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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Frugal.

Mother-Ethel, are you saving any
thing for a rainy day?
Ethel-Yes. mother. I never wear
my silk stocking around the house.
Life.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Too Economical.

He'll never be rich"
But he's just bought himself .
fine auto?"
Yes, but he bought 1t to save
street car fare"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

One wonders how people got mar.
ried before the installmcnt plan was
discovered.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Uncertain.

When will your husband be
homer
How do I know" returned Mrs.
Chuggins. He is running his own
motor car"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

First thing a baby learns to do is
cry for what IL wants.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Sweet Closed Lips.

Her hands are folded! All. how sweet.
How gentle she appears-how mild!
She seems to have the meekness of
A tender little child.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

The man who invented the cork
screw was ashamed to have his name
connected with it.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

The Kind.
DO you like creepers about the
house?"
Eyes, if they're fat babies"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
Sometime Like,

Something Like.
= did you ever feel the influence Of
a starlight night?"
"Humph! All moonshine."
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

You have a right to your opinion.
So have others.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

fact that there was a golf tournament
going on"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
LEARNING THE BUSINESS.

so you have taken your son into
the bank to work his way up from the
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

There isn't anything more pitifu
than a hero out of a job.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

j do not hear her voice: I hear
No sweet. soft echoes of her laugh.
Her lips are closed-but not for long
She's sitting for her photograph.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

Some women will not care to remain.
IL there are no fashionable dressmaL.
ers in heaven.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
FIRED AT RANDOM.

The barking dog is never popular.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-10-23
From 40 to SO Woman's Critical Period.

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Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation, hot
flashes, severe headaches, meancholia, dread of impending
evil, Palpitation of the heart, irregularity, constipation and
dizziness are promptly treated by intelligent women who
are approaching the period of life.
This is the most critical period of woman's life and she
who negects the care of her health at this time invites in
durable disease and pain. Why not be guided by the ex-
per1ence of others and take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound? 1t is an indisputable fact that this grand old
remedy has helped thousands of women to pass through
this trying period with comfort and safety. Thousands Of
genuine and honest testimonials support this fact.
From Mrs. HENRY HEAvILIN, Cadiz, Ohio.
bic Compound and derived great benefit from its use. It carried me
safely through the Change Of Life when ! was in bad health. Ihad
very nervous and the hot flashes were very bad. 1 had tried other
remedies and doctors, but did not improve until I began taking lydia
T. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound. 1t has now been sometime since
took the Compound and I have had no return of my old complaints.
HEAvLN, R. F. d. NJ s, Cadiz, Ohio. "O'- A' 1AN-
From Mrs. EDWARD b. HILBERT, Fleetwood. Pa.
be around at all | always had a headache and I was so dizzy and
nervous that l had no rest at night. The flashes of heat were SO bad
sometimes that did not know what to do.
"One day a friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkhams Vege.
table compound and it made me a strong, well woman. I am very
thankful that l followed my friends advice, and 1 shall recommend L
and now have not had medicine from doctor for years. You may
publish my letter"-Mrs. EDWARD B. HILBERT, Fleetwood, Pa.
From Mrs. F. M~ULLENDORE, Nrunford, Ala.
Munford, Aa-"Iwas SO weak and nervous while passing through
the Changeof Life that l could hardly live. My husband had to nail
rubber on all the gates for | could not stand to have a gate slam.
g! also had backache and q fullness in my stomach. Noticed that
Lydia f. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound was adj ~-~
vertsed for such cases and / sent and got a. bottle SE/mHM&MR)
It did me so much good that kept on taking it and M&y
found q it to be all you claim; | ire, rec9 q N it to qa@WH
DoRE, Munford, Ala. ~ =
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The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
WHAT HIS FAMILY RECEIVED
In Making Temperance Speech Eng
Iish Workingman Makes Startling
Illustration With Bread.

