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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
DOG ENTITLED TO PRIVILEGE
No Published Regulations as 70 'ne
Matter, but It ls Understood
in France.

There Is a quiet little town IN the
son,h of Francc-quiet in spite OF the
c-ue, war. and for all that 1t IS the
coni,al Of an reimbursement. For
some cause the inhabitants or TINS
,own are no lovers Of dogs-they cher
ish an undiscriminating luminosity
equally toward the high.bred collie
,he noble ma8tIff, the mongrci puppy
and the cur Of low degree. NO g"oh
citizen omits any opportunity to make
war on any sort Of dog.
It seems that recently "A very I'M"
hull terrier strayrd into the municipal
and official tobacco shop. The tobac,
couist was about to drive him ont with
scau, ceremony when Il gendarme In
,crycncl. The uniformed representa-
tive Of the law drew himself up,
brought his heels together and raised
his hand in salute to his KEEP.
The dog Of monsieur the subpre-
feet" he proclaimed.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06

have never loved Harold. she sobbed
Il just got engaged to him 70 show
that ! didn't care either"
But this is awful. Peggy. What
is to be douc?"
We must just marry the men We
don't care for"
NO. Peggy Listen, Suppose |
tell John that you care for him still,
and give him his freedom"
But that's absurd, my dear. Be.
sides, you wouldn't have anybody
then"
. Don't you suppose / would rather
be an old maid all my days than mar
ry a man | didn't care for" demanded
Lefty
Don't 20 care for anybody. Let,
ty? | thought you and Harold used to
be"
The te!!.tale blush that crept under
Letty's skin was sufficient answer
Peggy suddenly leaped out OF her
chair and kissed her. Now see here.
Lefty" she SAID. We mustn't let this
SO vi. IL VT dlt lNdIIl SLiS llId VIC
are not suited-but We aren sure, are
we?"
Not quite" agreed Lefty dolefully
Then III tell you what We must
do. We must all four come together
again and face this thing, and-and
learn from our meeting each other
The plan seemed a difficult one bu,
both the girls agreed that 1t was the
only possible solution. The boys mel
rather sulkily at first, and glowered d,
each other. But the girls had insisted
upon their shaking hands and forget
ting the past. except for d certain
necessary restraint between John ant
Peggy and Harold and Lefty.
The days went by and still nobOd!
had made a W. If John Ford wa,
turning toward his former love ht
gave no evidence Of II. He was al
ways courteous to Peggy, but h
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
A TEST IN Time
BY ELSIE FIELDING.

.persv nm tho most miserable
c.r, n, ,or,b " s;chod .ttv Nilhridre
"a her fr,end persv Baldwin as thew
sat ,oce,ber on the norch of the Bald
v,,r hor,o
Tho Girls had ,,, h.en on snea,inc
,er,ns for soy.r,, weeks and :, had
h.er n ,roo, srr,r,ss 70 Peggy when
I .t,v came :, !, m. oId.fashione
ROY .pa 60, down for . comfortable
chat
..yo, ,,. o,,.;,r,a ATTY hardly
.,, - r,s,-o;n ror so,s wis, Won
hrole of v,ur engagement with John
Ford hs sa,, vary badly ahout i, And
h.c,rso Won n,,ra ,,aInrs NJ no"
81 et,v tho loss said abou, tina, the
,,,,ar" ;,.,--,r,,3 p,ccv ba-shIy
..Ru, YOU were Jealous. and it was
all nonsense" protested Lefty. You
though, We were secretly thinking
about each other, and neither OF Us
had ever dreamed of such a thing.
So, JUS, 10 show You that we didn't
care. John and | became engaged"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
Public Defenders Idea.

What in heavens name is the use
of sending to Jail a man who ought to
be with his family? What's h use
of giving a mar a bad name when a
good word will set him right?'
That's what the first public defend
err to appear in Pittsburgh's police
courts asked at the end of his first
days work.
There's no use following that old
method. but we've been a long time
finding it out. Sending a man to jail
is a poor way to take care of the mans
family, but it's the way we've taken
for ages.
Giving a man a bad name instead OF
offering him the good word his heart
is aching to hear is wasteful. but it
was easier, we thought. than the right
way. The strange thing abou these
matters is that the wrong way always
seems easier.-Pittsburgh Leader.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
LOCATING THE new HOME
FONTS That Should Be Considered Be-
fore Permanent Residence Is
Decided Upon.

