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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
SUITABLE PLACE FOR COWS
Stalls Should 81 Provided for Each
AnimaI-Plenty Of Ventilation
.Is Recommended.

To give best results mich cows
should be provided with suitable quar-
tiers for feeding and milking. Stalls
should be provided for each cow and
feed boxes and manger racks should
be so arranged that they will be of
easy access for cleaning at least once
every day. Twenty-Five dollars, plus
the labor, should At any ordinary barn
with stalls for five cows and the neces-
sary feed boxes, managers, and cutters.
Plenty Of ventilation is necessary, be-
cause the COW is somewhat like the
human being, she thrives best where
there Is plenty Of. fresh air available.
Provision should be made to take care
of the manure. This can be done by
providing plenty of bedding in box
stalls, or, If stanchions are used, by
having water-tight cutters about IA
inches wide and 10 inches deep rum
ming full length Of the stable.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
City ManaoIno a Profession.

When the commissioners in charge
of Niagara Falls. N. Y, were looking
about for a manager for the city they
heard of a young fellow at Cadillac,
Mich, named Carr. Cadillac was pay
ing Carr $500 as city manager, and 1t
figured that it had made a good in
vestment, for he had saved the city
$1,000 out of a budget Of $4,000.
Carr looked over the ground at Mag
ara Falls and said he would take the
Job at $4,000. But he agreed to save
the city $4,000 by putting the city on a
business basis. It looks as If he would
make good.
That's what the city manager plan
makes possible. It builds up a corps
of trained men who know how cities
ought to run. Then 1t permits a city
to bid for the services Of a man who Is
conspicuously successful In the bust.
ness.-Kansas City Star.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
Father Of "Tanks."

Patriotic Scotsmen might plausibly
claim that the real inventor of tanks"
was John Napier of Merchiston, who
also invented logarithms. He had
many varied intellectual activities be-
sides the higher mathematics, and was
a Jealous protagonist of Protestant
ism. For %confounding all "enemies Of
Gods truth" he conflded to Bacon's
elder brother certain secret inven-
tions." These included a chariot of
metal, double musket-proof, the mo-
ton Of which was controlled by those
within, "who discharged shot through
small holes, the enemy being abased,
and uncertain what defense to make
against a moving mouth Of metal"
This looks like the original "tank," but
Napier directed the detailed designs
for his weird instruments Of war to
be kept secret until necessity COM
PEELED their use.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
POLES AND WIRES HURT CITY
Los Angeles Newspaper Complains Of
Conditions Which Work Harm In
Many Other Municipalities.

The residents of Los Angeles are to
he congratulated If the city shall
quickly acquire the privately owned
lighting systems and avoid the multi
pie pole-and-wire systems now borne
by the northeast districts. In the lat
ter, in Garvanza and Highland Park
districts particularly, more landscape
beauty has been blotted out In a Few
months than the residents have been
able to create in several years. Poles
and wires are everywhere, trees de
spoiled, private property rights. vio-
lated, in stringing wires without per-
mission, and all the evils usually at
tendant upon service by employees
protected in their vandalism by civil
service. It is most sincerely hoped
that acquisition Of existing lines by
the city will result in the removal of
at least two-thirds Of the present jun
gle, for the district is now despoiled.
Los Angeles Times.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