In Manchester, England, a working
man was making a temperance speech.
He held in his hands a knife and also
a loaf Of bread Drawing the knife
across the loaf and taking off slice
of moderate size. he said, This is
what you give to the city govern
ment." He made another and larger
section, and added, And this is what
you give to the general government.
He now made a tremendous slash
with his knife that cut away guam
tity of bread equal to three-quarters
OF the entire loaf. This" he said,
you give to the brewer" The rem
nant after all this amputation was
only thin slice. The larger fraction
of this he allotted to the public-house,
and of the few crumbs left he said,
And this you keep to support your
self and your family The drunk
ards children know this we'll
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
Ie1llpeia5l1le .
a l85BSN
Conducted by the National Womans
Christian Temperance Union.)
BAN ON MODERATE DRINKING
tenn Prohibit Employees From
Touching Alcoholic Liquor.

The use of alcohol is receiving some
hard knocks these days. A prominent
railway system, not contented with the
general rule heretofore in force on rail-
ways forbidding employees to drink
while on duty, now forbids employees
to indulge at all in drinking out of EN-
ployment hours, or in any other con-
duct which will impair their health
or make them less alert and less cap
able while on duty. The owner OF
one of the nations pets-a prominent
baseball team-announced that mod
Grafton in drinking is not sufficient;
the players on his team must leave
alcohol entirely alone and abondon Gig
arets. The justification for such rules
may be found not only in the difficulty
of being moderate in indulgence, but
also in the cumulative and after-ef-
fects of dissipation. The world is
moving; the old fetish of personal lib
erty" at whatever cost of danger to
the public at large seems to be losing
its power. The time may come when
every man to whom the life and safety
of others are entrusted may be ex-
pected or even required to be as abb
stemious as the ball players and rail
way employees just mentioned.-Jour-
nal American Medical Association.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

as anything you can make. 1t should
consist Of a variety of seeds and
grains cracked fine enough so they
can readily pick them up. Besides
this, they will need plenty of water,
grit and bran where they can get to it
all the time. Mix a little pounded
charcoal with the bran, to keep the
digestive organs sweet and prevent
fermentation.
Do not fuss" with the chicks. See
that they are clean, dry, have plenty
of feed and water, and let them go.
Handling is bad for fowl at any age,
but especially for the tender babies
The feed should be given in a deep
litter of chaff. 1t is as natural for
a chick to scratch as it is to eat
The exercise they get in digging out
the grains is worth as much as the
feed itself.
Never give any moist food 1t is
likely to cause bowel trouble. Dry
grains make the natural food OF any
feathered fowl and they will take in
what moisture the system demands
~ "otSA ID lCII IACS Cdn 6SL
to it. Grit is, Of course, a neces-
sity for grinding it, and must be fur
nished right from the start
When the feathers begin to start,
the chicks will need a little extra
nourishment, and of different kind.
They must have a certain amount of
animal or meat food. Where they are
in wild state they provide them
selves with bugs and worms, but the
domestic fowl must have this fur
nished.
The best thing to give for supply
ing this element is milk. 1t may be
given either sweet or sour, but for
the small chicks the sweet milk is
best. If this is not to be had, give
a small allowance OF beef-scrap,
watching the bowels to see that they
do not get too loose.
Feather-making is a great draft
upon the system, and must be met, or
the chicks will weaken and die.
Plenty of the right kind of food, ex.
ercise, cleanliness and fresh air are
the great factors in success with
young chicks. If these principles are
kept in mind, you should have little
to fear from disease.
Copyright, 1913 by c. NJ Shuitz)
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

The other two cans of soil remained
dry. AT the close of the school, the
thermometers were read again. Which
soils showed the highest tempera-
lures? Which the lowest?
At another time they punched holes
at different heights in the sides of
some old tin cans; the cans were then
filed with the same kind of soil and
the same quantity of water was pour
ed into each can
1t was observed that little or no wa
ter ran through the holes while it was
flowing downward through the soil,
but as the soil became over-saturated
from the bottom upward the water be-
gan to run out
The bottom of the pan represented
a blue clay. hard pan, rock, or any
other hard layer through which water
could not easily pass. The hole in
the can represented the underground
drain through which what water the
soil could not hold would flow away.
They learned that the soil like q
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
lNTEMPERANCE AS A DISEASE
Question Is One to Be Handled
by the Doctors.

