Mexico Missouri message., 1909-12-23

New York society makes a better
appearance at the horse show than in
the divorce court.
The Indians never invented any.
thing finer than the Indian summer
that bears their name.
The auto is said to promote append
eitis, but this will not deter those who
can scrape up the price.
II in 1000 years from now It will be
possible to live 100 years it is TO tie
hoped that ii will be worth while.
Virtue does not consist in doing
right. but in choosing to do right This
is the great distinction between the
ANNA! and man.
Germany is now viewing with com.
piacency the Monroe doctrine, which
has all along viewed Germany with
imperturbability.
King Manuel of Portugal has gone
to England TO get him wife, II posi-.
BILE st. Joe, Mich, is also recon-
mended for that purpose.
Many a man is wearing a plush hat
who would shudder at the idea of Dor
rowing a feather from his wife's top
piece TO make It complete.
Word comes that a New Yorker is
TO be relieved from the stress Of pow
erty by an Inheritance of 100000. He
is not much of a New Yorker.
II will be almost impossible to conn
terfeit the new French bank notes,
but we get this information from the
designer. not from the counterfeiters.
Women may, as the learned DR..
Hills says, own all the property in
1000 years, but many Of those now llv
ing Willingly would discount their
share.
After reading about mental malprac-
tice and treatment for prosperity in
New York We have more charity for
the ancient New Englanders who be-
lieved in witchcraft
Vienna has an enterprising mar
rlage broker who offers to unite bank
rupt European titles to useful Ameri-
can millions. Judging the present by
the past, he can do IT,
Just at present we have IN the
North Dakota the fastest and best
DTeadnought in the world, but some
other nation may get a better one next
week.
Honduras has lost its navy. The
only warship of that country a tug
boat transformed into an armed cruis-
eT, was run into near Puerto Cortez
by a fruit steamer and sunk. Thus
the coast Of Honduras is defenseless
against foreign aggression. But the
Hondurans can go inland and out of
range if serious danger shall threaten.
A heartless court has appointed a
cOnservator for the 7O-year-old bride
who recently married an eastern uni
Versity student, aged 81, and the
young husband will be arraigned for
perjury in CALAMITY swearing that
his wife was only "a. There was a
time in this country when people ad-
mired an enterprising young man
who tried to work his way through
college.
The international art exhibition at
Venice has just come to an end, and
one feature of the finale was the sale
Of some of the paintings on exhibit
ton. Six of the more notable were
by American artists, and they were
bought for the gallery of the Interna.
tional Art association at Venice. That
is a tribute to American talent the
Significance Of which will be recog.
niZed.
Turkey, after disposing of old and
obsolete war vessels, proposes to
construct new navy at a cost OF
not less than $100,0OO,000, and part OF
the outfit planned will be seven bat,
tleships of the Dreadnought class. No
doubt a navy will serve a useful Dur
pose, but could not the Young Turks
spend the money to better advantage?
Does not Turkey need other things
more than big fleet Of war craft?
The treasury department at Wash
ington has given orders that revenue
cutters shall patrol the waters about
certain Hawaiian islands where poach
ers are ruthlessly destroying the
birds. This protection is intended tC
prevent such indiscriminats slaughter
and to assure the preservation o.
birds the value of which is coming tC
be more thoroughly appreciated
This ie annfher farm Of conservation