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Si-. i it- The Weekly Ledger. B. M. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11. There is more danger of the Missouri Legislature passing too many than too tew laws. Col. A. Rozelle, Chaiiman of the Populist Committee of Missouri, has been appointed Labor Commissioner by Governor Lon V.

Stephens. Those who are asking for mercy for Dnestrow must have pler.ty of spare time on their bands. Dnestrow should be banged by the neck until be is dead, dead, dead. He should have been banged months ago. A communication to be found in this week's Ledges favors a farmers' column in the Weekly.

The Ledger, Dally and Weekly, is always glad to bear from the farmers. Se nd in your commnnications and we will take good care of them. They will be much more interesting if yon will sign your full names. The New York papers, of coarse, are righteously indignant because Ne vada has legalized prize fighting; but as prize fights, in which professional bruisers participate, are pulled off regularly right on Broadway, the con slstency of the objection to Nevada's course is not quite apparent to anyone who believes that the western boundary of the United States is not North River. The A.

O. U. W. Record, published at Denver, editorially says: Brother R. M.

White, editor and publisher of the Mexico, Ledger, has our thanks for a copy of his excel lent paper, of recent date, containing a two and a half column write np of the local A. O. U. W. The local paper is the medium that can "boom" an order and help its growth.

Advertis ing is the thing. Nothing quite equals a liberal use of printer's ink. The Mexico Building and Loan As sociation Directors on Monday night re-elected the following officers: M. Pollard, president; J. W.

Trimble, vice-president; T. U. Marshall, treasurer; George Robertson, attorney; J. A. Olandon, secretary.

No better se lection could have been made. These gentlemen are business men of integ rity and are thoroughly acquainted with the Building and Loan business In all of its details. Much of the sue cess of the local association is due to the untiring work of these gentlemen. The latest message from the insur gents in Cuba to the members of the Junta in the United States is that they will accept "independence or noth ing." Not one of their leaders in the field is in favor of a compromise, The present outlook for the Cubans la not of a character to suggest com promise, and the fact that the Span ish have at last concluded to offer some conciliatory proposals is evl dence to all the world that they are getting sick of their task of subduing that people. Secretary J.

R. Rippey, of the Missouri Horse Breeders' Association, closing a splendid argument in favor of the Horse Breeders' Pool bill, says: "With the enactment of this law for the control of the disreputable methods and the greed of the gambler, and providing for revenue for an annual exhibition where our horsemen and our Improved animals may be brought together, where we may be informed of what we bave, and Indicate to the world what we are doing, Missouri should take the lead in the production of high class horses, should direct the buyers to onr breeding establishments, take that rank among the breeders of the world to which we are entitled, advance the price of every improved bona in Missouri, and make the busi ness not only one of pleasure to the admirer of the horse, but profitable to the breeder." SAFE IN 'FRISCO JAIL. George Butler Credited With Having Murdered 14 men. San Francisco, February 6. Geo, Edward Butler, the murderer, whose arrival on the ship Swanhilda so long expected, is now in San FranciBco jail.

Butler is extremely English in appear' anoe and speaks with a pronounced English accent. He gave his name in the city prison as Elgan. Butler is credited by the Australian police with having murdered fourteen men. His plan was to entice men whom be knew to bave money into the interior under the pretense of examining min ing claims, and then murdering them, His last victim was Capt. Lee Weller, retired sea captain.

Butler took bis money and clothes and shipped on the Swanhilda under the name of Wel ler. An Ancient and Honorable Calling, From lb Boston Journal- It la a most honorable calling, bar bering. Tbe barber was formerly i surgeon and a dentist. The company of Barber-Surgeons was incorporated by Edward IV. Long before bis day there were famous barbers.

Witness tbe glory of Bagdad, an experienced physician, a profound chemist, never-falling astrologer, a finished grammarian, a perfect rhetorician, i subtle logician; thoroughly aoconi pushed In geometry, arithmetic, as tronomy and in all the refinement of algebra; a historian and well instruct ed in all the points of philosophical controversy: poet, architect, and. above all, a silent man. Hand Badly Mashed. Prom tbe Mubwly Democrat. Payne Karnes, of Mexico, one of the Wabash popular brakemen, is nursing a badly mashed band to-day, He was on No.

97 (freight) last night and at Ferguson, in attempting to make a coupling, his left band was caught between the bumpers and the lower portion of his little finger and the next one and the upper part of bis hand was badly crushed. He was brought to the hospital in this city, where his wound was dressed, and be was on the streets as usual tbia morn log, but with his hand in a sling and unable to report for duty. Treloar Indorsed. IMitwMmiaCltnb-M. Petitions were circulated among the Republican members of both Houses asking that W.

M. Treloar, now Congressman In the Ninth district, be appointed Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. They wan signed by moat of the Republicans, aa Treloar hi popular with the members of this legia- lata, W. P. of the Boonvuie Basket, and 8.

M. Coons, of tbe Co- mmhla Racket, accompanied J. W. Piatt, of the hfexloo Racket, oa his haying trip to Mew Torts City. Dr.

John A. Brooks is Dead. ONE OF THE HOST PROMINENT CHRISTIAN MINISTERS. He Was Active Not Only in Religion But in Politics, and Was Once tbe Prohibition Vice-Presidential Nominee To Be Buried in Kansas City. From Urn Memphis ITenn.) Appeal.

Dr. John A. Brooks, one of the most widely known ministers in the Chris tian church in this country, died at the home of bis son-in-law, Frank Davis, 441 Lauderdale street, last night at 10 o'clock, from a stroke of paraly sis. The attack came Monday night, and since that time Dr. Brooks' life had bean as if it were a heavy body suspended by a slender thread, All of Tuesday and yesterday be was very restlesu, and yesterday afternoon it was very apparent that the end was near.

