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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
Pointed Paragraphs

Sometimes a man does a sensible
thing by mistake.
Money also helps the man who
tries 10 help himself.
Dark consequences sometimes 70.
suit from light remarks.
Only a wideaw AXE author shorid
write treatise on insomnia.
A woman seldom talks TO herself
She just has to rest occasionallr.
It's short honeymoon that lasis
till the furniture is paid for.
A woman seldom brags OF her
good judgment, but men were liars
ever.
a married mai can always feel
sorry for himself when his wife
is sick in bed.
Speaking OF batters. the buck.
wheat brand is as popular as the
baseball kind
Us the easiest thing in the world
for woman to manage a man-if
she isn't married TO him.
Making a million dollars looks
comparatively easy 10 the man who
has been trying 10 get a crying
baby TO sleep.
When a mother begins to tell her
children how smart their father =
hey look at her as reproachfuliy as
If they thought she was losing brr
mind.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
Let the People
Rule-and Write
This Kind OF Talk viii Wi,

This Kind OF Talk Will Win.
To the Editor Of The Tines:
This question OF better advertis.
Ing In newspapers Is ore that has
interested me very much during the
past few years.
At different times. We have sent
out with our orders--letters of
which tho enclosed is typical. this
letter going out with the Force
contracts, this week:
DO You Want AdyertSsIvr to N.
.BeIi~vsbic" or "DecefysbIes 81
~ man ~ known by the company
he keeps. and newspaper adver-
tisement Is judged in the same way
message into certain number OF
homes. and for this privilege we paw
an agreed price--bascd on the cir
cuiation, OF the paper.
homes, hand in hand with cancer
cures, consumption remedies and
other kinds OF dishonest advertising
We believe that the statements in
our Advertisements are truthful-.-In
fact they lean towards conservatism
and moderation.
We do not attempt TO dictate the
Kind OF advertising that publisher
sndi run w MS paper. nut we do OBJ
ject very decidedly TO having our
advertisements appear on the same
page with fake" ADVERTISING.
You can hardly expect that In read
ers are deceived In one column, they
VIII believe what they read in an
other column.
We trust that this request 90 keep
our advertisements free from the
CONTAIN nation OF Objectionable adj
vertising, viii strike you not only
az fair hut as based on common
sense-as II will enable us 10 derive
the greatest value from your pubIIca
ton az an advertising medium.
We are making this request OF Ali
publishers whose publications we are
using. and we hope that 10 will not
become necessary In the case OF
future business to make tho grant
ing OF this request condition Of
the contract.
Yours very truly.
TIE H-O COMPANY.
G. +. AWARD,
Adv'g Manager.
Buffalo, April %, 1916.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

lures OF the British field force.
In the earlier stages Of The cam.
paign one or two were tried out and
found successful. Recently = whole
fleet of them have been put into
service. Each can do IFS work. II
necessary. even in .neighborhood
where buildings are entirely lack
Ing and where huge shells may be
screaming overhead.
The common aim Of these labor.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
A Poem a Day
THE SLANG OF YesTrpp,y

iHt SLANG OF NESTERDNN.
Where Ia the slang OF yeSteryear1
Those words and phrases gay.
Ihat formerly assaulted our ears.
Are seldom heard today.
shoe ny; don't bother me-"
Johnny. get your gun"
An there-stay there"
Well. how are you, SON.
RED head--white horse"
Go and soak your head"
come, now stick in -thS-tnud'
Your boots are full OF lead"
Hold your horses. Gully"
Don't YOU Got too Nv"
pLer the left" You're n dude"
Wait ill the clouds roll by"
Alas. the slang OF yesteryear.
Emphatic, choice and terSe.
Like mneh that's old gives up tn,
ghost"
Displaced by something worse.
Boston Globe.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
The Quality of Mercy

Country JUSTICE find you not
guilty and fine you ST..
observation-disclosures
Justice-Now. shet up. II you'd
been guilty I'd er fined you $40.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

Congratuistes a Decent Newspaper.
To the Editor of The Times:
II In TO be hoped that more adj
vertising Will be placed by all class.
es OF advertisers with newspapers
which observe rigid censorship of
their advertising columns.
The Times II to be congratulated
because OF the cleanness o. fits ad-
vertising columns.
MERLE SfDENER,
Chairman.
National Vigilance Committee OF
Associated Advertising Clubs OF
the World.
indianapolis, April 26. 1916.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

the battlehelds OF
Europe.
The introduc-
ton into field op-
erations of com.
plete mobile lab.
oratories In one
of the newest and
most novel fea'
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

Trinity church, In Wilmington.
Del. II 10 be the scene OF notable
society wedding today. when Miss
Ellen Coleman du Pont, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Coleman du Pont.
becomes the bride OF Hollyday
Stone Needs. Jr, OF Wilmington.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
~ = Wrong in Shooting
Dummy Figures When
n War Men Shoot at Men?

