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nicely
Mcpherson handled the grass cutter

nicely
test they were more successful.
They outplayed the locals in every
stage of the game, therefore, carry
ing off the honors by a large mar.
gin.
The visitors by fielding every
thing that came their way and by
pulling off a couple of fast double
plays, they simply robbed the
locals of all confidence in winning
the game. McPherson's fielding
ability was one of the principle
features of the day. When it
came to handling grass cutters
he could scoop them up. running
at top speed, with one or both
hands. just as the fancy took him
and the way he lined them out to
first base was something marvel
Gus.
The locals started right off the
reel by putting up a poor exhibi-
tion of base ball. And try as they
might, it seemed as though they
could not tighten up and give the
visitors some kind of a race. Their
defensive work was simply rotten.
No less than nine errors being
charged up to various players. all
of them being of the costly var
iety. In the opening frame the
locals by allowing one man to get
on by an error which was followed
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o1O AVoS0 A0ioooC 0A0 lOuuO Ou
the island of TonQatabu at Mua
and are called ''langis" by the
natives. We call them the tombs
of the ancient Tongan kings. It
must take a lot to hold Tongan
royalty down, for these structures
are of coral blocks forming q
rectangular inclosure about 80 by
so feet. The side walls are made
of two layers of these coral blocks
splendidly fitted together. These
blocks, of course, vary in size, but
one which stands apart from one
of the Enclosures measures twenty
one feet in length. four feet in
width and five feet in height. Ger
tain it is that the Tongans of today
cannot move such great weights.
The ancient Tongans must have
had occasion to erect victory
arch" at one time or another, for
not far from these tombs of royal
ty is found an arch made of two
gigantic stone uprights which sup
port another gigantic stone for
cross member carefully mortised
into place. The Tongans made
certain that their victory arch
would hold together for the safe
passage of their 9th division.
Some. authorities claim that this
particular arch was not made by
the Tongans at all. but by their
predecessors in the islands. Per-
haps 80, but whoever the people
we're who set up this arch they
possessed mechanical ability, for
the uprights are sixteen feet high,
twelve feet wide and FIVE feet
chick, and the stone across the top
is only slightly smaller in thick
ness.
Off the coast of Queensland,
Australia, are the new Hebrides
islands. which some scientists be.
lieve we're once occupied by the
Spanish, for little way from St.
Filip's bay evidences of such oc-
cupation have been dug into from
time to time, along with certain
other ruins, which from the little
examination they have bad indi-
cate an even more remote occu-
pancy.
Up there in Java is the great
temple of Borobodoer, temple of
the many Buddhas. which was un-
earthed some years ago. and is
known to have been built in the
fifth century, and right near it is
the lesser temple of Mendoet.
Farther north, in the Caroline is
lands. are the ruins of an ancient
city whose streets were waterways,
just as those of Venice are today.
So when visits are made to these
virgin islands and one feels almost
like discoverer of new lands. it
is we'll to remember that there is
nothing new. even under the tropi-
cal sun.
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The Stuff

