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To Chesterfield House ii was that Dr.
Johnson came to ask its wealthy and
book-loving owner TO become the angel
of his dictionary" to launch which
funds were needed. The answer you will
remember. was an icy negative. but when
the dictionary had been published and
made its author famous. the noble lord
was keen a mustard to be friends The
letter in which DR.. Johnson intimatel
that Lord Chesterfield might seek a
warmer cline is about the finest example
of the epistoary cold turn-down on rec
ord
The Duchess of Roxburghe, who de-
lights in entertaining and does the thing
in top-notch style. is sure to give some
big blowouts at Chesterfield House. Some
of these may start romances. but no more
dramatic one is likely to result than that
of Elizabeth Cunning and the Duke OF
Hamilton, who met at a ball given by
Lord Chesterfield. This damsel was the
youngest of the lovely ssterhood who
turned the heads of the Mayfair bucks
and beaux of the time. and from the mo-
ment OF meeting her the youthful duke
made the most determined kind of love.
Close by in Curzon street. on the very
site now occupied by the American
Duchess of Marlborough's Mayfair man.
sion. stood chapel which was famous
for marriage at moments notice.
-
Ii was the Gretna Green of eighteenth
century swelldom, and they do say that
many as 5000 couples were Joined in
wedlock there in one year The beauti-
full Miss Chudleigh was married In thi.
fashion to the Duke of Kingston. and at
half an hour after midnight, some week.
after the ball at Chesterfield House.
Elizabeth Cunning turned up at the
chapel with his grace of Hamilton and.
there not having been time to procure the
proper golden circlet, was married with
curtain ring.
As a true American woman the Duchess
of Roxburghe delights in these associa-
tons of her new town house. Every
visitor is impressed by the great double
staircase. each step of which L. an en-
tire block OF marble over twenty feet
long. This staircase was originally at
Canons. the princely home OF the Duke OF
Chesterfield House is the most interest
ing of the many sumptuous rooms On it,
walls hang pictures of famous authors,
including Wards painting OF DR. John
son in the ante-room OF Lord Chester
field in which the artist has represented
the immortal incident of the great iexf-
cographer cooling his heels while he
awaited the pleasure OF the nobleman.
whose patronage he sought.
Copyright. 1912. BY Curtis BrswuA "a
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SIeanw nile two more of the finest pri-
waite residences in the metropolis-the old
r. Of which Is known as THE most inter
e<tfng house in London have just been
.ltssred ~ American women One of
these houses is in Park Lane. the street
~ niiliuHaIres." which seems to be sup
planting GrosvenOr Square and Curzon
tst,.et III the estimation of our rich
Americans who desire To cut social ice
over mere Alfred Vanderbilt has had
aaI at the corner Of Park Lane and
Picadiny FOR some years now Whitelaw
Reid Is OF course. in Park Lane at Dor
chester House though he may have to
leave ii soon. because Sir George Hol-
for.f Who owns it, is going TO venture
into matrimony and wants TO begin
housekeeping there. and In Park Lane,
too. in the imposing mansion that was
built by Alfred Belt. the late South
African millionaire. is the Hon. Mrs.
Frederick Guest. who was Amy Phiprs.
the daughter of Henry Phipps, Carnegie's
famous partner.
And now Dudley House, the Park Lane
mansion which recently Was the resi-
dence OF another South African million
aire In the person of Sir Joseph Robinson.
has been bought by the American am
basSadors daughter. the Hon. Mrs. John
Ward, while Chesterfield House. which
Vas built by the famous nobleman whose
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miHiOnaire's estimation. at any rate-was
large black cat. who bore the name Of
Peter. and who. as the possessor of nine
existences. may be assumed to be still in
one Of them. Robinson is rather given to
small superstitions-he will never take a
lighted match from any one. for one
thing-and he cannot conceive a house.
hold enjoying prosperity without a black
cat on the premises. He had no peace Of
mind. after taking possession of Dudley
House. they say, until Peter, who at that
time was the terror Of the rats and mice
inhabiting the millionaire's house in South
Africa, had arrived in England and taken
up his residence in the Park Lane man.
sion.
There are NO literary associations in
connection with Dudley House, but Ches-
terrified House, which has just passed
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tween Bloemfontein and Kimberley on
'shanks' mare" with a heart made heavy
by failure in business and a weary but
trustful wife by his side. On the way.
however. he kicked up a diamond in the
dust and afterward sold it for $1,000
Now he owns nineteen gold mines and
has an estimated capital of $7O,OOO,OOO.
Sir Joseph entertained lavishly at Dud-
ley House. The good wife who shared
the poverty of his young days loves music
more perhaps. than she understands it,
and all the stars of the musical world
twinkled at Dudley House while she was
it's mistress. One Of the most important
members Of Robinson's household-in the
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The Panama railroad is run as a COM
mercial proposition. and Uncle Sam keeps
lis tracks in the Culebra cut and else
where on separate account sheet. He
has hundreds of miles of other roads on
the Canal Zone, but the Panama railway
proper is a government road, which
charges fares to every one who goes over
it and makes every ton of freight pay it's
tolls.
But first let me tell you how the rail-
road is managed and something more OF
the enormous profits it makes. The presi-
dent is Col. George w. Goethals. the chief
engineer of the canal, and the first vice
president is Mr.. L. A. Drake, who has
his headquarters in New York. Mr..
Drake has been connected with the inSti-
tuition for many years and is one Of its
most valuable employees. In addition, we
have Engineer Commissioner Hodges as
the second vice president and as the gen.
eral superintendent and the man who has
his hands on the wheels, and Mr. ]. A.
Smith. who has under him a full corps of
engineers. mechanics and transportation
officials, and the usual machinery which
belongs to the management of any great
railroad.
All of the officers are appointed by
Uncle Sam. and with the exception of