~ IRE conducting charity bazaar
city for the benefit of widows and
- of Germany and the countries
= Nth Germany in the war.
kjch Is III right, as these affairs go,
smother way Of financing and
x ID the killing and calling upon a
~ 1t peace to stand its part Of
f1hle cost of war, but there are
kfzers here with the respective
~ involved and if they as indi-
want to help relieve the distress
NJ, we presume that is THEIR
nong the amusements at this ba-
ro 3 ! shooting gallery, where
w - desire may arm themselves
. = shot Il the king Of England,
dsnf 1t France, the king Of Italy
rk q Russia, according 70 the in
= particular prejudice.
sature Of the bazaar has been
nv resented.
luon pronounced extremely bad
i number Of our townspeople
xcosed the view that it should
suppressed
thoae who stand nearly aghast
cn IL making shooting gallery
2ut 81 the heads Of the allied
~ those, We presume, who are
Ne of preparedness for the Unit
ana We want to say to them,
{Hat the dummy targets are get
= whole lot easier than the fell
tne trenches who are fighting for
octiye countries.
ny. Hungary, England, France
~ axe ct war right now because
" foolishly pinned their faith to
HEDNESS because of very sill
n That m exhibition Of might
1saro them peace.
No6rs and money spent by them
RAREDNESS prove to have been
\ money spent only to make the
s1aughter more terrible.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
The Keep Well Column
DESTRUCTION AND CONSERVATION

Side by side devices for dealing
death and for saving life speed over
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
From Another Point OF VleU
BIZ C.. T. S.

We fail to see why we should be caiied
upon 10 mention in this column the TACT
that the east has amateur championship
hopes for a golf player who stands i0ur
feet, four inches in his stocking feet. Inc
item belongs. all too apparently, In the
amateur briefs.
Did it ever occur to you that Sunday
is pretty much everybodys hay day!
Or does some neghbor keep roosterE
Now we have the lager beer tablet. The
inventor says "all you have to do Is drop
one tablet in glass of water and you
have a foamng glass of beer. Drop
two or three in the water pitcher and, we
presume, you have rushed the GROWER.
A man is walking backward across the
continent on wager of $4,000. he no
doubt has someone posted to warn him
when he is getting near Philadelphia
'T am still a young man, but fear am
growing absent-minded," remarks i. IL.
s'I met the conductor of an orchestra the
other evening and Immediately gave
him car ticket
On the other hand, most any newspa-
per can condescend to puff thi. anti
cigarette crusade.
Approach Of pleasanter evenings re-
minds us that it isn't only the fountain
in the park that gushes.
For downright bone, look at that
Humboldt-ave man who poured dipper
and half of gasoline in the stove to get
breakfast. That's enough gasoline to
take man down town to breakfast and
back home again, if he is saving.
You get little lot,
And YOU pick little spot:
Then you hunt yourself rig
And you take n spade and dig;
Then you break II up and rake
Till your bones begin TO ache.
Then when you've put in the seeds,
You have started growing weeds.
Funny someone around here hasn't
written a song and called it: THE Old
Farm Now is Subdivided, But It's Just ~
Good For Fishing AS 1t Was in Days Of
Yore." V
Speaking of real estate activities, kid
brought around the dandeion green's.
There is a unanimity of opinion among
the dealers. we note by the signs around
town, that gasoline is still % cents The \
gal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
NonesentiaIs.

a table OF annual expenditures on
Iuxuries in this country has been
put forth by Or. Charles w. Eliot.
Like everything coming from him,
It Is worth thought. Here are some
OF the items:
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

