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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13
There Is a Chance
For You in The
Big Horn Basin

You can prove it to your
own satisfaction by going
with me on the next eXcur-
sion to the Big Horn Basin,
where you can rent improved
farms for a share Of the crop.
No cash rents are required,
but it is possible for you to
secure a good farm for next
year and move out in the
spring.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

Mrs. Marston Beamer and Miss
Margaret Powell Of near Molino
attended the Sunday school con
vention in Mexico Tuesday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

Miss Maggie Ellis of Omaha,
Neb., is visiting her sister III this
city, Miss Allie Ellis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

Highest cash prices paid for
produce, fat stock and hides.
+. A. Sannebeck.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

j. ID. Mckee is home from a
pleasant visit in Texas.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13
NO = &c Z 7:

| will meet the Tax PAYERS
of Audrain County at the fol-
lowing places;
Rowena, Wed, Nov. II
Friendship, Thurs, Nov. Is
Macedonia School, Friday
November ID.
Centralia, Monday, Nov. II
Sturgeon, Tuesday, Nov. Is
Martinsburg, Wed. Thurs.
November 18th and Goth
Benton City, Friday, Nov. q
Cant, Saturday, Nov. 2.
Laddonia, Mon, Tues. Wed.
November a, %, 2G.
Rush Hill, Friday, Nov. 2
Farber, Monday, Dee.
Mt. Carmel, Tues, Dec.
Vandalia, Wed. Thurs. Fri.
December 3rd, 4th and 9th
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

Attorney K. S. Cant was in st.
Louis on legal business this week
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13
Stoves That Warm the Floor.

Superior and Estate, two floor
warmers. Thousands in use.
Ferris e. Cauthorn.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

G. +. Elliott is i'll.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13
We Are

Still selling buggy and har-
ness for $4,000. A fine chance TO
save $500.
Ferris & Cauthorn.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13
And You Don't Have TO
Wait for Rain

You simply turn the water
on when your crops need 1T,
A destructive hail or wind
storm has never been known
to visit the farming regions
of the Basin Country.
If you prefer, you can take
up a Government irrigated
homestead or file on land
under the Carey Act. Why
not write today for particu'
lars, maps and folders and
plan to take advantage of this
opportunity?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

The Kings Daughter of Benton
City will have IA cooked food sale
and serve oysters all day al
Wooldridge's store in Benton
City, Saturday, Nov. Is. Every
body invited.
The ladies of the Christian
church of Rush Hill will conduct
a supper on Saturday evening,
Nov. Is. Cake, pie and fruit and
a good social time the program.
Come.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13
S. A. PULLS.

Collector Of AudTe'N County, No,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-11-13

Ferris & Cauthorn.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12

GAS a shot said Major W. B. Mar
tin, the Olympic rifle champion-he was
discussing millionaire-'theN man is
unspeakable. He leased a place in
England for the pheasant shooting
There is one very bad wood on the
estate, and boys are employed to beat
it. Stops you cali them, and you re-
quire a lot. Well. last year when he
came to shoot over this particular wood
he found that the stops were all
grown men. That would mean a big
extra expense, and he took his head
keeper to task about it.
How is it, he said, that you don't
give me bog stops this year.?
well, We see, sir said the keeper,
touching his cap respectfully, the fact
is, sir, that We shot the boys down
rather close last year, sir "-Washing-
ton Star.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12

is not a life Of rectitude a sufficient
atonement for youthful fault-a fault
probably due more to thoughtlessness
and spirit of mischief than to Eicious
ness?
Such cases are not rare, In various
forms they crop up in many COM
munitieS.
individuals are taught to forgive.
Should not society also forgive?
Should not the man who reforms, who
overcomes an evil trait or deed. who
strives honestly and manfully to live
down the past. be Eonored rather than
blamed? %
This man paid his penalty: paid it in
his conviction. in his Imprisonment. in
his GEARS Of life as a wauderer and ess
capped convict. in his haunting fear Of
discovery
Should not his account. and others
like it. be balanced?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
.POKING FUN At
THE SHIP CAPTAINS.
Humorisf Ford Has a Word to
Say About Life at Sea.