He had the best medical attention that could be secured, but tbe fatal attack prevailed against tbe pow ers of science and drugs, and the erer succumbed to it exactly at ten o'clock last Might. Dr. Brooks' illness covered several months. Ill health was the cause of bis return from London, forcing him to give up his labors as pastor of tbe West End Tabernacle of that place. He left this city in April In answer to a call from the congrega tion of the West End Tabernacle to serve as their pastor.

It was the third time they hiid called him, and he com plied with their wishes. On Novem ber 2 be arrived in Memphis, being forced to give up his pastoral duties in London on account of continued bad health. Dr. Brooks' malady was heart trouble. He has been a sufferer from complication of this character for years.

It reached an acute stage some months ago, and caused him to return homo. The change, however, brought about no good results, aa be had been sick ever since his return to Memphis. This constant suffering terminated Monday in the paralytic stroke, the end of which was death. His wife, three daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Frank Davis, and his son and son-in-law have been by him since his troubles reached the acute stage.

They were at his bedside when the messenger of death came. The remains will be prepared for shipment to Kansas City, where they will be interred. The church at that place, of which be was pastor for seven years, has donated him lot in the cemetery wherein he will be laid to rest. Dr. Brooks' life was one of unusual activity and achievement in the pro fession which be chose.

He rose to tbe front rank of divines. He was born in Miison county, Kentucky, June 3 1836, and spent his early years on his fatha-'s farm, going to the winter schools. In 1853 he entered Bethany College, near Richmond, and graduated in 1856, receiving the degree of master of arts. He began the Christian ministry immediately upon leaving school. After preaching for several ysars ha was called to the presidency of the'FIemlngsburg Col lege in Kentucky, and for two years was at the head of that institution, Alexander Campbell, tbe founder of tbe Christian Church, was at the time of young Brooks' matriculation presi dent of Bethany College, and this great man made a lasting impression on bis To that admiration be frequently ascribed all of bis success in life.

Up to the war Dr. Brooks was, in politics, a Whig. After tbe war he became a emocrat. He preached prohibition la the Democratic ranks, but, seeing that there was no likeli hood of that party ever recognizing the principles he so earnestly wished to promote, be went over to the Pro hibition party. In the ranks of this party he found at least more congenial co-workers if not greater success.

In 1884 he was nominated for Governor by the Prohibition party of Missouri, and was only defeated by a fusion of other parties. He made such a vigorous fight that the legislature was made up of Prohibitionists, who were pledged to vote a Prohibition amendment to the constitution. Two successive legislatures were Prohibition, but each time a lobby undid what the party had accomplished before the people, und measures advocated by them were defeated. Dr. Brooks was worked against by Senator Vest and other powerful politicians of Missouri, and it took their combined efforts to keep him out of tbe Govern or's chair.

He polled the largest vote by half ever received by a Prohibition candidate. Four years later, in 1888, tbe National Prohibition convention at In dianapolis further honored Dr. Brooks by making him tbe running mate of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, candidate for President.

That was the first cam palgn, Bryin's being the second, where a candidate for such high office canvassed tie whole country. He made speeches In ail of the principal cities of the United States. Before the campaign was over the Prohibition ticket as known as Brooks and Fisk, his prominent part In the canvass giving his name first place in general comment. It is the opinion of his near relatives and friends that the heart affliction which ultimately brought about his death was superintended by the canvass of 1888, aa Dr. Brooks made many speeches, and was going constantly for some time.

His running mate, Clinton B. Fisk, died hi New York in 1884. Dr. Brooki married in 1869, Miss Sue Robertson, of Bath county, being bis bride. He at that time was pastor of a church in Bath county.

During his career as a minister he served churches in St. Louis, Kansas City, several parts of Kentucky and latterly In London, England. He was pastor of the Prospect Avenue Church in Kansas City seven years. Dr. Brooks fiist came to Memphis to take charge of the Christian church here in Novumber, 1892.

He served until June, 1398. He then accepted the call from the Weak End Taoer-nacle of London, England, it being the third time that congregation had call ed him. He was forced, as already stated, to resign his pastorate on ac count of bad health and returned to this eovmtry. i Dr. Brooks has, it is MtUMted, averted 10,000 aonia to the Christian aharoh faith In his time.

Ha enjoyed diaUncuon ot betas one ot the oaly two Christian ehnreh muuiwri wim aasaes appear a uetory or van States. The other was James A. Garfield, who rose to the first place of honor In the nation. Dr. Brooks was a member of the Ancient Order of United Work men, and was once chosen Master Workman for the United States and Canada.

He was 61 years old. The Paris Kentuckian-Citizen says: Rev. J. A. Brooks, of Memphis, Prohi bition candidate for Vice-President in 1888, died of paralysis.

He was born in Mason county, in 1836, and graduated from Bethany College, Va. entering the ministry of the Christian church. He was Prohibition candidate for Governor of Missouri La 1883. He was once pastor of the Christian Tab ernacle, London, England. His father was a noted editor in Kentucky and Missouri.

We used to meet both of them at Winchester, Ky, and Mexico, Mo. NO USE FOR AN UNDERTAKER. This Tells How the Expected Corpse Traveled in the Samu Train With His Coffin. Tbe Philadelphia Record publishes tbe following from San Antonio, Tex Robert Richmond, a young man from St. Louis, was taken sick at Mart a small town 400 miles west of here on the Southern Paci 3c Railroad, He grew rapidly worse and became unconscious, and his attending phy sician telegraphed the parents in St.

Louis that their son was dying. Then the parents wired instruc tions for tbe body to be embalmed and shipped to St- Louis. There is no embaimer and undertaker nearer than 8an Antonio and a telegram was sent there for one. The young man was still alive, but his pnysiciaa was posi tive that be would be dead in a few hours. Tbe San Antonio undertaker ar rived at Marfa next morning, and found tbe young man still alive.

