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SONG SPARROW AN 0PTlMIsT
Asks Little for Services, Which
Arc Valuable.

The song sparrow. cheery.voiced
%forerunner of spring, is the subject Of
an article by Miss Harriet e. Bancroft,
which appears In the Ohio Arbor and
Bird Day Manual. issued by the state
department Of public instruction for
use In the schools. In telling about
the song sparrow Miss Bancroft says:
There are SO many different kinds
Of small, sober-hued birds, which look
alike, and yet are not alike. that you
wonder how you are to distinguish this
n from the others. Each bird has
his recognition mark and song spar
rows Is the spot in the middle Of his
apeckled breast; and while In color
he is of the earth. earthly, and bears
upon his breast a spot. you must not
think that these are the outward signs
bf an inward blemish, because he
hasn't any.
There is great variation in the hab-
its OF different sparrows with respect
to migration. The tree sparrow Is
with us only in winter, the field spar
row Is a summer bird, the white
crowned migrant; that is, he pays us
a short visit in the spring and again in
the fall, while on his way to more re-
mote regions; but song sparrow is a
permanent resident in nearly all parts
of the state. He shares with US the
storms as we'll as the sunshine of the
rounded year.
His cone-shaped bill tells you that
he is a %seed-eating bird and the weeds
yield him a plentiful supply of them.
He also eats slugs and worms and
groundinhabiting insects when they
are to be had, and his choice Of diet
makes him a valuable assistant to the
farmer. He helps him in his warfare
on troublesome weeds and harmful in.
sects.
1t Is not too much to say that who
ever or whatever helps the farmer to
grow better crops. helps the whole
world along; but song sparrow's serv-
ices do not stop here; his finest is that
which he renders to u weary spirits
when he cheers them with his song.
For all the help he gives he asks
nothing in return but the privilege of
living out his little life unmolested.
1T is said that he and his mate will
raise three and even four broods in a
season, If the weasels, the red squir-
rels, the cats, the crows, the hawks,
the blacksnakes and other ill-disposed
creatures do not harry their lowly
nest, which distressing occurrence is
all too frequent"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
Modernizino the Roundup.

Each year seems to give the auto
mobile a new hold on life, says the
Wall Street Journal. The wal brought
1t to the forefront in a new field. The
soldier of the present day seldom
makes long forced marches like Sher.
mans march to the sea. He travels
by motor car. AS a result, the automo-
bile casualty list is tremendous; the
average life of a car In the battle line
Is estimated at 80 days. But it is not
only the var one that has lost part
Of Its picturesqueness through the use
of the automobile. The latter has
begun to rob the annual cattle round
up of some Of Its thrills by replacing
the horse. This year has seen the
ubiquitous car with a cowboy at it's
wheel on u western prairies discour-
aging the cattle from attempts to es.
cape from the ever narrowing circle in
the roundup. Many a steer which has
given q 10Y horse a run must feel dis
concerted when 1t bucks up against
the four-wheeled steed.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
ALCOHOL, SHOT AND SHELL.


The Reformer, a paper of Western
Australia, writes of the effects Of in
t~oxicating drinks in the ex~peditionary
force of that state as follows:
A little time ago 10000 troops were
medically certified as sound in wind
and limb. Then alcohol began to put
in its fine work, and in a short time
1000 of them, either for behavior or
sickness, were dismissed. Their
places were soon filled, but neither
the citizens nor the soldiers had learn
ed their lesson, and so whisky or
beer was still regarded as the bond
of good+fellowship, and the test Of
hospitality. Then came along pneu-
monia, that dread daughter of alco-
holism. It was pneumonia in the
camp, pneumonia at Albany, pneu-
monia on the sea, and pneumonia be-
meath the shadow Of the pyramids.
Some tardily recovered, others were
laid beneath the turf or the wave be-
fore rel they saw the flash Of Turk
ish sword or heard the burst Of Ger
man bomb.
Alcoholism and pneumonia indeed
can scarcely be separated, and the
foremost physicians of England now
are saying that they look upon the
previous alcoholic condition of a pa
tient as the arbiter of his life when
attacked by pneumonia. This first
blood in our war was drawn, not by
the bayonets of the enemy, but by
the folly, Of ourselves. The foolish
hospitality Of the people and the
drinking dens Of the state Joined
hands in destroying our defenders.
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Divine Nature.