Simeon Ford discussed thousand
foot piers for steamships at banquet
aboard the new Lamport-Hoit liner
Vestris, which plies between Brooklyn
and South America.
''Since the steamships are so anxious
for longer berths for themselves, let
'em reciprocate," said MI. Ford. No
six foot man can sleep In a berth on a
steamship unless he puts accordion
plaits in his legs.
But the proprietors OF these float
ing hotels have us land hotel men
beaten to a.frazzle. They collect your
money before you room. If a patron
becomes obstreperous he. can be hung
up at the yardarm. On land it's the
proprietor who is hung up.
"And tust see what an easy life the
captain nas-simply puts on clean
uniform each day, steps up to the
bridge and points some funny bust
ness at the sun. Then he tells you
how many miles the ship went in the
day, and it never agrees with your de-
cisiOn for the ships pool ia the smOlS
ing room.
THE captain on this ship is lucky
his vessel runs out of Brooklyn. l ran
out of Brooklyn years ago" - New
York Press
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
SheriH'S Sale,

No. t6,6n2-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La. d:
Shreveport Mutual Building As
ISOLATION VS.. VIM. C. Butler.
By virtue of a writ of fieri facias
to me directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court Of Cad
do Parish, La, in the above num-
bered and entitled suit, Wave seized
and will offer for sale at public auc-
ton for cash and without the bene-
fiji of appraisement, during the legal
hours for sales, at the principa!
front door of the court house Of
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, JAN. %, 1918,
Lot four of Che I. B. Jordan Sub
division of the City of Shreveport
Caddo Parish, La, as per map in
book "a, page 537, Of the records Of
Caddo Parish, La, together with all
the buildings and improvements
thereOngSaid property seized as be-
longing to the above named defend
ant and to be sold for cash without
the benefit of appraisement, to pay
and satisfy the debt as specified in
said writ, say in the sum of ten
hundrSd and sixty-five dollars, with
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
A MARVELLOUS AGE.

The other day wireless operator out
In the Pacific ocean heard voices 80
miles away. The explanation was Of
fered that he had picked up scraps Of
conversation in distant wireless tele-
phone test
The same day came news that an
aviator had flown across the Mediter-
ranean sea from Tunis, Africa, to Sic
lily, distance Of 160 miles.
A few months earlier it was reported
from Paris that by combination of
the phonograph and moving pictures
the audience not only saw. but heard,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
The Pine That Failed.

This story is told about ex-senator
]. S. Clark of Calais, Me. One day
while awaiting his turn in a barber
shop in Calais he was talking with a
friend and was so deeply interested in
the conversation that he allowed his
pipe to go out several times. Each
time heawould ask Melvin Noble, To-
cal practical joker. for a match.
About the time he wanted the fifth
match Noble said, Il don't begrudge
you the matches, Jed, but / think it
would be cheaper for you to put a
crate in your pipe and burn coal"-
Boston Herald
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
Succession Sale.
No. f6.625-In the First Judicial Dis
triet Court of louisiana: Success
sion of John E. Stewart

No. f6.625-In the First Judicial Dis
triet Court of Louisiana Success
sion of John E. Stewart.
By virtue of a commission issued
to ne by the First Judicial District
Court of the State Of Louisiana, [
will sell at public auction, to the
highestCeidder, for cash, according
to law, for the purpose Of paying
debts, on o.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1913,
At the court house door, in the City
of Shreveport, the following prop
erty belonging to said succession.
The southeast quarter and the east
half of>east half Of southwest quar-
ter of section l2.' and southwest
quarter OF southwest quarter and
east half rsf norGSwest quarter of
southwest quarter, and ten 40
acres off the northeast quarter of
southwest quarter Of section IL,
township %, range Is west, Of Cad
do Parish, La. together with all the
buildings and improvements ehere-
on, containing two hundred and
eighty $3.50 acres, more or less.
\. C.. STEWART,
Administrator.
Caucasian, January !, 1913.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
LOVE MEANS SELF SACRIFICE.

