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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-12

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces innamma-
tion, alIays pain, wind collie 26c bottleAas
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-12

Men say they are always losing So
umbrellas. But the only kind you ever
find are Accent ones.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-12
Another Case.

Clifford, Iowa. -" / was troubled with
female weakness, also with displace-
ment. ] had very severe and steady
headache, also pain in back and was
very thin and tired all the time. COM
menced taking Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and 1 am cured Of
these troubles. cannot praise your
medicine too highly. Mrs. INA MULE
sLAGLE, Clifford, lowe.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-12
SUFFERED
AWFUL PAINS
For Sixteen Years. Restored
To Health by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Moretown. Vermont. --"I was trou--
bled with pains and irregularities for.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
PREFER THE PLURAL USAGE
Most People Use the Expression "None
Are" Instead of the More Cor
rect "None Is."

Whether or not the use of a plural
verb after the word none" is gram
m~atically right, or even permissible,
does not strike US as a question of
vital Importance, but it has a consid-
cradle interest for a good many PEG.
pie.
Curiously enough, every one of these
communications has been more or less
strongly defensive of the plural usage
as sometimes correct or at least not in.
correct. If this unanimity of opinion
Is expressive of something at all close
ly approaching a like Of
habit and belief among a large ma
iority of the literates of the day,
further argument of the problem is
unnecessary because useless. Any
word in any language means exactly
what the better speakers and writer's
Of that language want 1t to mean, and
appeals from their decision to ety.
mology or abstract logic are an utter
waste Of time.
1t is the same with locutions. Their
rightness or wrongness depends on the
quality and extent of usage. not on rea-
soEs at present demonstrable.
One correspondent impatiently asks
If we would say, "None is so blind as
those who will not see," and evidently
thinks that there is but one answer.
Yet a second is perfectly easy, and
even q third-the elusive or side.st9p.
ping answer that to say none either is
or are blind as some involves an alb
surdity too obvious for discussion. So it
does, If you think twice of the famil-
lar assertion. Another critic quotes
authority for the rule that none is
plural when 1t means mot any" But
when does 1t mean anything else?
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
HAS ALMOST LOST MEANING
Suffrage Leader Deeries the Too Ere.
quent Use of the Word
Domestic.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait ridiculed
in Chicago the old anti-suffrage cry
Of domesticity-that woman's place IL
the home.
THE trouble IS" said Mrs. Gait
that many women cannot be domes'
tic; they have no homes. The word
domestic therefore, should not be
used, as is too often the case. in a
lnose way.
The suffrage leader smiled.
YES" she continued, some people
give this word as elastic a meaning as
the witness gave It in a Georgia court.
Asked why he was not present to ties.
tify in a certain case. the man said
he had had a domestic trouble just
about that time.
What was the domestic trouble,
pray?' asked the examining attorney.
well, to tell the truth. boss said
the witness, I was in the p~enitentiary
for stealth a cow"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

had continual bowel trouble. From
the day she began taking DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin she has had no
further inconvenience and naturally
she is glad to say kind things Of this
remedy.
A bottle can be bought Of any drug
gist at fifty cents or one dollar. People
usually buy the fifty cent size first, and
then, having convinced themselves OF
its merits. they buy the, dollar size.
which is more economical. Results are
always guaranteed or money will be
refunded. Elderly persons Of both
sexes can follow these suggestions
with every assurance Of good results.
Families wishing to try a free sam
pie bottle can obtain 1t postpaid by ad.
dressing DIR. w. B. Caldwell. 419 Wash
ington ST., Monticello, Ill. A postal
card with your name and address on
1t will do.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
A FOOD DRINK
Which Brings Daily Enjoyment.
A lady doctor writes:

