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Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
Mr.. FOX TELLS A STORY.

"Mr. Fox will certainly be interested
n the story of the boys cap" said
Jack Rabbit, when the time came for
him to go to the fox's home on the
hill again, land shall have to tell
him how Unexpectedly / found an IL
lustration for his lesson that happi-
ness is largely the result of being
contented."
The day was very pleasant one
and Mr.. Fox in his home ON the hill
was thinking of Jack Rabbit and won
dering how he was and what luck he
had had in applying the wisdom he
had given him. ''It is so fine a day"
said the fox to himself, that / think
l will walk out a way and meet Jack
Rabbit and we can chat as we walk
along"
And so it happened that Jack Rab-
bit had not more than half completed
the journey when he met Mr. Fox.
Good morning" they both said, and
each asked after the health of the
other.
1T is such fine day." said the
fox, that it seems to me that it
would be pleasant to sit for a while
on the bank of the pond and sun our.
selves"
1T would, indeed" replied the rab.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
BoIiUar Women Endorse Outside"
Treatment For Children's Colds

burns, bruises, stings. piles and mus.
eular soreness.
Mrs. Porter says-''Vap-o-Rub is
very fine for sore throat, rheumatism,
etc. / take pleasure in recommend
ing It,"
Mrs. Jacques says-"I have used
several bottles of Vick's Vap-O-Rub,
and have found it better than inter.
nal medicines"
Mrs. Ferrel writes--''We have given
vap-O-Rub a fair trial and find it ex-
cellent for Group, colds, sore throat,
etc. 1t is certainly fine for children. We
have also found 1t very good in cases
OF sunburn, fever sores and muscu-
lar rheumatism" Three sizes, 25c. 500
or $1.0O.
NOTIcE:--Last winter, In order to
acquaint their customers with Vap-o-
Rub, q number OF druggists through
out the state presented complimentary
Jars to few of their customers, on
condition that they give this prepara-
tion thorough trial and report the
results. BY kind permission these re.
ports arc now being used in this 90,
riss OF advertisements.
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WESlS GlS
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Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27

her to take any particular interest In
anything or anybody until one day she
saw the frog and fell madIy in love
with him.
"She told her family how handsome
he was, how green his back and how
shiny, end how white his vest was,
and how far he could jump, and,
above all, how musical his voice
sounded when just at nightfall he led
all the frogs in their evening song.
Her family, realizing how ill-mated
would be the frog and a mouse,
frowned very much upon her affection
and used every influence to keep her
from loving the frog, and even threat
ened to send her away to another field
to live If she persisted in spending
SO much time in his company.
Nor was the frog very much fat
tered by the attentions of the mouse,
for he felt that he was much too i'm
portant anindividual to seriously con-
slider marrying so unpretentious an
animal as the little gray mouse.
"I very likely shall marry beaver
or a mink he said to himself, and, at
amuse myself with Gray Mouse un-
til have found someone more to my
liking.
"Gray Mouse was made quite un-
happy by her failure to make the frog
declare an affection for her, but in the
absence of that she planned out
very original scheme she thought
would make her and the frog insepara-
BILE.
"She had noticed how large and un-
wieldy were the webbed feet of the
frog, and how fiat his mouth, and she
said to herself: "He could not unite
knot with his fingers nor bite a
cord with his mouth, and if / could tie
myself to him he would never be able
| to get away.
$50 next day when the frog was
asleep in the sun she crept softly up
to his side, and with hair which she
had stolen from the tail of a horse
pastured in the field where she lived
she tied knot which bound the end
of her tail securely to the frogs hind
leg.
There she said to herself, we
shall never be separated again and
he is mine forever
Shortly after the frog awakened
and found Gray Mouse by his side.
He gossiped with her for some time,
but every time that she attempted to
say anything of love the frog turned
the conversation to some other topic.
At last, growing tired of the attempts
of Gray Mouse to talk on matters
which in no way interested him, the
frog jumped into the pond. And as he
did so, the mouse, being securely tied
to him by her tail, was snatched sud-
denly into the water with him, and as
the frog dived deeper into the water
she gradually lost her breath and was
drowned"
well, what fool of mouse she
was" said Jack Rabbit, as the fox
concluded his story.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
BIG EATERS HAVE BAD
KIDNEYS AND BACKACHE
Take a Glass of Salts at Once If Your
Back Is Hurting or Kidneys and
Bladder Trouble You.

