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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01

"Well'' the deputy inquired,
have you juriers agreed?''
Yes" replied Wilson Reynolds,
actor, we have agreed to have
something to eat"
What will you haye?"
One nice porter-house stake,
lyonnaise potatoes, boiled green
peas, a small portion Of lobster sal
ad, Boston brown bread, pot of
chocolate and some baked custard.'
Yes, sir; I've got them down,
what else?"
Eleven bales Of we'll cured hay
and as many portions of OATS
Why, Mr.. Reynolds, that is horse
foodI'
Exactly, but we'll have to make
it do for mules this time. There are
eleven of them in this jury room.
They are all hungry and want some
thing to eat" Eleven men were
for acquitting the prisoner. Rey-
nolds> alone stood for conviction
Exchange.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01

It can bring You to shore, to the
heights; if you let loose Of it, blame
not the men who made it, blame not
the plank tho it sends you back
blindly thro red hell, stand up a
man and say: Il ONLY AM RE-
SPONSIBLE."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01

Anxious voice over the phone:
Doctor, please hurry over to our
house. One of the family has sud-
denly been stricken with fainting
fit. Is there anything you want
ready when you get here, SO that
there will be no time lost?"
Doctor: Yes you may have
my fee ready" ."-Fed,uu,y Libpiu-
c0tfs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01
THE PAROLE LAW
A. N. APACHE.

Paper Read Before the Chaa,ta,qua Circis:
In debate of this kind all argu-
ments should be constructive, en-
couraging and helpful. We are ar
guing problem, supposedly, not as
vet solved. We, the affirmative,
claim the problem as solved. You,
our opponents. claim the opposite.
Is the present "Indeterminate Sen
tence Law" beneficial to the convict?
Does our Parole Law" give results?
I answer yes, to both questions
for in them is nothing but benefit;
the working remedy, and the treat
ment of same is and will be, pro-
ductive Of excellent results.
The men who advocated our Pa
role Law are Soldiers of Progress,
Soldiers Of the Common Good. Genu-
: inc reformers always put hope in a
man, and our Parole Law is ban
ner whereon is printed HOPE.
For almost 1000 years, Christian
civilization has asked: How shall
we reform our criminals?'' Today,
you have before you THE WAY.
Minnesota has awakened at last to
the true and only method. The State
will be the better for the method
and will show, to other states,
grand example in the Reformation
of the sodden.
The proposition put before US
seems to me to be an indisputable
one. 1t starts us out on a new ca
reer, and it keeps over us safe
guard which helps us to maintain
our new foothold. We are given the
chance to work out our destiny, to
establish our claim on society, we
must reverse ourselves, turn about,
and with true determination, rise to
the opportunity presented to us.
What does the Parold Board ask
of us? Nothing more than the best
in us asks of the worst in us. They
ask us to show our capability of
self-support by honest labor, to have
a higher estimate of our duty to So
clety, to have squarer consideration
for the other fellows interests.
We will he under obligation to
the State for its consideration and
that obligation must be a vital factor
in our new life, for appreciation is
always found in even the worst of
men.
The first thing we must assume on
gaining liberty will be individual
responsibility, we cannot rise to any
height by continually throwing part
of sur load upon another's shoulder;
only by our acknowledgement of re-
sponsibility will we bring home to
Minnesota the tremendous import
ance Of the Indeterminate Sentence
Law.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01

Father" inquired the small boy
making his first visit to the army
post, what house is that oyer there?'
That's the Government Head
quarters, jimmy
A long puzzled silence, then:
Father, where are its hindquar-
ters?"-February Lippincott's-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01

