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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-08


heat, tornadoes or pests; SO you may
well imagine the satisfaction Of the
south Texas farmer when the train
rolls away to the north with his
February cucumbers. beans, can
taloupes nd other out-of-season
products. well may he wear the
smile that's there to stay for he has
made good in the land where beauty
weds bounty and comfort clasps
hands with prosperity. He is a
prisoner of happiness III mighty
domain of golden future.
But 1t is the lowiy onion that is
piling up the great fortunes in the
Rio Grande region. Here the Bur-
muda grows in reckless abundance
and to size that puts its island an
cestry to shame. Water is the pill
lar of prosperity for the onion
grower and the riches that are
rooted in the Rio are easily trans
ferred by irrigation to the onion
bed. Six hundred dollars an acre
from this crop is not unusual and
the land is used three quarters OF
the year for growing alfalfa, which
in turn is converted into cheese and
butter, for as a dairying country the
region is rapidly coming to t b G
front. Perhaps / might quote q
newspaper poet and say that it is
here
The cows are fairly achin' to 60 or
record breakin',
And the hogs are raising bacon by
the keg.'
i Two navigable streams traverse
this American Egypt, and the irri
CATION bitches are large enough fol
transporting by small boats, all th'
farm products to the railway sta
tions, while two gulf ports are with
in easy reach.s A dozen towns hav
come into being within a few year
and they are models of all a tow
should be. In nearly every case th
!, town has been built deliberately. al
planned out ahead. then lots sold a
auction to be followed by friendl
contest in rapid n d substantis
building. A system of one hundre
miles of electric railroad alread
connects all these towns, SO ths
every farmer is practically cit
man. In fact, the old fashione
country farmer is an unknow
P quantity in Southwestern Texas.
There is still room down thel
u for half million people. Only te
per cent. of the country has bee
le cleared and irrigated. 1t is sti
golden with opportunity; its la
overfows with inexh usti b
is chances to make good and its we
y come is as big and as broad as IL
IS mighty state in which it lies.
IS 1t is the tabled isle of the o
in nursery wonder rhyme come tru
le the rock-a-bye sugar plum land
ID visions realized, of hopes fulfilled.
es
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-08
MEXICO.
N.. M..

Tupes HedU DeI0Tc Ute CHdWduQu1 CrcS.
Mexico. the land of Manana," ass
[ it is. sometimes called, and I would !,
add the words, quein sabe?''
Mahana,, in English means tomor-
row and quien sabe is. don't know.
These words one hears uttered by
the Mexican Peon more frequently
than all the rest in his vocabulary,
which, by the way, is very limited. |
I am speaking of Mexico as, II
knew it decade ago, but it is un-
doubtedly the same to-day.
The population is divided into
two classes, the wealthy, who are
mostly of pure. Spanish extraction ),
and the Poems, who are part Span
ish and part Aztec Indian. There is
no middle class.
| The Poems comprise about ninety
per cent of the population. | found
them to- be small of stature and very
dark skinned. Their features are
coarse and show plainly the Indian
blood. They are deplorably ignor-
ant, very few being able to read and
write, and they have no conception,
of personal responsibility; also they
, are devoid of any ambition, except
perhaps to possess horse.
There may be virtues in them,
according to their ideas and customs,
but they are not in accord with our
standards. They love pleasure and
excitement and are extremely lazy.
The only possible way to keep them
IN ones employ is to allow them to
be continually over-drawn, as the
Mexican law forbides an employee
from quitting your service while he
is your debtor. This is an old Span
ish law and most of the laws in the
land to-day are on a par with it..
The wants of the Peon are few; a
pair of cotton trousers. shirt and
a hat constitute his wardrobe and
;, his diet is mainly corn and beans.
Those who do not live in the cities
never pay rent. A few poles and a
lot of mud thrown together make
his shelter, and mother earth his
bed.
+ The greater part Of their wages
y when they earn any, goes for pulque
4 and the gambling table. Pulque il
= to the Mexican what beer is to the
German, but the former knows ne
. moderation, except perhaps in work
n Pulque is the fermented juice of tn.
N maguey plant, looks very much lik,
n city milk, has sour smell and it
IN intoxicating powers multiply witt
q age. The first odor to greet one OF
A. entering village and the last to biz
10 farewell is pulque. Its one virtu
is its cheapness and that is curse
II This vile stuff which has been tn
q national beverage of Mexico for fv
Of centuries. has, without doubt beel
the cause of making the Peon wha
he is to-day.
This country, for over score Q
years, has held its place with tn
other nations of the world, by beln
ruled by an iron hand. The govern
Is ment has been republic in. name
If but imperial in force. Ex-presiden
re Diaz, who was first of all q soldier
nd demanded obedience. His creates
;o- stength existed in his knowing tn
weaknesses of the people owe
which he ruled. Had he given
inf part of his time to the uplifting an
nd advancement Of his countrymen, b
ro name would go down in history :
one of the great men Of this gener'
I. ton.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-08