The test of man is the fight he makes,
The grit that he daily shows,
The way he stands on his feet and takes
Fate's numerous bumps and blows.
A cowardcan smile when there's naught to fear
When nothing his progress bars,
But it takes man to stand up and cheer
While some other fellow stars
It isn't the victory after all,
But the fight that brotbar makes;
The man, who, driven against the wall.
Still stands up erect and takes
The blows of fate with his head held high,
Bleeding, and bruised, and pale,
Is the man who'll win in the by and by,
For he amt afraid to fail.
It's the bumps you get and the jolts you get
And the shocks that your courage stands,
The hours of sorrow and vain regret,
The prize that escapes your hands,
That test your mettle and prove your worth;
1t isn't the blows you deal,
But the blows you take on the good old earth
That show if your stuff is real.
American Stattoner and Office OMtfitter.
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4
9@1ga Pyramids, the Ming
lAgg Tombs and those other
monuments to peoples long since
gone, but these ancient wonders we
hear so much about are on the
mainlands of the earth, the char
acters on them are decipherable,
SO that we know in general way
why they were built and by whom,
and within short distances of them
are millions of people like the
ancient builders of these monu-
ments.
Scattered about on tiny islands
throughout the Pacific ocean, how
ever, thousands of miles from any
where so that their silence and iso-
lation are intensified a thousand
fold, with their mystery made a
super-mystery because there are
no legends and no men able to de-
cipher the inscriptions upon them.
are monuments to peoples who are
regarded as ancients by US. Their
location on these islands, their inn
mensity which shows that some
times thousands of people lived
and worked in the immediate vic
unity, and their survival through
the ages from a time when the
people about them were energetic
and highly civilized to the present
day when the people about them
are lazy, ignorant and sometimes
degenerate. make them utterly in
comprehensive.
Easter island is seldom men
toned in print. Recently it burst
into the days news because after
the battle of the Falkland islands
news was sent to the allied world
that it was at Easter island that
Won Spree's feet laid in a fresh
supply of meat and some time
later the German raider Prinz
Ethel Friedrich landed there tD
put fifty British and French sal
lors ashore.
The German shippers certainly
enjoyed a splendid isolation during
these trips. for Easter island is out
in the Pacific ocean 1900 miles
from Chile, the country to which
1t belongs. Inasmuch as Chilean
boats visit the island only once a
year, there was very little danger
of any ones being about to bother
the visiting ships. The nearest of
the other islands are 1000 miles
away. Just why Easter island
should exist at all may well be
asked, but it is not for its isolation
alone that it is one of the worlds
wonders-it is the great number of
giant stone images scattered about
the island that attracts attention.
These are from twelve feet to
twenty feet high, and one of ex-
ceptional size is thirty-three feet
high. They are all representative
of human forms and many of them
wear crowns carved out of red
lava rock. The crowns are about
five feet high. There must have
been many workers to produce
them, for they are ranged pretty
we'll all over the island upon great
stone shelves faced with paved ter
races. Evidently they we're built
in the stone quarries, for dozens
of such statues, finished and un-
finished. are found in these holes.
One uncompleted statue is sixty
eight feet high-still down in the
quarry. Who built them9 How
we're they moved when fnishedY
Why should so isolated an island
have been so densely populated2
These are questions science would
like some one to answer.
About 400 miles southeast of our
Samoan island are the Tonga, or
Friendly islands. Here. too, are
ancient relics. but very modern in
comparison to the images found on
Easter island. These features of
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CdCOlrQS mas b noisy existence IN
the honeysuckle intertwined among
the lilac bushes at the base of the
ridge; there is q family of wood
peckers who quit momentarily
their life work of tapping holes in
a great black oak in the back
ground, to pick up the crumbs of
bread which the guard throws 20
them at evening.
John Burroughs, the naturalist,
visited the spot recently, and
talked of his old friend.
There was a man," he said,
nodding toward the ground, who
was afraid of nothing. He did not
fear the most ferocious tiger. the
fiercest lion, the largest elephant.
or any politician"
Men and women of all races and
faith are included in the long lines
of persons travelling to Oyster
Bays cemetery now adays. It is
not unusual to see some devout
Catholic woman, on one side of the
plot, making the sign of the Cross.
while opposite her woman of
Protestant sect prays silently.
Recently a Japanese visitor
spent several minutes in prayer
before the mound, then gathered
from the side of the plot a few
pebbles and placed them in his
handkerchief. to take back with
him to Japan.
In my country" he said, "our
people reverence his memory. He
was a great man.
Baron Goto of Japan, accom-
panied by members of his staff,
paid bis respects before the grave.
His name and those of his party
are inscribed on the register.
Six hundred and twenty five
persons registered at the guards
shelter house-a rudely built box,
large enough to sit in comfortably.
and no more-on a recent Sunday.
As many more came but had not
time to wait for others to sign, and
so did not record their visit. They
came in limousines, on motor
cycles, in carriages and on foot,
and the list of visitors in this Sab
bath pilgrimage included persons
from California and Florida, Can
ada and New England, and parts
of Europe.
The plot was covered with
flowers, and small silk American
flag, presented by the commander
of Downing Post, G.. A. R., Glen
Cove, T.. l.. foated before the
wooden cross at the head of the
grave. A wreath in the center had
been placed there by the Southern
New York Volunteer Firemen's
association; set piece in the form
of an original American flag, with
thirteen stars. was the gift of
Mitchell Post, $50, New York City,
G. A. R., and twisted garland of
dried posies. left by a little girl,
was whitening in the sun.
That was a week ago. There
are fresh flowers, and new offer
ings today, for the pilgrimage is
unendlng in its personnel and
gifts, and new thousands walk
daily up the hill in the cemetery
to pray at this new national shrine.
The national campaign to pro-
vide funds for a monument and
fitting memorial to Theodore
Roosevelt will continue. The hun
dreds of thousands of pilgrims
who will have visited the simple
grave at Oyster Bay and carried
away in memory q lesson concern
ing the simplicity of the mans
character. can be counted upon to
unreservedly support the move
ment. The movement should be
adequately financed so that work
may be begun in November.
A man cannot conquer the world
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A man cannot conquer the world
with death as his only asset.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
MYSTERY TOMBS DOT THE PACIFIC
Mighty Stone Images of Kings Scattered About the Many
Small Islands

