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Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
The MaX Of Prouress.

A dog barking at passing automo-
bile is generally supposed to be as tell
ing a symbol OF futile objection to the
march Of progress as could well be
imagined In the almost same category,
however, belongs the strike Of the
stevedores in New Orleans against the
introduction of the electric truck to
transport freight between vessels and
warehouses. The wonder is that this
improvement has been so long delayed
instead of only now appearing-and
then as a source of new labor diff
Guilty. One cannot have much SYM
patty for opposition in this particular
instance. The motor vehicle in all OF
its forms has come to stay, and the
rest of the world has been rather rap
idly adjusting itself to the new condi-
ion.-Engineering Record.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

walk the floor. could not lie down or,
sit still sometimes for day and night
at a time. was nervous, and had very
little appetite, no ambition, melancholy,
and often felt as though l had not a
friend in the world. After ! had tried
most every female remedy without Sue
cess, my mother-in-law advised mo to-
take Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable,
Compound. l did 80 and gained in
strength every day. have now no trou-,
BILE in any way and highly praise your,
medicine. 1t advertises itself. Mira
s. 7. HURLEY, Eldon, Missouri.
Remember, the remedy which did
this was Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable.
Compound. For sale everywhere
1t has helped thousands of womem
who have been troubled with displace-
ments, Inflammation, liberation, tumors-.
irregularities, periodic pains, backache.
that bearing down feeling, indigestion.
and nervous prostration, after all other
means have failed. Why don't you try
1t? Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
LYNN. Mass
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
HAD THE PICTURES MEANING
Spectators at Least Formed Some Idea
What Famous Painting Rep
resented.

Two men stood before a painting in
a store the other day gazing wonder
ingly at picture of an equestrian
statue of General Lafayette. The IA
nous Frenchman was represented on
a prancing steed. Over his arm he
carried robe. At his feet stood an
allegorical figure OF Victory extend
ing sword toward him as a mark
OF homage. l wonder what that pic
ture meansT asked one Of the men. II
don't know" replied the other Il
was just trying to make out what sea
son of the year It was when a woman
could go around with so little clothing
while man was dressed up in a
heavy suit like that" "Oh, see what
II Ia now" cried the first one. You
see the soldier stole the woman's
cloak and when he took It from her
he dropped his sword, and now the
woman is trying to trade him back
the sword for her clothing"
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Makes Jobs for Detectives.

Probably the only people to benefit
by recent suffragette outrages are
private detectives, many of whom
are doing little else just now but
guarding pictures and other treasures
of well-known hosts and hostesses
from attacks at social functions, the
London Globe states.
The head of one private detective
agency told me the other day. says
THE Carpenter" in the Express, that
he had been obliged to engage spe-
cial STAFF for this work, and that to
some receptions he has sent as many
as a dozen faultlessly attired guests
to look after the pictures and china
of the host.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Falls Out With Administration.

ncensed because DR.. ]. A. B. Ad-
COCK, head OF the state bureau of vital
statistics, was not consulted about the
appointment Of government employe
10 transcribe the mortuary records of
missouri for the United States census
bureau, the state board of health has
Withdrawn Missouri from the federal
registration area and thus closed its
records against the government.
Ihe government pays cents a
name for the transcribing, which
would amount in this state to about
Si5OO annually for a few months
work.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
nAv COST A LITTLE MORE THAN
1T EVER DID, BUT IT'S
WORTH IT.
HORSES SEEM TO BE CHEAPER
statistics Furnished by Supervisor OF
Labor Statistics Show Range Of
Prices Of Various Needful Com
modities in the State.
jefferson City.