In an address before the last In
ternational Congress of Hygiene in
Washington, D. c., DR.. Macmillan
Grossman, director of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Education
of Exceptional Children, declared that
intemperance was a disease ar
question to be handled by the doctors.
The utterance has been widely quoted
in the liquor press as bolstering up
the arguments of the anti-prohibition
lists. What all thinking, common
sense people ask is that the manu-
facture and sale of that which direct
ly causes this disease of intemperance
be forbidden by law. Our national
health is physically our greatest as
set wrote Theodore Roosevelt, when
president OF the United States. To
prevent any possible deterioration of
the American stock should be a ma
tional ambition. The preservation Of
national vigor should be a matter of
PATRIOTISM
The alcohol question is therefore a
national issue.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
RIDDLES.
GUS way

Why is a steam engine at a fire an
anomaly?
Because it works and plays at the
same time.
What word is it of five letters, of
which two being removed, only one
will remain?
Stone.
Why is fly taller than most men?
Because he stands over six feet
without shoes or stockings.
What kind of anchor does drum
ken sailor like best?
An anker of brandy.
Why should a false friend never
leave his house2
Because you might look in and find
him out"
When is a man hospitable and a
cheat at the same time?
When he takes you in.
Why is a divinity student like a
merchant?
Because he studies the prophets
(profits)
In what part of the church do they
ring the BELIEFS?
At the altar
What is that of which the common
sort is the best2
Sense.
Where did Noah strike the first nail
in the ark?
On the head.
Why is an accepted sutton like a
person guilty of crime?
Because he ought to be transported
Enough for one, too much for two
and nothing for three; takes one to
make and two to keep?
A secret.
What game does lady's dress i'm,
proven" resemble?
Backgammon.
Way is girl not noun?
Because lass (alas) is an interjec.
ton.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
IL the Life BE Rinht.

If the life is right with God and
man, every moment spent in true pray
er results in the generation of divine
power; for prayer is our dynamo for
appropriating the divine electricity
that manifests itself in invincible volts
of faith. hope. love, peace, joy and
power. ''Ye shall receive power after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon
YOU" If we, then. being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your chill,
dren, how much more Shall your Fa-
Their which is in heaven give to them
that ask him?" Whatever lack there
may be in us, or our work must be at
tributed to insufficient or deficient
praying. For we have not because ye
ask not. Ye ask and receive not be-
canse We ask amiss."
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
What la Wanted,

What the temperance men want is
not the regulation of the liquor traffic
but it's destruction; not that its de-
struction; not it's evils should be cir
cumscribed idle fancy, but that they
should, to the full extent OF the
states ability, be utterly eradicated-
No shilly-shally legislature can endure.
and it would be good for nothing If
it could Stave in the heads OF the
barrels, put out the fires of the dis
tilleries, confiscate the demijohns,
bottles and glasses that have been pol
luted by the internal traffic.-Horace
Greeley.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