A lady doctor writes:
Though busy hourly with my own
affairs, l will not deny myself the pleas.
ure of taking a few minutes to tell of
my enjoyment daily obtained from my
morning cup Of Postum. 1t is n food
beverage, not an irritant like coffee.
II began to use Postum s years ago,
not because / wanted to, but because
coffee, which l dearly loved, made my
nights long, weary periods to be dread.
ed and uniting me for business during
the day.
ION advice of q friend, I first tried
Postum, making it carefully as sug-
gested on the package. AS l had al.
ways used cream and no sugar. l
mixed my Postum so. It looked good.
wes clear and fragrant, and 1t was q
my Kentucky friend wanted her cot.
fee to look--'like a new saddle
Then | tasted it critically, for I had
tried many substitutes for coffee. !
was pleased. yes, satisfied with my
Postum In taste and effect. and am yet,
being q constant user Of 1t all these
years. | continually assure my friends
and acquaintances that they will like 1t
In place of. coffee, and receive benefit
from its use. / have gained weight,
chn sleep and am not nervous"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Greek, Mich. Write for the little book,
The Road to WellvSle."
Postum comes In two forms:
Regular Postum-must be well
boiled.
instant Postum Is n soluble powder.
A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a,
cup OF hot water and. with cream and
sugar, makes a delicious beverage In.
stantly. Grocers sell both kinds.
There's ! reason" for Postum.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
old People Need
A Bowel Sti1nuLant
The ideal One Is q Mid Laxative
Tonic That WIN Keep the B0sOeIs
Gently Active.

Healthy old age is 70 absolutely de-
pendent upon the condition Of the bow.
,els that great care should be taken to
see that they act regularly. The fact
is that as age advances the stomach
muscles become weak and inactive and
the liver does not store up the juices
that are necessary to prompt digestion.
Some help can be obtained by eating
easily digested foods and by plenty Of
exercise, but this latter is irksome to
most elderly people. One thing is GER
tain, that a state of constipation should
always be avoided, as it is dangerous
to life and health. The best plan is
to take a mild laxative as often as is
deemed necessary. But with equal Ger.
tainty it is suggested that cathartics,
purgatives, physics, salts and pills be
avoided, as they do but temporary good
and are SO harsh as to be a shock to a
delicate system.
A much better plan and one that
thousands of elderly people are follow
ing, is to take a gentle laxative-tonic
like DR.. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin, which
acts as nearly like nature as is possible.
In fact, the tendency Of this remedy
is to strengthen the stomach and bowel
muscles and so train them to act natu-
rally again, when medicines Of all
kinds can usually be dispensed with.
This is the opinion Of many people Of
different ages, among them Mrs. Mary
A. P. Davidson Of University Mound
Home, San Francisco, Cal. She is IS
and because Of her sedentary habits
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Preparations,

Where, a generation age, 100 teeth
were pulled out, 90 of those teeth
are now saved by dental science"
The speaker was Zane Grey, the
popular dentist-novelist. He went on /:
why, back in the eighties, It was
the usual thing, in the rural districts,
for a girls teeth to be ruined by the
time she was twenty-five or twenty
three. If a girl was going to be mar
ried she prepared for the occasion
with a fine double set of store molars,
the same as nowadays she prepares
for 1t with q mountain of beautiful
clothes.
Once, in croydon Four Corners.
two old women were conversing.
"'When's Bill goin' to marry Liz
said the first old woman. He's been
a-courtin' her now nigh on ter four
years.
We'll said the second old WON.
an. I shouldn't be s'prised ter see q
weddin' afore long. Liz had all her
teeth out last week."
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

