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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-12

Cattle for Sale.-One car load
of year old feeding cattle.
James Quinlan, Mexico, Mo.
r. r. 4, Molino Phone.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-12

For Sale. - Four secondhand
panel doors. Inquire at "Mes-
sage" office.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-12

For Sale.-A secondhand baby
carriage good as new. Ask the
Message"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-12

Wanted to Buy.-Gentle horse
or mare, Is hands high, 9 to 6
years old. See Rev. Rice, Mexico
322 West Maple street. II.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-12

For Sale.-Farms 500 up to
800 an acre. Town property 1900
and up. q room hotel all furnish
ed, gas lights in all the rooms,
only hotel in town; can be bought
in 60 days for $4,000.
w. WALLACE,
Real Estate Exchange Agency
Martinsburg, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
THE AyERAGE MAN.

Mine is a song of the average man
Who has been on earth since the world
began!
You win find him kind. and you'll find
him true
Youth find him cheerful and happy, too.
He's never proud and he's never mean.
He walks the earth with a conscience
clean,
The squarest fellow that God could plan
On earth today is the average man.
He loves his wife and he loves his home,
He isn't the fellow who likes to roam;
He Keeps his love for his fellow man
And bears his burden as best he can.
He's gentle neighbor, a faithful friend,
And will fight for him to the bitter end.
The decentest fellow that God could plan
On earth today is the average man.
The average man doesn't cheat or lie.
or wrong his brothers. He doesn't try
To climb to glory and gain the crown
BY pulling weaker brother down.
Hes always found on the side Of right:
His crest is always spot1ess white,
And oft as the wrongs of the world I
scan,
I thank the Lord for the average man.
Detroit Fress Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
HUAOR OF TIE Day

How are you getting on with your
new motor car?s "Oh, I'm all right"
replied Mr.. Chuggins. But I'd feel a
lot more comfortable if the streets were
not SO full of careless or inexperienced
pedestrians. washington Star.
Unskilled Rider Gas horse goes
through the water for the third time)-
Great heavensi This beast must have
been in the marines at one time
F1iegende Blaetter.
Kindly Landlady Ito the new boarder)
How did you find your bed, Mr.. In
late? MT. Inlate (taken aback)-Ob,
dash it, ma'ami I was not as bad as
that.-TiJ-Bits.
Your new butler seems clumsy"
For butler. yes. But he may be
detective that my wife has engaged. In
that case, I think he waits on table
fairly well. "-Washington Herald.
rs you goin' duck huntin'?" asked
Miss Miami Brown. NO. replied Mr.
Erastus Pinkley. "I isn't gwine special
after ducks. An I is sufficiently ac-
quainted wifi de premises Use movin' on
so dat I won't have to hunt."-Wash-
ington Star.
Mrs. Binks-The people in the next
suite to ours are awfully annoying.
They pound on the wall every time our
Mamie sings. I wish we knew of some
way to drive them out of the flat. M.
Binks-Why not have Mamie keep on
singing ?"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Captain shouted the lieutenant to
his superior on the bridge of the vessel
THE roar of the artillery was deafen-
ing-'the enemy has got our range
The captain frowned. Curse the 1uckr'
he growled- Now how can the cook
get dinner!'-Toledo Blade.
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Is that the whistle for

