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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
COURTESY OF OLD TIMES
Manners Were Important When Wash
Ington Lived, but We Have NO
Time to BE Polite.

Among the manuscripts preserved IN
the state archives at Washington ID
an old copybook written when he
was but fourteen years old by the man
for whom the city was named. MOST
interesting of all the memoranda SET
down carefully in the boyish handwrit-
ing are what George Washington
quantity called RULES Of Civihty ana
Decent Behavior in Company and Con-
versation." And one of these rules Isl:
BE not forward, but friendly ana
courteous; the first to salute, hear ana
answer. and be not pensive when It Ii
time to converse"
II as a boy he studied such max
inns. do you wonder that Washington
was all his life noted for his fine man
ners? The rules of courtesy were
thought to be a very important part
of gentleman's education In the
eighteenth century. A man was con.
sidered ignorant and ill-bred II in his
intercourse with the world he omitted
certain little acts of politeness. What
gentleman of the old school ever per-
mitted himself to remain seated when
ladies were standing or to smoke In
their presence without first asking per-
mission?
When they were invited out our an
cestors we're brought up to believe that
due respect to the host and hostess
demanded that each guest make HIM
self as agreeable as possible; hence
the quaint maxim copied out so care
fully by the young George Washing
ton: BE not pensive when 1t Is time
to converse" The man at the present
day too often, takes the attitude that
he is comforting a favor by accepting
an invitation; and expects to be
amused and entertained without con-
tributing anything.
Old-fashioned courtesy taught that
deference must at all times be paid to
age. A hundred years ago little boys
and girls were told to mind their
manners IL perhaps the dominic" or
the schoolmaster or anyone of position
or authority spoke to them; and the
small lads would bow deeply and the
tiny maids would curtsy most re-
| spectfully.
Such airs and graces, pretty though
they we're, would be out of place in
our more strenuous times. Yet there
is no reason why our young peoples
manners should not be as good, II of
necessity less formal, than those OF
our ancestors.
If children are taught to be deferen-
tial to their elders, to be polite and
generous to their playfellows, and are
instructed in all the small courtesies
of the table and drawing room pre-
scribed by etiquette. they will have
been given a heritage by their par
ents that will be of inestimable value
in after life. For thorough acquaint
ance with the fundamental rules oI
good breeding gives an ease of man
ner that can be acquired in no other
way; and it helps wonderfully in the
fight for success we all must wage
Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
FossIIIzed Bacteria.

Marvellous as were the discoveries
of such prehistoric monsters as the
mammoth. the mastodon and the stego-
saurus, they are now eclipsed by re-
cent investigations which show the
most minute microbes and bacteria
In fossil form. The ancestors of our
modern infectious disease germs and
microbes have been found in fossils
Of the earliest life on earth. Fossil
bacteria have been discovered in very
ancient limestones collected by DR..
Charles d. Walcott secretary Of the
Smithsonian institution. in Gallatin
county, Montana. The bacteria con.
sist OF individual cells and apparent
chains OF cells which correspond In
their physical appearance with the
cells Of micrococci, form of bacte
ria oftoday. The world has believed
that bacteria were modern forms ol
| life, but now we are made to realize
that they existed in the dawn of world
history. many million years ago.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

eyes from the penetrating pair that
met them with somber twinkle, an
enlightened gusto, quite uncomforta-
bly, suggestive at such a moment.
you aren't a detective, by any
chance, are your" cried Cazalet, with
clumsy humor.
mo, sir! But I've often thought I
wouldn't mind being one" said Toye,
chuckling. Il rather figure might do
something at IL. II things don't go my
way in your old country, and they put
up big enough reward, why, here's a
man knew and a place know, and
might have a mind to try my hand"
They went ashore together, and to
the same hotel at Southampton for the
night. Midnight found the chance pair
with their legs under the same heavy
Victorian mahogany, devouring cold
beef, ham and pickles as phlegmatlcal-
ly as commercial travellers who had
never been off the island in their lives.
Yet surely Cazalet was less depressed
than he had been before landing; the
old English ale in a pewter tankard
even ELECTED a few Of those anecdotes
and piquant comparisons in which his
conversation was at its best. 1t was
at its worst on general questions, or
on concrete topics not introduced by
himself; and into this category, per-
haps not unnaturally, fell such further
particulars of the Thames Valley mys-
terry as were to be found in an evening
paper at the inn. They included frag-
mentary report of the adjourned in
quest, and the actual offer of such a
reward, by the dead mans firm, for
the apprehension of his murderer, as
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
GREAT KEEL CANAL
Headquarters Of Sea Strategy
Of Germany.
Famous Waterway Is Of Immense I'm,
portanee to the German Empire at
This Critical Time Of
Her National Life.