The American men and women must
guard constantly against Kidney trou-
ble because we eat too much and all
our food is rich. Our blood is filled
with uric acid which the kidneys
strive to filter out, they weaken from
overwork, become sluggish; the elimi-
native tissues clog and the result is
kidney trouble, bladder weakness, and
a general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like Jumps
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night; if you suffer
with sick headache or dizzy, nervous
spells, acid stomach, or you have rheu-
matism when the weather is bad, get
from your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts; take a table
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast for few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
flush and stimulate clogged kidneys;
to neutralize the acids in the urine so
1t no longer is source of irritation,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water beverage, and belongs in
every home, because nobody can make
a mistake by having a good kidney
flushing any time.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
Instead Of Dosing Delicate Little Stom.
aehs They Recommend the External
Treatment = Vsp-o-Rub.

Mrs. M. ]. Porter, and Mrs. j.
Jacques, Of Bolivar, Mo-, and Mrs. M. n.
Ferrel, on Rural Route No. 2, like all
intelligent mothers, believe internal
medicines are bad for children, and
yet cold troubles must have some kind
of treatment. When Vicks Vap-O- O-Rub
was introduced here from the South
last season these ladies found II filled
the need exactly. Vap-O-Rub 10
q salve, which, when applied to the
warmth Of the body, Is yaporized by
the body heat. These yapors, inhaled
with each breath, carry the medication
through the air passages to the lungs,
and. in addition, Vick's 10 absorbed
through the skin, relieving the tight
ness and soreness This two fold
action makes Vap-O-Rub useful for
a wide variety of inflammations from
lntlammations Of the air passages and
lungs, such as head colds. catarrh,
asthmatic troubles, bronchitis and
deep chest colds down to inhanma-
tons Of the skin and tissues, such as
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
No chanae.

tits a scandal the way women dress
nowadays. Our grandmothers never
wore any such immodest garments"
Perhaps not, but I'd be willing to
bet that our grandfathers made just
as big fuss over the things they did
wear as you men do about the present
STYLES"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
The Uncertain Future.

During theatrical engagement at
Manchester, England, Kemble and
Lewis were walking one day along the
street when a chimney sweeper and
his boy came up. The boy stared at
them with open mouth and exclaimed:
"They be play actors"
Hold your tongue" said the old
sweep, you don't know what you may
come to yourself"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27

"The great American drama" re-
marked the eminent critic, lis still un-
written"
You're wrong" answered the play
wright 81 wrote it three years ago,
but can't get any manager to pro
duce it."
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
Quite Different.

what is meant by the odor of
sanctity, father?"
II don't exactly know, my son, but
you may be sure it isn't anything like
the odors that float over to Riverside
drive from the glue factories in Jer-
sey."
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the we'll
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. SO cents
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27

IMITATION IS slNcEREsT FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita-
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on La Creole" Hair Dressing
it's the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price S1,00.---Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
The Seat of Trouble.

"Toothache?"
yeah Something terrible"
(which tooth is it?"
THAT new false tooth in front. |
had it filled with gold so that it would
look natural, and the gold doesn't
show a bit Wouldn't that give you a
pain?'
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
InexplieabIe.

81 understand Scribson's latest novel
is failure, although he hoped it would
be best SELLER"
How do you account for that?"
81 can't explain it. The binding of
the book would make it an ornament
for anybody's library table, and the
illustrations were done by we'll
known artist"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
The Reason,

81 am surprised to hear that the
Dobsons have separated. What was
the cause?"
Incompatibility. He absolutely de-
tested all the moving picture stars
she admired"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
COVETED RY All

but possessed by few--a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store it to it's former beauty and lus-
ter by using La Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27

SOAP is STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with LA Creole" Hair Dressing,
and dnrken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs, Price. $100.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
Not the Same.

Time is money, you know"
"I suppose that's why Jiggers thinks
he's doing his friends a favor when he
spends his evenings with them"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27

Use Murine after Exposure an Cold,
Cutting Winds and Dust 1t Restores,
Refreshes and Promotes Eye Health,
Good for all Eyes that Need Care.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago,
Sends Eye Book ON request.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
So He Is.

What is a dietitian, pa?"
"A dietitian, my son, is a doctor who
tells you never to eat anything except
the things you don't like"
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27

Happy is the wife who believes that
her husband is the best man on
earth.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
Mean.

