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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18
CONSERVATION
F. R..

Paper Read BEFORE the Chdutduqud Cucte.
Until about four years ago the
word conservation was not used
with anything like the specific mean
ing it has today, for now, when men
toned, it at once means to us the
caring for and preserving Of our
natural resources. Clifford Pinchott
has aptly said: Conservation is the
application of common sense to
common property for the common
good"
The word is chiefly connected
with our timber, water and mineral
supplies. Time will not permit me
to 90 into the matter fully, SO l
will confine my paper to the need OF
conservation in connection with our
forests and timber supply.
Today we have national forests
covering 2O0,000,000 acres. Yet,
three fourths of our forests and four
fifths of all our standing timber are
privately owned. We cut annually
three times as much timber as we
produce, yet we have enough forest
lands to produce four times what
we cut.
A few years ago it was my privi-
lege to spend considerable time
among the lumbermen in the upper
peninsula of Michigan and while
there | found that those men who,
for mere pittance had secured
large tracks of timber lands. were
cutting and destroying everything
they came to. Even in the pine
woods any small tree that would
make timber four inches square
and ten feet long was not missed,
This timber at that time was not
worth over $1,000 per thousand as
it stood, or a tree of the size jus,
mentioned not worth quite fifteen
cents, yet for this paltry sum the
lumbermen were destroying tree
that in few years would be worth
twenty or even thirty times tha
amount. Some may think t h J
wanted to clear the land but sucf
was not the case as the most of thi
land was unfit for agriculture.
What was the result of this tota
destruction of timber in this section
One instance only will | give: Tel
years ago there stood on the bank
of a pretty little bay off Lake Su
perior, surrounded on three side
by a seemingly endless forest, th
thriving little town Of Grand Ma
rails with a population of approx
mately $500 people. A stoppinI
place for four steamship lines and
terminal of branch railway. Blu
this tota destruction of timbe
around it has caused ali the steam
ship lines but one to take 1t off thei
schedule; the population has dwin
died to 800 people; the railway run
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18
(1O be continued merit ,peek)
WOman's Place in the World.
Chuzzelwit.

If this world were ideal. an Area
dia, Garden of Paradise, where
human nature was perfect, there
would be little need of discussing
rights of women; our lives would
move with the same harmony as the
stars in the armament. But the din
of many-voiced life has made a mad
ding discord, and the lives of wo-
men have become interviewer with
the stern threads of reality and in
many cases necessity knows no
law To dream of life in its per-
fection, men and women have their
parts to play-like the instruments
in great symphony-each depend
ent upon the other.
We hear of the rights of women;
as if they could ever be separate
from the rights of man, as if they
were creatures of independent kind
and of irreconcilable claim. This
is wrong; and not less wrong is the
idea that woman is only the shadow
and attendant image of man, owing
him an unthinking and servile ODE.
dience and supported altogether in
her weakness by the pre- eminence
of his fortitude. This is most ig-
noble, conception of her who was
made to be the helpmate of man-as
if he could be helped effectually by
a shadow or slave.
What then is the clear and har-
monions. idea Git must be harmoni-
GUS if it is true) of the rights Of wo-
men, to aid and increase the vigor
and honor and authority of both?
Let us see what the purest hearted
of all ages have held to be the true
dignity of woman. Shakespeare has
no heroes-he has only heroines.
There is hardly a play that has not
a perfect woman, steadfast in grave
hope and errorless in purpose. He
represents them as unfallibly faith
full and wise counsellors, incorrupti-
bly, just and pure examples, strong
always to sanctity, even when they
can not save. So in all cases with
| Scott as with shakespeare is the
woman who watches over, teaches
and guides the youth.
| Dante, the great Italian Poet
i you perhaps have read the poem to
his dead lady-stooping only to pity
never to love, she yet saves him from
destruction. She comes down from
heaven to. his help and throughout
| the ascents of Paradise is his teach.
. er, interpreting for him the most diff
. fcult truths. divine and human
and leading him with rebuke upoI
trebuke from star to star.
: As we go back into ancient times
we find that the lawgiyer of all tht
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18
Vol. XXV.-No. 81.
Ask And 1t Shall Be Given.
Beau Esprita.

