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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

THERE is a letter addressed to
Modesty," lying in the post office
at Salt Lake City, and as no one APP
peared to claim it, the postmaster
has advertised it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

funny look und he said: No my
dear, no Won is beats in my family
But his wife did nots gife him dimes
to finish, und she said: we'll vot for
vas you vering it den.'' Oh" Bill
" said, i vas wearing it for your
first husband. You see vas SO sor--
~ he vas det.''
/ Wonder What ISIS de Deputy vas
going to do apout Tailor Nelson's
squad. It vas to bad, poor fellows,
day hafe not even had Won chance
to schmell dot blug, und it assent be-
cause day don't try, but it ISIS be-
cause day cant do any better. Vot?
Now don't gets mad, und if you be
good boys I will use some of my
powders und see dot you veil get
de price, Yah. 1t wont be no blug
but will be ticket to stand aside
und let dose that know how. You
see you fellows hate got to vim it.
You cant git it by Walking all over.
Now Why don't you vim? You hafe as
much chance as any Won else, und
dere vas no reason Why you should
get mad. Now poys vas not dot
right?
Prunes is prunes, but oatmeal
vas mush; dot les vhot / heard Won
fellow say on de Fourth und / bet
he knew vat he vas talking about.
/ heard fellow say Why, Shop
V will nefer get de prize as long
der vas moon, und he vas mad
ven he said it. What apout de
pand poys? Day sits und blow till
dey vas red by der face und blay de
music dot you fellows march by. und
still deydont get no chance to vim
dot blug or come mitin Won mile of
it. Vat did you said, Webb? Why
l don't know Why I donts gets it
vonce in While. but / drinks dot it
ISIS because We blay such goot music.
und dot it makes Won hit NIT der
Deputy dot he forgots to gife us dot
blug.
Anoder ding; We looks so schmall
out dere dot he would hafe to hate
telescope to find us. Veil, nefer
mind, We will it get some day und if
nots We will hate to blay some ding
dot will shust make him knows who
vas in der deal.
Will somevon dell me Why it iss
dot Dutchman und mule vas der
same?
When first come by des place und
ven l vent to see der Deputy l vas
ask vhot mine trade vas, und I re-
piled dot / vas aviator und dot [
would like to work at it here if he
had a ship dot | could handle. He
soon found Won but it vas not air.
ship but machine dot looks like
mountain, und der vas, lost, stray
ed or stolen.
If der vas anyvon in der blaze
dot takes der Popular und der Blue
Book | would be much a-velcome
if you would send it to me Mine
address ISIS SIT Park row. 1t vas
on de fourth floor. Get pussy some
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

SOMEBODY says: Words are but
bannerets of an army, few bits of
waving color here and there:
thoughts are the main body of the
footmen that march unseen below.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

IT is vain to stick your finger in
the water, and pulling it out, look
for the hole; and equally vain to
suppose that, however large space
you may occupy, the world will
miss you when you die.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

the shrine of good nature, and pass
ing through life like two Jumps of
putty, taking any form outside cir
cumstances may impress" A shock
ing libel we think, on welded hui
mainly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

The engineer of a fast train was
arrested, lately, by the authorities of
one-horse" town in Kansas, for
running through the berg at great
er rate of speed than is allowed by
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

In the days when unfortunates"
were branded with the letters r
and T., lettered men were more
common than they are now.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20
Down in Ohio they call bride a
pecuniary compliment"

THE greatest objection to we'll
meaning people, is that they have
no time for well-doing.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

: PLATO says a walk in the open
air will almost cure a guilty con-
science. Walking ought to be fash
ionable.
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TO SUBSCRIBERS

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TO INMATES.


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CHURCH NOTICE

in the Prison Chapel o'clock Sunday
Catholic Sunday Rev. c. and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-07-20

1t
entirely
will be expended in the interest of the library.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
AGAINST THE FEE SYSTEM.