one or TWO shares all the stock belongs
to him. 1t came to the government
through our purchase of the Panama
canal. being turned in by the French at
a valuation of S7.OO0.OOO. The last French
company had bought it of the De Les
seps organization for eighteen millions,
but when we figured out the values of
the isthmian property 1t was put down at
seven millions. and it has been carried
on the books at that sum- Nevertheless.
its assets have steadily grown. until they
are now over S25.OOO.OOO. and the COM
pany today has a surplus of almost
twelve millions. Moreover, the traffic
and the profits are steadily increasing
The freight tonnage last year showed a
gain of more than % per cent, and the
number of passengers was s per cent
more than in 1910.
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COLON. Panama.
NCLE SANS rail-
way.
Yes. the title is
right. Uncle Sam
owns a railway,
and it is one of the
prettiest. busiest
and best mana ged
lines of the world.
Ii has more traffic
in proportion to its
length than any
road owned by any
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from the possession of the heirs of Lord
Burton. the brewer, who started life as
Edward Bass, to that Of the Duchess of
RoxburEhe. is regular storehouse OF
them What rent the former May Goelet
Is paying for Chesterfield House has not
been made public. but 1t must be a pretty
penny, whether or not ii includes the
ghosts of Lord Chesterfield, DIR. Johnson,
the festive Duke of Hamilton and the
beautiful Miss Gunning-specters which
assurediy must haunt this private palace.
1t was designed and built by Lord Ches-
terfield in 1147. and was then described by
the nobleman whose name has become
synonymous with exaggerated politeness.
a. at the extreme verge of town" Here
1t was that the aristocrat who was
friendly with Dean Swift and Alexander
Pope wrote the celebrated letters on eti-
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of revising an an
cient maxim in
this country and
saying hereafter.
not Its logged"
but Its dollars as
does it" All kinds
Of British posses
sions have been
handed over in ex-
change for the
I'm a u IN a" of
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Dudley. or than il was maintained by the
bottomless purse of the South African
mining king, and II Is the intention of
the Wards. who now have a house In
Carleton Gardens, to move in as soon as
these extensive refurbishings are COM
pleted.
There is a special significance. about
the purchase Of Dudley House by its new
American mistress 1t Is another in
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a paying institution. 1t began to yield
dividends as soon as the first rails were
laid. and for more than a generation it
proved to be gold mine to its owners.
1t was started by an American COM
pany at the time that the California
gold excitement was at its height, and
before the forty-seven miles which
formed the first track was completed it
had earned $1,000 900. Within four years
after that it's earnings were So 600 900,
which was four times what the road cost
to construct, and 1t has kept on paying
for itself again and again. 1t has al
ways charged well for it's services. Be
ginning with its opening in 1855. it's
freight rates were something like $50
per ton. or more than So per ton per
mile, and passengers paid S25 for a single
the isthmus to the other. These rates
prevailed for about thirty years.
Think of paying S25 for a fifty-mile
journey. The rate was more than 80
would cost you s116 to go from New
York to Boston, and the fare to Chi
cagO would be $3.50. The cost across
the continent on the railroad would be
$1,000. and at the present rate of fast
travel 1t would cost something like $25
an hour to ride on the cars Today the
first-class rate on Uncle Sans road is
about cents mile. and second-class
passengers pay 2 cents. while mileage
books cost you " cent more per mile
than in the United States. Notwithstand-
ing all this the isthmus is hot and the
walking is not over good, and SO every
one rides.
We can buy frst-class tickets from
Colon to Panama for about two dollars
and a half and we shall take run over
the road before We look into its manag-
ment. We shall take the new line which
is now being constructed to go around
Gatun lake high above the canal level.
The old track ran through the bed of the
lake and 1t has long since been swallowed
up by the waters held back by the dam.
The new road is well built. being equipped
with ninety-pound rails and for the most
part with ties of pine and cypress soaked
in creosote. The first road was built
with ties of mahogany and l.gnum vitae,
which are the only ties that will with
stand the woodeating ants. There are
some hardwood ties in the present road
That wood is so tough that the spikes
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But the train has left Colon and crossed
over to the Mount Hope reservoir, which
supplies that city with water. 1t goes
by great warehouses holding supplies for
the canal, and then begins the scenery
which makes it one of the picturesque
routes of the continent. We pass a WIDE
grassy plain which was formerly infested
with tapirs and deer, and thence rise
into the hills of Gatun, where one can
see the great locks on the right. The
road now turns and cuts around Gatun
lake, which is in view for great part of
the journey. The roadbed has been built
ten feet above the surfaces of the lake,
and it is now on the ninety-five-foot level
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""nyriEHt. 1872. ~ Frank 6. Carpenter)
Sircial SoyF. >poEdenrs II III, star.
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The Panama railroad has always been
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1T Is Only Fifty Miles
L Long, But Its Assets Are
Worth twenty-five Million
Dollars-Our Government
Railroad and How 1t Is
MANAGEABLE Is Now Worth
Over Three Times What 1t
Cost and Is Paying a Profit
of $4,000 : Mile-An Enor-
NOUS Traffic and How 1t Is
iardled-Three Hundred
and Eighty-six Trains Day.
Or One Every Four Minutes
-Rubber-neck Cars-The
Engines and the Engineers
a Ride On an Oil-burning
Observation-Disclosures Men
and Their Fat Jobs-A
Scenic Route of the Future.
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terminal station The number of passen-
gers is thus registered, and the officials
know exactly how many people travel
each day.
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ec.sl Correspondence # The star.

