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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
! BIG LOSS EVERY YEAR
Non Attendance at School Costs
Children $7,200,Ooo,0OO
Figures Based Upon Claim That Each
Day Pupil Attends Glasses Is Worth
Nine Dollars to Him.
BY J. L. Mc6RlEN,
School Extension Agent, U. S. Bureau
of Education.


of Education.
The further we delve into the queS-
ton of rural school attendance in it's
relation to the length of rural school
term the more evident it becomes that
we need al aroused public opinion for
a better rural school attendance and
more rigid and effective enforcement
of compulsory attendance laws to
make sure of this better attendance
not alone for the betterment of the
children themselves, but as q matter
of simple justice to the tax payers. 1t
is unjust to tax A to pay for teaching
BIS children when the authority that
levies and collects the tax from A al
lows b to keep his children out of
school whether it be through indiffer-
ence, ignorance or selfishness. Fur
thermore, it is a crime against BIS
children to let him keep them out of
school. Whether poor attendance of
pupils comes from Indifference of par
ents, a sleeping public opinion or q lax
enforcement of compulsory attendance
laws-or from all of these things-the
penalty falls hardest and most direct
ly upon the children in their lost OPP
portunity for an education, though So
ciety must pay heavy toll in the end
for its own SHINING against such chill
dren.
AS a concrete example of the magni-
tude and gravity of these problems in
some of the states, take Pennsylvania.
The enrolment in her public schools
for the year ending July 5, 1915,
reached the colossal figure of 1 ,461 ,937.
The average daily attendance in her
public schools for that year was 1,166,-
| 513-making her average daily alb
| sences climb to the startling number
$685. 24. The cost of enforcing the
compulsory attendance law in Pennsyl-
vania for the same year was $685.
991.71. These figures cover both rural
| and urban schools. The latest avail
able statistics on separate attendance
in urban and rural schools of Pennsyl-
vania (1910) show that the number at
tending daily in every 100 enrolled in
the urban schools of this state was 80,
while in the rural schools it was only
| 1855. 1t is evident, therefore, that the
rural schools of Pennsylvania had a
larger per cent Of pupils in the 295,-
424 daily absentees than did its urban
schools. Yet Pennsylvania is one of
the six states with the highest daily
attendance.
Statisticians claim that every day q
pupil attends school is worth 50 to
him. On this basis the 295,4 24 pupils
daily absent from Pennsylvania
schools last year cost over $2,655,00C
daily, or for the school term Of 17O
days, over $45O,OOO,0O0. For the nation
at large the 100000 boys and girls
daily absent from school lost thereby
on a, school term of 100 days, $780,
100000.
1--WE must educate or we must per
ish," said Beecher.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
VALUE OF WOOD SHOWN
Many Interesting Experiments
Made by Uncle Sam.
Tests Made by Forest Products Labo-
ratory at Madison, Wis, Prove Big
Aid to Many Industries.

Some of the most interesting expert
mental work which is carried on by
Uncle Sans government is accom-
plished at the forest products labora-
tory maintained by the United States
forest service in cooperation with the
University of Wisconsin, at Madison,
Wis. The results obtained have a di-
rect interest for the various industries
which depend upon wood in some form
for their material, and also a general
interest for everyone.
To benefit both these industries and
the consumers of their products by
bringing about a better and more eco
nOmical use of wood in all its forms is
the object of the laboratory's expert
ments.
Although wood seems to furnish an
excellent material for street paving
the consumption for this purpose has
fallen off 80 per cent since 1911. One
of the chief reasons for this is the
tendency of oil to exude from the
treated blocks and of the blocks them
selves to swell. Tests carried on by
the laboratory to remove these defects
have been very successful, and the
methods of treatment evolved have
been adopted by the committee on
paving of the American Society of Mu-
nicipal Improvements and by several
cities in the United States. Briefly,
the method is to apply both prelimi-
nary and final vacuum in the course
of preservative treatment.
Another interesting experiment re-
Gently carried out by the laboratory
included the construction of an expert
mental firehOuse, in which it is posi-
Bile to duplicate conditions existing in
modern offices. Several test fires were
built in this house, and the results
promise TO yield valuable information
regarding the extent to which wood
constitutes a fire hazard in modern
buildings. Fire tests were made OF
Is commercial paints designed for eX,
terror use, of which only five proved tc
have fire-retarding properties. I'm,
painted test pieces used for comparison
resisted ignition 43 seconds, while the
1--we plSSSS just lSlSIIeu W IGSlSlSu lOl
periods varying from one minute anG
three seconds to two minutes and ter
seconds. Four interior plants tested
gave good results in comparison Will
untreated wood. Patents were applied
for, to be dedicated to the public, on {
new fire-prOofng compound developed
by the laboratory.
Officials of the laboratory say thai
tests carried on for the past few years
by the laboratory and a number Of
textile schools have finally demon
strated the value Of Usage orange fac
tory waste as a source of dyestuff
Commercial tests in dyeing leather AMI
woolens with colors obtained iron
Usage orange gave highly satisfactor,
results. Usage orange grown in tn
north is relatively lacking in dyestufi
ana only material grown in Texas ant
Oklahoma is suitable for commercial
use. The yellow dye which Usage OF
ange is capable of providing is nov
largely obtained from fustlc, an i'm
ported wood, according to experts o
tho lahnpatopu
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
SWAMP ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE.