jumping off. Is that the whistle for
Lancaster ?''
Yes
you must let me take your arm
Wnen we get off. It may not be my
se1,loh' and don't want to lose you.''
Inc serene Mr.. Chester had his
nerve with him. but his serenity was
gone. AS the pair descended from the
coacn ne was turning from red to
Wnlte and back again, and mentally
praying that his task was ended. And
so 1t was. A boy of fifteen rushed
forward and cried out a "Hello. sister
RUTH" and she dropped his arm and
threw her own around the boy
she stood thus for a minute and
then turned for her bag and looked
M. chester in the eyes in a puzzled
and wondering way. Then she bowed
cold1y and walked to an auto in wait
ing. Memory had come back, and she
didn't remember a thing that had
taken place in the car.
Mr.. Chester's serenity did not re-
turn. He was frritated over the part
ing. He was almost INDIGNANT as he
related the episode to his mother and
gave her a description of the girl.
Why how queeri'' she exclaimed
That was certainly Ruth Foster, and
visit at the house.
But what good does that do me p
asked the son, sulkily
why, you'll call there with me to-
| morrow to see if her memory is fully
restored. That will be eminentl5
proper
And what if il is restored ?"
'Why-why, I've often thought I6
give Year of my life if you'd fall fr
| love and marry her.
| The call was made and the memory
found to be all right. The loss was not
even limited at, though Miss Ruth
seemed to be trying hard to renembel
som thing. 1t was different with the
brother. After Mr.. Chester had fount
his way to the house dozen times tlns
lad walked with him and confidential.
| ly said: s-s, pa
| when saw you and Ruth come
down the car steps that day 1 just fel
| it in my bones that you'd be m,
brother-in-Iaw some day!'-(Copy
fright, 1911, by Associated Literar,
[PreSsl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

from the Philadelphia Record
When a. woman gets a walking skirt
she loses no time in wearing it out.
The tiresome story teller may be in
his dotage, or merely in his anec-dot-
age.
The dressmaker may not be the glass
of fashion, but she is the mold of form.
Many a soldier who has remained
cool under fire has been roasted after
ward.
1t may be more blessed to give than
to receive. but most of us only know 1t
from hearsay.
Probably the reason some men are
so small is because they always shrink
from their duty.
Any pugilist will tell you there is
quite a difference between being slug
gish and being s1ugged.
BIobbs-"Do you believe that Eve
was created from Adams rib?" Slobbs
Yes, and she has been bone of
contention ever since"
Mrs. Henpeckke-"My husband pro-
posed to me 13 times before I accepted
him. Mrs. Dashaway-"I have often
wondered what made him SO supersti-
tfofls''
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SCHOOL BOARD NOMINEES.

If those candidates who led in the
primary contest for nominations for
election to the school board, are the
successful ones on election day, as
there is every reason to believe that
they will be, the personnel of the
board of education will be materially
strengthened. And when the six mern-
bers who are chosen become the COM
plete board of education when the new
law goes into effect a year from next
August it will be a body representative
of the entire city and one that ought
to do exceedingly good work.
The leading candidates comprise
Mrs. Evans, Mr.. PenwelL Mr.. Kutz
DR.. Van Horn, Mr.. Griggs and Mr.
Atchison. 1t will be seen that among
this number are candidates who were
on the various tickets which were Ia
beled "Insurgent.' Citizens Nom
Partisan" and the like. Mrs. Evans,
who happened to be on none of these
tickets, polled the second largest vote
of any of the candidates. 1t was a fine
and deserved tribute to her services On
the board of education, and is impor-
tant in assuring women an excellent
representation on the board when il
is made smaller and reorganized un-
der the new law.
And because of the fact that the
leading candidates of yesterday come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tFrom the Chicago News.1

lFTom the chicago NeWS-l
Money talks, and some people make
every dollar count.
Too many political platforms are
made up of gang blanks.
The love of other mems money may
be the root of much evil.
A man isn't necessarily tall because
he looks down on his neighbor.
It's a shame the way society shocks
the people who are not in il.
And the more insignificant a man is
the more annoying he may be.
A man never knows how many
friends he has until he strikes it rich.
It's all right to have one sided views
if you only look on the bright side.
1t is naturally the strait and narrow
path for those who are paying for the
new pavement.
We once heard of a woman who could
talk but would not. We have also
heard other curious things.
Every man believes that he is a
born leader. but the majority are un-
able to find procession to head.
Even a modest girl has been known
to engage in Irritation for the pur-
pose of making some other girl miser.
able.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
THE MAYoR.AIrY. CoNrEsr.