LONDON. July ., 1912.
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1,IHp.Goo tons. 1t carried almost 100000
passengers. And all this was outside the
work done on the construction tracks of
the Panama Canal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
FANCY SKATERS THERE.

"There do not seem to be any just
ordinary skaters at st. Moritz," said
a New York woman who spent last
winter at the Swiss resort. "Nobody
goes in for plain skating, but all do
fancy figures and feats, such as in
New York we are accustomed to see
mainly at exhibitions. And nobody
you meet there seems to get too old
to put on skates.
"The most active fancy figure ar
fist in the place last winter was an
English noblewoman who is over
seventy years old, but she was so ac-
tive you would have thought she was
not more than half her years."
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
SEAS EAT THE CONTINENTS
Process Of Erosion, However, Protects
the Land by Building Sand and
Shingle Beaches.

A great deal Of interest is taken
IN England in the question of coast
protection. The ocean, assailing the
cliffs, gradually tears them away,
but this very process furnishes de-
Tense for the land by building up
long beaches of sand and single.
which arrest the waves before they
can attack the cliffs. An effort is
making to prevent, or better regu-
late, the removal of this material
for construction and road building,
because in many places its removal
has permitted the sea freely to exert
its power of erosion.
The ordnance survey has ascer-
tanned that in the last 35 years Eng
land has lost 6,640 acres by sea ero-
sion, and gained $4,000 acres
through retaining land, the exist
ence of which is mainly due to ma
terial brought down by the rivers
Youths Companion.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
HoLLENSVILLE ITEMS.