am trying to ascertain II 1t was wortt
the effort"
Il hope So"
Perhaps 1t was, but what do / find
you? Treated as a big baby by your
mother; no knowledge Of business, nc
profession, no idea of the value OF
money. You are merely hanging about
and playing the fool. suppose you
fiatter yourself that all the 'gurls,' as
you call them, are struck on you. All
the brainless ones may be. II you
and your mother plan a marriage for
you look for a brainless girl. We may
meet again a year or 80 later, and
shall be interested to know whether
l ought to have saved your life or let
1t go to the fishes. II you have an en-
gagement elsewhere, Mr.. Montague"
He had, and he got up and lifted his
hat and walked of. Miss Beatrice saw
him no more that day, and in the even
Ing his mother said to her:
DO you know that I am very much
alarmed about dear Alger?"
"hut CtCIhD " JIG VIC uIdtNc ~
him?"
Hes been lying on the divan all
the afternoon, and not sleeping, eth
er. When ! ask what ails him he says
he's thinking. Doesn't it bring on
brain fever to think"
TT might, If one thought too hard!"
Il may get a doctor for him in the
morning. II | should lose the dear
boy by death / know I should feel
inclined to commit suicide"
She and Alger went away next day,
and he forgot to bid Miss Beatrice a
fond farewell. In fact, he appeared to
be so deeply thinking that he stepped
on a fat woman's foot and did not
apologize until he was 23 miles away.
A year and a half later it was win
ter, and Miss Beatrice Waverly was
visiting a girl friend whose family
had an all-the-year-round house in the
country. In enjoying a skate on a pond
1t was Miss Beatrice who broke
through the ice, and it was the other
m that screamed for help. 1t was
Miss Beatrice, however. who recog-
nized the foremost of three young men
who answered the screams. She was
clinging to the broken edges and
benumbed by the cold, but as she was
seized by two strong arms and pulled
out she had spirit enough left to say:
"Weally, Mr.. Montague, doncher
know that l am glad to see you'll"
Forget it," he said, in the very
best English aver spoken in the United
States.
He, too, was a winter visitor at a
house not far away.
"A romance begun in a lake shouldn't
end in a pond, and this one didn't. AL.
ger Montague no longer looked brain
less to the girl whose life he had
saved. He was no longer tagging his
mother about. He was no longer con-
ceited about the girls. And, last. when
he asked for hand and heart, there
wasn't a flaw in his pronunciation.
and it was the victorious and mischiey-
Gus girl who got the chance to say:
IF l don't forget it. me deah Teller.
think the mattah over tonight and
let you know in the morning."
Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper S~yndicate.b
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Didn't Quite Understand.

At a Diapers shop they employed a
small boy to run errands. The other
day, while he was waiting In the shop,
a lady came In and asked the assist.
ant for a yard of silk.
When it was placed before her she
exclaimed:
"oh, really, / must mt mad; I want
muslin!"
On hearing this the boy rushed out
of the shop, and, seeing a policeman
across the way, ran up to him, shout.
ing:
Come over here. There's n woman
in u shop gone mad. She wants
neutrality-suspicious. Tit-Bits.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
PIMPLES ALL OVER FACE

1913 f. Genessee Ave, Saginaw,
Mich.-"Cuticura Soap and Ointment
cured me of a very bad disease of the
face without leaving a sea Pimples
broke out all over my face, red and
large. They festered and came to a
head. They itched and burned and
caused me to scratch them and make
sores. They said they were seed
warts. At. night l was restless from
itching. When the barber would
shave me my face would bleed terri.
bly,. Then scabs would form after
wards, then they would drop off and
the so-called seed warts would come
back again. They were on my face
for about nine months and the trou.
BILE caused Disagreement while it
lasted.
"One day I resd in the paper of the
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. l re-
ceived q free sample of Cuticura Soap
and Ointment and it was so much
value to me that l bought n cake of
Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura
Ointment at the drug store. I used
both according to directions. In about
ten days my face began to heal up.
My face is clear of the warts and
not a scar is left" (Signed) Leroy
c. O'Brien, May ~, 1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Room.

How do you like my new skirt"
asked the sweet young thing. isn't
1t perfect?"
We'll, there isn't much room for
Improvement" replied the crouch.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
In a Hot Place.

