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Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22
tract for ss.s54.5o a year.

The second proposition was similar
to the first only it provided for long
er contract and an extension Of the
Mexico Power Company's franchise.
Iron poles would be used instead Of
wooden ones downtown and changes
in the location and addition of lights
would be allowed.
Mayor Dry and all members of the
council except w. F. Atkinson and
F. M. Ragsdale were present.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Mason Mcdonald superintendent of
Schools at Stanberry, Mo-, has re-
turned to his home after visit with
James Culbertson and Robert Camp
bell Of this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Mrs. ]. D. Miller has just returned
from Chicago, where she has been vis-
iting her daughter, Mrs. ]. J. Dona-
hue. Mrs. Miller brought back with
her two of Mrs. Donnahue's children
for a visit.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Sidney Houston of Mexico was here
last week. He is going to go on the
Kansas City Star as reporter in
about month and the Mercury pre-
diets he will make name for himself
and that grand journal. He has the
ability.-Paris Mercury.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

The second quarterly meeting Of The
McCredie Circuit of the Mexico Dis
trict, will be held at WILLIAMSBURG
M. E. church on Saturday and Sunday
July "a and 25.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs, Elon A. Dearing re-
turned from Chicago, Tuesday, with
Miss Viola Merriman who will have
an extended visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Dearing, her uncle and aunt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Sam Morris is home from Chicago.
He must have had delightful trip
as he arrived home without sufficient
funds to change a dime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22
RY F. STAPLES, editor Of the
1 Mail, has announced as can
tOr Lieutenant Governor on
sOcratic ticket.

|ER Gov. Joseph w. Folk,
.nsel for the Interstate Com
.nmission, is to become a can
br the democratic gubernat-
according to some Of
sate friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

EDBETTER, managing edit
st. Louis Republic. writes
! in reply to an invitation
b and Love visit this sec
b which passes through this
Eliminates The Mineola hills,
ilI be impossible for them
he visit at this time but II
arranged later he viii be
q so.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Strunk came
over from Columbia Sunday and
spent the day. They have secured
rooms in the Pollard House and will
move here shortly. Mr.. Strunk is the
newly elected principal of Mcmillan.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Farmers Of Audrain county
8 work as a unit to make the
Fair a big success this year.
e past nine years the Associa-
aAs lost money This year the
races have been eliminated
ouch Of the money which has
in financing purses for them
Zen expended in increased prizes
e show rings and exhibits.
will be some racing and a num-
i novel entertainment features
announced shortly. The fair
fear will be Of greater interest
le farmer than ever. Start
ping your live stock for the
rings and arranging for the
in other exhibits. We want to
a splendid showing this season.
'ntally there is nothing that adj
es the agricultural interests Of
bin as does the Mexico Fair
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Mrs. j. T. johnson is back from
Columbia where she has been visiting
her son, Cave, who is i'll at the
Parker hospital. Mr., johnson is get
ting along nicely,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

!, are times when generalit-
j very well but in the present
Il correspondence between
I and the United States Pres
hson's demand for a specific
Ned on the usages Of inter-
aw, seem eminently correct,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

kico intends TO grow the mo
.ho refuse to follow the traf-
nces had better be taken in
some day we win awaken to
h they have started their
depicting the population.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

E. 7. Smith who has been i'll for the
past month is feeling better today
and would be glad to see his friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Martin and Fred
E. Merrill all of Kansas City were
through Mexico, Thursday, enroute to
New York in a motor car.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

The Recorders Office at the court
house is being papered and painted,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22

lckney ouisenberry, son of Mr..
Mrs. James Quisenberry, de-
Tuesday for Roswell, N. NJ,
he has obtained a position as
clerk in a hotel managed by
Johnson, formerly Of Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-22
IN Reading Matter

Weekly Ledger and the
a Agriculture Of st. Louis,
Ecribers only one year,
Nance, s1.00- : The Mexico
edger and the Tygice-A-
bBc to new subscribers
in advance, until January
|HITE & SON, LEDGER,
Mexico, No.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
INSURANCE COMPANIES KNOCK.

