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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Many Boys Out Of School.

That only one-seventh of the boys
in the United States between the ages
of Is and Is years are school stu
dents was the statement of c. A. Nc
Laughlin of st. Louis at the thirty
third convention of Missouri Young
Mems Christian Association at Webb
City. He added that six-sevenths OF
the boys not in schools are mostly EN-
ployed, and that in efficiency in Y. NJ.
G. A. work they are almost invariably
superior to the students.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
WORK or A BUDDING GENIUS
couplet That Lacked Something Of
the Divine Fire, But strikinsly
Original.

The ten-year-old daughter of an art
list believes that she is destined to I'LL
a great place in literature, and all her
spare moments are devoted to writing
poetry about every conceivable sub
ject, according to the San Francisco
Wasp. Recently she attended her
first church wedding, and so filled with
inspiration was she that she imme-
diately began to write poem descrip-
tive of the event. A few days after
ward, when her mother was entertain
ing friends, the youthful prodigy asked
permission to read her poem before
the guests. Her mother humored her
with not a little secret pride. Stanza
by stanza the poem progressed until
the young lady reached the point
where the description of the brides
maids was set forth. There one Of
her couplets read thus:
Some had pug noses and some had
Roman,
And each wore blue ribbon about her
abdomen.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
SCOundrel
By NJ. BERTIN
Copyright, by Short Stories Co., Ltd)

And again to-day. like yesterday,
like every day, he found the envelope,
the feminine angular hand writing,
and 1t was marked Personal" and
Important"
AS usual Aladjev's first impulse was
to throw the letter unread into the
burning log-fire; but, also, as usual,
he only burned the envelope after he
had looked into every corner of the
room to make sure that he was un-
observed. The letter itself contained
the only and ever-same word "Scoun-
drel."
How long since he began to receive
day by day, wherever he might be,
such a letter! A rough oblong en-
velope, bearing his address, in the
corner the words Personal and I'm
portant," and the letter itself contain
ing the one word "Scoundrel."
These letters affected Aladjev in a
peculiar way. Some outraged soul
kept track of him day by day, followed
him with undated hatred and persist
emily threw in his face that terrible
insult. Aladjev started under this &C
cusation; he felt keenly its painful
sting, he hated to think of 1t, was al
ways expecting it, everlastingly fear,
ing it. He tried to throw the letters
away unread, but a force stronger
than his will, compelled him to open
the envelope with trembling hands, to
take out the letter, and to search in
1t for the solution of the riddle that
tormented him. In vain. The letter
consisted always of the same single
word "Scoundrel."
The letter in the obolong envelope
dominated Aladjev's life. An insig
nificant incident nearly overthrow him
One day he met and old friend who
insisted that Aledjev come out in the
country with him and spend the might
there. Upon arising in the morning al
the home of this friend the guest
found on his dressing-table the oblong
envelope. His heart almost stopped
beating. He pulled himself together
opened the envelope. "Scoundrel," the
one word, nothing more. Even here
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Headed For the ozarks.

The call of the green forest has
been heard by Forest Green of the
Chicago Record-Herald. He wants to
get back to nature and the call from
the Missouri Ozarls sounds good to
him. He has written to the Spring
field land Office as follows: 81 want
to live in the quiet and peaceful
country where the birds MARBLE in
their innocence, where the pretty flow
ers grow in every corner and nook
available, where man is not constantly
face to face with the frailties Of hui
man weaknesses"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Pathetic Pride.

Willie had had a tumble when he
was a baby and his hip was so hurt
that ever afterward he was obliged to
use a crutch. On one occasion, when
his mother had bought him new
crutch of the latest and most APP
proved style, Willie expressed his en-
thusiasm and delight in the roundest
terms. And oh, mother!" he ex-
claimed, in conclusion, referring to a
little friend Of his who having the
use of both legs had no need of
crutches, won't Johnny Knowles be
jealous!"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

Judge Page of the criminal court at
Springfield has ordered a special grand
jury summoned for the purpose Of
making an investigation of the county
records. A year ago Ben Holmes,
clerk of the criminal court, made good
a shortage of $4,000 in his office, and
was forced to resign. Since the Demo
cratic politicians have been trying to
make political capital of it, and all
sorts of rumors have been circulated
concerning one or two other county
officials. 1t was these officials who
appealed to Judge Page to call grand
jury and order a thorough investiga-
ton of the records.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
JOY OF THE WILDERNESS
Small Piece Of string Would Have
Rendered Prospeetcr's Long
Journey Unnecessary.

