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! would rather >tar,c than tab. a
cent Of that money. Ne take tine money
ground out Of unt"tt'utt" people /
guess uu.
4 Wt~ .ufnrmcd hv 'nc Hamilton
Trust Company tnt' uh'l, my uncle
had neglected. To- maxi" Il VII he had
rla.ul siguiii-d h's Intention Of lcav-
lug stu.uu0 to ne. 50. 600 ~ the Long
Island 'ull'g" Hospital, S13."ou q" the
May SIDE Home. slu.u"u To Nles Annie
Ingalls,. <l1."0" 20 the Hruoklyu Hos
p.tdi and tl".u"n To- the th!ldrens Aid
Society "t Rrooklyu. That makes sili.-
u"o, and | believe there ~ cons 'dsra bl.
NOR" besides. Since my uncle had never
don" anything more to carry out
these plans except 20 assign mortgages
for Ssi, oUu 10 hV" institutions. the law
lers say that the hequ"sts ar" prob
ably Illegal. uncomple,ed gifts In
that ease most OF tine property would
naturally com" 80 mc. | don't want il.
My uncl" war too '"wardly 10 make
Il Will That ~ why none exists More
than that, | am as sure IS | can he Of
anything ON this earth that thes. so
called mortgag" assignments to chaIi-
tanl" institutions were lies and that
m} Cn,l" Ripley was f,r1liug people.
II" wts never Interested IN a charity in
his lfn aud ! don't bcI.,. h. ever
meant ia CIV" "a cent to charity
u have notified the Hamilton Trust
Company in writing that ! have re-
jrCtcd the estate. | have washed my
hands OF IA" whole business. Lei the
trust cpupauy and tn" lawyers work Il
out--do what s proper"
Mr. EIpl"N Indicated the institutions
he wished 10 ltaN" money To and tn,
amounts Icy assignment, noted IN an
Old bank book which n" had placed
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The situation is "A peculiar one. The
courts VIII have tu decide As 10 the
lasalitN of the Institutional beuuestS
Ii thrS" ar" diSappruNrd tine whole es-
tato OF about s20u. ouo would legally
fall to Miss ktching. Possibly in
time advisers will persuade her 10
change her mind, hut she seemed IN
flexible enough yesterday
Francis r. Ripley was an cxtruurdi-
nary character. II" might have stepped
from bick,U,'s pdg"S. When he died
Ia his rooms on iii" top floor of so stat.
street. Iro"klNn, uu Novomhcr II. in
his seventy ninth year, hc was ,l!te
alone. aS he had been all of his life.
II" Was "A clerk IN the Bank of New
York for more than forty years, saving
every cent he could save and setting his
mind stronger and stronger in the deter
minaton to he rich lie denied himself
All of the pleasures while he skimpod
aud pared and saved, lie began to hly
mortgages. u" had ninety-iive of than,
good, tirst class mortgages, when he
died. In later years h" permitted HIM
self ON" expense, book buying lie was
!, confirmed hookworn. and when hn was
not fguriug over his mortgages and
handling IN" documents themselves he
was browsing in his really rcmarhahln
library Here were more than 7,OOo
volumes. AL cNprrilY ,atalogurd with
some good old prints.
"Aftcr he died ~ pneumonia which
followed u sudden chin. his papers were
delivered 10 me" said Miss Kitrhlng
II promptly turned them over to tho
Hamilton Trust Company and instructed
|. to act a. seemed hest"
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t;rahaIne- White. who was commits
stoned u Lieutenant last month. won
prominence several years ago by his
spectacular flights In England and
America. Grahame-Whitc's wife. for
m@rly Miss Dorothy Taylor OF New
York. obtained last month q decree for
the restitution Of her conjuga rights,
a preliminary step in England TO suit
for divorce.
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WAsHiSGToN, Fen 13.--omcials OF
the German Embassy are expecting a
final settlement OF the I.usitania case
before the end Of the present week.
By Tuesday or Wednesday at she
latest the embassy expects word from
the Berlin Foreign once accepting the
changes of phraseology in the agreement
which Secretary Lansing suggested at
his conference with Count Won Bern
storfY las: week
Although ia" changes did not reach
Berlin until yesterday. it ~ thought
probable that count Won Jagow. finding
them acceptable. may notify the Am.
bassador by wireless tomorrow to pro-
ceed to draw up the formal agreement
and to authorize the Ambas sa,or 10
aitN to IL th- name OF the German For
eign Minister
should this confidence be borne ont
Germany. ~ "A formal communication "a
the United States. will answer the Amer
lean demands for a disavowai. rrpara-
tion and assurances for tn. future by the
Following concessions
Recognition Of liability for rcpara-
ton. owing to the fact that American
lives were destroyed by TIA. act OF re-
prisal which resulted IN the sinking
Of IN. l.usitauia
r,4t.ration of previous assurances
given at the time the Arabic was
sunk, that passenger vessels will not
be- attacked or destroyed without
warning and without measures being
taken for the safety of the uon-com-
batauts on board. provided such ships
do no, try to resist or escape.
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y - never cOntended that the re-
y - the new system would be suf-
"'-i' ".ihsE the hrst few years of op-
'r''''I - pay the railroads and the
~ 'hats|s upon the new investment.
ne tables ~ figures upon which the
''''rfd7 were predicated showed con-
'I'' Vrly that. making calculations based
HpIh the most cOnservstiveIy favorable
s~'Fnpi i|ns, there would be- deficits In
W interest and carrying charges upon
We faiir"ad's money. and that II would
=" som" seven o eight years before this
a'h"., "pu.d be entirely wiped out. and
'hA' following this IL would be a number
~ years before the receipts of the sys-
"m would b. sufficient to pay UP all the
'en'.N that had accumulated upon the
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In her informal memorandum az
February Germany agreed TO ASSUME"
liability. Mr.. Lansing asked that the
word recognize" bc substituted for "as-
sume"
Acceptance Of the recog ion ~ liza
bility ON the ground stated In place. of
AN out and ont disavowal of the attack
itself is TIA. feature of IN" agreement
which is likely 10 arouS" rnost comment
in Congress when tn. text OF the set itl.-
meut IL made public
There is no apprehension in German
quarters Tonight that the Berliu Foreign
once Will hold up the settlement pending
determination by the United States
OF IN" cours. II will take In reference
10 'iermany's announced intention Of
attacking all armed merchant vessels
without warning after March !
In IN" nrst plaC. attention was called
TO the fact that as the I.Isitan'a CORE
spondence in no way involves the ques- j.
lion OF al armed ship. Germany was
lcf' free to make the ruling that armed
vessels are IN reality auxiliary ships of
war and are rot 20 u. GOV, sid. red .ts Cm-
hraccd in IN" assurances that rtss.'. ger
liners Will no. Ice attacked without warn
ing
on Ii. other hand the GERMAN Cow
eminent. II j. pointed out. ha- the OPP
purtuuity tu clos" ia" LuSitau'a ,un-
troNerSN under auspices which VIII serve
best to appcas" German public opinion
when the concessions made 10y Ger
many to end the controversy are made
public.
In other words. y IS expected that
Tn" German Government ~ N position
80 cover m its retreat" 10y assuring
the German people oi IFS readiness to
proceed with N" submarine campaign
against armed enemy liners and 1lreaiy,
II Is sad the ,;"rmsu people have been
led to understand through an announce
inent concerning the proposals which the
nited States has mad. 70 the Entente
Powers looking to the disarmament ~
merchant Vessels that the United States
arquIcsc"S IN oiermany's contention that
armed liners ~. in the category of
ships Of war
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GRAHAME.wHITE IS WOUNDED.
<,istor's Injury II Reported IL
Paris "a Ne serious.

