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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27

An Irish barrester who was evil
IDENTIFY prepared for every possible
contingency, is alleged to have ad-
dressed the presiding Judge as fol-
lows: Your honor, shall first alb
solutely prove to the jury that the
prisoner could not have committed
the crime with which he is charged.
If that does not convince the jury
I shall show that he was insane
when he committed it. If that fails
/ shall prove an alibi!" One wonders
how a jury could get away from a
verdict of not guilty." in such cir
cumstances and vet it is probable that
if the trial had taken place in Edin-'
burgh the verdict would have been
no more than one of not proven"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
LIVING SUDDENLY

Mrs. Brown went to see Mrs.
Smith, whom she found. tired and
pale, trying to sew with the baby on
her lap.
Life does seem hard," Mrs. Smith
said, after little ordinary conyer-
sation,-I've. just had a letter from
my sister wanting me to come there
for fortnight and bring the baby.
1t looks like heaven to only think of
it, but of course / can't CO."
why not?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"Oh, it would be perfectly impos-
sible. There's the sewing and the
spring cleaning, besides everything
else. I've got to stay here"
Suppose you died suddenly,
what then?''
20, then Of course they'd just
have to get along somehow"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
$1.OOa Year
ERMS: 6M onths Fifty Cts.

available for shipment by the end
of the present year; one hundred
miles more can be released six
months later, and one hundred addi-
tional miles year after that. For
an incidental item, there are one
thousand switches. complete.
Twenty-four locomotives, bought
in 1906 at $1,000 a-pice, are to be
retired from service June 30, 1913.
They are of five-foot gage, but
could be changed to United States
standard gage at cost of $775 each.
Also there are thirty-two narrow
gage locomotives, which will be a
vailable at the end of the present year
together with other narrow gage
equipment such as would be service.
able in connection with spur tracks
and extensions in the coal fields and
elsewhere.
Five hundred steel flat cars, which
cost 1881 a-pice in 1905 could be
changed to the standard gage for
$27. so each. There are also eighteen
hundred broad gage dump cars, and
sixteen hundred wooden fiat cars
which cost LILO each-the esti-
mated expense of converting them
being $25.50. There are no box cars,
no gondolas, and no passenger
coaches. But some of the steel flat
cars could be easily transformed into
gondolas for carrying coal and some
of the wooden flat cars might be re-
decked and made over into box cars
and bunking and mess ears.
ALI of this material could be car
ried by water to Resurrection Bay
at very moderate COST From
moving a railroad Six thousand
Miles, In Technical World Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
Moving a Railroad Six ThOuS.
and Miles.

The Secretary of the Inte rior IA
vors trunk line in Alaska, from
tidewater at Resurrection Bay to
the valley of the Yukon, connecting
that great interior waterway with
the coast, and so with the world.
1t will be a government-owned rail-
road.
Secretary Fisher calls attention to
the fact that cOaling station has al
ready been established by the Navy
Department at Resurrection Bay,
and urges that the development of a
harbor and the construction of a rail
road starting from Seward as a
southern terminus, to pass north
ward through the Matauska coal
fields, would be justified by military,
naval, and commercial, consider
ations. Incidentally, it would open
up the great agricultural possi-
bilities of Alaska.
The most interesting suggestion
he makes, however, is that much of
the contemplated railroad and its
equipment shall be transferred from
the Isthmus Of Panama by water, a
distance of nearly six thousand
miles, to Resurrection Bay.
For it appears that, incidentally
to the digging of the ditch, the Can
al Commission has had to construct
and operate many miles of road fol-
which there will be no further use
when the job is finished. An inn
mense amount of material and equip.
ment-rails, locomotives, cars, ect.
will have to be sold at junk prices
unless it is utilized in the way now
proposed.
The canal-digglng job Is so nearly
finished that the surplus machinery
and material can be released a
Panama as rapidly as employment
| for it is found in Alaska. 1t includes
, excavatlng and wrecking outfits
steam drills, pile-driving machines
, ETC., well adapted for the con
struction of the proposed railroad
There are $50 miles of seventy
J pound rallies which has been in serv
lice on the Isthmus from three t,
/ four years, having originally cost $3.
a ton. Fifty miles of this will b
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
Practical
Temperance
w. c.. Van D.

