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Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

In the proper column of the daily
and weekly Ledger will be found
the announcement of JOS. A. Adrian,
candidate for representative Of Au-
drain county, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary, August
6, 1912.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

HON. S. b. COOK, of Jeffer-
Cay was in Mexico Tuesday the
rest OF Senator Green Clay, Mr..
book Is confident that Hon. Champ
bark IS going to be nominated and
bat tho Democratic party win sweep
H. cnufifrv
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

COLONEL FRANK BUFFUM, of
-olisiara. No, Is mentioned as a
for the Legislature from
Pike county, If Frank win accept
bii position he should have it with
iHanimous vote Of everybody Of all
arties In Pike county, Any
Iounty would be very fortunate to
Fl man like Buffum to represent
IN the LEGISLATURE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

THE Mexico Brick and Fire Clay
wants twenty-five men at
once. There Is always plenty Of en-
Dloynent in Mexico. either at the
lrick plant or the shoe factory Their
!, no excuse for idleness
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

THE LEDGER regrets to know
ia. Jack Haines. wife and daugh-
| d shortly leave Mexico for st.
|fai5 where Mr.. Haines viii be
|ome one OF the managers OF the
iaas-Lieber Grocery Company Of
|hat city. Jack is one OF Mexleo's
|HOSt popular travelling men and VIII
z greatly missed by his many
|nends not only in Mexico, but
|hfOughout the territory.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

sEvERAlL rumors seem to be float
lng around Mexico that there is
spinal meningitis in town. As far as
N can learn, this rumor Is without
Eoundatlon, as there Is not a single
.age Of lhis disease In Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

Ed. C. ,verhoff, telegraph opera
TOR at the Wabash station who re-
Gently went to Moberly has returned
to his old position. A different ar
rangement was made i'm the MoneFly
office
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25
LADIES. KEEP cool

Our |. X. L. Coal OIL stove works
to perfection with that Sc coal oil
you have, for it is cheaper than cut
ting wood for the men and so nice
and cool ON ironing days.
Ferris & Cauthorn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25
ILLINOIS AND INDIANA
VICTIMS OF CYCLONES.

Bush, H., IS dead. 100 injured.
District east of Bush, H., 8 dead,
80 injured.
Marion, ILL.,, II dead (unconfirmed
Wilhsville. Ill, 3 dead, 20 injured.
Murphysboro, H., dead, 5 in
jured.
Campus, H., 2 dead, injured,
Kankakee, H., dead.
Morocco, Ind, Q dead, l injured.
Freeman, H., dead
District near Morocco, Ind, 2 dead
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

MEXICO and Audrain Democrats
ought easily to subscribe at least five
hundred dollars to Clark campaign
fund. Come on in; the water is
fine"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

Joseph a. Adrian, candidate FOR
representative of Audrain county
was in Mexico Wednesday shaking
hands with friends,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

Tom Morris has bought the Jelier-
son pool room from Ernest 2arneot
and viii move his family here to ie
side.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25
WRECK on WABASH.

Wabash freight No. s6, east-bound,
had five cars dltched Just beyond
the bridge east Of town early Wed
nesday morning. The derrick came
from Moberly and cleared the track
before the passenger trains we're
due. The cars were loaded and one
contained meat. This one was brok-
en- into kindling wood. 1t rolled down
the 20-foot embankment. No one
WAS injured.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

THE country Is going to be saved,
all right We have the assurance
Of all the candidates to that effect.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

THE money trust is mighty hard
thing to locate when you want to
borrow a few sheckels.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

DO you suppose that the time will
ever come when "womne and chill
dren will be first" on the street
cars.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

DR.. Tincher is closing out his
stock OF millinery on the south side
Of the Square at less than cost
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

DR.. Dincher will sell you millinery
goods and let you pick your choice
and make your own price. Buy now
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

THE mania for speed on the
ocean, on the railroads and in the
air Is causing great loss of life
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

EX-GOVERNOR JOS. FOLK is to
stump Tennessee in the interest of
Hon. Champ Clark for President.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

CLARK is going into the Balti-
more convention with the most votes
md should grow" on every ballot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

THE best thing about fishing
the exercise one gets digging baitl
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

Lace Curtains and Draperies at Pois
sons. d2w1
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

A POLITICAL dark horse" isn't
anything to make light of.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

COLUMBIA is making arrange
ments to secure a Carnegie Library.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
FOR SERVING TARTAR SAUCE
idea Put Into Use by One Hostess
Would Seem to Have Many
Good Points.