The general manager of one of the
big life insurance companies of this
country, in a letter to one of his agents
declining to write a policy for a sa.
loonkeeper, had this to say:
I'VE do not want the name of be.
ing a saloonkeepers' company, and of
taking a grade of risks which are
promptly refused by the leading and
co~nservatfvely managed companies OF
the country.
Life insurance companies are en-
gaged-all of them-in encouraging
thrift, protecting homes, and in
serving the welfare of the individual,
the community and the state. Sa.
loonkeepers-all of them-are en-.
gagged in discouraing thrift, destroying
homes and in injuring the individual,
the community and the state. There
Is nothing in common between us,
and we do not even care for business
relations with them"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
ORIGIN OF ONYX.

When waters charged with carbon
ate of calcium derived from limestone
are allowed to %evaporate they deposit
their load in the form of sinter, or
tufa. This process can be observed at
many thermal and "petrifying"
springs and also in the formation of
stalactites and stalagmites in lime
stone e In this way large
masses of compact carbonate are
formed, some of them of great beauty.
The so-called "onyx marbles, of which
the Mexican "onyx" is a familiar ex-
ample, are formed in this way. Some
rock of this class is stalagmitic, in
caverns, and some of it is formed by
springs. It's variations in color and
texture, to which its ornamental char
acter IS largely due, are commonly
produced by impurities or inclusions
such as oxide of iron, or even mud and
CLAW.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
MUSTN'T CASH PAY CHECKS.

A deputation from the Ministerial
association of Los Angeles recently
went before the public safety com
mittee with a request that saloons be
forbidden to cash pay checks. A gen.
eral public discussion followed, GER
tain employers promising to pay in
cash, and certain banks and stores Of
fering to keep open to cash checks.
AS a result the police commission is
sued an order prohibiting check-cash-
ing by saloons. On the following
Monday the chief of police reported
at follows:
I'VE usually have from 80 to 80 ar
rests for drunkenness on Saturdays
and Sundays, but for the last two
days we have had but AZ for each
day, which / attribute directly to the
enforcement of the order forbidding
saloons to cash pay checks"
Among other results must be count.
ed the increased efficiency of 40 work
ers, a happy Sunday for 40 families,
money spent with the legitimate
trades, and the saving of court and
Jail expense of caring for 40 DRINKS.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
NATIONS LABOR
PROBLEM
OVER A MILLION AND A HALF
WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
BY Peter Radford

Lecturer National Farmers Union.
Our government never faced SO ire
mendous a problem as that now lying
dormant at the doors of congress and
the legislatures, and which, when
aroused, will shake this nation from
center to circumference, and make
civilization hide its face in shame.
That problem is-women In the field.
The last federal census reports
show we now have 1,514, 900 women
working in the field, most of them
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
There were approximately a million
negro slaves working in the fields
when liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed our
slaves and our women have taken
their places in bondage. We have
broken the shackles off the negroes
and welded them upon our daughters.
The chain-Gang of Civilization.
A million women in bondage in the
southern fields form the chain-gang of
civilization = the industrial tragedy
of the age. There isTno overseer quite
SO cruel as that of unrestrained greed,
no whip that stings like the lash of
suborned destiny, and no auctioneer's
block quite so revolving as that of or
ganized avarice.
The president OF the United States
was recently lauded by the press, and
very properly So, for suggesting medi-
alton between the engineers and rail
road managers in adjusting their
schedule of time and pay. The eng1-
neers threatened to strike IL their
wages were not increased from ap-
proximately ten to eleven dollars per
day and service reduced from ten to
eight hours and a similar readjust-
ment of the overtime schedule. Our
women are working in the field, many
of them ~barefooted, for less than SO
cents per day, and their schedule is
the rising sun and the evening star,
and after the days work is over they
milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock
the baby to sleep. Is anyone mediat'
ing over their problems, and to whom
shall they threaten a strike?
Congress has listened approvingly
to those who toll at the forge and be
hind the counter, and many of our
statesmen have smiled at the threats
and have famed the flame Of unrest
among industrial laborers. But WON
en- are as surely the final victims o.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
ANCIENT GEMS FOR MUSEUM.

