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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-10-06
Forced Loan Expected.

TIE HAGUE, Oct o.-l, is aid
that a forced loan Of 450OOO,UDO
gullders may be expected shortly.
Under normal conditions, the
gullder is equivalent TO abou, forty
cents IN American mone-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-10-06

Of your ,elegram---if not in this, then
in a better world.
Ills majesty did not want the wa,.
but the others did. What a change
We hehnld ihrnnph Gnhlt ntlln
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-10-06

The pleasure Of life /, accorded to
the man tha, lives il, and not accord
lng 20 the work or the place.--Emer-
son
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-10-06
Trying.

Tommy One The kaiser and merry
ilenrland don't agree on 'angin' the
old hoy.
Tommy Two NuSSir ! ear they're
avn quite halterca,ion habout it,
Cartoons Magazine.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-10-06
All Over Again.

The small hoy had been naughty. SO
bis mother had sent him away from ,1e
table 'l.u' arv fruit For an hgur
The mirror., 1919-08-21

still having the ball in his pos
session lost no time in tagging the
runner. This ended the visitors
scoring, and at no time during the
balance of the game did they come
near the scoring point.
The locals, in their half of the
sixth inning, got two more scores
by pounding out three singles and
aided with an error. Brad got on
by a safe hit. jam hit into a
double play, Brad being forced
out, Anderson to Carlson, and
Jam was out, Carlson to Nickelby.
Eros got safe hit and stole
second. Lohr got on by Ander-
sons wild throw, allowing Eros to
score and Lohr to 60 to second.
Lohr scored on Iver's hit. Bud
was thrown out, Peterson to
Nickelby.
In the eighth chapter the locals
added three more runs by clouting
out four safe hits which we're
aided by Nickelby's error along
with other loose fielding, due no
doubt to the wet and slippery con-
dition of the ground.
Iver carried off the days honors
in batting in runs. In four times
to bat he got three hits, one of
them for two stations. He brought
in five scores off his hits. His
field work was perfect; nothing
got by him. He bad five chances
and accepted all without slip.
Blier, who did the work upon
the mound for the visitors, was
hit rather freely. He was touched
The mirror., 1919-08-21
Grizzly Bear is a Great Eater

The appetite of the grizzly is
one of the few drawbacks to his
domestication. His tastes are not
limited, but he deals in large quan-
titles. In some respects the griz-
Fly is a dainty feeder. He is fond,
for instance, of violets, and will
eat several pounds if he can find
them. He likes rosebuds and will
devour almost any sort of bulb.
On the other hand, he will eat
meat of any age. Apples and tur-
nips are perhaps his favorite deli
cacies, but he is also fond of hon
ey. Usually, he eats the bees with
it. Wasps. yellow jackets, grass
hoppers, ants and their eggs, bugs
and all sorts of grubs are also on
his menu. Other delicacies which
he enjoys are snakes, rats, mice
and rabbits. Exchange.
The mirror., 1919-08-21
Too Old to Transplant

I'm tangled up with roses, and the deep,
Where the pansies in blossom and the morning Creep
I'm hedged about claimed own
And I'm shacked and I'm fettered by joys
have into the brckwo and the place.
Till Pm part and parcel of it, Mines very case;
tangled here in laughter and in all bygone joy
Of certain little lady and certain little boy
here live together here romped playe
1t is here the recolecion that treasured made
And there's battered panel eye see
But is now the glorious symbol of happy day to me-
Oh couldn't be ranspanted have loved the long;
have known much gadness and have
Now to turn my back upon it and try live away
1t is here I've lived my finest and here stay.
I'm tangled up with roses me are curled
Into every nook and of this little bit of world,
And there's that through all
But has fastened with shackes and has
Edgar H.. copyrighted,
The mirror., 1919-08-21