A good idea for the serving of tar
tar sauce of mayonnaise is suggested
by one enterpriisng housewife. She
cuts lemon in half, cleans out the in
side thoroughly and then fills the
halves with the sauce. She serves
one to each guest. When fish or sal
ad is served the little lemon cups are
placed around the edge of the platter
and one is taken by each guest. In
this way the sauce is kept firm and
strong instead of melting into liquid
when put on a hot plate.
For the home where guests are al
ways arriving and departing there is
nothing quite SO nice for the windows
as white cotton crepe. This may be
simply hemmed or trimmed with ball
fringe. For the dressers and bureaus
covers of feece-lined pique will be
found very satisfactory. This may
be cut into the required size and the
edges buttonholed in scallops. Two
sets of curtains and covers should be
kept on hand, one in use and clean
Que besides.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
MZJz7HlM5by NRa1uey

snatched one of his papers from him.
Had the reporters, after all, learned of
the tragedy in the Parrish home? Doc
tor Wilcox and / had discussed the
matter of notifying the police and the
coroner. We both felt that it would
be wiser not to communicate with
them, for such course would newt
ably bring publicity.
There was enough agony in the Far
IRISH home without having this sorrow
full secret blazoned to a curious world
IN three-inch type, without having
horde of reporters and camera men
constantly surrounding the house. Be
sides, If Katharine recovered, sooner
or later she would be sure to learn
what the papers had said The knowl-
edge that her foolish crime against
herself had been thus sensationally
proclaimed would be blow from
which the sensitive girl-hitherto
jealousy shielded-would never re-
cover. If she should not recover-Doc-
tor Wilcox and / were trusting to
chance to find a way of explaining her
NOcAlH. Liz 6STVduIS- VI LuGm
trustworthy and long In service-had
been cautioned not to talk to anyone
about the afternoons events. The
doctors aides and nurses, of course,
had been silent. This is part of their
business. How, then, had the papers
obtained the news so quickly?
could think of but one possible way.
More than likely some telephone girl
who had heard Louise calling Doctor
Wilcox had given it to the press Even
in the halfdarkness of the middle of
the block where I stood l could read
the word "S-UI-C-I-D-E" stretched
across the page in letters of red.
fastened to the corner where the dou-
BILE globes shed down brilliant light,
anxious yet dreading to read what the
paper said. At the first glance
breathed sigh of relief The article
was not about Katharine Parrish.
had not thought of the possibility Of
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
CHAPTER III.
The Second Clue.

'T can't do it, Harding. You are
asking an impossibility."
| was sitting in Inspector Davis
room in the post-office building. The
first thing in the morning / had gone
there to enlist his aid in clearing up
the mystery that hung over the Far
IRISH home. With the confidence based
on friendship that had its begin
nings in boyhood association | felt
sure he would do all he could to help
me. l wanted, If possih1e. = earn
through him whence had come the
yellow letter.
Miller Davis, though only year old
er than /, already had become one of
the governments most trusted secret
agents His rise in the service had
been phenomenally rapid. The rob-
berry OF the post-office where he was
employed had given him his start. A
little later, with the merest thread to
follow, he had run to earth skilful
band of stamp counterfeiters, and
three of it's members were now serv-
ing long terms. Only year ago, when
all the other inspectors had failed to
find the flaw in the registry service
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29

light-a trick most business men have
these days, 80 that they can see your
face in full light, while you have diff.
Guilty in reading theirs-yet from his
tone felt that he was inwardly
amused at my anxiety.
I'm afraid You overrate my detect.
i've ability and my powers as a post.
office inspector" he said. while am
lncli.'ed to agree with you that this bit
of PAPER may have some bearing on
the case, there is nothing to show from
what post-office it came, through whose
hands 1t passed, or by whom 1t was re-
ceived. 1t may not have come through
the mail at all. More than likely some
messenger brought it. Before l could
undertake an investigation 1 would
have to know, first, that it had come
through the mail; second, that there
was some evidence that the mails were
being used for an unlawful purpose;
and third, l would want to be certain
before began the investigation, that
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
PROPER DEGREE OF NEGLECT
Sometimes Hard, Even for the Wisess
Mother, to Know When to Draw
the Line.

