^ s f f e i ^ ^ v ' B ^ ^ W S i W S P W f K S K S S f « « % ! » • ; # ' - " ' ' ' ' . • .: •:: ^ .. V- Wwiri-M ' \i'IT17\Tl>r TD>T iTVnrAT T?D M'TI1?\TT>V TT T * :WT>: .df &Nfr&£' &*F ".FI»px«fr^-:-TOar" "7V-- "*fr#m •••• .-••.•y V;; %*M'- "K ^n^-'-;?;. >• ^1,^'t^l-1 1 v ',_g iiil^eJaka.&i •'*q^.!±.:jiiL% M IIENRY PLAINDEALER, M HENRY, ILL. mm;* EXICO'S plight is more serious than it has been in the gloomiest days of Madero or Huerta. More than ever the prey to a thousand petty leaders, subject to the loot of wandering irregular troops, gov erned only by chiefs having the allegiances of a section of the country, the intelligent men and women among her fifteen millions see no ray of sunshine, no Diaz or Juarez appearing to restore order wuh a strorTg hand. Dispatches from the agents of the United States government to the officials there are not pleasant reading for the friends of Mexico. If there is one man of whom the Americans interested in Mexico, have hope it is Antonio Viliareal. He enlisted early in the cause of Car- ranza's constitutionalists and was fighting steadily up to the date of the taking of Monterey, in the capture of which he assisted. Then he was ap pointed governor of Nuevo Leon. He was men tioned many times for his part in the conference at Torreon, which followed the flfst open break between Carranza and Villa and later Carranza offered him the post of war minister. He acted as president of the second or Aguas- calientes convention, it will be remembered. Car ranza, when he began his short period of "glory" in Mexico City, made Viliareal minister of finance, but Viliareal became disgusted with the inepti tude of the Carranza crowd and resigned. Viliareal is quiet and unassuming in manner, and this means more in Mexico than it would in the United States. He is thirty-eight years old, well educated, and speaks good English, having been a school teacher. When a youth he became involved in a dispute with a rival to a certain woman's affections and killed him. He served four years in the penitentiary. But with this he has the cleanest record of any man in Mexico who is in a positon of power. Viliareal once was editor of a Spanish paper published in St. Louis. He is daring and at the same time tactful. He is not antagonistic toward Americans, either, and frequently goes out of his •way to accommodate them. In his bojd frankness and hatred of shams he is much more like an American than any of the other Mexican leaders. Carranza and Villa both like Viliareal, and he is the only man they both like. While he has always protected foreigners and even forbade the publication of anti-American articles in» Monterey, he was much hurt by the presence of American troops in Vera Cruz. This was the one thing which stood in the way of his approval of things American. As to Villa, he lias long ago become familiar in'ability and character to Americans. He is a great military genius, but no civil executive, and he knows it. His game now is to be the power behind the throne--to rule through the de facto Mexico City president, Eulalio Gutierrez. If Villa ever attempts to occupy the presidential chair he will probably travel the rest of the road oftDiaz, Huerta and Carranza in short order. Before the present troubles started Gutierrez was a watchman employed by tbe big Mazipul Copper company at Zacatecas. This concern owns [ 0 INTSRKATiONW. NEW* SLRVXt ' *;» A, f <&?PjP/wza , X <55V&=>/L/: factories, mines and railroads. It is the property of Britishers. Gutierrez made himself a power in the consti tutionalist party rather by destroying property than by actual hard fighting. He became dicta tor of the Zacatecas district and set out to annoy his old employer, General Manager Percy Cart of the Mazipul Copper company, who, of course, had never heard of Gutierrez while the latter was a humble watchman. The copper company was the proprietor of the railroad running to Zacatecas and had arranged a special train to take away th£ families of foreigners. As soon as Gutierrez heard of this he telephoned to Carr in Saltillo that Carr must pay him $27,000 for the privilege of running this train over Carr's own raiTroad or else the sol diers of the ex-watchman would not let the cars pass. "If you don't pay, and send the train through, you know what will happen," said Gutierrez, and he could not have made his meaning clearer to Carr had he drawn his finger across his throat. So Carr paid the money and the women and children, chiefly Americans, reached the border without hurt. Gutierrez' specialty of ruining houses, bridges and railroads earned for him the title of "The Destroyer." He never displayed any such mili tary ability as Villa; but destruction is popular with the Mexican soldiery.it must be remembered. Gutierrez plundered and robbed with slight heed to what Carranza and Villa were doing. He seized property of Americans and put it to his own purposes, while