An amethyst necklace, believed to
have been worn by Crown Princess
Saskatchewan in the twelfth Egyp-
tian dynasty, is on its way to the Bos-
ton Museum of Fine Arts, according
to a letter received by w. G. Winslow
of the Egyptian Research Account So
ciety.
DR.. Flinders Petrie, the field secre-
tary of the society, who has forward
ed the necklace, says in the letter
that it is one of the finest he has ever
seen, the settings of the stone being
gold amulets of unique workmanship.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23

and guide the pillow. What is to be-
come of that nation where poverty
breaks the crowns of the queens of
the home; despair hurls a mothers
love from its throne n hunger drives
innocent children from the schoolroom
to the noe?
The census bureau shows that 1885,
900 of these women are forty-lve
years of age and over. There is no
more pitiful sight In civilization than
these sanity mothers of Israel stopped
with age. drudging In the field from
sun until sun and at night drenching
their dingy pillows with the tears Of
despair as their aching hearts take
1t all to God in prayer. Civilization
strikes them a blow when it should
give them a crown, and their only
friend is he who broke bread with
beggars and said: Come unto me all
We that r weary and heavy laden and
/ will give you rest"
Oh, Americai The land of the free
and the home Of the brave, the
worlds custodian of chivalry, the
champion of human rights and the de-
fender of the oppressed-shall we per-
NIT our maidens fair to be torn from
the hearthstone by the ruthless hand
of destiny and chained to the pillow?
Shall we permit our faithful wives,
whom we covenanted with God to cher
ish and protect, to be hurled from the
home to the harvest field, and our
mothers dear to be driven from the old
arm chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from the
forces of civilization, can we not apply
to our fair Dixieland the rule of the
sea-"women and children first?"
There must be a readjustment of
the wage scale of industry so that the
women can be taken from the field OF
given a reasonable wage for her serv-
ices. Perhaps the issue has eve been
fairly raised, but the Farmers Union,
with a membership of ten million, puts
its organized forces %squarely behind
the issue and we now enter upon the
docket of civilization the case of 'sThe
Woman in the Field" and demand an
immediate trial.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23

industrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war between ma
tions, and those who arbitrate and
mediate the differences between capt.
tai and labor should not forget that
when the expenses of any industry are
unnecessarily increased, society foots
the bill by drafting a new consignment
of women from the home to the field.
Pinch no Crumb From Women's Crust
of Bread.
No financial award can be made
without someone footing the bill, and
we commend to those who accept the
responsibility of the distribution of in
dustrial justice, the still small voice Of
the woman in the field as she pleads
for mercy, and we beg that they pinch
no crumb from her crust of bread or
put another patch upon her ragged
garments.
We beg that they listen to the
scream of horror from the eagle on
every American dollar that Is wrung
from the brow of toiling women and
hear the Goddess of Justice hiss at a
O1dlC tndI 1nCt 0dSO6 lh0 want VI
woman to satisfy the greed of man.
The women behind the counter and
in the factory cry aloud for sympathy
and the press thunders out in their
defense and the pulpit pleads for
mercy, but how about the woman in
the field? Will not these powerful
opponents of human rights turn their
talent, energies and influence to her
relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty
enthroned at Washington hold the cal
loused hand and soothe the feverisf
brow of her sex who sows and reaps
the nations harvest or will she permit
the male of the species to shove
women-weak and weary-from the
bread-line of industry to the back al
leys of poverty?
Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell us that
of the 1 ,514,000 women who work in the
fields as farm hands 409, 900 are six
teen years of age and under. What Is
the final destiny of a nation whose flu
ture mothers spend their girlhood days
behind the pillow, pitching hay and
hauling manure, and what is to become
of womanly culture and refinement
that grace the home, charm society
and enthuse mar to leap to glory in
noble achievements if our daughters
are raised in the society of the OK and
the com%panionship of the pillow?
In that strata between the ages of
sixteen and forty-ive are $50, 900 wom-
en- working as farm hands and many
of them with sucking babes tug
ging at their breasts, as drenched
in perspiration. they WELD the scythe
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
MIX SENTIMENT AND SENSE
Place is Found for Both in the Life
That is Well and Wisely
Ordered.