Built up around the deep pocket Of
the Keller Foehrde, narrow arm OF
the Baltic sea that cuts its way back
into the province of Holstein, the old
city Of KEEL lies well shielded from all
hostile attack and centrally placed for
the use Of the feet, either upon the
open ocean or upon the inland sea, be-
gins a bulletin just prepared by the
National Geographic society. This
ancient port city is headquarters for
German sea strength, the first naval
station of the empire, the point from
which the orders have been issued
directing the unequal duel between
the ships of the kaiser and the fleets
Of Britain.
The great war harbor of Kiel is
one of the finest and most power
fully protected harbors in the world.
The sea arm, whose base is inclosed
by the port, has a narrow entrance
and long, irregular surface. The
entrance and the strategic points
along the bank are heavily fortified.
Fort Falkenstein and Fort Stosch
guard the narrows about three and
a half miles above the town. Flank
ing the northern termination of the
new Kiel suburbs, the Kaiser VIII
helm canal, a triumph of patience
and engineering, cuts it's way into the
sheltered bay. BY means of this
canal Kiel is in close communication
with the North sea, and units of the
kaiser's navy can be transferred rap.
idly and safely from the war theater
of the open ocean to that of the
Baltic.
The Kaiser Wilhelm canal, or the
Baltic ship canal, is the product of
an idea which ripened through cen.
turtles. Projects for connecting the
route through the northern peninsula,
which should avoid the dangerous
voyage around Jutland, were consid
cred epasmodically from 1900 on, but
1t remained to the military necessities
Of a great empire to bring about the
realization of this advantageous wa
terway for trade. Any number OF
bashful beginnings of the projected
way were made before the construc
ton of the present canal was under
taken by the first German emperor
Kaiser Wilhelm l laid the founda
ton stone of the canal in 1887, and
the costly avenuG was formally de
clared open by the present emperor IN
1895. The original canal has been ex
tensively improved.
The canal crosses the peninsula
from Holtenau just beyond the north
ern suburbs of Kiel to Brunsbuettel
at the mouth of the Elbe, at sea level
the locks at either end merely serv
ing to neutralize the tide. 1t is G.
miles long, with a depth of more
than 80 feet and a width sufficient
to pass the largest men-of-war. A
steamer takes between eight and nint
hours to pass through the canal, thu
bringing the advance German nava
base at Helgoland within easy reacl
of the Kiel headquarters. The Who'll,
way at night is lighted bv electricity
The first cost of the Baltic shil
canal was $39,OOO,OOO. Other millions
have been expended in it's improve
ment. Regular steamer excursion
service was maintained here befor
| the war, but the VOYAGE offered littl
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
Tn. Costly Elevator,

Elevator or vertical travel for the
average multistory factory, floor TO
floor, is seldom over Is feet. yet In
traversing that distance, together with
starting, stopping, and with the same
loading and unloading time, We can
travel in the same time an equivalent
distance Of 100 feet horizontally. One
factory manager. Of an inquiring turn
Of mind. estimated In his particular
plant that the cost OF elevator service,
wages OF operator, power, repairs and
time consumed By men using the ele-
vators amounted to about 2 per cent
Of bis payroll Engineering MaEazine.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
both Exnnssd 20 nannsr.

1.-THE man who makes shell is just
as much hero as the man who fires
it."
II guess that's right. In these days
of Zeppelins and aeroplanes, you
never know when an aviator is going
to drop bombs on an ammunition fac
tory"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
Some Hard.

