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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09
Mount Sorrow
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By N. N.

Every man has his Mountain Of
Sorrow. Scattered along the trail
OF our past are the unkind deeds we
have done, the mistakes we have
made and the wrongs we have COM
mitted. And now as we look back
upon that trail, these all seem to be
piled together, forming huge
black mountain; mountain SO
large that at times it almost shuts
out the very sunlight and prevents
our sharing its warmth and joy.
The mountain is built of rock
and we have not, and never will
have the power to raise it. There
it stands, staring at us while we are
awake and casting its shadow upon
us when we sleep.
However, we have it in our power
to beautify our present surround
ings; to plant garden of joy; gar
SO beautiful and clean and free from
weeds that our eyes will never wan
der from its bloom,
Today is saving time The seeds
OF honesty are in our hands and the
soil is very fertile. But it remains
for us to do the planting and tend
1T with our utmost care. Constant
watchfulness and effort must be our
part and where we find that seed
fails to take root and germinate, an
other must be planted in its place.
When once the little sprout appears,
it will soon grow large and strong
and fully able to do battle for itself
and then will the beautiful blossoms
burst forth, showing their gratitude
for our pains and care and g1ving
us our reward in all their glory.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09
Youths Companion's Calendar
for 1912.

The publishers Of The Youths
Companion will, as always at this
season, present to every subscriber
whose subscription ($1.75) is paid
for 1912, a beautiful Calander for
the new year. The cover picture
repreduces water-color painting of
a bit of New England coast, giving
glimpse of breeze-swept ocean. of
smiling sky, of warm, sunny rocks,
which will come like a breath Of
salt air to those who have once
lived near the sea and to those
whose whole life has been passed
inland. The picture being in eight
.colors, the tones of the original are
faithfully reproduced.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09
Her Abb

Much to the curious little girls
disgust, her elder sister and her girl
friends had quickly closed the door
of the back parlor, before she could
wedge her small self in among them.
She waited uneasily for little
while, then she knocked. No re-
sponse. She knocked again. Still
no attention. Her curiosity could be
controlled no longer. Dodo!" she
called in staccato tones, as she
knocked once again. T amt me!
It's mamma T. November Lippin-
cott's.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09

thar was taken this year shows only
q little under two million increase in
the last ten years, hut the Canadian
figures for last year, the largest vet.
show only little over 5000 900;
half of which comes from the States.
No, / suppose it is these that work
for wages that are barely living
But against that we have President
Taft and numerous others that say
that there is no difference in wages
on the two sides of the line and
which was great part of the recip-
rocity agreement. From my own
experience | prefer to believe Pres
ident Taft.
! But this is not the only paper of
his that show inaccuracies. There
was another one How Will 1t End?''
in which he says: England recently
passed an income tax measure" /
do not know what he calls recently
but it was passed on England's be-
coming free trade country and has
been in force over sixty years
good long recently.
| In that same paper we come to,
perhaps, the worst Of his mistakes,
because it is of an American subject
he is writing. When he speaks of
the Arbitration Treaty, he says:
England and America have already
signed a peace-pact whereby all
questions, except those that involve
national honor, are to be submitted
to arbitration. Germany, France
and Japan have all signified their
willingness to do likewise.
This article was dated Sept. Z,
yet on Aug. 3rd in Washington,
treaties had been signed not only
| with England, but first with France,
which was the first time that three
greet nations bound themselves to
arbitrate even when effecting ma
tional honor or territorial domain.
| All these inaccuracies are SO well
known to all, that / do not think |
need further proof than the point
ing of them out. Then, if he is
mistaken IN some things, perhaps he
is in others, and Canada may have
known what she was doing in re-
jecting reciprocity.
How would reciprocity have
saved us from the trusts? Accord
ing to the article the States have OBJ
noxious trust officials. How would
lowering the tariff wall have helped
us get rid of these. If the American
has to deal with them, then should
not we have to do the same?
What advantage is it for us to
send our raw material to be manu-
| factured In the States and to let our
wheat build up the milling business
of Minneapolis; our stock. the abat-
toirs of Chicago. Shall we not rath-
er do better to believe that the Am
erican people have not been mistak-
! en-, that it is the wisest policy in a
young and ambitious country to pro-
tect and foster its young industries?
/ do not think that you will say
that it has not been the means Of
building up SO wonderfully, in it's
brief history, this country
Then as to those robber barons
of the trusts which he wearns us
about.
| prefer to take the view of Ex-
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of In
dinia, who says: In Canada there
never can be any question over the
power of the national Congress to
pass any laws to prevent the exploit
ing of her people by selfish inter-
ests on the one hand, or to advance
the welfare of Canada's millions on
the other hand"
Strong words, but again ! prefer
to believe them true.
4
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09