PAEfa. Feb. l3,-The Havas Agency
received . despatch bate tonight saying
that Claude Graham"-White, IN" aviator.
has been seriously wounded.
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Later on the pardon clerk told me
there could be- no parduns because there
had been no crime committed. lie sug-
gested that Judge Swami should free the
two innocent boys in open court, In
stead of doing 50. however. Iudg" Swami
wrote to ,iov. Whitman that ne would b.
plcased to have ,;ov. Whitman grant the
bows "A special parole Albany, however,
remains dear to al appeals for these
boys THIS ISM justice its "a cruel
farce. And so am freely giving the
facts to the newspapers rs u last resort
In the hope that publicity will achieve
results where all else has failed"
Father Curry said that one Of the
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Judge Edward ". swami. now bis-
triCt Attorney. presided a. the trial or
Mccrohan and sullivan. Father curry
says that the young counsel appointed
by the court to defend tho tw" prison
"rs told th" priest 'ha' m view OF Mr..
Banigans Identification of IA. prisoners
and other circumstances he had advised
his clients to plead guilty to assault IN
the second desre" and receive compare
lively light sentences. whereas 4 they
insisted upon "A plea of not guilty and
were convicted Judg. Swami had SAID
10 tn. lawyer h" would give them the
maximum sentenc. for first degree rob-
berry. which means twenty years.
tnvillinGly. says Father Curry. they
pleaded guilty as suggested aud were
sentenced to sing slug 10Y thr," and
a half years each. Beforc h"ing re-
moved from the ToWbs TO sing sing
Father curry ~ the course 90 h!s prison
duties learned OF their cts' Th"r"upon
Ne set about looking W. the real ,r.mi-
mails and finally managed tu ind them.
II. sent young men "C ms parish g. the
guilty men with a u"s-ag" 20 come
To- his rcctory. a. % oliver street. Father
curry i'm tn. m"autlW" SAYS hc went to
Judg" SWAIN and told him tutt h, had
tho lain.s Of IA" real 'u.rrits
on March {. lHii. IN" four men "arrc
% the rcctorN. Tw" ~ them entered
MS s'u"E ''""''H NE ~ "".'S p''
IN ne '"''N ''''" nv '",,'
th' ""'N' ~ W. '''' >''N '''''
u'I '"'"''' ."' 81, ''', ~" N.N,
'"ar'I's' Ne Si''' w. "'"' 'l' priest
house because he Thought d't",t.v"s Wcr"
.Iu""rs ''""i l" N"''' "'"n "'"" "."
men AZ IN" 'r'''S suggestion HN"IlN
went out to- tue sidewalk and per-
suaded the fourth man To- "ut".
Tb. fourth man sat uiupcrl. an tho
odre uf "A lu,lrrr hie ewes dar,iu. from,
riyh, tn lcf, and ready TO iuu,, for the
dnnrv.,y a, TN, urat sign Of danger
"lyha,'s IN. matter. INV hoy asked
cha ,.r,r,ll. rr.,..; "por.t son ,,ust
u,o Skihbicp'
.\.u ,r,,,,.r.l .LUI,. ..>,' -
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
THE PROPER SPIRIT.

