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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23
Our Highest Ideals.

To desire and strive to be of
some service to the world, to aim
at doing something which shall
really increase the happiness and
welfare and virtue of mankind
this as choice which is possible
for all of us; and surely tits good
haven to sail for.
The more we think of it the
more attractive and desirable it be-
comes. To do some work that is
needed, aud to do it thoroughly
we'll; to make our toll count for
something in adding to the sum
total of what is actually profitable
for humanity; to make two blades
of grass grow where one grew be-
fore, or, better still, to make one
wholesome idea take root in a
mind that was bare and fallow; to
make our example count for some-
thing on the side0f honesty, and
cheerfnlness, and courage, and
good faith, and love-this is an
aim for life which is verylwide, as
wide as the world, and yet very
definite, az clear as light. Henry
Van Dyke.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23
The G. L.. S. G. Debate.
Continued from page one.)


Why, friends, real ships had
been in existence over 1000 years
before the offspring Of Eric the
Red touched our eastern coast.
From the time of the early Phoe-
necians up to the settlement of
Jamestown they had dominated
the seas. They indisputably had
benefited of every opportunity for
promoting their value to man.
But they could not push into the
wilderness, the mountains or the
prairies. Like the kitchen cat
around the birdcage, they Tapped
around our continent, and as the
singing canary is denied to the
cat, 80 the fair prize within our
boundaries has been denied to
them. And now this affirmative
cries "Sour Grapes" Under their
auspices our country lay unde-
veloped up to 1880, and their
boasted services had brought dur
ing those 200 years or more, $780,
600 people to our shores, to sur
vive with extreme difficulty the
rigor Of colonial life. We find
that in 1880, 5000 immigrants
were ushered into our country.
Railroads were a reality. The
first rude dawn of real civiliza-
ton was at hand. Now was to
begin the greatest scene of the
wonderful panorama An indus
trial development which has no
parallel in the worlds history was
just shyIy stepping forth, and
after few years had elapsed this
youthful nation was to outdistance
it's rivals in financial and military
power, in manufacturing. agricul.
ture and many other industries.
Today it's standard of civilization
is second to none. From the
paltry volume of 5000 immigrants
in 1880 the total swelled to 100000
1 y
in 1865 to over 100000 in 1905
And all this shows as nothing else
can show that it was our internal
advancement which put the value
ON these foreigners, not the ships
that brought them. We could dc
without these immigrants. VIZ
could destroy our entire shipping
equipment aud shut ourselves uE
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23

mankind will instinctively revert
to his plimeval state of which
Whittier sings:
You hear the piers low undertone,
Of waves that chafe and gnaw,
You START Shippers horn is blown.
To raise the creaking draw.
At times. q blacksmith anvil sounds
With slow and sluggard beat:
Or stage coach on its dusty rounds
Wakes up the staring street.
A place for idle eyes and ears,
A cObwebed nook of dreams
Left by the streams whose waves are years,
That stranded village seems.
And there like other moss and rust,
The native dweher clings
And keeps an uninQniring trust
The old dull round of things.
The fisher drops his patient lines,
The farmer sOws his grain,
Content to hear the murmuring pines
Instead of railroad train.
Go where along the tangled steep
That slopes against the West,
The Hamlet's buried idlers sleep
In still profounder rest.
G. r. 81.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23