by comparatively similar process
OF converting the raw cotton into
finished fabrics, SO may the unskill-
ed become, if not experts, at least
competent textile workers.
Hook upon Texas as sort of focal
point toward which radiate the enor-
NOUS supplies produced in the west
central Mississippi Valley, and the
market for its wares, by way of the
canal and because Of cheaper trans
portation. will be our great Pacific
coast, and the west coast line even to
rounding Cape Horn up to Buenos
Ayers
Summing up the Industrial and
commercial situation of Texas. we
find that, producing what she does,
situated as she is and will be after
1915, even the raw materials possi-
BILE to be drawn to her, for manufac-
ture and export. make of the figure
the expressions an enormous guam
=tity.
Now it is possible that no cotton
fabrics ever will be manufactured on
an extensive scale, through her posi-
tion-fro m a producing point Of
view affords her that opportunity.
but that it would be to her advan-
tage to establish larger flour mills,
and tanneries- former. because
through Panama she will be the
shortest outlet for products from
Kansas and other central states, and
in more direct touch with the trade
of the Orient and western South
American.
There is so much that could be
said concerning the industrial and
commercial situation of Texas, that
/ hardly like to draw to close even
such rough outlines as those I am
presenting to you. But as there still
is a point or two I desire to include
in this paper, of similarly affected
portion of the great and becoming
greater Southwest it becomes nec-
essary to have done with her part
of it.
At the extreme southwestern point
of Uncle Sans domain is city of
some 100000 inhabitants. From
advantageous location she is certain
to become a powerful factor, prima-
rily as receiving point necessitating
quicker transportation facilities; and
as her influence in that respect
reaches beyond the great Rocky
Mountain chain, the extreme of her
more direct influence may be reck-
oned as touching SO far east as Den
yer, Colorado, and in half-circular
form, describing the arc formed by
Ell Paso, Texas, through Denver,
Ogden, Utah. and as nearly return
ing as Fresno, in her own state.
Her drawing power (quick dis
patch considered) extends over a
territory of like radius. She is the
important southwest terminal of the
Southern Pacific, and the Santa Fe,
with aminor line or two. 1 speak
of Los Angeles, California.
But rather than further to tempt
your patience, gentlemen, I'll con-
clude by saying: there is much that
affords pleasant reflection, and,
maybe, profitable minded specula-
tion, for him that cares to proceed
with this subject.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09

1t is not what be has, nor even
what he does, which directly ex-
presses the character Of the man,
but what he is. Amiel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09
To 9 Photograph.
F. J. IL


look upon that sweet. sad face
No smile yet fingers there;
But in those eyes see such love
That love Of which no other moftals share.
press my lips upon that brow.
Beneath whose care worn 1ineaments,
Such loving thouhgts and prayers for me.
Who wandering DER these frmaments,
Forgot to think of her who loves but me.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
MONTANA GRAIN IMMENSE.
Three Counties VIII Yield 6,66s, 900
Bushels

Great Falls, Mont-The greatest
wheat yield in the history of northern
Montana is predicted by the Great Falls
Board of Commerce as a result of care
full estimate based upon statistics gath
cred from three principal wheat grow
ing counties of this section, Cascade,
Teton and Choteau.
Cascade county has more than $4,000
acres in wheat, Teton $4,000 and Che
teau $4,000, the greatest in the history
of those counties, and the probable
yield for these three counties is put at
6,6690 900 bushels.
Scores of farmers report conditions
that indicate wheat yields of 80 bushels
an acre for S00-acre tracts. Several
Chestnut valley farmers in Cascade
county claim better than 40 bushels
average. Stevens, in Choteau county
has 1900 acres which will yield better
than 25 bushels an acre.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
MISTAKES IN BEE KEEPING
Those Who Think Fortune Awaits
Them After Getting FaIrI.' Started
Make Big Error.