| There is a pathetic story from Cleve.
lsand Of a mother who wanted to keep
her children forever ba bies.
Most parents. especially mothers,
have had similar yearnings.
This mother did not stop with long
ing, however She tried to defeat ma
ture and time. She did not teach her
little ones to talk or walk. She con-
tinued feeding them baby food. She
took them from the house only after
dark.
She admitted no one to their pres
ence. She wanted them all for her
very own.
It was by accident that the authori
ties discovered the sad plight Of the
little ones. There were three Of them
two, three and four years old.
The four-year-old still crept about
the floor and cooed in baby fashion
Such an influence7bad the mothers
mind and methods upon him that they
had stunted his physical growth. He
two. Yet all three children were
bright and without natural defect
With pr1per care and training they
would have been as others.
The result was that the mother was
arrested and the children sent to an
institution.
Her selfish love defeated itself By
seeking to keep her little ones forever
babies she was not permitted to keep
them at alt O
Selfish love is always cruel. 1t does
not look to the happiness and well be-
ing of the object
The only true love sacrifices self for
the good of others.
1t is easy to see the falsity and III
tility of this mothers course, but her
sin was only an exaggerated form of
a fault. found in most Of US. @
In another aspect it appears In the
mother who does not want her chill
dren away from her, who tries to keep
them from going to distant school
or from marriage or from career.
This is quite as selfish and only
little less harmful than the love Of the
Cleveland mother.
True love gives up.
It's happiness is found in whatever
is best for the one beloved.
1t is never tyrannical.
1t does not interfere except for the
good Of the other.
The greatest kindness we can do for
our defrx ones is to let them live their
own lives in their own way.
We should not impose our wills on
them unless very sure it is necessary
for their own Welfare-to help or save
them.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
Srier Pipes.

Brier, which furnishes the root from
which the brier pipes are made, is the
shrub called the white heath or heath
er and is found chiefly in the south of
Italy OR on the island of Corsica and
in Algeria. le shrub often grows to
a large size, although only the roots
are used in the pipe making industry.
After the roots have been cleaned Of
the earth which clings to them they
are sawed into blocks of various di-
mansions, placed in watts and allowed
to simmer for twelve hours, which
brings out the rich brown color for
which the finest pipes are priced. Fol
lowing Gis boiling process the blocks
are steam dried for two weeks and
then are sent to the factory. where
they are converted into pipes. The
blocks are assorted according to size
by experts. are placed on shelves and
kept at an even temperature for ten
days. Then they are dried and sent to
the machines. where the actual manu-
facture begins After the blocks have
been trimmed to the proper size the
upper part of the bowl is turned, then
the lower part and stem. and they are
sandpapered The finishing of the
bowls then takes place.-Indianapol
News.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
THE VALUE OF GOOD TEMPER.

Allen G. Thurman. the old Roman"
gave as the first rule of conduct for a
young man about to enter public life
this:
Keep civil tongue in your headv
That is a first rule for other things
besides public life.
Good temper IS business asset
The winner smiles The loser frowns.
Don't look like loser.
A crouch frightens away dollars as
well as friends.
Don't be a crouch.
Your tongue is your advance agent.
Don't permit the advance agent to
queer your show.
There is an old story Of man who
was barred from q club because he
forget to say, Thank you" to a man
who held open door to let him pass.
That tale had wide circulation. and,
it is safe to say. few who read it ever
afterward made similar mistake
1t is little thing to say, please"
for a request or THANK you for a
service rendered, but such little things
go a long way in the success Of life.
1t is not so small thing to hold your
temper in a difficult situation, but it
goes quite as far. There are people
who observe these trifes and remem-
Der them either for or against their
author.
Keep a civil tongue In your head"
The essence of courtesy is thought
fitness for others. 1t is the Golden
Rule in practice.
Learn to put yourself in the place of
others and to regulate your words and
deeds accordingly.
Being amiable and considerable will
finally become habit
Every salesman is schooled in speak
ing civilly He has to be. The soft
answer that turneth away wrath is
with him not alone an ethical precept,
but business requirement.
The man who never raises his voice
In anger is now counted the ideal bust
ness man.
There are those of exceptional at
tainments who win even with bad tenn
pers, but they succeed despite this
fault, not because Of 1t.
Let your temper be expended in the
energy with which you do things, not
In hasty words.
''Keep civil tongue in your head"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
Estray NOtie
Caucasian, January !, 1913.

