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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-14
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serve the great Emperor of the
French; horses were taken from the
plows and cattle were coniseated,
along with provisions of every kind.
Thepeople who still remained at home
were left destitute and in a most
pityful condition. What wonder then,
that brooding over their wrongs, they
thought of revenge and eagerly await
ed the opportunity to arm themselves
and rise, in rebellion against this
mighty despot who ignored treaties
and who was continually plotting
mischief?
At the head of an army Of nearly
half a million men Napoleon pene-
trated to the interior of Russia for
the purpose of forcing that great
nation, as he had forced the rest of
Europe, to bow to his will.
History speaks of him as great
strategist, but he was careless one.
A good general must be prepared
alike for victory or defeat, but Ma
poleon never once thought of the
latter. He believed that he had but
to show himself and his mighty
army to the Russians to overawe
them, and that they would straight
way sue for peace.
! What sublime conceit
The flight of the French army
from Russia marked the beginning
of the end for Napoleon. His grand
army was broken up; provisions
were gone and the soldiers lived on
horse and dog meat and stripped the
rags from their dead to clothe them
selves. The road over which they
retreated from Moscow was Uttered
with the dead bodies Of men and
beasts. Out of all that mighty army
which Napoleon lead into Russia,
only very few destitute stragglers
returned to France!
/ While the swiftly perishing REM
, nants Of his army were struggling
toward the Prussian frontier, Napo-
leon secretly left them in their mis-
fery and hastened to France to save
his tottering throne, and one of his
first acts, upon his return, was the
T recruiting of new army comprised
of boys and old men-all that were
left in France.
II A general uprising had long been
| threatening in Prussia, and prudence
councelled that the time had come
, to strike. The Prussians well knew
' that as soon as Napoleon could place
another army in the field that he
would again invade their country,
, for he had said that Prussia must
r be kept down at any price"
Il With his flight from Russia Napo-
, Icons downward career commenced.
6 He had passed the zenith of his glo-
ry; his star no longer dazzled Europe
: and the people began to doubt the
stability of his power.
: The Prussians had suffered the
;. worst at the hands of Napoleon. and
they were the first to break in open
revolt against his power. They
arose almost to a man and joined
hands with the rest Of Europe to
hurl him from his throne Napoleon
might conquer Kings and Emperors
but he could not conquer the people
;, and it remained for the people OF
Tyrol, under the leadership of An
dreas Hofer, an inn keeper and cat.
5 tie dealer, to furnish an example te
the rest Of Europe, by successfully
resisting the French. The Prussians
as we'll as all the people of Europe
profted by the example of the Tyro,
: leans and when Napoleon crossed
t. Continued ON ath page
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-14
THE DOWNFALL
OF NAPOLEON.
F.. G..


PaDer Read Before the Uhautauqua Circle:
In the year of 1910 Napoleon was
at the hight of his power. While at |
Dresden he gave audiences to the
rulers of Austria, Prussia and other
allied potentates, who bowed down
before him and spoke of Napoleon
as the rising sun. In the Theatre
where play was given in honor of
Napoleon the curtain had rising
sun painted on it with his name
in the center. It was also
during this time that he said: Three
years more and / shall be master of
the world.'' But the saying is: The
Gods first blind him whom they in
tend to destroy"
Prussia and Austria were the states
most humiliated by Napoleon. They
bad been subjected to every indign-
ity and forced to drain to the dregs
the cup of humiliation.
Napoleon's army consisted of men
who had been active in leading their
fellow men to the guillotiue; who had
seen the heads of fathers and brothers
fall and who brought terror to every
corner of France. Napoleon's address
to the soldiers when he took COM
mand of the army during the Italian
campaign gives us an idea of what
inspiration such an army receives
from its chieftain, to murder and burn
wherever it goes: Soldiers" said he,
L have come to lead you into the
most fertile fields of the world. There
you will find large cities, rich pro
vinces, honor, glory and wealth"
The French army occupied Prussia
from Oct. 1906, to the time of the
war with Russia in the year 1872.
It was terrible, heart -rending spec
tacle presented by Germany during
these years and which could not but
fill the hearts of every patriot with
shame and despair. And yet, this pc
riod of degradation was necessary and
brought about good, for it blinded
Napoleon by the glaring sunshine Of
his power; it rendered him overbear-
ing and reckless; he dared everything
because he believed he would succeed
! in everything and that the world
utterly succumbed to his power.
He dared all, trampled on every
feeling Of justice, and thereby finally
goaded the nations to resist him.
: Prussia was utterly at his mercy
and the brutal acts committed b!
Napoleon and his army were neve
forgotten by the Prussians. They hat
! to pay all the expense of the Frencl
: army, and had to raise great sums 0
money to be sent to France to pa,
the cost of the great Improvement
9 there.
t We have all heard much said Of tn
]! improvements Napoleon carried OF
s IN France. but these improvement
e did not cost the French one centime
0 The money for them was collecte'
q forceably by French agents in th
4 countries which were under Napo
r Icons control, and in his dispatche
to the agents Napoleon said: If the.
give not willingly-kill and burr
down.
Men who had the courage to com
out openly against the wishes 0
Napoleon were banished or arrested
b and many of them were executed. Il
!, 1911 great preparations were mad
e by Napoleon for the war with Russia
Here again it was the people o
Prussia who had to suffer the most
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-14