Mean.
Jack proposed three times before
l accepted him"
ITO whom, dear?"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20
Gratitude

Gratitude lis a word that comprehends the hap
piness of the human race. 1t turns the heart to-
wards the Fountain of All Good and so makes pos
sible greater receptivity and greater joy.
Without it the gories of heaven could
not confer happiness and all the amenities of
life would fail, With it the humbest home may be
blest with angel visits and step upward from the
depths of grief may be fraught with a new-found
JOY But shall we be grateful for the incidents
of life and forget be supremey grateful for life
itself? We murmur much at the conditions of
life, and on reluctant concession admit that
this is better than that, and so we express our
feeble thanks-praisng the beauty of single leaf
while murmurng at the tree that bore it. Are you
truly grateful for life? Are you glad that you were
born? Do you accept your life from the hand of
God his richest gift-the commitment of all pos
sible blessings? Life is a wonderful gift-the most
wonderful and the most blessed gift that the Infinite
God could plan for the objects of his love- We
hove hardly begun to learu how great it is, how
great it be- Beginning at birth, and through
childhood, youth and age, it stretches out into
realms of Eternlty-ever growing vaster and yet
more vast in it's approximation of limtless possibili-
ties. Ii you had not been born you would never
have known life-the sum of all blessings. The
unqualified acceptance of life, with all it's mystery
and pan all it's labor and WEAKNESS, and yet all its
sweetness and joy, and all its latent potentiaty-
that is and forever be the basis of true graft
tude, the one great theme for thanks Unless you
grateful for life itself you be truly glad
for anything that life contains But being grateful
for life itself adds tinge of celestial glory to every
simple blessing and makes Today akin to the vast
Forever-Exchange
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

Your letter of recommendation may get you a
job, but 1t takes more than written words to hold
job. Twentieth Century employers want results;
concrete evidence that you have the goods to de-
liver. Your letter of recommendation only serves
character standing, without insurance on flu.
lures With recommend you are granted an oppor-
tunlty to fill the bill per past delivery. Only by
delivering the goods TODAY and TOMORROW
you competent to hold your job.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20
i" D u X E :"
BY ''Optimo"

Dukes returned from her vacation,
Filled with motherly citation,
And smile of doggish happiness she
She came back to tell the story,
To acquant with her glory,
To apprise s of her added worldly cares
Tho she came from Ger the waters
Yet her brnde sons and daughters
Are of our dogdoms' social spheres
When they're friskng and skylarking,
Shure their husky Irish barking
Will be music, gracious music, our ears
Came you, Duke, from old Killarney
Have you kissed the of Blarneya
Have you the honored Shamrock on your breasti
Or was it from Cork or Dublin
Faith hope that we re not trublin
You nor would put your patience to a test;
But our Celtic blood is burning,
For Old Ern's soil we're yearning,
Meath the oaks of far *Shillelah we would stroll;
And in farfamed county Kerry.
With the lads and colleens merry
We would dwell while fleeing decades onward roll
But, freud Duke, these ideas, throngng
Thru mind, with pensve longing
Must be staed, for we sought to sing your fame
Now you came for but fleeing
Moment to extend your greeting,
And we think that that was just doggone shame!
For among friends we list you,
And on holidays we We missed you,
AS no more you meet and lead prison band.
Cross the sward no more you're trotng,
AS stellar team is clouting
The elusive sphere into The Promised Land
When we heared your joyous barking
Backward then, mind went barking
To the happy days of youth and innocence
When the Sun of Life shining
When there sad repining,
Ere we'd learned the weight of evils recompense.
Tho it's not to befriend you,
May felicity attend you
AS you train little doglets how
From the path of wrathful stranger,
Be he urbanite granger,
Lest perchance they come in with his boot.
THE term Shillelah here used is place in Ireland
for its oaks and is be confused with shaa cud
geD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

LIFE! we've been long together,
Thru pleasant and thru cloudy weather;
TITS hard to part when friends are dear
Perhaps twill cost sigh. tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good Night-but in some brighter
cline
Bid me Good Morning.-An Letitia
Barbauld.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20
.. G. O Nj Nj E II Il S -.