According to the Savannah News,
Georgia is about to start war to
the death on tho fee systom of oom-
pensating county officers; Fulton coun-
ty, which contains the capital Of the
State. and is strategically situated like
Herico county, in Virginia, is taking
tho lead in the matter
In the last county primary In Full
ton, the question of tho abolition OF
the fee system was submitted to
vote OF the people. who decided over
whelmingly against the system. AS u
result there has been introduced into
the Legislature a bill proposing to
substitute salaries for fees in Fulton
county. This has received popular
Endorsement, and there is practically
no doubt that 1T will be enacted.
Public sentiment Is so great In
Georgia against the fee system that
most of the officers who will be az
fected by the mea sure favor 1T or pro-
fess to do so while others are silent,
opposition might cost them their
offices.
Many of the Fulton County officers
just like some of the county and city
officers in Virginia-have accumulat-
ed comfortable fortunes from the Zee
system. This is especially true of
those who have been reelected term
after term. 1t is thought that in Full
ton County the clerk and sheriff have
reaped profits of from $4,000 TO S20,-
600 the year; in fact, public opinion Isl
inclined toward the latter figure us
the correct ono
The bill now pending in the Legts-
lature would allow each of the county
officers of Fulton salary of SIS, 900
the year, with the exception of the
tax receiver. who would get only 81. 900
the year. Whatever remains after the
salary has been paid out Of the fees
collected is turned into the public
treasury.
In Georgia the outlook is Tor a gen
eral State law abolishing all fees and
substituting salaries. That is what
we ought to have in Virginia. but in
some things we are slower and much
worse off than the Cracker Common
wealth to the south of us.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
CHAPTER is
ADDED TO SCANDAL

the, chief. Lord Errington. whose wife
Lady Ruby Elliott, repeatedly visited
Lord n o Minta states as when her father
canada has served as secretary OF
legation at St. Petersburg. Cairo and
az Teheran, where he acquired q spe-
guage. and while at the Foreign Of
nee has acted as private secretary to
ar Edw ear, Grey. to Lord Hardinge
ent permanent Under Secretary OF State
for Foreign Affairs. His title serves
10 recall that his mother. the first
o lazy Sromer' vas the daughter and
last OF his line. She succumbed in
Egypt to the effects OF the climate,
,peins unwilling to leave her hus-
We're SO critical as to render it ahso-
lute!y impossible to leave the country
NY the gravest danger to. Eng
with him that his patriotic duty to
his country was OF more vital i'm
portance than her health. and IT was
m memory of her devotion that when
raised 10 the earldom OF Cromer. he
asked that he might be allowed to
select as the second Of the dignities
conferred upon him that OF Viscount
Ex-oueen Pia OF Portugal and her
sister Princess clothilde Bonaparte.
oOtH ot lHeIl daughters or the late
King Victor Emmanuel, and whose re-
cent deaths came SO close together,
nave been laid to rest in that wonder
iul church. or rather meusoleum, Of
members OF the reigning house OF
savoy have been entombed for near
eSo years It was from the summit
general. FRINGE Eugene Of Savoy. di.
rected the battle which raised the
french siege, of Turin, and where he
vowed to build a church on the spot IL
victorious.
Among the features of the vaults
In WHICH the royal dead repose are
wonderfully carved marble skulls. mas
which, crowned with gilt diadems.
seem to grin at one from all the dark
est est corners. creating most extraor-
Ganary impression upon the visitor and
TO mind the vanity Of human grandeur
The Supersa holds the royal dead OF
savoy from Victor Amadeus IL to King
Charles Albert, inclusive. and also the
heart OF Prince Eugene of Savoy, the
builder of the sacred edifce, the re-
mainder of his body reposing in the
Vienna
Few are aware, however, that the
oody Of Prince Napoleon Jerome son
81 o the King Of Westphalia. has found
persia; waiting the time when the
french government will permit of its
return to France where he expressed
wish to be buried. His coffin was
placed at the time of his demise nearly
twenty years ago. in that portion OF
The Superea devoted to those mem
9ers OF the royal house OF Savoy who
uied In infancy, and nothing is more
strange than to see his huge coffin
Tor he was an extremely tall and
heavy man--among all the diminutiye
caskets containing the remains of the
pigmies.
Copyright. 1911. by the Brentwood
CompanY.l
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25