THE other day q Mexico business
man called on the Secretary Of the
Mexico Fair and asked II he could
not aid in advertising the annual en-
tertainment. He said he appreciated
the benefit the Fair was TO Mexico
and the advertising it gave the COM
munity and wanted TO do his partfoA
ward haing it q success. To our GER
tain knowledge he hasJtaksn the same
attitude toward the fall entertainment
and any other public enterprise for
the god of Mexico.
This spirit to cooperate and aid
in the wide exploitation of the city
and it interests is what a town must
have. We have been pleased by the
calls of others who are in business
and some who travel on the road and
still others who arr not in business
who ask what they can do toward
spreading the good word concerning
the Fair.
This is the spirit that has always
kept Mexico at the forefront in the
rank Of cities Of its size. This spirit
to cooperate among its people and
their willingness to give Of their
time and money to further its enter
prisies has born fruit.
The establishment Of a town is an
evidence Of involuntary cooperation
and to round this spirit into a unified
expression Of this great social force
can mean nothing less than the towns
rapid growth and development. II
we ever expect to accomplish any
thing great for Mexico we must fos-
ter and nourish this spirit until it be-
comes the dominant factor in ouI
community life.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
A GALLOWAY SURGEON N
FRENCH ARMY HOSPITAL

A Columbia man has received a
long letter from DIR. James P. Stow
ers, of Millersburg, who is a surgeon
in a French hospital, says the Fulton
Sun. A part of the letter follows:
II am not attached to the largest
French hospital in France, with more
than 1000 beds and a most interest
ing surgical service. / have all of the
surgery Of 200 beds and am consult
ing surgeon of the hospital. There
are many other divisions of various
specialties such as contagious dis
eases, medicine and the like, but at the
present moment they are being done
away with to make the whole thing q
hospital of evacuation. All Of the
wounded of this region will come
Lere, have an operation If necessary,
and at once be sent TO the interior un-
less they are too seriously wounded.
Fortunately, the wounded arrive one
hour or nor after being wounded,
and ] have an opportunity TO treat the
wounded by the method Of DR.. Carrel,
the famous surgeon from the Rookie
seller Institute, who is here with me.
Unfortunately we have TO operate
with practically no instruments at
all. 1t is impossible for the French
government to supply all of the hos
pitals with everything needed. ! have
written some Of my friends TO aid US
and all have given freely. But 1t is
not sufficient and should you hear Of
someone wishing to donate something
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
DIFFERENCES IN OPINIONS.