He waited 36 hours and Richmond showed Bigns of improvement. The undertaker left with the coffin for San Antonio and Richmond was brought here on the same train, ar riving last night. Tbe trip did bim so much good that he will the hos pital in a few days a well man. BROOKLYN FIREBUGS. Startling Disclosures Made by Three Men.

New York, February 2. Morris Schoenholz, Abraham Sternberg and Adolph Herschkopf, three of Brook lyn's firebugs, have made startling confessions. Between seventy and eighty persons are accused. Their names are withheld to aid in bringing them to trial. The details of these extraordinary statements just made in the Raymond street jail, Brooklyn recite in detail an almost incredible history ot the various firebug connections arranged to perpetrate these crimes.

First come the "mechanics," who set the buildings on fire; next tbe man who took the excessive insur ance on their more or less bogus stock; next the adjusters of the amounts the insurance companies should pay. But back of all these conspirators in crime star pilloried in infamy the originators of the scheme for destroying property and often human lives. One ol tbe most startling features of the revelations la that women were beaten with clubs by their husbands when they refused to join the conspiracy. The Jonah Story Must Stay. From the Freeman's Journal.

Luther rejected the Epistle of St. James as an epistle of straw, and Dr. Abbott makes the book of the Prophet Jonah a fish story, and hid audience laughed consumedly. And yet our Divine Lord and Master vouched for the truth of the story which the learn ed Doctor calls a fiction. In Matthew, 39, He said: "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the Prophet Jonah; for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of tbe earth.

The men of Nin eveh shall rise in judgmenc with this generation, and shall condemn it, be cause they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold a greater than Jonah la here." it be a fiction that Jonah was buried in the whale for a time, it is equally a fiction that the Son of Man was buried in tne earth for a time, for He says: "As Jonah was in the whale's belly, so shall the Eon of Man be in the heart of the earth.1 It is clear, then, that both, accounts are true or both fiction. Is the Doctor ready for tbe conclusion he has ne cessitated? Does he believe that the history of Christ's death, burial and resurrection is fiction? No. Well, we have the asseveration of the Son of Man for it that Jonah's burial in the whale was as real and true ia His own burial in the earth. The Old-Fashioned Style of pill gives you a feeling of horror when yon see it and when you feel it.

Like the "blunderbuss" of a former decade, it is big and clumsy, but not effective. In this century of enlightenment, you have Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, which cure indigestion, constipation, bilious attacks, sick and bilious headache. Don'ts for the Table, Don't pronounce menu "may-nn," but "men-no." Don't pronounce the a long in "a Don't cross the knives and forks, Don't decorate the table with too many flowers. Don't place more than one plate at each place.

Don't use individual buttor dishes. Don't use butter at dinner, except with cheese. Don't nee the same knife for more than one course. Don't use the same fork for more than one course. Don't use a spoon for ice or ice cream.

Don't serve peas, beans, cauliflower, etc, with meat. Don't eat sugar with saiad Gold la Audrain Cout ty. The Vandalia Leader says: The Leader had a talk with Dave Fonser on the train the other day. He states that Bosh Harmon, while prospecting for coal on Hickory Creek, tan across what Jacob Bios, aa old miner, pronounces aa gold quarts. Mr.

Wallace (Rambler) was in that caution the other day and some of the ore was submitted to him for inspection. He proaonnoed it gold ore that looks AN ABLE ADDRESS. Hon. L. R.

Wilfley, an Audrain County Boy, Lectures at Fayette, Mo. Extracts From His Speech. Mr. L. R.

Wilfley, of St. Lcuis, last Saturday evening, addressed a large and appreciative audience on the subject, "Nature and Origin of the Fed eral Constitution." His was the first lecture of a series that tbe Political Science Club of Central College expects to have in the near future, which will lead to the establishment of an economics chair. Mr. Wilfley said in part: Government is the first essential the very basis of civilisation the condition precedent to organized society, It may be likened to a great temple, within whose strong walla and under whose vaulted dome, all the forces of civilization are nourished and protect ed. It is erected net merely to secure civil and political rights, such as life, liberty and property, but to shelter and protect all of those tender and sa cred influences which refine the sen' timents, ennoble aroma to life and which are tbe flower and fruit of civilization.

Within its walls science rears her laboratories and explores the mysteries of nature. Art opens ber studios and her magic brush makes the canvas throb with life and her chisel's touch makes tbe dull, cold marble speak. Music and poetry come forth to charm and con sole, and the schools of literature and philosophy enrich the treasury of tbe mind. Her religion builds her shrines, and her countless spires over her creeds bear silent witness to Its guard ian strength. While within the Holy of the Holies of this temple rises the sacred altar of home where the Shek inah of love ever shines to enrapture the heart of mankind.

"Whenever this temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation of social security, general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race. And whoever labors to this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, adorns its en tablatures. or contributes to raise its august dome still higher in the skies, connects himself in name and fame and character with that which is and must be as durable as the frame of human society." In recent yearj? onr system has practically monopolized the attention of political" thinkers throughout the world. "What do you think of our institutions?" is tbe question address' ed to the European traveler in the United States by every chance ac quaintance. This is not the case the equally famous nations of the Old World.