Let us be Of good cheer, remem-
bering that the misfortunes hardest
to bear are those which never
come.-Lowall
There is no end to the sky,
And there stars are everywhere,
And time is eternity,
And Here is over There;
For the common deeds of the
common day
Are ringing bells in the far
away.
''One may get unlimited credit
at the Bank Of faith"
1t is by presence of mind in un-
tried emergencies that the native
metal of man is toasted d'-Lowell
Every good thought we think lifts
us up into its own world.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-08
IL g NEVER TOO LArE no 11END.


at one time flowed to he sea
through innumerable small cham
nels. His profile maps showed that
these former waterways were lower
than the present bed of the river,
hence the thought occurred to his
trained engineering mind that it
would only be necessary to turn a
part of the river water into these
old channels when 1T would flow by
gravity over a wide expanse OF ter
ritory and be available for irriga-
ton. Since the waters of the Rio
Grande carry nearly fifteen per
cent. of precious salts and other soil
enrichening materials, it is plain
that such a plan meant more than
the ordinary sense in which the
word irrigation is used.
A corporation was formed, the
connecting canal cut and the rich
yellow flood flowed as per schedule
and the lowly sneaking sage brush
skunk away before the harvest of
waters, and the chaparral desert; be-
came a garden.
In those days you could have
bought million acres of that land
for half as many dollars. Today,
even the uncleared an unirrigated
lands in the Rio Grande country
sell for from fifteen to twenty dol
lars an acre, and if accessible to an
irrigation ditch, from two hundred
dollars to six hundred dollars an
acre. Three railroads have built
into the region and two more are
headed that way. Thirty thousand
people came in last year and more
than that number this year. One
country, that in 1908 cast a thou
sand votes has been cut into two
counties, each with more than five
thousand people.
Four years ago when | came
through the Rio Grande Valley
saw sign board which one planter
had erected on his farm bearing thi
legend: Two thousand miles from
Broadway and Glad of IT, an(
this feeling of satisfaction seems t.
i pervade the whole of Southwestern
Texas, and to grow with the adven
of the years. Indeed, even in thos
early days of the Valleys develop
, ment it seemed to me Kipling Nigh
, have had the region in mind whel
: he wrote:
5 Here's to the cool of your dee
verandas,
! Here's to the plays of your jewelle
main,
To the night, to the palms in th
moonlight,
And the fire flies in the cane.
d For the succulent sugar cane
the standard crop in this countr
of content where an acre produces
three times as much profit with lei
labor than the best sugar land
Louisiana, and where the residr
d from the sugar mills is safely store
II away in big four-footed warehous,
n in the form of hogs.
le Here they telephone for rain an
y raise a crop every month in Il
If year. Fifteen-hundred miles near
l. the main markets than Californ
ID and with spring time productit
IN six weeks earlier than Florida al
y climate tn at produces near
ar everything that grows in Cuba
lie Jamaica, is it any wonder that t
as Rio Grande country is loomil
large on the map of agricultul
in America?
he Perhaps paint the picture wi
as the brush of an idealist but it is st
* a fact that the new found Eldora
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-08

The President of the Chinese Re-
public is the sensation of the day
a Sun Yat-Sensation.
Have you been Biofsced? Biofs
cling has done away with posing. II
it would do away with posers, there
are quite number of people and
questions we would like to see Bio
fisced at once.
You cannot waste time without
wasting opportunity as well, and
opportunities once wasted do not re
turn.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
GOVERNORS IN MOVE
TO HOLD 1912 COTTON
FOR 15-CENT MARKET