The difference in the cost of living
=, Nav /, 1914, and the same day in
1ot2 is shown in a bureau of labor
.,a,,stics bulletin constituting ad-
go information from the 1914 Red
oil given publicity by Commission
Iobn T. Fitzpatrick. There are also
-. 70 show the value Of certain
-ton,o commodities on April 10 for a
neriod of two years.
Some commodities were cheaper on
,,a dav mentioned than they were
tonr wears ago, but others which ad-
ranced make up the difference enough
80 make the cost of living higher. On
Wav 1914, corn sold for SO cents,
and nm the same day year later for
re cents Oats went up from 80 to As
conts selling for the higher price on
Nav 1914. Potatoes experienced a
,harp advance, going up from 72 cents
bushel to S1.01. Flax seed, May 1,
1919 and 1914, sold for the same price,
a % Cotton was 9.5 cents a pound
on Nav /. 1913, and lis cents on May
I 1914. Butter was cheaper on May
/. 1914, selling for Fl cents pound,
as compared with 90 cents a pound
on the same day In the previous year.
Eggs went cent higher, selling for
IL cents on May l, 1913, and 16 cents
on MAY /, 1914. That dainty, chicken,
which has made Missouri famous all
over the land, went up in value in a
wear from an average of 11.5 cents a
mound TO 1872, but pork came down,
selling for $50 a hundredweight on
April 10. 1918, as compared with $3.50
on the same day in 1914. Beef brought
the same price on the same day in
both years, selling for $3.50 hundred.
Mutton was cheaper. selling for S. on
April 10, 1913, and $40 on the same
day in 1914.
The bulletin, which was prepared
by Supervisor A. T. Edmonston of
the bureau of labor statistics, an
nounces that wool also came down,
selling for 10 cents on April Is. 1913,
and IS cents year later Veal went
up from $3.50 a hundred on April Is,
1919, to $3.50 year later.
The following table. which gives the
value OF certain commodities on April
Is, 1913 and 1914, reveals that the
cost Of living has increased in two
years, excepting horses, which de-
creased, probably because of the con-
SANITY growing demand for automo-
bies
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Searching Criticism.

Five-year-old Herbert, scion Of a
bookish family, had learned to read
so early and so readily that his first
glimpses of storyland we're growing
hazy in his memory. One day he con-
fided to his mother. "Ruthie showed
me her new book today. and it's the
queerest thing you ever saw! Why,
1t just says. is it dog? 1t is a dog.
Can the dog rum and lot OF things
like that! Course l was too polite to
say so, but it didn't seem to me the
style was bit juicy!"-Lippincotts
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Profits Are Fixed.

Chairman Atkinson and Commits
ice commission filed a suit in the
electric light case from Springfield. in
which it is held that per cent is an
adequate return for the company to
make. A reduction of 30 per cent is
ordered in present charges, and under
valuations of the holdings of the COM
pany in which reductions are made
the total reduction will amount to 81
per cent The other members of the
commission concurred in the opinion.
This was the first big case brought
before the commission. The COM
plant was made by % corporations
and business firms and alleged that
the charges of the Springfield Gas and
Electric company were unreasonable,
exorbitant and unjust.
1t was charged that the company
purchased its power from the Spring
field Traction company at LIP cents
per kilowatt hour and sold it to the
public for Is cents, and that the COM
pany also was purchasing electricity
from the hydro-electric plant of the
Ozark Power and Water company, un.
der 25-year contract, at the rate OF
LIS cents per kilowatt hour.
The company claimed that it's rates
were not unreasonable, in view of its
investment of 100000. 1t gave its
earnings for 1918 at $S0,763.15. The
compliments charged that the com
pany had inflated its valuations and
had added thereto a steam plant In
Springfield, which was useless, and
that the latter was not really the
property of the company.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

WeakneSS. FOR TWO
years ! could not,
stand on my feet
long at a time and \
could not walk two
blocks withou. en-
during cutting and
drawing pains down
my right side which,
mere ased every
month. i have been
at that time purple
in the face andwoukB
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Artificial Flowers an Old Idea.

Artificial flowers we're made in an
Client times by the Egyptians. In
Europe during the eighteenth century,
when there existed such a craze for
porcelain, flowers we're made of this
substance; while the odor of the real
flowers was initiated by the use of
perfumes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Corporations Must File.

