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EXICO'S plight Is more serious
than It lias been in the gloomiest
days of Madero or Huerta. Moro
than over tho prey to a thousand
petty leaders, subject to tho loot
of waudoring Irregular troops, gov
erned only by chiefs having tho
allegiances of a section of the
country, tho Intolllgcut men and
women among her fifteen millions
sec no ray of sunshine, no Diaz or
Juaroz appearing to restoro order
wuti a strong hand. Dispatches from tho ngents
of tho United States government to the officials
there aro not pleasant reading for tho friends of
Mexico.
If there Is ono man of whom tho Americans .
Interested In Mexico havo hopo It Is Antonio
Vlllareal. Ho enlisted eaily In the cause of Car
ranza's constitutionalists and was fighting steadily
up to tho dato of the taking of Monterey, In the
capturo of which ho assisted. Then ho was ap
pointed governor of Ntiovo Leon. Ho was men
tioned ninny times for his part in the conference
at Torrcon, which followed tho first open break
between Carranza and Villa and later Carranza
offered him tho post of war minister.
Ho acted ns president of tho second or Aguas
callentcs convention, it will bo romembcred. Car
ranza, when ho began his short period of "glory"
in Mexico City, mado Vlllareal minister of finance,
but Vlllareal becamo disgusted with tho inepti
tudo of tho Carranza crowd and resigned.
Vlllareal Is quiet and unassuming in manner,
and this means moro In Mexico than It would in
tho United States. Ho is thirty-eight years old,
well educated, and speaks good English, having
been a school teacher.
When a youth ho became involved in a dispute
with a rival to a certain woman's affections and
killed him.
Ho served four years In tho penitentiary. Dut
with this ho has tho cleanest record of any man
in Mexico who is in a positon of power.
Vlllareal onco was editor of a Spanish paper
published In St. Louis. Ho is daring and at tho
samo tlmo tactful. Ho is not antagonistic toward
Americans, either, and frequently goos out of his
way to accommodato them. In his bold frankness
and hatred of shams he is much moro like an
American thnn any of tho other Mexican leaders.
Carranza and Villa both llko Vlllareal, and ho
Is tho only man they both llko. While ho has
always protected foreigners and oven forbade1 tho
publication of anti-American articles in Monjerey,
ho was much hurt by the presenco of American
troops in Vera Cruz. This was tho ono thing
which stood in tho wny of his approval of things
American.
As to Villa, ho has long ago become familiar
in ability and character to Americans. Ho is a
groat military genius, but no civil executive, and
ho knows it. His game now is to bo tho power
behind tho throne to rule through tho do facto
Mexico City president, Eulalio Gutierrez. If Villa
over attempts to occupy tho presidential chair ho
will probably travel tho rest of tho road of Diaz,
Huorta and Carranza in short order.
Boforo tho present troubles started Qutlerroz
was a watchman employed by tho big Mazlpul
Copper company nt Zacatocas. This concern owns
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of Britishers.
Gutierrez mado himself a power in the consti
tutionalist party rather by destroying property
than by actual hard fighting. Ho became dicta
tor of tho Zacatecas district and set out to annoy
his old employer, General Manager Percy Carr
of tho Mazlpul Copper company, who, of course,
had never heard of Gutierrez while the latter was
a humble watchman.
Tho copper company wa3 the proprietor of
the railroad running to Zacatecas and had
arranged a special train to take away the families
of foreigners. As soon as Gutierrez heard of this
ho telephoned to Carr in Saltlllo that Carr must
pay him $27,000 for the privilege of running this
train ovor Cnrr's own railroad or elso the sol
diers ot the ox-watchman would not let tho cars
pass.
"If you don't pay, and send the train through,
you know what will happen," said Gutierrez, and
he could not have mado his meaning clearer to
Carr had he drawn his finger across his throat.
So Carr paid tho money and tho women and
children, chiefly Americans, reached tho border
without hurt.
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Gutierrez' specialty of ruining houses, bridges
and rallroids earned for him the title of "Tho
Destroyer." He never displayed any such mili
tary ability as Villa; but destruction Is popular
with tho Mexican soldiery, It must bo remembered.