Silence reigns supreme.
They day is done, the toilers are at rest
A few short hours they number with the best.
In sleep serene.
The weary day is done.
The hours. with hate and malice over-full
Pittiless emotions, but yet pitifu-
Passed one by one.
Peace be their need,
And may the strife that RACES i'll their heart.
Bitter and futile. leaving naught but smarts,
Show Thou their need.
Father, Son. knee1.
Peace be to them; strengthen them that they may
Strive on and conquer yet another day
This my appeal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18


AT Cockspur street we see the
Nelson Monument and Trafalgar
Square. Three hundred years ago
there stood here the village of Char
ing; now the site is the finest in
Europe. The Nelson monument is
a massive column of Portland stone,
rising one hundred and forty-ive
feet, supporting statue three times
as high as the ordinary man. 1t is
carved out of three massive stones,
of which the largest weighs thirty
tons. The Capital Of the column
on which Nelson stands is made of
bronze, from >cannon captured by
him. The four bronze lions at the
base of the column are twenty feet
long and eleven feet high and are
the finest in the world. The foun-
tains in the center of the square
are supplied by two artesian wells,
one in leicester Square. three hun
dred feet deep and the other along
the front of the National Gallery,
three hundred and ninty-five feet
deep. They eject five hundred gal
Ions of water a minute and the
height of the jet carrie s from
twenty-five to forty feet. In other
parts of the square are statues of Sir
Charles Napier, Sir Henry Hayelock
and General Gordon.
Along the upper side of the square
is the National Gallery which cost
over four million dollars to build.
The frontage is FIVE hundred feet
There are nearly thirty rooms in the
building and the best picture in the
gallery cost the country sixty dol
lars per square men.
Passing through Cockspur street
we reach Pail Mall, the heart Of
Clubland, and one of the most ia.
nous thoroughfares in England
Every Prime Minister of the pas
century, every statesman, every
great soldier, nearly every grea
preacher and great scholar has be-
Ilonged to one of the clubs Of Pal
Mall or St. James street.
Before reaching clubland, how
ever, we pass the Haymarket The
atre which is one of the oldest il
London and has a history dating
back nearly two hundred years
Jenny Lind, whom Queen Victoria
once accompanied on the piano
made her great success there.
/ Passing the Haymarket we reacl
| Waterloo Place, at the lower end O
which is the massive monument er
ected in memoriam of the men wht
perished in the Crimean war. Th.
memorial was cast from cannon
taken at Sebastopol.
/ In Pail Mall there are such club
1
as the United Services, Army ant
i Navy, the university. Guards ant
i the Athenaeum; members of the lat
| ter club, LOO in number, bein!
mostly distinguished in literatur
and science, either as authors or pa
irons of literature. The Travellers
adjoins the Athenaeum. This clu'
was originated in 1919 by Lor,
Castlereagh, the famous Foreigl
Minister and its eight hundred mem
bers must have travelled at leas
five hundred miles in direct lin
from London. Then there is th
. Reform Club and the rival palac
: of the other political party.the Car
ton Club.
I Within stones throw is the fir
est club in the world, the Roy,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18