Governor Joseph M Brown will in
few days call a convention of cotton
growers and business men of the en-
tire South, with the governors of the
cotton states, to be held in Atlanta July
10 for the purpose of considering plan
to hold cotton for a 15-cent market.
,ffle Southern States Cotton Corpora
ton. of Macon is backing the conven-
ton plan. and five governors haye
promised to be present if possible.
The Macon Chamber Of Commerce is
giving support to the plan. which now
embraces so Georgia counties and has
spread to other states.
George Dole Wadley, of Macon, presi-
dent of the corporation, is in the city
to consult Governor Brown. The cor
poration proposes to finance the cotton
movement of 1912 so as to regulate
sales, hold the crop for Is cents and
make possible a concerted movement
for handling the crop.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
NEIGHBORS AROUSE
& SLEEPING MAN FROM
HIS BURNING HOME

/, Neighbors hurting rocks through his
bed room window at o'clock this
smorning saved the life of Luther Hen
.ry when his home at No. 252 Cooper
street burned.
Henry was sleeping alone in the house
and. though the blaze had spread over
the entire structure when the neighbors
rushed to his. rescue. he was still asleep
in a far end of the flaming dwelling.
All of the neighbors We're in night
clothes. They rao around to the side
, of the house, where the sleeping owner
clay, and threw rocts and sticks and
seven chunks of Clay against the walls
and smashed out window panes until
Henry arose. He made a dash through
a broken window just as the roof fell
in. He was .nhurt
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
FREE TRIAL OF SAMOSE
Flesh Forming Food Given on Approval
by Druggist Jacobs.

Would you like to be fat and plump
and strong and hearty? Here is a
chance so to do it without risking the
loss of single penny.
Jacobs Pharmacy our well known
drug store, has a new treatment called
Samose, which they are selling on ap-
prevail, that is said to be true flesh
forming food 1t is in tablet form, re-
failing at soc a box
If it does not increase the weight. fill
out the thin, scrawny form and restore
health and strength there will be no
charge whatever for Samose. Go to
Jacobs today and get a treatment Of
Samose with their promise to refund
the money If 1t docs not do all that il
claims
Jacobs faith in Samose is shown by
their offer to refund the money if 1t does
not increase flesh and restore good
health.
Jacobs really gives you a free trial
of the preparation. for unless it does
increase the weight it will not cost
cent.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
Atlanta Maids and Matrons Are
CompIimented on Way They
Handle Motor Cars.

IF I had to ride a hundred miles an
hour in an automobile I'd feel safer
if a woman were doing the driving"
That statement about expresses w.
]. Stoddards belief that women make
the best amateur chauffeurs in the
world. Mr.. Stoddard. who admits that
he's an automobile bug" of the most
acute sort, declared that in all his
experience he had never seen such
competent. careful, speedy drivers Of
autos as are a half dozen of the young
women who spin daily up and down
Peachtree street.
There's Miss Myrtle Hancock, of Ju-
niper street, for instance, who makes
about as pretty picture as anyone
could want to see as she sweeps up
the avenue in her runabout at dash
that is always pressing the speed limit.
Miss Harriet Calhoun, Miss Mary Helen
Moody, Mrs Phinizy Calhoun. Mrs S.
c. Dobbs, Mrs. Marshall Mckenzie, Miss
Helen Dargan and Mrs w. j. Stod-
dard are numbered among the other
Atlanta women whom Mr.. Stoddard de-
| clares are better at the tiller of a car
than most men.
More Careful by Intuition.
Here's the point" said Mr.. Stoddard
"A womans sight is quicker than a
mans They'll see danger ahead soon
er They'll run more carefully by in
| tuition where danger is and that same
| intuition makes up the time for them
on the good stretches of the road. Mrs.
Stoddard for instance, will take me
| through Atlanta in our machine in less
time than ! can make the same trip
myself and she won't hit half as many
rough spots.
Then a woman knows more of the
psychology of automobiling than most
chauffeurs l have met, Wen say your
machine is making time on q city
street and that when you're ten yards
! or so from a corner a man steps off
| the curb into your path. IF a woman
| happens to be driving that car her
| first quick look at the face of that
| pedestrian will tell her infallibly
whether he's The sort Of man that's 60
ing to keep on across the road or
whether he'll step back and give her
the right of way Many accidents
have known of have happened because
the chauffeur didn't guage rightly what
the pedestrian was going to do, but ]
never knew woman driver to hit a
man like that
And anybody who says that women
can't learn automobile mechanism like
a man doesn't know what he's talking
about Mrs. Stoddari understands our
machine far better than | could learn
| it in a hundred years. 1t makes you
feel mighty silly, Of course, when you're
out driving with a woman who has to
start your machine for you when you
get into trouble and are tinkering
around helplessly yourself.
Incidentally, ! don't know OF a
much prettier sight than a pretty wo-
man guiding a speeding electric up a
city street, do your
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
Move On Now!

