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Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

THE big picnic on Tuesday in the
Smith pasture, southwest Of Mexico,
was splendid success in every sense
of the word. South Wilson always
does things right.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

Mrs. r. r. Buckner, of this city,
and her brother, G. S. Maddox, of st.
Louis, went to Callawey county, We'd
nesday, to see their mother, Mrs.
Jacob Maddox, who is very II.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

A marriage license was issued
Tuesday to A. S. Carroll, Of Vandal,a'
and Miss Ora Belle Roberts, Of idaho
Falls. Idaho.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar M.
'Hartzell, Of Youngstown, Ohio, Tues
day, daughter. Mrs. Hartsell was
Miss Irma Barth, Of this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

II you can afford to buy It today
and you can find out about that Ds
reading the "ads''--don't put y on
until another dny.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09
DIR. Handy to the Cape.

DR.. ]. C. Handy, who has been pas
tor of the Fulton Methodist church
and was formerly pastor of the Mex
leo Methodist church, has been trans
ferred by the conference to Cape Cir
ardeau. He will be succeeded in Full
ton by the Rev. Mr.. Scarborough, Of
Macon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

If you want the streets lighted, get
busy right away and make your wants
known to the mayor or your eouncil-
mon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09
Timnihy Seed wanted

We are paying highest market price
for timothy seed. Win furnish sacks
dw1 wm. Pollock Mill & Eley. Co
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

Rolla Mcintyre is home from St.
Louis where he has been on business.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09

Mrs. Champ Clark, Of Bowling
Green, was in this city Saturday.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-03

cording 20 points, twice as many as
Oak Park, the second team.
Three new federation records were
set. Siegel of the winning team did
the 40-yard swim in 0:20 As, clip
ping a second off the old mark. Bur-
chau of Sears-Roebuck Y. M. c. A.
Topped a second and a fifth off the
440-yaTd time, negotiating the dis
lance in 6:26. The relay time for
$50 yards was 1:3O, made by Sinai.
New Trier High finished third to Oak
Park.
In the wrestling championships at
the Chicago Hebrew institute last
night H Chaveriat, 14O-poUnd junior
champion, was beaten by Henry Mey-
ers of C. H. L Svboda of Pisen. So
kol went through the first round of
the junior heavyweight division, and
R. Anderson, Chicago Swedish. club,
125-pOund champion, entered the
finals.
Heine Zimmerman, Cub third base
man, has signed an agreement to
pay his wife $40 a week during the
playing season and $40 a week dur
ing the winter for the support of her
self and their child. Mrs. Zim dropped
separation proceedings, but the cou-
pie will not live together again.
For 20 years Sol LeVinson has been
refeTeeing on the bush circuit" of
fistiana in California without once
having to run for a train"
Sol boasts about it as a soldier
might show you medal for bravery.
To referee that long ''in the bush"
without being stormed by irate fight
fans entities a man to honorable
mention, believes LeYinsOn.
I'm willing to admit" he says,
that l have been nervous on one or
two occasion. But I've never been
ridden out of town on a rail. My
hair hasn't even been mussed." And
Co15g Loir TTCTD no DTI 1ioo ,-5
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-03

President Comiskey of the White
SOX is in New York to attend the
meeting Of the American league to-
day. The player rule adopted by the
National league will be considered
and it is probabIy,the number of men
each team is aIlOwed>to carry will be
materially reduced. 1t is not believed
the American will reduce to q men,
however. The schedule will also be
adopted.
Tonight winds up the six-day BIZ
cycle race at the International amphi-
theater and hot sprints for the finish
are assured under the manner of de-
termining a winner. The New York
practice of letting the tied teams set
tie results in a final sprint of mile
will not be employed.
Berlin methods will be followed.
The teams behind will drop out an
hour before the finish. Then will
come a One-hOur battle between the
leaders that will practically amount
to continuous spTinting. The rules
calls for a sprint every Is laps, and
points will be awarded for each
sprint, six for first place, five for Sec
Ond, four for third and so on.
At the conclusion of the last hour
the points will be totaled and the
team having the greatest number will
be declared the winners.
Today the iron men of each team
are holding the track and grinding
out the laps. In the dressing rooms
the sprint men are taking it easy,
coming out to relieve their partners
at infrequent intervals. They are
resting for the big crush of the final
hour.
Five teams are still in tie for the
lead and undoubtedly they will stick
to the finish, as all the riders ap-
peared strong. Hard grinding last
night and early today set the men
ror+ tho rooOrd ond in 1O1 bO11rC
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01
Discovers
Valuable
Processes