which was the way Of Belgian
independence.
The congress of London issued
several protocols intended to set
tie matters but failed to do 80.
One stumbling block was Luxem-
burg, which Holland refused to
give up and Belgium claimed;
deputies from that duchy sitting
in the new national assembly.
Prince Leopold of Coburg was Of
fered the Belgian crown but re-
fused to accept it until matters
were settled more to the liking of
the Belgians. The Dutch refused
to evacuate Belgium and a French
army marched in, the Dutch retir-
ing before it.
: On November Is, 1881, the
representatives of the great powers
and Belgium signed the treaty of
London. By this instrument a
part of Luxembourg was given to
Holland and the rest left in the
Belgian hands professionally
Belgium, it may be remarked,
continued to hold the duchy until
1889. The province of Limburg
was given to Holland and the
boundaries of Belgium established
practically as they are today. The
king of the Belgians was recog-
nized and the neutrality of the
kingdom solemnly guaranteed.
The czar would not ratify this
treaty, although his euvoys had
signed, until the next May, when
he did 80. But now King William
of Holland baked. He refused to
evacuate Antwerp, which was be-
sieged and taken by the French
thereupon. It was not until 1889
that King William decided to ac-
cept fate. Having done so he ab-
dicated and the Belgian question
was settled to reappear in a more
tragic form SO years later.
The mirror., 1919-08-21
The Wonders of Paper

The magic fabric after all is pa
per. A man will work for you all
day on the jump, risk his life and
soul--if you hand him a little piece
of paper at night with compensat-
ing words inscribed thereon.
Take few sheets of plain white
paper and make the right marks
on them and you are famous for
life-even as Abraham Lincoln
during train ride back in Civil
War days picked up a scrap of
brown wrapping paper, scratched
off a few unreadable characters and
brought into being classic, THE
Gettysburg Address"
Rockefeller can take a virgin
sheet of paper, inscribe a few
words and his name on it. and the
bank will hand you out it's very
soul through the latticed window.
Take piece of paper and daub
some paint on it-that is, daub it
it on right-and wealthy men
and women will offer up small for
tunes to buy it for their palaces.
Little pieces of paper, purchased
by countless millions of American
citizens from the government dur
ing the last year, are backing our
boys in the trenches.
Wonder of wonders! A bit of
white or colored paper. We will
die for it, live for it, which is
harder; 60 through fire and water
for it.
The first letter from your best
girl was on scrap of paper. The
last letter from your favorite
grandchild is on bit of paper.
Your birth card, your marriage
license and your death notice are
on bits of paper.
Indeed, where would the old
world be without paper9-Paper
News.
The mirror., 1919-08-21
Nothing Got by liver

satisfactory, the locals winning the
game by score of 8 to 81
The locals began the scoring in
their half of the second inning by
getting four singles and one two
bagger; three scores was made be-
fore the side was retired. This
gave the locals three-run lead
which they held until the opening
of the fourth frame. Carlson, who
was the first man to bat in this
frame, was passed to first on balls.
Blier got safe hit. Taylor went
out on a fly to Burn. Kealy got a
safe hit, filling the bases. Leaf got
a safe hit, scoring Carlson. Sever
son drove out an infeld grounder
and Blier was thrown out at the
home plate on a fielder's choice,
Eros to Bud. Nickelby was
thrown out, Eros to Lohr, retiring
the side.
The visitors in the fifth inning
got two more scores, after two
men had been retired, on clean
hitting. Alexander, who was the
first man to bat, went out on a fly
to Eros. Peterson was thrown out,
Eros to Lohr. Carlson got a safe
hit, stole second and scored on
Biier's three-bagger. Taylor got
a two-base hit scoring Blier.
Burn who had recovered the ball
after Taylor's hit delivered it to
second base and Taylor was called
safe on close decision. A
moment later Taylor started to
take a lead off second and Brad
The mirror., 1919-08-21
A GOOD GAME
Good Stick Work and Fielding of the M. S. Ptoo Much
for the iudsonites
By J. r. s.

Saturdays ball game between
the Hudson Independents and the
locals was played on a very wet
and heavy ground, causing many
infeld bingles to go for safe hits
on account of the ground being in
such a slippery condition that the
fielders we're not able to cover
their proper amount of ground.
However, neither side had the ad-
vantage of the other in this respect
and the general results were quite
The mirror., 1919-08-21
BAZAARS OF INDIA
A Good Word Picture of the Picturesque County
Fairs of the Past in India

