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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Miss Perry of st. Louis, sister-in-
law Of D r Francis and a member OF
the State Board Of Charities, was in
Mexico to-day en- route to Fulton
where she will visit at Hospital No
1.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

DR. and Mrs Allie Adams of Aux
vase attended the Circus Tuesday ev
ening.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Mr.. and Mrs. A. B Robey are in
Moberly where Mr. Robey has charge
of Lane & McLoney's store.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

MEXICO Fair week should DC
home coming week Tor q" "'O
lived In Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

WE are glad to note that the fire
insurance companies are arranging 10
have matters adjusted SO that tney
will reopen in Missouri for business
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

MEXICO merchants to hold Mexico
trade must do reasonaDle %.a'N
of advertising in tho local papers
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Miss Frances Frost. who has been
visiting Miss Margaret Cunningham.
has returned to her home in Wanda
LA.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

AVIATOR SINKS FIRST eUN5oAT.
Nogalles, Ariz., July 20
The Federal gunboat Tampico was
destroyed to-day by a bomb dropped
from an aeroplane over Guaymas
Harbor, declares an official insur-
gent message.
This is the first occurrence of the
kind in history.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Joe Davis was able to ride down
town Wednesday morning, after long
siege of typhoid fever and neuritis.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

GET your Audrain County babies
ready for the big Ledger prize'rins
on Thursday at / p. m. of the DIG
Mexico Fair.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

We offer some city property in
exchange for farm. d2w1
North Missouri Trust Co.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

LEDGER is in hopes that the
RS will succeed in establish
hiking fountains in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Ledger Want ads save you tins
pnd money. Everybody reads them.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Miss Charlotte Boeckeler, of st.
Louis, is the guest Of friends and
relatives in this city.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

known in Mexico, having been a mem
her of the Missouri Military Academy
faculty and married Miss Docia Fon-
Vile. His many friends are glad 70
bear NJ his success in this work.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
The teachers examination will be
held Friday and Saturday, August l
and 2, at the Central School building.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Try ozonol for all skin diseases.
Special price 17c this week. Buck
ner's. WI
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Prof and Mrs = w Barley and lit
tie daughter Of Rolla are guests OF
friends in this city.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Try Buckner's prices on Paints
and save money.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Ad-answering trirs are money earn
ing trims. 1, y-as4
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Try .Buckner's Ant Destroyer guar.
anteed.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Use B. P. S. Paint
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Old papers for sale at this office.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

The 23O 2yarod All
the 3year-old having failed to FILL declared off.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Try Buckner's guaranteed
Knocker.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Buckner sells B. P. S. Paint
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Prescriptions specially at Buck
ner's.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31
MEXICO AUDRAN COUNTY MISSOURI THURSDAY JULY 81
LIST OF ENTRIES

following the Mexico Missouri Fair August 12h
14h 18th, 1913
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-07-31

Fly
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
A TALE OF SELF-DISCOVERY

The story OF the Hindu princess and
the critic is suggestive Edmund Gosse
tells it. She had reached England,
determined to make her way in litera-
ture. In the course of months many
poetic effusions flowed from her pen.
Chance finally brought her an acquaint
ance with Mr.. Gosse, and 1t proved
easy to induce the lady to submit her
writings to his cynosure. They dis
appointed him sadly. Every string her
muse had touched gave out echoes Of
Tennyson. Shelly and Wordsworth. To
the reader 1t seemed fnconceivable that
woman born in India should not have
given poetic utterance to some genu-
inely native message, dashed with
flavor from the life, sentiment and
thought of her own people, and shot
through and through with glimpses
of their wonderful environment and
not less wonderful history. And his
word went out to her that she must
burn everything and start afresh.
Thus 1t came about that, doing as she
was bidden, the princess turned away
from English models, dipped into her
self and became a true. poet. @ SAG
The trouble with the Hindu lady is
the trouble with most Of US. Rarely
Is our world of action and thought
our own. Most Of it comes to us ready
made. and we hasten to put it on. In
conduct 1t Is too often the proper
thing, not the right or useful thing
we pursue; hence our manuals of eti-
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31

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out Of the leading cities of the country York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Philadelphia may be eliminated at once, for the
total number OF commuters carried by the Pennsy1
vania and by the ding railroads in June last was
94o,656 Chicago, its two principal lines. the
Illinois Central and Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, carried 1888 New York carried on
the Delaware and Lackawanna, the New York
Central and the West Shore roads 2824,o56..
San Francisco in last June carried on the South
ern Pacific, the Northwestern Pacific and the Key
Route total of 3,2o8,1O commuters
This is more than were carried on the main lines
of Chicago and Philadelphia combined, and nearly
half a million more than were carried on New
Yorks chief railroads.
The facts seem almost incredible but they were
developed in official investigation of the Cali
fornia state railroad commission and can not be
doubted, surprising they will be to those who
have not known them.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
Improve the Preside