The secretary of state estimates
that 80 per cent of the corpora
lions OF Missouri will have made
their return and registered under
the requirements of the antitrust
law and the act requiring an annual
registration by June l, when these re-
turns are due. The gross receipts from
the registration of corporations for
last year were $4,000, this going into
the road fund.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

We may talk what we please OF
lilies, and lions rampant and spres8l
eagles, In fields dor or dsrgent; hut.
II beraldry we're guided by reason, a.
pillow In a field Of arabic would hes
the most noble and ancient arms
Abraham Cowley
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
New Modern Dancing

Tho leading Rupert and Instructor in New York
City, writes; "Dear Sir:- have used ALIENS
Foor-BAsE the antiseptic powder to be shaken into
the shoes for the past ten years. IL is blessing to
all who are compelled to be on their feet, dance
eight or ten hours daily, and mud that ALIENS
FooT.HAsE keeps my feet cool, takes the friction
from the shoe prevents and Sore, Aching feet
l recommend II TO all my pupils"
CSigned) Il. FLETCHER HALLAMORH.
Sample FREE. Address Allen s Olmsted, lie Roy N Y.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Claims Trust Fines.

Judge w, NJ. Robinson has notified
.acoD d. Allen OF the supreme court,
'ua' ne will file proceedings to deter
a'ne whether fines imposed upon cor
pUrauons doing business in Missouri
s snOuiu not be paid into the school
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
LIoht Company Wins Entrance.

A certificate Of public convenience
was issued by the public-service COM
mission, authorizing the North Mis-
souri, Light and Power Company to
install plant in New London. Rails
county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
State 70 Raise Game.

State Game and Fish Commissioner
Jesse B. Jones has five expert quail
hunters at work in the southeastern
part OF the state, trapping game for
the game farm near Jefferson City
for propagation purposes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Teachers, Readinn Course

IN, ne State Reading Circle board
a "n,ch Is selected by the state teach
40 is association, met in jefferson City
,o1 u selected the reading circle books
,Oa missouri teachers to be used dur
lug the coming year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
How To Give Ouinine To Children

-FRBRILINB is the trademark name given TO an
improved Quinine- 1t is a Tastelass Syrup, pleas
ant 60 take and does not disturb the stomach.
Children take IL and never know IL is Quinine.
Also especially adapted 10 adults who cannot
take ordinary ouinino. Does not narseate nor
cause nervousness nor ringing In the head. Try
II the next time you need Quinine for any pur-
pose. Ask for a-ounee original package. The
name FEBRILINR IL blown In bottle. as cents.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
NO Consolidation

nron pposition from members OF the SUI
me-, court will lead to the abandon
ot ny ny the code revision commission
tbo e proposed amendment to merge
, 1preme and appellate courts, and
amendment is projected.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
GROWING Old.

"Is your father growing old grace
fully?"
mo; he positively refuses to learn
the make"
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

Capital invested in film industries
the world over approximates $780,
900 900.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Pure Food Show.

A pure food show and cooking
school will be held in Column
bia July 9, 10 and IL, under the
auspices of the state board of agri-
culture, the state food and drug de-
partment and the press Of Columbia.
The food show and cooking school
will be of a popular nature. The dem
onstrations will be in charge of Miss
Bah Bell, who has charge of the wom-
ems work for the state board Of agri-
culture. and Miss June Findley of the
home economics department of the
University of Missouri.
In connection with the show a mod
ell kitchen, with all labor-saving de-
vices, will be shown and demon
strated This will include demon
stration on the proper use Of re-
frigerator to conserve the ice, to pre-
vent food flavors from mixing and to
keep the refrigerator in sanitary
condition.
In addition to the demonstrations
and exhibits, several contests in cook
ing, baking and marketing will be
given. All parts of the demonstrations
will be practical throughout and will
be Of equal interest to the farmers
wife as well as the city housewife.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL You
Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, wetery
Just Eye Comfort Write for Book of the Rye
BY man Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co, Chicago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

But Not Toothless.
Call off your dog, for goodness
sake!"
mo use; he's deaf."-Le Rire.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
WOMEN CAN
HARDLY Believe
How Mrs. Hurley Was Re,
stored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Eldon, Mo. 81 was troubled with
displacement, inflammation and female
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won, Cur

The worst cases. no matter of how long standing,
are cured by the wonderful. old reliable DR..
Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil 1t relieves
Pain and Heals at the same tina 25c. Soc. 90.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
OF Course.

Hez-How is Farmer Cawntossel
getting along planting his wheat?
Silas-Oh, Just SOW SOW.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

Well, Yes.
Those women are trying TO stop
the manufacture of amber fluid"
Beer checks, eh1"
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Compromise in Sight.


