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Evening journal., 1916-07-07
Washington Note Offers Olive
Branch Toward Mexican Peace

ed assurance OF my highest consid-
GRAFTON. Il am sir.
Yours very sincerely,
ROBERT LANSING"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
On Discretion,

There is no talent SO useful toward
rising in the world, or which puts men
more out of the reach of fortune than
that quality generally possessed by
the dullest sort of people, and is in
common speech called discretion, a
species of lower prudence, by the as
sistance of which people of the mean
est intellectuals, without any other
qualifications, pass through the world
in great tranquility, and with univer-
sal good treatment, neither giving nor
taking offense. Courts are seldom I'M
provided of persons under this char
acter, on whom, IL they happen to be
of great quality, most employments,
even the greatest, naturally fail when
competitors will not agree; and in
such promotions nobody rejoices or
grieves.-Jonathan Swift.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
She Noticed That Edith's Sandwiches
Were Put Up by the Cook.

have them fresh for you in the morn
ing" Perhaps there was faint sug-
gestion of reproach in her tone. She
certainly was not convinced that her
granddaughter was being as well cared
for as her daughter had been.
But the daughter made one more at
tempt. 81 remember very WELL" she
said, show we enjoyed those sand
witches that you used to make fer us.
But / also seem to remember that you
were so rushed every morning when
you were seeing us off to school that
we left you in anything but cheerful
mood. You put your love into the
lunches, but it got on your nerves. We
might have thrived at least as well on
less sentiment in the sandwiches, and
we might have had little more of
your attention to the things that in
terested us at the time perhaps as
much as did the lunches"
In connection with our dealings with
the children every detail that needs at
tention calls upon us to answer the
question, "What are the essentialsY'
But we do not often stop long enough
to answer. If we did, the whole tone
of the days work would probably be
different. With most of us certain fea-
lures of our customs and surroundings
stand out so prominently that they
force us to overlook matters that arc
really more important.
A young mother who had some diff
Guilty in getting suitable help during
the illness of her first baby magnified
her troubles by insisting upon all the
routine of the household being contin-
ued the same as 1t had been before the
baby came. She could not get sufli'
cient help to relieve her entirely Of the
care of TIE baby, yet she laid as much
emphasis upon the individual doilies
Mt the table and upon other fXings and
frills as she did upon the things es
sential to the health OF the child. Will
her limited resources she had to choose
between the child and the furbelows-
and she had not learned to choose.
Every one Of us has to manage will
limited resources. We have only sc
much physical strength; we have OILY
so much time; we can command lirl
tied amount of help from others. 1t is
therefore imperative that we select the
essentials most carefully. The Other
side of the problems lies in the fact
that the child has limitations
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
Foreign

One hundred and twenty persons
have been drowned through the sink
ing of barge on the Vistula, accord
ing to a Central News dispatch to
London from Amsterdam. The disas-
ter occurred at Kamierz, Poland.
Combining TO enhance prices of nee
essaries of life has been made an Of
Tense by the Canadian government, it
was announced at Ottawa, Ont. Pen
alties are $1,000 fine or two years i'm
prisonment.
Vienna papers say that Count de
Tarnow-Tarnovski, Austrian minister
to Sofia, has been appointed ambassa-
dor to Washington.
After cutting all wires leading into
Okotoks, 40 miles from Calgary, AL
berta, yeggmen leisurely dynamited the
Merchants bank and escaped with
$4,000.
Arthur Henderson, leader of the la
Dor party in the house of commons
at London, has been appointed min
lister of pensions, a post recently Gre
ated.
Germany, after the end of the war,
will cooperate with other powers in
seeking a practical means of obtain
ing an enduring world peace through
an international tribunal, Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Holweg told the reichs-
tags main committee at Berlin.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
TRAINING TODAY'S
BOYS AND GIRLS
Trivial Matters Must Not Be
Given Undue Importance.
WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIALS?
That Is the Question the Young Mother
Must Endeavor to Answer in Her
Daily Dealings With
the Children.
BY SlDONlE M. GUTENBERG.
GRANDMOTHER was on a visit.

