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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19
lRN John ". c.arevl

Who signs to lead to victory
the Cincinnati's Reds: (Joe
Tinker sends his sympathies and
tears of sorrow .sled.) Who'd be
the Moses of the game to lead
that fated elan (Which role look
ed good once on a time to Roger
Bresnahan)? Who'd loosen to
the gentle breeze a rag OF two
OF more? (Clark Griffith says,
Where have I heard that scnti-
mcnt before?"l Who's certain
quite he's forcordained to shake
that lecch-like jinx? (See inter-
views with Hank O'DaS in old
time sporting pinks.) Who's
wished the hest If luck, at that
this new Sir Galaf1ad--by all
the hugs of haseballdom: Game
Charlie Herzos lad.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

a lot OF girls who pose as candy
kids develop into lemon drops later.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

One OF the most cherries people
around "a house is the person who
thinks he is doing others a favor by
never having n good time himself.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

People and money are something
alike. The shiniest kinds are liable
To be the poorest countcrfeits.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

The man who has a. sanity style, a
martyr more or less. is he who harks
in patience while his wife describe.
a dress.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

Work is good for boys, but not. al
boys are good for work.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

III the event of a second offense,
Mr.. Thaw ought to be fairly easy to
identify, if not to convict.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

Women frequently wear mems
clothes. Yes" replied Grandpa
Mintlikcr. But 7 notice they change
the name of en-. What we boys used
to call IL 'dicky' they call a cabot"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

And many a. man who thought he
could set the world on fire turned out
to- he a wet blanket.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

The more rings a woman has on her
fingers the oftener her back hair needs
! adjusting.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

The harp that rang through Tara's
Hall. l wish it would come back and
play a tune and bump the street pi-
ano off the track! I'm weary. OH. SO
weary, of the latest rastiine hit, My
Daisy is a Wonder, but Her False
Teeth Do Not Fit. Aud geographic
sentiments appeal to me in vain. such
as Take Me to the Dear Old Cider
Barrel Down in Maine" Tho mother
songs Of long ago again T fain would
hear. instead of Ma Is Marching and
Papa Is on His Far" The old-time
melodies in strict propriety we're
cinched, but when you sing a song to-
day. YOU fear you may get pinched.
Instead OF singing rea words that
echo i'll the heart, you MARBLE, "Oh.
Oh. Honey! Dance Me Till Fall
Apart And as for patriotic hymns,
if old George Washington could hear
the flag stuff that goes round he'd
surely grab a gun and say OF I'm the
father of this country great and grand.
We ma as we'll he frank. I want all
hands to understand that when YOU
work or think or fight. you are the
real thing, hut I'll surely muss you up
if you insist that You can sing"
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Y * .*.#*~s.
Just Human Nature s;
< + i: X i: X r K 4 4 4

Doc Sawyer is going to lose. some
practice if he doesn't stop trying to be
r Joker. HE told his medical class
that amputation is the life of trade.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

Bill, the baggage man, says a stage
comedian sometimes gets into serious
trouble because the public has spoiled
him until he thinks anything he does
is smart and funny.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

ing TO one side the forceful %prescnta-
ton of invinciblc proofs on the other
will nvc the feeble and the hes
itating into a live and Vigorous OPP
poncnt.
For these reasons n passage in one
Of tho letters of Maria lEdScwurth dc
serves To be written all ~ in colors
Of living light. Thc novelist WAS Nis-
itillE at the home Of David Ricardo,
the famous political economist, and
in the ordinary gossip Of a simple note
TO her w folks gave him a distinc.
ton that probably might he sought
for i'll vain among the most rhapsodi-
cal of biographies. She said:
Il never argued or discussed A
question with any person who argues
more fairly NJ less for victory and
more for truth. He gives full weight
him. and seems not to he on any side
Of the question for onS instant longer
than tho conviction of his mind on
that side. II seems quito Indifferent
TO him whether YOU find the truth or
whether he finds it, provided it he
found"
Was he the only ono of his kind or
was his apparent alonormality only
the devious method he employed Of
capturing the enemy 10y strategy and
then persuading tho latter hat he,
tho captive. was not merely an Invited
guest but the genial host OF his own
poor defeated self:
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Eut the man who lives a double lif
never does two mems work.
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n weaker a. man is the easier it Is
for. him to break a promise.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19