up reilly rare and precious bar
gains for song. plaques ham,
mered out from brass or other
metals, true gems of many kinds,
jade ornaments deftly carved from
jade in minute patterns, making
them almost literally worth their
weight in gold," and many other
treasures such as nowadays never
reach bazaar stall. for they are
snapped up by professional dealers
the moment they leave the hands
of their original owner, whom
want compels to sacrifice, and the
dealer knows exactly were lives
the rich Indian who pays, without
haggling, the topmost price.
The glory of the bazaar, like
that of practically all that was
picturesque, had given way to the
vitality needed sanitary measures.
But the bazaar still exists, al
though rather in what we would
call open or general markets. Un-
doubtedly they continue to offer
many temptations spread before
the covetous eyes of the foreign
visitor in such alluring ways that
the end of purchasing is not
reached even when the bottom of
the purse is, because the dealers
are only too glad to send their
wares to the hotel to be paid for at
masters or madam's convenience,
and lots of other rare bargains
which cannot be duplicated"
Mr.. Curtis Modern India
says of Delhi's Chandni Chauk,
''Silver Street." that it is fairly
called the most picturesque and
fascinating street in the world"
Between the two rows of trees that
grow along the center of it's width
of Is feet there was formerly an
aqueduct of clear. running water,
that is now filled, and its banks
are the great promenade for the
city's gentry, both foreign resi-
dents and natives.
But the street is marvellous for
the adeptness of the shopkeepers
in spotting" the stranger. Let a
visitor from abroad appear, no
matter how perfectly Che, at least,
thinks) he has disguised himself in
proper Indian garb, he is pounced
upon by swarm of shopkeepers
and besought to avail himself of
the bargains that we're never be-
fore offered, and never will again
fall to his good fortune, until he
either yields and secures, some
times a true bargain. but often a
lot of rubbish, or calls to his re-
lief a friendly policeman, usually a
swarthy Sikh. Sometimes it is
most amusing when rival mer-
chants grapple each other in their
fraDtic efforts to secure the mo-
nopoly of a seemingly profitable
customer land the policeman's SER
vices are required to separate the
belligerents.
The mirror., 1919-08-21

When the baitcosts more than the
fish it's time to stop fishing.
The mirror., 1919-08-21
Taylor Was Caught Asleep Off Secon.

Taylor was caught Asleep Off second
up for thirteen hits that landed in
safe territory. He struck out
eight men and issued one wild
pitch. He carried off the batting
honors for the visitors. Out of
four times to bat he got two hits,
one of these was a three Dagger,
driving in a score, and a moment
later he scored himself.
Wells, who did the twirling for
Continued on page 8. column 81
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land Miners Association. 1t was il
that place that he made the recorc
which sent him to Parliament. He
had not been secretary long, and was
only 27 years old, when a great
strike occurred. The association has
only 1000 members and only $3.50 ir
the bank as a strike fund. The
young secretary had general charge
Of everything. He enlisted many new
members, gained the support of Other
organizations and by the time the
strike was won, as it was under his
leadership, there was a balance OF
e700 in hand.
1t was because of that achievement
his fellow miners determined to send
him to Parliament. 1t was in 1874
that they did so. 1t was an unheard
of proceeding and created an unpre-
cedented sensation. But never did a
man thus thrust into a strange place
acquit himself more creditably.
Neither cringing nor clustering, he
was from the first a courteous, dig
nifed member of the House, neither
seeking notoriety nor shrinking from
notice, but acting as though it were
the most usual thing in the world
for pit man to enter Parliament.
From the very first he commanded
civ Of
men Of all parties, which he has re-
tanned to the present time after
which more than years of unbrok-
en- service in the House of Com
mons. During - that time he has
been the representative of Morpeth.
Mr.. Burt was one of the British
delegates to the international Labor
Conference at Berlin which Kaiser
Wilhelm called by imperial rescript
in 1890, which proved so sorry fail
ure and over which the Kaiser and
Prince Bismarck had the quarrel
which served as the first pretext for
dropping the pilot" He was sec
rotary of the Northumberland Min
efS Association Tor more imam Az
years. He was for several years in
the government az Parliamentary
Secretary to the Board of Trade. In
1906 he was appointed as Privy
Councillor and Durham University
gave him its highest honorary degree
ID. c. l..
Despite his meagre schooling,
through years of reading and OBJ
servation he acquired liberal edu
cation and has been an occasional
writer for the foremost reviews of
England.
1t is of interest, by the way, to re-
call that when he was first elect ID
for Morpeth Mr.. Burt succeeded the
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
RED CROSS
CHAPTERS GIVE
THEIR HISTORY
Interesting Facts Given Out
BY Different New Eng
land Organizations