Bill-They say horsehair cushions
are very easy.
Jill-Believe me, they're not.
Ever try one?"
Sure"
"When?'
zone day rode a horse bareback"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
It's Nature.

$50 Clementina has dismissed her
admirer merely because he waxed his
mustaches. That certainly was
trifling matter"
You're mistaken. For a man to
wax his mustache is quite cereous
affair"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
Ready Finance.

Hart ION country road)-Look at
those toughs ahead Of us. shouldn't
wonder If we were held up.
Smart-It's not unlikely. By the
way, here's that dollar you lent me
this morning.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

He's a great pitcher, all right"
Sure. But an anomaly, at that"
'"Why so?"
1T seems met he rever had any
preliminary practice on a vacant lot.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

made Toye's eyes glisten in his sa.
gacious head.
But Cazalet, though he had skinned
the many-headed column before sit
ting down to supper, fatty declined to
discuss the tragedy his first night
ashore.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
SYNOPSIS.

Cazalet on the steamer Kaiser Fritz,
homeward bound from Australia, cries
out On his sleep that Henry Craven, who
ten years before had ruined his father
and himself. Is dead and finds that Hill
ton Toye. who shares the stateroOm with
him. Knows Craven and also Blanche
MacDalr, a former nelghbor and play
mate.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

Every womans dresser drawer Is
full of things dashed off, at odd mo-
ments, which she hopes to be able to
sell to the magazines.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

Father Adam may have had troubles
Of his own, but at any rate, Eve never
flashed his old love letters on him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
First Trial.

did you ever try fountain pen.
judge?" asked the lawyer.
YES" replied his honor, land
found it guilty"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
ExhilaratInu.

This mountain air fairly intoxi-
Gates one, doesn't it?"
Yeah. Regular highball, SO to
speak"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

Too many men don't even try to
make anything when they whittle.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
MOT AM Acaualntance.

He-Do you know Poe's Raven?
She-Why, no. What's the matter
with him?-The Club-Fellow.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09

A friend may we'll be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature.-Emerson.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-09-09
All of a Kind.

All of Kind.
II suppose, warden, you have men
of various bent here?"
well, sir, they're all crooks
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
WIVES 1.MdIRERs

u
Have you ever stopped to resifza
how much the health 81 your FAMILY
depends upon your F6r insfaanes.
toies is.a great factor in health. and:
you are sponsible for Il. thin.
again when any member OF i your.
family gets into q run: down condi.i
ton, when the children are delicate.
cross and ailing, when someBodyI
takes cold and develops q cough,
they look to you for help. Do YOU gu
know that your local druggists.
Stone and Mercer, have nonsbecret|
stitutional remedy known "a w;
mol Which they guarantee fof iist;
such onditionss Many families 1T
this vicinity have found 1t 90 rell.;
able they are never without II. ID
vertfsement. 4 81
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03


partisan tommi sion whici, si,onld re.
view the work TINT had been done and
point out the mist lies 81 the past that
,,they might be avoided in the future,
Mr.. Wilson undertook to ridfcuie them
Iout OF court INDUCED in high-solind-
ing rhetorical periods and secretly ap.
peaied 10 the southern Democrats to
defeat the Gardner resolution because
~ would doubtless result in exp0sine
the extravagant, not to- say criminal,
Jolly Of Continuing certain southern
navy yards. lFs.: n 4, 4
But Mr. Wilson il disturbed now.
ne knows that as a result Of Demo
cratic mismanagement it will be nee.
essary to issue bonds shat Is for
Uncle Sam to borrow money and he
neiieyes that he can SO effectively an
peal to the patriotism Of the people
on the score Of national defense that
they will approve a bond issue for
that purpose. and will overlook thu
iact that q large part of the proceeds
u used to make good the Democratic
deceit. - n
Speaker Clark has supinely accepted
MS instructions and is going about tho
country telling the people that tha
deficit is due to the war and conceal.
ing the fact; that the imports have In.
creased steadily during the entire ad..
mintstration. But Representative
Kitchen. the Democratic leader OF the
next House, has refused to be. coerced
and announces that he will be true to
Demo ratic principles and oppose any
adequate expenditures for national de-
Tense. (
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
THE DAILY
NOVE'L!,.ETl'
QUITE UTE,
That life is full of ups and downs:
This horse yarn proves, to wit; {
We must pay up with what we get,
And then plank down for 1t.