couldn't be a Ounce If you tried for a
hundred years.
"'Well,' said Mr.. Giant, you may be
sure I don't try for q hundred years.
If you're all SO nice and think 1t
would take longer than that for me to
be a Ounce I most certainly won't try.
I don't suppose anyone especially
cares to spend time trying to be a
Ounce
"All the Brownies laughed hard.
But finally Billie Brownie spoke again.
"sYou still haven't told us just what
that hat is for? And why are you
wearing 1t this morningT
"T will tell you the story of my hat
said Mr.. Giant. All gather around
me-
1.-THE Brownies sat or the lodges and
the fiat parts of the Cave, and some
sat on Mr.. Giants lap, and others at
his feet.
at happened this way said Mr..
Giant. Many years ago I heard some
little Boys and Girls saying, "Oh dear.
what shall we play" thought to
myself that I would put 1t into their
heads just what to play and when they
were finished one game I'd suggest
another and so on until they were tired
out.
"'But do you know / couldn't think
of any games for them to play. I sug-
gested one or two which they had
played so often they were tired Of.
You see I didn't let them see me, but
my echo whispered these suggestions
to them.
":At last I al discouraged. I didn't
know what to do. And who should
come along to my Cave but Witty
Witch. You know we are such good
friends.
"I told her my trouble, and she
said. "Why don't you get a Cap such
as I wear? Then you'll never be at q
loss to think Of something when you
want to have bright thoughts and sug-
gestions. I wear my cap to make me
think up stories for the Gnomes and
the Brownies. and the little Wood
Creatures, and the Fairies. That Is
why I can tell them story after story.
Because l wear my THINKING CAP
and 1t does all the work for me-"
$50 you see,' continued Mr. Giant,
dear old witty Witch made me this
fine Cap. And when you were coming
along I was thinking Of a Moonlight
Snow party for this evening.
"T was planning the games we'd
play. the supper we'd eat. and every
little thing about the party. And my
Cap was giving me such fine thoughts
and ideasr
".Are we to come to the partyT
asked the Brownies.
ayes said Mr.. Giant, I'm to ask
you all, but run away now, for ! must
think up a great deal more
"And as the Brownies ran of, TAX
ing a last look at Mr.. Giant in his
thinking cap, they shouted, "A party
tonight"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
RIoht Type Of Patriotism.

Every American who does not think
his land the fairest that ever the sun
shone on, his own state the finest In
the Union, and his town the best place
In which to live has not reached the
same celestial plane of JOY and pa
triotism as the foreigner, who thinks
his little ~wind-swept bog is the happi-
est spot in the happiest land the good
God ever made. This is the love Of
country that glorifes q land and the
people that inhabit 1t. This is what
makes every hill and valley every
rock and fill, the most beautiful in the
world, because It is ours, made sacred
and beautiful by the memories woven
around it.-Exchange,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

milk, . qualified veterinarian should
be called upon to inspect and test each
COW every year.
With the assurance Of a healthy COW,
she should be housed in a clean, we'll
lighted shed and provided with a clean
yard in which to exercise. The milk
should be drawn into a clean, small
topped milk pail and kept cool until
consumed.
Milk sours and spoils because Of the
bacteria which enter 1t with dirt from
the COW and from pals not thoroughly
washed. Keeping these bacteria out
Of the milk and preventing their
growth by keeping the milk cool, are
easy and efficient means of procuring
the best Of milk from the family cow,
provided she Is free from disease.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
A Great Mistake.

An inspector visiting a provincial
school wal much worried by the noise
Of the scholars In the next room. At
last, unable to bear 1t any longer, he
opened the door and burst In upon the
class.
Seeing one boy, rather taller than the
others, talking a great deal, he caught
him by the collar, carried him to anoth-
or room and banged him into q chair.
saying:
"Now, sit there and be quietl"
A quarter of an hour later a small
head appeared around the door and .
meek little voice said:
"Please, sir, you've got u teacher !"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
WOMEN SCARCE.

Wash women are getting very scarce
In Des Moines, says an Iowa, paper.
Two dollars per day, car fare and
meals is no temptation to q woman
who has a husband to support her and
little children to care for In the home.
Many men who drank up their wages
and spent their spare time In saloons,
are now supporting their families, buy
ing ground and building homes, and
have become respectable citizens, al
though q lawless floating tramp ele-
ment would try to make 1t appear that
prohibition does not prohibit.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
NEGLECT SEEN ALONG ROADS
Many Farmers Fail to Clean Up Strip
of Land by Side Of Road-keep
Il Seeded to Grass.