Milford, N. H., according to its
Chapter history, anticipated the pub
lie health program announced from
National Headquarters and soon af-
ter the influenza epidemic formed a
committee of its own to study the
subject of a district nurse for Mil
ford. With the advice Of the Division
Director of Nursing, public health
nurse was subsequently engaged.
A Red Cross tea room Melted the
auxiliary at Harvard, Mass, $663,
according to the Clinton Chapter his
tory.
A bright spot in the Gardner,
Mass, Chapter History is the follow
ing letter of thanks written by Il
young soldier from a southern camp
to a member of the Gardner COM
fort kit committee: #.4
"My dear--
81 received your letter also Parcel
Post Oct. 9th. l thank you ever SC
much, will do as much for you some
day. 1t is just What fellow needs
in this mans out fit. This camp Is
guaranteed with Spanish Influence,
which will hold us back for while.
We are all anxious to be on the
move. The sun is hot enuf to Fry
griddle cakes here. The nights are
hot and the mosquitoes thicker than
the shines in camp. Some Place.
came to camp with me and is doing
Fine. He is in the Depot Brigade
Would like to here from you often,
as my sweet Heart got tired of wait
ing and hitched up with another
guy, wasent that to bad. Ha, Ha.
"Yours forever"
Maps, photographs or charts add
interest to the histories sent in by
Chapters at Concord, Mass, New
Bedford, Cape Cod, Hampden Coun-
ty, Mass, Portland, Me-, and Mil
ford, N. II.
One of the Chapter histories re-
ceived is a printed pamphlet, but the
majority are typewriter. All OF
them give evidence of having been
prepared with great care and they
form an exceedingly interesting set
Of documents.
There are 81 Chapters that have
not yet filed their histories, but many
of them have the histories in prepa-
ration. Those who have not eyet
started should do so as soon as pos
sible The task is burdensome in
many ways, it is true, but the value
of the records of the thousands Of
Chapters in this country will in
crease with time, and New England
should be fully represented. Sixty
four Atlantic Division Chapters have
fled histories, and 81 Lake Division
Chapters, according to latest re-
ports.
The Bureau of Nursing of the
New England Division announces
the appointment of Miss Elizabeth
p. Van Patten of Burlington, Yer
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
WHY CARNEGIE 4
REWARDED
THOMAS BURT
A Self"Made IrOnmaster
Was Once a British :
Statesman

There are some better known men
on the list Of Mr.. Carnegie's benef-
carries than the Right Hon. Thomas
Burt, p. c., but there is perhaps not
one who has had ii more interesting
career or career better calculated
to engage the sympathetic. interest
of the great "self~made" iron master.
Mr.. Burt is now SO old that the pres
cnt generation scarcely remembers
him and the time when he was one Of
the most conspicuous men in Great
Britain. But it is worth while to
recall that he was the first laboring
man that ever entered Parliament,
the first that ever worked his way up
from the coal pit to a place in the
Privy Council of the King Of
England.
Nearly eighty-two years ago
Thomas Burt was born in the squalid
cabin of a common Northumbrian
coal miner, Peter Burt. At the age
of ten he was set to work at a wage
of a few pence day as "trapper
boy" in the depths of the mine and
for the next 18 years most of his life
was spent underground. During that
time he got in all two years instruc-
ton at a village primary school,
which was all the academic expert
ence of his life.
His first start toward public life
was made at the age of %, while he
was working in the mine, He be-
came at that time the unpaid sec
rotary of the Northern Federation
of Temperance Societies. These So
cieties were largely composed of col
liery worlmen, who held that moth
ing was more dangerous for miners
than intoxication. In that office Mr.
Burt became familiar with the work
of secretary and also with Parlia-
mentary procedure and showed him
self so apt at it that nc was presently
made secretary of the Northunlber
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Passed the Test