Taken up by r. c. Pickens one
mile east of-LeRosen Station and es-
trayed before me, the undersigned
authority, one red heifer, 8 months
old, with white spot intgace, also a
white spot in each flank; no mark
visible brand. The owner Will come
forward, prove property and pay
charges, or The heifer will be sold at
the residence Of R. c. Pickens &C
cording to law on the 28th of Janu-
airy 1918, at 10 O'Clock am.
J. +. HENDERSON.
Justice Of the Peace, Seventh Ward
Of Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Caucasian, December 26, 1912.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
No New Ones Left.

81 don't often dine away from home, y
confides a friend, land when | do
am careful But l had an experience
at restaurant the other night that
was new one to me. and that's why
Pm handing it to you.
when | entered the dining room
somebody relieved me OF my hat
When l left ! asked for that hat. The
waiter said:
"'What kind of a hat was it, sir?'
ga brand new one, l replied truth
fully and anxiously
6"I'm afraid there's not much chance
for you, sir grinned the menialI All
the new hats have been gone for fif
teen minutes at leastv "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
new TALES
that ARE TOLD
The Financier'S Rest.

Pie.ie Lott, the famous French au-
thor. praised American energy at the
Hotel Marie Antoinette in New York.
Illustrates well the energy of your men
of affairs.
"a gentleman called at the office Of
an indefatigable millionaire tinancier.
1t was 4 o'clock In the afternoon. and
the financier lay back in a revolving
chair with his feet on his desk and n
picture magazine in his hand.
give worked mighty hard for the
last ten years without a days vaca-
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
Heart toHeart
Talks
THE DAY or SMALL THINGS.
By JAMES A. EDCERTON

To stand on mountain top it is
necessary to climb This has been said
before, which only proves its truth
The higher the peak the harder the
climb:
Fame is a mountain top.
The climb to it is not alone, or
chiefly, physical. but is none the less
arduous.
Despite the bricks thrown at the
United States senatc-on account of
the character Or affiliations of some Of
its members--it is perhaps the greatest
legislative body on earth.
Membership in it is q station that
any normal man would wish to hold
The other day made up list of
present United States senators. tabu-
lating their educational advantages.
early public positions and other like
facts.
Most of them were poor boys While
more than half had a college education.
many of these had to pay their own
way. = '
Forty per cent have been members
Of state legislatures.
Now. membership in state Iegis,
lature is not considered q particularly
lofty station. Some joikesmiths com
pare going to the legislature with going
to jail - a.
Yet, with the right sort Of man. serv-
ice in a legislature may not only be
worthy service. but may be stepping
stone to something higher
Despise not the day Of small begin
nings
One of these senators states in his
official biography that he has been
''lumberjack, cowboy. clerk and cash
Ter in store. newspaper reporter bod
carrier and lawyer"
This recalls similar statement by
house of representatives, who says
that he worked as hired farmland,
clerked in country store edited a
country newspaper and practiced law"
These men are not ashamed of their
humble origin. They are proud of It.
They have a right to be proud
1t shows the length of the climb.
The man who is ashamed of small
beginnings may have real cause for
shame of his smaller ending
Abraham Lincoln worked as hired
farmland, clerked in country store
and also served in the state iegislat ure.
! Has he not made small beginnings
honorable?
The Prince OF Peace was born in
stable and worked as a carpenter.
1t is not the depth from which we
start that tells the tale.
It is our ability to Climb.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12