Nature is pitiless; she never with.
draws her flowers, her music, her
joyousness and her sunlight from be-
fore human cruelty and suffering,
She overwhelms man by the contrast
between divine beauty and social
h~ideousness. She spares him moth
ing OF her loneliness. neither butter.
fy nor bird. In the midst OF murder,
vengeance. b%arbarism, he must feel
himself watched by holy things;
he canno escape the awful reproach
Of universal nature and the implacable
serenity Of the sky. The deformity
OF human laws is forced to exhibit 1t.
self naked amid the dazzling rays Of
eternal beauty. Man breaks and de-
stroys: man lays waste: man kills:
but the summer remains the summer;
the lily remains the lily; the star re-
mains a star.-Victor Hugo.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29

turn back upon 1t the cold winds Of
the north. Thus these mountains
give Galicia long. cold winters; short.
wet springs; hot. blistering summers.
and dreary, chilly autumns.
The glory of Poland's past and
the hope Of her future are Cracow
and Lemberg, for it was the former
that was her capital in the yesterday
of history and the latter that is her
capital today and which would be her
capital tomorrow we're Polish dreams
to come true. In Cracow, the great
city of Poland's past, the royal palace
still stands: but 1t is used as a bar
racks and not as the home of a king.
The cathedral is now the Valhalla OF
its departed greatness; for there sleep
the kings and the heroes from the
Jagellons to Kosciuszko. Not far
away Is the Kosciuszkoberg. one OF
the most remarkable memorials ever
reared by the hand Of mana huge
mound of earth brought by loyal Poles
from every battlefield In the world
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types
@EU RliShRaSdntry

i" DR. months war dispatches from
Galtcia-where vast armies
have swayed back and forth,
locked In one Of the outstand-
ing, titanic struggles of history
TO decide the fate Of empires and of
TWO mighty races-have gripped the
popular attention more than the news
from any other battle theater. On Ga
fcia's fields during the past few months
nave been done such feats at arms
as the modern world could not have
dreamed Of; the strength of great
Russia swept over this Austrian
erownland. driving its powerful ar.
mics over the plain In the North, over
the central hills. up the southern
slopes Of the ragged Carpathians, on
their lofty, icy crests. beyond these
crests. and lowered over the fertile
prairie land Of Hungary.
Here the wave spent its to then ir-
resistible force. and upon the dreary
mountain rocks, above the clouds,
amid the ice and snow and chill cold
OF early spring. the flower Of Russian
and Austro-German strength began
rolling backward toward the north,
still locked In continuous, grinding
battle. until the foothills were left be-
hind and the terrific contest surged
In the direction OF Lemberg and the
northern plain. The nature Of this
war theater that has beheld among
earth's s%ternest, most bitter scenes is
intimately described by William Jo-
seph Showalter In a statement pre-
pared for the National Geographic So
ciety. This writer saws:
DenseIy Populated Land.
Austrian Poland is practically EN-.
braced by the crownland of Galicia.
This crownland is almost exactly the
size Of the state of South Carolina,
but it has a population six times as
great. II continental United States,
exclusive Of Alaska, were as densely
populated as Galicia we would boast
Of a population four times as great as
that of Russia. And yet Galicia is
the poorest of all the provinces Of
Austria. It lies outside the ramparts
Of the Carpathians, which rob 1t of the
warm winds that otherwise would
come to it from the south. and also
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
Time BROUGHT JOY
sy MELVILLE TURNER WARREN.