immediate trading district of Richmond
and bring to this town seventy thou
sand new customers who arc almost
as strange TO this community as it
they lived on the farther side of the
Rocky Mountains. 1t Is a strange
thing, Sometimes we think wa do
not take ourselves as seriously as
conditions would seem to warrant
In little while a special train
loaded with representatives, of tho
business houses OF this town will go
on forasing expedition throughout
the South hunting new customers for
this market. and that in itself is an
excellent thing and should be encour-
aged; but would 1t not be a better
thing to open our own immediate hin
terland and bring to Richmond for
keeps the people who live sixty miles
Distant from US. and who can't get
here except by way of Baltimore and
Washington hundred and fifty and
a hundred miles away?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
COOLIDGEf
WITH

There is talk, of Louis A. Coolidge
running against Robert Luce for the
Republican nomination for Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts; but what
he wants with such an office or what
he would do with 1t if he got it is
one of the things that is worrying all
his friends. Coolidge Is q fine fellow.
as fine fellows go in Massachusetts,
and at one time, when he was engaged
In the occupation of IA newspaper cor
respondent at WASHINGTON. erea,
many persons respected him. He was
rarely right in his political views, but
there was nothing mean about him.
and he invariably did the best he could
with the material at hand, standing
so high in the esteem OF his associates
that they elected him President of
the Gridiron Club, the affairs of which
he managed with much ability. When
The Colonel was the whole thing AT
Washington. Coolidge was appointed
Assistant Secretary, or something, In
one OF the Departments, and ne stuck
TO this job as long as 1t lasted. always
doing his best and making friends
whenever he found person who
seemed 10 be worth while.
From Journalism he drifted into the
Government service. and now he is
Treasurer OF the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company. which is the softest
n6 hi r.
one of the biggest concerns in the
country and is said to have been piling
up money at surprising rate, be-
cause it has something that all shoe
manufacturers must have in their
business and which they cannot get
from anybody else Why Coolidge
would think for a minute of giving
up his present Job to play second I'D
We have not the least means of know
ing: but the fact that he is connected
with monopoly engaged in making
machinery with which shoes are man
ufactured in this and other lands
would seem to make this another case
for the attention of Wickersham
Now, IL Coolidge would run for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts. the case would
be somewhat different. He could not
be elected, of course. as the Demo
Gratis have determined TO keep the
office in the family from henceforth
but he would be running for some
thing worth having when. ne got it,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
RICHMOND TRAGEDIES.

Some one of the eXpatriate Virgin
ians doing time in Birmingham has
been interviewed by the Age-Herald, of
that city as to the Beattie case. This
unnamed man says correctly that Rich
mond is ''one of the most orderly cities
in the United States" though, when
1t does happen to DO the scene Of a
tragedy. 1T is sensational enough to
attract the attention of the whole
country" which the Beattie case has
done, for no paper of any consequence,
East West. North or South, has failed
while the faces of some of those con-
nected with It have already been pic
tured in hundreds of papers The Vir-
ginian in Birmingham adds that II
think am safe in saying that the av-
erage number Of homcides in the city
and In Henrico County combined has
not exceeded six the year"
After reviewing briefly the Phillips,
Cluverius and John Scott cases, this
man goes on to say:
one pecullarity regarding murders
IN Richmond is that the criminal is
nearly always hanged. Money will not
save white murderer. nor will his
social standing Go him any good Jeter
Phillips had means. and SO had Clu-
verius Cluverius, moreover had pow
erful influences at work in his behalf.
VIII watch with keen interest the
outcome of the Beattie trial."
This ObSarvatiop to
fact. Apologies for crime are not ac-
cepted here from anybody. Law and
order reign in Richmond; their instru-
ments and agents are powerful. There
is no prospect that the record Of Rich
mond is to be altered in any wise.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
Voice Of the People
Free From Fraud.