1t is no use to blink our eyes at
the fact that there is a demand for
stimulants. and that this demand |
will be supplied just as long as there
is a profit in doing so. The obvious
thing for those to do who have the
temperance cause at heart, is first to
lessen the demand and secondly to
direct that demand along the lines
that will do the least harm. Saloons
should be, and can be, entirely elimi-
mated from the residence portions of
a city; this makes it little more in
convenient to get drink at any odd
time and in that way lessons the de-
mand. Some extremists will say
right here, IF that is true then why
not drive the saloons away entirely?'
Or in other words, If little difficult
ty in getting drink will lessen the
demand complete prohibition will
cause it to cease entirely" But
this would be false logic and the
man putting forth such an argu-
ment betrays his ignorance of hum
an nature. AS matter OF fact the
very men who will balk at anything
that puts them to little lnconveni-
ence will take actual pride in trying
to accomplish the seemingly impos-
sible.
Another good move would be to
provide something that would take
the place of the saloon. 1t is well
known fact that great number OF
the people who patronize saloons do
so because there is nowhere else to
90. Where can the young man who
has no home, go to spend his even
ings. or for that matter where can
the old man with an uncongenial
home 90 either? The churches dc
absolutely nothing in the matter ex
cept talk, in fact they are shut save
for few hours on Sunday. Tht
Y. M. G.. A. is a sort Of semi-aristo
cratic club run for the benefit of ;
selected few. while the real people
who would be benefited by an insti
tuition of that kind are politely bu
firmly shooed out. The public libra
ries and reading rooms help littl
and are small move in the righ
direction, although the silent rule
which of course is necessary, rem
ders them irksome to the majorit
of young people who like to talk
If the American saloon was con
Quoted along the lines of an Europe
an cafe, where man can sit and 81
glass of beer or wine while he con
verses with his friends, instead Q
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
Vol. XXV.-No At.
A POETS LAMENT
Beau Esprita.

wrote me some spring poetry.
And it was good:
1 sent it to an editor
That night it showed!
My verse reconstructed
To Natures pranks.
This time the Ed. returned it,
Declined; With Thanks"
wrote some lines quite caustic.
About such things
AS Editors. and Snow storms.
And Fickle Springs.
thought they'd irk the Edit.
And sighed in bliss;
But they came right back. with comment
Too warm for this!''
So now as toll wearily
In burning heat
Through my mind runs medley
Of jumbled feet.
And just to ease the buzzing
pen this verse;
'Tis rank will admit. but
can do worse!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27

having TO line up to the oar auu
swallow drink every few minutes
or get out, it would be different.
But since the American saloon is as
it is, some other place must be pro-
vided where people can meet and
talk and pass few hours in relax
alton from business or other worries.
This / would regard as the first
move towards practical temperance.
Now in regard to directing the de-
mand for stlmulants along the lines
that would do the least harm. |
would suggest a graded license fee
for saloons. For example, in a city
like Minneapolis where the license
fee is one thousand dollars, let it re-
main at that and allow the saloon
that carries such license to sell
anything in the shape of liquor, but
have another class of license, say
one hundred dollars. which would
entitle the holder to sell only beer
or wine containing less than five per
cent. of alcohol (nearly all Califor-
MIA wines are in this class). This
latter class of saloon would soon be-
come very popular and would tend
to reduce the number of spirit drink
ers, or at any rate it wouldn't create
new ones as the present form of sa-
loon undoubtedly does. I think it
would be perfectly safe to assume
that if graded license system were
adopted nine-tenths of the saloons
would Immediately discard the sale
of spirits and take out the cheaper
form of license. By some such
method class of saloons would be
created that would fill the demand
of men who have nowhere else to g(
and also of those who felt that they
needed little relaxation or even ;
mild intoxicant.
| 1t is just as well to make up ou
minds to the fact that the saloon il
the only place where the homeless
man is welcome or even wanted an(
as long as this is so wouldn't it be
move in the right direction to taxi
as much temptation out of the salool
as is possible; as the creation of
class of houses that could sell moth
ing but the least harmful of intoxi
!. cants would do.
To sum up: At present, the sa
. loon is the poor mans club, if yo1
don't want him to patronize it the
provide or suggest some other plac
, for him TO 60. Secondly, the great
2 est evil under the present system
in the abuse of spirituous liquors
by men who only need or only dc
, sire a mild slim ulant; a grade
. license, by providing class
0 houses where only the mllder liqu
: ors were permitted to be sold, woul
q cut out the bulk of this. Moves {
i this kind woud do far more for az
0 tual temperance than absolute pro
: hibition, which always seemed to m
e as if man should try to dam up
e running stream that threatened
} flood, instead of directing it alon
a safer channels
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27

The Fresh From the-Soil Pro-
duct" short story by Earl Hen
messy in the July Red Book Maga-
zine is remarkable bundle of sur
prises. It reminds one of O. Henry.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
Synonynes
:
A. nj.