There are two sciences, which
every man ought to learn: First,
the science of speech: second, the
more difficult one of silence.
socrates.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-14

Reading makes full man, con
versation a ready man. and writin,
an exact man. Bacan.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-03-14

Continued ON 4th page
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
The Three lenses
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK.

NHAT do we know of the wondrous schem,
w That sages and serfs have tried to know
Why do we look at the stars that CLEAN
AT the end of sad days afterglow?
Why gaze We up and never below?
All Logic tries for replies-and misses
But this is so. and shall ever be so:
The Future applauds; the dead Past Kisses
Future and Past-what an Unmatched team!
Biting and fighting to and fro
Always mock and a menace they seem
TO the Present that sees them come and 60.
The Present is neither fast nor slow
She Is lust dream, like sunbeam kisses
But She senses this. as we know foe:
The Future appsuds the dead Past Kisses
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07

T HAVE received a letter which
"Will YOU kindly help a Won-
an with an artistic temperament to
see the bright side Of a life that
she is doomed to spend with
man who cares for nothing in, the
world but business. He is not in
terested i'm politics. religion or lit
crature. He plays no games, He
does not care for tn" thcater or
opera. He reads nothing but the
stock reports. He does not care
for automobiling except to get NOR"
swiftly to his business. He does
not even care for his children, but
gives them anything they want to
keep them from bothering him and
taking up his valuable time, When
he is at home which isn't very Oft
on before II or II o'clock at night,
he Is absorbed i'm thinking over his
business plans, or as cross and
grouchy as q sore-hcaded bear be
cause he is exhausted, mentally
and physically, by his labor
He's No Companion.
Literally. 1 have no husband. !
have a generous provider, but no
companion, no chum nobody to go
out with me or to enjoy things with
me
81 know there is so much misery
-; .l,, ,,.,rl9 81, tnu,h real suffer
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07

who can provide her with a luxu-
rious home. with an automobile.
with money for trips and theater
and opera. and good clothes should
be down ON her knees, knocking
her forehead on the ground, and
returning thanks for her good for
tune. She has got the stun to make
happiness out of. She has got the
means Of entertaining herself ana
II she doesn't have a jolly time it's
her own fault
OF course, YOU shrug your shout
ders aud say that houses and au-
tomObIles and Paris gowns are not
love and fhriNe and am Of the ball
1nyc of the romantic dub duh that
Won bought that marriage was 20
ng FOO mean Alas. sisfr. nobody
o.. Htn,ula Hter 'N.g naNg boon
H.t .u r.N months. and tl,r, I1
never thrill sets past che honey
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07