nad but one tendency
and that, to increase the criminal
world. The law breaker went into
prison with fiat sentence. Moth
ing was offered to spur him. He
had no ambition, his only thought
was to get in his time. They releas-
ed him-his inclinations were the
same as when he entered; they turn
ed him loose clad, a nonentity. He
went back to his Old stamping
grounds to be bounded anew by men
who depended on his kind for their
reputation. In a recent issue of
The Mirror / stated that a good
fisherman always throws part of his
catch back into the water to be
caught again when they were larger
grown. That is just exactly what
our civilization has been doing to
the convict, catching them and let
ting them go to be caught again.
Thank God, under the new dis
pensation, we need not fear the man
with reputation to make. for, the
Parole Law will revolutionize the
whole former british system.
Call it the Great Eraser, for it
blots out; call it the New Thought,
because it is new feature.
st Croix,'' in The Mirror lately,
gave us four lines of inspired poetry;
listen:-
For if there's will there's way,
If we but endeavor today.
And help and a lift and a CLEAN
in the rift
Of the blacklist of clouds over
way"
A CLEAN in the rift, that's the Pa
role Law, the clouds have always
been black to the dispondent con-
vict's gaze, now the help and the lift
has come, and we last see CLEAN in
the rift.
And this new thought is a living
thing, for we are acting it. 1t is
the spur that will send us to the
heights; the candle-light in our dark
ness, the oasis in our desert of neg
lect, for in a slang phrase'of the day,
It's up to us"
If l have said nothing else worth
remembering / want you to think of
this in connection with the Parole
Law:
"A help an lift then the CLEAN
in the rift
OF the blacklist of clouds over
way"
Let me, in closing, try to illus
trate my conception of the Parole
Law:
A man fell into the river and, as
usual, cried out for help.
A son Of Erin passing by heard
his cries, and picking up cobble-
stone he threw it into the water
with, hold on to this till I get a
plank"
That is what the world has done
to the first offender" When he
found himself in the river Gin iail)
he cried aloud for help and the Law
threw him a stone (the straight SEN
tence.)
In other words they gave him no
chance; no effort was put.forth to-
wards his rescue-his reformation.
The straight sentence done him just
the amount of good that the rock
done the drowning man.
We have held on to the stone for
many a day, now the plank has been
thrown to us. It makes no difference
how it is constructed, if you disre-
gard it, there are other ship wreck
ed souls that will be saved by it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01
HOME RULE
NIL DESPERANDUM.

J : :
to have resolved itself into a fight
beteen the Protestants and Catholics
in the United Kingdom. In t h e
first place Mr.. Redmond's party, the
Natlonalists, consist of seventy five
members all of whom are pledged to
full Measure of Home Rule, to be
obtained by means of majority
vote in the House Of Commons. In
opposition to Mr.. Redmond's party.
in Ireland itself, are the small
OBrienite band of eight members,
who desire Home Rule only when
it can be obtained with the unani-
nous consent of England and Scot
land and Ireland; they are the avow-
ed opponents of any measure OBJ
tanned by the use of majority.
There are also in Ireland the twenty
Unionist Members from Dublin and
Ulster, who are opposed to the prin-
ciple of Home Rule altogether.
In h e House Of Commons there
are two hundred and seventy-four
members pledged to resist Home
Rule by every legitimate device; and
in England there is clear majority
against the measure. It may there
fore be stated that England is polit-
ically against Home Rule; Scotland
and Wales politically are in favor Of
the measure; and Ireland is divided
againts it in the exact proportion Of
it's religious beliefs, the Catholics.
with the exception of those repre-
sented by the O'Brienites, being in
favor, and the Protestants univers-
ally against it. So much for the
question regarded in the light of the
component parts Of the United
Kingdom.
Numerically, the United King
dom consists Of some As, 500, 900 per-
sons of whom the $4,000 900 in Eng
land are represented by majority in
opposition to the measure; 1000, 900
in Wales for the measure; 5000, 900
in Scotland also by majority in
favor; while Leinster, Munster and
Connaught in Ireland have popu-
lation OF approximately 2,S00,000
the majority of whom are pledged
to Home Rule; and Ulster has pop
ulation of 100000 the majority of
whom are opposed to it, root and
branch.
If Home Rule could be considered
in the light of question which af-
fec1ed Ireland alone, we should still
be confronted with the difficulty of
Ulster. But it is generally agreed
that the question is one which deep
ly affects the three Kingdoms, and
when considered in that light the
difficulty of England is added to the
difficulty of Ulster. tits also worth
while to consider the religious de-
nominations represented by the va
rious political parties.
The Home Rule party in Ireland
is almost wholly Catholic, the oppo-
sition beingalmost wholly Protestant.
In England the opponents are An
glicans and such Catholics as the
Duke of Norfolk, the Marques of
Butte, and other co-religionists who
are not Irish. The English pro-
moters of the movement are Catho-
lie Irish, backed by the great num-
bers of Free Churchmen who belong
to the Liberal party. In Wales the
opponents are almost all Anglicans.
and the promoters, with scarcely an
exception, Free Churchmen. In
Scotland the opponents and promo
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-01
MAYBE.
Teou Exprita