A young man from our town had
gone into training school as an
automobile mechanic. In one of their
tests an automobile was taken apart
and it was his duty to assemble each
part of its respective place. He had
done this with the exception of one
piece, which was missing and which
he could not find. The c. o. told this
young fellow that it was up to him
to get this piece, SO, taking his su-
perior officer at his word, he pro-
ceeded to take the missing part from
the commanding officers own car and
he was one Of the four out of class
If 100 who passed the test.-H. H.
ia San Francisco Chronicle.
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mont, as the first field supervisor of
Red Cross public health service il
that state.
Miss Van Pattcn has been engaged
in public health work in Vermont
for the past three years. For two
years she did school nursing in Bel
lows Falls and recently she has been
working under the Vermont State
Board of Education giving health
instruction to teachers in the nor
NAL schools. The majority Of theg.
teachers, Miss Van Patten said, will
go out into the rural districts where
public health knowledge is especially
needed.
The new supervisor received he.
public health training at the InstruC
tive District Nursing Association
Boston, where she took a fou
months course. She is graduate Of
the Presbyterian Hospital, New
York City, and is president of tho
Vermont State Nurses Association.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
The Clever Frieril
anator said at p BANQUET :.

A senator said at a banquet:
"a political campaign, like every
other campaign, must be thoroughly
organized. Lack of organization, ina
attention to detail, lead straight to
disaster.
81 know a lady who could never
have conducted a campaign success
fully. She gave dinner party re-
Gently, and to one of her guests, a
stranger, she said;
"Mr-er--I've paired you off
with that fat dame in the corner.
Will you take her into dinner? My
husband the wicked wretch, says
she's good deal of trump, but
she got lots of money and one of his
clever friends has just married her
for it, so we must be as nice to her
as we can, mustn't WEI"
I'm sorry, ma'am,' said the
strange guest, with stiff little bow.
but l happen to be the clever friend
in question Washington Star.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
TO BE A FAILURE.

Turn all trash into Thrift Stamps.
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late Sir George Grey, the grandfath-
CT of the present Lord Grey, of Fal-
loden, better known as Sir Edward
Grey, who was long Foreign Minist ,r
to the United States. No change
could be more striking than that
from the Wing aristrocrat Of ancient
descent, a member of one of the lord
Hest families of England, to the
former 'Ttrapper boy" of coal mine
and son of an humble collier.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
THE IDEAL TONIC
ARGO-PHOSPHATE

The worlds greatest tonic for
lasstude and all rundown enemic
conditions. 1t just puts pep into the
whole system. cts the best tonic I
ever used" says Boston physician,
Dispensed bv Welcome B. Eastman.
Charles A. Searles & Co., ST Johns
bury; Edmund's Pharmacy, Lyndon
vile, and Chas. H. Coburn, West
Burke.
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THE ALTERNATING

The teachers Of the public schools
were entertained at tea given at
the Athenaeum Wednesday after
noon.
The wives of the. school directors
and of the Athenaeum trustees were
present to greet the former teachers
and to welcome the new ones.
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Believe that everything is right
that you are not caught at.
Be careless of responsibilities
let George do it.
Fly into a passion on slight pre-
text--lose your self-control.
Always think of GET, never
about GIVE.
Look gloomy; never see good in
other people.
Regard every man who differs
from you as q knocker.
Never indulge II self-analys:s.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
THRIFT FABLES
The Noisy Frog.

Once upon a time there was a Con
ceited Frog who was greatly IN low
with his own voice. He rivaled thu
Tom Cats in making the nights hide
Gus and thought he was some pump
kins. But while he was busy croak
ing, the pool dried up, and he had n
place to go.
MANIPULATING a loud noise oYc
what you have done won't get yoi
anywhere. Keep on buying War Say
ings Stamps.
Turn all trash into Thrift Stamps
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Solitude.

A man thinking or working is always
alone, let him be where he will. Soil
tude is not measured by the miles OF
space that intervene between q man
and his fellows.-Thpreau
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20

There was an old GeeZer and he
had wooden leg.
No tobacco. could he borrow; no
tobacco could pc beg.
There was another old Geezer who
took care of his rocks,
lie always had tobacco in his old
tobacco box.
Said Geezer number one: won't
you give me smoke?"
Said the other old Geezer: you've
no cause to be broke.
"If you'd buy few Thrift Stamps
and save up your dough,
Your store of tobacco wouldn't
always run low"
Now this same old GeeZer with the
same old wooden limb.
Is saving up in Thrift Stamps and
you can't stump him.
He's learned to be thrifty and
cares for his rocks
And has plenty of tobacco in his
old tobacco box.