The heart may be willing, but tt
pocketbook weak.
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As soon as a man begins to think
he knows a oma thoroughly some.
thing crop out in her personality that
entirely npsets his calculations.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-19
FOR WIVES. WHO O
= WORK OUTSIDE -

HEY were discussing the death of
the husband of a mutual friend.
HE WAS a really good man." said
the one wonan
YES" AGREED the other, "and
I don't know how Mrs. b. will live
without him at her age. But / wonder
why it is" she unused. that almost
invariably a widow repeats her hus-
bands last words to the effect that
she has been a good ana faithful
wife
EVERY WIDOW will tell YOU tina,
with the utmost pride. But have Won
ever heard a widower mourning over
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. . y y = - n y y y u u .
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Faint praise ne'er won fair damsel.
a woman is interesting because she
q man,
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Read rimes-zerald Want Ads.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
Catch Sea Cow on Coast.

Whether the skill shown by William
Steamer, negro fisherman, in lasso-
ing a large shark at the Breakers
Hotel pier, caused the appearance
there of a sea COW has stumped even
the old time yarn spinning fishermen
who pride themselves as solvers of
Aquatic riddles.
A score of persons were gathered
on the pier watching several West
Indians draw in their nets. Much to
the surprise of the spectators and the
negroes the sea COW was brought to
the surface of the water. Fishermen
we'll acquainted with these waters
say that the sea COW is now extreme.
ly rare, so much so in fact that it is
against the law to kill one. Conse-
quently, after the negroes had hauled
it close enough to the pier so that its
cumbersome form could be seen the
Gov was released. In view Of Steam
er's feat and the later incident, the
waters around the pier have been
called the corrall.-Palm Beach (F1a.)
Dispatch to New York Herald.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
CHILDREN LOVE
SYRUP Of FIGS
1t is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup Of Figs" Its
action IL positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
Of California Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
On each bottle. Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
ECZEMA SPREAD OVER BODY

Roxbury, Ohio.-"When my little boy
was two weeks old he began breaking
out on his cheeks. The eczema began
just with pimples and they seemed to
itch SO badly he would scratch his
face and cause a matter to run.
Wherever that matter would touch it
would cause another pimple until 1t
spread all over his body. 1t caused
Disagreement while it lasted. He had
fifteen places on one arm and his
head had several. The deepest places
on his cheeks were as large as a sill.
yer dollar on each side. He was so
restless at night we had to put nit
tens on him to keep him from scratch
ing them with his finger nails. If he
got a little too warm at night it
seemed to hurt badly.
I'VE tried a treatment and he didn't
get any better. He had the eczema
about three weeks when we began
using Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
bathed him at night with the Cuticura
Soap and spread the Cuticura Oint.
ment on and the left"
(Signed) Mrs. John White, Mar. 10,
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, 1914-04-02
CRABS ROOT UP sAPLINGS
Certain Species on Island Also Steal
Eggs From Under Sitting
Hens.