Slender little face,
Laughing. blue gray eyes;
But to look is Paradise!
Maybe
Swaying. graceful form,
Twinkling little little feet
Fastening with love to greet.
Maybe.
Curving CHEEKY lips.
Straying red-gold hair;
Was there ever maid so fair?
Maybe
Voice SO silver true,
Heart of molten gold;
Can her virtues e'er be told?
Maybe.
Think of me. oh Sweet.
Watt to me kiss;
Love me and all life is bliss.
Maybe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Innovation Declared Success.
SAIL FOR YORKTOWN.
Secretary Meyers Party to Visit
Revolutionary Battlefelds.

NORFOLK, Va. May 1s.-After an in
spection Of the Norfolk navy yard and
naval training station today by Secretary
of the Navy Meyer the Presidents yacht
Mayfiower. bearing the Meyer party, sail
ed this evening for Yorktown. where tho
famous revolutionary battlefields will be-
visited tomorrow.
Secretary Meyers visit to the Norfolk
yard followed the launching at Newport
News today of the battleship Texas At
the navy yard Secretary Meyer was re-
ceived with the usual salutes. Upon landing
he at once became interested in the Grip
pied torpedo boat destroyer Warrington,
which lost thirty feet of her stern as the
result of q collision at sea some months
ago with coasting schooner which after
ward sank.
The Warrington remains hauled out at
the Norfolk yard in the same condition
as when first brought in after the acct
dent
Secretary Meyer also was much inter-
ested In the mammoth new dry dock here
and likewise, in the naval training sta
ton at st. Helena. Miss Helen Taft.
daughter Of the President. who was in
the Meyer party. attracted much atten-
ton. Others aboard the Mayfiower are:
Mrs. Meyer, Admiral Fletcher, Repre-
sentative and Mrs Riley of Connecticut.
and Mrs. Cravens OF Ar
kansas, Representative and Mrs. Hughes
of New Jersey and Representative
Thomas Gallagher OF Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
HISTORIC SPOT Is MARKED.
First Telegraphic Train Order Sent
Sixty One Years Ago.
From the New York Tribune.

rIom lne new 1ork Tribune.
officials of the Erie Railroad COMPANY
and other men prominent in the railroad
world dedicated a monument the other
day indicating the spot where the first
Geographic order was sent in the Morse
code over a commercial wire. The site
of this monument is a short distance west
of the new station at Hartman, ~. Y.
The bronze tablet. six feet high by
three feet six inches wide was designed
by Charles Keck. On its face is in
scribed: From this station Charles
Minot. general superintendent New
York and Erie Railroad. 1851, issued the
first train order transmitted by tele-
graph"
This order. also inscribed. is as fol-
lows:
ITO agent and operator at Goshen:
Hold the train for further orders. Con-
ductor and engineer. day express: Run
to Goshen regardless of opposing train"
At the top of the tablet Is a vignette
of Mr.. Minot, and at the bottom is an
other Inscription, to the effect that the
tablet was erected under the auspices
OF the Railway Telegraph Superintend-
ents and the Old Time Telegraphers ana
Historical Association. The stone for
the monument was Quarried from the
mountains of the Hartman estate and
Is the gift Of Mrs. z. Il Hartman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
DOROTHY ARNOLD IN MUNICH 2
Police Believe Uncle There Knows of
Her Whereab bouts.