Where one has SO small a f1ock-or
even with larger ones-the greatest
profit is made by keeping the hens
laying as much as possible. For this
reason, even where the chicks are
Matched by hens, the use of the little
heatless breeders will be found the
most satisfactory way of caring for
the little chicks. They can be taken
directly from the hens or the incuba-
tor, and given over to the care of the
brooder, with no fear Of accident.
The brooder should be provided
with a run, where the chicks can get
out in the fresh air and sunshine. A
frame three by six feet, and three
feet high, covered on top and sides
with poultry netting, is very good, as
it can easily be moved from place to
place. A little door in one end, against
which the door of the brooder can be
set, allows the chicks to go back and
forth as they wish.
The great merit of this simple outfit
is that it costs very little, is quickly
made. and can easily be kept clean.
Any boy can make all the breeders
and runs he will need in very short
time, and do it before the season
opens.
The baby chick, for the first five
days of its life, is very tender thing.
/ II it is to grow into hardy fowlhood,
it must have the right kind of feed
and care at the critical time. 1t does
not need very much feed, and not a
great deal of care, but what it does
get must be of the proper kind.
The chick should not be fed until
1t is from thirty to forty-eight hours
old. There is great difference in
chicks, and the only way to tell just
when to begin feeding is to watch
and see when they begin to pick hun
grily at things. When they appear ca
ger for food, it should be given to them,
but even then very sparingly at first.
The reason for not feeding them
sooner is this: The yolk of the egg
10 the last part to be absorbed into
the chicks body before Matching, and
1t furnishes nourishment enough to
last for some time. The yolk works
upward through the digestive tract
and If food is given that must work
downward, mischief is sure to result
Then, too, the yolk has in 1t the right
kind of nutriment to put the system
into proper condition to digest other
foods Nothing else would cleanse and
regulate the digestive organs so well
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
MAGNETIC NAVY is AMUSING
Caused by Magnet and Concealed
Maqnetized Needles.

To build this navy thin pieces OF
cedar or pine wood and some mag
netized sewing needles are necessary.
Cut the pieces of wood into lengths a
little longer than the needles used
and about one-fourth of all inch in
width. Make one end Of each boat
pointed for the bow. After the boats
are all ready turn them upside down
and lay magnetized needle upon
each where the keel should be. Now
light a paraffine candle and let a drop
of hot paraffine fall upon each needle
and boat. Take hot rail and smooth
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
sponge. viii hold only certain guam

sponge. will hold only certain onan.
tity Of water.
DO you suppose that they concluded
that tile drains should be made shall.
low or deep? What do you suppose
TREY learned about soils having gravel
or sand subsoils?
The next week, these bows came IN
school with small strips of litmus ma.
per, which they purchased for five
cents at the drug store, some clean
saucers. and some samples of soil ia
Ken from different places.
One touched some vinegar (acid)
with the litmus paper to see what
change would be made in it's color:
one touched some lemon juice; anoth-
er placed a piece against a raw piece
OF tomato. Then they touched some
dampened, soda, wood ashes, and lime.
These they found to be alkaline; that
is they acted much like lye
They learned that by carefully mix
ing little lime water and vinegar
no change in the color of the litmus
paper would be made They had read
that such substance was said to be
neutral. They learned that the els
tern water was neutral.
The samples of soil were separate
~ mixed with rain water to a stiff
mud, and piece of litmus paper
pushed into each and allowed to re-
main two or three minutes.
Three found that their papers were
darkeneG from being wet, but that
there were no marked changes in the
color. The soils tested therefore were
neutral
One boy found his paper turned a
brickish red. That was decided to be
an acid or sour SOIL 1t was learned
that it needed draining or lining. or
perhaps both, to neutralize it.
The most impressive lesson these
boys learned was from what they did
rather than what they read. What
these four boys did any other boys of
the upper elementary grades in any
school can do.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