One of the common mistakes begin
ners make is In thinking that bee
keeping is high road to fortune and
that all they have to do is to get start.
ed in the business and fortune is as
sured. Those who go into 1t with
that belief are doomed to disappoint-
nent, for you've got to hustle for all
you got out of the bees. just the same
as in any other business you may take
up. There are obstacles in the path.
whatever we attempt to do, and we
must go at our work with a determine
ton to surmount all obstacles. If you
are looking for something easy, with
lots of money In II. don't try bee-keep-
ing. If you like bees, and are willing
to work for what you get, there is
good living in 1t. and to the lover of
bees there is a strange fascination in
the pursuit. Nearly all who have made
business of II have been able to lay
up some money, but few ever become
rich at It,
The most likely mistake is that of
starting out with too many bees be-
fore obtaining practical knowledge of
them Get one or two colonies and
work with them, and at the same
time secure the assistance of at least
one good bee book and take a good
bee journal. Better yet, go and put
In one or two seasons with a good
bee-keeper and get a knowledge of the
practical side of the business as han
died by practical man. Then adopt
some good method and stick to 1t, for
another very common mistake is that
Of trying every new idea that comes
along.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
KEEP CHICKEN HOUSE CLEAN
Lack Of Sanitary Conditions One Great
Factor in Transmission Of Dis
ease-Few Hints.

1t is. of course. the purpose of every
one engaged in the poultry business to
produce birds capable of good egg ano
meat production, says a Maryland bull
letin. 1t must be the first duty Of tbs
poultry raiser to see that the condi-
tons are such that there is no chance
for disease to interfere with the good
health of the flock.
There is probably no other class OF
livestock so subject to disease as do
nestle fowls. From the shell to the
fully mature bird, fowls are subject to
a great variety of diseases.
The lack of sanitary conditions
about the poultry houses and yards
are great factor in the transmission
plant and It's drainage are to be con
sidered. dampness in the houses and
mud in the yards are most unfavor-
able conditions for poultry raising.
The proper amount of space and ven
tilation in the houses should be care
fully considered.
Cleanliness is an essential sanitary
condition for birds, accumulations of
excrement lying about the houses are
the means of transmission of the most
deadly diseases. These excrements
when In moist condition in a warm
house harbor the parasites and bac-
terra which may be the means of an
Initiating large numbers of poultry. A
few suggestions will not be out of
place here as regards making the con-
ditions sanitary for birds. The drop
ping should be cleaned at least twice
week. and If possible every morn
ing
A small quantity of road dust or
land plaster should be sprinkled about.
These materials will absorb the moist
ure and bad odors and also add to the
value of the droppings. The nests
should be cleaned once month and
the old nesting material replaced with
fresh new straw. The addition of a
little lime or insect powder will help
In eradicating lice and mites. A great
factor in establishing sanitary condi-
tons is the application of whitewash.
There is no material more purifying
than hot whitewash.
This may be made more effective by
the addition of four ounces of carbolie
acid per gallon. The yards may be
kept clean and sweet by cultivation
and seeding, Attention to these little
things may save tfocks from many q
troublesome disease
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22

Washington.-All foreign business
records of the United States were bro
ken during the fiscal year ended June
30. Figures of the bureau of statistics
show the vast volume of foreign bust
ness amounted to the enormous sum of
more than $500, 100000, which ex-
ceeded the record year of 1907 by more
than $263,OOO,O0O.
The country's exports for the first
time exceeded the two-billion dollar
mark, while the imports were second
only to last year's. The year wound up
with balance of trade of more than
520,000,000 in favor of American bust
ness. This is $685., 100000 more than
last years balance, but was exceeded
by the record year of 1908, and 1901,
1900 and 1899.
Fifty per cent of the imports entered
this country free of duty, being greater
than at any time in the history of the
trade, except in 1892, 1893 and 1894
when sugSr was being imported free
under the Mckinley tariff law. The
total value of merchandise entering
free, however, was larger than in any
year heretofore.
Exact figures of the foreign trade
are:
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22