Ress Ewing Of Long Branch
has lost quite a number Of hogs.
Miss Callie Berrey recently
visited at Macon City.
Miss Minnie Berrcy is to spend
the remainder of the summer at
Macon City with Mr., and Mrs. A.
b. English.
c. c. McGec and wife are en-
tertaining Geo. Anderson and
wife of X. c. and II. II. Hollcns-
head and family or Ccnnalia.
Henry RudaSill and wife of
STROLLER spent Sunday at his
brother $, Lewis Rudasil.
Sam Evans and wife spent sun
day with Mrs. Fannie Crawford.
Milt Householder and j. G..
Crawford intend to start their
thrashing machine next Monday
on j. G's. crop. O. j. Engle and
son are to rum the outfit,
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
SCHOOL TEACHER KING,

The versatile Peter the Great fol-
lowed his various professions for
pleasure; but there have been mon
archs who have had of necessity to
follow a profession other than that
of reigning. When Louis Philippe,
then duke of Chartres, fled from
France in 1898, he took post in a
school in Switzerland, where he
taught mathematics and geography
under the name of NJ. Chabaud-La-
tour. And in ancient times there
was Dionysius, who, after reigning
over Syracuse and getting deposed,
earned a meager living as a school,
master, and later on a less meager
one as barber. And now there is
a new chapter of "Rois en- Exile"
waiting a writer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Cattle Sales Are Active-Hogs
and Sheep Steady,

National Stock Yards, H., July
16, 1912.-Cattle receipts $500.
Trade was featured by activity
today. Steers sold strong while
butcher cattle were steady. Com
pared with last week. close,
selling in better fashion. Top
1890 Good corn fed butcher cat
tie 10 to 15c higher: common TO
medium COWS and hcifcrs steady.
Hog receipts $500. Steady
prices prevailed turnout today.
Top was $3.50 and bulk Of the
good hogs brought $t.45 to $3.50.
Sheep receipts $500. The lamb
market generally 10 to 15c lower;
top 800. Bulk Of the good kinds
brought $3.50 to $500; fair to
good IS. 80 to $3.50 and culIs $3.50
to $3.50. Sheep and bucks steady.
The former selling largely at
a. %; the latter at $500.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
PAGE HAD PLENTY OF MONEY
How Alexander N. Doekery's Little
Plan to Evade Borrowing Friend
Fell Through.

Alexander M. Dockery, former
governor of Missouri, was at one
time a member of the house of rep
resentatives, and, while filling the
job, made the acquaintance of a
needy young man who formed the
habit of borrowing too much money.
Dockery got tired of being touched
every few days and decided to put
a stop to it.
One day he was called out of the
house chamber by the borrowing
friend.
"Say, Dockery," came the usual
request, "can you lend me twenty ?"
Dockery looked grieved and cast
down, felt in all his pockets and
nearly succeeded in squeezing out a
tear from his left eye.
81 haven't got a cent" he said in
sepulchral tone.
At that moment he spied a page
boy coming down the corridor-a
boy who, he knew, was always hard
up. The legislator saw a way Of
making an effective escape.
81 don't even know where I could
borrow the money for you, Ben," he
concluded. Turning quickly, he
called the page. Cray, my boy" he
said kindly, "have you twenty dol
lars with you?"
The boy put his hand into q pock-
ct, Dockery took few steps toward
the door and the would-be borrower
began to mourn.
eyes, sir" said the lad. "Here
it s."-The Popular Magazine.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
HIGH PRICED CATTLE.
Audrain County Stockman Big
Deal-Best Figure Yet.

The st. Louis Republic ycstcr-
day contained the following item
WoodSon Fcnnewald Liv
Stock Commission Co. sold for +.
W. Carlson of Audrain county,
Mo. three ears of steers at $3.50
per hundred, which is the highest
priced cattle ever sold (outside Of
Christmas cattle) on the st.
Louis market, excepting one car
of cattle which the same firm sold
at $3.50 three weeks ago.
Thirty head averaged 1857
pounds and sixteen head weighed
l,3S7 pounds.
Woodson Fcnncwald Live
Stock Commission Co. have not
only sold the highest priced cattlc
but have sold more native cattle
than any other firm at the Ma
ilonal Stock Yards in the past
eighteen months.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
MARTINsBURG NEWS.