Wholesome neglect Is about the
best kind of care child can receive
she said. "And my children have all
had plenty of it!'
The other mother was SO impressed
by the words of the mother of seven
healthy children that she actually be-
gan to practice little bit of whole
some" neglect with her own eve lamb.
One day the little girl came running
to her with a cut finger. Formerly
that mother would have called in
physician to bind up the cut. But hav-
ing decided to make use of whole.
some neglect, she merely took out
her handkerchief, wrapped it around
the child's finger, dried her tears, and
told her to run back and play.
The mother of the seven children
happened to be present. When the
little girl had run away she said to
the other mother "That is a very dan
gerous way to treat a cut. Do you
usually follow that practice?"
No. replied the other mother; 'I
usually send for the doctor. But
am following your example, and using
wholesome neglect
The other mother meditated a mo-
mert, and then she said, sit is not
necessary, think, to call in a doctor
when a child cuts her finger; but TO
bind it up with a handkerchief that
has been carried even for few hours,
exposed to dust, and not to cleanse
the finger thoroughly before binding
it up at all, seems to me, if may say
SO, to be not wholesome but "un-
wholesome neglect. So many per-
sons,' she went cn, Confuse whole
some with 'unwholesome' neglect,
don't blame them at all; it is hard
always to know the one from the
other!"-Home Progressive Magazine.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29

She had called policeman. who sent
for an ambulance. The ambu ance
doctor found that Mr. Elser had taken
poison.
1t struck me as a peculiar coinci-
dence that two persons 30 far apart in
the social scale as Katharine Parrish
and Andrew Elser should have chosen
the same hour Of the same day to seek
death. Was there something in as
trology after all? Had the stars de-
creed that both should die? Had
some conjunction of the planets, some
evil aspect in the Zodiac driven both
of them-the young heiress, in the
bloom Of joyous youth, and the aged
lawyer, in his decrepit poverty-re-
lentlessly, helplessly. to self-destruc-
ton?
So deep was the impression made on
me by the coincidence that took the
paper with me and read the account of
Elser's suicide to Louise. Even as
read it aloud, this inexplicable thought
came to me with startling force:
Suppose that these two suicides at
the same hour were more than a mere
coincidence. Was it possible that the
same shadow had fallen on both these
lives? Had the same mystery driven
them to death-pact?
1t seemed absurd. 1t was unlikely
that Katharine Parrish had ever heard
of Andrew Elser. If the family had
known him Louise would have men
~ L.
two persons sought to die on the same
hour of the same day. The question
would not let me sleep that night.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29

that permitted red-striped sack with
two hundred thousand dollars worth
of registered mail to disappear, Da-
Wis, putting his keen, analytical mind
on the case, within week had dis
covered the flaw in the system and
only few days later had arrested the
ex-convict who had profin.d by it.
With the natural intereSt of an old
friend | had followed hih career and
was familiar with most Of his brilliant
achievements. Even though the scrap
which was puzzling me had no en-
velope and bore no postmark, so conf
dent was l in his far-resehing powers
would hardly have been amazed if he
had told me all about &C as soon as I
showed it to him. Imagine, then, my
disappointment at his absolute refusal
to take up the matter at all.
Don't you see how important it is?
l cried. This little scrap is the key
to the whole mystery"
He was sitting with his back to the
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29

there having been another suicide that
day, but there it was:
Mystery in SeIf-Murder of Aged Law
yer.
Ordinarily l pay little attention to
stories of crime. But the afternoon
had given me a new and bitter appre-
citation of the meaning of suicide,
Standing there under the light OF a
Fifth avenue corner read the hastily
written article word by word.
Andrew Elser, the article explained,
had lived for many years in West
Twenty-third street clearinghouse.
Little was known about him there ex'
cent that he was a lawyer. Several
wears ago he had given up his down
town office. Most of his income was
derived from his fees as custodian OF
an orphan boys estate About TOUR
o'clock in the afternoon the landlady
had heard noise in his room like that
of a body falling. On entering sne
had found him lifeless on the moor.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
Feather ron,,es