WASHINGTON, d. c., March
DIR. Walter F. Ritter, chemi-
cal engineer of the bureau of
mines, has completed two dis
coveries, after years of careful
research, which will be of untold
value to American industries and
to the military arm of the gov
eminent. Secretary Lane has an
nounced the discoveries.
He will dedicate his patents to
the public.
The one of interest in CONNER
cial circles enables oil reiineries
to increase their output of gaso-
line by 200 per cent.
The other makes Il possible to
produce from crude petroleum. of
toluol and benzol. bases for dyes
and high explosives. Heretofore
the world has depended upon
Germany for these products.
Secretary Lane pointed on.
that The gasoline industry yielded
about s150.000,0O0 a year, em-
phasizing the Importance of the
first discovery. since the available
supply is running shorter,
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cass. Boost him along, and I'll
promote you to his place, and
he's getting forty-five dollars a
MONTH"
1t was plain that l could look
for no help or mercy from Wolf
Larsen. Whatever was to be done
] must do for myself; and out of
the courage of fear | evolved the
plan Of fighting Thomas Mug
ridge with his own weapons.
borrowed milestone from Jo-
hansen. Louis, the boatsteerer,
had already begged me for con-
densed milk and sugar. The lazar-
cite, where such delicacies we're
stored, was situated beneath the
cabin floor. Watching my chance,
! stole five cans of the milk, and
that night, when it was Louis's
watch on deck, traded them with
him for a dirk as lean and cruel
looking as Thomas Mugridge's
vegetable knife. 1t was rusty and
dull. but | turned the grindstone
while Louis gave 1t an edge. I
slept more souEdly than usual that
night.
Next morning, after breakfast,
Thomas Mugridge began his whet,
whet, whet. j glanced warily at
him, for / was on my knees TAX
ing the ashes from the stove.
When l returned from throwing
them aside, he was talking to
Harrison. whose honest yokel's
face was filled with fascination
and wonder.
YES" Mugridge was saying,
"an' wot does is worship do but
give me two years in Reading.
But blimey IL / cared. The other
mug was fixed plenty. Should "a
seen i'm. Knife just like this. /
stuck 1t In, like into soft butter,
an the wy o squealed was bet
tern tu-penny gaff." He shot a
glance in my direction to see IL I
was taking 1t in, and went on. 81
didn't mean 1t, Tommy O. was
snifflin'; so 'elp me Gawd, /
didn't mean it, I'll fix yer
bloody well right i SEE, an kept
right after i'm. I cut i'm in rib
bons, that's wot / did, an e.
a-squealin' all the time. Once q
got is and on the knife an tried
to old 1t. 'Ad lis finger around 1t,
but / pulled 1t through, cuttin' to
the bone. o, o was sight, | can
tell yer"
A call from the mate inter-
rupted the CORY narrative, and
Harrison went aft. Mugridge sat
down on the raised threshold to
the galley and went on with his
knife-sharpening. put the
shovel away and calmly sat down
on the coal-box facing him. He
favored me with vicious stare.
Still calmly, though my heart was
going pitapat. pulled out Louisa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01

Cheese--W ashington, lee; TIL
Iamook, Ice.
Eggs-Fresh ranch. 22@23c.
Storage, 20@23c.
Butter-WashIngton creamery.
32@33c; Oregon, CSC; East
ern, soc.
Wholesale Meat Prices.
Fresh Meats - Steers 12K y
lac: cows, liz @12c: heifers,
12c: hogs, trimmed sides, 16la G.;
ewes, lie; mutton, wethers
12hc; lamb. lac; veal. 12@14c,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01

dirk and began to whet II on the
stone. had looked for almost
any sort of explosion on the Cock
ney's part, but to my surprise he
did not appear aware of what
was doing. He went on whetting
his knife. SO did /. And for two
hours we sat there, face to face
whet, whet, whet, till the news oc
IL spread abroad and half tho
ships company was crowding the
galley doors to see the sight.
Encouragement and advice were
freely rendered, and Jock Horner,
the quiet, self-spoken hunter who
looked as though he would not
harm a mouse, advised me to
leave the ribs alone and to thrust
upward for the abdomen, at the
same time giving what he called
the Spanish twist" to the blade.
Leach, his bandaged arm promi-
nently to the fore, begged me to
leave a few remnants OF the cook
for him; and Wolf Larsen paused
once or twice at the break of the
poop to glance curiously at what
must have been to him a stirring
and crawling of the yeasty thing
he knew as life.
And make free to say that for
the time being life assumed the
same sordid values to me. There
was nothing pretty about 1t. Moth
ing divine-only two cowardly
moving things that sat whettins
steel upon stone, and group Of
other moving things, cowardly
and otherwise, that looked on.
Half of them, ! am sure. were
anxious to see us shedding each
others blood. 1t would have been
entertainment. And do not think
there was one who would have In
terfered had we closed in DEATH
struggle.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01