shadow over your belief, but the
shadow of disgust. Console him
with the fact that there has been
time in the remote past whom
our industries were not in vogue,
when ships and shipping were i'm
portant. 1t was in the days when
men drank from calabashes and
cocoanut shells, or to flavor the oc-
casion, took their mead from the
hollow scull of defunct quad
ruped.
l bid my opponents subject
adieu. l pay my last regrets that
such stout heart. that such a
! cool reason and above all that such
ability should pursue such frivoi-
Gus, unmanly quests. | hope that
the gentleman will see the error
of his way. That he will leave his
cause and his ships in black
stream that courses some deep
valley Of darkness, where mystic
shadows brood and twist over dark
and lonely silence. The silence of
oblivion.
I go now to follow the tracks of
newer, grander cause that stretch
away over the desert sands; that
serenely lay where underbrush and
reptiles once dominated; that span
streams and torrents and climb
mountains; tracks that turn and
branch and stop wherever the
benefit to mankind will be greatest;
tracks that go where traffic has
never dared to 60 before; tracks
that turn to paradise, the fields
and valleys, the woods and hills
thru which they pass.
: They were born to bring newer
age of commerce; to take the hid
den treasures from the earth for
the use of man, to SOW and reap
the greatest harvests that ever
blessed our kind.
From the fower-kissed cline of
California, the wooded slopes of
Oregon, the metal wealth of Mon
tana and Nevada, down thru the
golden harvest fields of the Mis-
sissippi Valley where ripping
laughter of sunny youth in health
and happiness greets listening ears,
thru all this promised land of peace
and plenty we pass to meet the
grand tumult of the East, that
throbs and pulsates in its gigantic
labor; that belches forth constant
charge of every commodity that
our people demand.
The story of Our eminence and
prosperity is dazzling recital,
and yet our hopes and plans have
Just commenced. Our future has
just begun. Mankind's whole
history is a blotted review of crime
and sorrow, of conflict and suffer
ing, with little death to relieve
life's fortunes, with a little peace
to beget new hopes, new ambitions
and new purposes. Down the
surging aisle of time We look
in vain for the heralded form Of
mans brotherhood. We see along
it's frescoed walls deep blots Of sin,
great scars of heinous crimes of
war and conquest, and when friends
in all this frantic jugglery, in all
this phantasmagoria Ola billion
crouching examples of mans in
humanity to man" we behold
fair ray of peace, hallowed by con-
tact with it's environment, we well
come it with every emotion of an
open heart. I tell you I'll that the
deeds of peace shall multiply.
The crimes of war and conflict
shall fade And the means shall
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23

with our railways for quarter Of
a century and spring forth from
the trial 8 stronger and richer
nation than we are today. But
we could not do without our rail
roads for single month without
untold suffering. The Northwest
stringenoy year ago upholds my
statement.
Greeks and Carthaginians paid
great attentions to highways. The
Roman empire was intersected by
innumerable roads. The Incas OF
ancient Peru built the greatest of
highways, 1000 miles in length.
Every country of every age has
felt and realized that it's per-
manency depended exclusively on
the welfare of its people and that
its peoples welfare was largely
attainable by efficient means of
intercourse.
I would say to all who believe
in the ambiguous, dubious senti,
ments of the opposing gentleman
that [ have known people who
have taken perverted pride in des-
semblance and confusion bat never
have I known one to labor so hard
to render it's tenets ridiculous and
despicable. When every allowance
is made-his argument is positively
offensive.
When he tells you that ships
have populated this country, think
for one brief moment of what I
have said and then tell this lord
that ships have populated this
country with 100000 slaves.
Tell him that ships did discover
this country for purposes of con-
quest and vandalism. Tell him
that his ships tilted upon our
shores the poverty, the crime, the
insanity of the Old World all
thru our early existence. Rise
above him and shout down to his
bringing ears that his ships have
brought us the 'syellow periP' and
a rabble of undesirable" that his
ships laid the misery and pain to
our fathers blood-stained paths,
that they brought troops and i'm
plements of war to our shores for
our subsection.
If he answers that the sea fights
of our Revolutionary and Civil
War days are the glory of our
ships, fling to the ground his mask
Of sentiment and tell him that
those encounters took place after
our victory was practically won.
That they did not make us free and
I would have the sheer of scorn
on your lips when you say that if
our ships fought battles, they
fought battles with ships, not rail-
roads. That if our ships defended,
other ships threatened. One did
nothing but offsetanother's wrong.
When he proudly asserts that in
our Civil War ship saved our
nation, tell him with defiant cour-
age ship did not save our nation,
for our nation was divided. If our
nation was not divided the Monitor
and the Merrimac were both our
| vessels. The vessels of brothers.
Cover not before your masters
spurious courage, but rise like men
and show him his shame Tell
him that the slavery which his
ships introduced built the Merri-
mao to threaten, and that the rail-
ways built the Monitor to defend.
And he can thank fair fate that
there was glory to the Monitor to
offset the ignominy of the Merri-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23
The Soul Of Matter.

