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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
"HeIp Wanted"

I need man, said the merchant
prince, to work in my stately store;
I'll pay him well when he starts to
work, and soon l will pay him more.
| want man with an earnest wish
to climb to the highest place. / have
sought him high, I have sought him
low, and I'm almost in despair; I've
hunted all through the billiard halls.
and / didn't find him there. I want
a man with a soul attuned to the
things that are good and true; a youth
who comes from a pleasant home,
and comes with zest for work; I
have sought this youth till my feet
are tired, and my mind is filed with
care; l looked for him in the grog
bazaars, and didn't find him there.
| want youth who would rather
own dime that is fairly earned, than
rolls of gold that were won at night
in room where the cards are turned:
alas, alas! such a golden youth in this
weary old world is rare; I've looked
and looked where the loafers rest,
and ! didn't find him there"
Wait Mason.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
Reincarnation.
a Parable.

A boy went to school. He was
very little. All that he knew he had
drawn in with his mothers milk.
His teacher (who was Cod placed
HIM in the lowest class, and gave
him these lessons to learn: Thou
shalt not kill. Thou shalt do no hurt
to any living thing. Thou shalt not
steal. So the man did not kill; but
he was cruel, and he stole. At the
end of the day, (when his beard was
gray when the night was come
his teacher (who was Cod said:
Thou hast learned not to kill. But
the other lessons thou hast t
learned. Come back tomorrow.
On the morrow he came back. a
little boy. And his teacher who
was Cod put him in a class little
higher, and gave him these lessons
to learn; Thou shalt do no hurt to
any living thing. Thou shalt not
steal. Thou shalt not cheat. So the
man did no hurt to any living thing;
but he stole, and he cheated. And
at the end of the day, (when his
beard was gray when the night
was Gomez, his teacher (who was
Cod said: Thou hast learned to be
merciful. But the other lessons thou
hast not learned. Come back to-
morrow.
Again, on the morrow, he came
back, little boy. And his teacher
(who was Cod put him in class
yet little higher, and gave him
these lessons to learn: Thou shalt
not steal. Thou shalt OF cheat.
Thou shalt not covet. So the man
did not steal; but he cheated, and he
coveted. And at the end of the day,
{ when his beard was gray when
the night was Gomez, his teacher
(who was Cod said: Thou hast
learned not to steal. But the other
lessons thou hast not learned. Come
back, my child, tomorrow.
This is what l have read in the
faces of men and women, in the
book of the world, and in the scroll
Of the heavens, which is writ with
stars. Berry Benson, in the Century
Magazine, May 1894.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
The Soul of Things

The Hindus Yogi has for
centuries known what we of
the Western world are only now
discovering. That below the thres-
hold Of our ordinary, objective con-
seriousness there exists primary
intelligence subjective mind
that it is inherent in all forms of
life, and that, from highest to lowest
all share in this plane Of mentation.
In saying that mind controls the
body, we are apt to think of the in
tellect, OF the conscious or objective
mind, that uses the brain as it's in
struments- scientists now tell
us that mind was in active opera
ton in lowly animals and plant life
millions of years before brains capa-
BILE of manifesting thought were pro-
duced, and before any animal suffici-
emily advanced to have brain was
in existence"
The very essence of the Oriental
teachings is that mind is antecedent
to matter; that it is not-as material
lists have claimed-a "by-product of
matter" but that all physical evolu-
ton and embodiment is due to mental
cause; to the urge" of the mind
the great primary intelligence ever
striving to produce higher and still
higher forms of life in which to man
ifest itself, and like the chambered
nautilus, ever building to suit it's
growing needs-larger and more
beautiful mansions in which to dwell.
Glare Doyle Olin in February
Nautilus.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
Gettysburg Address.

GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 10, 1868.
-Four score and seven years age
our fathers brought fourth on this
continent, new nation, conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the prop
osition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived and SO dedi-
Gated, can long endure. We are
met on great battlefield of that war,
we have come to dedicate por-
ton of that field, as a final resting
place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live.
1t is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this. But, in a
larger sense. we cannot dedicate
we can not consecrate- can not
hallow- this ground, the brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here
have consecrated it, far above our
poor power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long re-
member what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here.
1t is for us, the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here
have thus far go nobly advanced. 1t
lie rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before
us-that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they gave the last
full measure Of devotion that we
here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain-that
this nation under God, shall have a
ne w birth of freedom-and that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not per-
lsh from the earth.
abraham Lincoln.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
Editorial.