As was foreseen by most of the po-
litically alert even before the votes
were cast and counted, the contest for
the mayoralty nominations was be-
tween Mayor Billiard and Mr. McNeal
The only question was as to which one
OF them would get the larger vote. That
Mr.. Billiard ran SO far ahead of Mr.
McNeal and polled such a strong vote
among the women was one of the sur
prises of the day. 1t was no more of a
surprise, however, than was the small
ness Of the vote received by each Of
the other two prominent candidates in
the field Mr.. Lux and Mr. Hughes.
Both Of these gentlemen are prominent
and have hosts of friends. They had
waged most vigorous campaigns, and
were confident that they would win a
place on the ticket. But Mr.. McNes1
was the logical candidate in the field
against Mr.. Billiard, and 1t was not so
very strange after all that these two
divided the bulk of the vote It is also
likely that on election day Mr.. McNeal
will poll by far the larger part of the
vote that went to Mr.. Lux and Mr.
Hughes, and this will make the final
fight between him and Mayor Billiard a
close one.
Mr.. Billiard has been an efficient and
an honest mayor. He has enforced the
prohibitory law about as well as it has
been enforced during the past few
years. But the mere fact that he is OPP
posed to the principles of prohibition,
and has not been reluctant so to state
even while he has held the high office of
|1l1a rRG 4aI 1T -
state in the union that has given pro-
hibition an honest test through a rigid
e forcement, would seem to put him
out of harmony with fixed policy of
Topeka and Kansas, and therefore an
undesirable incumbent in the mayors
chair.
1t was because of these views that
the opposition to him focused on Mr..
McNea1 as a more representative man
for the place. Certainly Mr. McNeal Is
the perfect embodiment of the senti-
ment Of Topeka. And in the event of
his election to the mayora1ty, there
will be no speeches or interviews from
him to the effect that prohibition Is a
failure and a handicap to Topeka. The
opposite is known to be the case, and
the chances are that many who voted
for Mr.. Billiard would be among the
last to urge a return to open saloons,
or their prototypes, the open joints, in
Topeka. The fact that Topeka is a
dry town is one of it's greatest as
sets. and it is so recognized by most of
the people.
The infection of state politics into the
primary campaign had its effect on the
McNea1 vote. Because Mr.. McNeal has
trained with that faction of the Repub-
lican party which is not very strong in
Topeka and Shawnee county. OF
course. state politics had no business
| in the campaign, but extraneous things
like that have a habit of creeping into
all political contests, and are generally
an important factor In their determine
| ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
COMMISSION NOMINATIONS.

With three of the present city COM
missioners leading the field in the con-
test of yesterday, 1t is apparent that
t, people are pretty well satisfied with
the way the first year of commission
form of government has been handled
by them. It seems certain that Com
missioners Miller, Tandy and Bone will
be reelected to office, and their years
experience ought to make their future
service to the city extremely valuable.
Mr.. Holman, the other commissioner
also received a denomination, but three
other candidates in the contest, Mr.
Stotts, Mr.. Jordan and Mr.. Arnold, who
get places among the nominees, polled
larger votes than he did according 20
the returns at this writing. This as
sures warm fight on election day for
this fourth commissionership. It Is
possible, too, that one or another Of the
new nominees may nose out another
one of the old commissioners in the
final struggle.
But no matter what the results are
on election day. it is safe to predict
that a satisfactory commission will be
chosen. The people are perfectly ia
miliar with the excellent work that has
been done by the present commission
ers against large odds. The caliber of
the new candidates who were success
full yesterday in getting among the
eight nominees is such that if any Of
them are chosen to succeed any of the
old commissioners, the usefulness and
efficiency of the commission will not be
ip1noired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