Ml HERE is silence, mystery
ISL and isolation about the
Nj Pyramids, the Ming
NIN Torobo on1 kboco othor
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02
WHY SHE WAS NOT POPULAR
AS Old Lady Explained It, Woman's
Neighbors Had Right to
Their Grievance.

Two women were discussing u third.
"Shc's II splendid worker. but still
she isn't popular" commented the sim
glc one. ~ wonder why?"
An old lady who hnd bccn listening
broke into the conversation. "She's
too handcdy," she told them.
Both of the two young ones looked
their wonder.
yes" explained the old lady, 'too
handctly | mean. Doesn't the Bible
say not to lot your left hand know
what your right hand docse But she
doesn't do that. If she lends her
ncighbOr on one side cup of coffee
she has to tell the one on the other
side all about 1t. When she gives any
ono anything she tells all about 1t. And
Won both know that no one likes to
have their wcnkncsse: advertised. She
Keeps one hand too well Informed OF
the other hands doings That's why
H,y shes too hamledy.
liz News.
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rience. some being professors OF In
ternational reputation. Tho results
of experiments and tcstj are free ana
available tn all. Educational oppor.
funities for farmers are the concern
of the government and appreciation
Is shown by the number of farmers
who attend the free courses.
Agriculture in Canada has reached
n high standard. Notwithstanding
! which lands are low I'm price.
Thus upon the United States and
Canada for many years will rest the
great burden of feeding the world.
With free interchange Of travel. diff
culties Of crossing and recrOssing re-
moved, Canada may look for a speedy
resumption Of the large influx Of set
tiers from the United States which
prevailed previous to the war. Dur
Of something no one seemed to know
what. IF the American went to Cam
ada he might he conscripted. put In
prison. or In his attempt to cross
the border he would meet with innu-
mcrablc difficulties, most Of which,
Of course, was untrue. These I'M
truths were circulated for a purpose
by an element, which. II was discov-
cred, had an Interest In fomenting
and creating trouble md distrust be-
tween two peoples whose language
and aims In life should be anything
but OF an unfriendly character. The
draft law Of the United States. adopt
cd for the carrying ont OF the high
purposes had In view by the United
States, kept mnAy from going TO Can
ada during the period of the war. The
citizen army of the United States
was quickly mobilizcd. and contained
n large percentage Of the young men
from the farms. I'm this way many
were prevented from going to Cam
ada.
That Is all over now. There are
no real or imaginary restrictions;
there Is no draft law to interfere.
On the contrary, there Is an I'M
fnthomahlc depth Of good feeling. and
the long-cxisting friendship Is strong
or than ever. This has been brought
about by the knowledge of what has
been done In the recent great strug-
gle, each vying with the other In
giving credit for what was accom-
pllshcd. In thought and feeling. In
language, I'm aims In life, In work, In
desire to build up n new world, there
has been bred n kinship which Is as
indi"soublc MS time itsclf.-Adver-
tiScmcnt.
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For the first time 1 looked for him
with dread at the window and when
he came hid in closet and heard
that solemn and penetrating note in
her voice as she said:
81 guess you'll have to take that boy
away-ayes! !"
"What now?" he asked.
"My stars he sneaked into the par
lor and tipped over the what-not and
smashed that beautiful wax WREATH"
Jerusalem four-corners he ex-
claimed. "Tll have to"
He stopped as he was wont to do on
the threshold of strong opinions and
momentous resolutions.
The rest of the conversation was
drowned in my own cries and Uncle
Peabody came and lifted me tenderly
and carried me upstairs.
He sat down with me on his lap and
hushed my cries. Then he said very
gently:
snow, Bub, you and me have got to
be careful. What-nots and albums
and wax flowers and haircloth sofys
are the most dangerous critters in st.
Lawrence county. They're purity saw
age. Keep your eye peeled. You can't
tell what minute they'll jump on We.
More boys have been dragged away
and tore to pieces by 'em than by all
the bears and panthers in the woods.
Keep out o. that old narlor. Ye might
as well go into cage o. wolves. How
be gOin' to make We remember it?"
81 don't know" whimpered and he
gan to cry out in fearful anticipation.
He set me in chair, picked up one
Of his old carpet-slippers and began to
thump the bed with it. He belabored
the bed with tremendous vigor. Mean
while he looked at me and exclaimed:
"You dreadful child!'
i knew that my sins were response
BILE for this violence. 1t frightened me
and my cries increased.
The door at the bottom of the stairs
opened suddenly.
Aunt Deel called:
Don't lose your temper, Peabody.
think you've gone fur 'nough-ayes
Uncle Peabody stopped and blew as
If he were very tired and then caught
q look In his face that treasured me.
He called back to her: II wouldn't
"a cared so much If it hadn't "a been
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02
Men Of Iron.