ITO make a SUCCESS of himself,
the average man must have
these things:
l. A job.
,. place to sleep.
3. Some clothing.
4. Food.
3. Ambition.
They are all necessary, and they
all figure in the Cost of Living.
The job yields 30 much Income,
and takes so much Time. Out of
the Income the worker buys shell
ter, clothing and food. Out OF the
Time he has left over after his
days work is done he buys the
possibilities of Ambition.
The Cost Of Living may be high,
and the way the government runs
affairs may be wrong, but the av-
erage man can do nothing In the
next "A hours that will materially
change either of these things.
But he must begin, say, about
a. m, and get down to tbrass tacks
down to doing his days work
that he may have shelter, food and
clothing of his own earning dur
ing the day and night.
And, besides this, he must spend
a little of his spare time in firing
the engine of Ambition. in order
to be able to afford tomorrow, or
next year, the things that he can
not afford now.
We grumble a good deal about
conditions as they are about US.
And, grumbing, we forget 10
cast a cold and critical eye upon
conditions as they are.
The Mental Scientists tell us
that by holding the proper attitude
toward life all good things will
come to us.
This is true.
But there is joker in the pack
age 1t lies in the words proper
attitude"
The whole game OF life. includ-
ing the Cost of Living, is up to
the individual
There is no likelihood that the
government will make us rich pen
sioners, however we may vote.
But there is every likelihood in
the world that it will protect the
man who undertakes to run a job
and a lofty Ambition at one and
the same time. This is life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness.
which are free gratis to all who
have the proper mental" attitude
toward them.
H.
The value and worth Of the daily
paper is that it continually shows
US our possibilities.
Here is a news item from a New
York paper that reports the opera
lions of a man who, after 10 years
of age. made over Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars. He MADE it,
mind you. The government gave
him nothing-eXcept liberty to be
ambitious,
Here is another that tells about
man who owes over Ten Thou
sand Dollars because he could not
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
By THOMAS TAPER.

change his mode of living. even
his income fell below his expenses
Now. the government did not
get him into trouble. He probably
charges his misfortune to the Cost
of Living. That is right. But il
was the cost he bought that wreck
ed him. not the cost that was forced
upon him by any power except his
own bad judgment.
III.
talked with q hotel waiter
few days ago about the Cost Of
Living. Here is this case:
Salary per month. Twenty eight
Dollars. Tips about the same.
The hotel gives him all his meals
except three per week.
He has held his job for twelve
years.
He is married. and has one boy,
aged nine.
Against this:
Rent, Twenty-Five Dollars nsr
month.
Habit expenses, smoking pipe
Insurance, a Five Hundred Dollar
Endowment Policy, costing Tween
ty-one Dollars per year.
A wife, who handles all the mon
ey and keeps record so carefully
that it balances to a penny every
month.
This record shows two weak
points:
Too much is paid for rent-near-
ly 40 per cent.
An endowment policy is a mis-
take, because considerably more
straight life insurance could he
carried for the same premium.
But this record also shows some
strong points:
l. The man has kept his job con-
tlnuously for twelve years.
,. He and his wife know exactly
what they do with their money.
3. An examination of their record
shows that the wife has put into
the savings bank. In twelve wears.
total Of -Four Hundred and Thir-
ty-eight Dollars. Small amounts
have occasionally been drawn out
TO pay unexpected expenses. They
have in hand now, Three Hundred
and Twelve Dollars as an emergeu-
cy fund.
What does it all mean?
1t means this:
BY strict management. family
finance can beat the Cost OF Liv-
ing.
1t can defy change of presidents
every four years.
1t can do business on little and
still secure a savings fund.
Referring once again to news
items: Some CONSERVATION is OK
pressed in high society because
there is to be a scarcity of certain
expensive kinds of perfumery tbs
season. A small amount that for
merly cost Ninety five Cents is 10
be One Dollar and Thirty-7ya
Cents, or something like that
This is going to raise the Cost
of Living for many struggling
family but It is safe to say that 1t
won't hurt the affairs of the waiter
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07