To the Editor of The Times-Dis patch:
Sir.-Will you allow me few lines
for the purpose OF commenting on your
able editorial entitled. after Mrs. Ed
dy's Millions which appeared in The
Times Dispatch of even date?
would like to acknowledge the
fairness of your attitude and the logic
and force OF your remarks anent the
dishonest effort OF those who are at
tempting to set aside this will after
accepting from the testatrlx such large
sums OF money that they freely con-
tracted not to attempt to secure more.
also as TO your statement that the pro-
visions of the Will should be carried
out III any trust can be regarded as
good in law. There is only one state
ment. Mr. Editor. which. in my opin-
Ion, constitutes flaw in your able
editorial, and that, believe, origin
ated more In failure TO give sufficient
consideration to terms used and their
significance than In q desire TO crlti.
cize unfairly in connecting the Chris
tian Science movement With the word
fraud" \ fraud is Il deception. usual
ly practiced to obtain money without
rendering an equivalent. The Chris
nan science movement solicits money
from no one. absolutely On the con-
trary II Is always giving. II main
salns reading rooms. whore all Its lit
erature may be read freely. and its
- 80 SSt -~SS ana !cCluTeS are AZ
ways free. Its practitioners cannot
solicit patients without departing from,
its teachings. and they receive only
a nominal fee for their time from
those who come to them requesting
treatment and who are able to pay
Tor what they receive. Your cditoria.
admits that some hundreds of thou.
sands of people in ta!s country thin
that it Is good system" Practically
all these people have come 20 think So
because its teachings either through
tneir reading or the work OF the prac.
titlonerS, on both. have healed them of
SIN and disease; The churches ar
supported entirely by the voluntary
eontrioutions of their members Sure
ly there is nothing in all this ina,
savorS of fraud Now, Mr.. Editor ~
You have personally been defrauded
by Christian Science. or If Won have
certain and positive Knowledge of
others who have been so defrauded
VIII acknowledge that you have some
nasis Tor your statement and would
INVITE you to publish the facts ana
s.!oW an INVESTIGATION to be made
put II not, and YOU are not sufficIept'
interested TO fairly investigate VIVA
1HtiStl3h science really teaches and Is
"o.ns. l submit to the fairness whicb
dne oa!ance of your editorial Indicate
an ! ! believe that little rehect;o-
Vii wo read you to acknowledge thar
your personal conjecture has not sin
Glen: evidence bea.rS {; "a W., r Smi,i
casting such n serious aspersion 49,, any
movement which Is 6eneftinr ma,v
and injuring no man. manly
DUPLICATION Committee for VTrgin,,
Richmond. July %
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25

More and moro do strikes seem, in our
complicated modern civilization, with
the interdependence OF all parts of So
ciety. reversion to. or survival OF.
barbarism."
That is very plain speaking. and 1t
is all truei but It is wholly un-Amerl-
can. Hero We should have paltered
with the situation. oven as the Eng
iish shipowners appear to have pail
tered with the situation. as they
yielded finally to the demands Of the
strikers. which they declared they
could not afford without ruin to
I their own industry. The difference
between the situation there and
here was that. after making GER
tain concessions to tho strikers,
the shipowners forthwith increased
certain rates of passage on their ships
SO that after all. the passengers and
not the steamship owners paid the
freight" as we say in this country.
That seemed to BIO fair thing to do,
In the circumstances. The shipowners
have very large fixed charges to meet.
1t costs enormously to run a steam
ship line. the cargo rates are exceed
ingly low and could not be Increased
without immediate injury to the trade
of the country; they could not AFFORD
to increase the wages OF the strikers
without getting 1t back in some way,
and so they raised the passenger rates
on certain classes $3.50 the head
In the United States we do not think
such q settlement would have been
permitted. There would have been In
slant appeal to some commission or
other and after months of DELAY tho
commission wou,d have declared that
the steamship companies being en-
gagged in doing business for the public
would have to yield to a demand made
by so large and influential a part of the
public, and find some way of meeting
the demands of the strikers without
den upon tho public or any part OF the
public. The commission would not
concern itself in the slightest with
methods adopted by the companies so
long as these methods did not affect
the public. They might cut down their
dividends, 1T they chose. only the hand
full of people having their money in
vested being affected by the adoption
OF that remedy; but the public must
and should be protected against the
grasping disposition of these common
carriers. Now and then some OF us
wonder why IT Is that the mob spirit
Is SO powerful in this country, with
out stopping to think that possibly it
is because the mob has so many rep
resentatives in the seats of power.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
Venezuela Boundurv ouc,,,on