Special Cablegram to The Star
MUNICH, May 1S.-The search for the
missing New York heiress, Dorothy
Arnold, who disappeared from her home
year ago last December. has now GEN.
tered here in the Bavarian capital, after
having extended over the greater part Of
southern Europe as well as all of Amer
lea. The police here have located Miss
Arnolds uncle, Gustave Arnold, a veal
thy retired real estate dealer. living at
number "a Frederickstrasse.
From his extreme unwillingness to aid
them the police believe that he knows
something concerning the missing girls
whereabouts.
1t has been ascertained by the inves-
tigators that the parents Of Dorothy
Arnold visited Gustave Arnold early last
autumn, 1t is believed in September, and
since then the old man has refused to
even grant the police an interview.
The director of the detective bureau
is convinced that the uncle is in COM
munication with Miss Arnold, or at least
knows where she is, and has given orders
to keep Q constant watch over Gustave
Arnold1 home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
TAFT NOW ACCUSED
Continued from Second Page.)

District Of Columbia, who is now con-
testing the seat Of the rightfully elected
delegate with Mr.. Taft's cordial approval.
was not only indicted, but served a Jail
sentence"
Col. Roosevelt also mentioned Patrick
Calhoun, who was indicted in San Fran
cisco.
Referring to President Taft's illusions
to the fact that George w. Perkins Of
New York had contributed to Col. Roose-
that Mr.. Perkins had given q larger
amount to Mr.. Taft's campaign fund four
years ago. and that the Taft campaign
manager had borrowed $4,000 from Mr..
Perkins, which had never been repaid.
Col. Roosevelt then took up the charge
that he had refused to prosecute the In
ternational Harvester Company. making
much the same statements in this con-
nection as in previous speeches.
Honest Officials Opposed.
Col Roosevelts reference to the Bal
linger-Pinchot case was his first ex-
tended discussion of this case in his
campaign. He asserted that Mr.. Taft
supported Mr.. Ballinger against every
honest official in the Interior Depart
ment. and especially against Clifford
Pinchot and Louis Claws"
Col. Roosevelt said that President Taft
expected "Messrs. Lorimer. Penrose,
Barnes and their associates to control
the Chicago convention and override the
will of the people. But" he continued,
Il serve notice on behalf Of the people
that there will be no tolerating by the
republican party of such action.
Il would have preferred" he said, in
closing. Ito keep this campaign down
to a pure discussion OF principles. but
Mr.. aft has refused to allow 1T to be
waged on those lines"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
INSTRUCTED FOR COLONEL
Florida "Progressives" Elect
Delegates In Opposition to
'ReguIars."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May $3.50
called progressive republicans Of Florida
met in the state convention here today
elected six delegates at large and six al
ternates to the national convention at
Chicago and instructed them to vote for
Roosevelt for President 80 long as his
name remained before the convention. -
The delegates will contest the delegation
named by the so-called regular conven-
ton February 6, at Palatka, which was
instructed for President Taft.
III. L. Anderson of Jacksonville was
named for national committeeman in op-
position to H. S. Chubb, elected by the
Palatka gathering. Resolutions were
adopted condemning the federal office
holders in the state "for betraying the
party" and declaring the convention at
Palatka as irregular and not representa-
tive. Candidates for governor and Con-
greSS also were named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
TAFT FORCES CLAIM 500.
On Showing to Date President
Is Confident of Twenty
Two Texas Delegates.

Last night the Taft bureau gave out
the following:
president Taft's total number of dele
gates elected to date for the Chicago con-
vention in June reached $50 last night as
result of district conventions held in
Texas. In the first, second, third, fourth
and fifth Texas districts yesterday, the
Presidents friends scored notable VIC
tories, the Roosevelt minorities contest
ing in several instances. These Roose-
welt bolts. however. will have no standing
except before the Texas state convention,
where Col. Lyon. Mr.. Roosevelt's cam
paign manager In Texas. hopes to make
them basis for a contest at Chicago.
Under the call Of the republican national
committee. however, both the colonies
will have to take their medicine, for the
congressional district conventions comply
with the republican call in every partic-
ular. the calls in Texas having been made
by the regular congressional district or
ganization most Of which, up to the
present contest, have been controlled by
Lyon himself
Sure of Twenty-Five.
THAT he lost control of them in this
contest is the only excuse that can be
offered at Chicago. On the showing to
date in Texas, President Taft is certain
of twenty-five delegates from that state,
Mr.. Roosevelt Of four. and three congress
sional districts and the state convention
are yet to be heard from The state con-
vention, the machinery Of which Col.
Lyon hopes to control will be held
May %.
President Taft now has an actual
majority of twenty votes in the national
convention, while Mr.. Roosevelt has only
34S delegates all told. and lacks 1872 votes
or majority. There remain to be elect
ed only no more delegates of which ten
VIII De disposed of in conventions to be
reported today. These include the fifth
oklahoma, the eleventh, thirteenth and
nfteenth Texas and the sixth Arkansas.
After today 100 delegates will remain to
be CHOSEN as follows: Ohio, As; New Jer-
sey, IS; South Dakota, 10; Arizona, t,
and Texas, 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Mcdowell Goes to Annapolis.