While home building is not a specu.
lative investment, it is a wise plan Tor
the home seeker to consider one or
two points in this connection. For ex'
ample, could he sell at a profit H.
through business changes or some 9TH
err necessity, he should be obliged to
sell?
H. is a well.known fact that immense
fortunes have been made by people
buying on the great highways OF
travel. where the increasing popula-
ton of some large city, ever pushing
out from the center, pays more ana
more for land.
Since Unborn in the heart Of most
men is the love of making money, to
have a tidy sum laid by for old age
or d rainy day." the home builder
looEing forward to the time when
he might wish to sell will wisely To-
cat.s on a main line Of travel. for as
the adjacent city grows, land values
must increase, and the holder of such
property correspondingly increases his
income.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
OYSTER Catches a Duck.

A sheldrake duck, diving into the
bay at Smiths Point. l.. l., varied life's
monotony by capturing an oyster and
being captured in turn.
OF course all that the residents of
Smiths Point know about the remark.
able catch is what they heard from
VIII Murdoch, who tends the draw at
the Tangier bridge. and who admits he
has an excellent reputation for verac.
ity. Will took duck and oyster to
the Smiths Point Coast Guard station
and exhibited them to prove the story.
Where did he get them? Oh. he
caught the duck after the duck had
caught the oyster. The fowl pushed
its bill into the shell of the oyster.
Murdoch said. and the bill stuck fast.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
MEANT TO CONSERVE HEALTH
Laws Laid Down by Moses Ackno"l'
eooeu 10 &c Excellent Sanitary
Regulations.

There has been gathered a collec-
ton OF facts to prove that the sanitary
laws Of Moses were not only O" q line
with the modern rules Of hygi"ne. but
IN some cases III advance Of them.
The Jew. thousands ct years before
CHRIST. settling IN a sgmitropIca! c"un
Try, was forbidden 10 eat pork or shell
fish, aud ,EjIk was Designated a. a
source OF c%ontagion. IL the Id1mui a
method OF s!aUghterILE animals Vas
prescrihct which is acknowledged 70,
day In our markets US the most SAM
taFy.
Five Thousand years before Koch
gave TO the world the results OF his re.
searches IN nactcrIOIugy, the Mosaic
law pointed out the danger 10 man
from tuberculosis IN cattle. bat did not
forbid infected poultry ar food. 1t was
,u)y a few years ago that German spe-
c,,Iists discovered that t0wi tubercu-
los,s was harmless to man.
The Mosaic law also enforced the
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
PEARLS IN TOY DOGS TAIL
Man From Tokyo Had Gems In SIX
Vest and Cigarette Box Worth
Large Sum.

A little toy dog. with n stubhy ta,l
and n pointed nose, which would emit
n bark like a grunt when press'o'
stood on the table in the office VI JUS.
tice Wardcll. surveyor of the port Vi
San Francisco. surrounded by n coIlec-
ton of cultivated pearls.
The tip of his tail was MISSING as
was the end of his nose, both OF when
had been cut away by customs inspec'
tors.
The dog was only one Of many clever
c~ontrivunccs used by Y. NaKane'
wealthy pearl merchant, when he maoe
Il declaration at the customllonse say
ing that he carried only $500 worth or
pearls.
An investigation of his baggage by
Custom Inspector j. b. Brosnan re-
vcalcd pearls valued at more than So
900.
Nakane arrived in San Francisco
aboard the Tenyo Maru and declared
to the customs inspector that he Il
$500 worth of pearls in Il small )ewcl
case. All examination of the case
showed that it had a false bottom. ana
pearls valued at $1,000 we're eveaIed
with the destruction of the case. Ihls
was the first lot to be discovered.
While the jewel case vas being
taken apart Nakane drew from MS
pocket a dainty Japanese tobacco box
and proceeded to roll a cigarette.
The beauty OF the box attracted the
attention of Wardell. who asked to see
it at closer range. The box. when eX
amined. revealed another $1,000 worth
of the precious gems. Nakane re
moved his coat to assist in the work O
unpacking his cases.
Again Wariell was attracted by the
beauty of a silk vest and made an eX
animation and found that in the cen
ter of each OF the buttons was set {
small pearl, which was so near TIT
color of the shell-like buttons that tn
gems could only be detected by an eX
pert.
In the bottom of one Of the mer
chants trunks the inspector found
toy dog carefully wrapped in TISSUE
paper. Nakane explained that it wa
| to be a gift to a child relative here
An examination of the outside OF tn
toy revealed nothing; finally the tip o
the tail was removed with a pair o
scissors and it was found to be file
with pearls. a. like find was made II
the dogs nose
Nakane then confessed he had trie'
to smuggle the jewels into this couI
try. The gems were contiscated.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06

nTQWNR
IS HELPS
DECIDUOUS TREES IN LAWNS
Some Reasons Why they seem 10
Thrive Better There Than
Elsewhere.