III
VI Naturally, she noticed a great
deal about her daughters way of man
aging an establishment. She noticed
among other things, that the sand
witches for little Edith's school lunch
were put up by the cook. 1t remind
ed her of the days when she had to
prepare school lunches for five chill
dren. So it happened that one after
noon they were discussing sandwiches.
II sometimes WONDER" said grand
mother, "how you can intrust the max
Ing Of Edith's lunch to the cook. When
you were children put up the lunches
myself, and for long time there were
five of you to do 1t for"
Eyes, MOTHER" said the daughter, ~
remember very well how fine those
sandwiches tasted that you used to
make for us. And the other children
envied us, too. 1t was certainly love-
ly of you to put so much devotion and
care into the daily lunches for u.s."
And she relapsed into the mood appro-
pirate for Renaissance.
out quCbIiou uOl
been answered, so she came back to
the cook. ut would be ever so much
nicer for Edith If you put up her
lunches yourself" she reflected.
swell, mother, If the younger chill
dren did not need so much of my time
in the morning perhaps would do it
myself. I'd like very much to do 1t.
But have to let Maria either do that
or look after the other children"
"But," persisted Grandmother, "what
would you do if you could not afford
to keep any help? / had no one to
help me when you went to school,"
"If 1 could not afford to have help
would have to choose between using
the little time have with the children
before Edith goes off to school for
making sandwiches and using it for
doing the other things that call for
my attention now. / think that prob
ably would prepare the lunches in the
evening, and depend upon paraflin pa
per and the refrigerator to keep them
In proper condition until the next day"
"Of course, / could have done the
same thing" continued grandmother,
"but l preferred to make the sand
witches with my own hands and to
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
She Helped Him.

An Oklahoma young man devoted to
the material affairs of life, separated
himself from business to attend a re-
ception one evening in the course of
which he was introduced to pretty
girl, felt the sting of admiration and
set out to do his best FOR favorable
impression.
or read" said he, "nor to apply my
self to the study Of certain interesting
problems. For instance, am utterly
ignorant as to how the incandescent
light is produced"
"Why, that is very simple" the girl
replied with a radiant smile. "You
Just turn O button"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
SET WORLDLY MAN THINKING
Simple Family Prayers Brought Back
to Him the Memories of Youth
and Peace.

AS Allan Lindsay's eye fell upon
the much-thumbed Bible with it's
shabby black cover, he smiled in q
superior way. 1t lay open on a little,
old-fashioned stand by the sitting-room
window, with several neatly folded
copies of the weekly newspaper. There
was pair of cheap, steel-bowed spec
tacles between the leaves. No doubt,
Lindsay reflected this was primitive
New England household, where they
held family prayers morning and eve
ming. They would not expect a sum-
mer boarder" to attend, at all events
that was one comfort.
Lindsay prided himself on being a
thoroughly seasoned man of the world,
and the slow-moving life of the coun-
try irritated him. While he idly
fingered copy of the West Salem
Banner he was thinking of the never
ending clamor of city streets and the
high-tension leisure of an evening at
the club. A man had to get out Of
the whirl. now and again, to be sure
he was here by the doctors orders
but to live this kind of life year in
and year Quit Lindsay shook his head
dlsdainfully.
"St. John XIV" He read the bold
faced type ut the top of the page alb
sently. 1t was a long, long time since
he had read even that much of the BIZ
bic, and lie turned his head to assure
himself that he was quite alone in the
room as he moved the steel-bowed
spectacles aside u little.
'Peace / leave with you, my peace
l give upon you: rot as the world
giveth, give / unto you. Let not your
heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid"
The cynical smile was gone when
Allan Lindsay lifted his head. "Peace! !"
1t was like the haunting echo of some
sweet, old song of his childhood long
forgotten. Was it merely the word
of poet and dreamer, or did it stand
for something that might come-yes,
and something did come-into our anx-
ious, busy, turbulent life?
AS Lindsay asked himself the ques-
ton, he was thinking of Mrs. Eliot's
plain, motherly face. Or was it the
face Of his own mother? Lindsay was
not sure, but he seemed to see some
thing in both that he saw rarely in
any of the alert, somewhat hard faces
in his own larger, buster world.
Mr.. Eliot's uncertain old voice
drored monCtonously from the room
below, and Lindsay bowed his head
reverently when he heard the shuttle
of chairs and detected the slight
change Of tone ia the voice. There
were young Eliots cut in the clamor-
Gus, distracting world that Lindsay
knew so well, and he wondered vague
ly whether this petition from the
old family altar-this daily request
for untroubled hearts ard peaceful
lives for them and theirs-reached so
far. His own hearthstone was cold
and silent now, but perhaps the ST.
fenced voices were just beginning to
be heard in the heart these older
loving hearts pleaded for so long
Youths Companion.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17