When your back aches, and your blad-
der and kidneys seem to be disordered, re-
member it is needless to suffer-go to your
nearest drug store and get bottle of DIR.
kilmer's Swamp-Root. 1t is a physicians
prescription for diseases of the kidneys
and bladder.
1t has stood the test of years and has
reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by DIR. Kill
mer in his private practice and was SO
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get a bottle, SOC and
SlOO, at your nearest druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer 4 Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for .
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
Porto Rico Prosperous.

Uncle Sans territory of Porto Rico
is prosperous as a result of the mar
keting of the largest sugar crop in the
history of the island. The sugar pro-
duction from the 1916 cane crop was
4S3,5S9.6S short tons, an increase OF
137099.25 tons over the crop of 1915.
Practically all of it has been marketed
at a price that sugar men say will av-
erage 51s cents per pound. On this
basis the crop was worth in excess of
$53,000,O00.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
All Men Should Be Compelled by Law
to Divide Incomes With Their Wives
By INEz MILHoLLAND BoIssEWAIN

The work does at home is dgnfed and important
ought be paid for Except for the services of his wife in
the home would have to employ cook bookeepe
chambmad The wife who the house
hold should receive half of her husbands income.
Individual agreements to that effect will not hold and cannot be
made apply to all families Every state should have law requiring
their incomes with their wives All the law requires
that keep roof the to whom he married
It customary for him say: "He Mary five dollars for
you money gets from the husband only because
he moved give her. Too many take the attitude that
money and that all his They do not put the proper
value on their services in the house
a to be independent There
no relationship delightful when both husband and wife work
contribute toward the of the household equal terms
Love kept alive smohered uxuousness domesty
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
PRODUCING EGGS IN WINTER
First Essential Is Hen Bred for That
Particular Purpose-Proper Feed
ing is Important.

If you want winter eggs the first es-
sential is a hen that is bred for win
ter laying. This character of winter
laying is inherited from the male bird.
The next essential is proper feeding
methods.
Many fowls take the feed given them
and convert it into fat, while those
with the born tendency to lay con-
vert the surplus above that needed for
body maintenance into eggs. Every
hen is born with a certain number Of
small Ovules, which the hen will devel-
Op if she is fed such feed as she needs
to nourish them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
GOOD BUILDING FOR PIGEONS
It Costs From SIPS to $1.75 Per Pair
for Construction of Pen, Including
Fittings.

