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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01
Between Ourselves
ChuZZleWit.

AS OIlC SOJOuI hCIS "a" ""0 y w - |
close, ones thoughts try to pene
trate the great store-house of the fu-
ture, but fail time and again to dis
cover a weak spot so as to gain an
entrance. The past and future is
not given us all at once; it comes a
little at a time in wee segments
broken from the circle of eternity.
1t may not have been partitioned in
this way for human good alone
perhaps there was some other de-
sign in it-but it is a most comfort
able arrangement for us, for we
would hardly be willing, hardly have
the strength to take the view of the
future all at one time. So in the
past and future there are many
dawns. these are Cor our waking;
and many nights, these are for our
resting; and between the dawns and
the nights are our many tasks; these
are for the upbuilding of our man
hood, and the way and spirit IN
which we do them determine the
kind of men we are and the kind of
men we are about to become.
The future is divided up into days
over which some gentle mercy has
hung a yeil-nOt mesh-veil pene-
trable by keen eyes, but thick one,
hiding the events of the unfolding
hours. The things which are clear
ly within our own Will we may fore
tell. yes, even see them entire before
they are wrought, but the things
which come from the will of another;
the missiles hurled at us from am
bush; the sudden clouding of the sky
of hope; the wrench at our hearts
when relative or friend is literally
torn into the Beyond,-these are
hidden by the veil which is over the
face of the future. By this we are
kent from being practically killed
by foreknowledge; it is enough and
best if we take the hard things OF
the coming days in slow and unher.
aided procession. Hence the vel
which the Allwise Creator has placed
over the face of the future.
If you and l could build after ou
fashion future, we probably plal
to put into the structure only beau
tiful and easy stones with yieldin!
carpets and soft easy chairs at tn
hearths and windows. Not one jag
ged, hard -tugged rock would go int
the structure; not one cold flag int
the floors. 1t would be literally
Castle of No Sorrow, with laughte
ringing to the rafters. But with tn
years which are chalked up on th
human calendar by some wise han
it is not so. There is often hunge
when the feast is done and often tn
wine is tears. Burdens seemingl
disproportionate to our strengt
are put upon, our shoulders and ou
highest towers of hope topple IN
night. We say, perhaps, we hay
fallen upon hard lines" and so W
have.-every man of US is doome
to trouble-but only that we ma
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01

John E. Wilkie, chief of the
United States secret service, has
travelled forty thousand miles every
twelve months for the past fourteen
years and has never had an accident
or so much as alscratch while on a
railroad train. The Popular Maya
zine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01
Vol. XXV.-No so.
The Wander-Son$ of Youth.

The sun is warm. and the wind is sweet.
And the road is lying before my feet,
And just where the sky and the mountains
blend
There's pot of gold at the rainbows's end
A pot of gold for the men who dare
To take the trail to the rainbow there.
My spirit thrills to the rovers' code,
My heart is fain for the open road.
The smiling meadows. the arching sky,
The color and life that flashes by.
Love and laughter and hardship grim.
And fortune--just at the distant rim!
Berton Braey in August Ainstee's.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01
For SaIe--0ne
Poetry Machine
Beau Esprita.