Diogenes was still searching for
an honest man.
IT fear me tits an idle quest, 2
he mirInured disconso1ately, and
came upon a man holding a horse
with one hand and haranguing a
crowd with the other.
"T have no wish to take advantage
OF a fellow human being the man
was saying. II will tell you one and
all that this horse I wish to sell IS
stone blind in bis right eye, though
apparently both eyes are perfectly
sound. Now who will buy my horse
for seventy-five kesonkas?" (See
footnote.)
AT last, an honest mani cried
Diogenes. II viii buy your horse. my
lgood fellow, and moreover, I will give
you hundred kesonkas for him as a
testimonial to your honesty :, @
And he paid over a hundred keson-
kas and led away the horse: and by
and by he mounted him and by and
by after that the horse rammed his
head into a rather hard wall and fell
down dead.
The man had neglected to add that
the left eye also was blind!
"Oh, wassa use?" muttered Dio:
genes sadly.
L (Footnote: A. kersonka in. ancient
Greece was worth eight and q hall
cents.)
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
National Defense.

with which President Wilson has re-
Iected Republican appeals for pre-
paredness for national defense In the
past merely serves to emphasize the
sxtent to which he is now stultifying
himself Il, urging an extensive military
program, and the seriousness Of the
panic which has struck him and his
sivisers.
Wien. last session, Republicans
sought to lay the foundation for In
ssaiiigent increase OF the military es-
Attainment by the creation Of a BIZ
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

it ID gently intimated that Senator
Jim Ham Lewis sis not averse" to,
Becoming vice president. But We think
We can discern considerable averse-
ness on the part Of his fellow-citizen
10 having him in the ONCE.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

The note Of England protesting
against its unlawful interference with
.1tr ocean traffic as neutral trading
with neutral nations was handed 10
The president in the early part of Dc
tober. But the president was a long
lime in getting around to read 1t and
revise 1t and give 1t his o. X. He was
too busy composing letters designed
10 aid the Democratic candidates for
|otiice in states where elections took
place this year.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
Wus,nn,,s wa,,a

Suffrage has not been made a party
question, but partisan Z politicians
have often tried to profit from 1t.
More often than not they have failed
in this; and we regard the result OF
the recent suffrage vote in New Jer-
sey as case In point. After dodg-
ing the question for more than two
years, President Wilson with loud
acclaim announced that he would
vote with the suffragists in his own
state. Immediately his political UNI
derstrappers set out to annex the sur
frage issue and to tie another scalp
to the presidents none too plentiful
string. .S,y x s
MT. Wilson merely announced that
he would support the suffrage amend
Sment. AT once 1t seemed taken for
granted in some quarters that this
sealed the success of the movement.
The great man had spoken, the argu-
.ment ran; what more remained to be
said or done? Calmer minds c6un-
sseled continued effort. but even they
thought the voters still to be under
the influence Of the presidential, spell
and that the voice from the White
House would swing New Jersey
strongly into line.
The suffrage amendment, however,
was defeated by something like co.
900 majority. 1t carried only one
county, and that the smallest in the
state; and it was lost, by tremendous
margins, In the Presidents own pre-
Icinct, city and. county.
The moral seems to us obvious. It
is that President Wilson has lost a!
large measure OF whatever public
confidence he once commanded.
Here was an issue, possessing I'M
doubted merit, to which many thous-
ands OF sincere and high-minded
men. women and newspapers have
given ardent. support to an extent
which warranted them in looking for
victory even without the presidents
aid. Yet 1t is defeated by over.
whelming figures. The conclusion
seems to us Inevitable that the anti
suffrage vote in New Jersey was
swollen by the anti-Wilson sentiment
which is known to exist there and
which found in this years special
election an opportunity to- express
itself.
The president no longer speaks the
compelling voice in this country.
Time was when. to Congress and to
others, he was a jewel-eyed political
Buddha, whose thund er-tones caused
all the world to tremble and, to obey.
Now, 1t is evident that he is no om-
nipotent being, that to oppose him
is neither criminal nor reasonable,
and that resistance to his views is not
to be visited with instant death.
What New Jersey has dared, with the
suffrage. other communities will dare
with other issues.
Mr.. Wilson will be renominated,
OF course unless he takes counsel
of prudence and makes a; grandstand
play by declaring that he will abide
by the one-tern plank of the Balti-
more platform. But he will enter
the campaign sadly diminished fig
ure from the majestic proportions In
which his fdolaters have sought to
make him appear. In his own state
he has steadily shrunken. He Sc
cured fewer votes in 1912, for presi-
dent, than he did in 1910 for gov
ernor. In 1914 his party elected
only four congressman, as against ten
rat the preceding election; while the
Republicans regained control Of the
Legislature. In 1915, on an issue OF
H. i ~ w. Is = ? 10 - l. y
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