FOR instance, one of the Progress
i've leaders from Ohio gives it as his
opioion that, "Mr. Wilson will get
fully n half of the vote which was
cast for Col. Roosevelt in 1912. He
figures it out this way. There were
more than 100000 Democratic voters
in Ohio in 1912; Of this number Mr..
Wilson only received $4,000 votes, 50
that at least $4,000 Democrats in
Ohio voted for Mr.. Roosevelt be-
aus they knew that he was q dead
" enemy to the political bosses, and
Mr.. Wilson at that time was as an IN
known as a political leader as Mr..
Hughes is today. So Mr. Wilson viii
certainly get those 10000 votes which
went to Col. Roosevelt in 1912, and in
addition thereto he win get n third
Of the 10000 Republican votes which
were cast for Mr.. Roosevelt, 50 that
Of the $4,000 votes that were cast
for Col. Roosevelt in Ohio in 1912 Mr..
Wilson is likely to get 10000; not only
half, but more than half.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
HAPPINESS N KusINESs

THERE is little need for 3 nan Be
coming discouraged in this world Il
he fails at anything be attempts be
can always become . Successful pes
sinis+
Who ever knew . successful man
that was a pessinistiel he ability
to get Joy from life is one o ths
elements Of aehiving success in any
line Of business whea you wrap Up
q Smile in 6 bundle Of msrehandise,
with quality for q right pries you are
going to make a ~repe4." Customer.
Happiness is what everyone wants
lit is more contagious than measles
and q great deal more welcome. II
you humAnize your business, no mas
ter what you sell. you have added =
service the customer wants as much
as he does the article you Distribute.
Pessimism is the hall mark Of fail
ure. II is the one dark cloud with0uT
the ~proverbial silver linirg-the eS-
eeption that proves the rule The maa
who talks business prosperity, rad
ates intelligent business sense and
serves must succeed. You cannot win
unless you have faith in yourself,
your business and your customers
You must always figure that the
consumer who buys from you is get
ting more profit from his purchase
than you are from the sale, If you
would make good. Some Of this proht
is the pleasure he experiences in do
ing business with you thing his
money cannot buy nor the whole
saler supply you with. If you desire
friends you must be one; do not let
any transaction end with the ex-
change Of the purchase price. There
is nothing 50 devoid Of friendship as
money. It is equally divided with
good intentions in the paving Of he'll.
It neither spells success nor happi-
ness. In the last analysis your sue
cess in business is the personality you
instill into that business; the JOY it
brings you in a service well done and
Joys from trading with you. The dol
lar and cents consideration is secon-
dairy and counts for little in the final
summing up.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20

improve their living conditions, mar.
in these directions, their cooperation
will mean a great deal mere and will
meet a much prompter response and
ket facilities and credit methods.
When the towns give vigorous heir
a smaller inclination to depend on mail
order houses.
The buying and selling department
of this unit Of town and surrounding
country territory is just rs impor-
tant and just as truly productive as
are the fields and pastures in which
corn, oats, wheat and hogs are BRO
duced for home use or for market.
The old idea that only the farmer and
miner really produce anything, and
that those who buy and sell for gain
are mere parasites, has been explod-
ed and W know now that the banker
and storekeeper, the railroad and the
steamship, and tthe manufacturer
and jobber, r just as productive as
any Of the other producers II their
work is economically handled. Il is
poor business policy for any Of these
useful members Of society to sheer
at any other, or to refuse cooperation
for the common god.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
Running and Automobile Races
WRITE FOR PROGRAM MITCHELL wIrTP Nj :,