moon. Then, when YOU settle down
to the long pull of married life. it
makes all the difference in the
world whether you glide over it in
90 horsepower limousine, or have
to haul handcart yourself.
You, who are married to a plain
business man whose greatest heart
interest is the rise and fall in the
grocery trade, think how wonder
ful it must be to be the wife of
some long haired poet, or dreamer.
who could palpitate with you over
a sunset, or delve deep with YOU
INTO the psychology Of the last
problem novel. Kindly reflect be-
fore you get green with envy. that
Mrs Poet doesn't have time to
palpitate over anything but the
cook stoVe,~and that the burning
subject of discussion in their
household is how they are to get
enough money to settle the butch
ers bill at the end of the month.
Also if you could look into the
breast of Mrs. Poet you would find
that she would like to trade off
about barrel of her husbands
soulful thoughts for your hus-
bands ability to make money
Without doubt, the woman whose
husband neglects her for his bust
ness has just cause of complaint.
1t would be far better for the han
piness of all concerned if mon
worked less and played more. if
they gave their families fewer Inv
uries and more of their society
FONT lace over woman's breast
doesn't ease the ache of her lonely
heart, nor does a string of near,s
make up to her for never having
his arms about her neck.
It's Easier to Preach.
But it is easier to preach mod
Grafton in business than il is 70
practice it, for it is a strenuous
race in which you must keen in
the lead or else be trampled out of
existence. But the wife of the
man who is absorbed in making
money mas at least the consolation
of knowing that her rival is a bodi-
less one, and that at the back OF
all her husbands seeming neglect
the real motive that inspires all of
his labor is his love for her. and
his desire to lay the best Of ever,--.
thing at her feet
In reality the supreme test Of love
is whether "a man is willing TO
work for a woman or not. Judged
by that the checkbooll husband is
ace high, and the wife who is mar
ried to such man and is not mar
by is a worthy successor To the
Fairy Princess who vas such
seeker after trouble that she dclyod
undor men 10 mattresses of case uu-
oil she found a single crumpled
rose leaf
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
"The Government Is Help
ing the Banks"
Yes Indeed Helping the Banks TO ROB THE FARMERS BY
CHARGING FROM EIGHT AND ONE-HALF TO TWELVE
PER CENT INTEREST.

upon the fact that they put the government helping
the banks They by this that the government of the
United States is taking money which belongs to all of the
pie and sending his money deposit inland banks through
ont the nation.
The crops are in and must be moved The farmer
nav his freight nav his bills for fertilizer wages
men He MUST HAVE MONEY.
He gets the money-and gets shamefuly usurious
the money belongs people of the United
States banks which bleed the farmers
When we tell you that the farmer pay the
eight and half per cent for the money
GIVING YOU IMAGINARY FIGURES from soft hearted
raker we are quoting F Yoakum president of the
San Francisco railroad president railroads the past
interested and stakeholder in banks AND INTIMATE
LY ACQUAINTED WITH THE METHODS or ROBBTNG
THE FARMER WHO PRODUCES BY THE MONEY LENDER
WHO PRODUCES NOTHING
You wonder that the cost of living high you
The of country the banks six thousand
millions of doars-these Mr. Yoakums uresand they
pay in interest EVERY YEAR FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN
MILLIONS of dollars
would be much greater except that many the
paid off by the farmer his crops sold
build every year which FIVE years would
put good front of every in this country repre-
sens only the interest pay
money FOR A LITTLE WHILE, for a whole year
Nothing is dmoralizng than the payment of
tant interest II dscouages the who pays makes him
reckless and dscourages careful economy.
The of the food that YOU represents money
the farmer must spend produce that food plus his profit
ROWS
Here YOU have the banks, THAT PRODUCE NOTHING tax
ing from the farmers in interest five hundred and
millions of dollars that once to the
cost of the food You eat
Do You realize that the money the banks loan to the
farmers money? Do you realize the banks
pay nothing of money that as Mr. Yoakum
efes they the average usurous and
criminal of eight and nehalf per cent interest?
you realize that this money which the government uses
Ito help the banks money that the other i-
have paid the imports on
cigars, beer
Can conceive anything outrageous and shameful
system of which the people heavily and
then deposits the banks and permits the banks
AGAIN TO TAX THE PEOPLE IN THE SHAPE OF GRIM
NAL USURY2
national bank buys bonds. The government
pays interest o. bonds to the bank
Then the bank issue money of own against those
bonds For this money thus pays not one cent of infer
Its money safely invested in government bonds and
the artificial which issues against those bonds is loaned
usury to the farming class
II is wonder that instead Worrying about the HIGH cost
of living, country in actual want
And it is wonder that we are not in continual state Of
panic instead of merely having panics every few wears
The farmer would not try to work with blood suckers
hanging to him and draining hi, vitality
Ho" can the farmers be expected enrich the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-07
By HERSHFIELD.