/ have been given a cordial in
to break into and force
ably enter the happy family of the
to this great Family
Journal. The invitation is a great
and a great temptation,
but it is not by any manner of means
an easy invitation to accept. For at |
the present time The Mirror has on
it's staff such an unusal amount of tai |
ent, covering such wide field, that
it is almost hopeless for me, only a
beginner at the game, to find a sub
ject which is not now being covered,
or that has not been covered lately.
But / hope that the subject that l
have chosen will be new depart
ure and will be both profitable and
entertaining to the readers.
Soon after myarrival here l found
time in the evenings hang heavily
on my hands, and made up my mind
that during my retirement I might
do we'll to take up some certain sub
ject for study, thereby utilizing this
time.
Upon lookin g round and taking
stock of my requirements and diffici-
ences, l came to the conclusion that
one of the first things that l needed
to take up was my vocabulary; and
/ have found the study of words,
their derivation and meaning, won
derfully instructive and interesting.
1t is surprising, when we begin to
look into this matter, how often we
use the wrong word and how much
oftener we cast round in our minds
and seek for, but fail TO find the ex-
act word we wish to use. I am
going to endeavor to give few of
the words in common use and their
exact meanings. This l am going
to do For two reasons; firstly, be-
cause l believe it will be useful to
both of us-I know it will to me and
hope it will to you. And secondly,
it will give me a subject in which
shall not be giving you just my opin-
ion, but the result of my study
And through stringing the thoughts
etc., together for you, shall, to {
very great extent, be giving yol
other peoples views and also ex
tracts from the greatest writer's O.
all times; showing how they hav,
used the words | treat on. [ dt
not want you to get the idea tina
this is entirely original, but that it i
rather collection.
The first group OF words l VII
take are Martial, Warlike, Military
Soldier-ike:
Martial comes from Mars, tn
God of War, and is the Latin terri
for belonging to war.
i Warlike means literally, like wal
, In sense these words are so alik
A that they might be said TO suppl
: each others place, but custom, th'
law-giver of languages, has assigne
place to each that makes it not a
together Indifferent how they ar
t used. Martial is both more tech
!. nical and more comprehensive teri
4 than warllke; on the other hand wal
4 like designates the temper of the il
dividual more than martial. w
t speak of martial array, warlike pref
: arations, martial law; but on th
e other hand we say a warlike natio1
warlike spirit and a warlike ap
pearance; for the temper of a man
shown in his air and carriage.
n Military from the Latin Mile,
soldier, signifies belonging to so
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27

The individual who first said,
Life is joke" evidently did not
think of the other side of the question.
For our part we consider it far from
a Joke. OF course environment has a
lot to do with it, anyway the cold !,
hard undisputable fact remains, that
it is serious thing to us, and un-
doubtedly many others are of the
same opinion.-Nil Desperandum.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27

A man in China is now able to
buy beautiful wife for $4,000.
There are lots of wives man can
get in this country for nothing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
SURELY SETTLES
UPSET STOMACHS.
"Pape's Diapepsin' Ends In
digestion, Gas, Sourness
and Heartburn in
Five Minutes.