The doubt as to whether German.
has violated her submarine warfare
pledges to the United States In recent
attacks upon merchant vessels is the
only thing standing in the way Of a
complete settlement of the Lusitania
case, ii was learned officially at Wash
ington.
Crop production estimates issued by
the department of agriculture ut
Washington are: Corn, 2,643,50S,-
600 bushels; buckwheat, 11,447, 900
bushels; potatoes, 2SS,964O00 bushels;
apples, 67,695, 900 bushels; sugar beets,
7,416,000 tons; onions, 100000 BUSH
els; corn on farms November l, So
6S6,000 bushels.
Acting Secretary of State Osborne
announced at Washington that advices
from American Consul Lathrop at Car
diff, Wales, report the sinking of the
steamer Lanao by a German subma-
rine and declare that presumably" it
was an American ship carrying car
go from Manila to Havre.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17

1912 it was impossible to visit this
wild country save under heavy guard.
At the very gates Of Europe Epirus
was less known. more shut off. than
the Congo.
The French Consul Pouqueville
hardly dared to go out Of sight Of his
home, all barred with iron. Not a
week passed that there was not a
bloody murder on the highways. The
Greek Inspectors of schools founded
by wealthy Epirotes took their lives
in their hands when they came on
their trips, which were kept secret.
Travellers within the last few years
had to be especially guarded if they
would pass through alive.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
One Use for Horses.

A motor car was held up in bug
street by wagon drawn by two
horses. The driver seemed in no hur-
ry tC get out Of the way and at length
The occupant of the motor car ex-
claimed sarcastically:
Here, say, my mani What are
these things you are driving? What
are they for, should like to known
"These ere, guvnor?' answered the
carter, Ticking the horses with his
whip. "Oh, these is wot is commonly
called 'orses, an they're sometimes
used for to take motorists to the 'ors.
pital."
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
She Had to Choose Between the Child
and the Furbelows.

Gals and the theaters; we seek the pro-
prieties. But very seldom do parents
sit down with themselves and canvass
the possibilities of the daily life, re-
solved to choose the essentials and to
ignore all else.
And because of our failure to do this
our children get what is left of our
energy and our consideration. They
are the immediate victims. But in the.
long run the parents themselves suf-
fer quite as much.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
Domestic

snow that the campaign Is over we
may all address ourselves to the well
fare of the nation without thought of
partisan feeling" declared President
Wilson in his first public speech since
the national election, delivered before
a delegation of Williamstown residents
and Williams college students, who
greeted him at Williamstown, Mass.
Rev. S. J. Cats Of Jacksonville,
Fla, running independently on a dry
platform, has lead Of 1000 votes over
w. V. Knott, regular Democratic nomi-
nee. with $4,000 votes counted.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
filed suit in federal court at Omaha,
Neb, to test the constitutionality of
the Adamson eight-hour law, recently
passed by congress.
The creation Of q new medical de-
partment of the University of Chicago,
which will give to the school on the
Midway the greatest college for ply
siclans and surgeons in the world, was
announced by the board of trustees.
The school Is to cost $5,300,000.
The steamer Frontenac foundered in
Lake Michigan off Keweenaw point
Manitou island, with the loss Of 20
lives. Only one survivor, Charles Laun-
dry Of Cleveland, has been picked up.
Laundry declared that TO the best of
his knowledge all the crew persisted.
The new battleship Arizona put to
sea from the New York navy yard on
its first trip since il was placed in
commission about a month ago. 1t has
gone out for a shake down." IL was
said at the New York navy yard-a
practice cruise to test out the engine.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17