Bix--A man can't take his money
with him when he dies; and even if he
could, what good would it do him?
Dix-Well, ne might get some com.
fort out of a cool million.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Puzzle.

rs your business a matrimonial bu.
reau?"
20 course It Isn't"
Then why do you advertise for
sealed proposals."
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
At a Great Rate.

Hicks Injecting friend at II p. M
Hello, old man. what's going on out
your way?
Wicks-My wife is, I expect. / told
her I'd be home at six.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Sure.

This story says a mar raised an
umbrella" said the Boob. Where do
they raise ~umbrellas?"
In wet climates" replied the
Cheerful idiot.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
The Use of Words.

Talking about stupid ones. that
Smith girl is dumb"
Yes, you can tell that as soon as
you hear her talk"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
SeIdom-Are.

did you attend that terrible play?"
II did,
And was it as immoral as you had
been led to hope?"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

No mar likes to hear a woman
praise some other man.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

Paw Knows Everything.
Willie-Paw, what is a secret?
Paw-Anything two women do not
know, my son.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
To Please the Ladies.

To Please the Ladies.
Are you strict with lady Snug
glers?"
oh. no. answered the customs in
spector. I'VE always let them SNUG.
gle in a few cigarettes or a cake or
two OF foreign SOAP"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13
'The Castle of Chapultepec is also
very beautiful

There are now hundreds of such settle
ments in Mexico, where the surrounding
lands have been acquired by the rich
estate owners. Many of them are not
used, and their owners will neither sell
nor rent. In this way the residents of
the town are compelled to work for these
men in order to live, and the great estate
owners can fix their own rate of wages.
There is no chance for the peon to get
ahead; for he cannot buy the land back
and the system is such that it has meant
the enslavement of the people.
Among the schemes now proposed in
the chamber of deputies is to purchase
or condemn these tracts and to restore
them to their owners If this is done the
poems will be largely free of their old
masters and they will gradually become
more civilized 1t is found that this has
been the case with the Indians of the
few towns which did not give up their
communal lands. They are more inde-
pendent and better in every way.
The Poems and the Haciendados
Other movements to improve the condi-
ton of the Indians relate to the taking
away of the power of the iefe politicos,
or chief officers of the small towns. The
most of these officials have been ap-
pointed through the influence of the big
estate owners; and they have oppressed
the people to please the men who put
them in office. According to the laws of
Mexico, absolute liberty Is supposed to
exist 1t does not. The local jefe poll
tico has the right to draft men into
the army. and in the past the peon
workmen were given the alternative of
entering military service or sticking to
their labor upon the estates. IL they
started to leave, the jefe police would
draft them into the service; and If they
were in debt they could not leave. In
this way the Indians were enslayed in
parts of the country, and they are prac-
tically slaves in some regions today.
Such methods were even used in con-
nection with factory labor, and some of
the cotton mills were run in that way.
New Labor Questions
The new movements include attempts to
improve the lot of the laboring men.
Laws have been already passed as to the
hours and wages In the factories. Form
caprice of the capitalists, and these men
were so backed by the administration
that the worSmen could do nothing. Dur
ing the administration of Madero a ten
hour day shift and a nine-hour night
shift were introduced into the workshops
of many parts of the country This was
done with the consent of the factory
owners, inducements being given in the
way of reduction of the taxes on goods
made in such factories. According to
the old law all factories paid the govern
ment a tax of 5 per cent on their gross
sales To such factories as introduced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13

though that of his phenomenally rapid
rise is hardly more than begun.
His friend and admirer, Herbert Henry
Asquith, now prime minister. made Nc
Kenna president of the board of educa-
ton in succession to Augustin Birrell
with a seat in the cabinet; membership
in the privy council and the title of right
honorable, and it Is doubtful if in the
whole course OF his career bigger mis-
take than this ever has been made by
the present premier. The famous educa-
tional bill prepared by the present Sec
reary of state for Ireland had been a
brilliant failure, the successor to it, which
McKenna evolved, proved a veritable
travesty of legislation and its speedy and
inforced withdrawal was bad thing for
the governments face It's authors be-
setting weakness, the lack of moral cour-
age which makes him trim his sails to the
strongest wind, no matter from what
quarter it blows was responsible for his
initial failure which he promptly fol-
lowed with a greater one in the shape of
a second bill ever worse than the first
This would have ended the career of
most men, but the prime minister's faith
in his friend rose superior to experience.
Instead Of reducing McKenna to some
purely ornamental post, he gave him ono
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13