Secretary of War Garrison is one of the mem
bers of President Wilson's cabinet who works
with his brains and not with his mouth. He is
keen, shrewd, observing and common sensible
What he sees here is likely to prove Of more con-
sequence in his action and recommendations after
he returns to Washington than any fine words and
sweet compliments he might pay while here.
Secretary Garrison, as stranger here, as secre-
tary of who has just visited many army posts,
and who is to visit practically all Of them before
he returns to Washington, hardly fail to notice
that the physical condition of the Presidio of San
Francisco is disgraceful to the people OF the United
creditablc to the department. which administers
it. Above all, it is reproach to the California dele
CATION in congress for negecting to that it is
put not in the last rank but in the first line of army
posts in the United States far as concerns build
ings, grounds, military equipment, number of SOL
diers and other factors in great army post worthy
of representing the nations military power on the
Pacific ocean side of the nation
While there are few new buildings at the
Preside, the greater number of them little
better than shacks, and have outlived their useful
ness. The approaches and most of the roads around
the Presidio are inadequate to say the least.
Secretary Garrison himself do nothing
directly toward remedying the unsighty and I'm
satisfactory condition of affairs at the Presido but
he can make very strong and favorable represen-
tation to congress, as the result of his personal
observations on what he can't help seeing if the
matter is properly brought to his attention while
he is in this vicinity
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
Feared the Climate

Scotchman landed in Canada not
long ago. The very first morning he
walked abroad he met a coal black
negro. 1t happened that the negro had
been born in the Highland district OF
Scotland and had spent the greater
part OF his life there. Naturally. he
had burr on his tongue.
Hey, mamie said the pink Scotch
man, "ean We no tell me wfleer I'll And
the kirk?,.,.
The darky took him by the arm and
led him to the corner. 60 richt up
to yon wee hoose and turn to ye're
richt. and gang UP the hill" said he,
The fresh importation from Scotland
looked up at him in horror. And ARE
We from Scotland, mon?'' he asked
: "Richt ye are" said the darky.
"Aberdeen's ma hanle.'
And hoo lang have ye been here?
About twa year. said the darky.
Lord save. us and keep us.' said the
new arrival. 'Whaur can | get the
boat for oro."--Cincinnati Times-
star.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
pecial interest," McReynOlds

Alter weeks OF persistence Congressman
Julius Kahn of this state has succeeded in
getting the acknowledgements incident the
floor of the house of representatives and into the
Congressional Record as a matter of political
history.
Congressman Kahn voiced the truth when he
said McNab did the country signal service when
he refused to be party to program that would
have given verisntude to the statement that
Diggs- Caminetti and the Western Fuel company
being rich politically powerful could secure delay
and thus possibly defeat justice.
SO far as Mr. McNab was concerned that was
all there was to the matter He knew then that
there was danger that the governments officers
might be smairched if there were delay. The result
has proved that Mr. McNab was correct.
Neither Mr.. McNab nor any else has sug-
gested intimated or believed that Attorney General
McReynolds was or is dishonest or corrupt. There
are some actions which are nearly as discredtable
as either, and the delay in the now historic cases
was such an action. No matter what his friends
say Mr.. McReynods has discredited himself and
the complete purity OF his motive in the eyes of the
public.
Chairman Claytons attempted defense of the
attorney general, saying that Special interests"
were instigating the attacks on the attorney
general because of his fearless prosecution of all
offenders high and low, is all poppycocl in view of
the known facts.
Mr. Clayton knows that the only special in
terest in the Dggs-C -Caminetti case was the secre-
tary of labor, Mr. Wilson, who asked Attorney
General McReynods to delay the cases in the
interest OF immigration Commissioners General
Caminetti, to whose interest delay would have
been advantageous beyond question.
The democratic attempt in congress to make it
appear that the agitation OF the McNab Nc Reynolds
incident either the work of partisan politics,
of special interests of muckrakers is ridiculous
In view OF the facts, and pretext to avoid
acknowledgment of the truth, which is that Mr.
McReynolds did wrong.
The letter of President Wilson himself to Attor-
ney General McReynolds ordering him to do what
District Attorney McNab asked, to proceed at once
with the cases, gives fat contradiction to such
pretentious buncomb as that of Congressman
Clayton. Guilty but don't do it again, was the
presidents verdict.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31