Is per cent per annum interest
thereon from the 9th day of Deem
Der 1911, until paid, and per cent
attorneys fees on said principal and
Interest, and the further SUM, of
Sll.4O with ) per cent as attorneys
fees on said principal, and all costs
OF this suit. Up. FGOURNOY.
Sheriff, ex-Officio Aucti0neer.
Caucasian, December p, 1912.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12

the actors on the screen. At about the
SAFE tine it was cabled from London
that moving pictures had been repro
duced IL natural coors without paint.
ing the films.
1t. is marvellous age. just how mar
velous we WHO live in it but dimly real
lie.
The currents of all past ages are
meeting in this focal point of time.
The dreams Of seers and prophets are
coming true. Things our great nd
fathers hardly dared imagine are today
commonplace.
The writer has a SiXteen-year-Old boy
who has wireless apparatus, much of
which he made himself, through which
he picks up messages from ships hun
dreds of miles at sea. " %
What would have been miracle-fo
our fathers has become the plaything
Of our children.
What does all this mean for the flu
ture?
Reflect on the swift progress of the
last twenty-five years and the swifter
progress Of the last ten years.
II advancement continues at ever in
creasing speed where may it not lead?
Tomorrow may we not speak through
telephones without wires for hundreds
or thousands of miles and not only hear
our distant friends voice, but see his
speaking image before us?
Tomorrow may not the common
means of travel be the airship?
The automobile las come In a score
Of years, the telephone in a lifetime,
the railroad. telegraph and steamship
in century.
With the advance of science and sur
gerry on the one hand and Of psychology
on the other may not disease be practi-
caily banished from the future man?
1t is privilege and an inspiration to
live in an age like this. o
1t is trumpet call to all the powers,
hopes and aspirations within us.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
ONE WAY TO BE GOOD AMERICANS.

Why are fashions imported from
| Paris?
In the past few years most Of the
Paris styles have been monstrosities
They have been not only uncomfort
able and absurd, but have verged OIL
the indecent.
Moreover they have been ugly
At last the worm has turned. as
worms with even enough sense to
squirm will do sooner or later.
There is now a widespread movement
to design our own styles
This is being promoted not only by
an influential section of the press, but
by big dressmaking and tailoring estab-
liShments and manufacturing houses
New York designers have organized
a society Of American fashions for
American women
The hobble skirt and other Paris
freaks have done their work. They
have taught US to depend upon our
selves.
We have plenty of American design
ers, but they have been slavishly copy
ing French models
Our people have shown inventive
ness, ingenuity and good taste in other
lines, and there Is no reason why they
cannot do so in the matter Of feminine
apparel.
American men have their own fash
ions, and they are as well dressed as
any men in the world.
The Paris fetch has dominated the
feminine mind till now, but the end
has come 0
American women are adonting a new
Declaration of Independents
They have resolved to be free from
the tyranny of foreign freak fashions.
They are through with sartorial carl
catures
Hereafter we are to have American
styles of common sense, appropriate
ness and beauty.
This is not only movement of pa
triotsm, but of economy and good
taste.
There is individuality in dress as
there is in color of eyes, hair. complex
ion and shape of figure. O
There is also national Individuality.
Paris fashions may be all right for
French women, but France is not
America.
This is young and growing nation
Decadence and degeneracy cannot set
the pace for youth.
Let us have American fashions for
American women.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
WHEN SOCIETY SHOULD FORGIVE.

The Jean Valjeans are not confined
to fiction They are found in real life
There is the case of Emile Dealon Of
New Orleans.
While mere boy, he and playmate
set fire to a church. The other lad
turned states evidence, and Dealon
under another name was sent to prison.
He managed to dig his way out wan
dered about the world for a time and,
eighteen years ago, returned to New
Orleans, married and settled down.
Three children were born to him.
He had a happy home and was con
sidered a model citizen.
Then, like a stab in the back or a
blow in the darkness, some anonymous
correspondent told Of Dealon's past.
He was arrested for the boyish
prank of thirty-three years before
His wife was Frustrated by the blow
and was sent to the hospital. The
three innocent children will have a
shadow over them to the end of their
lives.
To the credit of the citizens Of New
| Orleans be it said that petition was
at once circulated and largely signed
| for Dealon's pardon.
Possibly by the time this reaches the
| reader he will be a free man. Let US
| hope so.
| Yet this stigma will remain, and the
pity Of it is that it will also attach
| to those he loves.
And all because of some miserable
letter writer who was too cowardly to
sign his or her name.
Incendiarism, especially of church,
Is q crime and merits punishment, but