Few, indeed, are the persons who
like to be called sentimental. The
word has become associated with the
idea of fickleness and weakness, and
is often applied to simpering women
and ethereal ideas, says the Indianap-
oils News. The man who clings to
the business policy of his father when
that policy is contrary to modern ideas
is said to be actuated by sentiment,
which is often a charitable way of
saying that he is too slow for the
age in which he lives. The Woma
who pets her son until he becomes a
whining man, forever seeking an ear
into which to pour his troubles, is said
to be blinded by sentiment, and the
son is pointed to as a victim of sem
timent.
The chief DIRECTORS to sentiment be-
long to the cult of common sense. 1t
is they who call attention to the errors
of the misguided business mar and
the overindulgent mother. To them
the conduct of such persons is mex
plicable. Instead of Analysing it they
dismiss it as being beneath the notice
of their ideas of a normally consti-
tuted mind. In fact, some advocates
of reason especially those who have
grown away from the tender emotions
of youth, adhere so firmly to their
doctrine and its universal application
that they become sentimental about it.
Fortunately, the extremes in both
cases are rare. The bulk of humanity
is more happily constituted. 1t real
ICES that there is a place for senti-
ment and a place for common sense.
and that there is no sharp line be-
tween the two. Most sensible per-
sons admit that affection plays a large
part in the world of affairs, and af-
lection is largely sentiment. When
sentiment meets a need sense is obi
ged to recognize it. Whatever force
tradition has is sentiment, and COM
mon sense admits that tradition plays
a strong part in government, business
and recreation. But those who lean
toward sentiment must also be aware
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
WHAT MAKES CHAMPIONS.

connie Mack, whose Athletics have
won five American league remnants
LII three worlds championships, is
quoted by a magazine writer as saying
ina alcohol inevitably slows a man
GOWN And slowing down, he con-
tinues, Is the reason for the shelving
Oh Dy Tar the majority of baseball
players. WHO puts the player out of
Inc game?" he goes on. You should
naturally say the umpire; we'll, all the
umpires together haven't put as many
a players out of the game as Old
Man Booze" He explains further,
tnat 1t is not only excessive drinking
that does harm, but that even the mod
crate use of alcohol won't do for the
professional player. 1t will take off
from three to five years of his baseball
life. The Athletics have no rules con
corning their personal habits, but out
OF 20 players in the 1919 worlds con-
test Is had never taken a drink in
their lives. When they were playing
the Chicago Cubs, Mack said to them:
1t would be bad enough to lose the
championship without having a bundle
OF regrets to poster you. It's hard
enough to lose to a better club, but to
beat yourselves-say, that's the way
to throw away a game after you have
won it.
Clean living and quick thinking,
that's the stuff champions are made
Of" says Mack.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
REMARKABLE PROSPERITY.

The United States census bureau
recently issued a noteworthy bulletin
concerning the state of Maine. 1t re.
views the 80 years preceding 1912, and
declares that Maine has passed all the
states in steady advancement of finan.
cial independence. While in 1880
Names per capita debt was $S.49, as
contrasted with an average for all
states of $5.48, the Maine debt in 1912
had been reduced rs per cent and the
average of the other AZ states only SO
per cent. Now Maine owes $1.67 per
capita, and the other states, on the
average, 1882. Bank deposits and in.
vestments have increased wonderfully.
Maine has about 500, 600, 900 in the
way of deposits, with 233, 1000 savings
bank depositors.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
ACT QUICKLY
Delay Has Been Dangerous in Pleas
antville.