dead fish tail, / wouldn't give one
sock-darning woman for all the So
ciety women in the country. Be-
tween cutting off the top of their
dresses for the ball room, the bottom
for the bicycle, these society women
will soon have no clothes left. A
man said to society woman: I
hope to see more of you" She then
said: Come to the ball tonight"
Some people say l shouldn't talk
this way before mixed audience.
Your old sisters wear high collars
around their necks -they are modest
and comely but deliver me from So
ciety women who button their col
lars around their waist. Rev. Sam
Jones.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

A sunny disposition, a desire to
succeed, a love for fidelity, respect
for the rights of others, a loathing
for deceit and little common sense
are essential tempered-steel parts
that go to make up that wonderful
piece of human mechanism called
man; without them, or with substi-
tutes, the machine is only poor
parody and can never perform the
duties of a real man.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
Psalrns Of Yellow Creek
By Steele Bard
1>Ht-~~1SNe 4
The Wander Urge
The Wander Urge

The worlds big an splendid Teller don't know where on
But as sit here kind O musn' in Yellow Creek SO Slows
can feel the wings asproutin OF frost heel
An know the wander about through me steal
For my mind keeps runnn many scenes
I've heard about in lectures an have viewed magazines
But here stick a-roostin like moth eaten crow
Fer the worlds big an splendid Teller where to 90
mere road OF wonders the West
mat claims that fer still double blessed
An way off there in Montana Gus Heinzy made his
They're long, they stock that's list the REIGN
in style.
But here's your big New York aboostin brilliant great
White Way.
An Ohio politicians maxim meets Put-In-Bay.
An, the s. f. sngin praises of OF marvellous Mexico
Til the worlds big an splendid know where to 90
I've thought might try Europe sail down the or
led Rhine,
Or shake the dust fer Italy, earthquake tme
Or yet take trip to Egypt along windn' Nile
An ketch glimpse of Sphnxes big cornered pile
might skip Scotland where up the smokes
Or perhaps I'd hike fur Rushe then give Gar poke
i expect I'd find it pleasant off in Borneo
But the worlds big an splendid Teller where to 90
I've hankered fer Canady an up the Kootenas
An longed to strike fur rich Brazil with sailors mutineys
Or comm home Omaha; its cattle-crowd
Or spend day in OF Kantuck Colonies proud
Fer know the times comm my feet will itch to drill
An the towns awful gloomy an I'm disconnected So
Fer the worlds big an splendid Teller know where to 90
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

We would be willing to have an
other year added to our already long,
enough sentence, and would serve it
gladly and cheerfully, just for the
opportunity to j lay hands on the
writer of the book of maximso
which contained the aforementioned
proverbs" And then we'd beg on
our knees to be allowed to serve six
months more for the privilege of a
two-minute private interview with
the editor who reproduced them in
his paper, and-well, there would
be no verbal interview.
We do not know who was the
writer of the "maxims' referred to.
but we know. at least we hope there
are few if any men in the world to-
day with such mean, miserable.
degrading line of thought in their
craniums; if there are any, and if
capital punishment must remain on
our statutes, let it be for such as
they. A mana human being, born
of woman, in the image of her God
who stoops to sacrilegiousness to the
extent of dragging the virtues of
true womanhood-to which his own
mother could no doubt lay just
claim-down in to the depths of
blacklist hell, for such as he there is
no place in a world created by God
of love.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

WE came across newspaper clip
ping the other day which had neither
date nor name on it. In it was
printed thirty-two utterances of a
soul-less devil that called himself a
man. The CALCULATIONS were re-
ferred to as proverbs and were
meant to point out woman's inferi-
GRITTY to man. We blush with shame
to reprint several of the 'maxims,''
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

WHEN God gives a man wife
and six children He has done a great
deal for fellow. But when he
gives him a society woman and a
poodle dog he has done him up.
These society women look upon
children as a nuisance. have had
some of these society women shake
hands with me and / must say /
would as leave shake hands with a
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

/ want to sell my farm at once,
and will give snap on same," says
an advertisement in one of our ex-
changes. Dont't believe it's possible.
We have spent some time on a farm,
but never did find it q snap.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

If you want to get anywhere,
you've got to GO somewhere; and if
you want to accomplish anything,
you've got to DO something. There's
no way out of it; you've got to go
and do in order to arrive and attain.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
Oh! Why Should The Spirit Of Mortal be Proud?