An obscrvant correspondent writes
to ask why dcciduous trees ana SHRUBS
plautcd in lawns seem to thrive better
than those planted under other condl'
tions. more especially during the sum-
mer months, remarks The Los Angeles
Times.
Our dry summer atmosphere is very
irving on deciduous trees and SHRUBS
for the reason that such dry air causes
the leaves to transpire faster than
the roots can take up the necessary
moisture. such conditions during the
hot weather put the trees. tiguratively.
in the position of gasping for breath.
Trees in lawns have tho advantage or
being in a moister atmosphere than
when in soil with a dry surface, ana,
therefore, have to labor less and may
breathe" with greater comfort. Inc
soil moisture in a lawn is also more
evenly distributed over the entire root
system than could be the case where
water is applied to trees by irrigation
either by the furrow system OF III
basins. DeciduOus trees always thrive
hest in lawns.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
BEAR TURNS PLUMBER
PUZZLED BY THE MYSTERY OF
CAGE WATER TANK.
Animal in Brooklyn Zoo Conducts Pa
tient Examination and Has Made
Some Progress on Road to
the Secret.

Prospect park ZOO has n plumber
bear. and his lame is Bosco. SO lar
as known. he is the only plumber bear
in captivity.
Bosco's residence is No. | Bear
place. and he lives in a great cage
which is far different from his an
cient home in the wild Ural noun
tains. Bosco is a Russian. Il plg
hulking. Quietly-ambling fellow. II
he is a fayorite with Head Keeper
ORrien and his men. because he Is
so tractable. says the brooklyn Eagle.
No matter how the black bears in the
adjoining cage may snap and grow!,
or the other members Of the Dear
family may display their peevishness.
! Rosco is always ~good.natured. he
has a great wooden ball that he plays
with in the most comical manner I'M
%aginable.
But it is about Bosco's plumber-like
proclivities that you want to heal
Half of his life is spent in play and
sleep. and the other half in trying to
puzzle out the mysteries Of the big
water tank in the center of his cage.
He is more Of a monkey than a
bear" said O'Brien. He is the
greatest imitator l ever aw."
Bosco first tried to get through his
clumsy old bear head what 1t meant
when the water ran into the tank. he
would sit on his hind legs, with a lu'
dicrously foolish expression on his
face and study the water as he tried
to get the ms and outs of the mys'
terry Of why the tank was full at some
times and empty at others. 10 trace
tho solution of this mystery became
the consuming passion OF his life.
Sometimes he would rub his ear with
a contemplative paw. and you would
see his eyes brighten as he thought
he had at last struck the right trail.
Then he would retire into his cave IN
the rocks, to cogitate at his leisure.
At first he tried to keep the water
back by showing a paw against 1t, nut
this did no good. Then. when the
tank became clogged and the Keepers
went into the cage to clean it out
Bosco sat by in an attitude Of an alert
old man taking in every detail OF
their operation. He saw them LIT
I'D the trap and get down in it.
So. when they had gone, Bosco or
ganized a class in plumbing with
himself as sole member. Fl. first put
out a hairy paw and seized the trap
1t came up easily enough. Then he
looked at it, to see what made 1t come
up, and put it back and lifted 1t again
md again in the joy of his discov'
ery. He had part of the secret, at
any rate.
The mex thing Bosco learned was
to get down into the tank and die
around to see what made the water
stop running. He acted just like a
man about it. and performed each ac'
with comic gravity. He found a car
down there, and he used to take tina
off.
That is about as far as Bosco has
got in the elementary stages OF plumb
ing: but he is ambitious. and II ne
keeps on he may be ready to don {
Jumper and overalls soon and starr
out on a lob with soldering rons un
der his forepaw and charcoal stove
swinging.
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down upon. Every true Cossack must
hristle with u fierce independence,
must burn with u passion for war.
And thus in the tale OF the Cossack
and hrs sweetheart. when we find Os-
tar ready to thrust aside the sword
for the love of Marienka. We must
see in his abandonment OF the fight
the greatest sacrifice possible to n
Cossack. We come to the marriage
OF Ostap and Marienka. At this mo-
ment a troop of Cossacks is going by,
within Ostap's hearing. The latter.
despite all VOWS. seizes his white
steed. jumps on his back and makes
a mad dash across hedges. bitches and
reaches the plain where the Cossack
army is on the march. The war-god
has claimed his own. Day by day
Marienka watches for the return or
her sweetheart. and at last the army
comes back. But Ostap is no longer
alive. Marienka takes one o at
the corpse. brought back with full
honors. She smiles sadly. signs. falls
and expires.
For to Cossacks the war passion IS
even stronger than that OF love. MOST
OF the regular Cossacks. Pascal tells
us, form really a celibatory corpora
ton. Not that this should betoken
II confluence on their part. 1t IS
the freedom from domestic ties rather
than any absence OF sensuality which
is thus denoted.
So strong is the appetite for drink
that to crafty it a Cossack is often
led to sell his horse. And their
| horses are really part OF their very
selves.
But mere plumber is not for the Cos
sack. For he has written somewhere:
He who desires nothing has nothing.
, Let the Tartar be content with simple
| pillage. AS for the Cossack, he must
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
HERE is nothing very literary
about the average mans con.
ception OF the CoSsack. This
Enrniinh lilo iniiyilnnl is Nrui.