year took up its steel, thus signi-
flying that it has no hope for the flu
ture prosperity of the town. | have
given this instance, which is one of
many, in order to show the outcome
of the careless treatment of the for
est lands IN the older sections OF
our country and what has been their
fate would also be the fate of the
newer sections to the west if some
thing were not done to stop the
ravages of these selfish individuals.
However, the American people
are fast awakening to the need OF a
change and ever since president
Roosevelt called that historic con-
ference of governors at the White
House and put the need of conser-
vation squarely before the people,
the cause has been gaining strength.
Immediately after this followed the
national conservation commission
which made the first inventory of
national resources ever prepared by
any nation.
We are beginning to realize that
conservation is the embodiment of
t b principal of national thrift.
There is really no fundamental Diff
ference between the thrifty house
wife who carefully saves that which
is left from one meal to be used at
the next or the careful farmer, who
by judicious rotation of his crops
] preserves the, strength of his land
and the careful lumberman who SO
culls out the full grown trees and
carefully felis them that the young
er and growing trees nearby are
not injured and willgrow 40 that in
time another may cut timber over
the same LAND.
What has been the fate of oul
lumber industries in the east would
be the fate of the newer ones in the
west If something were not done to
prohibit it. So the fight for conser-
walton is on. 1t is a fight between
the organized forces of selfshnesl
on one hand and band of patriots
on the other, who are trying to save
the peoples property in the people,
interests. The struggle is being
carefully watched bv all deep-think
ing Americans and millions of Amer
lean people are fast awakening t.
claim their dues and to realize tha
these vast national inheritances be
long to the whole American nation
that our forest lands, water anG
mineral rights were meant for man!
to use and conserve, and not for tn,
few to fatten upon at the expense
of all those yet to come.
Along with this ruthless destruc
ton of our young and growing
4 timber should be mentioned tn,
condition in which some of these cut
over tracts are left. Brush, limb
and refuse are simply thrown out o
the way, making some sections O
the country where the land is fit fo
1 agriculture, veritable fire traps. A
!: an example we have the Rainy Rive
section in the northern part of th
8 state where thousands of acres O
: land were burned over and the tw
s towns of Spooner and Beaudett
e burned to the ground, causing a
i immense amount of destruction Q
/ property and the loss of the lives Q
g over two score persons.
a 1t seems to me the time is full
it ripe for increased legislation O
II these matters and stronger en-
i forcement of the present laws rs
If garding the setting of fires in wood
/ ed sections, and the sparing of ou
l. growing timber.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18
a GLIMPSE OF
LONDON
Nil, Desperandum

(COntinned From Last H-eek.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-02
Something You Ought to Have
A Toilet Set

Glass shelf, 16 inches long, S inches wide, with solid
brass heavily nickeled plated brackets, complete with
six square bottles and glass stopper. Each one labeled,
Ammonia, Hair Tonic, Alcohol, Peroxide, Witch Hazel
and Listerine. This makes a very neat and COM
plete outfit for the bathroom. Price q ~
complete RAsoO
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-02
Val@mtime

\ A pleasing assortment of new and beau-
tiful valentines and a great many with pleas
antries that will amuse you as well as the
recipient-now ready fol- you.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18
BIG DAIRY
Four Days Session at Park River on
Jan. 26-27.

Park River.-Arrangements have
been completed with Federal Dairy
Expert Merrill for a two days meet
ing in Park River to be held on Fri
day and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 81,
for the purpose Of discussing dairy
topics.
The meeting will take place at the
operahouse and five sessions will be
held during the two days. Federal
Expert Merrill will be in charge and
will be assisted by three other speak
ers who are we'll known authorities
on dairy questions.
Since dairying is rather a new in
dustry in this county and those who
are engaging in it without much pre-
vious knowledge these meetings will
afford a splendid opportunity to &C.
quire valuable information which will
help toward the successful conduct of
the new branch of agriculture. While
each session will devote some time to
discussion of kindred subjects, there
will also be practical instruction given
on various departments of the dairy.
Three sessions will be held the first
day-morning, afternoon and evening
and the next day q forenoon and
afternoon session.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18
EVIL EFFECTS OF DRINKING
For the Want Of Little S~eIf-Sacrifice
the Moderate Drinker Imposes
Tax on His Fellow Men.

