction of such
men as Theodore N. Vail and his as
sociates, the telegraph company was
bound soon to work itself into a po-
sition where it could offer the public
far more efficient service than 1t had
ever before been able to offer
But a very few months had elapsed
when it became apparent to the new
management that a modern and up
to-date appraisal of the company's
assets would make possible a far
greater degree of efficiency Of oper-
alton. Here" they said to them
selves, we've bought control of this
property and we know it's immensely
valuable, but we don't know just
how valuable. These appraisals of
real estate and securities owned were
made long time ago. If we have
a complete inventory made of every
thing we've got we can announce the
facts to the public, start a new set of
books, and begin our responsibility
to stockholders right there"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-02
1ndEs-REruB11CAx GARsHA11nx,wN,

| tor, and asks, now what difference II
there between the senior and Junior
senators?" Bidding for the favor OF q
legislature controlled by the friends Of
the movement headed by cummins.
LATE now crawls on his belly 20 that
he can see no more difference between
himself and Cummins IS to the tariff
when his news paper for ten years has
traduced Cummins by calling him =
democrat and freetrader as to the
tariff
THE editor Of the Capital is in favor
Of every good law which can be propos-
ed upon any subject" he declares but
what about the wo-cent fare law. the
anti-pass law. the statewide primary
law?
And He refuses to be considered a
factionist," he pleads and yet has he
ever been anything but the most vio-
lent. the most vituperatve and the
most scathing OF factionists in Iowa
politics since the legislature Of jan
uary. 1902?
He is in favor Of peace in the re-
publican party Of Iowa. he says, pro-
vided progressive majority in the leg
islature will buy that peace Of the edi-
tor of the Des a1oines Capital with the
price OF a seat in the United States
Sarara