The reason is obvious. Our institutions represent a new type of government. They represent an ex periment in the rule of the multitude, tried on a scale nnprecedently vast, and the result of which every one is concerned to watch. And yet they are something more than an experiment. for," says Professor James great English writer on American institutions, "They are believed to disclose and display tbe type of institutions towards which, as by law of fate.

the rest of civilized mankind are forced to move, some with swifter, some with slower, but all with unrest ing feet." We now come to examine tbe structure of this new and peculiar government, to go back in our imag ination to tbe time of its origin and acquaint ourselves with the men who laid tbe foundation, to examine its foundations and supporting columns to walk about the Zion of our political faith, to tell the towers thereof and mark well her bulwarks, to the end that we may determine in our own minds, at least, if her foundations have been laid in sufficient wisdom to support an edifice which will been' during and which can be adopted to the ever-changing and multiplying wants of society. Let us first get a clear conception of what a Constitution is. What is meant by our Federal Constitution? The us ual answer is the organic law of the land. But inasmuch as there are sev eral kinds of law, emanating from dif ferent sources, we are sometimes un able to determine just the distinction between organic and other kinds of law. More strictly speaking a Con stitution is a limitation on law-making and on tbe operation of other kinds of law.

One of its peculiar character' istics is, that it applies to tbe future as well as to the present. It declares that a few things shall be done, and that a few things shall not be done. It says to the present and to succeeding generations, thus far shalt thou come but no further. It would be perhaps more accurate than to say that the Federal Constitution is an organic limitation whereby the people have, "In order to establish justice, to pro mote tbe general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity," protected them' selves against themselves. Its pur pose is, to protect a few fundamental rights from the whirlwinds of passion and prejudice for all time.

Another peculiar feature of it is that these re a train ts are self-imposed. It has fro quently happened that the holders of political power bave been forced to surrender or curtail it for the general good; but the example of the people, limiting, by their own free will, the exercise of their own power, was without a precedent at the date ot the adoption of tbe Constitution and has not been successfully put in opera tion in any other country since. The Constitution of England is very simi lar to ours in many respects, but there Is thia essential aistinction that Par liament can change the English Con' stitution at any time, and as a matter of fact is changing It constantly by mere majority vote. Whereas, with us Congress has no power to change tne constitution in tbe slightest re spect. ir Congress should attempt such a thing, or pass any measure In conflict with the Constitution, the Act would be declared a nullity by the supreme Court as soon aa the ques uon came np before that body.

In England there is no Supreme Court to pass upon and set aside the Acta of Parliament, for the Acta of Par lis ment to a very large extent make np vne constitution. In the English system Parliament ia supreme; wan us ui uonsutnuon is supreme. Our Legislature cannot violate It, nor our executives or Judiciary disregard lis provisions; and the State governments are likewise controlled by it. It is the central son around which re volves our entire system of govern ments, notn and State. Let ns now go back to tne time of its origin and find ont something of the people who framed it and the eon- ditiona ont of which it grew.

And in order that we may start correctly and keep our bearings as we proceed, let us clear away some of tbe underbrush of irrelevant fact that surrounds this period and blaze a few trees for the purpose of stamping some dates upon them. In reverting to this formative period of our country's history, unless we are careful, we shall find ourselves crowding into a single event the Rev olutionary War, the Declaration of Independence, the Confederation of the States and the adoption of tbe Constitution. It is not my purpose to go into the history of the War of the Revolution, or to expatiate on the glories of the Declaration of Inde pendence, or to discuss the merits and demerits of the Articles of Confedera tion only aa they may serve to throw light upon the subject before us. We shall begin with the familiar date of the immortal Declaration 1776. Elev en years after this event, 'in 1787, tbe convention which adopted the Fed era! Constitution was convened.

In the meantime two important events transpired. The Articles of Confed eration were adopted in 1781 and treaty of Paris in 1783. We have now blazed four trees. Tbe Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confed eration, the Treaty of Paris and the Constitutional Convention, and their respective dates are 1776, '81, '83 and '87. At the instance of James Madison, a society was held at Annapolis, Mary land, in 1786.

The object of this society was to call a convention of States for the purpose of considering two ques tious commerce and finance. One of the great questions that perplexed onr fathers has been transmitted to ua unsolved. Twelve States responded to the call on the 14th of May at Car penter's hall, Philadelphia, one of the most notable assemblies of men the world ever seen convened. The cre ation of the Federal Judiciary was tbe most consummate and without a single exception the most original work ac complished by framers of the const! tution. Nor would I have you infer that our federal government is tbe only glory of our institutions.

It is not. It ia merely tbe capstone, while tbe foun dation of our political system is the Anglo-Saxon principle of local self government. Under the Roman sys tem the family was the unit and It ex isted for the benefit of the govern ment; while with ns the individual is the unit and the government exists for his benefit. Our pride is not our magnificent central government, but our citizenship. We recognize that no government can make great citizens, but great citizens can make a great government.

Government is merely scaffolding to aid in the building character. The genius of our institU' tions is individualism. It exhalts the citizen. It teaches him that his home is his castle, and that bis sovereignty rests beneath his hat. It teaches him to be self reliant and responsible to look to the national government for nothing that bis State can do and to his state for nothing that bis own arm can do.

On all great subjects, says Jobn Stuart Mill, much remains to be said, and of none is this more true than of tbe American constitution. The liter' ature which has accumulated upon it is huge. But tbe observer who looks at the living reality will wonder at the contrast to the paper description. He will see in tbe life much that is not in the books: fMd: he will Bad In tbe rongh practice many requirements of the literary theory. On Monday morning, after Chapel exercises, Mr.

Wilfley addressed the students and a number of interested spectators. He was introduced by Mr. C. O. Lester with a few remarks, stat ing that in Central College there was no chair of economics and that the students desiring to know more of the great questions of finance, protection, had organized a Political Science Club.

This lecture was the beginning of a series of lectures, which we trust will end with a permanent chair of economics in Central College. The following is a synopsis of Mr. Wiifley's address: Political thinkers have always been divided into two schools those who believe in much government and those who believe in little government. In ancient times when war and conquest were tbe principal occupations of men a strong central government was a necessity. Imperialism passed away with the Roman empire and from the wreck and debris of that system which rotted down during the middle ages sprang Democracy.