Carranza ignored protests, despite his title of first chief. Last July he sent a demand to Carr, ordering him to Tesume all the Mazipul industries at once. It must be remembered that the British company had been closed down for months. There was no fuel, no cars, no railroad tracks, and there was no financial basis. Yet the order from the ex- watchman read to "start up the works, as North Mexico is ndw pacified and there is no excuse for delay." It was a physical impossibility, so Carr went to Carranza with a final protest. Carranza in formed Carr he could delay resumption, and for this Gutierrez seized $300,000 worth of ore owned by the company and sought to sell it as contraband, in which he probably succeeded. Carranza has degenerated into the head of a band of looters. The scenes accompanying his evacuation of Mexico City, it is learned, were disgraceful. The national treasury was robbed of all except about 200,000 pesos, which must have been overlooked. Every ounce of gold and silver in the mint was taken. Also there went printing presses, plates and the entire stock of bank note paper in the government printing offices. The public offices were stripped of fit tings, inkstands, typewriters, furniture, rugs, car pets and curtains. Even the huge presidential chair in the National palace was crated and borne off. It is estimated that automobiles valued at three million pesos at least were taken out of the City, many of them commandeered from private citizens and'foreigners. At the Buejia Vista station of the Mexican rail way train after train drew out in the direc tion of Vera Cruz laden down with every con ceivable sort of plunder--motors, furniture, horses, pianos, paintings and safes. Even Huerta was out-Huertaed The now ridiculous Carranza is set up at Vera Cruz. His cause is hopelessly lost: -Among his remaining leaders, however. Gen. Alvaro Obregon looms large. He is undoubtedly a strong man. He has kept Gen. Lucio Blanco in line for Car ranza and saw that the retreat from Mexico City was not an entire rout. However, Obregon is a plunderer like the rest. Another man who should not escape mention is Governor Jose Maria Maytorena of Sonora, whose men have been besieging the Carranza general, Hill, in Naco. In Sonora Maytorena is supreme and he is idolized by the Indians. He is not friendly toward Americans, and there is a well-defined conviction among the American army officers along the border that Maytorena could by a word have prevented the snipers' bullets which killed and wounded 62 persons from com ing over the international boundary line at Naco. So far he has confined hUnself to the Northwest. If Maytorena ever decides to follow the path from the north of most of Mexico's conquerors from the time of Juarez it mtiy be with no mean army. a SCIENCE IN ITS EARLY YEARS Efforts of Truly Great Men Largely Nullified by the Work of the Sophists. And so it happened that, about 650 B. <1, there arose Thales, who, by his wide experience and the persistent en thusiasm with which he carried on investigation, earned the title of Fa ther of Sciehce. And so, also,-shortly after him, Anaximander, by committing his knowledge to writing, brought into existence the first scientific manu script. The sixth century, like the Beventh, was still a period of origins. It saw the physical researches of Py thagoras, and the historical studies of Hecataeua. In the fifth century Greek learning reached its climax. This age was resplendent with the names of Thucydide8, who wrote history with critical care; of Heraclitus, who con ceived of a universal reign of law, and of Hippocrates, the Father of Medi cine. Its greatest character was So- cratea, the barefooted, questioning •acre of the market place of Athens, with ever burning enthusiasm for truth, this great teacher attempted, by quiet and candid debate, to aid men to make their concepts clear, and to give words definite meanings, trusting that through the correct use of the reason they would arrive at a recognition of superiority of riaht actions. The fourth centifry was both an advance and a decline. It comprised the work of Plato and Aristotle, the one elaborat ing the concepts of Socrates with po etic power, the other systematizing knowledge in truly scientific form. But In- this age the demand' for brilliant TRACED TO PHYSICAL CAUSES superficial learning as an asset for climbers led to the rise of the Soph ists. These popular -teachers, ny their careless, sweeping generaliza tions and their rhetorical embellish ments. turned the Greek mind aside from the simple pursuit of "truth, and entangled it in unprofitable metaphys ical. speculations.