The president told a committee Of
5Jerseymen who offered him summer
home. rent-free. that he could not
promise to spend much time in it.
4 am under arrest down here" he
said. A while ago he said that he
was tied by the legs in Washington"
u he really feels that way about It,
all he has to do is to accept the one
Term plank in, the Baltimore platform.
However, after next summer he can
have all the time OFF that there is.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

Hon. Eugene n. Foss, of Massachus-
etts, Is quoted as saying: "All agree
That the Underwood law Is inadequate.
Nothing but the war has saved the
situation for the American nanufac.
turer. As Mr.. Foss has played pol
tiles on both sides OF the protective
issue, possibly this points his arrival
At a settled conviction at last.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

Though changing his base of opera
lions frequently. the kaiser has noth-
Ing on Woodrow Wilson, whose Light
6ing-change on the issue Of nationar
<defense is only the latest In a long
series of operations reversing himself.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

The president has finally declared in
favor Of adequate preparation mot for
war but for defense" as he puts it.
But, In looking forward to putting
such a program through Congress-, II
behooves the president to prepare for
war-with Mr.. Bryan.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
Il Deadly Combination

The tragedy at Glendale saturday
night is typical example OF that.
deadly continuation. A drunken man
and an automobile. No doubt the
man who was responsible for the kill
ing II very sorry. hut that vii. never
bring Charles Willis back to life.
Wheeling News.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

Neither the resignation Of Diaz. nor
the assassination of Maderoi nor the
Slorced withdrawal Of Huerta served
10 opacity Mexico. Why should Mr..
Wilson think that the recognition OF
Carranza will do it? The fact is that
Mexico can be, pacified only by firm
band; the hand of the United States,
10 be exact.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

his own making. We see the outcome.
The deduction Is obvious. Mr..
Wilson is no longer a real asset to
any party or to any cause; he is a IL
ability. And yet he is all that the
Democratic party has to boast Of.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

The! country will vote next year to
commit its affairs, not to one man,
however strong and good, but to a
party. Ours is a government by par
W; and the two leading parties will
confront each other for the suffrage
q the people, says the Washington
Star.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03

Renner, who resigned as rate clerk
lin the division freight ofice Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad ID order
to become travelling freight agent for
1.-THE Coal and Coke railroad, willii fe.
main with the baltimore and Ohio
road, having been appointed solicit.
ling freight agent for It in Philadel-
phia.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
A Logical Speaker

The visit Of Dr. William wilkin-
son did Parkersburg a world Of good.
A good Straightforward logical speak
Ter. and above all. good man, his
message cheered many a heart.-Par-
kersburg Sentinel.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-03
Occasion of Regret

The retirement Of Judge Ira E.
Robinson from the bench of the.
states highest court is AN occasion OF
regret to all intelligent West yi-gin-
ians: This regret Is modified in no
quarter, we believe, by politsca, party
1ines. Charleston Mail.