things Of the leaves of an oak tree in
which Zeus was supposed to reside,
but local legend says that the first
message was delivered by dove speak
ing from the tree with human voice.
At any rate, the priestesses of the ora
Gle were called Peleaides (doves).
Herodotus reports that while on Wis
it to Egyptian Thebes he learned that
the oracle had been founded by an
Egyptian princess who had been spir-
tied away by Phoenicians.
As the rivalry between the oracle of
Zeus at Dodona and that Of Apollo
at Delphi grew mere keen the
priestesses of the former invented new
methods of receiving messages, among
these being the Interpretation of the
murmur Of a bubblinc fountain near
the oak tree, the sound of the wind
rushing through the brazen cauldrons
which stood in circle near the tenn
pie, and the sounds made by q metal
tipped whip as the wind drove 1t
against q bronze tripCl. Many Athen-
ians, Spartans and eastern potentates
consulted the oracle and it is said
that Croesus, the last king of Lydia,
also consulted Dodona as to whether
he should attempt a campaign against
Cyrus, king of the Persinns. Unhap-
PLY the famous "rich man" acted
upon the advice of the Delphic oracle
which told him that she pould destroy
great kingdom" And Che prediction
Of the oracle was verified, but the
kingdom which he destroyed was his
own.
The Hellenes founded many colonies
on the Epiran shore and these served
as stepping stones to dominion over
the Adratic. The wealthiest Of the
ancient cities was Phoenice, which be-
came the head of an Epirotic league
after the fall of the Molossian king
dom.
The Molossan Kingdom.
The Molossians, most powerful and
progressive of the Ii tribes which in
habited Epirus, were ruled by chief
tains who professed to be descendants
of Pyrrhus, the son Of Achilles, who
was supposed to have settled in this
part of the world after the fall of
Troy.
One Of the most noted of the Molos-
sian kings was Arymbas III, who gave
his brothers daughters an excellent
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
Mexican War NesoS

The American-Mexican joint COM
mission, converting at Atlantic City, n.
j., after recess of "a week was con-
fronted by situation in Mexico which
is only equaled in seriousness by that
which existed after the Columbus raid
and the dispatch Of the expedltionary
column after Villa under General
Pershing. Information in the hands of
the American commissioners indicates
that the state Of chihuahua is beyond
the control of the Carranza authorities.
Sixty-seven bars of silver belonging
to an American mining company at
Parral, Chihuahua, are reported TO
have been taken from Edgar Koch, an
agent Of the company, by Villa ban
dts at Santa Rosalia on October "a.
The silver was valued at $4,000.
Forty Carranzista soldiers were
killed and twice that number injured
at Chirimoya, near Celaya, when their
train was telescoped by pilot train,
according to advices reaching Laredo,
Tex.
Passengers arriving at lei Paso.
Tex, from chihuahua City, Mex.
brought report that special train
was prepared there to bring the
French and British residents OF Chi
huahua City to the border. 1t is
feared that villa Is preparing to at.
tack.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
European War News

Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
expressed the conviction that Germany
was certain of final victory in his
speech before the reichstag commit
tee, according 10 reports of the ses-
sion published at Amsterdam.
The Bucharest war office announced
that Roumanian troops had reoccu-
pied the town of Hirsova, In Dobrud-
ia, on the Danube, 40 miles north OF
Tchernavoda.
The Peninsular and Oriental liner
Arabia received no warning from the
submarine which sank 1t in the Med
iterranean, according to the British
admiralty at London. All the 437 pas
sengers and all the crew with the ex-
ception of two engineers, who were
killed, were saved.
A wireless dispatch to London from
Bucharest says that General Dragalina,
commander of the First Roumanian
army, has died of wounds received in
battle.
Proclamations re-establishing the
right of the Polish nation to control
its own destinies were read at War
saw and at Lublin. General Won Bese-
Ter officiated at Warsaw and General
Kuk at Lublin The event was the
contamination of joint action of the
German emperor and the emperor of
Austria. The form of government es-
tablished by the proclamation is de-
scribed as an autonomous hereditary
monarchy.
The French took all the German
positions on front of two and one
half miles extending from Chaulnes
wood to southeast of AblaincOurt re-
finery, says the official communication
issued by the Paris war office. The
villages of Ablaincourt and Pressoire
and Ablaincourt cemetery were cap
tured. More than 500 prisoners were
taken.
In an encounter between the forces
of the Venizelos government which
occupied katerina, Greece, and the
royal troops sent there, two soldiers
were killed and five wounded.
Berlin announces that Prince Henry
of Bavaria, nephew of King Louis and
commander of a battalion of the kings
own infantry, was killed in battle.
The princes mother has gone TO the
front to bring back the body of her
only child.
General Won Falkenhayn has struck
further heavy blows against the Rou-
manians near Rothenthurm pass and
Vulcan pass, two of the main gates of
the Transylvanian Alps. He has
pressed forward, capturing 1000 pris-
oners, according to Berlin statements.
The Roumanians claim to have won
an advantage in the BuZeu valley,
while, well to the north, near the
junction point of the Roumanian and
Russian fronts, the cars troops have
struck n strong blow against the Aus
tro-Germans at Tulghes,
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
% ]PizrQ-ES
Qfadl-e Of C9eece