and aid suffering humanity, kindly
have them send at once what they
will, preferably for me at present,
surgical instruments. All of the sur
geons will &c grateful.
"The transportation of the wound
ed from the trenches is carried on by
ambulances, as there are no trains
from here many Of them are driven
by Americans, graduates of the best
schools.
Everything is strictly military
in Compeigne. verything in the town
is closed early in the evening and you
are not allowed on the streets after
900 o'clock OF you are arrested.
There are no telephones or telegraph,
except for the army, and absolutely
no pleasures at all. However, that is
not necessary for everyone is busy
from morning until night, especially
the surgeons. The work we have is
enormous, and we r never finished
But l am hapy to contribute my little
part to the poor suffering men who
come wounded in great numbers da,
after day from the trenches. I Ger.
tainly hope the end Of the terrible
struggle is not far off, for IL it con.
tinues much longer there will be few
men left in either France or Germa.
ny. As for the poor wives, children
parents Of the soldiers, no one car
realize. their sufferings. It is sac
indeed"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
HIGH COST OF LIVING
TO Be STILL HIGHER

The prices of canned foods for the
coming season have every indication
of being higher than for many years.
All the items that enter into the pack
ing Of fruits and vegetables are high
and still soaring. The tin plate from
which the al are made, the solder
with which they are sealed, the paper
and inks for labels, the boxes in
which the can are packed, the nails,
in fact, everything in materials used
in canned goods packing have ad-
vanced from 100 to 500 per cent.
Phe labor question is a serious one.
Not only have the wages paid the OPP
orators been greatly advanced owing
to the increased demand by the NUM-
ton factories, but labor is scarce and
Gamers are having difficulty in get
ting enough operators to run their
packing season is a short one and
men and women hesitate leaving
steady work for the temporary work
in canneries at increased wages.
While 1t is impossible to forecas,
the pack of corn and tomatoes this
esly in the season, the pack of peas
asparagus, small fruits, pineapples
and California fruits, is far short Of
normal, and prices on all these line,
are sure to run much higher.
The housewife who buys her mex
winters supply Of canned goods at the
present market prices will be able e
show her hard working chubby" a mic,
saving in her table budget.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
The Weekly Ledger
Thursday, July 20, 1916

TIE Federated Clubs started their
social service campaign 10 raise funds
for a visiting nurse and to maintain
an associated charities this week
This splendid movement should re
eeive the fullest cooperation from ev-
eryone. They intend to inseligentiy
care for the poor and needy in sick
ness as well as more material mat
tsrA This is the only way charity
can be distributed efficiently; It elm
mates the wAster and faksr and the
worthy poor are cared for 50 that they
do not become a burden On any one
part Of the community, but the ex-
pense is evenly distributed The good
wonen behind this movement are CIV
ing freely Of their time and money
and should be met more than half way
BY those they visit Make your dOna-
ton Emilingly, give them a cheering
word as they leave and lend your
moral support to the movement
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
- "
STOLE CAR IN

Between 4:30 and 5 o'clock Saturday
morning a man broke into the garage
Of F. H. Hobrecht, Of Columbia, stole
a seven-pasenger Buick car, loaded all
the extra tires he could find in the
garage in the car and fled. When he
crossed the Missouri river at st.
Charles, Mo-, the police there, who
had been warned to watch for him,
gave chase on foot, firing at the car
with their revolvers as they ran. At
ter a wild ride through the business
section of the city, a collision on the
street with a delivery wagon, in which
the horse was killed, the thief aban-
doned the a and fed to the woods.
where he was thought to be in hiding
Sunday. He had changed the number
Of the license on the car, but it was
identified as the property Of Hob
recht. In climbing over a fence in his
dash into the woods the thief lost his
hat, which the police are using as a
clew in their search.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-20
Town and Country, cooperate!
(By A. J, MEYER, Missouri College Of
Agricultural

The average middIe-west small
town is not a complete unit without
the country which surrounds it. They
are parts of one unit. Either without
the other will fail TO do its work well.
The occasional Fourth of July cele-
bration, street fair, or similar whole
sale getting together, is not the kind
Of cooperation which alone viii bring
the parts Of this unit into the best
working harmony. Each must help
the other in solving the problems Of
the whole unit. The town must not
feel that this cooperation consists
in dragging the farmer away from
home in order that he may be induced
to spend his money, and the farmer
must not feel that towns thrive only
at his expense. One acts as the SELL
ing and buying department of the
unit, and the other as the producing
department.
Middle-west farmers are realizing
more keenly every year that their
greatest problems r social and eco
nomic problems. They may need to
improve their methods Of crop raising,
but they need much more 10