The old idea that the individual exists for the State was superseded by the doctrine that the State exists for the individual. But the new industrialism which took tbe place of militarism brought with it new problems which developed two schools of political philosophy. The pendulum of politics swung from Monarchy to Democracy and now threatens to rise to the other extreme of Socialism. The divine right of legislatures is to be sub stituted for the divine rights of kings, Socialism is based npon tbe idea of equality and seeks to overcome tbe inequalities that exist in tbecondi tions of men. It represents that ten dency in the field of industry and property which seeks to displace individual ownership, unrestricted competition and the liberty of independent action by governmental owner ship and governmental regulation, Shall the sphere of the state be en larged and that of the Individual con tracted, or shall the sphere of the in dividual be enlarged and that of tbe state restricted? These are tbe ques tions raised by Socialism and which must be answered by tbe statesmen of the immediate future.

State Socialism is the attempt to equalize incomes by means of nation alizing industries. Socialism ia a plant of recent growth and is mainly in digenous to the soil of continental Europe. It dates back to only 1817 and its history divides itself into two periods from 1817 to 1860 and from 1860 to the present time. It claims to be the legitimate child of two great revolutions the English Industrial revolution of the latter part of. last century and a parallel revolution in thought which found expression in France during the period succeeding the battle of Waterloo.

Robert Owen represented the first and Saint Simon and Fonrrier were the product of the latter. Owen was the author of tbe "Factory Acts" legislation and established industrial communities In which co-operation took the place of free competition. His scheme attracted much attention at first, but when be denominated religion the family and private property as the 'Trinity of Evil" his influence was broken. Saint Simon sought to destroy the last ves tlge of Feudalism, Catholicism and privilege bequeathed by the Middle Ages. Fonrrier was the author ot the Phalanges which were similar to the industrial communities of Owen.

Next came Louis Blanc and Proudhon, who taught anarchy and tbe doctrine that property la theft." The storm center of Socialism then shifted from France to Germany, with LasaUe, Karl Marx and Robert us as its chief disciples. Lasalle originated the doctrine of the "Iron Law of Wages" which taught that the natural tendency of wages is to descend to the level of a bare subsistence for the laborer. Karl Marx was the author of "The International and Work on Capital," which ia called "The BibleJ of Socialism." This book is based upon the idea that physical labor is the sole producer of wealth and conse quently capital should not share in its profits. Capital he called "congealed labor force." Socialism is based npon a fallacious idea of what constituted value. It grows out of the erroneous teachings of Adam Smith, Ricardo and Mill, that labor is the sole producer of wealth and consequently the ultimate measure of value.

The truth are other agencies which contribute to the production of wealth besides labor. The brain that conceives the enterprise, the capital which makes its development possible, the administrative talent which directs labor and makes It efficient, the brain that invented machinery are ail powerful forces which contribute to the production of wealth and are all overlooked by Socialist writers. The brain of James Watt was and still is the greatest wage fund that has arisen in tbe world. Tbe true tests of value are utility and difficulty of attainment. Mr.

Watt then pointed out that in equality is a law of nature and cannot be overcome by governmental effort. He contended that governments are not organized to establish equality, but justice. Benevolence and philan thropy are not to be discouraged, but government is not an eleemosynary institution and should not be convert ed into a benevolent society. A government cannot make a great people, but a great people can make a great government. THET WANT DAMAGES.

Two Railroad Mishaps That Will Cause Heavy Suits For Injuries. Moberly, Feb. 8. TheWabash railroad company will have to face two big damage suits at the March term of our Circuit Court. E.

B. Par sons has filed a suit asking 810,000 for injuries received January 15, while acting as head brakeman on a Wabash train. The injury occurred at Mexico. He says his skull was fractured, right eye impaired and other -injuries re ceived by bis head striking a bridge across tbe track. S.S.

Sandf ord wants $11,525 because, he says, while coupling tbe cars of I freight train on which be was a pass enger the cars bumped together so bard he was thrown down and his spinal column bent and injured. PEACH BUDS KILLED. So Say Several Weil-Known Growers. Fruit Benton Harbor, February 6. Several prominent fruit growers, such as R.

Morrill, president of the State Horticultural Society; A. R. Nowlan and Peach Yellows Commis sioner R. Branson, say that all early varieties of peach buds are unques tionably dead, and varieties which an uninjured by tbe severe cold bave but few buds, because of the enormous crop last year. This condition of trees applies to all lying two miles or more away from the lake shore, within this limit the damage is much less, though very great.

GRIPPE-MALARIA. There is.now prevailing throughout the country a disease which has been aptly termed "Grippe-Malaria," the name being suggested by the prea ence of the well-known symptoms ot both these diseases. There is at first violent shivering sensations, followed by a dull fever, severe headache and pains in the lower limbs. Within twenty-four hours the symptoms de velop a severe cold in the head, soreness in the throat and chest, and a dry, harsh cough. One of the pecu liar features of the disease is its obstl nate character, in many cases requir ing from six weeks to three months to run its course, notwithstanding the most careful medical attention.

How to treat this new combination of diseases has proved a puzzle to the medical profession, remedies usually applied to relieve either grippe or malaria being ineffective in the com' bined form. While the physicians have been casting about to find some thing to fit the case, a series of ex perimenta by the proprietors of Prickly Ash Bittebs has demon strated that this remedy wiU cure, The method of treatment found most effective includes the use of quinine in doses of three grains each, taken three times a day, and a half wine class full of Prickly Ash Bittebs one hour before each dose of quinine, This treatment has proved to be a positive cure and will usually break up the disease within three or four days. Tbe quinine controls the fever, while the Bitters drives out of tbe system all poisons 'and bilious impur ities, at tbe same time imparting vigor to the stomach, liver and kid neys and regulating the bowels. Thus the functions of the whole internal organism are accelerated, the body strengthened and assisted to quickly throw off the disease. So successful is this treatment that many physi clans bave thrown aside professional prejudice against proprietory medi cinea and have applied it in their practice with highly satisfactory re suits.