We might be giving more. says
Golfers, but the typewriter on
which We were recording these fig.
uies developed paralysis while writ.
Ing the sum rpent on booze.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

poxedness is all right militarism
llftarian is all right, the shooting
- are doing at each other over in
y 4 III right.
= "a right for men to shoot at
~ on behalf Of the king of Eng
4 behalf Of the president of France,
d the king Of Italy, on behalf
1ar 81 Russia, on behalf of the
~ rof Germany, on behalf of the
Of Austria and SO on down the
Il6t II there SO very terrible in
~ stuffed dummies, no matter
~ are supposed to represent.
y fod king, or q stuffed president
Md car or . stuffed emperor can
11n&<ter Of fact, it would seem that
q comes to getting a king, or a
"a or I car or an emperor to
81 simply cannot be done.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

Speaking of real estate activities, q kid
brought around the dandelion greens.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

You get little lot,
And YOU pick little spot:
Then you hunt yourself rig
And you take n spade and dig;
Then you break IL up and rake
Till your bones begin to ache.
Then, when you've put in the seeds, +
You have started growing weeds.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

Funny someone around here hasn't
written song and called it: The Old
Farm Now is Subdivided, But It's Just ~
Good For Fishing AS 1t Was in Days Of
Yore." IN
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

For downright bone. look at that
Humboldt-ave. man who poured dipper
and n half of gasoline in the stove to get
breakfast. That's enough gasoline to
take a man down town to breakfast and
back home again, if he is saving.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29

There is unanimity of opinion among
the dealers. we note by the signs around
town, that gasoline is still % cents The
gal.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-08

nLANS are now being worked out for three new
L buildings for El Paso that will be permanent
investments of an utitarian and esthetic value The
first will be the new Popular store to be erected on
San Antonio street by A. Schwartz. the new synagog
for Temple Mt Sinai at North Oregon and Montana;
and an addition to the building of Krakauer. Fork and
Moye's on San Francisco street.
The three structures will alone represent an invest
ment of $250.O00. Not only IS there considerable
building going on IN Ell Paso. but much additional
building is contemplated. One real estate finn stated
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-08
Tkreg Nggg Business BuiLdiags va Cost 81. OOO

that it had $4,000 deal soon to be realized; while
second stated that the course of another week would
bring to head transaction involving the sale of two
Ell PasO properties. one $4,000 and the other
$4,000.
Suburban homes are occupying the minds and
talents of large number of the real estate men and
architects and the demand for SMALL compact houses
is considerably above the supply KEN Place. Grand
View. Manhattan Heights Mominsside Heights,
Highland Park. all show marked increase of plans
for bungalow homes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-27
PLAYGROUND Tennis Tournament.

There will be girls tennis tourna-
ment as well as boys. Any girl in
Bennington may enter this tourna-
ment. Registration closes Saturday
of this week so give your name to Miss
Durham or Mr.. Mann. Some girls
have already entered, Are you one OF
them? f not why not get in the
game
Remember the registeration for the
boys tournament closes Saturday. Il
YOU have not as yet given your name
to Miss Durham or MIR, Mann do so nj
once. The time is short. Let's al
get in the game and make this rous
ing tennis tournament.
Don't forget the victrola concert an,
the watermelon party Friday after
noon for the girls and boys of the da!
classes of the playground Remcm
her to bring four pennies for refresh
| ment'.
Baseball game tonight Mt Gas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-27
His Baoknohe Conc.

Moro men have kidney trouble than
are aware of II. Just how serious n
backache, sore muscles. aching joints,
swollen ankles. and blur
ring vision may he Is sometimes reali1.
ed only when man attempts to take
ont life insurance and is refused on
account of kidney trouble. Joseph G.
Wolf 73i So. Jackson ST., Green Bay
Wis. writes; Foley Kidney pills re-
lievcd me OF severe backache that
had bothered me for several months.
Any symptom of kidney trouble dc
serves attention. Sold everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-27
PoWNAL CENTER

Chas. Mason is confined to his home
with the measles.
Edward Lampmam of bridgeport
Conn, Is the guest of relatives here.
Mrs Louis Coutois of North Ad-
ans is the guest of Mrs. c. H. Myers.
Mrs. Harriet r. Patterson OF North
Adams Is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
John Patterson at Camp Way up.
Mrs. Mary +. Lampman, who has
been the guest OF her son, Edward at
Bridgeport, Conn, returned HON,
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Estes. MIR ant
Mrs. Carl Estes and son Lcycrnc
Howard Estes and Miss Lois Estes u
bennington spent Sunday at Barhcrl
pond.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-27
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Strictly for Busy Readers