A gable roof building 10 to 10 feet
wide, feet from the floor to the caves,
and to 8 feet to the ridge makes a
good pigeon house. A pen by 0 feet
will accommodate % pairs of pigeons,
while 40 pairs may be kept in a pen
by 10 feet. The necessary floor space
to allow per pair varies from pa to 3
square feet, according to the size of the
pen, as a pair of birds requires less
floor space in large than in small pens.
From 20 to 70 pairs Of pigeons may be
kept to advantage In each pen. 1t costs
from SIPS to $1.75 a pair to construct
pigeon houses, including interior fit
tings and a small outside pen or fly
way.
Fittings should be as simple as pos
sible and easy to clean. Two nest
boxes should be provided for each pair
of pigeons, and there should be some
extra nests. The nest bm.as are usual
ly about IL inches square, yet some
breeders prefer this width and height
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
CHICKENS WITH WEAK LEGS
Trouble Caused by Feeding Young
Fowls Too Much Protein or by Too
Much Heat in BrooGer.

Leg weakness in chickens is caused
by feeding the young chicks too much
protein, or too much heat in the brood
er. In case the brooder is Overheated
reduce the temperature but not TO a
degree that will make the chicks I'M
comfortable. In case the difficulty is
caused through excess of protein, in
crease the ash by feeding oyster shells.
Leg weakness generally is overcome
when conditions are changed by prop
er feeding methods.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
Salaries Take Bio Jump.

The amount paid in salaries in the
explosive manufacturing industry liz
the United States increased 1913 per
cent from 1909 to- 1914, according to
Uncle Sans latest census statistics.
At the same time the amount paid out
in wages in the industry increased only
4.3 per cent, The value Of the output
in the industry increased only 80 per
cent in the five-year period, reaching a
total of S41, 432, $40 in 1914.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
Strife for Precedence Has Been Great
Tragedy in Most Big Moral Campaigns
By REV. CHARLES F. AKED

There many trying through the world on big
bluff
Ignorance always dscedtab but to pretend knowledge
do not have always you think yourself very WISE
become the become WISE This what the Apostle
Paul told the Corinthians and it just good advice today
This strife precedence and place in the world has been the
tragedy Of the Christian and of most great moral
ps Most of us have thing not succeed than
coed through one other than ourselves.
Don't seem to something's be something I'm pleading for
little healthy ecessness been cautious too long Some men
and devote all their lives fine art of getting the winning
side at the moment of victory
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
GET RID OF "sTAR BoARDERs"
Early-Molting Fowls Not Efficient II
They Persist in Being 8roody-
Watch the Flock.

1t is poor layer that idles away
her time and is not laying now. Early
melting fowls are not efficient produc-
ers If they persist in being broody and
fail to utilize the favorable season Of
production. Watch your flock and Gull
out the "star boarders."
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
be is cutting teeth at seventy.Flve

Peter Minor, seventy-flve years old, a
remarkable specimen of the mountain
eer, is cutting new set of teeth. Dur
Ing the spring he mauled 80 rails a
day and himself built 2S2 panels OF
seven-rail fences. He cleared FIVE acres
Of new ground and rolled his own logs.
He has all this in corn. At his noun
tain home, hid in the fastnesS, he Sci
entifically cultivates flowers, having so.
many varieties that lie has roses
blooming all the year round.-Warren-
ton (Ga.) Times.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09
SELL ALL NoNLAYING FOWLS
Close CulIing of overfat and Deter
mined Sitters Is Recommended
Bringing High Price.

Old hens are bringing an unusually
high price now and for this time of
year. a close culling of overfat and
determined sitters is recommended.
Sell those idle nonproducing hens; if
they won't lay in this kind of weather
it is "cinch" that they won't do
much this winter.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09

Statistics slow no break in the con-
tinulty of deaths due to track walking,
and these have become the most nu-
merous of all classes of violent fa'
tally In the United States.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09

New York receives weekly from 1875
to 175 carloads of chickens, averaging
10000 pounds to the car.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09

Competition of American llnoleum
factories is every year decreasing in
favor of Scotland's export to this coun-
try,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-09

Hollands mines are now producing
coal at the rate of about 100000 tons
4 year.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
Fashions.

There are fashions in medicine as
well as in millinery Tie old time
cathartic pills with their harsh drastic
effects have gone out, and 1t is high
time that they had. In their place we
have the mild laxatiyes and gentle
cathartics of which Chamberlain's
Tablets is one Of the most popular
When the proper dose Is taken the eff
feet Of these tablets is so agreeable
and 80 natural that you do not realize
that it has been produced by med
icine. Chamberlain's Tablets also
strengthen the stomach and improve
the digestion. Obtanabie everywhere.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
SOUTH SHOWS Up
IN INSURANCE
ONLY 72 COMPANIES IN THIS
SECTION FAIL IN ONE HUN
DRIED YEARS.