--Engineering Maga zine. American Dentist in Europe. But let me tell you about the Ameri can dentist in the European war. The hospital physician told me that he no ticed early in his war work that many of the soldiers were suffering from toothache more than from * their wounds. ,So every wounded man was examined by a dentist before he wa,a taken to the ward. It was discovered that' a large percentage of the men from the trenches had swollen gums, and that by treating their mouths they were cured and ready for the front ten days earlier than in cases where their teeth were allowed to go. The Eng lish. he said, had the worst teeth, the Arabs the best.--"Here and There in Battle-Scarred France," Peter Mac- Queen, in National .Magazine. made that bring its behavior into line with the behavior of animals in cer tain respects. The leaves are sensi tive to mechanical disturbances, to electrical stimulation and to the sud den increase in temperature as rough the application of warm wa- er. At ordinary temperatures it takes two. stimulations to get up the re- i spouse; but at higher temperatures 1 one "shock" will cause the leaf to close. At ordinary temperatures one electrie shock will produce the effect if it is strong enough. ter (Experiments Concerning Sleep and Kindred Unconsciousness Are Intensely Interesting. experimental investigations do not yrt wholly prove--because they are not yet completed--but go far toward showing that the catalepsy in animals, hypnosis and mesmerism in some men and the normal sleep in everybody are induced by releasing Into the flow- ,1ns vital streams at blood and lymph Botanical Curiosity. I Since 189:5, when Prof. John Muir- head Macfarlane, now director of the botanical garden at the University of Pennsylvania, found that the l^ave? of the plant known as the Venus fly trap will close up only if the trigger hairs are disturbed twice in succession, very little has been learned about the phys iology of this curious insect-catching plant. During the past year, however, some new experiments have been some pent-up juice or fluid. There is present in the living structures some "hormone" or gland stuff which is freed at night in the case of normal sleep. Fear releases the other stuff in animals, and suggestion, as well as fear, opens up the floodgates in the matter of catalepsy and hypnosis. Moreover, in certain types of insan ity, such as dementia praecox, thy roid insufficiencies and others where near catalepsy and true catalepsies oc cur, it has long been understood that various parts of human physiology Wonderful Wireless. There( is apparently no limit to the future possibilities of the wireless. Wifeless storm warnings and general weather forecasts for ships at sea, cov ering conditions 100 miles off shore along the entire Atlantic coast, was inaugurated by the United States navy department on July 15, 1913. Direct wireless communication between America and Asia was established by the completion of stations in Siberia and Alaska, the stations being about 500 miles apart. Today no vessel of any fconsequence plies the oceans with out its system of wireless, and its ef fectiveness in receiving news of the present European war is well known. MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION London's First Ambulances. London, which has never yet had an ambulance, has at last ordered sir of them, and expects them to do all the work for the entire city. In case of past accident^ the policemen have had to commandeer the nearest wagon, depending on the generosity of the driver, as they were not able to offer him anything. were out of order. The thyroid, para thyroids. adrenals and other glands are often then found in distress. Writer Thinks, However, That Prep aration Should Be Made for It by Both Parties. Marriage should be looked upon as a .vocation and not a mere avocation, argues one who signs herself "Femin ist" in an open letter to one of the daily papers. The writer, who had been a teacher, but who is now a mother, has been surprised that be ing a wife and mother is a "pro fession, the successful performance of whose duties requires all my ef fort and all my time," "Feminist," thinks that women generally do not realize this or refuse to face it, that young women contemplating -matri mony should be made to realize that they are choosing a profession quite as important as medicine, law or busi ness, and that, if possible, a prepara tory course should be required before granting the certificate to practice the profession of wife and mother. This sounds very well and would be ad mirable if it could be carried through. But as there are two paths in mar riage it would be very one-sided if the woman received all the training. A good, stiff preparatory- course for the young man contemplating the profes sion oi husband and father would be quite as much in order. If we have one. let us have the other, also.-- Francis Frear in Leslie's Weekly. 