A recent address given by Sir Vic
tor Horsely, the eminent English ply
~fician. contains some remarks on the
subject of alcoholic drinking which are
worthy of general considerations: The
moral conduct OF future citizens" he
states, begins in the home. If we
consider the things hat are done 10
degrade human life we are brought
back to the question Of alcohol.
"Self-sacrifice in regard to the So
called Injuries Of life begins, as a
rule, with a man giving up alcohol. So
far as | am concerned, it seems an
Incredibly small sacrifice to make, but
1t is not SO to many people. The in
dividual who considers honestly what
is his duty toward his fellow country
men must consider this matter from
two totally different points OF view.
He must consider the duty to make
himself as fit as possible for his work
in the country. He must consider the
children. The very question of sick
ins urance now being dealt with by
the government, however remote 1t
may seem to you. is governed by the
question of self-sacrifce, for it has
clearly been shown hat the proper.
ton of sickness among so-called mod.
crate drinkers Is greater than among
abstainers. For the want of a little
self-sacrifice the moderate drinker i'm.
poses taxes on his fellow men. Only
Il few days ago an old. much-loved
teacher Of my own, Sir A. Pearce
Gould, showed that cancer was a dis.
ease which attacked those who took
alcohol twice az frequently as those
who do not. Every day we have evi
dence of this sort brought before us
showing that total abstinence stands
first as a salient element in the max
ing of the nation"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18

he found that success which will at
tend men of character and strength as
well as ability. Within ten years from
his coming here Judge Nuchols was
called to the district bench, and there,
too, he Immediately displayed the
qualities which have endeared him to
those who have known him intimately.
Learned in the law, a man Of wide
experience and great intelligence, he
has taken a high place among the ju-
dietary Of the state, and the men Of
North Dakota are looking toward the
gentleman from Morton for a great ju-
dicial career
The absolute honesty Of this strong
man, reared in the atmosphere Of the
Hermitage and profting by the tradi-
lions which surround that historic
spot, has made the people of not only
his district, but Of the state at large,
applaud the work that he is doing.
/; He gave up a large law practice to
go upon the bench, and the people ap-
preciate his sacrifice.
Judge Nuchols was from earliest
manhood deeply inte1 ested in the mill
tary life of his native state, and that
interest attended his life in North Da.
kota. His proficiency was such, and
his character so commended that he
was made judge advocate general of
the state militia with the rank Of col.
jonel, and his every duty was dis.
charged in a way that would have
brought pride to his old comrades In
the southland.
i Judge Nuchols was married at
Knoxville, Tenn, in 1902 to Miss Min.
ME Vance, and three children have
come to them.
Judge Nuchols was city attorney OF
Mandan for six years.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18
IGNORE JUDGES CHARGE
Mckenzie County Man Convicted for
Second limo Of Horse Stealing.

Williston. - Melvin H. Howe, a
prominent Mckenzie county farmer,
raj convicted in the district court of
Williams county or the charge of
horse stealing. He will make a mo-
ton for another new trial.
The verdict is exceptionally inter
esting in view Of the fact that the
verdict Of guilty. returned by the first
jury, was contrary to the judges in
structions and a by him set aside,
the supreme court affirming his view
Of the situation. and ordering a Sec
ond trial. Judge Leighton presided
at the first trial with Judge Fisk pre-
siding over the present trial just end
ed.
Howe was charged by Andrew Berg
with having stolen a horse from him,
the animal being located in the hands
of another party. A mass of evidence
was introduced to show the transac-
tions through which the horse had
passed before finally reaching the
holder. One of the states most i'm
portant witnesses, Felix Baxter, could
not be found, being isolated on a Ca.
madam homestead near the Arctic
zone.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18
HINT FOR THOUGHTFUL MEN
English Physician, by Simple Expert.
ment, Convinces Scholar Of In
furious Effect of Alcohol.