Paper Read Before the Chautauqud Circle.
In choosing the above title for
my paper support is given in re-
cent reports by prominent cleo
trical engineers and chemists upon
experiments which proves electric
ity to be the source Of all animal
and vegetable life. This is a great
step toward proving that this in
visible matter is the source of all
motion in the universe, while it's
effects in producing motion, heat,
light, or in exciting magnetic or
chemical changes gives us the only
means of measuring it, even tho
today we have no more ability to
see or handle electricity than We
can the human soul. Nevertheless
our prominent electrical engineers
are learning more of it and finding
more uses for which it is adapted
than ever before.
Only few years ago we were
shown that with the proper cleo
trical current in connection with
little apparatus weighing less
than ten pounds, our heavy armour
plates we're cut in two in less than
five minutes. Then, recently, we
we're informed of rapid-fre gun
using electricity in place of ex-
plosives. Now we are using steel
castings from the electrical furnace
in place Of the crude oil or coke
open hearth, or the dangerous con-
verting process. Even prior to
these developments the electrolytic
furnace had proved it's superiority
in the copper and other smelling
industries; and now the owners of
blast furnaces are awakening to
the fact that they are behind the
times and are equipping their
plants with modern appliances in
order to eliminate the cost of fuel
as we'll as to prevent the loss of
life and limb usually following the
explosion Of gas tunnels. In the
casting house you will notice a
large magnet in connection with a
travelling crane that picks up the
iron and conveys it to the stock
pile or to the cars. This machine
is operated by electricity, and one
man does the work that formerly
required forty.
Go to the rolling mills or steel
works and see with what ease tue
hitherto almost impossible work
that is now being successfully car
ried on by electricity. Our modern
steamships are all guided by cleo
tricity; and, by means Of the wire
less system of electricity, are con-
stantly in communication with
land and other vessels. The WIRE
less system proves conclusively
that the air we breathe is charged
with species of electricity known
as electro. static, and defined as
electricity at rest. In the future
this may be proved to be caused
by the friction of different SUBJ
stances, altho its present cause is
unknown. It is electro motive
force in motion that has been the
main study for the past two years.
In 1749 Franklin with his mag
netic points and kites drew from
the clouds electricity which he
stored in metal jars. This was the
first proof Of electricity being in
the air, altho the Greeks had a
faint knowledge of it's existence.
In 1753 Richmau was electrocuted
by sending up a kite held by a
light wire, which convinced the
scientists of that day that they
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23

We are not allowed to know all
things. Horace.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
The Illinois Game Farm.

The state game farm, near Auburn,
Is now the busiest place In Illinois.
Already this month 5000 baby birds
have made their appearance and 1000
more are expected. Mother birds are
sitting patiently on that number OF
eggs. and every day another Is made
happy by the arrival or chicks.
Thirty thousand eggs of game birds
were placed this spring at the farm,
They included pheasants. native quail,
ducks, turkeys and all other kinds OF
game that inhabit this state. In ad-
dition to the eggs which were placed
under the hens at the farm, the game
warden, DR.. j. A. Wheeler, sent
throughout the state 10000 eggs for
private use. The farm is now produc.
ing from 900 to 1000 eggs a day from
the l.400 hens.
Game birds in Illinois came
through the winter remarkably well,
said DR.. Wheeler. I'VE have had the
most encouraging reports from every
section of the state. The pheasant Is
proving itself TO be an ideal bird for
Illinois. You cannot starve 1t. 1t will
eat the bark on tree before Ii will
quit | have been surprised at Its
hardness. "-Macomb, H., Journal
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21