The f~uttering b~lushing bride Of an
afternoon gave utterance to q cry OF
bewildering Joy and delight, as she
stepped across the threshold of the
beautiful house that assiduous labor
and love had prepared as her future
home.
How beautiful" she breathed ar
IDENTIFY. "oh. Elwyn, l never expected
this!"
The eyes Of Elwyn Borden flushed
with pride and pleasure. He had
proved his deep lasting love for this
dainty devoted creature clinging
charmingly to his strong protecting
arm. He was glad Of his ability to
pay her the homage Of wealth. and
ease, and comfort
Leila was almost crying with happi-
ness ~ he led her from DON to room
Of the quaint, but grand old mansion.
At the time OF his fathers death 1t
had been closed. Now 1t had been
renovated to welcome the young bride.
MY fathers favorite ROOM" ex.
planned Elwyn. as they entered a
somber apartment. A shadow Of re-
spectful grief tinged the speakers
tones.
Leila glanced about at the ancient
carvings. the great book cases.. the
numerous cabinets OF curios. Her hand
left his arm with a sudden jerk.
Her fair face whitened. Over the
fireplace hung an oil painting.
"Who-who is that" she all but
gasped.
MY father. Why. Leila!" and then
a slight tap at the door, and the at
tention Of Borden was distracted from
his wife.
"A friend has called to see you.
sir" q servant announced-"Mr. Bart
ley.
"Ah. / am glad!" cried Elwyn. "My
dearest college chum. Leila l will
return soon"
In his boyish enthusiasm over the
arrival OF his old-time chum Borden
hurried from the room. the servant fol-
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29

their past and to speak their native
tongue as though they were free and
Independent. Except that they must
pay their taxes to Austria and serve
In Austria's army they are practically
self-governing.
"As western Galicia is the strong
hold Of the Austrian Pole, SO eastern
Galicia is the main dwelling place of
the Ruthenian. The two races never
get along very well together. The
peasant population Of Austrian Pc.
land exc out a hard existence. In
many parts of the country the peas.
ant lives in a log hut covered with
straw; he breakfasts, dimes. and
makes his supper OF porridge, wash.
ing 1t down with bad brandy; and In
general lives a life iuil Of want and
empty Of pleasure. The peasants
who farm for the mobiles receive no
money in payment, but only a share
Of the crop. often as low q share as
one.twelfth. a wage Of slow starva.
ton"
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c~onsecrated with Polish blood.
The country around Cracow ia nat
and is devoted almost wholly 10 small
farming and trucking. The peasants
dress In white jackets and blue
breeches. and wear jackboots; their
womenfolk. with large bright shawls
and picturesque headdress. brighten
and give spirit to the countryside.
Primitive Agriculture.
From Cracow to Lemberg the trav.
eler encounters good land; 1t is fairly
level and entirely innocent Of fences.
boundary stones marking party lines,
and tethers or herdsmen keeping
live stock where 1t belongs. The
same methods Of agriculture that we
used in the United States before the
days of the sell. binder and the grain
drill are still in force in that region.
1T is In Lemberg that the only
Polish-dominated legislative assembly
in existence holds its sessions. for
Lemberg is the capital Of Galicia, and
the Poles, both because OF their
shrewd political ability and their nu'
merical weight, control the Galician
legislature In the face Of their rivals.
the Ruthenians of East Galicia. The
city Of Lemberg Is largely modern-a
compact nucleus surrounded by scat.
tering suburbs.
While Galicia is almost wholly an
agricultural region, and while a large
percentage Of that agriculture is car.
ried on in the old-time way. there are
some few manufacturing neighbor.
hoods and Industrial districts. Dis.
tilleries occupy first place among the
industries. and there are many beet.
sugar and tobacco factories. Petro-
leum springs abound along the Car
pathians, and some Of the towns In
this region grow from small villages
to modern Beaumonts between New
Year and Christmas.
Austrian Poles Fairly Well Treated.
Austria has never treated her
Poles as the Russians and the Prus.
SLAMS have treated theirs. The Poles
Of Austria r as free to sing their
national songs as the people of our
own South are free to sing Dixie"
They are as much at liberty to glorify
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
A N EW FAITH.
y TEV EVTTT'
Although Mai. Dan Morgan Smith

Although Maj. Dan Morgan Smith
Of Chicago was never personally ad-
dicted to the use Of strong drink, yet
he was for several years the able gen.
eral counsel of the Model License
league. He is now a jealous advocate
Of temperance, and thus writes: car
guments that once seemed SO plaus-
ible have failed me; for the founda-
ton of my faith and the corner stone
Of my arguments was the failure Of
regulation and the uccess Of prohibi-
ton. My faith Is gone and my corner
stone is displaced, my structure has
fallen, and 1t remains for me to help
build another. founded on a new faith,
with q corner stone as enduring as
the truth, and that faith shall be
called Temperance. and the corner
stone shall be Annihilation. I shall
never make another speech in behalf
Of the Model License league. I am
through with the wet side. My intel
ligence insists upon It; my conscience
demands it."
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
Tho Joeose Gods.