1t is surprising how many folk have
not gotten around to Sticking up the
strip Of land by the side Of the road
that belongs to them.
That is a part Of their domain
clear to the center of the highway.
and it is their right, as well as their
duty. to put it in the finest shape pos
sible.
1t makes the farm look so much bet
ter to clear out the old hedgerow and
seed It down to grass.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

ls NOteSa
SAVINGS IN MAINE.
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Unlon.) ~

~ Nv "NbsNss n .
1T is a good showing for Maine
setter still, Maine can say, can any
other state make the claim?-that no
iepositOr in a Maine savings bank has
ever lost a dollar that he deposited
there. It is to be noted, moreover, that
he savings banks by no means repre-
sent all the savings Of the Maine peo-
pie that are ut interest. The savings
departments of the trust companies
AVE 9O,322 depositors with deposits of
s3O.O0O,O0O. or twice as much as the
demand deposits. in the same institu-
lions. The national banks have mil
ions in their savings departments, and
the 1889 shareholders in the loan and
building associations have to their
credit an accumulated capital Of 49,
$4,000. These and other totals make
4 showing for the thrift and industry
Of Maine people that no state can bet
ter"
This remarkable testimony to the
prosperity of prohibition Maine comes
from a newspaper avowedly hostile to
prohibition, the Boston Herald. 1t is a
complete answer to the oft-repeated
falsehood Of the brewers and distillers
that Maine has been impoverished be-
cause she has steadfastly refused to
legalize the dramshop. In population
Maine ranks as the thirty-fourth state
In the Union. But IN June 80, 1915,
the deposits in her savings banks
amounted to $97, 423,O ss. 83, a total ex-
ceeded by only II other states. The
amount of depositors-2S8, 5S6-repre-
sents nearly one-third of the total pop
ulation of the state, including men,
women and children. Only ten states
exceed Maine in the actual number Of
depositors. The total proportion of de-
positors to population Is equalled by
only five states. Deposits in building
and loan associations amounted to S.
558,269, with 12,113 depositors. Add to
this the savings deposited in trust com
panies and national banks, and the per
capita individual deposits amount to
S244.5O for every man, woman and child
In the state. In 1914 the average. per
capita individual deposits in all the
states was $1S8, which average Maine
leads by over $50.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

-mere was u I'll.
vision Of the peo-
pie because of
him. To this day,
men divide on
personality - one
Is for Roosevelt,
another for Bryan,
nj for Wilson
and another for
Hughes, and prob
ably more than
ever before, n
men and women
as voters In the
passing years con-
sidering men rath-
er than parties or
marty
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
RELIEVE scouRs IN CALVES
First Thing 10 to Remove Cause, Then
Give Limswatsr, Says Expert
Of North Dakota.

To relieve scours In calves, W. 81.
Peters Of the North Dakota station
gives the following remedy:
The first thing Is to remove the
cause and then give them limewater
In the milk. Two tablespoonfuls twice
q day for a calf two months old and
for larger calves half q cupful.
Make the limewater by putting a
handful Of lime into a pail Of water.
When 1t has Stacked and settled pour
of the clear portion and bottle 1t for
future use.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
IMPROVED ROAD ADDS VALUE
Good Highways Arc Wise Investment,
A. They Bring Farmer Into Closer
Touch With World.

The department Of agriculture Is au-
thority for the statement that road inn
provement In Dallas county, Alabama.
has added s. an acre to the value Of
lands within half q mile Of the Inn
proved road.
Good roads are a wise investment.
They bring the farmer into closer
touch with the world, increasing his
access to markets. and his opportunity
for joy Of living, as well as adding
value to his farm.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
GREATEST WASTE OF MONEYS
Proper Maintenance Of Public Roads
10 More Important Than Building
LAX Methods Used.

By e. B. HOUSE, Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins. Colo.)
The greatest waste Of public
moneys that is being committed today
is in surfacing our country roads and
then apparently abandoning the same.
No county that engages in real road
building can afford to dismiss Its
workmen when the road has been con
structed.
1t rarely ever happens that the ini-
tial work on the road is done wisely,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

FACTS
MILK FROM THE FAMILY cow
Animal Should Be Housed In Clean,
WE'LL Lighted Shed and Provided
Win Yard for Exercise.