There are situations worse than Gall
Hamilton's famous Twelve miles from
a lemon" The man in this New York
Telegram item seemed to have found
one of them. A party was encamped
on the Bear river in eastern Utah,
when a prospector came along one
morning on a mule. He had his jaw
tied up, and at first seemed inclined
to pass on without a word. On sec
ond thought, however, he halted and
grufIly queried:
How fur to Salt Lake,"
Three hundred miles"
"Humph!"
Travelled far?"
About 200 miles"
Get your jaw hurt?"
mo It's Just an Internal toothache,
and I'm riding 500 miles to get it
pulled"
We invited him down and one of
the crowd got a piece of string round
the tooth and ierked It out as slick as
you please. After the owe ioyed man
had ceased dancing about l queried:
why didn't you try the string be-
fore starting on such long rider"
Best kind of reason, sir. l hadn't
nary a string. youths Companion.
In the opinion of the beauty doctor
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
MISSOURI STATE NEWS :
The Wonders of HIoaInsvlIle.

The wonders OF HIpglnsVilIe.
Higginsville gardeners believe some
change is occurring in the soil Of that
locality which causes abnormal vege-
table growth. They can find no other
explanation Of the great number of
astonishingly large vegetables grown
here this year. Higginsville began
claiming the backyard garden champ
ionship last summer, when in it's town
gardens were grown forty-inch string
bean, tomato as big as mans head,
a tobacco leaf nearly five feet long,
popcorn stalks more than twelve feet
tall and bearing seven perfect ears to
the stalk, an ear Of corn fifteen
inches long and numerous other agri-
cultural prodlges. Now comes John
Covington with a radish twenty inches
long and weighing five pounds ten
ounces. The radish, which was dug
Saturday, is not at all pithy or strong
and a slab cut from one side of it
proved as tender and pleasing to the
taste as fresh spring radish. With
the exception of the tomato all these
vegetable monsters have been placed
on exhibition in the Office of the Hig-
ginsville Jeffersonian, where anyone
who desired could measure them. -.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
LOST REGISTERED LETTERS
FOUND IN QUEER PLACE
Missed From a MangIed Mail Bag,
They are Recovered From
Car Trucks.

They are Recovered From
Car Trucks.
1t does not always follow that the
disappearance of registered mail
packages indicate a robbery of the
mail. This was demonstrated on
The Overland Limited train No 2
Friday, November 5th, when a pack
age of five registered letters from
Schuyler disappeared between that
point and Omaha.
The recovery of the lost package
was as strange as it's disappearance.
The Schuyler pouch is picked up
from a crane by means of a pouch
catcher as the train passes. This
pouch catcher is attached to the mail
car and hooks onto the pouch sus-
pended from the crane as the train
passes. In this particular instance
the pouch catcher did not make a
good catch and the pouch fell under
the wheels of the train and was cut
in two. The mail was scattered along
the track for a considerable distance,
but the five registered letters, which
were in a packet, could not be found
when the other mail was picked up.
The impression at once prevailed that
the registered package had been found
and kept by some one and it was re-
ported as lost.
Postoffice Inspector L. A. Thomp-
son was started out to investigate. His
first visit was to Council Bluffs to
make inquiries of the postal clerks
on the car, and scarcely had he
reached there when he received word
that the registered package had been
found by the car cleaner resting snug
ly on the trucks under the dining
car, where it had been blown or
thrown when the mail pouch was
flung under the wheels at Schuyler.
That the package was not injured
in the slightest, nor Jared from its
position on the trucks, is simply an
other tribute to the Union Pacitic's
unsurpassed roadbed and perfect track.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Tho Cost of Politics,

In his "reminiscences of Grover
Cleveland, George f. Parker tells a
story concerning prodigal expendi-
lures in politics, A rich man who
had been nibbling at the Democratic
nomination for governor of New York
asked William G. Whitney's advice.
This is the advice: "Of course, you
ought to run! Make your preliminary
canvass, and when you have put in
100000 you will have become SO
much interested in it that you will
feel like going ahead and spending
some money"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
The parky,s Idea Of Il.

A correspondent of the Walker
County Messenger tells this one: +
"A darby was on trial in the Grim
inal court last week on a charge OF
bigamy. After the jury has returned
verdict of guilty Judge McReynolds
remarked:
THE best l can do, Crum, is to
give you the minimum
"Lordy, mercy me, jedge, don't do
dat! I'd rather go to the pen,' said
Crum. Atlanta Constitution.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

house. My back ached all the time and
l was utterly weak, unable at times to
walk without assistance. The kidney
secretions were very irregular. Doans
Kidney Pills restored me to good
health, and 1 am able to do as much
work as the average woman, though
nearly eighty years DID,
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. so cents a box. Foster.
Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
important to Mothers.
Signature of L
The AZ a NecessitY.