cite nuisance is too we'll known to need
any extensive comment here. A strong
home secretary would have checked the
movement in it's infancy. The light sem
tences originally inflicted on the militants
are well known to have been due to the
influence brought to bear by the home
secretary on magistrates whose creation
lies in his hands, likewise the belated
"stiffening up" process employed only at
the 18th hour, when public disgust at
last compelled the home secretary to take
some effective action against the malig-
nants Meanwhile the success of the
'hunger strixe' against which Mckenna
proved absolutely impotent has made this
country a laughing stock the world over
and up to date McKennas belated rem
edy therefor. the famous cat and mouse
bill, has proved ridicuously Ineffective,
most of the mice being at present en-
gagged in twiddIing their paws at the cat.
viii this man without backbone ever
become premier? The thing seems incon-
ceivable though a writer in the author
itative London World" whose lucubra-
tons l have just been reading, appears to
agree that the liberal party has a
lengthy tenure of office still before it. and
Prime Minister Asquith is notoriously
anxious to lay down the burden which he
has borne for seven years. 1t is possible
that, blind to all appearances, to his
friends weakness, he may regard the
present home secretary as possible
resduary legatee. When the unionist
party needed leader to succeed A. j.
Balfour, Bonar Law got the post, not be-
cause he was the best man available, but
because the adherents of Austen Cham
berlain would not have Walter Long and
those OF Long declined as resolutely to
contemplate the leadership of Joseph
Chamberlains son.
Who will decide between the claims to
the reve7sion of the premiership of Sir
Edward Grey. Lloyd-George and Win
ston Churchill. The rivalry between
these men may constitute McKenna's
chance, especially if he had the present
prime minister's backing. A circum-
stance which would count for him is the
fact that he, more than any other mem
Der of the cabinet is the pet of the great
body of nonconformists who constitute
the backbone of the liberal party. They
are bit disgruntled with him at present
because of the concessions to the high
church party which, with his usual in
ability to be firm, he made in drafting the
Welsh disestablshment bill, but this is
merely passing phase. He was to adj
dress a big gathering of them at Cardiff
the other night. but failed to turn up ap-
parently through fear of the suffragettes.
One of his henchmen explained that he
kept away lest the convention itself be
endangered, but those who know Nc
KeKenna smiled at this excuse. They
know there is nothing of the make my
will and do my duty" spirit about him.
Copyright, 1913. by Curtis Brown.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13
BY HAYDEN CHURCH

of the biggest jobs in the empire by maxi
ing him ruler of the Kings navee," in
other words, first lord of the admiralty,
with a salary of s22,5O0 a year. At the
time a satrist suggested that MeKenna
was selected for the post because, as an
ex-oarsman, he was the only one OF the
cabinet that knew one end of boat
from the other but if this was the prime
minister's reason he might better have
selected the veriest land lubber among
his official family.
McKenna's administration of his new
post was failure only less complete
than has been his administration of the
post of home secretary. He is always
terribly afraid of somebody. AS presi-
dent of the education board he tried to
please all parties, through fear of them
and ended by pleasing none. As home
secretary he has failed to enforce the law
first through fear of the labor party, and,
latterly, through fear of the suffragettes.
and as first lord of the admiralty he
failed through fear of the economists in
his own party. Things in the world of
education had about reached a crisis
when McKenna took hold; a naval crisis
with Germany likewise found this arch
muddler at the helm. By this time he
was execrated throughout the fleet whose
admirals snubbed him when he came in