What humor could be wilder than
that OF life itself? Franz Schubert. on
his deathbed. read the complete works
OF J. Fenimore Cooper. John Mil
lington Synge wrote Riders to the
Sea" on a secondhand $40 typewriter
and wore q celluloid collar. Richard
Wagner made q living, during four
lean years. arranging Italian opera
arias for the cornet. Thomas Henry
Huxley's wife called him Hal" Her
bert Spencer sang bass In q barber
shop quartet and was in love with
George Eliot William Shakespeare
was q social pusher and bought him q
bogus coat-of.arms. Martin Luther
suffered from the jim-jams. Bismarck
was afraid Of his mother. The great
est soldier in Hungarian history was
named Hunyada Janos.-owen Hat
teras In the Smart Set.
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Enterprise.

Look here" said the benevolent
looking man. you have asked me for
work every time I passed this corner
for the last three weeks"
have II" was the surprised inquiry
Of Weary william.
yes, you have. and have given you
,,orev once or twice. Now, what would
vou do II I offered you work."
"What would / do? I'd take your
name an address. guv'nor. an then.
g T found anybody that wanted work.
"a sen' i'm roun' ter yer. I'm a phil
anthropist, an run a free employment
auency. don't get a penny fur my
tme-only Jest what comes In acci'
dentallike from folks like YOU"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29

The San Francisco earthquake Of
April IS. 1906. had many premonitions
beginning on the coast Of British Co
lumbia. and quakes extending to far
South America. All parts OF that i'm.
lei coast have germs Of earth
quakes which may eliminate at any
time in tremendous commissions. Ev.
eryone will remember, however. that
the great destruction In San Francisco
was not the direct result OF the earth
quake, but of the incidental confiagra
ton which followed.
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nraa of MedIocrItY.

The world, OF course, is In a secret
conspiracy against youth and growth,
declares a writer In tho American
Magazine. Any nan who dares to be
young, or to grow, or to DO original.
must expect to have the world set
upon him and pound him numerically
and II that doesn't finish him of.
then the world clings desperately to
his coat tails, resolved that II 1t can
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29

lowed. The door closed after them.
"His-father!" painted the bride,
his father! That man! oh, what
have I done. what have | done!"
She had fallen to q chair. her eyes
fixed upon the portrait. Oh, there could
be no mistake! She had been shown
the photograph of this same person
under distressing circumstances he
had never forgotten. There was not
a face In a million so peculiarly char
acteristic and m~arked-the prominent
chin. the bristling brows, one eye gone
and a c~riss-cross a on one check.
the mementoes Of a runaway accident.
"Th;s-this is no place for mel" she
palpitated. "Oh, the mockery OF II!
oh, the heartbreak! Father--father!
why has this blighting curse come to
my poor heart!"
She arose. blinded with tears but
cropping her way through an open door.
way let out into the garden. She
crossed 1t in feverish haste, upper
eeived. emerging into a lare. She pur.
sued her way o half a mile until.
lettering and faint, she reached the
limits OF the town where an electric
line ran.
A car came whirling towards her,
Leila hailed It. She sat crouched up
In a real seat until 1t reached the ter.
minus. twenty miles farther on. Here
she took a branching route. Beyond
that she became a passenger on a
cross line. II was nearly midnight
when she left the last train.
She must have Travelled over a hun.
bred and fifty miles. Numbed. sick
at heart, she barely sustained her
ebbing strength under the impelling
influence that babe her leave no trail
that could be followed. She traversed
the streets Of a busy town. found a
hotel. and as she was shown to Q
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
"snow" Burns Boy to Death.

Because he thought the foam on top
of a sunken vat Of hot calcium was
summer snow" Wallace Taggart, ten
years old, son Of Thomas Taggart.
stepped to his death at the S~helbyville
canning factory. He was so badly
burned in the poisonous liquid that he
died six hours later.
Curious about the foam, the boy
asked IN employee what 1t was.
Snow" the employee replied with q
smile.
The trustful child stepped into the
foam and sank. His father, working
at the factory. pulled him out.-Shel-
byville (Ind.) Dispatch Cincinnati En-
quirer.
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Conducted by the National Woman'l
Christian Temperance Union.)
HOW TO EDUCATE.