Gutierrez plundered and robbed with slight
heed to what Carranza and Villa wero doing. Ho
seized property of Americans and put it to his
own purposes, while Carranza ignored protests,
Last July ho sent a demand to Carr, ordering
htm to resume all the Mazlpul 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 thero was
no financial basis. Yet the order from tho ex
watchman read to "btart up tho works, as North
Mexico is now 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 ho could delay resumption, and
for this Gutierrez seized $300,000 worth of ore
owned by tho 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, wore
disgraceful. Tho national treasury was robbed
of ail except about 200,000 pesos, which must
havo been overlooked. Every ounce of gold and
silver in tho mint was taken. Also there wont
printing presses, plates and the entire stock of
bank note paper in tho government printing
offices. Tho public offices were stripped of fit
tings, Inkstands, typewriters, furniture, rugs, car
pets and curtains. Even tho 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 tho city, many of them commandeered from
private citizens and foreigners.
At the Buena Vista station of the Mexican rail
way train after train drow 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 Vara
Cruz. His cause is hopelessly lost. Among his
remaining leaders, however. Gen. Alvnro Obregon
looms large. Ho Is undoubtedly a strong man.
He has kept Gen. Luclo 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 Sonorn,
whose men have been besieging the Carranza
general, Hill, in Naco. In Sonora Maytorena is
supromo and he is idolized by tho Indians. Ho
is not friendly toward Americans, and there is a
well-defined conviction among tho American army
officers along tho border that Maytorena could
by n word have prevented the snipers' bullets
which killed and wounded 52 persons from com
ing over tho international boundary lino at Naco.
So far ho has confined himself tcr tho Northwest.
If Maytorena over decides to follow tho pUh from
tho north of most of Mexico's conquerors from
the time of Juarez it may bo with no mean army.
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Nullified by the Work of the
Sophists.
And so it happened that, about C50
B. C, there aroso Thales, who, by his
wido oxperlonco and tho persistent en
thusiasm with which ho carried on
investigation, earned tho tltlo of Fa
ther of Sclonco. And so, also, shortly
of tor him, Annxlmandor, by committing
his knowledge to writing, brought into
oxlBtenco tho first sclentlllc manu
script. Tho sixth contury, llko the
seventh, wan still a period of origins.
It saw the physical researches of Py
thagoras, and tho historical studies of
Hccataeufl. In tho fifth century Greek
learning reached Its climax. This ago
was resplendent with tho nameB of
Thucydidea, who wroto history with
critical caro; ot Heraclltus, who con
ceived of a universal rolgn of law, and
of Hippocrates, tho Fathor of Medi
cine. Its greatest character was So
crates, tho barefooted, questioning
sago of tho market pluco ot Athens.
With over burning onUiuslaBin for
truth, thlB great toachor attempted, by
quiet and candid dobato, to aid men to
mnko their concepts clear, and to give
words definite monulnga, trusting thnt
through tho correct uso of tho reapon
they would arrlvo at a recognition of
superiority of right actions. Tho fouMh
century was both an advanco and a
decline. It comprised tho work of
Plato and Aristotle, tho ono elaborat
ing tho concepts of Socrntea with po
etic power, tho other systematizing
knowledge in truly scientific form. But
in this nge tho demand for brllllnnt
TRACED TO PHYSICAL CAUSES
Experiment! Concerning Sleep and
Kindred Unconsciousness Are
Intensely Interesting.
Experimental investigations do not
yet wholly prove becauao they are
not yet completodbut go far toward
showing that tho catalepsy in animals,
hypnosis and mesmerism in somo men
and tho normal Bleep in everybody
aro Induced by releasing Into the flow
ing vital atreums of bloed and lymph
superficial learning as nn asset for
climbers led to tho riso of tho Soph
ists. These popular teachers, by
their careless, sweeping generaliza
tions and their rhetorical embellish
ments, turned tho Greek mind aside
from tho slmplo pursuit of truth, and
entangled it in unprofitable metaphys
ical speculations. Engineering Magazine.
American Dentist In Europe.
But lot mo tell you about the Ameri
can dentist in tho European war. Tho
hospital physician told mo that ho no
ticed early In his war work that many
of tho soldiers wero Buffering from
toothache moro than from their
wounds. So every wounded man wnB
examined by a dentist before ho was
taken to tho ward. ,It was discovered
that a largo percentage of tho men
from tho trenches hnd Bwollen gums,
and that by treating their mouths thoy
wero cured and ready for tho front ten
days earlier than In cases whero their
teoth wero allowed to go. Tho Eng
lish, he said, had tho Avorst teeth, the
Arabs tho best. "Hero and There in
Battle-Scarred Franco." Peter Mac
Queen, In Nntlorial Mojjazlne.
mnde that bring its behavior Into lino
with tho behavior of animals in cer
tain respects. Tho leaves aro sensi
tive to mechanical disturbances, to
electrical stimulation nnd to tho sud
den increase In temperature as
through tho application of warm wa
ter. At ordinary temperatures it takes
two stimulations to get up the re
sponse; but nt higher temperatures
one "shock" will cause the leaf to
close. At ordinary temperatures one
electric shock will produce tho effect
if it is strong enough.