London.-Some interesting facts re-
specting the destructiveness of certain
species Of crabs in Grand Cayman, an
island in the British West Indies, ap-
pear in a bulletin just issued from the
Royal Botanic gardens at Kew and
written by T. NJ. s.. English, who has
lived there three years.
The edible crab. he says, grows to
a considerable size, an old male be-
ing sometimes six inches across and
having its larger claw no less than
IA inches in length from its junction
with the body to the end Of Its
Jaws" The female has smaller
claws, but apparently they r most
destructive.
They are great burrowers and can
nibals, too. In places where they
abound nothing is safe from them.
They will take into their holes things
for which they cannot conceivably find
a use-a knife, for instance or a peck
ct compass. They will eat the eggs
from under a sitting hen, if not the
hen herself, as readily as the leaves of
Seeding cocoanut trees, and of these
from six to ten per cent. have to be
replaced If they are planted in newly
cleared ground before the crabs have
been very thoroughly thinned out.
They are responsible for frequent
patches Of bare soil in the "bush,"
which become covered with vegetation
when the crabs are gone.
During the drier months Of the early
part of the year they go underground
to change their shells and add to their
destructiveness by b~arricading the
mouths of their holes with masses of
sticks and rubbish like jackdaws'
nests, nipping of or roofing up sap
lings as much as three-quarters of an
inch in diameter for the purpose.
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luxurtes and is not anywhere rear the
necessity plane yet.
Huerta personally is very well of.
His tastes are simple and he is not
a money grabber. Gossip says that
he has feathered his nest very hand.
somely since he became dictator. but
gossip exaggerates. He is not a rich
man. He Is much more concerned
about getting money to pay his sol.
diers than to put in his private cot.
fers.
OF late President Huerta has gone
out of his way many times to show
courtesy to Americans. He says that
he likes Americans and always has a
good word for them. He always
speaks pleasantly OF President Will
SON. He is abusive, ever when
discussing Wilson's %antagonism to
himself. He seem to consider Presi-
dent Wilson as a mistaken person,
but honest In his mistakes. To
Charge d'Affaires Nelson O'Shaugh-
messy President Huerta is always
most cordial. He says he is fond Of
the young American diplomat and
also of his countrymen, and he takes
pain to show 1t.
President Huerta, like President
Wilson, is waiting. He thinks he can
tire out Wilson Just as Wilson thinks
he can tire out Huerta. He has given
instruction to all his officers to pro.
tect Americans. and to pay no atten-
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02

The revival of discussion on the
failing birth-rate recalls some of the
schemes of statesmen and others to
encourage the rearing of large fami.
lies. Pitt, for example, said that they
should make relief in cases where
there was a large number of children
a matter of right and honor, instead
of a ground of %opprobrium and con
tempt, and he added that that would
make a large family a blessing, and
not a curse. Napoleon offered to take
under his own charge one member OF
any family which contained sever
male children. And Louis XIV. fol
whom no extravaganza was too great
had exempted from public taxes all
those who married before the age OF
twenty, or had more than ten legiti
mate children.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
FALLING HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Save Your Hair! Get a rs Cent Bottle
Of Danderine Right Now-AIso
Stops itching Scalp.

Thin. brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence of a neglected
scalp; Of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing SO destructive to
the hair al dandruff. 1t robs the hair
Of its %luster, its strength and its very
life; eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching of the scalp, which
If not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a rs cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life, luster and luxuriance
which is so beautiful. 1t will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear.
ance of abundance; an Incompatible
gloss and s%oftness, but what will
please you most will be after Just a
few weeks use, when you will actual
ly see a lot Of fine, downy hair-new
hair-growing all over the scalp. Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
PRESIDENT HUERTAS METHOD Of
FINANCING HIS ADMINISTRATION
Mexican Dictator Has Very Effective Way Of Raising Money at
Home by Especial Taxes" or patriotic Subscriptions
Country Very Rich and Nowhere Do People Spend More
Freely on Clothes, Jewels and Amusement.