quette, our visiting cards with the
corners deftly turned UP. our attire
appropriately labeled with the Paris,
Berlin or London label. Every item
of our daily life must be CONNIE II
faut" And our opinions. how are they
acquired? Most of them are born with
US, percolate In from the family circle.
or are dictated to us by the social en-
vironment We grow adept In the
glib repetition Of things we do not
really believe, in the careless indorse-
ment of views and theories we have
never examined. What would become
of our creeds If each had thought out
creed for himself. or Of our parties
If every member of them had forged
the chains OF an allegiance for him
self?
duct and cant of thinking is intellec-
tual sloth. Born to be of the wave
Of life, and something of its sea, we
are far too content to be tossed to
and fro as spray on the crest or as
foam In the hollow. Social compliances
there are from which we can not and
ought not to escape. But II we are to
be persons in world where the high
est human value is that OF personality,
we must cease to be everybody and
become ourselves If we are to be cap
tains of our fates and masters of our
souls we must learn the lesson which
Edmund Gosse taught to the Hindu
princess-Boston Herald
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
ANSWERS TO QUERIES

EARRINGS-W. T. r., Cucamonga. The Gus
tom Of women wearing earrings and in some
cases men, dates back to remotest historical
antiquity. The earliest notice Of earrings is
found in Genesis xxxv- 1882 B. c., when
mention is made of such being worn by members
OF Jacobs family. The piercing Of the ears for
rings, which produces temporary Inflammation
was believed to act as a counter irritant for
sore eyes. and this has been given as a reason
for putting rings in the ears.
wOMAN'S CITIzENSHIP-D. H., City A
woman Of alien birth who has resided in Califor-
mia for 10 years and il married to citizen Of
the United States does not have to be naturali1ed
In order to vote in this state, or In any state
whore the women have the right Of suffrage
When an alien woman marrfes an Amerfacn citf-
zen she takes the citizsnship Of her husband.
BOOMERANG-H. r.. Nevada CITY. The
boomerang used BY the natives of Australia and
some parts Of India is parabolie in shape One
side is nat and the other rounded, but it is not
in the shape Of wooden hoop.
NAME OF OLD GLORY-Subscriber City. The
poem entitled The Name Of Old Glory is by
james whitcomb Riley
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
LOBBY GOSSIP
Straphaneers Found Only Here

w. II. Cobb, assistant attorney gen.
eral of California. and Mrs. Cobb re-
turned to San Francisco yesterday
States. Mr.. Cobb is convinced that San
Francisco has the worst streetcar sery-
Ice of any city in the United States,
II not in the world. With Mrs. Cobb
he visited nearly every large city and
town in the country and Canada, in-
cluding New Orleans. Jacksonville.
Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, New
York, Atlantic City,, Albany. Portland
Me-, Montreal. Quebec, Toronto. Niagara
Falls, ST. Paul, Minneapolis, Buffalo
and Portland, Or. In all of these cities
Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb travelled several
thousand miles on streetcars.
Speaking of their experience Mr.
Cobb said.
Not once during our trip. did we
have to stand up in a streetcar, but
we hadn't been back in San Francisco
more than few minutes before we
were standing up and clinging to a
strap in a .crowdeas. car IN New York
we were part of crowd of 10000 that
attended one Of the National league
games IN the polo grounds. We left
with the rest of the 10000 and got .
seat In the first train that left the
grounds for downtown. 1t was Just
the. same In the other places we visited
The transportation companies every
where except here seemed to have nc
difficulty in providing enough cars SO
that every passenger had a seat.
THE time will come / suppose when
San Francisco will get decent car
service, but we might hasten this q
little by some action"
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
The Twin Peaks Tunnel
City Engineer O'Shaughnessy's ref

City Engineer O OsShaughnessy's report on the
cost of the proposed Twin peaks tunnel places
it at very little less than s4,00O,Oo0 This is, as
in the case of the Fillmore street tunnel much less
than opponents of the plan have maintained could
be estimated within reason.
The greater part of the cost, S. per cent, accord
ING to the city engineer, is to be assessed on the
property on the farther side of the peaks This
is not an unfair proportion, as that section is the
one which will be most benefited, and will receive
the benefit sooner than the section this side of
Seventeenth street
The assessment averages less than two cents a
square foot which excessive considering the
great benefit which that section of the city will
receive by reason of speedy access on the level
The tunnel itself will be about 1900 feet long,
pected that cars will run through in less than 10
minutes It is calculated that the tunnel can be
built in 900 days. If these expectations are all
realized it will mean that in less than two years
a new section of the city, covering some $4,000
acres of good residence property will be brought
nearer to the business section than any of the
cities across the bay
The city engineers plan is complete and thor
ough. The total expense involved is not unreason-
able in view of the results to be obtained Among
these not only the great development of that
section but the unifying of the city itself.
The bonus which it is proposed to offer the
contractors as in the of the Geary street NUM-
cipa railroad should hasten the completion of the
tunnel very materially.
Construction of the tunnel itself should proceed
as rapidly possible, and will greatly please the
people of the city.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
Cullman County Very Rich