Botanical Curiosity.
Since 1893, when Prof. John Mulr
head Mncfnrlane, now director ot tho
botanical garden at tho University of
Pennsylvania, found thnt tho leaves of
the plant known ns tho Venus fly trap
will closo up only if tho trlggor hairs
nro disturbed twice in succession, very
llttlo 1ms been learned nbout tho phys
iology of this curious insect-catching
plant. During tho past yenr, however,
somo new exporlmentB havo been
somo pent-up Juice or fluid. There is
presont In tho living structures somo
"hormone" or gland stuff which is
freed nt night in the caso of normal
sleep. Fear releases tho other stuff in
nnimnls, nnd suggestion, ns well as
fear, opens up tho floodgates In tho
matter of catalepsy and hypnosis.
Moreover, in cortaln typos of Insan
ity, such as domontla praocox, thy
roid insufficiencies and others whero
near catalopey and true cntalopsles oc
cur, It has long been understood that
various parts of human physiology
Wonderful Wireless.
Thero is apparently no limit to tho
future possibilities ot tho wireless.
Wireless storm warnings nnd general
weather forecasts for ships at sea, cov
oring conditions 100 miles off shore
along tho entiro Atlantic coast, was
inaugurated by the United States navy
department on July 15, 1913. Direct
wireless communication between
America and Asia wns established by
tho completion of stations in Siberia
and Alaska, tho stations being about
D00 miles apart. Today no vessel ot
any consequonce plies the oceans with-
j out ita system of wireless, and its ef-
iecuvenesa in receiving uowa ui uiu
present European -war is well known.
London's First Ambulances.
London, which has never yet hnd
an nmbulance, has at last ordered six
of them, and expects them to do all
the work for tho entiro city. In case
of past accidents the policemen havo
had to commandeer tho nearest wagon,
doponding on tho generosity of the
driver, as they were not able to offer
him anything.
wero out of order. Tho thyroid, para
thyroids, adrenals and other glands
aro often then found in distress.
MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION
Writer Thinks, However, That Prep
aration Should Be Made for It by
Both Parties.
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Marriage should bo lookod upon aa
a vocation and not a mere avocation,
argues one who signs herself "Femin
ist" in an open letter to ono of tho
daily papers. The writer, who had
been a teacher, but .who is now a
mother, has been surprised that be
ing a wlfo and mother Is a "pro
fession, tho successful performance
of whoso 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 aro choosing a profession quite
as important as medicine, law or busi
ness, and that, if possible, a prepara
tory course should bo required before
granting tho cortiilcate to practice tho
profession of wlfo and mother. This
sounds very well and would bo ad
mirable if it could bo carried through.
But as thero aro two paths in mar
riage it would bo very one-sided If the
woman received all tho training. A
good, stiff preparatory course for tho
young man contemplating the profes
sion of husband and father would bo
qulto ns much in order. If we have
ono, let us havo tho othor, also.
'Francis Frear In Leslie's Weekly.
First "Typewriter."
So long ago as 1711 a patent was
taken out In England by Henry Mill
for "a machlno for Impressing let
ters singly and progressively as In
writing, whereby all wriUngs, may be
engrossed in paper bo exactly as not
to bo distinguished from print." Ilia
machlno was very clumsy and practi
cally useless, however.
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Residents of California City Urge
Them to Beautify Their
Rights of Way.
At a recent meeting of tree plant
ers In a California city it was resolved
to request tho various chambers of
commerce In that part of the state to
urgo tho railroads to beautify their
rights of way, particularly their ap
proaches to cities, all of which are
slovenly and nono of which aro good.
Tho subject of railroad gardening
has been agitating tho whole country
for many years, and it has finally been
determined that hardy, drought-resistant
shrubs offer tho best material for
permanent beautlflcatlon. It Is not
"dvlsablo to obscure too much of the
station or station grounds, for obvl
ous reasons; therefore, few trees nnd
many shrubs should bo used, with very
few flowering plants, for the latter
requlro care, and railroads aro most
economical in matters whore no direct
financial return is assured.