ute some simple apparatus which
would be needed in making some sim
pie tests Of the truth of the state
ments made in the books.
With lamp chimneys, thin muslin
and some fat-bottomed pans, they
planned to find out for themselves
how rapidly different kinds of soil per-
mitted water to pass through them.
After tying the muslin on the bot
tom of each chimney they filled one
with very black soil (humus), one
with clay, one with loan, and one
with sand leach containing the same
amount of SOLD; to the upper part of
each chimney they tied strings which
served as balls through which to run
a broomstick.
Each end of the brcomstick rested
on the seat of a desk. The pans were
placed beneath the chimneys. At the
same time, exactly the same quantity
Of water was poured on the soil in
each chimney.
Through which do you suppose the
water ran most quickly?
Which was the last to permit it to
run through?
Which one held the most water?
Which one retained the least wa
ter?
On another day, they filed the same
chimneys with the same kinds Of soil,
-humus, clay. loan, and sand,-and
set each one on two small chips on
the bottom of the fat pans.
Instead OF pouring the water into
the chimneys, they poured the same
quantity into each pan. They did this
to learn from the experiment which
soil would allow water to arise most
rapidly. Through which do you think
it rose most rapidly?
The next Friday morning, each boy
had a common thermometer and a
good sized tin can. Into each can was
placed the same kind of soil. In the
center of each of two cans the Their
mometers were placed deep enough
to allow the freezing point to be just
above the soil; in the other two they
were deep enough to allow them to
remain upright
At the first recess, the temperature
of each was read and noted. Into the
can containing a deeply-covered Their
mometer and into one having the Their
mometer not so deeply covered. the
same quantity of water was poured
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
SPRAYING POTATOES
FOR BEST RESULTS
Treatment Should Begin When
Plants are Ten Inches High
and Repeated Often.
CBy w. Nj. Kelley

AS a general rule better results will
be obtained If the spraying is begun
when the potato plants are from eight
to ten inches high and the treatment
repeated at intervals of from ten to
fourteen days in order to keep the
plants we'll covered with the bordeaux
throughout the season.
When the blight is in evidence ii
may be necessary to spray oftener
Usually from four to six applications
will produce the best results
The bordeaux should contain six
pounds of copper sulphate to each sc
gallons. When bugs are plentiful and
two pounds Of paris green or two
quarts of arsenate of soda stock solu,
ton to the quantity of the bordeaux
mixture required to spray an acre.
The application should be thorough
especially at times when the bugs are
numerous or when the weather Is IA
vorable to blight AS a general rule
frequent light applications will pro
duce better results than heavier ap
plications at long intervals.
Those who depend upon three ap
plications will obtain better results
during most seasons If they delay the
first spraying until there is danger of
the vines being injured by bugs OF
flea beetles and then make a thor
ough application of the bordeaux and
the poison.
The following spraying should also
be thorough and applied at such times
as to keep the foliage protected dur
ing the whole of the, growing season.
My experience teaches me that II
we obtain satisfactory results, we
must not wait for the blight to ap-
pear before we begin spraying and
that it does not pay to apply poison
alone for bugs. When we are fighting
bugs it will cost but little additional
to use bordeaux and the poison to
gether.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

erinq.
To give it other things to eat at this
time would upset the whole plan of ma
ture, and retGrd, instead OF promote,
the chicks growth.
The first food of the little chick
should be oatmeal--the steelcut, If
you can get it, and that is not to
be had. the ordinary rolled oats will
do if we'll crumbled In the hands
This should be given about every two
hours for a day or two, gradually
frightening the time between feeds
until they get it three times a day.
Put shallow dish of clean water
where they can get it. If they want
to walk through it, turn teacup bot
tom side up in the middle of the
dish.
For the first two or three days they
will want to sleep and rest much of
the time, and will nearly live in the
brooder. After that they will be ready
to begin active operations. They will
now want to be let loose in the run
for most of the day, If it can be set
where It is warm. Leave the brood
er where they can go into it when
they get chilly.
After the third day begin to give
them a prepared chick feed with their
oatmeal. Increase the chick feed and
decrease the oatmeal by degrees. I'M
til when they are ten days old they
get the feed alone.
You can buy the prepared chick
feed that is better and fully as cheap
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
what Temperance BRINGS.

More of good than we can tell;
More to buy with, more to sell;
More of comfort, less of care;
More to eat and more to wear;
Happier homes with faces brighter;
All our burdens rendered lighter;
Conscience clean and minds much
stronger;
Debts much shorter, purses longer;
Hopes that drive away all sorrow;
And something laid up for tomorrow.