h! Why Should The Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
ABRAHAM L1NcoLN's FAvoR1rE POEM
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like swift-feeting meteor fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning break of the wave,
Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around, and together be laid;
And the young and the DID, and the low and the high
Shall moder to dust and together shall lie.
The infant mother attended and oved
The mother that infants affection who proved;
The husband that mother and infant who blessed
Each all, away to their dwellings of rest.
The maid whose cheek, whose brow in whose eye
Shone beauty and pleasure-her triumphs are by;
And the memory of those who loved her and praised
Are alike from the minds of the living erased
The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne;
The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn;
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depth of the grave.
The peasant whose lot was to and to reap;
The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep
The beggar who wandered in search of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that tread.
The saints who enjoyed the communion of heaven;
The sinner who dared to remain unforgven;
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.
WILLIAM KNOX.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09
CHURCH NOTICE

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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-29
City Clerk Has
A Way Out Of
Tax Difficulty
Suggests that Board Of Ap-
portionment Reconvene
and Make an Ap-
preparation

First district taxpayers who have
paid their taxes under the 10 mill
rate, all of whom have been allowed
the rebate of three mills by the Com
mon Council, may have to wait some
time to secure the rebate, but event.
uaMy will be refunded what amount
they have overpaid. Just now there
is a question as to what is the proper
procedure. The city auditor has re-
fused to affix his signature to any re-
bate checks as there is no fund avail
abl efor such purpose.
City Clerk Boucher, who is also
clerk of the Board of Apportionment,
suggests that the ~ ~Apportionment
Board reconvene and Inappropriate for
the payment Of rebates the amount
allowed for the issuance of new bonds
In the First district $4,000 is allowed
for new bonds, and $4,000 in the Sec
ond AS no new bonds have yet been
floated nor probably will not be before
the end of the year or the first few
mon tbs of next year so as to start
improvements in the spring, this
money will not be used this year and
could easily be converted to aid those
to whom rebates have been allowed.
There are just 314 First district tax
payers who had paid their tax of ten
mills, which represents an amount to
be returned to them of between ST.
900 and $1,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-29
Warner Brothers
Fire Department
Going On Visit

Led by Chief James Keppy, the War
ner Bros Co. Fire Department more
than half hundred strong, as many
more guests and the Wheeler & Will
son band will leave this city Satur-
day morning for Allentown, Pa. There
the local fire company will be the
guests of Goodwill No. of Allentown
for three days, Sept 2, 8 and A..
The local company clad in their fire
fighting uniforms, with their guests
and the band will make their getaway
on the steamer Bridgeport Saturday
morning. AT Jersey City a special
car on the Central r. r. Of New Jer-
sey will carry the Bridgeporters to AL
lentown, which city it is expected will
be reached about O'Clock in the even
ing. The return will be made on La
Dor Day about 6 p. m, the trip back
to this city to be made by special
train.
Thre eyears ago Goodwill No. 8 of
Allentown paid a friendly visit to this
city. Among the many sources of
entertainment provided by the Warner
Bros. department was a clam bake,
which was new form of feast to the
Penn State folks. What form of en-
tertainment to be meted to the Bridge
porters is unknown to the latter. Al
trip over the switch-back at Mauch
Ch1lnc is anticipated
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-29
Chris. Rickard Is
Sued For $4,000
Wi1rose j. Normand Claims
to Be Permanently Grip
pied as Result of Accident

Alleging that he is permanently
crippled as result Of an accident on
Stratford avenue, Wilrose J. Normand
has brought suit against Christopher
Rickard. the well known truckman,
for $4,000 damages. Papers were fill
ed this morning in the superior court.
AS Normand is minor he brought the
action through his father, Joseph E.
Normand of "A East Main street.
Young Norma1d claims that on Aug.
19. 1910 he was riding a bicycle on
Stratford avenue near Pembroke ST.
He stopped near the curb and as he
did so one Of Richards trucks ap-
preached. 1t is alleged that the driv-
er was guilty of carelessness and that
he allowed the truck to strike the
wheel. Young Normand was hurled to
the ground, fractured a leg and was
badly bruised. He says he was rem
dered unconscious and was laid up for
a long tune. The injury to his leg
will cripple him permanently, the boy
claims.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-29
TRUSTS FLAYED BY
PRESIDENT OF THE
AMERICANBAR ASS0.