ment is continually devising new
means for raising money from the
people. The stamp tax, which was
very heavy even before Mexico had
a revolution, has been doubled recent
ly. Every bill for merchandise, every
check to pay such bills, every page
OF an account book, every receipt for
money received in sums exceeding
five pesos, every real estate transfer,
every legal paper, every telegram
must be stamped. The doubling of
the stamp taxes recently has netted
the government many thousands of
dollars a day.
But Huerta hasn't begun" said a
wealthy hacienda owner the other
day. He has just scratched the sur
face when it ONE to getting money
to run his government. | live in
Jalisco and the extra taxes this year
have cost me $4,000. 1t is merely
another name for a forced loan, but
forced loans are necessary when a
country has a war on hand. Huerta
can raise 500, 00O, 900 pesos without
going outside of Mexico If he sets his
mind to it. / think he has been very
moderate so far, but If he is pushed
too hard, he may come down on the
people hard. He may even issue gov,
eminent fiat money. There is no rea.
son why he should not If he cannot
raise money abroad. The United
States issued such money during our
Civil war; why shouldn't Mexico? II
Woodrow Wilson Is waiting for Mex.
leo to go broke, he'll wait a long. long
time-much longer than his presiden-
tial term.
Mexico is not going broke. Mexico
is one of the wealthiest countries in
resources of any in the world. The
vast majority of the people are poor,
but the rich are exceedingly rich and
there is a very large middle class in
comfortable circumstances. Every aft.
ernoon in this city many hundred of
expensive automobiles parade up ard
down Avenida San Francisco. No
where on earth do people spend
money more freely on clothes, jewels
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
Queens Close Friend.

Lady Mount Stephen, whose hus'
band is likely to succeed Lord Strath-
coma as high commissioner for Canada
in London, is probably Queen Mary's
oldest and most intimate friend. Be-
fore her marriage in 1897 to the Cana
dian millionaire peer, she was Miss
Clan Tufnell, and was lady-in-waitinG
and the favorite companion of the
late duchess of Teck. She has been
the friend and confidante of the queen
from her girlhood, as well as a great
favorite with all the members of the
Teck family.
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been obliged to look for funds at
home and SO far there has been little
or no trouble in getting them. Presl-
dent Wilson's financial blockade of
Mexico has worked perfectly SO far,
but President Wilson cannot prevent
Huerta from getting money from the
people who live in Mexico and have
property here and he is getting it
In substantial sums day after day in
various ways.
The simplest and easiest way for a
government to obtain money under a
dictatorship is by levying forced
loans. 1t Is a quick and direct meth
cd and cannot fail where the power
to enforce the loans is absolute. But
IL does not look well to have 1t get
abroad that forced loans are being
levied here and so they are usually
sugar-coated and 60 under the name
OF special taxes" or patriotic sub
scriptions" to government bonds.
In Cuernavaca recently $500, 900
was raised In q single day from mer-
chants and wealthy residents to pay
the troops Of the garrison there. The
government called this a popular
subscription to pay for protection,
but the subscribers called 1t a forced
loan. The same thing was done in
Guaymas not long ago and in many
other places from time to time. Here
in the City Of Mexico the banks all
subscribed to government bonds
about two months ago and some TWEEN
ty million pesos was raised In this
way. That was not a forced loan, but
the banks did not want those bonds.
They were persuaded that it would be
a good thing for them to buy them,
not on account of their value, but be.
cause the government would appre-
ciate the favor.
In the state of Jalisco recently a
special tax of Az per cent. of the
value Of all property, real and per.
sonal, was levied. That was not a
forced loan, but 1t took the money
from the people just as effectively.
Other states are about to have these
special taxes. too, and the govern
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
SHAME TO ARREST RASTUS
After Aunt Rosa's Explanation Liberty
Should Have Been Matter Of But
a Short Time.