AS human food the peanut is con-
stantly gaining in favor, and forms a
regular article Of diet in many house
holds. Peanut butter is a staple ar
ticle Of commerce and is highly recon-
mended by many physicians. Every
kitchen garden should contain a small
patch of peanuts for home consump
ton. The soil will be left in better
condition thereby than If left fallow
and run over with weeds. It is one
of the crops grown that is not exces.
sively attacked by insect pests.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
GETS GAYNoR-eREENE CASH.
Government Has Received $500, 900
From Captain Carter, but Much of
It Is in Real Estate.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is made
at the department of justice that the
government had recovered about
$4,000 from John f. Gaynor and Ben
jamin D. Greene, the contractors who
were convicted of fraud with Captain
Oberlin NJ. Carter in the Savannah
(Ga.) harbor contracts several years
ago.
Records show that approximately
100000 has been recovered from Cap
tain Carter. That sum includes, how
ever, real estate and securities, some
of which have not been sold. The
courts allowed SILL 900 for Carter Is
counsel fees and expenses.
Both Greene and Gaynor owe a fine
of $5s5,749.9O. Both, however, took
the pauper's oath before they left the
Atlanta penitentiary.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
Fruit From Upper Columbia.

Davenport, Wash.-A system of
barges, it is rumored, will be placed on
the Columbia river in month to handle
fruit and local freight from the Upper
Columbia valley to Wenatchee. The
barges, towed by small steamers, will
be the property of the Upper Columbia
Navigation company, which expects to
quote a rate from Kettle Falls to Wen
atchee, distance of 200 miles, that
will be less than the present cost of
team haul of rs miles to railroad.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
wenatchee Ships Apricots.

Wenatchee, Wash.-The first carload
of apricots of the season of 1911 has
been shipped from this city, the van
guard of an apricot crop which is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to 10000 boxes
in the Wenatchee valley, or between
AS and so carloads. The price this sea-
son is the highest for several years,
buyers being plentiful at 20 cents and
rs cents a box This means that the
ranchers will receive about $4,000 this
year for the apricot crop.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
Ell CENTRIC HIT BY CYCLONE.
Two Lives Lost and Property Damaged
$4,000.

Ell Centre, GAIA storm of cyclonic
violence, in which two lives were lost,
several persons injured and buildings
throughout the business district badly
damaged, struck Ell Centre Saturday
afternoon. While it lasted only a few
minutes, it damaged property to the ex-
tent of at least $4,000.
The two whose deaths were caused by
the storm were Leslie Novak, being in
jured in falling building, and Singh
Sunda, a Hindoo, who lost his life in
the same way.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
WORLD news notes.
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National Historical.
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