Fritz Wagner, planter of CuIlman
county, Ala. says that his county Is
the second richest county per capita
in the United States. Mr.. Wagner, who
is at the Union Square, said:
The town OF Cullman has a popula-
tion of $500 and every man in it who
IS the head of family has a clear title
to his home. There is not a man In
the county of Cullman who does not
own his home. This is the reason Gull
man people are rich and contented.
There are 725 heads of families in Gull
man, and every one has a bank ac-
count. l do not think there Is another
such an enviable record.
"Cullman county was organized about
40 years ago by Germans, and at the
time of the organization the farmers.
all of whom were Germans, formed a
plan of marketing their products. which
probably has been the foundation OF
the prosperity that has come. There
Is another striking distinction about
CulIman county. Though It il in the
heart of the black belt OF Alabama.
there is not negro In the county nor
colored man in Cullman. There never
has been any effort to keep them out
OF the county, but in the beginning the
Germans let it be known that they de-
sired Cullman county to be. white
mans county. The people are very
Al \
auarreis. we have good schools and
plenty of amusements for adults and
children and have no politicians.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31

ALIEN WOMAN-S. s. b., Lfvermore An unmar.
ried alien woman who desires to become a citizen
OF the United States must make declaration Of
intention, ana after she has resided continuously
for i've years in the United States she can apply
for certificate of naturalization. She must con-
form to the procedure prescribed for male aliens.
PKOPERT1-Curiositr. Lodi. Your question
in regard to the disposition Of property Is one
that calls for legal advice and should be sub
mifted to an attorney. This department does
not give legal advice
ALTRUISM-E. n. c.. City. Altruism fs the
state Of being regardfuI Of the interest and good
Of others; the carrying out Of the golden rule;
opposed to egoism and eeInshness.
SKERRETT NURDER-A. O. r.. CITY. rbs
killing of Nicholas skerrett a real estate dsalep
Of this city, by Wright Leroy was on August
1a 1883.
GERMANY-E. VI. h. TIL. title Of the head
Of the royal family Of Germany is william II.
German emperor and king OF Prussia
SHERIFF OF MARIN-H f.. Oakland. B.nry
Harrison was sheriff Of Marin county during 1898
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
The Commuters Paradise
For many years a stock subject

For many years stock subject for the Jokes
of the New York comic papers, like Puck.
Judge Life and the rest, has been the life of the
Commuter
Any one who has ever ridden on one of the
commuters club trains running to South Orange.
East Orange any other of the New Jersey
Oranges, to Newark, or to Norwak knows that the
average eastern commuter thinks lie is the real
thing and all there is to it.
1t is pity to shock the natives and to disturb
the provincial New Workers. fondest belief but after
all the real paradise of the oomnuter is around
San Francisco.
The complaint of the East Oakland Protective
league has developed some interesting and not
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
| THE STATE PRESS
Mt. View Board Of Trade

The Mountain View board Of trade
has taken a vacation until September
For all the interest that most of our
people take in the work Of the board it
might as we'll take vacation until after
the dawn Of the millennium. 1t certain
" IL discourAgfng to try to keep up a
civic organization in this town we un-
dersfand. however, that in that regard
Mountain View is not particularly diff
feTeft from other towns IN this part OF
the state.-Mountain View Register and
Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
LITTLE MOVIES
The Progress Of Conversation

How old is that young woman !!
asked the inquisitive person.
''Oh. Is or 10. 1 suppose" replied
Miss Cayenne.
How do you know?''
"She declines to converse on any
but the most abstruse metaphysical
subjects. We don't usually begin tc
talk about plays and novels till q few
years later. and 1T takes more than a
decade to bring us around to {
sprightly discussion of the lates
dances. Star.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
A SALON GOLD MEDALIST

At the Paris salon a gold medal has
been given this year for the first time
In many years to an American. The
winner is Lawton Parker of Chicago,
and the picture q representation of a
nude lying upon q bed with some ac-
cessories of chintz draperies and light
The picture has been painted looking
down at the model from an elevation,