The family COW should be a con-
slant source Of cheap, pure and de-
liclous milk, says Clemson agTicul-
tural college Of South Carolina. Such
may be the case, II a few precautions
are taken. It is frequently observed.
however, that under the conditions sur
rounding the family COW only dirty,
diseased milk can be produced.
A COW may be suffering from tu-
berculosis, the worst disease to which
she is subject, and still show no signs
of 1t to the proud owner. For the
sake Of the children who drink this
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
RURAL ROADS AND BRIDGES
Increase In Annual Expenditures Of
More Than $50 Per Cent In
Past Twelve Years

During the past II years the annual
expenditures on the rural roads and
bridges In the United States have In
creased from about $S0.000.000 to
about $2Sc,OO0,O00. or an increase Of
more than $50 per cent. During this
same period the annual expenditures
from state funds for road and bridge
construction and maintenance have In
creased from $2,550.O00 to $58,492.000
or almost 1000 per cent.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
one Reason.

PA, why is It that poets are always
poorr
Zone Of the reasons Is that they
have to 'inclose postage for the return
Of their manuscripts."-Brooklyn Ct
lien.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

but there are a multitude Of little
things that later must be added or
repaired In order that the road may
be in good condition. Ruts and chuck
holes are sure to form and these must
be filed or the road 500 goes to
pieces. These things should be
planned for and done quickly IL the
improved road Is to do the fullest
service, and this is the one thing that
it seems to me some of our county
commissioners are ~negiecting. They
become SO imbued with the idea of
building good roads that they fail to
prepare for the maintenance Of roads
already constructed.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
OF EVIL.

The late Gen. William Booth OF the
Salvation Army summed it all up as
follows: 1.-THE drink difficulty lies at
the root Of everything: Nine-tenths OF
our poverty, squalor, vice and crime
spring from this poisonous tap-root.
Many of our social evils which over
shadow the land like SO many upas
trees would dwindle away and die II
they were not so constantly watered
with strong drink. There is universal
agreement on that point"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
Inerea,e Farm Land Values.

increase Farm Land Values
An increase in farm land values
varying from Is to 194 per cent has
been produced by improvement Of
main market roads. according to
statistics collected by the federal of
fee Of public roads and rural en-
cheering.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
LIBERTY.

The Munich police are authorized to
censor woman's dress. In Leipzig, boys
and girls under eighteen. are forbidden
to enter saloons unless accompanied
by adults, and to attend motion-pic-
ture exhibitions unless Juvenile pro-
grams alone are given. And all that Is
In Germany. the home Of personal lib
ertyl
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Buying Foundation Stock.
Often there Is unwise buying when
laying In the foundation stock. Bet-
ter put In more money and buy . good
sire.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
Seamless MIX RaHa

Seamless Milk Pals.
Milk pals and cans should b.
smooth. with all cracks and seams
flushed with solder. Seamless pals
and cans have been placed on the
market.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
often Happens

II hope you will come out ahead.
Bobbie. What are you being examined
at this time Of the school year forT
"gor adsnoids."-Life.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
Mi,e.,eu,,ted N. c,o.e,.v

M~ieeateuIated His Capacity.
Mr.. Goodleigh--I was surprised to
see you in a helplessly intoxicated con-
dition last evening.
Tippler-I was surprised myself. /
thought I could stand a lot more
Boston Transcript,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Need Of Cream Separator.
II you are selling cream or butter
from four or more cows you should be-
using a cream separator. 1t is easy to
prove this by figures.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Milk for Feeding Flock.
Everyone who keeps cows and poul.
try ON the same farm will and it profit
able to reserve all the milk for feed
ing the flock.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
BIG DEFICIT IN CHICAGO.