[FTom the Atchison Globe.1
Nearly every man spends part OF
his life at posing.
You're a long time dead, and also
long time married.
A man out of a job is a poor ad-
vertisement for himself.
It is hard to understand why even
dogs admire some people.
Does any man like a new hat as
well as he did his old one?
1t would be great for the fish II
men went fishing only when fishing
is good.
being smart simply because they act
queer.
Who ever heard of pretty girl,
from Is to 20, complain of having
corns?
As a general thing. the man who
insists on using his napkin for a bib,
is apt to need one.
Doc. Robinson: "I have catarrh in
the head, but am thankful there is
something there"
When an old-fashioned man wants
to say someone Is witty and jolly, he
says: HE is case"
One of the surest things in the
world is that an election is never as
important as it seems to a candidate
You also have too much hope if you
expect to make ready made suit
look as well as the ad. illustrator does
A horse traders idea of punk
sport is one of his profession who will
admit it when he gets the worst of a
deal.
If you can't go to the ball game
this season, there will doubtless be
about the usual number of flies to
swat
In gratitude to humanity, it may be
said that the verbal brickbats thrown
about are not always more sincere
than the bouquet.
You may have observed that, while
some people walk, a good many ar
rive by the painful process of drag.
ging their feet around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
Girl is secretary.

One OF the first young women to be
selected as private secretary to a rep
resentative, Miss Elizabeth c. Harris,
daughter of Representative-e1ect Rob-
ert o. Harris of Bridgewater, will in
the near future fill unique position in
Washington.
In fact. as private secretary to Judge
Harris, this attractive girl of "a will be
likely to attract the keenest intere est
and attention in Washington, since a
woman secretary to a representative is
so rare as to be almost unknown.
1t is partly because there are no
daughter has been given the position
by her father. She is tall and svelt,
graceful and fond of athletics. She
has blond hair, large eyes, a we'll
shaped mouth. and the most tactful
and charming way of greeting Wis
itor. In fact, it is predicted that as a
tactician she will far exceed the av-
erage male private secretary in Wash
ington.
Miss Harris is a graduate of the
Bridgewater high school. In speaking
of her new and novel task she says:
"Just now I am studying hard to
learn all about the duties that go along
with representative secretary's po-
sition. Although my father is to be
my employer, that does not free me
from any OF the duties OF my pOStl1OIi
"I have always tried to be good
chum to my father, and I think that I
have been more or less successful, or
else he would not have offered to take
me to Washington with him as his
helper. 1t is, indeed, a great index
to fathers belief in a daughter when
he is willing to trust her with his po-
litical ard business secrets.
Apart from the question of rela-
tionship. no position could be more
p1easureably anticipated by me than
being the secretary to one of our states
men in Washington. Presumably
every woman who likes to be independ-
ent would be pleased with the idea. ]
am not one of those who believe that
womans interests are limited to So
ciaI and household affairs.
Undoubtedly if there had been sons
in the family should rot have been
called upon to take a mans place, but
it can scarcely make difference
whether my father is served by his
own son or his own daughter as pri-
vate secretary, provided tie work is
faithfully done and his affairs are
looked out for in a businesslike way.
Just now I am studying stenog-
raphy and typewriting in Boston and
learning the routine duties of a profess
sional private secretary.
i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The good, cook is one who can make
prunes deIectabie.
Everybody has an idea that other
peoples troubles don't amount to
much.
The best efforts of most people are
nothing much to braE about
y -
A woman never forgets any of the
sayings of her husband before they
were married.
p
Too many folk never awake to a
realization of what is best for them
until it is too late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.1

1t would have been very lucky for
some people not TO have been born.
II a man had a million he'd think it
was only hard luck that kept it from
being two.
There must be mighty little left of
some women after they get their
clothes and hair off.
A man has to be able to govern him.
self to command an army, and even
then he can't even influence his
family.
One thing a man likes about his
wife having somebody fe doesn't like
visit them is it's a very good excuse
for not being home much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

One Of the most redeeming features
Of the commission form of government
Is the arrangement whereby there Is
not a great deal of time between the
primaries and the election. And the
fact that after the election there viii
Be nothing doing in municipal politics
for couple of years is probably most
gratifying to everybody in town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

Automobile racing appears to be
doomed and there wasn't much excuse
for it anyway. The United States Mo
tor company, and the eleven large auto
manufacturing concerns which are al
lied with it, have announced their re-
tirement from the racing game. They
have found that it is without advantage
OF any kind. No denying it. the pep.
pie generally seem to be getting more
sensible all the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
The Faithful Nurse.