Beau Esprita.
The elevator door shut with a
clang, and l found myself standing
before a ground glass door which
bore the legend:
UNE EDA
"Of The Inner Seal"
PRIV ATE
Visions of large, bare, theatre
like room, with huge and very
shiny roll top desk at the further end
behind which sat enthroned beet
ling browed potentate, flashed before
my minds eye as | have knocked
timidly. How would the great man
receive me and my presumptious
errand? For know that | was about
to beard the lion in his den and en-
deavor, by hook or crook, to wrest
from his possession his u =
famous treasure, his favorite brain
child,-the Poetry Machine. Yea,
even to such heights will mediocrety
aspire.
Come i'm calleda CHEEKY voice,
and | entered. Visions / had (note
up above) but they fled before the
reality, like laughing children
before Fox" in the old red school
house play ground. No imposing
spectacle. no dismaying vesta f
polished hardwood floor met m y
gaze. Instead, cozy little office,
tastily decorated with comfortable,
unpretentious furniture, and a huge
pile of paper( unfinished manuscript,
/ surmised )stacked against one wall.
But what caught my eye Immediate
ly, and held it, was a bird of a blonde
setting behind a wire screening
in one corner, and caroing lightly
to herself as she ran her eye down
the paper before her. BY my next
years whiskers, she was peach
No wonder Uneeda could invent
poetry machines in such presence
Why, even my staid and prosaic
70 rrf Of re
beaten track. l turned to see what
the fortunate mortal who basked
daily in the sunshine Of such q
presence could be like, and in my
heart | hated him. A dapper little
middle aged man with intermittent
sideburns Cha! originality that, inter
mittent sideburns) and bright eyes
that peered quizzicaly over horn
trimmed eye glasses, was seated be-
hind a paper-littered table in tht
center of the room.
"Uneeda, of the Inner Seal?"
querried, bowling politely. l an
e always polite to those I hate; anc
besides, l felt the eyes of the littl'
] blonde behind the wire sereenin!
e were upon me.
: He nodded, smiling pleasantly
0 What can | do for you?''
: Present me to Mable," is what
e would have said. but l could not
I; Nor could | remember the persuasiv
wiles by which l had intended t
v lure from him possession of tn
l. Poetry Machine. Il want to bu
Il your Poetry Machine" l blurted
v MY dear STRIP he cried. jumpin
5, up, my Poetry Machlne?" 1t wa
reasuring to note that the Poetr
Machine got all the best of it in thi
coupling of possessive phrases.
'e Yes sir, / want to buy you
Is Poetry Machine;" my speech con
y ing back to me with rush as til
u little blonde Uttered. In the olde
~ days when l was young | woul
A. have laughed to scorn the mel
mention of machine made poetr
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01

emerge from the field with determi-
nation and manhood. There is not one
seeing bane in life that was not
put there to be a boon. but to take
a bane and twist it and forge it and
hammer it into boon requires the
and strength of the real
man. The greatest life is never the
life that stretches itself upon cush-
ioned couches, but the one which
chooses the place of battle and reels
under the blows of flying fists and
gathers itself amid pain and dizzi-
ness and gives back more blows
than it takes till it stands weary and
painting, perhaps, but justified to it.
self and to the world by clean and
courageous victory.
The past has not been one long
period Of trouble, nor will the fu-
ture be. Often life assumes the as
pect of winding road, skirted here
and there with pleasant surprises.
Part of our future will turn out bet
ter than we think, hope, or realize;
from behind a copse (along life's
pathway which looks eerie or for
midable in the twilight, a friend
will step and strike hands with us
and walk with us in the way; within
our own hearts we find some all un-
suspected spring of refreshment,
which leaps to our thirst as if its on
ly passion were to assuage it. We
look upon a simply composed paint
ing which transcribes for the mys-
terry of life and it's solution; or from
some dell the melody of the birds
and the beauty of the wayside gives
us courage and we smile away oul
fear.
And lastly but not the least i'm.
portant is this thought: that the
main thing in life-.he basic essen.
tial of poise-ls to get the world tc
lie before your eye, not chaotic, like
a tangled fishnet or tumble of print
er's type, but ordered and running
like a well-built clock which obey'
the winding and faultlessly strikes
the hours. If the world does no
so apper to you, if it seems TO star
and stop and go persistently awry
if it seems set against you instead o
for you, the trouble is not with tn
world but with your eyes. And thu
way to get your eyes fixed is to es
tablish within yourself viewpoint
which heals you into accurate visor
by the banishment of mental myopi
and astigmatism. 1t is easy for m
to prescribe this cure, and harder fo
: you to get the prescription filled, TO
in the final showdown, every ma
, must be his own chemist and some
, times be is busy with other things 0
has mislaid the mental ingredient
p which mixed, make view-point-th
, kind of view point which straighten
out the world and pulls the blessing
n and immunities of life into his ow
o Individual world.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01