ATLANTA, June 27-The safety
and permanency of business organiza-
tions in the south. as compared to 9th
er sections. is no more strikingly IL
Illustrated than in the case of life in
surance Companies In a statement
carried mSthe current issue of the
Manufacturers Record, Of Baltimore.
it is shown that the South has. done
far better than the rest OF the coun-
try. -
During the last hundred years or
so, there have been PIG life companies
retired, either by reinsurance. liquida-
ton or failure in the states outside the
South, while in the southern states
there have been only y.
A showing of actual operations is
also to the credit of the South. Al
the beginning of 1914 fifty-nine south
ern companies which had been in bus
mess an average OF ME years each.
!, had isurance il force of 2G9Ii55 fC7.
with combined assets of $a2,402, &c.
OF the companies iii other sections
only 93 had been III business nine
years and these had i'll force $27S.3 3d.
539 at the end of their ninth year, with
combined assets of $3S,667 APO.
The per centage of companies III
the south which We're able TO rein
sure their business in othr organiza-
tons was 62 1-2; in the other sections
SIS. The per centage of outright fail
ures in the South was the same as the
rest of the country rs.
The data printed in the Manufacture
ers' Record was compiled by Robert
F. Moore, agency secretary of the
Southern States Life Insurance com
pany, of Atlanta.
Commenting on the situation, Mr.
Moore said: Failure of any business
organization, whether life insurance
or other industry, is not governed by
geographical location; it can almost
invariably be traced to some funda.
mental cause, such as poor judgment
unsound principles, undue expenses,
extravaganza or improper adminstrI
ton"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
Sick Headache.

This disease is nearly always caused
by disordered stomach. Correct that
and the attacks Of sick headache may
be avoided. Mrs. A. i. Luckie, East
Rochester, N. Y, writes: II was vic
tim of sick headache, caused by a
badly disordered stomach when ] be.
gan taking Chamberlain's Tablets
three years ago. In few weeks time
was restored to my former good
health" Obtainable everywhere.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

By virtue Of an order from the
court of ordinary of Glynn county.
VIII be sold at public outcry on the
first Tuesday in July, 1916 at the
court house door in said county. he
tween the legal hours of sale. the fol-
lowing real estate belonging to the
estate of F. A. Turner, to-wit: All of
the following lots, tracts or parcels
Of land, situate, lying and being in
the county of Glynn and state of
Georgia, and in the city of Brunswick
therein and in that portion of said
city known as town commons and
identified and numbered on the map
OF said city as follows: town commons
lots numbers 149, Isl, 153, 155 157,
l59, 161, 1913, 165 ana 1877. between
Cleburpe and Davis streets. also lots
numbers las, 147. 149 and 1855 be-
tween Davis and Habersham streets
Terms of sale, cash. This May 6, 1915
ANDREW ]. TURNER,
Administrator estate of F. A. Tur-
ner.
6-7-1421-28
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
SAVES DAUGHTER
Advice Of Mother no Doubt Pre-
vents Daughters Untimely End.

Ready, KY" was not able to do
anything for nearly six MONTHS" writes
Mrs. Laura Bratcher, of this place, land
was down in bed for three months.
| cannot tell you how | suffered with
my head, and with nervousness and
womanly troubles.
Our family doctor told my husband he
could not do me any good, and he had
TO give it up. We tried another doctor,
but he did moi help me.
All last, my mother advised me TO take
Cardul, the wonlan's tonic. thought
it was no use for was .nearlydead and
nothing seemed TO do me any good. But
took eleven bottles, and now | ami able
to do all of my work and my own
washing. @st@
| think Cardui is the best medicine in
the world. My weight has increased,
and look the picture of health. !"
Ii you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar TO women, get bottle of Cardui
today. Delay is dangerous. We know
it will help you, for it has helped so
many thousands of other weak women
in the past so years.
At all druggists,
I2rffe 70, Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies'
Advisory De-t., Chattanooga, Tenn, FOR Sbeciai
.kastrRetienS on your case and 64-page book. Home
I.tz!r- 9-t Tor omen, in plain wrapper NC. lbs
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
DC -BaC6 Disease
Severe On Peaches
Many Georga Peach Trees Seriously
Affected a. Disease This Year,
Espec ally Less Thrifty
Ones
IT. H. NOTATION. Prof. of HorticuI-