Capt. Edward Beck of South Bend,
Ind, at present in France with tho
black Scnc;,alcsc troops. recently
wrote home concerning them.
"'Thcy arc just like our own col
orcd troops" he writes. mo wonder
they're great fighters. They never
feel any pain. They remind me Of
colorcd laborcr I'm South Bend. One
day. to test the hardness Of this fell
lows head. mason on The upper floor
Of building dropped some mortar
on VI. Tho fellow never moved; In
fact. he hadn't felt II thing. So the
mason dropped brick.
Crush
"Whcn the brick hit his head the
cOlnrm man looked up ut the aaason
ianguidly:
Look out whar yOu'nlls done drop
pin dat mortar, he said"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02
THE AUTHOR.
BOOK ONE
Which Is the Story of the Candle
and the Compass.
The Melon Harvest.
CHAPTER I.

Once upon q time l owned water
melon. 1 say once because 1 never did
,it again. When l got through owning
that melon 1 never wanted another.
The time was 1881; was a boy of
seven and the melon was the first of
all my harvests.
didn't know much about myself
those days except the fact that my
name was Bart Baynes and, further,
that I was an orphan who owned a
watermelon and little spotted hen
and lived on Rattleroad h nelghbor-
hood called Lickitysput. lived with
D..y Aunt Deel and my Uncle PEABODY
Baynes on farm. They were brother
and sister-he about thirty-eight ana
she little beyond the far-distant goal
of forty.
MY father and mother died in
scourge of diphtheria that swept the
neighborhood when / was a boy OF
five.
A few days after I arrived In the
home Of my aunt and uncle 1 slyly en-
tered the parlor and climbed the what
not to examine some white flowers on
its top shelf and tipped the whole
thing over, scattering its burden OF
albums, wax flowers and seashells
on the floor. My aunt came running
on her tiptoes and exclaimed: mercy !!
Come right out o. here this minute
you pestr"
took some rather long steps going
out, which were due to the TACT that
Aunt Deel had hold of my hand. While
I sat weeping she went back into the
parlor and began to pick up things.
my WREATH my WREATH heard
her moaning.
How well remember that little as
semblage of flower ghosts In wax
They had no more right to associate
with human beings than the ghosts of
fable. Uncle Peabody used to call
them the "Minervy flowers" because
they were a present from his Aunt
Minerva. When Aunt Deel returned
to the kitchen where sat--a sorrow
ing little refugee hunched up In cor
ner-she said: "Tll have to tell your
Uncle Peabody-ayes"
ooh please don't tell my Uncle Pea
body" l walled.
"Ayesi I'll have to tell him." she
answered firmlv
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02

By IRVING BACHELLER 8,
the TIME Of SILAS WRIGHT

Author of Eber Holden, D'ri and I. Darrell OF the
Blessed Isles. Keeping Up With Lizzie, ETC., Etc.
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dous vigor, ExcIaiming "You Dread
full Child"
the what-not and them Minervy flow
ers. When boy tips over what-not
he's goin' it purity strong"
"Well, don't be too severe. You'd
better come now and git me pail O.
water-ayes, I think We had"
Uncle Peabody did lot Of sneezing
and coughing with his big, red hand
kerchief over his face and was not
old enough then to understand it. He
kissed me and took my little hand in
his big hard one and led me down the
stairs.
I dreamed that night that long-leg-
ged what-not, with wax wreath in its
hands, chased me around the house
and caught and bit me on the neck. I
called for help and uncle came and
found me on the floor and put me back
in bed again.
For a long time I thought that the
way a man punished a boy was by
humping his bed. knew that women
had q different and less satisfactory
method, for I remembered that my
mother had spanked me and Aunt Deel
had a way Of giving my hands and
head kind of watermelon thump with
the middle finger Of her right hand and
with curious look in her eyes. Uncle
Peabody used to call it "snaptious
look" Almost always he whacked the
bed with his slipper. There were ex-
ceptions, however, and, by and by, !
came to know In each case the desti-
nation of the slipper, for IL had done
anything which really afflicted my con-
science that strip Of leather seemed to
know the truth, and found its way to
my person.
Aunt Deel toiled necessarily. She
washed and scrubbed and polished and
busted and sewed and knit from morn
Ing until night. She lived In mortal
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02
Times Had Chained.