1t seems as though a hat made Of
feathers should be light, and so the
plumage toques are in actual weight;
but they have heavy look, thanks to
their compactness, and this is not be-
coming. Nevertheless they will be-
very fashionable up till Christmas,
and are already obtainable in many
colors and shapes. Very few of them
have brims, but nearly all belong to
the saucepan, the pudding basin or the
coal scuttle persuasion.
Their only trimming is in nearly
every case little knot Of brilliant
feathers at the side, culled from a
tropic bird
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
silk Street Costumes.

The vogue for silk street costumes
continues, and the colored silks which
made their appearance last year are
to be found in greater variety and
more beautiful designs this fall Many
materials are shown in piquelike
weavings in blac kand white, and are
utilized for costumes and coats.
Tartan and checked material are
shown in velvet and silk as we'll as in
the regulation wooden fabrics. There
are blue-green checks, through which
run red, blue or orange-yellow
threads and large shadow squares in
dark colorings lecked with various
tiats.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-11-29
SYNOPSIS.

Harding Kent calls on Louise Parrish to
propose marriage and finds the house in
great excitement over the attempted sui
eide of her sister Katharine. Kent starts
an investigation and finds that Hugh
Crandall sutton for Katharine, who had
been forbidden the house by General Far
IRISH, had talked with Katharine over the
torn peee Of Yeow sh paper is fosp
at sight of which General Parrish Is
stricken with paralysis.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25
THURSDAY EVENINGS APRIL 3, 1919.
THE sTRU0dLE M TIE REPUBLfcAN PARTY

eS HE furious strife in the Republican party, which has reached
Ii a stage that forbids all thought of compromise before the
Chicago convention or of reconciliation after the conven-
ton, looks like the throes of dissolution. The deadly contention
now going on and which has not yet reached its most acute phases
is not merely one of preference for individuals. He is a shallow
observer who entertains the idea that the personality of Taft and
of Roosevelt is the motive of the great struggle in the Republican
party. The two men simply represent irreconoilable policies of gov.
eminent, and principles that have been at war with each other since
the foundation of our government. Long continuance in power has
welded the Republican party, as represented by President Taft,
to great vested and class interests. In its policy of high tariff
protection the party enacted a system of tax upon the people for
the benefit of a small favored class that bred monopoly and enor.
nous trusts, which virtually own the party organization. In 1908
they dictated the Payne.Aldrich tariff, which Mr.. Taft signed and
with his party management in the demand for the wealth of Alaska
was drawn between the socalled progressives and reactionaries.
plottings of Balhnger, countenanced and approved by Mr.. Taft. 1t
has continued as the reactonary character of the administration
policies were developed. The elections in 1910, in which Roosevelt
was in nowise concerned, were a tremendous Iebuke to Mr.. Taft.
They pefgured his defeat in 1912. They showed that an enormous
Republican sentiment throughout the country was so completely
aienated from his administration that hundreds of thousands of
Republican voters voted for Democratic candidates. This septi-
ment wanted a leader in 1912. and found him in Roosevelt. If
Roosevelt should die the sentiment he represents would be just
as implacably opposed to Taft and his policies. The battle would
go on just the same. And if Taft should control the Chicago con
yention there would be a repetition on a much larger scale in No
Vember of the election of 1910. Between Mr.. Taft and a Demo
cratic candidate like Speaker Clark, who comes nearest the prin-
ciples of the progressive Republican, the votes of a multitude of
Republicans would go to the Democratic candidate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25

sis every morning for points west
and south via Kinney line. do nots be
surprised if you hear discussions on
every subject but school work.
Inside baseball. athletics, politics.
fudge-making. and last, but not least,
the advanced class in criticism of the
other passengers wearing apparel, are
but a few of the topics discussed.
After listening to the chatter for about
ten minutes you are. almost convinced
that you are riding in a Boston troll
ley car and not in Newark. Sample
argument: 81
"Gladys, ! am firmly convinced that
if Mr.. Zimmerman, OF the Newark ag-
gregation, had proceeded on his way
toward the home plate in the ninth
inning the Newark team would have
had to go down In defeat before the
horrid Torontos. The Toronto players
are mean, horrid, so there"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25

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there have your painter go ahead with
the work"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25
DINNER STORIES.