Pride is an essential to self respect and dignity,
but when it oversteps these bounds it becomes
formed into a conceit-a shallow counterfeit of true
pride-and thereby becomes a vice that per-
sonal embarrassment to its possessor.
The possessor of conceit invariably permits his
growing vanity to overlook the fact that time always
unmasks its spurousness. and brings him to ridicule
and discredit in the end. We perhaps have witness
ed the pathetic embarrassment of person who had
assumed standards of station, WORTH knowledge and
that were ictions, but finally uncovered
and made to feel the burn of shame for having
adopted fictitious mental, moral, material and so
cial attitude
Lack of mental, material or social qualifications
in the for gain is Tor reproach by
others, but it is deservedly when these attributes
assumed for vanity's sake.
Conceited assumptions not only hinder the ap-
probation for the good traits that it's practser may
possess but repels the confidence and faith of
all that love sincerity and truth. None out the sim
pie and unsophsticated are taken i'm by these
spurious Standards and these will despise you much
more after few peeps behind the mask MORAL
Don't be -four card' in the game of life
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

No wrath of men, or rage of seas
Can shake just mans purposes;
No threats of tyrants, or the grim
Usage of them can alter him;
But what he doth at first intend.
That he holds firmly to the end.
Robert Herrick,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

If you intend to go to work. there is no better
place than right where you are if you do not intend
to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere.
Squirming and crawling about from place to place
can do no good.-Abraham Lincoln.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20
HE RIS C. O Pc
A Sight at the Surface Of Timely Topics
B Y r A 8 H / D

There are only two ways of playing any game
One is according to the rules laid down for our
guidance. When the players play the game ac-
cording to these rules they win. The other way is
an attempt introduce deviatons from the original
set of rules, or to ignore them. The players play
ing in this method invariably loose
The rules for playing the game of life not
new. Most of them thousands of years old and
they are upheld and enforced by the majority Of
tain players in the game that we do not cheat
misplay.
If life then, is such game, and we know that
it is what folly do we attempt by fcrsaking the
rules! Far better play the game out according to
Hoyle, and trust to careful playing and observance
of the rules, TO win the game.
All through life we crave for pleasure-that
which diverts thots from the pleasant things
In childhood the desire finds expression in the more
or less noisy toys furnished by more less indul-
gent parents. In early manhood the desire mani
tests itself in physical mental activities In ma
ture manhood, pleasure is often synonymous with
business. AS old age creeps upon us, religion and
retrospection the two props we use to hold up
our weakening grasp on life and it's pleasures.
The four phases of life each contain the pleas
ures nature intends to have at the completion of
the last stage, 60 whence came, back to the
of nature.
Pope in An Essay on Man. illustrates this
evolution, in these beautiful lines:
Behold the child. by Natures kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tckled with straw;
Some liveer plaything gives his youth delight,
little louder, but as empty quite;
.Scarfs, garters, gold amuse his ripper stage
And beads and prayer books are the toys of age;
Pleased with this bubble STILL as that before;
Till tired he sleeps, and lifes poor play is o'er
The husks of memory may be likened to the
Dead Sea fruit but in common with the latter they
purpose. From this purpose may learn
one of lifes saddest lessons-aptly phrased in the
words of the poet:
OF all sad words of tongue pen,
The saddest these, it might have BEEN"
Self reproach attack all and is the safety
valve of conscience God pity the man who has 80
deadened his conscience that he cannot hear the
voice of self-reproach When ego 80 fills the soul
of that there is room for self abasement, the
chances for his material or spiritual regeneration are
nil.
Some people are possessed of the total of
all human know edge-to take their own story.
They know every thing-past, present and future.
The development of nature holds nothing in store
that will add to their knowledge. However, the as
of the professional knowt all. whether he
be expert statistical writer, sociological student
or psychologist, is not entirely wasted Their opin-
ions past present and future, help bolster up
some of our own concealed opinions, once in
while,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

1t is runored, that since psychologists have in
vented instruments with which thots weighed,
may become necessary for some expert to devise an
instrument that shall prevent thinking your thots
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

The man that presumes to know-it-al usually
comedies to others the privilege of learning from
him how to not do right job
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

If in weighing out short weight" to your
neighbor. be not injured in feeling if he slips you
counterfeit in exchange
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20
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Arbitration established and who its sgnatory powersa
Il. F.
A:-This court, popularity known The Hague
Tribunal constituted by virtue of the the
pacific regulation of international questions concluded at The
Hague. July %, 1899.
Administrative Council.-Presden The Minister for
Foreign Affairs for Holland Members: The Diplomatic rep
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Hague.
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

1t cannot be denied that the German sub sea
liner leas delivered the goods without asking
the Allies permission.