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"Professor," said Miss Skylight, "1 ^ant you to suggest a course in life for me. I have thought of Journal ism--" "What are your own Inclinations?" "Oh, my soul yearns and throbs and pulsates with an ambition to give the world a life work that shall be mar velous in its scope and weirdly en trancing in the vastness of its struc tural beauty!" "Woman, you're born to be a mil liner." SICKNESS WHEN KIDNEYS ACT BAD TAKE GLASS OF SALTS Eat Less Meat If Kidneys Hurt or You Have Backache or Bladder Misery --Meat Forms Uric Acid. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flush ing the kidneys occasionally, say8 a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which clogs the kidney pores so they sluggishly filter or strain only part of the waste and poisonB from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, liver trou ble, nervousness, constipation, dizzi ness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or at tended by a sensation of Bcalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water be fore breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This fa mous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and has been used for genera tions to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to neu tralize the acids in urine so it no longer causes Irritation, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot Injure; makes a delightful efferves cent lithia-water, drink which all reg ular meat eaters should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure, thereby avoiding se rious kidney complications.--Adv. Trying to Forget. He--Don't you remember me? She--Why should I? 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Although Canada's ^eal start in na tional development as pointed out by the Buffalo Commercial, came slow ly and late, as compared with that of the United States, it is now well un der way, and very soon there will be a marvelous expansion in agriculture, mining and manufacturing. The paper above mentioned says that "heretofore the development of Canada, like that of the United States, has been westward, but unlike this country, the Dominion has a great territory to the North, which has been regarded as all but uninhabitable, but in which recent research has proven there are possibilities of develop ment almost inconceivable." After making complimentary reference to the resources of the country tributary to the Hudson Bay, which will be opened up when the railroad now un der construction is completed, the Commercial further says "there are those living today who will see our n/ighbor on the north a great and powerful nation, and a not insignifi cant Industrial and commercial rival of the United States. The war may retard, but it cannot destroy, Canada's future. And in this expansion no one will more heartily rejoice than the people of the United States, because the prosperity of the Dominion is bound to increase our own." Herein is the spirit that dominates the Dominion Government when it extends an invitation to Americans to assist in developing the resources that Canada possesses, whether they be mineral, forest, industrial, commercial or agriculture. Both countries will benefit and the United States will be a gainer by having as a neighbor a country whose resources are as great and varied as are those of Canada. In comparing the United States along with other nations of the world in producing and importing food stuffs, the Agricultural Outlook pub lished by the United States depart ment of agriculture says! The United States in recent years has been as large an importer of food stuffs as exporter; therefore she can not be classed as a surplus producer of foodstuffs. This is contrary to pop ular impression. It is true that she Is an exporter of certain articles, but she is an equally large importer of other articles. In this classification tea and coffee are included with food stuffs. In edible grains the produc tion Is 23 per cent more than the amount retained; the production of meats is six per cent more--that is, exports of meat equal six per cent of that retained in the United States for consumption; the production of dairy products is 20 per cent more than consumed; the production of poultry is just about equal to con sumption; of vegetables, one per cent less. An investigation into tbe produc tion, imports and exports of food prod ucts of various countries indicates that England produces about 53 per cent of her food requirements, and imports (net) about 47 per cent; Bel gium produces 57 per cent, and im ports 43 per cent; Germany produces 88 per cent, and imports 12 per cent; France produces 92 per cent, and im ports eight per cent; Austria-Hungary produces 98 per cent, and imports two per cent; Russia produces 110 per cent of her requirements, and exports an equivalent of about 10 per cent; Canada produces 23 per cent more than she consumes; Argentina pro duces 48 per cent more than she con sumes; the United States produces practically no more than she con sumes (i. e. exports and Imports of foodstuffs almost balance). 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