BIG DEFICIT TN
Chicago. which gets $7,0OO.QO from
Its saloons, will, 1t Is said, have a
deficit of about $4,000 at the end Of
the present year. Cincinnati, another
wet town, is also practically bank
rupt. Meanwhile prohibition states
and cities are prospecting because they
do not have to sink so much money
caring for the crime and poverty
caused by drink.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
DEWEY ON WINE.

DEWEY ON WINE.
George Creel recently interviewed
Admiral Dewey for the New York
World. The admiral gave his opinion
about the swine mess" In answer to
the question, "What about the famous
drinking order?
"a good thing" His answer was In.
slant. ''There was some feeling about
it at first. because the papers made
fun Of 1t, and there was also an at
tempt to make it appear that Secretary
Daniels was charging officers with in
temperance. I think that the feeling
has disappeared completely. Every
railroad, every great corporation. has
long had an ironclad rule forbldding
men to drink while On duty. Isn't a
ship as important as a locomotive?
Practically every European power has
copied the order, by the way"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
Henhouse In White,

Henhouse In Winter.
The farm poultry house In winter
must be well ventilated and dry. Sum
Light should strike AZ much OF tho
floor and roosts as possible.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
VICTORIES ON NOVEMBER 7.

Michigan, Montana. Nebraska, South
Dakota and the territory Of Alaska
voted by large majorities to outlaw
the manufacture and sale Of alcohol
ic liquors.
Arkansas and Arizona defeated the
liquor interests efforts to substitute a
local option law for the statewide
prohibition law.
Idaho voted for constitutional pro-
hibition.
Oregon, Colorado and Washington
rejected by overwhelming majorities
the beer measures initiated by the
brewers. ~
Oregon gave a substantial majority
vote for an amendment prohibiting the
importation into the state of alcoholic
liquors for beverage purposes.
Utah, Wyoming and Florida elected
legislatures pledged to pass at their
next session prohibitory laws.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
HEAVY cLus DUES.

One trouble with the saloon as the
poor mans club 10 that the dues are
entirely too heavy.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
Inevitable
Division
BY REV. ]. H. RALsToN, DID.
Secretary Of Correspondence Department,
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago

TEXT-So there was a division anon
the people because of him.-John TAI
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

The division referred to in the text
one caused by Jesus Of Nazareth
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Modern Cow Barn.
Clean. dry, light, well ventilated
that's the modern COW barn.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Possession Of a solid ivory dome
doesn't help q ball player any, but 1t
has made pugilists famous for durabll-
IT..
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

See that a college astronomer has
discovered q new young star. Stealing
Connie Mxck's etu1S
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Australians r ready to pass Les
Darcy the "rawsberry" II he eve goes
back. Les may 60 back-but not to
Australia.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08

Some Of the players who were
soaked by the national commission for
transforming were not wen accused
of playing ball last summer.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-05
Woman Meets Horrible
Death.

A most horrible accident occur
ed:near Flynn's LickIlast Thurs
day, whenEMrs. Bascom Mosely
was so badly burned she died
Friday night She was washing
in the yard, and her clothes
caught fire and were completely
burned off her when her hus-
band. who was at work reached
her. She was alone except her
two little children. DR.. Ander-
son was called. and later DR..
Mabry, but nothing could be done
for her.
She was concious almost to the
last, talked about dying and told
them what to do with her chill
dren. She leaves a husband and
3 children, besides a father, mo-
Their and several brothers and
sisters. The sympathy of the
entire community goes out to
them in this, their greatest trial.
Their only consolation is, that
she told them she was prepared
todie.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-05
GLAD TO LEARN OF 1T

April's changeable weather causes
colds that lead to expensive doctor bills
bills that could be avoided if the
cold were checked in time. o. Smith,
l42l 18th St, Augusta, Ca, writes:
Il got one Csc bottle of Foley's Honey
and Tar and my cough and cold is about
well. was glad to learn of a great
medicine like that" Foley's Honey
and Tar enjoys such a splendid reputa-
ton that it is often initiated. Of
course, no substitute or imitation is as
good as the genuine. Sold by l.. B.
Anderson, Gainesboro.