seem so hard that you should be al
ways getting out of a job and just
when we need the money so bad too.
/ know you're not a bad man, Tom,
and you don't spend money for drink,
like some of the other men do; but
some how we seem to be getting
worse off all the time instead of bet
ter.
Oh h, amt you going to give
me any supper? | suppose I'll get
another job. / guess there's other
places to work, in besides that one.
Here's my wages. you can't say l
don't bring home my envelope al
right. Yes, [ know it's dollar
short. No, / didn't spend it, how
could I? Aiut the envelope sealed.
Well since you're so keen about it
l got docked half day; yes, that's
what. l got there about ten min
utes late last Thursday and l knew
they would dock me full hour for
it, so 1 just stayed out till noon.
See! / aint going to let boss get
the best of me. ~
When you've finished your sup
per Tom, don't you think you could
90 over to Mr.. Jones' and ask him if
he knows of anything for you to do?
Maybe he might give you a job him
self, if he knows you want one.
Well, / guess / wont; if old Jones
wants to hire me let him come af-
ter me; and besides that aint my
trade anyhow. Why don't you put
them kids to bed? and not have
them slobberirg round that way.
Where's my pipe? Amt there any
tobacco in my other coat? Well
you'll have to give up a quarter SO
as can 90 over to the store and get
some.
Oh Tom, dime ought TO be
enough. Here! wait! | got to &C
over, anyhow, to get some things fol
breakfast. I'll get the tobacco fol
you.
Alright old girl you can 90; anC
get an evening paper while you're
at it, will you? No, [ won't split
kindling; guess mans done
enough work so as he can rest wher
he comes home.
, Oh Tom, the grocery man wa
saying that they're going to take or
j. gang of men at the new works to
!, morrow; maybe if you get over ther'
/ real early you might get job. II
/ set the alarm clock and have Bit
, ready for you, what do you say?
+ What wages are they going t.
r pay? / won't work for less thai
! two dollars and | aint going to wor]
: alongside of no dago either;-seem
r to me you was mighty long tim
8 lallygagging over at that grocer.
e store. If you'd stay home and ten
$ to your own bssiness and let min
8 alone seems to ae I'd get along bet
n ter, any way there would not be 8
much jaw. Amt we got any match
es? we'll poke a paper down th
lamp chimney and give me ligh
you talk so much that you make m
pipe go out. I'll go out tomorro'
h and look for a job / tell you with
out you bothering about it. We
you needn't begin crying; yes kno'
q it's pretty hard on you and the kid
It but blast it all. I've done the best
n can. Maybe / amt worth much.
John E. Wilkie, chief of tt
I. .
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01
TERMS: eM onths Fifty Cts.

but, recently, as my collection OF
rejection slips grows and grows a.
pace, [ have seen great light in
the inside column of the black page
Of The Mirror; and | come to tell
you, gendor of that hope inspiring
flame, beseeching your services in
restoring to me the favors of tickle
CalliCpe and twice tickle Erato." |
didn't know of the little blonde
with the bewitching voice when /
prepared this grafton. | wish /
hadn't mixed in the danes; it irri-
tated me to notice the saucy Tilt that
crept into her voice and by the
whiskers which | have not got"
/ cried pounding the table, in my
extremity if you don't sell me your
Poetry Machine, with full operating
instructions, PHI" / tensed my
voice to give full force to the ulti-
matum-'I'll write without it! -,
MY dear STRIP calculated Uneeda
but I cut him off.
Yes, sir I'll write poetry that
will make your effusions look like
the mature efforts of Homer, Milton
and w. Shakespeare in comparison.
I'll back you off the map, tear the
map up, and throw the pieces after
you. What will you take for your
Machine? have the price and"
Say no more" he cried enthusiastic
ally. You have price; will you take
the machine with you or shall /
bring it around to your house?
shall not charge you a cent for the
book Of instructions, containing
1929 pages. / will wrap it up at
once"
The little blonde behind the wire
screening was singing lightly, still.
l glanced over to see how she had
taken my signal victory. She turn
ed her head saucily on one side and
winked at me! By my whiskers
which have not come she did, the
mink!
The Poetry machine was duly set
up in the living room of my apart
ments. | would have had it in my
library or den, but it was too large
for my den, snug little room, and
| was afraid the motor might dis
turb the Sleeping Beauty, who has
reclined Cat what would appear to
be a very uncomfortable angle,
I though she seemed to like it, on my
library shelf for 10, these many
moons. So it had to be the living
room-I swore as a child that I
would never have a parlor, and
prospects are that shall be able to
keep the oath. For days l gloated
over the Poetry Machine in private
and holy joy, the while / was not
coming the instruction book.
About that instruction book: I
. must hand it to Uneeda, it is a corker!
Any man who can write book like
that has no business monkeying
: with poetry or invention. He should
affiliate with the Predatory Corpo-
ration and write Guides to the
Haunts of Big Business. Nobody
reading that book could possibly
: connect one paragraph in it with
the innocent appearing Poetry
Machine, except by tearing out a
page and pastiDg it to some part Of
the mechanism. And even that
would be difficult.
But at last | was ready to tempt
: the fates. Arrayed in overalls and
jumpers | seized an oil can with
one hand and a monkey wrench
with the other, and turned on the
motor. My neighbor on the right
I'll Continued on 4th page
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-01