about the average mans con.
ception OF the CoSsack. This
formidable individual is ordi-
narily looked upon as a member OF
an elite. redoubtahlc. savage cavalry,
who are absolutely inSensibie TO any
such emotion as fear. And, to be
sure. the present war has provided
both ample opportunity for The test
ing OF that fearlesSness and proof OF
its steadfast refusal 10 be intimidated.
The Cossacks have faced every mur.
terous resourc OF the twentieth cen
fury science with the same courage
that has distinguished them from
their earliest days. writes Or. l. Gold
berg in the Boston Transcript.
Their fire. their spirit. their aoso-
lutte recklessness through fire. water
and steel are those OF a military com'
munity which at Il time babe fair TO
become a nation all its own. but the
role OF a modern, purely warrior state
was left by history for the Prussia OF
Frederick the Second.
War. however. ~endanEerS literature.
the warrior needs a Homer for his
Had. And so. il the Cossacks have
themselves been TOO busy fighting to
have time for the production OF any.
thing but a rude literature. they have.
on the other hand. inspired genuine
works of art in England, France. Rus.
STA. Poland. The last.Eamed country
owes very much indeed to the inspi-
ration of the wild men OF the steppes.
The original meaning Of the word
'cossack" is that of free marauder.
brigand. nomad. The Steppe.' says
Gabriel S%arrazin, in his work on the
great romantic poets of Poland. EN-.
genders Cossacks.' Here. in the mid.
die ages was the place of refuge for
all amer of criminals, y~agabOndS,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06

STAYED at I.etty's side. while Harold
could not be sufficiently attentive to
Peggy. And the four were to be mar.
ried within a few weeks.
It's no use, Peggy" said Lefty.
sobbing. I'VE shall have to find out
after marriage which We prefer"
III only we could ask them"
sighed Peggy. Listen. dear. | have
a plan. Tomorrow night let us all go
10 the movies together. In the dark
we will change partners. as If by acct
dent. Ii that doesn't inspire one or
the other TO declare his real feelings
-"
II did not seem a very happy idea.
but the chief difficulty had lain in the
fact that John had always stuck to
his tianCee'S side and Harold 20 his.
II only either of the girls could have
been alone with the maj she really
loved. feminine suhtlety might have
induced him II speaS. cut. But moth.
ing had been accomplished. and the
wedding day looming so near, fright
enad each OF the girls. Suppose she
chose the wrong man, making the dis
covery after marriage instead OF he.
fore Lefty knew that she would do
something desperate unless she could
find out. while Peggy dreamed OF run
ming away.
Neither knew her own mind and
neither dared hint anything to her
sweetheart.
The boys arrived in due course. and
the stroll down town was a dismal
repetition OF many such strolls. Peg
sy was desperately unhappy and. TO
crown her woe. the boys ~obStiuately
refused to join in the game of gen
eral post which had been devised.
Harold sat down with Peggy and John
with Lefty.
Both girls were crying silently in
the dark theater, moi watching the &C
t~ivitIes OF the figures upon the screen
at all. 1t was too dreadful. Now the
last chance had gone by.
Suddenly a kissing sound was heard
and then a bright white flame shot up
from the operators box overhead.
Fire" screamed somebody.
Instantly the theater was in panic.
Peggy felt herself knocked from her
seat. 4 man was trampiing IN her.
Women were screaming. She tried to
flee, but. damned in the crowd. she
fell to the ground in a half-swoon.
Suddenly she felt herself lifted in
a mans arms. He raised her as light
~ as if she were a child and. holding
her before him. fought his way
through the happily diminishing press.
When the girl opened her eyes she
was lying outside and somebody was
bending over her.
1t was John, and Peggy twined her
arms about his neck ard chung TO him.
His kisses were warm upon her lips.
Dearest. Thank Cod" be a. say.
ing over and over again.
And she returned his kisses. for she
knew at last, and with only a faint
contempt for Harold's cowardice, she
resigned herself TO the sweetness OF
their loves renewal.
But suddenly she saw Lefty before
her. Harold's arm was about her
waist and on the girls face vas the
shyness and TRANSPORTATION OF loves
avowal.
The crowd was dispensing and the
four looked at each other in a mixture
Of emotions. Then suddenly the girls
laughed and fell on each others necks.
And the mems hands met in a wise.
like clasp.
! 1t was a very happy pair OF couples
that strolIed homeward in the dark.
ness
Copyright 1915, by W. G Chapman
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cOSSACkS OF The DON