box. 75c. Oranges, Camelias,
$2.35 per box. Lemons. SO $50.
Grape fruit, $3.50 box. Cali grape
fruit, $3.50 box. Persimmons,
1Oc Id. Pomegranates, 81 box.
Spanish Malaga grapes, $3.50 keg.
Pineapples, $3.50 doz.
Vegetables--Green onions. zoe
doz.; Oregon yellow, cwt., $1.65
Oils. HID lettuce, Cali, $2.25 pr
crate; leaf lettuce. 75c. Yaki-
man turni,s, $1.25; rutabagas.
$1.25 sack; carrots, $1.25. Pota-
toes, Melted Gem, s20@21 ton.
White River. $1,000 t on Cab
bage, $1.65 cwt. Oregon cauliflow-
err, 1925 crate. Spinach, $1.25
box. Chill peppers, $1.35 box. Wax
tssp5. Sc. Pumpkins. NC. Ore
gon cider, 20 @30c. Celery, $40
4.5O crate. Sprouts, SC lib. Flor
ida tomatoes, IS crate. Rhubarb,
Toe Id. Sweet potatoes, So cwt.
Parsley, 30c doz. bu.
Brussels sprouts, SC lib; egg
plant, 10 Id. Cal. Hubbard
squash, 2 NC Id.
Hops, 1914 crop, 12@14hc;
1915 crop, 10 q 15 NC; 1913 crop,
lac.
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| him, and when i left the galley |
went out backwards--to the
amusement of the sailors and
hunters, who made point of
gathering In groups to witness my
exit. The strain was too great.
sometimes thought my mind
would give way under ia meet
thing on this ship of madmen and
brutes. Every hour, every minute
of my existence was in jeopardy.
! was a human soul in distress,
and yet no soul. fore or aft, be-
trayed sufficient sympathy to
come to my aid. At times
thought of throwing myself on
the mercy of Wolf Larsen, but
the vision Of the hooking devil In
his eyes that questioned life and
sneered at it would come strong
upon me and compel me to re-
frain. At other times / seriously
contemplated suicide, and the
whole force of my hopeful philoso-
ply was required to keep me from
going over the side in the dark
ness of night.
Several times Wolf Larsen tried
to inveigle me into discussion, but
l gave him short answers and
eluded him. Finally, he COM
manded me to resume my seat at
the cabin table for time and let
the cook do my work. Then |
spoke frankly, telling him what
was enduring from Thomas Mug
ridge because of the three days of
favoritism which had been shown
me. Wolf Larsen regarded me
with smiling eyes.
so you're afraid, eh?" he
sneered.
YES" I said defiantly and
honestly, 81 am afraid"
That's the way with you fell
lows" he cried, half angrily,
"sentimeutalizing about your i'm
mortal souls and afraid to die.
At sight of sharp knife and a
cowardly Cockney the clinging of
life to life overcomes all your
fond foolishness. Why, my dear
fellow, you will live forever. You
are a god, and God cannot be
killed. Cooky cannot hurt you.
You are sure of your resurrection.
What's there to be afraid of?
you have eternal life before
you. You are millionaire in
Immortality, and a millionaire
whose fortune cannot be lost,
whose fortune is less perishable
than the stars and as lasting as
space or time. 1t is impossible for
you to diminish your principal.
Immortality is thing without
beginning or end. Eternity is
eternity, and though you die here
and now you will go on living
somewhere else and hereafter.
And 1t is all very beautiful, this
shaking off Of the flesh and soar
ing Of the imprisoned spirit. Cooky
cannot hurt you. He can only
give you boost on the path you
eternally must tread.
eOr, il you do not wish to be
boosted just yet. why not boost
Cooky? According to your ideas,
he, too, must be an immortal mill
lionaire. You cannot bankrupt
him. His paper will always cir
culate at par. You cannot dimin-
ish the length of his living by
killing him, for he is without be-
ginning or end. He's bound to go
on living, somewhere, somehow
/, Then boost him. Stick a knife in
him and let his spirit free. AS 1t
is. it's in nasty prison, and
you'll do him only kindness by
breaking down the door. And who
knows Pit may be very beau
tiful spirit that will 60 soaring up
into the blue from that ugly car
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01