DR.. Richardson, an eminent English
physician, by a very simple expert
ment once convinced an intelligent
scholar of the injurious effect OF alco-
hol.
The scholar, an intelligent young
man, was singing the praises of what
he called the Rudy Bumper" say
ing he could not get through the day
without it, and that it gave him
strength and health. as we'll as ex-
h%ilaration. when DR.. Richardson said
to him, BE good enough to feel my
pulse as ! am standing here?"
The young man did SO, counting its
beats carefully. and saying. Its beats
"a"
The doctor then sat down in a chair
and asked him to count 1t again. He
did so. and said. 1T has gone down to
TO-"
The doctor then lay down on the
lounge, and said, Now count it again"
This the young man did. and in sur
prise said, Why, 1t is only Ga; what
an extraordinary thing!"
The doctor then said: when you
lie down at night, hat is the way ma
ture takes to give your heart rest. You
know nothing about it, but your heart,
that forever beating organ, is taking
a rest, and if you will but reckon it
up. you will find that it Is a great
deal of rest, for in lying down, the
heart {c HninU TON ctrrloc loee n min
ute than before. Multiply that by 80,
and 1t is 600, and multiply that by
eight hours, and within a fraction, 1t is
5000 strokes different; and as the
heart throws some six ounces of blood
at every stroke, 1t makes a difference
of some 10000 ounces Of lifting in a
single night, or over 6S4 600 pounds
every year! When | lie down at night
without any alcohol. then my heart
gets rest, and my strength is renewed.
But when you take your wine or grog.
you do get the rest, for the effect OF
the alcohol is to increase the number
Of strokes, and instead of getting the
rest which sleep is intended to give.
you force the heart to some 5000 ex-
ira strokes In a single night, and the
result is, that you rise up In the morn
ing comparatively weak, and unfit for
the mex days work till you have
taken another drink Of the rudy
bumper which you seem to think is a
source of strength and the life Of
man below"
The young mar acknowledged that
this must be SO. He began to reckon
up the figures and found what 1t was
to be lifting up so many ounces so
many thousand times, and the result
was that he became a total abstinence
health. and as he admits. to his enjoy
nent of life and happiness
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18

truly said that "he lived for North
Dakota" His initiative has borne Its
impress so that in the future years
the historian will dwell much upon
the influence that w. G. Gilbreath
welded from the time he began as a
country editor in Morton county until
he gives up his life's work.
The Industrial exposition just closed
at Bismarck, and so successful that
the people Of North Dakota demand
its continuation, is an example Of the
strength that has come to the people
and to the state. No man in North
Dakota has been more identified with
what is done. He has gone from coast
to coast and from the Canadian Dor
der to New Orleans and told the peo-
pie Of less prosperous communities
that North Dakota is the Land of Op-
p%ortunity, and he has proven it.
Mr.. Gilbreath made the Office of
commissioner of agriculture and labor
important. He made 1t an asset to
North Dakota. In thirty states he has
presented displays of the products of
the commonwealth and convinced the
people in other sections that North
Dakota would give back most for labor
and intelligence in farm, factory or
commerce.
Day by day he has planned ahead
for the state. He has burned the mid.
night oil that North Dakota might Sc.
cure the highest development. He has
made good" everywhere. AS the
mayor of the small town; as the coun
~ commissioner; as the country ed
itor; as the deputy of a state officer;
as the constructive genius behind the
upbuilding of a state he has given the
best that was in him. North Dakota
cannot pay him the debt that is due
him. Republicans may be ungrateful
and commemorative forget, but the
people Of North Dakota will tell theil
children what w. c. Gilbraith did fol
the state.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18

in the financial world tells, perhaps.
best Of the qualities of heart and mind
which characterized the Pennsylvania
boy who came into the state more than
thirty years ago as a farmer, who was
afterward in the lumber business and
then became the financial bulwark Of
his nefghborhood. 1t was at Page. in
iCass county, where he first went into
the banking business, and the hearty
welcome that is always accorded him
there, the other evidences Of esteem
that are shown him at various times.
prove that his early ideals have been
well lived up to, and that he did his
best for those around him.
AS president of the First National
bank of Fargo that institution soon be-
|gan to feel the strength of the man at
tits head. AS the leader Of many COM
Hmercial and ciyic movements for the
benefit of his city and his state he
threw much weight for development
;and progress.
AS a legislator at Bismarck he did
ibis duty as he saw it. Always courte,
lous, always broad minded, he dis,
charged his duty in a way that evoked
mo criticism of those around him. He
was elected to congress by a heavy
vote and then reelected. He looks you
straight In the eye as he talks to you.
His personal and political conduct
have been courageous and straight.
forward. His honesty Of purpose is ad'
mitted by those who oppose him, and
ibis ability is widely recognized. His
acquaintance over the state is very
wide, and his friendships are many
He Is a worthy son Of the old Key
stone state.