The elevator door shut with a
clang, and | found myself standing
before a ground glass door which
bore the legend:
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ITALIANS FIRE ON
TURKISH FORT
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(By United Press Leased Wire
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 10.
Italian warships have bonn
barded Kush-Adassi, Turkish
port 40 miles from Smyrna, with
disastrous effect, according to dis
patches received here today. The
number of dead, if any, was not
included in the dispatch. Turkish
officials here would not confirm
the report that peace terms had
been agreed upon and that hos
tilities would cease at once. In
view of the bombardment of
Kush-Adassi, diplomats here place
no credence in the report.
The government today sent a
conciliatory message to Sofia con-
corning a recent attack on Bull
garian frontier guards by Turks.
Nevertheless, the government is
preparing for hostilities. 1t is be-
lieved change in the Servian
cabinet is in anticipation of war
with Turkey, and it is probable
that before long the long smolder-
ing unrest in the Balkans will
burst into open conflict.
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DR.. Llewellyn B.
ASHTON
LEADS IN CORONER.S RACE ON
pROGRESSIVE PARTY TICKET

LEADS IN CORONER,S RACE ON
PROGRESSIVE PARTY TICKET
Perhaps the most keen1y con-
tested race between any candi-
dates for a place on the Progress
sive Party ticket was that for the
office of County Coroner, because
of the fact that the returns were
not all in until late last night.
The press reports of the chang
ing fortunes of DR.. Ashton and
DR.. Hards, the men who each
sought to be nominated for coro-
ner, proved of considerable inter-
est to the friends of these popu-
lar physicians.
Sundays papers gave DR.. Ash
ton leading by about so votes,
while Monday afternoons count
placed Hards in the lead with 40
to the good. However, when the
last precinct was tailed at head
quarters it was found that the
final score again showed DR.. Ash
ton the leader, he having 1,34S
votes, with Hards 1927, Ashton
finishing Ill votes in the lead.
DIR. Ashton's record among Ia
coma business men for integrity
and efficiency should make him
strong rival at the November
elections,
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DENIS LOSE BY
CLOSE MARGIN
IN MAINE

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 10
For the first time In two years
the republicans with the aid or
progressive voters today, accord
ing to complete returns, have
wrested Maine from the control
of the democrats by electing w.
T. Haines, the republican candi-
date for governor, over Frederick
Plaisted, democratic incumbent.
With returns from but SO small
towns missing, It is certain that
the republicans not only have
elected their state ticket but have
regained control of several con-
gressional districts as well as Sc
curing control of the new state
legislature.
One of the hardest blows suf-
fered by the democrats Is the GER
tain defeat of Senator Gardner
by Edwin c. Burleigh.
The estimated vote at noon
was:
Haines. 1890; Plaisted, 67.-
440.
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'CASCARETS" FOR
SICK HEADACHE
Bilious, thrObbing headache
means Bowels are clogged
and liver stagnant.

You're bilious, you have a
throbbing sensation in your head,
bad taste in your mouth, your
eyes burn, your skin is yellow,
with dark rings under your eyes;
your lips are parched. No won
der YOU feel ugly, mean and ILL
tempered. Your system is full of
bile not properly passed off, and
what you need is a cleaning up
inside. Don't continue being a
bilious nuisance to yourself and
those who love you, and don't re-
sort to harsh physics that irritate
and injure. Remember that most
disorders of the stomach, liver
and intestines can be quickly
cured by morning with gentle,
thorough Cascarets-they work
while you sleep. A 10-cent box
from your druggist will keep your
liver and bowels clean; stomach
sweet and your head clear for
months. Children love to take
Cascarets, because they taste
good and never grippe or sicken.
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DIVORCED, W0OED
WON IN | NIGHT
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(By United Press Leased Wire.
PORTLAND, Ore. Sept. 10
Annie Kent, vaudeville actress,
now on the Orpheum circuit, to-
day Is divorced, wooed and won,
the whole performance taking
only three hours. Divorced IN
Spokane at noon from James Kei-
ly, also a vaudeville artist, she
notified by telegraph her last
years partner in stage harness.
r. f. Van Hoven, now appearing
at Hammerstein's theater in New
York at 1 o'clock. He proposed
to her by wire two hours later
and she Immediately accepted
him,
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TO INVESTIGATE
u. S. ATTORNEY