There Old Man in a boat
Who said m afoat! I'm afoat!'
When they said, No. you ain II" he ready faint
That unhappy Old Man in boat.
FIR duard Lears eooko Of Nonsense
Smyrna times., 1912-01-10

implements of Theodore Carrow on
the Gootee Farm, on road from
Raymond's Church to Leipsic. D.
A. Goldsborough, auc.
Friday, February 2-Stock and farm
ing implements of Benjamin F..
North on the farm known as the
HAZEL Ross farm, on State road,
three miles south of Smyrna. D.
A. Goldsborough, ,auc.
Wednesday, February Z, at 10
o'clock a. m.-Stock and farming
implements of Harry w. Ennis on
the Benjamin C. Collins farm on
road leading from Alley Mill to
Alley School, 2 miles from Clay
ton. D. A. GoIdsborough, auc.
Tuesday, February 13.-Stock and
farming implements of Henry
Talbot on his farm known as the
Foxwell Farm, on road leading
from Clayton to Blackiston' s
Cross Roads. one-half mile from
Clayton. D. A. Goldsborough,
auc.
Wednesday, Feb. a. Stock and
farming implements of John L.
Collins on the C. P. Gears farm
known as the Cavender farm, on
road from Smyrna to Brenford.
D. P. Hutchinon, auc.
Saturday, February II, at 10. 80
o'clock-at st. Joseph S Industrial
School, Clayton, Is head of regis
tered Holstein bull and heifer
calves. Five bulls ready for SER
vice. Also thoroughbred register
ed Berkshire pigs. D. P. Hutch
inson, auc.
Wednesday, February 21.-StOck
and farming implements of George
w. Lloyd on the Clement Brothers
farm on road from Green Spring
to Blackbird Mill, one mile north
of Greenspring. D. A. Colds
borough, auc.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-10
PUBLIC SALES

Thursday, January 18-Stock and
farming implements of George
Pratt on his farm, formerly the
Collins farm. at Green Spring,
JamesD. Wright, auc.
Thursday, Jan. 25-Stock and farm
ing implements of John Shahan
on his farm known as the Wright
farm, between Greenspring and
Clayton. D. A. Goldsborough,
auc.
Monday, Jan. 22-Stock and farm
ing implements of George Barber
on the J. C. Stockly farm, on the
road from Walkers Schoolhouse to
the Long Bridge. D. A. Colds
borough, auc.
Tuesday, January 23-Stock and
farming implements of John T..
Reihm on his farm near Hollett' S
Corner, on road leading from
Blackstone to Masseys. D. A.
Goldsborough, auc.
Wednesday, January 24-Stock and
farming implements of William
N. Hutchinson on the Blendt farm
on road leading from State Road
to Walkers. D. P. Hutchinson,
auc.
Wednesday, Jan. 24.-Stock anc
farming implements of Arthur
Carrow on his farm in White
Hall, next to the last farm on the
Neck road. D. A. Goldsborough
auc.
Friday, Jan 26.-Stock and farming
implements of Lewis Ford on tn,
Edward Jerman farm, on roat
leading from Smyrna to Ray
mond's School house, 81 mile
from Smyrna. D. A. Colds
borough, auc.
Tuesday, Jan. 30.-Stock and farm
ing implements of John A. Sunni
on Armtrong farm on road lead
ing from Greenspring to Dexter
Corner, one mile from Greenspring
D. A. Goldsborough, auc.
Wednesday, January 81 - Stock
farming implements, ETC., o
Frank Truax on the "Cowgil
Farm" between Smyrna and Leir
sic, at 10 o'clock a. m. D. A
Goldsborough, auc.
Thursday, Feb. 1.-Stock and farmin
Smyrna times., 1912-01-10

We welcome the Dover estate
Sentinel" under its new control and
wish it continued success. 1t is
understood that the newspaper will
be directed by a company of Dover
business men, all Republicans, and
that the paper is to take on renewed
life and energy. The policy of the
paper will continue Republican un-
der its new management.
Smyrna times., 1912-01-10
Slavery In Scottish Mines.

Slavery fingered III the Scottish
mine until the very eve of the nine
teenth century. Mr. HackwOod. in
THE Good Old Times" draws pic
ture of the Scottish miners unhappy
lot in the past: From about the year
1445 until ITS the miners of Scotland
were bought and sold with the soil.
1t is stated in old chronicles that
bloodhounds were kept to trace them
If they left their employment and to
aid in bringing them back. BY statute
law miners were bound to, work all
days in the year except Paschal and
Yule. and IL they did not work they
were to be whipped in the bodies for
the glory of God and for the good of
their masters Not until ITS was the
first law passed in All attempt to better
this state Of things. but it was 1190 ere
the law gave the working miner of
Scotland his complete freedom. Lon
don Chronicle
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