Passed Assistant Surgeon r. w. Nc
Dowell, U. S. N. has been detailed to
take charge Of physical training and
athletics at the Naval Academy. succeed
ing Surgeon j. A. Murphy. Surgeon
Mcdowell is well equipped for his new
duties. While a member Of the Undine
Barge Club Of Philadelphia he won the
amateur sculling championship. and held
1t for several years He took part also
in football and other athletics while at
tending Jefferson Medical College.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Expresses His Confidence.

Gov Harmon here gave expression to
the sentiment that Ohio would not defeat
its own candidate, and added:
"1f l am right in my belief. the dele
gates from Ohio will present the name of
her governor at Baltimore in no spirit
Of hostility or envy to any other. They
will simply make good the unanimous
action of the convention at Dayton by
confirming at the state primaries Tues
day Its selection OF me, and back that
action by fair and honorable advocacy.
They will neither attempt dictation or
submit to 1t from any one.
And IL the choice shall fall on another.
they Will be able to assure the convention
that. with its well earned prestige at
home saved from its would-be destroyers,
the Ohio democracy will be found in the
victorious column of the nation in No
vember."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Names La Follette's Backers.

From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
In the matter Of the right-hand glove,
which so few wear and so many pay for.
correspondent suggests the cheap
remedy You have but to turn your
right-hand glove. draw 1t upon your
left hand. button 1t backward. and in
the gloom 1t looks just like the proper
glove Of the left hand Try 1t. But not
in the limelight!
We can get/over the difficulty of our
uneven use OF gloves by wearing fisher
mems knitted gloves. which are made like
babies first gloves. with thumb and
one huge finger. And as for boots. North
ampton still makes 'straights." which
can be changed from foot to foot like
the top boots worn by the old-fashioned
farmer described by Richard Jefferies.
He wore them every Sunday to church.
and by changing them over every week
and carefully greasing and freeing
them they lasted him for best dfty
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
Insect Immigrants.
From the Christian Herald.

The Australian ladybird beetle came
into California to destroy the white scale
in the late eighties, and this was follow
ed by the carriage of the same species Of
beetle. with equally good results, to Por-
tugal. to Italy. to South Africa, and quite
recently to Formosa, in all cases de-
stroying the same scale insect Another
instance was the importation from Aus
tralia of certain parasites Of the sugar
cane leaf-hopper into Hawaii, which is
said to have resulted in the reduction of
the numbers of the leaf-hoppers to a
negligible quantity. A gigantic expert
ment of the same kind Is now being car
ried on In the importation Of the para
.ities and natural enemies of the gypsy
moth and the browntail moth from ali
parts of Europe and from Japan into the
New England states. A number of spe-
cies have already been introduced and
acclimatized, and admirable results are
expected from this work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
District Delegates Named.

District conventions for the second and
third congressional districts were held
separately after the close of the state
convention, two delegates and two alter
mates from each being chosen and in
structed for Roosevelt. The first district
delegates were named yesterday. The
delegates are: State at large-H. L. Ander-
son. Jacksonville; Mark White, Pensa-
cola: R. r. Robinson, S. H. Hart, ]. N.
Stripping. Jacksonville; ]. H. Gregory, IT,.
Key West.
Second district-Clinton E. Ward and
Samuel e. Schell, both Of Jacksonville.
Third distr1ct-George p. Wentworth
and Thomas G. Rice, both Of Pensacola.