BOISE, Ida, Sept. 10.-Under
direction of John McCourt, Unit
ed States district attorney for
Oregon, an investigation by q
federal grand jury is in progress
today of the charges made against
C. III. Lingenfelter, United States
district attorney for Idaho, who
lis accused of violating a federal
statute by accepting money for
pushing mining claim to patent
after he took the office OF federal
district attorney.
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LED HIM
To CONFESS
MURDER

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
CHICAGO, Sept. 10. - Those
dying eyes walked before ME in
the daytime and started at me
in the night for IT years"
This was the explanation given
the police here by Patrick Haley,
who is today in Jail here, a self
confessed murderer.
Last night was the first time
the eyes did not appear" Haley
said, $50 confessed"
Haley is held pending an in
vestigation by the st. Louis po-
lice into the murder which the
man claims was committed there
II years ago.
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SHOT BY ONE OF
JOHN DISC GUARDS
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(By United Press Leased Wire
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Sept. 10.
The condition today of Russo
Secoro, found nearly dead from
loss of blood, due to bullet hole
In his breast, on the estate of
John D. Rockefeller, was report
ed considerably improved. 1t Is
believed that Secoro is the man
who was shot by guard when he
tried to get into Superintendent
Briggs house Saturday night but
Secoro refuses to say how he re-
ceived the wound.
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CLEANS THE HAIR AND makes IT
bEAUT|FUI-25 CENT "DANDER|NE'
In few moments your hair looks SOFT fluffy lustrouS
and abundant No falling hair or dandruff

Surely try a "Danderine Hair
Cleanse" IL you wish to immedi-
ately double the beauty OF your
hair, Just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and draw 1t carefully
through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time, this will
cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or
any excessive oil-In few mo-
ments you will be amazed. Your
hair will be wavy, fluffy and
abundant and possess an incom-
parable .softness, lustre and lux
uriance, the beauty and simmer
of true hair health.
Besides identifying the hair,
one application of Danderine dis
solves every particle OF Dandruff;
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cleanses, purifies and invigorates
the scalp. forever stopping itching
and falling hair.
Danderine is to the hair what
fresh showers of rain and sunshine
are to vegetation. 1t goes right
to the roots, invigorates and
strengthens them. Its exhilarat-
ing, stimulating and life-produc-
ing properties cause the hair to
grow abundantly long, strong and
beautiful.
You can surely have pretty,
soft, lustrous hair. aud lots OF 1t.
IL you will Just get rs cent bot
tie OF Knowlton's Danderine from
any drug store or toilet counter
and try IL as directed.
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STANDPATTERS HAVE BIG
MEETING in TACOMA HOTEL

Bringing together the biggest
bunch of real tried and, true
standpatters that have assembled
for some time the Tacoma branch
Of the Civic Improvement league
met at Tacoma hotel last night
and resolved to organize branches
at Sumner, Puyallup and other
valley cities.
The speakers were John M.
Frink, Seattle; Charles Richard
son, Frank B. Cole, G. o. Bates,
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GIRL ATTEMPTS
BIG FEAT

LONDON, Sept. 10.-Although
the feat has never been accom-
plished by a woman and by but
two men, Rose Pitonoff of Boston
started at 100 o'clock this after
noon in an attempt to swim from
blackwell pier to Gravesend Shell
in the Thames, a distance of 20
miles.
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K. r. White, e. G. Griggs, Chas.
Hood,
Maj. Bates put bug In the ear
of the gentlemen present by sug-
costing after Griggs had prayed
for somebody who would teach
the $4,000 persons enaged in the
lumber industry how to vote, that
If they wanted to "be successful"
they must get the Iaboring men
into the organization too and not
merely have the employers.
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SPECIAL CAR
FOR WILSON
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(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-For
the use of Woodrow Wilson, DEM
ocratic nominee for president dur
ing the campaign, the democratic
national committee closed a con-
tract here today for a special
combination club car to be in use
until election.
The. car will be held at Seagirt,
N. j.. when not in use, but it is
not expected to be long idle.
Governor Wilson will address
the Spanish-American war veter-
ans at Atlantic City today.