ass this YOU. doctor?" asks the
nurse over the telephone.
Eyes" answers the physician.
seWell. you know you said Mr..
Ronder would not show any signs of
Improvement for five or six days?"
dyes
"Well, this is only the second day
and he is a great deal better already.
Shall I give him something to make
hin, worse for the other three or four
DAVIS 2',-Iife
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

been found not guilty by jury. But
since the senate, far-famed for it's wis
dom and erudition, gave Lorimer and
his case such a clean bill of health, it is
almost too much to expect that a jury
Of just ordinary men could find any
thing crooked with the Borimer cleo
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

Prophecy is always unreliable, but It,
is safe to assert that Golfers Weekly
played no part in the warm and en-
thusiastic welcome home that was
given to Mr.. Ballinger, the. former sec
rotary Of the interior. by the people of
Seattle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

There is nothing so very strange in
the fact that cat on board the old
Texas survived the rain of shot and
shell which sank the battleship. This
viii also have a tendency to strengthen
the already general belief that a cat
has nine lives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

Horace Greeley's advice of eco west.
young man." still appears to hold
good. Train robbers near Coffeyvil1e.
Kan, got away with $4,000 the other
day. On the same day different sets of
bank robbers got $4,000 and $4,000 in
Kansas and Missouri. And on the same
day couple of bandits who raided a
New York club house only got three
cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

from all the factions that have devel-
oped in the city in connection with the
administration of its educational af-
fairs. it Is evident that the voters did
not pay much attention to the faction
al fight that has been going on. but
selected whom they deemed to be the
best candidates for the places.
They did a superior job. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

It seems that Mr.. Naftzger, the
former Wichita banker, missed a point
b. not turning states evidence. Burt's
sentence of a year and half in the
penitentiary is to be commuted. But
maybe Mr.. Natfzger didn't have the
chance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

No time should be lost by any one ia
making the necessary arrangements to
participate properly in the celebration
OF Arbor Day. which comes this year
q April T. Almost any kind of tree
will grow in Kansas if the trouble is
taken to plant it. Topeka is blessed
with an abundance of trees but there is
plenty. Of room for more of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

At any rate, those Camorrists on
trial in Italy appear to be human.
They get terribly vexed whenever any
evidence particularly harmful to them
IS presented
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

If Topeka had voting machines. the
results of yesterdays primaries would
have been known definitely within an
hour or two of the closing of the polls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

It is a moral certainty that the peo-
pie who are finding the most fault with
the results Of yesterdays primaries are
among those who did not take the
trouble to vote
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

Great rejoicing is probably going on
among the local fans over the defeat of
TIE Kaws in their first game. Most
people are superstitious to the extent
of believing that a bad beginning
makes a good ending -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

Several of the candidates at yester-
days primaries have for the first time
or again learned the rather bitter les
son that many people talk one way and
vote another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28

Stir up people ana they boil over;
stir up soup to keep 1t from boiling
over. No wonder foreigners go loony
trying to make change for American
coloquialisms.
8 Avoid the cigarettei Not because II
is in the least dangerous, but because
1t is the poorest excuse for smoke
that was ever burdened with a revenue
stamp.
II read somewhere that sleep is Ma
sare's remedy . says Hondo Murphy.
clock for $50 and give Nature a chance
to administer a second dose before my
Wife pulls me out to breakfast at $780,"
The primary is over, but the worst Is
yet to come: We must listen to the de-
feated ones while they announce that
there are no sore spots on them.
Cheer up. Life is short and art is
long, but they are much alike, just the
same; life without few troubles would
be as useless as a picture that was ali
high-Iight and no shadows.
To the defeated candidates: NO, wall
street was not visfbly affected when 1t
heard the news.
His reputation IN private life
Was square as the spots on check
er-board,"
But when he Jumped into political strife
We discovered at once that he beats his
wife
And was seen on the main-stean
drunk as a lord.