All through the markets of every
Turkish city and village are little
shops where the fez can be pressed
and ironed for a few cents. AT his
prayers a Moslem could not use a hat
with a brim, as his head must press
the prayer rug a certain number of
times during each prayer, AS the head
must be covered at all times, fez or
some other brimless covering must be
used.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

the seat OF the disease. CatarTh Is blood or const-
tutOnal disease and In order 20 cure t you must take
Internal remedies. Hairs Catarrh Cure Is taken M
ternay and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Cltarrh Cure Is not Quaek medl-
cine IL was prescribed by Of the best physicians
In this country for years and Is regular prescription
ID Is composed OF the best TONES known. combined
with the best blood purfeFs acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination OF the
two ingredients Is what produces such wonderful re-
Tnlts In curing eatarrh. Send for Testimonials iree
FL. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o
Sold by DrugRists price Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Railroad to Educate Farmers.

The Wabash Railroad company has
offered IS scholarships-one for each
county in Missouri through which its
main line extends-to young men who
attend the Missouri University Agri-
cultural school at Columbia. These
scholarships are worth $50 each, sum
sufficient to pay the expenses of the
student during the so days course in
the winter term at the agricultural
school. The winter term begins Janu-
airy 4. The course of instruction is an
invaluable one to farmers who desire
to get the largest possible yields from
their farms and the best herds of
stock. It covers thoroughly corn judg-
ing, stock raising, soil preparation and
fertility, in short priceless fund of
knowledge for the farmer and stock
breeder. ..,,.. ,-.,-...-.-,...
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Mostly Town Farmers.

A farmers meeting was scheduled at
the capital Of Barton county at which
the men on the land were to have an
opportunity to hear experts tell the
latest word in soil culture and stock
handling. Just four farmers attended.
But there were lots of town people
there who were eager to learn all they
could on the subject Of agriculture.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Lumber output Loss.

Forest destruction has passed its
zenith in Missouri and the lumber out
put last year was more than S5,000,000
less than in 1900, Fortunately the land
denuded of timber is available fol
agriculture in most cases.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Marks on siIverware.

Sterling" as used in connection
with silverware means genuine silver.
The addition of the word patent" is
to indicate that the particular design
of the article on which the word ap-
pears is patented and that the article
is genuine silver.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
In Kansas City SO Years.

Mrs. Julia o. Gaugh, "a years old, for
so years a resident of Kansas City,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
John McReynolds, 1415 East Sixteenth
STREET. Mrs. Gaugh, whose maiden
name was Megowen, was born in
Frankfort, KY, June 80, 1915.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
WANTED CORRECTNESS.

Customer-M'yes, that's better, but
you'll have to alter it little over the
hips, for I'm taking up a new appoint
ment on Monday, and the principal
informed me that his firm was very
particular as to correctness in figures
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

not tell what Doan's
Kidney Pills h ave
done for me. Fifteen
years kidney trouble
chung to me, my ex.
istence was one Of
misery and for two
whole years I was I'M
able to go out of the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Former state Senator Dead.

The body Of former State Senator
w. A. Jacobs, who died suddenly at
Norfolk, Va, was buried at Chilli
cothe. Jacobs represented the Fourth
District in the Missouri Senate for two
terms In the sos.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
The Presidents Advice.

President Taft advises young men
to take up farming as a profession. The
Webb City Register pertinently in
quires if son Charley is in an agricul-
tural college.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
ResinoI, the Best Healing Ointment
That Can Se Found.

/ have used Resinol Ointment now
for two years and shall never give it
up. 1 wouldn't be without it, being
the best healing ointment 1 have
found yet. John B. Dain, London, Eng.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
he Knew the reason.

81 can say one thing in favor of Mr..
Featherly," remarked Mrs. Hendricks,
the landlady; "he never takes the last
piece of bread on the plate" mo. in
deed, Mrs. Hendricks" assented Dunn
ley, cordially, "Featherly amt quick
enough. Bazaar.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
The Sad and Splendid.

Solomon was In despair.
my wives gave me 700 samples to
match on my way down town this
morning" he cried.
Herewith he became color blind.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Never.