Severed a Main Artery. Centkalia, February 6. A little eirl of Judge Pool's met with quite an accident while at school yes terday. In handling a jelly glass she fell down, tbe glass breaking and a fragment nearly an inch wide was driven into tbe hand 'between the thumb and forefinger, severing the main artery and causing tbe blood to flow freely. The teacher, Miss Gant, manifested considerable surgical skill by pressing tbe tbnmb over the wound, thus making it a compress and checking the flow of blood until the sufferer could be served by a physician.

Keep them ont all those germs the seeds of disease, that are trying day and night to get a foothold in your system. Yon can't do it unless your liver is active. The Tery beet medicine for the liver and the blood, is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Take it when you're getting thin, or have pimples or eruptions, when you've bo app' titeand feel "run-down" (these are warning signals) and you'll eave yourself from serious illness.

AM0NQ THE EXCHANGES. The Anxvasae Review says: Elder B. M. Shelton, who has been called to preach at the Christian church of this place, has moved family from Mexico to this city. They are moving into the Davis property, which has been cccn-ied for the last year by E.

B.CampbelL B. B. Buckner has bought the Downer farm of 200 acres located just over the line in Audrain county. We understand the price paid was $3,200. Tbe deed was executed Tuesday.

Wood Maddox, L. B. Morris, James Johnson, Wm. Pollock and Andy Rodgers, of Mexico, were in Fulton Monday. An infant child of Geo.

McDonald and wife died at their home, north of Concord, last Friday. Inquirer for Information. To the Editor of the Ledger. Cecil Ranch, Audrain County, Feb. 8.

Dear Sir: Being a read er of the Lkdgkb and a beginner in the agricultural, horticulturaLhog and chicken raising business, if it meets with your approval and the wishes of your many farmer readers I would like to have a column devoted to the in terests of the farmer, wherein others, with myself, may explore our theories and learn from the experiences of the more practical ones. One of my ideas is to ask questions and have answers given by those who bave succeeded Jong the line. I think we can make it profitable to ourselves and not dry to your readers. I will begin by ask ing information npon tbe following: have pasture that is not fully set in grass, can I improve by sowing seea on it? If so, what kind of seed and when sow? More when we get to going. A.

S. Tabteb. THE POPE'S CONDITION. Leo Was Fonnd Unconscious and Re stored Only by the Use of Ether. London.

Feb. 6. The Daily Newt has received the following from its correspondent at Rome: "Despite the statements of Mr. Lap- ponia to the contrary, I am informed that the Pope was to-day found lying on the back of a chair. He was un conscious when discovered, and was restored to consciousness only by in baling ether.

"The attack was the gravest which he has suffered during tbe last two years, and it ia attributed to increas ing cerebral anaemia." It has been announced in Paris, that a prisoner, S. E. Knight, in the Federal jail there, has invented an aluminum airship, weight 700 pounds, in the manufacture of which a New York company is said to have ex pressed a willingness to back bim. To Fatten Hogs. The Wisconsin Agriculturist says Two parte of wheat, one of corn, one of oats and one ot middlings or shorts are a good feed mixture.

To fatten hogs for market, mix the wheat and corn in equal proportions, with a little oil meaL It is better to have the wheat and corn ground than to feed it whole, dry or soaked. Wellsville Jail Burned. The city jail at Wellsville, caught fire from a defective flue Monday morning and burned to the ground. Several 'prisoners narrowly escaped being burned alive by crawling through the window. Two buildings near by were damaged by the fire.

James Barnes has returned from a visit in Hot Springs, Ark. IN THEIR NEW STORE. We Have Moved Into Onr New Rooms in the FRENCH BUILDING, North Side of Square, Mexico, Mo. Call and See Us. BLUM CO.

Our Third Annual Remnant Sale OF Laces and Embroidery BEGINS Tuesday, February 9 We will offer some rare bargains. Come and see them. You can find real and imitation Torchons, Valenciennes, Hamburg and Swiss Embroideries, Jaconets and Nainsooks. TEE LADIES' FURNISHER. WANTED! I want the following secondhand school books if in good condition Barnes' Brief History of the United States.

Reed Kellogg' Higher Lessons in English. Townscnd's Civil Government. (Missouri edition.) Maury's Physical Geography (Revised Morgan's Literary Studies. If vou have any of these books to sell bring at once. J.

H. SALLEE. East Side Public Square. In Jail for Stealing. Larkins Stalcnp, who was caught stealing from the A.

G. Turner farm by W. E. Crockett, pleaded guuiy De-fore 'Squire WInscott and was sen tenced to jaiL Stalcup was stealing corn, oats and other feed. There has been considerable compiamt.

uueiy and around Mexico about petty steal ing and the Ledges ia In hope mat more of the guilty ones will be captured. PUBLIC SALE. Wednesday, February 17. I will sell at pnblio sale on the place known as the Harvey Keea farm, 1 miles west of Mexico and 3 miles south of Thompson Station, on Wednesday, Fh 17. 1897.

tbe following deecribed nrnnfirt.v. to-wit: r-r One span 01 noratw, uva uiu oigu veara old: one span OI males, uurcn years old, fifteen bands high and broke to work. Tmtitv head of vearllnflr steers, sen head-, steer calves, ten head heifer calves, five bead of sheep, forty head stock nogs, will weign rrom wioiw pounds, une set wagon narness. Terms of Sale. Sums of 910 and nnder.

cash: over that amount a credit of eight months at eight per cent, interest; purchaser to give oanx able note. W. E. REED. Jas.