More or less ceremony usually at
tends the laying of a corner stone, but
tn one case at leagt 1t was quite sim
pie,
Two chicago men were talking of
the fortune Of a third when one said:
He made his first lucky strike in
eggs. He bought 10000 dozen at a low
figure, put them in cold storage and
sold them at a profit of more than 300
per cent. That was the cornerstone
of his present fortune"
Abr exclaimed the other man;
then the hens laid IT." 4
For many years there served IN the
United States Senate, from the west,
a nan of brilliant mind and many fine
qualities, but who was forever es-
tranging many with whom he desired
to be friendly by reason Of his incura-
bly, sarcastic manner, both of speech
and action.
Once an intimate friend wrote the
senator urging the appointment of an
other friend to a minor position In the
government. The senator returned a
most sarcastic reply. declining to rec
ommend the appointment. 1t is said
that he never forgot the merited re-
buke he received from the friend who
had suggested the appointment.
MY Dear SENATOR think 1t would
be well for you to reserve you sarcasm
for the rapidly increasing number Of
your enemies, instead of offering it to
the decreasing number of your friends,
of whom / am one"
81 hope old DR.. WI Ting Fang
is on the right side in these Chinese
troubles" said a diplomat at a dinner
in Washington. 4
DIR. W." he continued, used TO
tell ms many Illuminating anecdotes
about the Chinese character. re-
member one about ingenuity.
"A Cinnamon, the anecdote ran,
found his wife lying dead in a field
one morning. tiger had killed her,
THE next day the tigers dead body
lay beside the woman's. The China
man sold the tigers skin to a manufac-
turer and Its body to a physician to
make fearcure powders. and with the
proceeds he was able to buy a younger
wife,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25
THE STEAMER THAT SAILED AWAY.

oS HERE was surprise and incredulty when an officer of the
Ii Titanic testified that prior to the sinking of the steamer
he had seen the lights of another vessel some distance away.
Rockets were sent up as signals of distress, but the lights receded
and disappeared. 1t now appears that this was not an illusion of
the sea, There was a vessel there, the Canadian Pacific steamer
Mount Temple, now at st. Johns, y. B.. and the first information
OF that fact comes from a Storage passenger and not from the
steamers officers. There are conflicting statements by the officers
and crew as to the Iitancs signals. 1t is acknowledged that the
Mount Temple received the wireless call for help before midnight
and could have reached the scene in time for rescue. The captain
affrms he was fifty miles distant, with fields of ice between. and
confesses he made little effort to reach the Titanic. He feared the
risk. On the other hand, a steerage passenger has declared that
the cries from the Titanic could be heard. and sailors affirm that
they saw the rockets sent up by the Titanic. It is to be hoped
for humanitys sake, that the captain o. the Mount Temple will be
able to clear himself of the crime of letting sixteen hundred people
drown when his vessel was close enough to save them.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-25
THE WAITS OF THE TITANIC.

NVO episode of the Titanic tragedy has touched more hearts
AN than the rescue of the two pretty French children. evidently
welLbred, and too young to tell their family name or home
town. These tiny boys, whose sweet faces as pictured in the news.
papers have charmed all America, were put into a lifeboat, as sup.
posed, by their father, who went down with the ship. 1t is no
wonder that Miss Hays, of New York, a survivor, who brought the
youngsters ashore, is 1oath to give them up or that thousands of
chldless couples who would have been reioiced to adopt them
will not know whether to be glad or sorry if the French woman
who has cabled a claim of Identification proves to be really their
mother. Zone touch of nature makes the whole world kin