astonish the world. If there were a
ladder to heaven itself. or a staircase
to hell, the Cossack would find his
way thither and revel in his con-
quests"
S~orcerers and Superstitions.
There was among the Cossacks no
constitution or legislative body for
the steppe. Custom was the only
guide. A conference usually elected
the chief. They are firm believers in
magic and sorcery. and not even the
introduction of Christianity has
wholly succeeded in stamping out su.
perstition. In Czajkowski's Cossack
tales there is a characteristic scene
where a witch is visited for informa.
ton. We find her with her associ.
ates, Maruska the cat. and a rooster.
Fire and wax complete the magic out
tit. She lights q fire in the cave and
calls the cat forward. Maruska makes
a circle around the fire, all the tim
mewing softly. The witch then melts
her yellow wax and places the ques-
toner in the magic circle described
by the at. Strange letters are writ.
ten down. followed by a good deal OF
hocus.pocus, and while the rooster
crows and the cat sinks into a cor.
ner. the witch p]ronounces a terrible
horoscope of love, blood and damna-
ton.
The steppe is the symbol of silence.
OF dreams and melancholy. The Cos.
sacks have their type OF lyric effu.
| sion, which represents. as Chojecki
has written, bitter voluptuousness OF
suffering intoxicated with itself" But
this is true, concludes Pascal, only OF
the more intimate songs. For their
warrior ballads reveal the true Cos.
sack, with their wild pulsatiOn of the
Toy of combat, and their ardent pas.
sion for the life OF strife.
This in a way is a farewell appre-
citation of the Cossack, for the pres.
ent war has demonstrated the com.
narrative usclessness OF cavalry. and
.he Cossack soldier Is above all things
a cavalryman.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-01-06
Fruit Trees AIona Roads,

The habit of planting fruit and nut
trees by the roadside has long pre-.
vailed in parts of Europe. 1t should
BIO cultivated in the United States.
Hickory and walnut trees arc as beau
tlful as elms and a great deal more
useful. Salem's streets have beer
planted with hundreds of walnut trees.
Those set out along McMinnville's
pavement years ago produced a ton
and a half of nuts this season.-Port-
land Oregonian.
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refugees and f%ugitives, who banded to.
gether into a confederation.

refugees and f%ugitives, who banded to-
gether into a confederation.
Cossack life and that of Poland have
time and again interpenetrated. now
in combat against each other. now
Joined side by side in a fight against
a common enemy. The attack o.
Bohdan Chmielnicki l6iS.l65D is the
subject of Sienkiewic2's widely.read
novel. by Fire and Sword The
Cossacks of the Don gave Russia no
little trouble. Under the leadership
of Stenka RaZine, who promised free
dom to all who would follow his
standard. the Cossacks rallied faith
fully to battle. AS with all such ag-
ures, legends have grown up around
Razine. one of which imputes to him
a felt cap which rendered him invls-
ible. He was finally captured in 1911.
dying by torture without so much
as a murmur.
For a long time the death Of the
famous leader was doubted. and lie.
gend has it that he made various APP
pearances, now among Russian sail.
ors, among Persian prisoners II on
the Caspian sea. He is here repre-
scented as a white.haircd old man.
One hundred years later it was be-
lieved that Pougatcheff, who then
PLAYED a role similar to that of Ra-
zine. was really an incarnation of the
adventurous bandit and good fellow.
Soldiers First Of All.
Felicien Pascal. writing in n OF
the leading European magazines OF
the Cossacks and their effects upon
I'll, literature Of the surrounding ma
lions. points out that in the novel OF
the Pole Michael Czajkowski, entitled,
The Zaporog s Sweetheart the life
NJ the Cossack and the ideals for
which he lives finds one OF It's most
effective and realistic settings.
First of all, as one by this time may
easily guess, the Cossack is a soldier.
For battle he is born, and in battle ne
finds his most glorious death. 10 Id
bor is a calamity, and WORK 10 looked