Really does" put bad stomachs in
order--"really does" overcome indiges-
fion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and
sourness in five minutes-that-ju
that-makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in the
world. II what YOU eat ferments into
stubborn humps. you belch gas and
eructate sour. undigested food and &C
i'd: head is dizzy and aches: breath
foul: tongue coated; your insides filed
With bile and indigestible waste, re-
member the moment Diapepsin comes
In contact with the stomach all such
distress vanishes. It's truly astonish-
ing-amost marvellous, and the Joy is
Its harmlessness.
A large fifty-cent Ease Of Pape's
Diapepsin win give you hundred dol
hrs worth of satisfaction or your
druggist hands you your money back.
It's worth Its weight in gold to men
and women who cant get their stom-
achs regulated. 1t belongs in your
home should always be kept handy in
case of sick, sour. upset stomach,
| during the day or at night It's the
quickest, surest and most harmless
lstoniacll doctor in the world
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
ANNOUNCE OPENING
Restaurant and Lunch Room
at the Arlington. /

Miss M. A. Woods, formerly of the
Knickerbocker hotel in New York city,
who has assumed management of the
Arlington hotel, this city, announced
today that the restaurant and lunch
room of the hostelry would be opened
to the public Saturday at noon The
dining room will not be opened until
September 30.
The cooking will be under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Margaret Fitzgibbons, and
she will be assisted by Miss McHugh.
Both were formerly connected with
the Spa at the Y. M. c. A.
The new lounging room of the no.
tel, finished in brown, was thrown
open to the guests today A gradual
renovation of the hotel is contemplate.
ed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
City Statistics
Marriage Licenses.


Clarence s. Root, %. laborer. city,
and Gertrude l. Redd, II, city.
Albert Harter. %. carpenter, city.
and Myrtle Harper. "a. city.
Howard Thompson, 81. farmer. Gen.
ter township, and Margaret Franklin,
%, Williamsburg.
Deaths and Funerals
HAWKINS-Jessie Hawkins. aged
thirty-one years. died this morning at
one fifteen o'clock at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Bailey.
713 South H street. She is survived
by her husband, William Hawkins,
two sons, one daughter, her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bailey. Funeral
arrangements later
HUCKERY-May, the infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Huckery, Ill
North Tenth street, died yesterday.
The funeral was held this morning OF
ten o'clock. Burial in Earlham GENE
terry.
SULLIyAN-Word WAS received in
this city this morning OF the death of
William Sullivan of Columbus, Ohio.
Mr.. Sullivan was aged twenty-nine
years. The funeral will be held at
Columbus. Ohio, Monday morning,
from the Catholic church. Burial in
the Catholic cemetery. The deceased
was the son of John Sullivan. formerly
of Richmond. now a master blacksmith
in the Pennsylvania shops at Column
bus. The deceased was a most estim-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
YEARLY MEETING
ELECTS OFFICERS
Lydia T. Painter Resigns Pc
sition as Recording Clerk
Effective This Year.

The Western Yearly Meeting OF
Friends, in session at PlainAeld, heard
a memorial yesterday in honor of Re
tecca H. Macy, a minister of the
church who died in March. The report
Of the social purity committee showed
much work done in the way OF deliver
ing addresses and distributing litera-
ture. Charles e. Newlin of Indianapo-
lis declared the department stores res
ponsible for much of the white slave
wrong and urged purchasers not to
patronize such stores. Morton c. Pier
son of Indianapolis and Naomi P.
Shaw of Plainf1eld were appointed to
prepare a statement to go with the
minutes Of the meeting. stating that
the position of the members with re-
gard to the white slave and social pu,
rity questions.
/ Martille Cox, who was a fraternal
delegate to the state w. c. T. U. con
vention, gave report. A report of the
delegates of the Federated church con
ference was made by Morton c. Pear
son. Anna Tomlinson, superintendent
of the social purity department., made
a report of that work.
Literature Before Public.
The repor of the committee on liter
being done in putting pure literature
before the public. Three hundred and
forty-five dollars was spent during the
year.
| An address was delivered on the
| World Movement Toward Peace" by
William G. Hubbard, speaker of ma
tional reputation. Mr.. Hubbard spen
his boyhood days at Plainf1eld where
he attended Friends private schoo
near there.
Mr.. Hubbard was sixteen years ole
sawed timbers and carried hods in the
construction of the yearly meeting
house in which he spoke last night. HI
said it was getting to be the habit O.
nations to settle their troubles by ar
bitration. He declared that We mus
build up public sentiment and do +
in time of peace. Mr.. Hubbard suggest
! ed that every minister should preach
which is the third Sunday in Decem
Der.
/ Officers Elected.
The following officers were elected
Presiding clerk, George H. Moore; re
cording clerk, Lydia T. Painter; read
ing clerks, Ella Barrett and Mary G
White; announcing clerk, Frank v
Stafford.
! Mrs. Painter, who has been record
! ing clerk for many years, resigned he
position, to take effect with the clos,
of the meeting this year. A committee
consisting of Naomi e. Cox, Dinah T
Henderson, Naomi Shaw, Clara 3
Cameron, e. z. Carter and Ann r. Hol
DWELL were appointed to name her sue
cessor and report next year.
| The report of the Bertha Ballar'
Home Association showed that $40
14494 had been spent during the yeaI
Miss Anna Hiatt, superintendent o
the home, told of the work the HON
is doing. Three hundred and two girl
had the benefit of the home durin
the last year. A subscription of $127.4
was obtained. Epistles from the LoI
don and Dublin yearly meetings wer
read during the afternoon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
ORV|LLE HAROLD WAS GIVEN
GREAT RECEPTION LAST NIGHT