Could tho embankments bo plant
ed with low-growing, low-priced
lrought-re3lstant flowering shrubs and
among these sown seed ot native wild
flowers, wo would havo a beautlflca
tlon scheme of effectiveness at low
cost that would stand for all tlmo to
come with a minimum of care and ex
pense; yet ono that' would forever
transform present ugliness" into tracts
of beauty.
KEEPS. TREES. IN CONDITION
Device of German Expert Provides foi
Their Systematic Watering
and Ventilation. ,
A very ingenious and practical de
vice for assuring the trees on city
sidewalks a sufficient supply ot water,
no matter how dry the season and how
hard baked tho earth, has recently
been put in operation in Strassburg by
Mr. Sauer, tho city tree inspector. It
consists of a tube of iron or lead bent
Into the form of a ring large enough ta
encircle tho stem of tho tree. Th
earth is removed so that this ring may
be placed just above the roots, and la
then filled in again, leaving the end of
a pipe connecting with tho ring pro
jecting above the surface of the ground.
The top of tho ring is pierced with a
large number of small holes, and a
tin cover or shield prevents these
from becoming stopped up with earth.
By means of a funnel in the protrud
ing end of the pipe any desired amount
of water may be supplied to the roots
without waste or loss of time. A fur
ther advantage, according to Prome
theus, is the ventilation thus secured
of the earth in tho vicinity of the
roots Scientific American.
Cultivating Vacant Lots.
Vacant lot gardening has greatly in
creased in Philadelphia during the
last year. More than six hundred
families wero engaged in the health
ful and remunerative work of culti
vating the spaces of idle land in vari
ous sections of the city. The work
is carried on under tho direc
tion of tho Philadelphia Vacant
Lot Cultivation association. Since
its organization In 1897 this organiza
tion has accomplished much in af
fording opportunity for self-help in
Philadelphia. It secures the tempo
rary uso of Idle land and assigns gar
dening thereon to people who are In
need of money, as well as a healthful
occupation. Not only by this scheme
Is a chance for healthful and profit
able work afforded, but it prevents
these vacant spaces from being used.
as unsightly dumping grounds.
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Seek Treasure In Paris.
Wealthy Parisians havo bought an
entiro block of houses in that city, and
will tear them down to hunt tor
Uoman and Gothic treasures.
Attacks Tramp's Peg Leg.
Attacked by a tramp whom sho had
allowed to enter her honfu to drink
a cup ot coffee, Mrs. F. L. Ccchtel of
East street, North side, was rcsou,ed
by a large English Better, tho property
of her husband.
The dog, which answers to tho
name of Victor, viciously attacked tho
tranin and toro his wooden log from
the stump. Unablo to get away, tho J
miscreant was captured by the pollco
Pittsburgh Dispatch to Philadelphia
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Life Jobs on a Farm.
A farm for tho benefit of "silver" or
unskilled workmen thrown out of em
ployment by the completion of tho Pan
ama canal baa been established by
tho government on the Canal zone.
There aro now about ono hundred nfen
on this farm, all of whom are earning
a comfortable living for themselves.
Nearly all these farmers are crippled,
somo having lost an arm or a leg or
having been Incapacitated in some
other way for hard work. The farm
grows bananas, oranges, cocoanuts
and other tropical products and is
stocked with cows, chickens, ducks
and pigs. It is managed by the medi
cal corps of the United States army.
Each workman ,1s to have a lite Job on
tho farm.
How to Clean Up Yards.
It has remained for a picture show
man to clean up a Kansas town In a
most effective way, and by a simple
method. Ho offeVed a free ticket to
his show for a limited time to any
boy who could bring a certificate from
his mother that ho had thoroughly
cleaned up the back yard, and some
three hundred boys about all there
aro in the town got on the Job. There
aro great possibilities in a scheme'
of that kind; it can be made to do al
most anything.
Road of Success.
Author It'll be a flno feather In
your cap if you produce this play. -
Manager (glancing over scenario)
I'll bo tho goat why?
Author Why, you'll havo tho laugh
on the 19 short-sighted managers who
turned it down 1 Puck.
A Troublemaker.
"What sort of a follow is he?"
"A troublemaker."
"Ho seems peaceable enough." (
"I know, but he's the sort of n blun
dering chap that denies all the lloa
you've told your wife."
Luxurious Travel.
Tired Tobias Say, Dusty, wot
would youse do ef youse wuz a mllly
unair? Dusty Darius I'd hav or private car
wid or fectfcer bod en de trucks.
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