says a policeman to a street crowd,
and whacks heads If IT doesn't. Move
on now" says the big, harsh mineral
pills to bowel congestion and suffering
follows DR. Kings New Life pills
don't brlldoze the bowels. They 9n-
ty pers JADE them to right action, ard
health 6Jlows. 25c a -a druggists. 49,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
oAnsnEN no oELEaRArE

GADSDEN, ALA, June 2T.-The Gads-
den fire department held meeting here
last night at which arrangements were
completed for the Fourth of July celebra-
ton here this year. Most of the arrange
ments have been made for the event.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
SLAYER GETS IS YEARS.

EASTMAN, GA, June 27.-Arthur
years in the changing for killing his
brother a few months ago The jury
was out only a short time,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
LOG FOUND PETRIFYlNG
% FEET UNDER GROUND

DALTON. GA. tune 27--Whne digging
well near Cohutta, this county, Tom
Cooper struck log 20 feet below the
earth's surface. the log being two feet
in thickness an completely embedded in
ebert and gravel 1t was beginning to
! petrify.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27

FRATERNAL PICNIC AT ALTOONA.
GADSDEN, ALA. June PA fra
ternal picnic, in which the Masons, Odd
Fellows and Knights of Pythias will
join, viii be held at Altoona on July 4.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29
COURTS TAKING
EXTRA HOLIDAY

Tho corrts tod.Nv are as dead as
the ghost of the late, I,.hHeEted j.
Caesar, Esq, who shuffled off PMS
mortal coil quite some centuries ago:
There isn't even a flicker of excite
ment about them. Clerks, stenograph-
ers and interpreters have nearly
wrenched their jaws loose yawning,
while the judges have deserted the
quiet sanctity of their chambers and
retired to the more intimate seclu
sion of their homes.
For tomorrow is a holiday, and in
judicial and official circles it Is con
sidered bad form to work on holi-
day, on the day preceding a holiday
or on the day after holiday. Conse'
quently there is nothing doing.
It is true that Judge Whitney wan
dered in and signed two papers, but
that was merely a formal act that
excited neither him nor the newspa-
per reporters who prowled hungrily
and in vain about the echoing corrl'
dors in search of news when news
there was not
Whitney signed the decree Of di
vorce separating Lucy de Coito from
her cruel spouse Manuel, and he like
wise approved the thirteenth annual
account of Henry Smith, trustee oi
the estate of Richard Meek, deceased
That was all.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29
Lane
Improvement
Abandoned

On the quiet but with the fnality
Of fate, the oahu loan fund commits
sion has cut out the Frog lane inn
provement, for which the legislature
appropriated $4,000 of loan funds
Last time the matter was consid-
cred by the commission, with the
press admitted to its deliberations, it
was agreed to make modification Of
the plan. An offer of seven feet on
the town side at School street, from
one of the owners was to be accept
cd the line slightly bent to avoid
making a new claim on the opposite
size and the width reduced for some
distance. Claims for damages on file
were to stand without going to con.
demnation proceedings.
A few days later the Star was in
formed, and published the fact, that
tho commission had decided to con
demn all of the lands involved as
some of the claims for damages wes,
considered too high.
Since that amended decision wa
reached the commission has hnall,
concluded to drop the entire busines
! until the legislature meets, from
which it is hoped to have the apprc
priation increased by five tholsan
dollars,
: The reason for abandoning the wer
is that the commission was advise
that it could not be done for $1,000
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29
PRINCIPAL COPELAND SIZES
IUPIRESULTSIOF INSURGENCY

81 think that we who have been
called insurgents have you people to
thank for courtesies, and especially
for refraining from publishing inspir-
ed editorials" said Principal G. E.
Copeland to Star reporter this
morning.
I'VE feel that on the whole we have
accomplished some very substantial
results in the direction of improve
ment of the course of study and its
adaptation to the needs of the coun-
try schools.
while we did not get all that We
asked for, or perhaps all that we
hoped to get, yet we probably got
all that could reasonably be expected,
"The main improvements perhaps
are the introduction of the phonetic
methods of teaching reading in the
primary grades-a method which has
practically come into universal use
within the past few years-and also
a larger use of textbooks which will
tend to relieve and tighten the worl,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29
GOVERNOR WILSON CARRIES 1T By GREAT MAJORTTES
Oil Pipe
Line Bids
Returned