TO settle an argument please tell US
now the Hnal award in the Venezuela
case was arranged 4. T.
After period OF active debate, which
once rose 70 high pitch. the British
government reeeded from It's earlier
stand that there was nothing to arbi-
iiate. and IN February, 1897. in Cleye-
iand,s second term. an agreement was
reached in accordance with which an
aroitra ton treaty was signed When
me British presented their claim be-
Tore the tribunal appointed 10 Sill an
ger this treaty it was seen that they
had receded from the position upheld
oy the Marquis of Salisbury and were
resting TO all general intent upon the
uefNnnd made in 1850 by Lord Palmers
ton IN support OF the earlier Schom-
hnrsk line In opposition the Vene-
.ueian government proposed the claim
mat the British Guiana boundary was
de!imited at the Essiquibo River. thai
inns was set forth in the treaty OF
munster and that 1t had never been
amended by any legal act The dis.
aToitrators amounted TO some 60 o00
square miles. The principal issue was
joined upon the period embraced in the
Item of continuous possession for nftv
years The Venezuelan contention was
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25
BRYAN. NOT MUCH.

Word comes from Fremont that there
VIII be something doing" at the meet
ing of the Nebraska Democratic State
Convention, which will assemble in
that town to-day. Last year Mr.. BRYAN
opposed the candidacy of Mayor James
c. Dahlman, of Omaha, who had been
nominated for Governor in the way
provided by the laws of the State
and the rules OF the party. with rho
result that the entire Democratic tick
CT was defeated. Mr.. Bryan claimed
that there was some crooked work at
the Democratic prima ries. that Re-
pubiicanS were allowed TO vote at
these primaries, and that Dahlman won
his nomination by a huke. wherefore
ne ieit himself absoived from his party
allegiance, The Dahlmah people swear
that If any attempt shall be made 70
indorse Mr.. Bryan All the convention
to-day. open war viii be declared
against him and all his works on
tho other hand. the Bryan peopIe
swear with equally red faces that IL
Inc convention shall indorse the prin-
ciples represented by Dahlman there
VIII be war to the knife and the knife
10 the hllt. Senator Hi,chcock's
friends viii try to keep the factions
apart. and hope TO secure the adoption
OF platform on which all can unite.
The most interesting of the rumors
that come from Fremont is that
threats have been made almost open
~ thai Mr. Bryan would be eliminated
by the Nebraska Convention from par
ucipation in the next National Con-
Vention IN the event of his refusal TO
fully support the action OF the State
leaders" Eliminate" Mr., Bryan from
the next National Convention indeed,
freposierous! AS well talk about
eliminating the party Itself; for If
Bryan is not the party. what is. and
WHARF, is it? We would have tho Me-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-25

oraska Democrats to know once for
all that they arc in no sense necessary
to the success OF tho National Democ-
raoy In any contest before the coun-
try. They were not worth ng to the
party when they were running Mr..
Bryan for President. and thoy will. BIO
worth oven less running somebody else
against Mr.. Bryan. Besides, II the
Nebraska Democrats cut him off. what's
the matter with his going to the Ma
tonal Convention from Texas. whore
he owns a plantation, or from South
Carolina, where the leaders" arc Just
as crazy about him now as they were
htteen years ago? Could he be elected
II he should be nominatedp Probably
not; but that is no reason why he
should not BIO nominated. He would
nave as much chance of election now
as he has ever hnd-indeed. we think
his chances are steadily improving, be-
cause the Opposition is beating any
thing he has done in the way of radi-
cal changes in our form of govern
ment-vide the recent wickersham
speeches--and IL the country ia TO he
overturned completely we should pre-
fer to have the work done by one of
our own party rather than by the com
mon enemy.
Mr.. Bryan will not be at the con-
Vention in Fremont to-day. or at least
he was not expected when tho prog
nostications were made up on Sunday;
put there will be Bryan men there
plenty. He may not be at tho next
National Convention. 1t is not neces-
sary that he should be: but he Will
nave representatives on the floor, lots
OF them. and We shall see what we
shall see.