Aunt Rosa, who had presided in the
kitchen for many years and was a per
son of high privilege in the family,
came into the library in a highly fius-
tered state, wiping her fat hands upon
her apron. She was plainly both dis
tressed and indignant. She addressed
herself without preamble to the mas,
ter of the house.
Mister Willie" said she, please,
sub, len me SIS, sub. Dey done rest
by boy 'Rastus ag'in. Dey got him shet
up in de Jail, an dey fuse to let him
out lessen ] pays bail"
What has the lazy rascal been do
ing, Aunt Rosa?"
He amt done nothing tall, Mister
withdrawing tall, sub. De boy was
jest a settin' on the do step wiz a
knife in his han, and a emery niger
come by, and fell on it, and rip hisself
open-dat all, subj"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
MRS. FUNK SEEKS AMENDMENT
Illinois Woman Challenges Anti-suf
rasist Leaders in Washington
to Joint Debate.

Washington.-Mrs. Antoinette Funk.
the temporary head of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association at
Washington, is pushing feminist ef.
forts for a federal amendment, the
leading aim at present Of suffrage
workers. Mrs. Funk's challenge to
Augustus Gardner, one of the anti.
suffragist leaders in Washington, for
a Joint debate was made to give a
clearer setting to the questions at is.
sue. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, when
told OF the contest, said: II am glad
that Mrs. Funk is to do the debating
for us, for nobody could represent the
suffrage cause any better than she. l
shouldn't be surprised II some of the
ants became suffragists as a result
of it. l am sure 1t will do a great
good"
Mrs. Funk, who Is a lawyer. has
done much work for the woman's
cause and is one Of the quartet of wo-
men who were responsible for the SUI.
frage legislation at Springfield. Ill,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
PhiIippine ProsperitY.

The report of the director of the
bureau of agriculture at Manila states
that the rice crop of the last year
was the greatest which has been re-
corded for many years in the Philip
pines. being 100 per cent. greater
than in the previous year. AS a direct
result of the bumper crop there has
been a decrease Of rice imports OF
more than 176, 900, 900 pounds, repre-.
senting in value over $2,500,O00. There
was a banner export crop of hemp for
the year, marking the highest point
which it has reached in the history
of the industry. The exports amount.
ed to 1855 tons, valued at $685.
044, 744.
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into the matter and obtained statis-
tics from the telegraph and post Of
fees here.
According to these figures n Eng
lish firm frequently buys at a time
$4,000 stamps at Sd. each. and receives
piles" Of kilograms. One firm or
dered 500, 900 stamps, each Of a valua-
ton of 21kd., and as the stock here
was not sufficient an urgent telegram
was sent to Berne to supply the de-
mand.
An English firm here received In
one day, chiefly from England, seven
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02

sacks of kilograms, and within a short
time had sent replies to most OF
them.
The income derived from this sort
OF business by the federal telegraph
and post offices must be very large
every year.
There is a general feeling, however,
that this indiscriminate betting by for
eigners in a foreign country should
not be permitted, The English book.
makers are aware that they are only
tolerated" and may be expelled froIn
the country at any time.
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AFTER THE ENGLISH B0oKIES
Swiss People Take Exception to Big
Gambling BUSINESS by Expa.
trlates.

Geneva.-English bookmakers-of
the turf variety--domiciled here, com.
PEELED to expatriate themselves by the
law Of the land, must be doing an
enormous betting business with Eng
land, according to the results pub.
llshed by the Express de Geneva
which has just concluded an inquiry
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
Good Excuse.

Henry" said the young wife to her
bucolic husband after his first Christ
mas dinner with her relatives, 81 must
ask you to look a little more carefully
after your at table when we
are out for dinner. Last evening you
ate with your knife. Why don't you
use your fork?" Il did, dear" he re-
piled sadly, but they gave me an old
fork. 1t had Sits in it and 1t leaked
California Fruit Grower.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
A Wise Youth.

81 have temperament" simpered the
girl.
Then you are destined for a man
who is earning % plunks. a week."
responded the young man, reaching
for his hat.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-04-02
Still On Guard.

The agricultural department now
a y that the COW is the farmers
friend
UNI" grunted Farmer Whiffetree.
Won't that alter your attitude to-
ward him."
Not a bit. I've got lots OF friends
that I'm suspicious Of"