| have seized upon specific industrle:
and driven everybody out of them
| They stand like armed cOlOSSuSe:
astride the gateways of commerce ant
destroy every entrant who presume.
to compete with them. They have NJ
legal grant of monopoly, but monopol!
| comes to them by virtue of their size
organization and strength. They arr
a nest of wasps-a swarm of vermiI
which have overcrept the land
| THE economic advantages, if any
that flow from the aggregations Of
capital, are drowned in the firm BELIEF
| that they exercise too much politica
power, selfishly and unscrupulously
bar the door to private enterprise
cramp the industrial freedom Of in
d1viduals, destroy equality of oppor-
tunity and extinguish all hope AND
hence all ambition for industrial in
| dependence and autonomy.
THE great American national dis
grace is found in the issuance of fic-
titiOuS and watereds stock made pos
sible under the laws. From it other
damnable abuses spring. Corporations
own and vote stock In one another
and this provision is the mother OF
the holding company and the trust.
In Utah railroad companies have the
widest powers whereby Utah COM
pany can acquire and control the stock
of all transportation corporations by
land, river, lake or sea in the United
States down to the smallest tramway
in the smallest country village. When
one remembers that Utah is the dOmi-
cile of the Union Pacific Railway Co.,
and that this statute was passed after
that great company had acquired large
blocks of stock in eight Of our great
railroad systems, one Immediately dis
Germs in this legislation the lions paw
-the masterhand of the now deceased
president Of that company.
"Of what avail will it to break
UP the Standard Oil Company and the
American Tobacco Company into their
constituent elements, if all these ele-
ments have identical stockholders, a
community of interests, and the legal
power to establish substantial identity
of directors among them?
''The remedy is concerted action
among the State! If every State will
compel the big corporations to com
form to new laws enacted in behalf
Of the people or to dissolve and iiqu1-
date, then the existing crop will be
destroyed without hope Of successors.
That is the work for the house of
governors which assemblies in New
Jersey next month.
IAN agreement or compact among
the States on the subject of their re-
spective corporations with the consent
of Congress, would De enrOrcaDIe Dy
the Supreme Court of the United
States If jealousy or greed of indi-
vidual States prevent such a compact
the remaining States must prohibit
participation of dangerous corporations
in intra-State commerce. And Con-
gress can drive out Of interstate and
foreign commerce all such dangerous
absolutely eliminating
them"
oo1y ok Of 70 nlyad
General Wickersham's suggestion that
the government fix prices as unconsti-
tutional and characterized the Ma
tional City Company, recently formed
in New York, as IAN ingenious subter-
fuge intended to circumvent the law.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-29

rived from the collection Of this tax
1 would submit to you a few figures
which show where most of this money
goes. In Bridgeport we have in Of
flee four men appointed solely for the
purpose Of collecting this tax. These
men draw $1,450 each per annum and
have incidental expenses including sta
tionery, ETC., of $4,000. This added to
their salary Of $500 makes approx
imately $500. Eight thousand eight
hundred dollars to collect this unpopu-
lar tax in the city of Bridgeport
alone!
Now 1 submit in all fairness that
the collection Of the personal tax, in
so far as. the city of Bridgeport is
concerned, is of little benefit finan-
ciaIly to our State, and I sincerely
hope that the law will be abrogated
by this Legislature. I am satisfied
tina: a large majority of the people
of Connecticut are opposed to this tax
and therefore for the purpose of max
ing known to the people those <Sena-
tors who favor continuing this iniquit-
Gus statute and those Senators who
favor the repeal of this tax law, I
move that when the vote is taken on
this matter that it be taken by roll
call
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-08-29
(spcial from United Press.)

Hartford, Aug 29.-Every Demo
cratic Senator voted today in the Sen
ate for the repeal of the Personal
Tax law. Every Republican Senator
voted in favor of retaining the law.
Strong speeches in favor of abolishing
the law were made by Senators DON
ovan, of Norwalk; Mcneil and Pad
dock of Bridgeport, and Spellacy of
Hartford.
In the course Of his remaks Sen
ator Spellacy said that the Personal
Tax law was the creature of Form er
Senator Thomas Arnold Jr. of Bridge
port, who, as chairman of the FL
nance committee in the Senate two
years ago, introduced report in fav-
or of the personal tax urged and Sc
cured it's passage.
Senator Donovans speech against
the law was a powerful arraignmer-t
of the injustice which it works among
the poor. He said that Senator Jud-
son, who had led the Senate so sue
cessfully in the fight for many re-
forms at the present session should
have been the one to have in this
battle, instead of championing the
opposition.
He said that the personal tax from
is a relic of colonial days, thing
the census of 1911, he showed that
21 per cent. of the normal families
have an income below $500 per an
mum and that IL per cent. of all the
working men Of the country are with
out employment at least three
months in the year.
Then he asked if it is the purpose
of those who favor this unjust law,
drive the heads of these families into
Jail, If they did not pay itI He said
the judiciary committee should be
ashamed for having unfavorably Sc
ported this bill. If it were bin 20
increase the salary of some OF the
legal brethern Of the stae this COM