George Moore has accepted a posi-
ton in the local express office,
Mrs. Phillip B. Jennings left We'd
nesday for a short visit in New York
city.
Miss Elizabeth Jennings is the guest
| of friends in Worcester, Mass, for
few days.
A. A. Hanks of Jersey City was the
guest of Mr. and Mrs L. W. Williams
Wednesday,
Miss Bessie Brown of Cheshire,
Mass is visiting Andrew Gardner Of
jefferson avenue.
Miss Esther Merrill went to Albany
today where she was to have her
tonsils removed at st. Peters hospi-
tai.
Miss Alice Cunningham left Tues
day for her home in Boston after
visit at the home of Mrs. John ID. Nc
Cue.
Edmund p Howe went this morn
ing to Albany where he will undergo a
slight operation on his threat at ST.
Peters hospital.
Miss Bessie Higgins of Brockton,
\ Mass, and Miss Harriet Ham of Salem
Mass, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
4 W. s. Boynton.
J Miss Catherine O'Connor has return
4 ed to her home in New York after Wis
iting a few days in town with Miss
\ Martha Carney.
Miss Leonora O'Connor Of Science
y tady, who has been visiting her aunt
4 Miss Sarah A. O'Connor, is visiting in
Z East Dorset.
vi Willard II. Iighthall of the Office of
a the Twin State Gas and Electric com
y pany, left Wednesday for stay OF a
a few days in Boston.
Y Mrs. II. r. Cottrell and daughter
n Carolyn of Pittsheld, Mass, are the
"a, guests OF Newton Cottrel of South
u street for week or two.
III Mrs. Zebra Quackenbush of Norti
"a Adams will give talk at the Mt
IN Anthony Country club Friday morning
N on "The Century of Dante
vi Mr.. and Mrs f. b. Patterson, Mrs
4, Nettie lockwood and Miss ildalin'
" Condor spent Wednesday at Mr.. Pat
\ terson's camp, ltsutsus, in Woodford
ey Mrs. Guy b. Johnson is giving a te;
this afternoon in honor of Miss Mar.
n Shaw. Miss Shaw will be married il
VI the near future to Cholmoneley Thorn
~ ton.
81 The members of the Fiske Bicycl
N club will hold meeting Friday even
~ ing at 1880. The meeting is an in
~ portant che and secretary Roussea
~ | wishes every member to be present.
nv MIS- Helen Lewis ana son Elbure
w Of Wsetfeld, Mass, are stopping wit
S Mrs. Lewis daughter. Ethel, who
w carrying on the repair work for he
M brother. Dewitt +. Lewis, while he
~ absent on his vacation
w James Maloney ir express messe
N& ger on the run from here to Hoosic
~ Junction, has been transferred to tn
N route from BostCn to Troy and Perc
s& Russell, who has been employed f
N0 some time on the wagon here, has Ia
~ en- Nj. Maloneys place.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-27
A Hacking Cough Weakens the System

Don't suffer with hacking cough
that has weakened your system-get a
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery in
use over 40 years, and beneiltlng all
who use Il, the soothing Pine balsam
with tar heal the irrltated air passages
soothes the raw spots, loosens tn,
mucous and prevents racking the body
with coughing. Or. Kings New Dis
covery induces natural sleep and aid
nature to cure you.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-27
Fish In Arctic Waters.

In northern waters millions Of fish
are ground into nothing by the moving
masses of Ice.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-06