T. Johnson, Auctioneer. PUBLIC SALE. Tuesday, February 16. Havinir sold mv farm.

S14 miles southeast of Mexico, known as the O. L. Woods place. I will sen at saia farm at Dublic auction, on Tuesday, February 16, 1897, to the highest bidder, the following property, to-wit: Two mares, coming 6 and 4 years old: one mare, coming 6 years old, in foal by jack; one horse, coming 4 years old; one milk cow; two yearling heifere, half Jersey; three Jersey calves; two snortnorn cows, soon io be fresh; eleven head of half blood ewe lambs; thirty-two head of stock hogs, weight from lau to a'j pounas one Poland-China boar; six eooc brood sows, and pig six weeks old; five dozen pure bred Leghorn hens; one dozen roosters: serine wagon disc cultivator, breaking plow, good farm wagon and set double harness. Terms op 8ale.

Hotrs cash, and all sums under $10. All sums over $10 bankable note for eight months at 8 per cent. Terms of sale to be com-nlied with before anvthins is remov ed from tbe place. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock. FRANK WELLS Jap Stephens, Auctioneer.

PUBLIC SALE. Thursday, February 25. I will sell at public sale to the high est bidder on the M. V. Ford fafm, six miles south of Mexico and one mile northwest ot Doan Station, on Thurs day, Feb.

25, 1897, tbe following de scribed property, to-wit: .180 extra good breeding ewes, about half with this spring lambs; 80 bead of stock nogs, weign from 80 to no ids. 10 good brood sows, will pig in spring 1 tine lack, coming 3 years old, an extra animal, by Freeman's Excell; iack coming 2. also by Excell; 1 jack colt by Lon Bidgway's Gray Eagle; 3 nrst-ciaes jennets, an nigniy Drea; iennet colt; 2 good carriage geldings 1 good Warfeliow brood mare; 1 good Missouri uiay mare loai oy iaca; Montrose Allies coming 1 Montrose gelding coming 1 cow and calf; good Holstein heifer will be fresh moon 1 cowfl win rreaa fa tmrtnmt au nn aapwnuHvwMiiii cultivators, planters, plows, wagons, harrows, Also, lot of harness. Terms op Sale. Sums of 910 and under, cash; over $10 a credit of nine months at 8 per cent, interest, purchaser to give bankable note.

Free dinner on the ground. L. A. FORD. J.

R. Brown, Auctioneer. Trustee's Sale. Whereas, E. W.

Caldwell, John Caldwell and Lnlar Caldwell, all single and over 21 years of age, except said Lnlar, who is over 18 years of age, by their certain deed of trnst, dated Oct. 28, 1895, and duly recorded in book 15, page 574, in the Recorder's office for Audrain County, Missouri, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following real estate, to-wit: Our undivided interest in and onto lots seven (7) and eight (8), block twenty (20), Ladd's Addition to Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri, to secure tbe payment of a certain note in said deed of trust described. Default having been made in the payment of said note, notice is hereby given that I will, aa such trustee, proceed to sell said real estate at the east front door of the Court House, In Mexico, Missouri, on Saturday, the 20th Cay of February, A. 1837, to pay said note and cost of executing this trust. GAITHER BERRY, 44-tds.

Trustee. Trustee's Sole. Whereas, James E. Holeman and his wife, Elizabeth J. Holeman, by their certain deed of trust, dated Oct.

9, 1894, and duly recorded in book 15, page 6, in the Recorder's office for Audrain County, Missouri, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following real estate, to-wit: The southwest fourth of the northeast quarter of section thirty-four, township fifty, north of range ten, west of tbe 6th p. m. in Audrain (Jounty, Missouri, to secure the payment of a certain note in said deed of trust described. Default having been made in tbe payment of said note, notice is hereby given that I will, as such trustee, pro ceed to sen saia real estate at tne east front door of tbe Court House, in Mexico, Missouri, on Saturday, the 20th Day of February, A. 1897, to pay said note and cost of executing this trust.

THO8. H. MARSHALL, 44-tds. Trustee. Botics of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given that final settlement of the estate of J. O. Denton, deceased, will be made at the March term of tbe Probate Court ot Audrain County, Missouri, to be held at Mexico, on the second Monday in March, 1897. 8. J.

DENTON, td Administrator. BTotie of Fiaal Settlement. Notice is hereby given that final settlement of the estate of Jno. Can terbury, deceased, will bo made at tbe March term ot the Court of Audrain County, Missouri, to be held at Mexico, on tne second won day in March, 1897. WM.

CANTERBURY, td Administrator. Hotiee ef Fiaal SettUaeat. Notice is hereby given that final settlement of the estate of W. II Scott, deceased, will be made at the March term of the Probate Court of Audrain Connty, Missouri, to be held at Mexico, on the second Monday J. H.

WRIGHT, td Administrator. Jiotiee of Fiaal Settlement. Notice hi hereby given that final settlement ot tbe estate of IL E. Hein-baugb, deceased, will be made at tbe March term of tbe Probata Court of Audrain Connty, Missouri, to be held a Mexico, on tne second Mon- aay siarcb, 1897. L.

W. HEJNBAUGH, td Administrator. Yanted-An Idea Wlw riuuM or fclrae Wrn j6h WBIH mrrt. Wecblncioa. V.

far tbr (tjm, prtu oOer Trustee's Sale. Whereas, A F. Fleet, by his cer tain deed of trust, dated September 30, 1896, and recorded in the Record- -er's office of Audrain Oonnty, Missouri, in deed of trust hook No. 18, for trusts, ac page 479. conveyea 10 w.w.