HOW TO EDUCATE.
In the temperance education CAM
paign now being vigorously carried on
in all parts Of the country a special
lied system is advisable. DR.. Wells
Andrews, in Chicago Daily News,
puts this suggestion into words that
are well worth passing on.
Tell the lumber men of Michigan, he
says, how many thousands of drinking
farmers will single their homes and
barns or build new ones as soon as
they quit their meanness." Tell the
shoe manufacturer of Massachusetts,
what it means to take all the bare
feet of drunkards' children of the
ground. Tell the iron men Of Penn
sylvania that new stoves will be need.
ed in 10000 homes when the saloon
keeper ceases to get the money, and
tell the miners they will have work
all winter through getting coal enough
to put into those stoves. Tell the wool
growers Of Ohio that everybody in this
country is going to be wrapped in
wooden and sleep under blankets when
the billiards. blow, and the men nc
longer heat up with liquid fire" in Or
der to exterminate their families with
atmospheric cold. Tell the cattle rails
ers Of the West and s~tockyards men
in Chicago that there is going to be
beef on thousands of tables, where
now there are a few cold potatoes. Tell
the grocer he al sell for cash and say
good-by to bad debts when the dimes
no longer go into the saloon till. Tell
the farmers there is going to be an
unheard of demand for flour and meal,
butter, cheese and eggs as soon as
beer drinkers cease fostering that in
dustry and begin filing out the hol-
low cheeks Of wivas and children. l
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29

not stop him entirely It will at least 60
along with him and make travelling
al difficult as possible. This latter
process Is what a friend of mine II.
luminatively calls the drag Of medioc.
r1ty. But this punching and pound.
ing is mostly good for youth and
originality-good II It doesn't kill-for
1t proves the strength Of youth. tests
faith and enthusiasm, and measures
surely power Of originality. And az
for the provoking drag upon their
coat tails, youth and originality should
reflect that this is the only way by
which m%ediocrity ever gets ahead!
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ed by our Lord to
the for
fixture Of the Mes
sianic kingdom.
temporarily, at
least. by the Jew.
ish people, and
the proclamation
Of the gospel Of
grace to the Cen
tiles. One wishes
there were oppor-
tunity to 60 into
the details of the
parable and apply
its precious teach.
ings, but there is
time only to en-
nhasize one point,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29

and thus by the simple process Of
prevention they may be gradually
smothered out Of existence, and the
span Of life yet further heightened.
This has been accomplished In q num-
Der Of directions already; 1t is GER
tain to be extended yet further.
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Fan 10 Run by Alcohol.

A fan has been perfected that runs
with alcohol. A little lamp operates
It by heating air In a cylinder. The
expansion and contraction Of the air
is ingeniously utilized to provide the
motive power for the fan. Remarkable
results have been obtained according
to the company manufacturing 1t.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
FOR THE SAKE OF OUR BOYS.

A mother having EXPRESSED her re-
greet at the lukewarmness of a certain
preacher on the prohibition question,
received the reply, But, my dear
woman, 1t is not necessary to urge
1t. 1t is right and is sure to come.
1t may be twenty or, perhaps, ten
years, but what matters q few years,
more or less?" What matters a few
years." replied the mother with deep
feeling. IF your boy or my boy are
to be among those who will be ruined
in the saloons in these ten or twenty
years. 1t would seem a matter Of
infinite importance how soon the
liquor trafic was exterminated."
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Highway
Gathering
By REV. JAMES M. GRAY. D. D.
Dean Of Moody Bible ~Issttuts
d Chicago

TEXT-So those servants went out into
the highways, and gathered together all
as many as they found. both bad and
good.-Matthew 22:10.
These words are in the parable OF
the marriage of the kings son intend.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-07-29
Disease Prevention.

sense, not medicine, was the thing
most needed TO cope with tubercu'
losis. Perhaps one day the world
will know In what particular direc.
tons it's methods Of living are so
wrong az to cause other diseases.
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LIkE-MINpED.

LlkE-MlNDED.
The Worth Brothers Steel Mills
company, the Lukens Iron and Steel
company Of Coatsville, Pa, and the
Florence Iron company of Florence.
N. j., have prohibited the delivery OK
beer, whisky or any other intoxicat-
ing liquors to the homes of their en-
ployees. and all agents Of breweries
are prohibited from soliciting upon
the premises.