cured. No. l. shc; No; 2. 7hc: KIP.
/. &c: No. 2. 7hc: Calf. green. No. l..
asYe &c. no horse uiG hides. e No i. "a: No. T.
GS5c.
Limcs-$l Q1.25 per 100.
LemOn.-California sS.75g4.2s per
Maple sug.r;-,New. pure s.l 1Sc !, per lS bar
case; Georgia. $l.504l.75 per case; wa
termelons. 30Q40c: Gems, CSC per bas-
ket.
Onions-spanish. $3.50 per crate:
Oils-Raw. iinseed. 44c: boiled lin
seed 4Ss gal sss per hess snt TOT ksron
sene. enc: turpentine, In oarrel 'ots'
Oranxe.sCal,fornia navels. 1880
So. 500 per box: vaiencias. s42SQA7s
'e P,se.Dples-Florida. s2.So0s.6e per
75e re, saSasket crates. $50: bushels.
$225Q2.50.
Potatoes-virginia white. s3Qs.25
Pouitry-Hens. 1oh911c; chickens.
1914 ole; broilers.. 1sQ zoe; geese. Sc;
Provinions-Mess pork. $3.50. family
pork. 3lS@1s.50: light. clear. Sl6.75;
heavy. $17.50; smoked hams. 13Q 1919:
dry sailed briskets, 1000 H c~shoul
ders lOAc: picnic hams. &c; ASron. a
13hc; lard. in tierces. 1Okc; kettle
rendered. lie per Id.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. - per bu; red
$3.50 per blu.
sugnr-Crystal dominoes, $3.50: eagle
tablets, $7.f5: cut loaf. S6.75: cubes,
lated, extra coarse. 1855; graduated. In
bulk, 35.75: graduated. In 26-lb cotton
bags. $3.50: Michigan graduated. y5.ss;
0 ssSs: No 3. $50 I No. 1855: No. 5.
ISIS: No. ., 40; No: 10. 1886; No. II.
;sa. No 4: ,sSsss 90 No o.r Il 90 'S Ss No
Tomatoes-Texas. s0G90c per 4-bas-
yet crate; home grown. $3.50 per bu.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
WOMAN IS SLAIN
AND ROBBED; BODY
PUT ON TRACKS
D Az GHTER ESCAPES WITH
WoUNDs-NEPHEW, WHO PER-
SUADED THE PAIR TO VISIT
AMERICA HAS DISAPPEARED.

NEW YORK July 20.-Mrs. Ottiie
Eberhard. whose mangled body was
found on the tracks OF the New York,
Susquehanna a. Western railway In
Hackensack. three days after her ar
rival in this country from Austria. ami
who was at first thought to have been
killed by train. was shot 10 death
and robbed of $500 in cash which
she carried in the bosom OF her dress.
This amazing development in the
tragedy came when the autopsy re-
vealed the presence OF bullet wounds
in her bosom and head, and following
the autopsy came the thrilling story
OF her beautiful daughter. Ottile. who
was shot three times, but who es-
capped from the murderers OF her mo-
Their and fed TO the refuge of farm
house
A feature that adds mystery TO the
tragedy is the disappearance OF Au-
gust Eberhard, 81 years old, grocer
clerk, and nephew OF Mrs. Eberhard.
Young Eberhard had taken his aunt
and cousin, whom he met at the
steamer when they arrived from
Europe. over into New Jersey on an
outing, and was with them when the
shooting occurred.
Eberhard is smooth shaven, with
dark curly hair and dark eyes. and
talks with a German accent. II was
through his glowing pictures of life
in America that his aunt and cousin
resolved TO make their home here and
young Eberhard was to have married
Miss Ottile. who is only 20. Mrs.
Eberhard and her daughter arrived on
the Hamburg-American liner Deutsch-
land on Thursday last and were met
at the pier by Eberhard. He took them
to the Adelphi hotel, at Tenth-ave.
and Twenty-third-st.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
Sherds and Brickbats.