Selling Prices to Retailers
For Butter, Eggs and Cheese
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01
BY JACK LONDON.
Continued From Yesterday

finally crawled to my feet
and assembled the companion
stairs. Fair weather was over,
and there was nothing left but to
return to the galley. My left arm
was numb, as though paralyzed,
and days passed before could use
1t, while weeks went by before the
last stiffness and pain went out of
| it. And he had done nothing but
put his hand upon my arm and
squeeze. There had been no
wrenching or jerking. He had
just closed his hand with a steady
pressure. What he might have
done l did not fully realize till
next day, when he put his head
into the galley, and, as a sign of
renewed friendliness, asked me
how my arm was getting on.
at might have been worse" he
smiled.
j was peeling potatoes. He
picked one up from the pan. 1t
was fair-sized, firm, and unpeeled.
He closed his hand upon it,
squeezed, and the potato squirted
out between his finger in mushy
streams. The pulpy remnant he
dropped back into the pan and
turned away, and ] had a sharp
vision of how it might have faxed
with me had the monster put his
real strength upon me.
But the three days rest was
good in spite of 1t all, for it had
given my knee the very chance
it needed. 1t felt much better,
the swelling had materially de-
creased, and the cap seemed de-
scending into its proper place.
Also, the three days rest brought
the trouble / had foreseen. 1t
was plainly Thomas Mugridge's
intention to make me pay for
those three days. He treated me
vilely, cursed ME continually, and
heaped his own work upon me. He
even ventured to raise his fist to
me, but | was becoming animal
like myself, and l snarled in his
face SO terribly that It must have
frightened him back. 1t is no
pleasant picture ] can conjure up
of myself, Humphrey Van Wey-
den, In that noisome ships gal
ley, crouched in corner over my
task, my face raised to the face
of creature about to strike me,
my lips lifted and snarling like a
dogs, my eyes CLEANING with fear
and helplessness and the courage
that comes of fear and helpless
ness. do not like the picture.
1t reminds me too strongly Of a
rat in a trap. l do not care to
think of it; but 1t was effective,
for the threatened blow did not
descend.
Thomas Mugridge backed away,
glaring as hatefully and viciously
as ! glared. A pair of beasts is
what we were, penned together
and showing our teeth. He was a
coward, afraid to strike me be-
cause | had not quailed suffi-
GENTLY in advance; so he chose a
new way to intimidate me. There
was only one galley knife that, as
a knife, amounted to anything
This, through many years of SER
vice and wear, had acquired a
long, lean blade. 1t was unusu-
ally cruel-looking, and at first
had shuddered every time used
1t. The cook borrowed q stone
from Johansen and proceeded to
sharpen the knife. He didlit with
great ostentation. CHANGING signifi-
cantly at me the while. He whet-
J ted II up and down all day long.
Erarr odd mnmant he could find
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01
Seattle Chinese
Discuss BoycotE