Fry. trustee, the following deecribed real estate situated in Audrain Coun ty, Missouri, to-wit: Part of the northwest of the northwest quarter of section 35, township 61, range 9 west of the fifth princi pal meridian, aescrioeu iouows: Begin where the south line of the Boulevard intersects the west line of Smith street, said point being fifty feet west of the west line of lot In block two (2) in Guthrie's Addition to the City of Mexico, Missouri, run thence along the south line ot the Boulevard 300 leet (or a pome ot beginning, thence ran west 826 feet, thence south 1056 feet, thence east 825 feet thence north feet to noint of beginning, except 125 feet off of tbe west side of said land heretofore sold to the Andrain County Agricultur al and Mechanical Association. Also part of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty- five, township fifty-one, range nine west or tne nnn p. aescriDea as follows: Begin where the south line ot the Boulevard intersects tbe west line of Smith street, thence run west alone the south line of the Boulevard 300 feet, thence south 1054 feet, thence east 300 feet, tnence norm iuo ieet to point of beginning. Thia deed of trust subject to all former deeds of trust now of record on said lands.

Which said conveyance was in trnst to secure tbe payment of certain promissory notes in said deed described: and, -whereas, the said notes described in said deed of trust remain dne and unpaid; now, therefore, at tbe reqnert of tbe legal bolder of said notes aad by authority of the provisions of the said deed 01 trust aforesaid, 1 will, on Saturday, the 13th Say of February, A. D. 1897, at the east front door of the Court House, in Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon of said day. sell tbe above described real estate at publio venaue, to tne nignest niaaer, for cash, to satisfy said debt and the expenses of executing said trust. W.

W. FRY, 43-tds. Trustee. ORDER PUBLICATION. Babt Bubbell, Plaintiff, vs.

VDivobck. Annie Bueeell, Defendant. In the Audrain County Circuit Court, January Term, 1897. And now on this 21st day ot January, 1897, comes the plaintiff, by his attorney, Warren B. Mclnture, and shows to tbe court, by the Sheriff's return herein, that said defendant has not been here served with process In this cause and that she cannot be summoned in the ordinary way.

it ia ordered by the court that publication be made notifying said defendant that suit has been commenced against her in this court, the object and general nature of which is to secure a decree of divorce from the bonds of matrimony contracted with defendant by tbe plaintiff; and that unless yon, said defendant, be and appear at thu next term of this court, to be held at the Court House in the City ot Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri, on the first Monday in June next, 1897, and answer or otherwise plead in thia court, judgment will be rendered against you according to tbe prayer of the plaintiff In bis petition herein. It is further ordered by the court that a copy hereof be published in the Weekly Ledger, a newspaper published in said county and State, for four weeks successively, tbe last insertion to be at least fifteen days before tbe commencement of said next term. A true copy. Attest: if. M.

44-4t. Clerk Sheia Sale 01 Trust. Whereas, Elijah Ramsey and Ellen Ramsey, bis wife, by their certain deed of trnst dated the second day of January, 1884, and recorded In Book at page 69, Trust Records, in the office of Recorder of Deeds for Audrain county, Missouri, conveyed to Redman Callaway, aa trustee, tbe following described real estate situate in Audrain county, state of Missouri, to-wit: Tbe south one-half () of the northwest one-fourth C4) of the southwest quarter ('4) of section twenty-seven (27), township fifty (50), range nine (9), which conveyance was in trust to secure a certain note in said deed described; and, whereas, said note is now dne and unpaid, and the said trustee named in said deed is dead, and by the terms of said deed the sheriff of Audrain county in such case is empowered to act as trustee. Now, therefore, at the request of the legal holder of said note and in pursuance of tbe conditions of said deed of trnst, the undersigned sheriff of the county of Audrain and state of Missouri, acting as trustee, will sell the above de scribed property, at public vendue, to tbe highest bidder for cash, at the east front door ot the court bouse, in the city of Mexico, county and state aforesaid, on Friday, February 19th, 1897, between the hours of 9 a. m.

and 6 p. for the purposes of said trust. Sheriff of Audrain Connty, and Acting rustee. n-iam. Trustee's Sale.

Whereas. John Wilburn and his wife, Nancy J. Wilburn, by their certain deed of trnst, dated August 21, 1894, and duly recorded in book 13, page 615, in the Recorder's omce for Audrain County. Missouri, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following real estate, to-wit: Tbe southeast one-fourth of the north west quarter of section twenty-six. township fifty-one, range six west of tbe 6th p.

to secure tne payment or a certain note in said deed of trust described. Default having been made in tbe payment of said note, notice is hereby given that I will, as such trustee, proceed to sell said real estate at the east front door of tbe Court House, In Mexic Missouri, on Saturday, the 20th Day of February, A. loav. to pay said note and cost of executing this trust. GAITHER BERRY, 44-tds.

Trustee. Trustee's Sole. Whebeab. Wm. L.

Lowrance and his wife, Eliza A. Lowrance, by their certain deed of trust, dated December 1, 181, and duly recorded in book page 41, in tbe Recorder's office for Audrain County, Missouri, conveyed to tbe undersigned trustee tbe following real estate, to-wit: The east half, northwest quarter of section twenty-two, township fifty-one (51), range Ix (6), containing 80 acres, more or less, to seenre the payment of certain notes in said deed of trust described. Default having been made in tbe payment ot aaid notes, notice is "hereby given that I will, as such trustee, pro ceed to sell said real estate at the east front door of the Court House, in Mexico, Missouri, on Saturday, tbe 20th Day of February, A. 1897, to pay said notes and coat of executing tbia trust. ROBERT LUCKIE, 44-tds.

Trustee. Public Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration npon tbe estate of Nancy Moss, deceased, have been granted tbe undersigned by tbe Probate Court of Audrain County, Missouri, bearing date January 16, 1897. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to exhibit them for allowance to the administrator witbin one year after date of grant ing letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit ot sucb estate, and if such claims be not exhibited witbin two years from tbe date tbey will be forever barred. J.

K. JESSE, 43-4 1. Public Administrator. 3i SL 4.