Every man is created for something
and TO imagine he Is created for
something better.
Fine words butter no parsnips, but
they spread on an article OF butterine
which fools most of us.
A better half is working major
ity. Husbands who are accustomed
To being worked know how that Is.
We've more money than any nation
in all history, and the run we get for
IL is unexampled. Why shouldn't we
be happy people
A woman bringing up her son to be
decent citizen but spelling her
grandson shows what practice and
experience will do toward developing
a technique.
When a boy goes to the bad his
parents naturally look around for
somebody else TO lay the blame ON.
Who shall IL be, now that the rum
seller is going out?
II an American heiress isn't fool
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

DETROIT, July 20,-Close Wheat
dropped a little lower early in the day
and later recovered and went a tribe
above Saturdays close. This strength
came from cash demand which was
felt In all markets Mlllers and eX-
porters are after the cash wheat and
there is little chance for decline
while this demand continues. Liver
pool was lower, although wheat ON
passage had "A heavy decrease. and the
weeks exports were light. Weather
was favorable for both spring and win
ter wheat.
Wheat quotations-Cash No. red. ?
cars at 81 Nc; July. ~ nc, September
opened &c lower al g2c, lost another
hc, advanced To 92hc. and closed at
92hc; December opened at 94Ac. de-
clined TO sac. advanced to SAC, ana
closed at 94lsc, May opened at 9s !. C.
closed at ssisc; No. red. ssIsc, No. /
white. 81 NC.
Coarse grain quotations: Corn-Cash
No, 3. the; No. yellow, 3 cars at
oats-Cash No. white car at CSC;
August, 5000 bu at 45c, September. o.
600 bu at s4c.
Rye--Cash No. 2. Zoe: August. zoe.
clover seed-Prime October. 100 bags
at S.; December and March. So sam
pie aisike. 10 bags at $3.50, at s7I5.
Worlds exports of breadstuns past
week, 4.464,0O0 bu: week ago, 515S,OOO
bu; year ago. 1859 900 bu.
northwestern wheat receipts Mon
day. 800 cars. year ago. Az cars.
Wheat on passage. 5000, 900 bu. de-
crease.
Receipts in the Detroit market on
Monday Included LOO bbs of -four. 5
ears OF wheat. l OF corn. and OF oats.
Withdrawals were 400 bbls OF flour
Stocks are 164,726 bu of wheat. 11S. 900
bu OF corn, $685. bu OF oats. and 2.9c2
blu OF rye.
Wheat receipts at st. Louis, $4,000
blu; year ago. $4,000 bu.
Wheat in Liverpool closed SAID
lower. and corn Hsd lower.
Visible supply decreases for the
week: Wheat. $1,000 bu; corn. 365 900
bu; oats, 591. 900 blu.
Exports OF wheat and -four Monday,
ass, 900 bu.
Wheat receipts at primary points
Monday. l,466,o00 bu; year ago. $4,000
blu.
CHICAGO GRAIN.
CHICAGO. July 2o.-Lower cables
liberal receiDts and more rains In the
northwest offset the small worlds ship
ments, and liberal decrease on passage
a decline OF y &c in wheat
not heavy and the market rallied on
buying by commission houses and the
pit crowd.
Opening prices: wheat-sept.. sob
: Sept, 427s a42Ae PorkVsept'. 1857.
Iard-Sept. $3.50. Ribs-Sept.. $3.50
S72h.
Wheat was u a NC lower for the day
on big receipts OF primary markets and
sales OF only ten loads. for export. Corn
was lsc off TO u a NC up: oats. nc up
to u q &c lower. and provisions We're
! y @22hc lower.
Closing prices: wheat-Sept.. a0%c.
&c asked. Oats-Sept.
i27sc asked. Pork-Sept.. $500. Lard
Sept. 1927 Ribs--Sept, ss75.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
|GRlzED MOTHER
BROWNS CHILDREN
AND SELF
WOMAN PLuNcEs INTO EAST
RIVER WITH HER TWO INFANTS
AL THREE BODIES ARE RE-
COVERED.