and musical gifts to be found in COM
bination and that is one reason that
opera is SO often unconvincing in the
stage presentment but there was no
doubt of the meaning of the emotions
depicted by the singer even though
their utterance was made through an
unfamiliar language, one of the req
sons of Harrold's dominance in grand
opera being here made apparent.
Harold, in short, is an extraordin-
arily gifted human entity in two phas-
es of art, and adds to this the in
calculable asset of personality of mag
netic quality.
That this Indianian should, within
nacle which proclaims him as one OF
the two greatest living tenors is not,
therefore, SO extraordinary as 1t may
appear for such a combination could
not long languish in obscurity. 1t is
only a matter of time when 1t will be
discoverable.
His appearance here was a welcome
one and his greeting enthusiastic for
he was recalled after each number
and SO repeatedly and insistently that
he responded with several encores.
AS one we'll known musician said.
''he did everything with the singing
voice that could be done" and delight
ed his large audience.
Mr. Harry E. Paris, of Muncie, who
is managing Mr.. Harrold's tour Of
five Indiana cities, is to be congratu-
lated upon giving the people of the
state an opportunity to hear their
noted confrere. Mr.. Paris is we'll
known in this city where he has ap-
peared in recital both alone and with
! local musical organizations and he was
greeted by many Of his friends last
evening.
| In two of Mr.. Harrold's recitals,
/ those in Muncie and Anderson. the
| Ensemble Club, of Muncie, made up OF
sixty mixed voices, organized and di.
/ rected by Mr.. Paris, assisted in the
program, giving the Tomb" scene
from Lucia" with musical eclat.
Mr.. Harrold's program in detail is
given herewith:
1. Romanza Aida .........-.. Verdi
2. Old Italian Aria ...... Donizetti
8. Oh dolce Baccio ......... Tosca
La donna mobile ...... Rigolettc
4. Cavatina Faust
. 5. Vous etes loin ........ Bembere
| Ais die alte Mutter $50. Dvorah
6. Old Irish
!; Killarney ............... Moore
The Snowy Breasted Pearl. Moore
z. For You Alone ........... Czech
The Secret ............... Scot
8. The Song of Thanksgiving -.
AIlitseI
9. M'accorddan di parlor
Un tai giocci ....-... Pagliacc
Visit la guibba
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
SECRETLY MARRIED.

Belated announcement has Just been
made of the wedding of Mr. Everett
Moore and Miss Mary White at New
port, Kentucky, August the twenty
eight. The young people are both resi-
dents of this city and will take up a
permanent residence at 329 North
Nineteenth street. The announcement
comes as a surprise to their many
friends.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
TO PROGRESSIyES

The Progressiyes of Wayne town.
ship outside of the City of Richmond
will meet at the Court House on Sat
urday afternoon, Sept. IA, 1912, at
2:so o'clock for the purpose of electing
delegates to the county convention to
be held on the following Saturday.
VIII ]. Robbins, Chairman.
w. Howard Brooks, Secretary.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13

able young man and possessed many
excellent qualities that endeared him
to his family and large circle OF
friends
His relatives in this city surviving
are Mrs. William Reece. Mrs. Henry
Pritchard and Mrs Charles Erk- Tney
will attend the funeral.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-13
ON OMMITTEE.

A committee on entertainment for the
Friends Yearly Meeting has been ap-
pointed. For information call any of
the following persons Mr.. r. w. Ran
die, Mr.. w. J. Hiatt, DR.. George Baily,
and Mr. Henry Roberts