At the meeting of the board of
harbor commissioners this afternoon
it was decided, on the recommendation
of Marston Campbell, superintendent
of public works, to return the bids for
the Queen street oil pipe line unopened
and to extend the time for receiving
bids to noon of Wednesday next.
This is owing to the fact that the
Territory has been granted right OF
way, for a specified consideration,
through the Allen & Robinson prop
erty. In the meantime new plans and
specifications for the pipe line will be
prepared in due season for the pc
rusal of bidders.
Tenders for construction work to
be done on the Boys Industrial
School dormitory and the new addi-
ton at Waialee were opened at noon
today in the public works department
and the contracts were awarded tc
A. P. Mcdonald for the dormitory and
, 10 De Fries for the addition. Bids
made were as follows:
Dormitory-A. P. Mcdonald, $40,
$50; Ficota Fernandez, $2S,3S3; Lord
Young Engineering Co., $2O,5O0; Ho
nolulu Planning Mill, $23,939.
I Additional p. Mcdonald, $54OO
Ficota Fernandez, $465S; Lord-Yount
/ Engineering Co, $500; Honolulu
/ Planning Mill, $500; De Fries, $4592
In connection with the Bishol
street extension work, the superin
terdent of public works intends t
send letters to the remaining propert
holders affected who were not inclut
ed in the compromises offered by tn
department last week to fourteen {
those having claims against the re
ritory. If the results OF these letter
are no more successful than the Las
batch. condemnation proceedings wi
be instituted.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29

of the teachers in crowded country
schools.
Il think, too, that the result of the
meeting indicates in a general way
that the supervising principals, who
are actually in the field and doing
work, will very likely be consulted
with as to educational matters more
largely than in the past.
Il think that Mr. Pope should he
given credit for stating the case very
fairly in the morning paper when he
says that, had the supervising prin,
cipals meeting been relieved from Off
cial pressure, it is not only possible
but probable that the course of study
recommended to the commissioners
would have been materially different
from the one that was reported"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29

Even if the proposed new street, tsI
replace the crooked and narrow lane,
were reduced in width to forty feet
there would be money left after pay
ing land damages only sufficient to
grade the roadway. It could not be
macadamized and would therefore be
only mudbank in wet weather and
a windrow of dust in dry weather
Frog lane is hence to be added to
the list of failures of the loan fund
commission to have things done. Per
haps the commission is not to blame
the bottom cause may be the cupid
ity of interested landowners, whose
property would be vastly enhanced in
value by the improvement, in dem9nd-
ing what damages they had rather
than merely nominal or no damages
at all. In this connection the public
spirit of a Chinese proprietor, in offer.
ing seven additional feet without
claiming any damages to help the
! commission out in its last efforts
| stands out as a bright spot in the
whole ineffective business,
This intercepted Improvement wa:
one OF the first and strongest recon
mendations of the Judd COMMITTEES
that made an optical survey of tn
= sanitary conditions of Honolulu las
year great deal of time and e.
pense has been wasted in the abo
<, tive effort to put it through, whe
l ever the blame If any should be pia
J. ed
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-29

Fearful that bloodthirsty bananaI
oligarchy would mete him some mys-
terious doom in order to prevent his
leaving the Hawaiian Islands with his
reports on the fruitfy, Prof. H. H.
SEVERN of the College Of Hawaii is
alleged to have boarded the Honolulan'
last night and slowed away among the
bananas in the cargo in order that he
might be assured of leaving. Probably
the hiding place part of the story Is
an ironical joke.
Before slipping on board the ship
Prof. SEVERN gave out an interview
anent the charges made in spectacu-
lar affidavit as to his drinking capa-
city. Prof. SEVERN stated that he only
took four drinks with the Chinese ba-
mana planter one of which, he gravely
states, he spat out. Prof. SEVERN did
not explain just what was the matter
with the drink that didn't go down.
Professor SEVERN did not depart
for the mainland on his fateful mission
empty-handed. Two large valises ac'
,companied him loaded with reports oi