NEW YORK, July 20-The terrible.
Tragic story OF demented mother
who carried her two children TO death
with her in the East river, was reveal
I'd today, by the Identification of the
body or woman, found in the water
OF pier GIL as Mrs. Gussie Benson, 25.
NJ jamestown, N. ID.
The woman was daughter OF
Joseph Shapiro, prosperous cigar
maker, who lives with his wife and
son Frank, In Cherry-st. She was the
wife OF John Benson, formerly gro
GER In Harlem and had been married
nine years. Benson made small
fortune In the grocery business and
then went west where he engaged In
building operations.
They had two children, George. 4
years old, and Leon, aged 2. A few
months ago Mrs. Benson became home
sick for New York and her husband
brought her east. In the home OF her
mother a third child was born, but 1t
lived only few weeks.
Domented by Babes Loss.
Benson returned to North Dakota,
leaving his wife and two children with
his parents. The loss OF the baby I'M
hinged the woman's mind and her
mother tried to keep constant watch
ON her.
On Wednesday evening. the children
wanted candy and Mrs. Benson took
them out with her, saying she was go
ing to the candy store. She did not
return and the next day the police
sent out general alarm for her On
Friday the body OF little Leon was
found In the river, off Greenpoint.
Yesterday the bodies OF the mother
and son were taken from the river.
Georges body also was found near
Green point.
IL is thought that the woman took
the two children down TO the river
front, and plunged overheard with
them in her arms. Her body was
identified today by Mrs. Shapiro.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
MOTOR BIKE
THIEVES NOW

The motor bicycle thief Is abroad
I'm the land and all owners OF the
little two-wheeled automobiles are
warned To be on their guard against
strangers who, with specious tales.
heguile them into allowing them a
ride.
The thief loves shining mark. too.
as James A. Thompson. 80 Buchanan
st knows to his sorrow, for Mr..
Thompson awned the most expensive
motor bicycle in Detroit which he
let the stranger ride, on the request
OF the William +. Metzger Co, which
regarded the thief in the light OF a
prospective buyer but didn't happen
to have a machine in stock of the
variety he desired.
The swiped motor bike was twin.
cylinder Indian, colored royal blue.
worth s2S5 and carried a fine lot OF
fittings.
The thief was a middle-aged Ger.
man, blond moustached and with
gold teeth. travelling light.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
NEW YORK COTTON.

NEW YORK. July 2o.-The cotton
market opened three points higher on
July but four 10 six points lower on
other months. The market was un-
favorably affected BY bearish news on
the weather in the belt including good
rains i'm many places where needed.
There was a good demand at the de-
cline, promoting steadiness. After the
call. October was wanted by Wall-st.
interests.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21
DENTIST SIMPSON TO
SUE WOMAN ASSAILANT

NEW YORK. July 20.-Dr. James
w. Simpson. the dentist. who was
shot in Northport. L. l., on July IA,
by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ella Hor-
ner, for the murder OF whose husband
DIR. Simpson was acquitted a year
ago, has left Roosevelt hospital. He
was in high spirits, although the bull
let has not been removed. Attend
ants say the dentist intimated he
would sue Mrs. Horner.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-21

when she marries a poverty-stricken
foreign nobleman she will hardly part
from her money soon enough to suit
him and the match will be unhappy.
A big rascal will come at length to
the point where his bigness overshad-
ows his rascality, after which he 10
comparatively safe.-New York
World.