SEATTLE. March 1.-Seattle
Chinese today arr, discussing the
question OF whether they shall
join the boycott against Japanese
goods declared by the Chinese
Six companies of San Francisco.
which resulted from unpleasantry,
between China and Japan In rc-
gard to Japanese demands for
Chinese concessions to the mir
kado.
Many OF the leading Chinese
merchants are opposed to the
boycott and several more favor
1t. As yet no agreement haa been
reached.
The boycott has been decided
on by Chinese IN Vancouver. b
G., and Portland. according IA
dispatches from those places.
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hf had the knife and stone out and
was whetting away. The steel ac-
quired razor edge. He tried 1t
with the ball of his thumb or
across the nail. He shaved hairs
from the back of his hand, glanced
along the edge with microscopic
acuteness, and found, or feigned
that he found, always, a slight in
equality in its edge somewhere.
Then he would put ii on the stone
again and whet, whet, whet, till |
could have laughed aloud, it was
so very ludicrous.
1t was also serious, for ] learn
ed that he was capable of using 1t,
that under all his cowardce there
was a courage of cowardice, like
mine, that would impel him to do
the very thing his whole nature
protested against doing and was
afraid of doing. "Cooky's sharp
ening his knife for Hump" was
being whispered about among the
sailors, and some of them twitted
him about it. This he took in
good part, and was really pleased,
nodding his head with direful
foreknowledge and mystery, until
George Leach, the erstwhile
cabin-boy, ventured some rough
pleasantly on the subject.
Now it happened that Leach was
one of the sailors told off to douse
Mttnri10n affnP hio n nf ~, nd q
with the captain. Leach had evil
IDENTIFY done his task with a thor
oughness that Mugridge had not
forgiven, for words followed aid
evil names involving smirched an
cestries. Mugridge menaced with
the knife he was sharpening for
me. Leach laughed and hurled
more of his Telegraph Hill bill
lingsgate, and before either he or
] knew what had happened, his
right arm had been ripped open
from elbow to wrist by a quick
slash of the knife. The cook
backed away, a fiendish express
sion on his face, the knife held
before him in position of de-
Tense. But Leach took it quite
calmly, though blood was spout
ing upon the deck as generously as
water from fountain.
I'm goin to get you, Cooky,"
he said, land I'll get you hard
Aud | won't be In no hurry about
it, You'll be without that knife
when | come for you."
SO saying, he turned and walked
quietly forward. Mugridge's face
twas livid with fear at what he
had done and at what he might
expect sooner or later from the
man he had stabbed. But his de-
fmeanor toward me was more fero-
cious than ever. In spite of his
fear at the reckoning he must ex-
lspect to pay for what he had done,
| be could see that 1t had been an
object-lesson to me, and he be-
came more domineering and ex-
lultant. Also there was a lust in
him, akin to madness, which had
come with sight Of the blood he
chad drawn. He was beginning to
see red in whatever direction he
looked. The psychology of 1t is
sadly tangled, and yet | could
read the workings of his mind as
clearly as though it were printed
book.
Several days went by, the Ghost
still foaming down the trades, and
| I could swear saw madness
growing in Thomas Mugridge's
eyes. And l confess that be-
came afraid, very much afraid.
Whet, whet, whet, It went all day
long. The look in his eyes as he
| felt the keen edge and glared at
me was positively carnivorous. ]
was afraid to turn my shoulder to
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of their marriage while their
royal cousins and brothers and
uncles are busy slaughtering each
other.
King Georges daughter, Prin-
cess Mary, is one OF the royal
young women whose matrimonial
prospects have been spoiled by
war. An alliance with some one
of the reigning families of Europe
would undoubtedly have been ar
ranged for the princess this year,
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Princess Mary, whose marriage
prospects have been spoiled by
war.
but. with all the crowned heads
at war, matchmaking is an I'M
popular occupation.
Princess Maud of Fife, is an
other English princess whom war
has left without sutton. With
all the eligible princes fighting
on land or sea, II would be use
less to arrange a marriage feast
at which Death might preside.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01
Wholesale Hay and Grain
Prices

Wheat hay. $14@15; clover,
$16017; alfalfa, $14@15; corn,
s36; cracked, $36; wheat. $52;
shorts. $34: bran. $50: oats. SAL.
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England's grim command,
Breed before you die" was ad-
dressed to common folks. not to
royalty.
There are no war brides in
the royal family.
But there are several marriage
able Processes without suitors,
and there's very small prospect
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01
Wholesale
Quotations
Prices Paid Producers For
Meats, Butter, Eggs, Poultry

Livestock-Cows, SO &C; calves
8@9c; hogs. INC; sheep, 40 SC;
lambs, SC. Dressed hogs, loo.
Butter ana Eggs-rancn but
ter, 30@31c; strictly fresh ranch
eggs, 81 a 23c.
Poultry chickens. dressed.
14@16c; ducks, Sc; squads, 81;
chickens, live, 9@12c.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01

Turn TO Lse want ads. pngc ..
II will save ron time and money.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-01

Frufts--Native apples. 1901
Bansras, 4hc lb. Jap DRAMAS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-31
Burglars Gag and
Bind Woman to Tree
in Yard of Her Home

After ransacking the house and
falling to find the money they were
searching for, two white men dragged
Mrs. William DeVeter, sos South
Front street, from her home early this
morning, bound and gagged the wo-
man, and tied her to tree ir the yard
at the rear of her home.
Sometime later Mrs. Deverter was
found by her husband and her 16-
year-old daughter who summoned the
police. The woman to-day is suffer-
ing from nervous collapse and Is
unable to tell a story of the attack.
The robbers awakened Mrs. De-
Verter when they entered her room
They first ransacked the bureau draw
ers and then threatened to kill her if
she did not tell where the money was
The men carried Mrs DeVerter down
stairs and into the yard. They used
a cloth and stick for gag and fasten
ed her to tree. The robbers made
a sudden departure and it is believed
were frightened off.
Detectives Ibach and Murnane are
working on the case but have been
unable to find clue. All that is miss
ing from the house Is twenty cents In
change which was on a sideboard.