Jano Adtlams. mt u Hull house tea,
was commenting OH the lOiS fashions.
Illustrating the trend Of the times she
told of poor man who Ind hardly
been able to clothc his wife nnd family,
INIT; one day he managed to invent a
new kind % depth bomb.
The government paid him literally
for tho invention ind he went 10 his
wife with tears In his eyes.
AT last. my DEAR" he cried. 'you
Will he able to- buy yourself some
decent clothes"
I'll do nothing of the kind" shc re-
tortcd. "I'll get the same kind the
rest of the women are wc,,ringi"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02
(To BE coNTINUED.)
Merely a Superstition.

There Is no kind or a rod, or instru-
ment, which will locate minerals In the
earth with any degree Of certainty.
Sometimes bed Of iron ore will affect
the magnetic needle OF a compass. or
of a surveying instrument. but there
is nothing that will locate the precious
metals.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02

When see the waves Of Lake Mich
igan toss In the bleak snowstorm'
I see how small aud inadequate the
common poet Is. But Tennyson. with
his eagle over the sea, has shown his
sufaciency.-Emerson's Journal
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02
She Didn't Know.

Dorn-Oh. I'm I'm such distressed
nI'rd, and | want your advice. 1 nm
loved by three men, and l don't know
which to accept.
Clnra-Whicll one has tho most
II oney?
Dora--If knew that. do you sup.
pose I'd waste precious time running
around for advicef-Minneapolis jour
unl.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02

II all the worlds stage. It's mp to
every one Of US TO contribute some
thing toward the elevation " Il.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02

Many man who inquiries after your
health doesn't care a rnp whether Il IL
good. bad or Indifferent
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-01-02

Barton meets the IA nous
Dunkelbergs, including ..Sts
goIden-haired Sally, whose pref
ty face and fine clothes fascinate
the boy, whose few years have
been spent In quite another
world. The next installment
tells Of some other interesting
persons with whom Barton be-
comes acquainted.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-12-13
CONSTIPATION


Meadorsville, Ky-Mrs. Pearl Pat
rick. Of this place. writes: II vas
very constipated. I had sour stomach
aud was 90 uncomfortable. ! went to
the doctor. lie gave me soms pills.
They weakened me and seemed TO
tear up my digestion. They would
grippe me aud Afterwards I. seemed
I was more eonstfpated than before.
heard o. Black rauEht and DE-
eided to try II. ] found 1t Just what I
needed. II was an Easy laxative. ant
not bad to swallow. Ny digestion soon
improved. I got we'll Of the our stom-
sch. my bowels soon seemed normal,
no more gripping. and ! would taks q
dose now md then. and was in good
shape.
cannot say too much for Black
Draught for II 10 the finest laxative
q can use"
Thediord's Black nught has for
many years been found OF great value
IN the treatment OF stomach. liver and
bowel troubles Easy take. gentle
and reliable in It's action. leaving ne
bad attereffects. II has won tie prais.
" thousandn OF people who have used
4 Noisl
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nm IA rts more Fcanis While coustrur
for ( eoint ~ ne tlasss> Ate bsinf hea
ia <aflrt, hall
Mf. ard Ms. Sol weller are entsrtainiEe
. numbet ~. their irirpdn Tomorrow esepiHE
- lhcIr home iiri West Tlirras asenue on
The o~tsaaIan - their ihlrltth vtaatar IN
hiterrkr.
prsna isvsra and sectors aiffe are invited
a. the meeripE nf she lummuaits flAf house
asspeiatirn this evening ~ : e'eleek At hnde'
hall on ihe uultcraliy F~susta-. The rtenins
viii he devoted ~ harther Organization -
the tult tteatsr movement and - . STUDY
~ ,he Irish r,ass ~ D. Hutshinsnn 81 III
Ilhest, Players 81 thieaan. aii give read
ines from iads areeory The RisinE 81
the nurhf