At session of the capitol building
commission 1t seems certain negotia-
tions looking to a settlement of the
controversy over the stone to be used
in the new statehouse will come up
for consideration soon.
There are several details in ten
tative agreement leading to a solu-
ton of the stone matter which must
be Investigated before compromise
can be effected.
The most generally accepted theory
of the basis upon which the commits
sion and the contractor will get to-
gether is a combination of stone
from the Burlington limestone quar-
ries of Southwest Missouri for the
exterior of the building and the use,
to some extent, .of the crystalline
limestone found in Ste. Genevieve
county for the interior.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

AGENTS-2OO06 PROFIT. Everybody buys
them. Best nail file made. Costs you 81 doz.
Sells for 25c each. Send dime for sample.
Thomas A. Cray, Maiden Lane. New York.
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02
Retrogresslon.

Il only ask you to care for me a
little"
Il do. Every day l care for you
less and less"
Mexico Missouri message., 1914-07-02

]. d. Allen, clerk of the supreme
court, received from the International
Harvester Company of America a
check for S25.72S.65, representing the
fine and part Of the costs of the liti-
cation which led to the conviction Of
that company Of violation Of the anti
trust laws of Missouri.
Judge Theodore Brace of Paris, who
was special commissioner in the in
vestigation, was paid $4,000 by the
company, that representing his fees
and travelling expenses. James Rob-
erts of Marshall, stenographer, was
paid $500.
The amount of the fine, S25, 900, will
be turned into the state treasury by
Allen and will become part of the gen
eral revenue fund.
There was not, as was the general
impression throughout the state, a
judgment of absolute custer against
the harvester company. Judge w. W.
Graves, who wrote the opinion in the
case in this court, which was sus-
tanned by the United States supreme
court, says that the custer was condi-
tional upon future behavior. The
original fine was $4,000, and this was
later reduced by the court to $4,000.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13

on fourteen now-goes for inspec-
tors though. Some of them col
lect their pay as they go. making
still another tax, not included in
the twelve million dollars nearly
fourteen. And every time an in
spector collects that fee he leaves a
sore spot. 1t isn't his fault; the
law says he must.
If the efficiency commission
wants to do a popular thing it will
recommend that the inspections be
boiled down to not more than six
and the nearer they can come to
having one man do up the whole
job in each town, the better the
public will be pleased.
You think the inspectors haunt
the towns is one you over
looked, the boiler inspector. That
is probably the most curious office
in the state except surveyor general
of logs. The boiler inspector in
spects if he feels like. If it costs
five dollars to drive out and he gets
three for the inspection, he puts it
off. If he happens to be passing
he drops in and looks the boiler
over. Some boilers that are in his
direct road to town get inspected
frequently. If he feels like it the
boiler inspector files a report with
the secretary of state saying how
many boilers he inspected and what
he got for it. If he dosen't feel
like it, nobody can make him. IF
he dosen t choose to inspect, no.
body makes him. He has his COM
mission to go off and inspect and
collect fees, and the state has no
further control over him. If he
inspects boiler two or three times
a year, nobody reproves him.
And all the time there are per-
fectly competent factory inspectors,
covering pretty much the whole
state, not collecting any fees, and
costing hardly any more for the
comprehensive service than the
boiler inspectors charge for their
touch and go inspection.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13
What's a fiat? she SAYS.

| w nat S a nat! Sne says.
Why, when the parlor is the din.
ing room and the pianner is bed
and the back porch is kitchen
and everything is something else,
then it's fiat.
Our state government is some
thing like that. The auditor is
the man who manages the state
land department. Most of the
auditing is done by the public ex-
aminer who was until recently the
superintendent of banks.
The auditor audits his own tran
sactions amounting to three or four
million dollars a year.
He does not, however, audit the
accounts of the institutions. The
board of control audirs those. The
auditor audits the board of control,
not what they spend on the insti-
tutions but what they spend on
themselves.
The public examiner checks
over all the accounts, except the
boiler inspectors and the surveyors
of logs who don't seem to keep any
accounts.
Isn't that a lovely mess of prunes
for great and intelligent state?
Why wouldn't it be a good idea
to let the auditor do the auditing
and relieve him of the burden OF
being land commissioner, timber
expert, drainage overseer, invest
ment manager, and fifteen other
things? Capital.
Part of that twelve million dol
lors-this year nearer fourteen
ui1lion-goes for inspectors.
There are times when one would
think it all went for that. There
are days when it seems to rain
state inspectors. One man comes
to look at the scales, another to
measure the sheets at the hotel,
another to test oil, another to see
if there is too much dirt in the
prunes. A fellow would think the
entire population was engaged in
state inspecting.
Not all the twelve million-going
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13