Do the right thing at the right
time. Act quickly in time of danger.
In time of kidney danger Doan's Kid
ney Pills are most effective. Plenty
of evidence of their worth.
H. J. Mason, plumber, Vineland,
N. j., says: "Some years ago | was
in bad shape from my kidneys and
| suffered intensely from backache.
When | caught cold it always settled
on my kidneys and in a short time
the pains in my back were so severe
that it was almost impossible for me
to stoop or straighten. The kidney
secretions contained sediment and
plainly showed that my kidneys were
at fault. Doan's Kidney Pills ave
me relief before l finished the first
box and continued use made me WE'LL"
A SECOND ENDORSEMENT
Later Mr.. Mason said: 81 am pleas
ed to again recommend Doans Kidney
Pills and say that they always give
the best results. | still use this renl-
edy occasionally and it keeps my kid
neys in good working order. Price
soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask
for a kidney 1emedy-get Doan's Kid
ney Pills-the same that Mr.. Mason
had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props, Buff
falo, N. Y.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
PETITION.

A petition will come before the next
legislature of Pennsylvania bearing
some 5000 signatures, a majority OF
the convicts in the Eastern State peni-
Tertiary. The petitioners pray for the
prevention of the liquor traffic. They
Respectfully aver" from personal
knowledge of the debasfng influence OF
Intoxicating liquors, that fully 70 per
cent of crime within the state is di.
rectly attributable to their use, and
that the abolition of the sale of liquor
by the state would reduce crime at
least so per cent, If not more
This unique and significant appeal
has caught the public attention and
the press of the country has given il
wide circulation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
THINGS ALL OUGHT TO KNOW
As Christian Bible Students-The Sat-
isfactory Proof of "Why God Permits

Az Christian Bible Students-The Sat-
isfactory Proof of "Why God Permits
Evil"
One of thequestions which comes to
nearly every thinking mind today Is.
"Why does God permit evil?" As we
look about us in the world we observe
that it is filed with sorrow and trouble.
sickness and pain and every trial we
could enumerate. and we cannot help
wondering WHY GOD ALLOWS IT.
We realize that He Is almighty and
that He could prevent it If He wished.
We read in His Word that He is more
willing to do for His children than
are earthly parents for theirs, and we
know how much that means; yet Of
to do and live right have the most
trouble. This question is made very
clear In a book entitled. 1.-THE Divine
Plan of the Ages" Every statement
Is backed by Scripture, and shows that
while God does not sanction evil HE
HAS HAD A PURPOSE IN ALLOW
ING SIN AND DEATH TO REIGN
THESE SIX THOUSAND YEARS.
This and many other subjects of deep
interest to all of Gods people are dis
cussed fully and in language easy of
comprehension.
In English. German, Swedish, Dano-
Norwegian. Italian, French, Greek,
Hungarian, Spanish, Polish, Holland
fish, Finnish. [Syriac and Turko-Ar-
menian in preparation.]
355 pages, cloth bound, So cents post
paid. Address Bible and Tract Socie-
ty, II Hicks Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
POOR MANS CLUB.

1t has beer said that the saloon is
the poor mans club. | want TO say
right here that there was never any
thing so appropriately named. The sa-
loon is the poor mans club that beats
down his health and his character;
the club that knocks the bread from
the mouths OF his children and the
club that breaks the heart of his sor
rowing wife.-Ex-Governor Patterson
of Tennessee.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23

To feel strong, have good appetite
and digestion, sleep soundlv and en-
joy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters,
the family system tonic. Price, $1.00.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23

A lazy liver leads to chronic dys-
pepsia and constipation.-weakens the
whole system. Doan's Regulets (25c.
per box) act mildly on the liver and
bowels. At all drug stores.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23
FOREST FIRES DESTROY MIL.
LIONS.

Forest fires in the United States
have caused an averabe annual loss
of 70 human lives and the destruction
of S25, 900 900 worth of timber.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-23

that tradition is little less than the
accumulated fruit of common sense.