Brutal taskmasters did not always escape unpunished, however. FoEan- stance in the Valenciana mines, which produced $3OO,00O.00O worth of sil- yer in fifty years, the slaves rose in 1760 and massacred every white man in that region.
 An apOcryphal story, strongly rem inisccnt of the Peruvian tale of fire built against an ovcrhanging silver boulder, is told of the discovery of the rich silver deposits of the GuanaJuato district. It is related that a band,'of multeers discovered in that neighbor- hood one morning the glitter of re- fined silver in the dead ashes of their campfire.
 All the stories of early mining op- crations in Mexico are not blotched with the blood of peons. There is the interesting, authentic account of the famous Avino mine, worked as .an open quarry and deeded by the own CT to all the white men who would build their houses close together for mutual protection against hostile tribes. This was the beginning of the prosperous City of Sunshine, Duran go.
 Tt is of the Durango vicinity, incl dentally, that one of the most pathetic stories of an ancient prOspector's blasted hopes is told. Thirty years after the conquest a wealthy Spaniard hearing of mountain of solid silver started on a journey of exploration. He travelled for days, hoping each morning that the rising sun would re- veal a gigantic peak of glistening treasure. At last it came in view. He hastened on, but when he reached the base of the mountain he discov- cred that it was of iron instead of sil- yer. Crushed in spirit, he camped that night at the foot of the mass of ferrous ore. Indians we'll upon his band and some of his followers were killed while the leader himself was mortally wounded. He died while making his way back to the capital This adventurer's name is perpetuated in the famous mineral mountain, Ger TO de Mercado, one of the richest out, croppings of iron ore in the world.
 "NO ancient mines of Mexico were more important to the aborigines than those of obsidian, the glassy volcanic rock from which the Aztecs made most of their edged tools and many of their weapons of war.
 'Innumerable are the stories of lost mines which imaginative prospectors are constantly 'rediscovering' for the benefit of credulous investors. AboWtS the searches for some of these el dor ados there could be written histories which would rival in picturesque and thrilling adventure the most eXtrava- gant romances of a Rider Haggard, James Fennimore Cooper, or a Jules Verne"
New Britain herald., 1916-05-06
Mexico, "Treasnre
 House 0f he World"

Washington, D. C., May 6.-With today having come from the mines of | Mexico, the metallurgic history of this , country has fully justified Humboldt S famous description of it as the treas ure house of the wOrld," according to bulletin issued today by the Ma ! tional Geographic society of Wash ingtOn, which aaNs:
 "A close contender with the United States for the first place in the pro- duCtiOn of Silver-thC two haVin z produced nearly seventy per cent of the worlds output in 1914-and rank ing fifth as gold producer Mexico is easily maintaining it's position as one of the worlds richest nations with re- Spect to minerals, a position it has held since the Spanish conquistadOres first began to extort gold from the vanquished Aztecs.
 When Cortez landed in Mexico hc told the natives that the Spaniards suffered from a disease which only gold could Cure,' and the chiValrous. credulous Aztecs, it is said, sent the European great wheels of precious metal as well as ornaments of all sorts, which, reckoned in values of to- day, were worth s30,OOO,OOO.
 Immediately after the conquest the Spaniards began to work the gold and silver mines of Mexico, but many mlneraloSists are of the opinion that there are gold mines which were known to the Aztecs and worked by them but which even to this day have been hidden from the white man, the Indians, actuated by superstition, keeping their secret. As If to sub stantiate this attitude of the natives the handsOmest monument that graces the City of Mexico between the capitol and the castle of Chapultepec stands to the memory of CuauhtemOC, the Aztec prince who refused to reveal to the ConQuerOrs the source of his peoples wealth, even though his tor turers in their endeavor to make him disclose the whereabouts of this vast wealth burned the so1es from his feet.
 "The modern investigator of social and industrial conditions paints drab pictures of the natives in some of the Mexican mines, but these are bright pages compared with the black chap ters of the early days in the rich n, ines of Guana juatO, where the laborers, un- der cruel taskmasters, toiled from great depths up nOtched poles, bear ing 100 pound bags of ore on Nheir backs, and then were driven back af- ter scarcely time for a breath of fresh air. It was not until about the time of the death of Shakespeare, whose tercentenary the world is eel ebrating this month, that a law was passed in this mining district for bidding the branding of slaves on the face'
New Britain herald., 1916-05-06
Plattsburg College Credits.
(Fall River NeWa.)

General Woods campaign among the colleges in the interest of military training bearing fruit in more ways than one. The summer military
 camps this year have promise of much larger attendance than last year.
 Some of the colleges arc recognizing
 the value of this instruction by al-
 lowing it to count towar1 a degree. This the faculty of Dartmouth have decided to do. In this respect they have outdone BOWdoin in that they do not, as does the Maine college, limit this grant of credits to those students who take a course in mili- tary science in the ColleEe. Colleges could not give the value to the Platts- burg work which they are now pros pering to do unless they had reason to believe that that training was pro- ducing such results as their diplomas certificate. President Nichols assures us in his speech announcing the fac ultY decision, that the Plattsburr dis cipline does yield them desirable re- suits. It was certain, he said, that attendance at the Plattsburg camp would equal in every respect the yaluo Of any three-hour course which tho college gives. No doubt the exam pie of RnWdOin and Dartmouth will soon be followed by many other coI- legeS.