Miss Julia Kirk of Wellsville
spent Thursday with friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Tilman were
Mexico visitors Thursday.
Miss Stella Heckemeyer, of st.
Louis, is the guest of the Misses
Bertels.
Miss Mayme Perry who has
been visiting friends in Hannibal
returned home Saturday.
Miss Nellie Butler who has been
visiting relatives here returned to
her home in Marlin, Sunday and
was accompanied by Mrs. Laura
Pritchctt.
Dana Young has returned to
her home in Carso.
Mrs. Y. II. Divcn and daughter,
OIlvctte, spent Thursday here,
the guests Of friends.
Miss Katherine kricgcr of st.
Louis is visiting her mother here,
Mrs. Lucy Kriegcr.
Mrs, Geo Seifcrt and children
of st. Louis are visiting relatives
here.
Mr.. Theron Enright of st.
Louis is the guest of Miss Kath-
cryn Krieger this week.
The b, G. c. Club met Wednes-
day at the home of Miss Maude
A good time was en-
joycd by all.
Lucius Wilson, of Jonesburg
was the guest of Miss Hazel
Friedman Sunday.
Mrs. Rose Widaman of st.
Louis is here with her mother,
who is quite ill.
Homer billiard of Shamrock
shipped a ear load of lambs to st.
Louis Sunday.
Miss Ellie Faddis of Ccntralia is
Miss Hazel Friedman.
Miss Rose Jacob is visiting
friends in Louisiana this week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
LADDONIA ITEMS.

Mrs. Onic Beal is very sick
woman at this writing, also Clark,
her little son, is on the sick list.
Miss Julia FARES left for her
home near Endicott, Wash. Mon
day after a two months visit with
her many friends here.
The farmers enjoyed the cool
days first Of week while harvest
ing, the latter part of last week
being very warm.
Horace Mccoy sold his racket
goods to a, i. BIuton and the lat
ter will move same to his store
here.
Mrs. r. II. BclIamy has sold her
shop to Mrs. Hageman
of Hannibal and Mr.. Bellamy sold
his blacksmith shop to Mr..
headIc for garage. Mr.. Bcllamy
and family will leave shortly for
California TO reside. Their many
friends here regret to have them
leave.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
HOUCHINS FOR DEMOCRACY

No maninthe State has given
the democracy more hearty sup
port than jim Houchin. He
has never posed as an orator,
and therefore has never taken
"the stump" for the ticket.
but he has always been a liberal
contributor to the cause, and if
the Democratic voters of the
State decide for one Of the other
candidates, Jim Houchin will
be found in the ranks as a pri-
Vate, working and contributing
for the success Of the candidate
in November.
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-18
A Good Woman Gone Home.

1t is with a sad heart that We
chronicle the death of Mrs. Nancy
7. Doyle. She had been a suffer
cr with rheumatism and nervous
trouble for years. Last February
she took severe attack of grippe.
1t seemed as tho as soon as she
would get better Of one trouble
another would come up. until the
cor soul was released from her
ISutfcringS by the cold hand Of
Death. She said to the writer Il
few weeks before her death
While my friends and neighbors
Iare so kind to me, yet it will be so
sweet to be released of this suffer.
ing body and go to that home
where there will be no more pain
and sorrow and shedding of
tears. Yes, Aunt Mamie, Gas
she was called by so many was
certainly prepared to meet her
God and TO dwell m his nrosonco
forever more But oh how we
shall miss her in the church work
and i'm orr homes and NV our sicI,
beds. or anywhere she copld Iond
a helping hand '"To kn,v her
was to love her"
Nancy Jane Martin DOYLE was
born March Is, 1857, near Troy
Lincoln county. Mo. She united
with the Troy Baptist church mn
der Rev. Mr.. Burnham $ preach.
ing when about Is years Old. and
ever lived a faithful Christian
She was married TO Henry G
Doyle in October 1880 They
lived very happy life together
until February II zoos whom AZ.