Mrs. Benham-You still insist that
woman has more curiosity than MANI
Benham-Sure; did you ever know a
man to want to find out il he could
get off a street car backwards with
out committing suicide?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

in the home where he was by acct
dent, and where he remained for one
night only, this implacable enemy had
reached him. Shivering from cold he
lay in his bed; an inexplicable dread
seized him He was unable to subdue
his excitement, incapable of collecting
his thoughts.
The explanation of this incident was
simple Before he left his home Alad-
jew had mechanically put the freshly
arrived letter into his pocket; when
the servant was cleaning his clothes
the letter dropped to the floor, and the
servant put it on the dressing-table. In
spite of this obvious explanation,
Aladjev was deeply impressed and
could not forget the incident.
Years ago AladjeV had begun to
write for a liberal newspaper. His
writings bore the stamp of purely
Russian liberalism, and were perme-
ated with far-off idealistic, high
minded altruism. They reflected a
vague longing toward the good and
the true, and AN instructive hatred of
the evil and the false. And he was
daring almost to foolhardiness. This
daring pleased the readers in the
provinces and gave Aladjev the repu-
tation of the banner-bearer and leader
in the fight for freedom. But besides
some sort of reputation in regions
where even the foxes bid each other
goodnight, and five kopeks a line,
these writings brought no return to
the author. However, he did not be-
come embittered; he merely deter
ed to make a fortune for himself
along different lines. A small mort
bund paper fell into his hands. Be-
ing a clever man, Aladjev compre-
hended that high-mindedness would
not make him prosperous. And SO
he changed his tune.
To those in power he spoke in an
apparently daring, critical, unpreju.
diced vein: but it always happened
that after his strongest attack the
mighty ones shone far more resplen-
dent than before For the weary and
heavyladen he had words of fatherly
benevolence. With show Of com
passion and love he pilloried their
failings and vices. He discovered q
new formula in writing--a bringing
flattery, clad in the garb Of high
minded unselfishness, combined with
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

A woman would rather suspect her
husband than distrust her preacher.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Mhat the Name Means.

spa, what is a pony eoat?"
something I've got to work like
horse for to keep your mother peace
able. detroit Free Press.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
What Women Are poIno.

There are 10000 women in Missouri
who are farmers and $4,000 in the
learned professions"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

Or. Pierces Pleasant Pellets frst put up 90 years
ago. They regulate and invigorate stomach liver
and bowels. Sugar-coated tiny gnnules.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

The less a man knows about WON.
en- the more he thinks he knows.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

Occasionally thin woman acquires
the art of not showing it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

you're coughing and gasping. When you've an old
fashioned deep-seated cold, take Aliens Lung Bal
Sold by all druggists, 2c. 5Oc aud O0 bottles
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

Lewis Single Binder straight 5e-Many
smokers prefer them to loo cigars.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

A wise man suppresses fully two
thirds OF his opinions.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

an unctuous transcencental hatred
of humanity.
TIL paper edited on these lines -four
ished. Some loved, others hated it,
No one respected 1t, but everybody
read it. Aladjev had reached his goal.
His financial resources grew daily, his
income became magnificent.
But the years of such feverish activ-
fly left their traces. Aladjev grew
old and infirm. Against his will there
arose in the bottom of his soul
old long-forgotten, forcibly-suppressed
longings. They brought in their train
the painful consciousness of duality,
an unconquerable self-detestation.
His youngest daughter-the only
one Of his children whom he loved
had left him after she had told him
that she was ashamed of her father.
She became lost among the hundreds
Of others pure of heart, unselfish of
purpose and deep of feeling like her
self.
over HIS desk hung her picture.
Her eyes looked reproachfully down
on him. Right under her beseeching
eyes, nay, in defiance of them, he
wrote his clever, cold, lying articles.
And yet Aladjev felt that there was
more holy truth in one of her mis-
takes than in all his cold calculations.
Insomnia tortured him; in his sleep
less nights he could not drive away
the all-pervading dread of death.
The stiffness of the night spoke to
him in mystic dreams. The figure Of
his sorrowing daughter gave battle to
his agony in loving kindness.
He feared solitude. Late at night,
when he did his work, all the deep
shadows seemed to become alive.
His dreams we're heavy. He stood
before the judgment seat and could
not Justify himself. Unknown shades,
covered with blood, abject in their
despair, passed before him accusingly
and their number did not end. 81
know them not" he said. 81 did not
hate them; if l have harmed them
it had to be, because it was to my
advantage" Their number increased
continually, they grew up like a wall
between him and the Judge, they
reached out after him, showed him
their wounds-and, in nameless dread
he crawled out of his bed, shaking in
every joint.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
FREED AT LAST
From the Awful Tortures Of Kidney
Disease.

Mrs. Rachel Ivie, Henrietta, Texas
says: 81 would be ungrateful If did
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

PATENTS % S.Ss SJ E. Solemn, T TeH
D - &bS J - est reierences Best results.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02
Good Guess.

PA, what is a football coach?"
THE ambulance, | guess"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-02

In the opinion of the beauty doctor
many a homely woman has a fine face
for business.