A war on grasshoppers has been
started in western Kansas.
Pine, ORE. b. Woods was fatally
wounded as the result of a selfinficted
shot.
There will be no consideration Of
pension legislation at this session of
congress.
Whitefsh, Mont.-The crop situation
is the best it has even been in the his
tory of this district.
The automobile was born on July
4, IS years ago, about $3.50 o'clock in
the morning, in the city of Kokomo,
Ind.
Baker, Ore.-Seized with a cataleptic
fit and falling head-frst into a water
barrel, William zook, laborer, was
drowned near here.
London.-The dowager duchess of
Devonshire, who was taken suddenly i'll
at a race meeting, as the result of ex-
cessive heat, died few hours. later.
Malcomb, nl.-Mrs. J. o. c. Wilson,
widow of the first mayor of Malcomb,
died here Saturday, aged 101. She was
the last of family of 20 children.
st. Die, France.-St. Die was in fes-
tai garb Saturday, and crowds came to
participate in the exercises commemo-
rating the naming of America in 1907,
Eltopa, Wash.-The 14-month-old
baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Rector
died at their ranch, eight miles north
east of here from effects of excessive
heat.
Dayton, Wash.-Myrtle Gardiner,
aged 46, committed suicide here by cut
ting her throat and taking a large
quantity of carbolic acid, and after
ward swallowing turpentine.
Seattle.-Harry Robinson, aged 60
who came here from Deadwood, S. D..
and Bessie Baxter, aged 81, were found
dead in lodging house. They had been
asphyxiated by Illuminating gas.
Jefferson City, Mo.-The supreme
court of Missouri holds that county
boards of equalization have the power
to compel bankers to give lists of depos
itors and the amounts of their deposit,
for purposes of equalization.
A dispatch from Port Limon, Costa
Rica, reports that 80 passengers ant
several members of the crew of tn,
schooner Irma were drowned or crushed
to death when the vessel was sunk in
collision with another boat during
storm in the estuary of San Juan river
Oakesdale, Wash.-L. M. Guiton,
single man aged 81, operator for tn
Spokane and Inland electric line, wa
electrocuted here while using the loca
telephone, his leg touching the high
power batteries of the railway tele
phone while his hand held the receive
of the other instrument.
San Francisco.-The transport Sheri
dan has arrived here with a number O
troops returning from the Philippine
and the body of Lieutenant Colone
Fred w. Foster of the Fifth cavalry
who died in Honolulu recently as tn
result of injuries received by beinI
thrown from his horse.
Chicago.-While trying to save iron
death 1O-year-old girl, young woma,
lost her life in Lake Michigan, i
Evanston, and the bodies of the tw
were taken from the water within
few minutes of each other. The vic
Tins are Loretta Kenney, 10 years ole
and Ellen McKenna, 25 years old, a
P. operator in the Winnetaka telephon
exchange.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
RaIed Hay Versus Loose.

Baled hay is easier to handle In
marketing or feeding, occasions less
loss in handling than the bulky prod
uct, and will occupy but small space
in the barn or any outbuilding where
1t will be safe from rains, and where
the stock cannot get it. II you have
u very great amount of this surplus
product 1t will pay you to purchase
baler of your own.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
Miss Moissant Seeks the Air.

New York.-Miss Matilda Moissant,
sister of the late John B. Moissant,
whose exploits in the air probably did
more than those of any other man to
give America a place in international
aviation, plans to follow her brother g
profession in the conquest of the air.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
MAY DEAL WITH STANDARD OIL
That Company and the United States
May Do Business.

Washington.-Attorney General Wick
ersham has decided that it is not I'M
lawful for the United States to deal
with the corporations recently declared
by the supreme court of the United
States to be illegal combinations. The
question came up in connection with
contracts awarded to the Standard Oil
company for a years supply of oil and
gasoline for the military department of
the east. The attorney general holds
that the corporations declared illegal
combinations are so only in restraint
of trade.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
penver Powder PLANT Explodes.

Denver.-One killed, two missing and
probably dead and two nitro-glycerine
buildings destroyed resulted from the
explosion of 5000 pounds of nitro
glycerine at the Dupont Powder COM
pany's plant, IS miles south of Denver.
The cause is unknown. The loss is
placed at $4,000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
Martin cashermson KILLED.

st. Paul, Minn.-Martin Casherson, a
foreman in the st. Paul Boiler and
Manufacturing company, met a terrible
death when he stepped too close to a
rapidly revolving steel drill and his
suspenders became caught in the spin
ming shaft.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
Wife Suicides.

Butte, Mont.-Because Mike Menski
crippled with rheumatism, refused to
eat a meal which his wife had pre-
pared for him with more than ordinary
care, declaring that he had no appe
tite, the woman repaired TO another
room, and, in a huff, drank carboliC
acid, with fatal result.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-07-22
Postal Banks, New York.

Washington. - Postmaster General
Hitchcock has designated the main post
Offices in New York, Chicago Boston,
and st. Louis as postal savings deposi-
tories. They will begin to receive de-
posits on August 1.