The copper country strike was
called July %, 1913. The state
MALTA was ordered to the copper
country July "a. 10000 men orig
inally went out but it is estimated
that today there are not more than
5000 men out. Many have gone
to other fields, some have gone
back to work and the balance
would go back were it not for the
paid agitators who are keeping the
unrest an issue. The estimated
loss in wages to the actual workers
is $6,OOO,OOO. The loss to the
companies through the non-opera-
tion is figured at $1O,OO0,0OO.
The strikers demanded an eight
hour day; s. minimum wages for
miners and $3.50 minimum for
trammers; the abolition of the one
man drilling machine" and the re-
cognition of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners. AS the Federation
is recognized as the most unsavory
outfit in the country today, the
demand for recognition was the
rock upon which the strike settle
ment boat foundered. The COM
panies refuse to recognize this out
fit and the agitator sticks tight to
his original demand for recognition
as practically the life, and inciden-
tally the $500 a week of Moyer,
Mahoney and others depend on
winning the strike. A Congress
sional probe of the strike situation
was ordered by vote of the house
on January 27 and the probe start
ed Tuesday. Many interesting
facts on both sides of the affair will
see the light of day.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13

J. A. O. PREUs has filed for the
nomination for state auditor on the
Republican ticket. His announce
ment bears all the ear marks of a
man who means business and his
general makeup is of such a cal
ibre as to preclude all possibility of
there being an idle moment for his
opposition during the campaign.
Mr.. Preus belongs to the wide
awake set of men who do things,
whether it is in politics or business.
He is at present insurance commits
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13

A FEW weeks ago Governor
Eberhart who was in Michigan to
address the Michigan State Grange
in speaking of the tonnage tax
proposition said:
The people of Minnesota have
several times on referendum re-
jected the tonnage tax. 1t would
prove disastrous to our iron mines
to have it. We have many rich
mines and more poor ones. If the
tonnage tax were to be applied in
our state, all those range towns
would simply work the good ones
and the poor grade ores and those
mines which are more expensive to
operate would be eclosed down. That
would mean to us millions of dol
lars worth of property deserted
and direct loss to the owners.
1t would mean thousands of men
out of employment and the people
of Minnesota saw the point and
voted against the tax. John A.
Johnson, while governor of Mime
sofa, vetoed such tax.
"Of, course, it is none of my
business what you do in Michigan
but Michigan mines are neither so
rich nor so easily worked as those
of Minnesota. Most of our mines
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13

THE Miner is under obligations
to w. ]. Olcott, president of the
Oliver Mining company for hand
some booklet showing the work be-
ing done by the bureau of safety,
relief, sanitation and welfare at the
various mills, mines and factories
of the United States Steel corpora
ton. The book is interesting and
instructive.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-13

The preacher has a hard time of
it. If his hair is gray he is old. If
he is young man he hasn't had
experience. If he has ten children
he has too many. If he has none
he should have and isn't setting a
good example. If his wife sings in
the choir she is presumptious. If
she dosen't she isn't interested in
her husbands work. If preacher
reads his notes he is bore. If he
speaks extemporaneously he is not
deep enough. If he stays at home
in his study he does not mix
enough with the people. If he is
seen around on the streets he ought
to be at home getting up a good
sermon. If he calls on some very
poor family he is playing to the
gallery. If he calls at the home of
the rich he is an aristocrat. What
ever he does someone could have
told him better. He has a fine
time living off donations which
never come in. and promises that
never mature. Next to being an
editor the preacher has the world
bested for a quiet, peaceful CD
slide down the toboggan of time.