T. ii. MctiA TON. Prof. of IlOrticul-
ture, stan College OF Agr)
Die-back, a ungous disease has be-
come more serious in Georgia peach
richards this year than usual. 1t gets
Us name from its Characteristic way
# attacking fps of branches, causing
rem to die back as the disease pro
eresses. Unchecked it often kills
trees. At this time it is felt win
speeiall severity because of hardships
hfch the trees have suffered during
The last year or two from unseasonably
Early and late freezes and by reason
OF heavy demands upon the trees vi
tality by unusually large crops. The
weaker. trees are suffering in many
orchards from the disease while the
more vital ones are resistant.
Pruning away infected parts is rec
commended. The pruning tool should
b. disinfected after each severance
O! a diseased limb. When very seri-
ous three sprayings with self-boiled
hmo-sulphur should be made, the first
about September | and the last in
Oo.rber.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
Here's a Good Night Cap
s" For Croupy, Children

Group 70 The nervous mother who fears
this terror Of childhood.
Why worry, why dread the approach
of niShtfall. when few timely doses Of
FoLEY's Honey and Tar will ward off
the approach of Group and clear the
throat of choking phlegm. q
1t stops the gasping straneline fight
for breath and allows peaceful breathing
and quiet sleep. Do not think this too
good to be true, but get bottle Of
FoLEY's Honey and Tar Compound
and it will give you confidence to face
nigh1fall without the fear of Group
Mrs. Ben Meyerink, Clymer, N. Y.
says: "Our little girl would surely
have had Group bu; FoLEY's Honey and
Tar stopped it at once" 25c, Soc and
$l.O9 sizes. Every usei Is friend. /
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
WAY ENDURE SUMMER COLDS?

1t isn't necessary to have stuffed
head, running nose. TO cough your
head off as it were. All you need do is
to use DR.. Bells Pine-TarHoncy The
soothing and healing barsams open the
clogged air passages and IN short
time you get relief and a start on the
road to recovery. Your nose stops run.
ming, you cough less ard you know
you are getting better. Get a bottle,
use as directed. Keep what is left as
a cough and cold insurance,
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
More dreaded than an alarm Of fire
by night is the hoarse brassy cough Of
SHOULD SLOAN'S IMMINENT GO
ALONG?

or course 1t should! For after siren
uous day when your muscles have
been exercised to the limit an appll-
cation Of Sloan's Linifnent viii take
the soreness ard stiffness away and
get you in fine shape for the morrow.
You should also use it for a sudden
attack Of toothache, stiff neck back
ache, bites and the many accidents
that arc incidental to a vacation. 1--WE
" uld as soon leave our baggage as
go on a vacation or camp out without
Sloan's Llniment," writes one vaca-
ZIONIST; 1--WE use it for everything
from cramps to toothache.' Put a
bottle in your bag, be prepared and
have no regrets.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
MANY WOMEN WEED HELP.

Women are as much inclined to
;ddnoy trouble as are men, but too
often make tie mistake of thinking
that a certain amount of pain and tor
ture is their lot and cannot be avoid
ed Foley Kidney Pills give quick
relief from backache, pains in sides
and muscles, stiff, sore aching joints,
and bladder ailments.
Sold everywhere.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-28
Beware of OintmentS for CatarlA
That Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of smell
and completely dcrange the whole system when
entering IL through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip-
ti0ns from reputable physicians, ms the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good you pos
slbiy derive from them Hairs Catnrrh Cure,
manufactured by u. ]. Cheney e. Co.. Toledo. o.,
contains no mercury, and Is taken Internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur.
faces Of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine. II II taken
internally and made In Toledo, Ohio, by g. j.,
Cheney 4 90. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price. 75c. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills tog constipation.