! education, married one of them him.
self and gave the other, Olympias, to
Philip III OF Macedon. Olympias lives
in history as the mother of Alexander
the Great. From AleXander's aunt de-
scended Pyrrhus, who waged long
war with Rome in behalf of the Taren-
tines and who made Epirus power in
world politics for short time. More
than $50 years after the death OF
Pyrrhus, Epirus again came in con-
flict with Rome as the ally of Perseus,
the Macedonian who mounted throne
over the body of his murdered broth
er Demetrius. The Romans under
Aemilius Paulus annihilated the forces
Of Perseus at Pydna GIGS b. c., and
took the defeated king in triumph to
the capital. The punishment meted
out to Epirus for it's share in the war
was the destruction of 20 of its prin-
cipal cities and the enslavement Of
10000 of its peOple--a blow from
which the kingdom never recovered.
With the partition Of the Roman en-
pire Epirus was given to the eastern
stantinople in 1904 it became posses
sion of Michel Angelus Comnenus. In
succeeding centuries the territory has
been variously governed and misgov-
erned by Albanians, Venetians and
Turks.
Five Famous Rivers.
At LackmOn, in the mountains of
Pindarus, five illustrious rivers are
born: the Aspro-Potamo, the ancient
AcheloOs, greedy for sacrifices, which
separates Aetolia from Acarnania and
empties into the Ionian sea; the Pc.
neus, which passes all through Thes-
sally; the Hallakmon, which flows by
Macedonia the Arachtos, which paral-
lels the Pindus, and the great Aous,
with its high banks. There are wood
ed dells and mountain forests-all so
wild and inspiring as to really have
made the proper setting for the up
building of the great primitive myths
of Greece, which could not have grown
up anywhere else.
But the real treasures of the early
days of Epirus are for the most part
still held by the faithful earth. In
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17
Professor to Old Cook.

Regina, you have been with me now
twenty-five years. In reward for your
faithful service, have decided to
name this new beetle which / have
discovered, after you" -Gargoyle.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-11-17

may believe not only what
Aristotle says. but what mod
ern investigations prove. 1t was this
ancient philosopher who asserted that
in Epirus dwelt the first Greeks, aft
erward called the Hellenes, and some
French and Greek explorers have I'M
covered there the remains of the old
est oracle, the earliest temple and
theater.
The Epirus district, without respect
to its modern boundaries-Greek, and
Albanian-is described in a bulletin
issued by the National Geographic So
ciety.
In ancient times the name Eplrus
(mainlanO was given to an extensive
area of northwestern Greece to dis
tinguish it from the islands of the
ionian sea, which form fringe to the
west. 1t extended from an indefinite
northern boundary, somewhere In the
southern part of the territory now en-
braced in the infant principality of
Albania, to the Corinthian gulf, and
although the Athenians, Corinthians
and Spartans were wont to look upon
the inhabitants of the district as semi
barbarous, no less an authority than
Aristotle gave it as the original home
of the Hellenes.
Owing to it's extremely mountainous
character, Epirus has never been a
great grain-producing section, but
from ancient times up to the present
it has been famous for its fine cattle
and horses, also for peculiar breed
Of dogs, the Molossian. In the east
ern part Of the district towers Mount
Lacmon, the backbone of the Pindus
range, on which rise three of the great
rivers of northwestern Greece.
Famed Oracle of Ancients.
Epirus became world-renowned even
before historic times on account of the
great oracle of Dodona, the ruins of
whose temples were discovered dur
ing the last half of the nineteenth
century only few miles southwest of
the modern Macedonian town Of JAM
ma. The messages from the gods were
received at Dodona through the rus