The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-17
REVIEWS.
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The Reflector, published in the State
penitentiary, Grove, N. D., pulled in this
month announcing that it was starting on
the third lap of its existence. The Rehec-
tor is good paper and its success has been
watched with keen interest by the writer of
Reviews. He knows well the equipment
they have to do with, and with no practical
printers it must, as the editor states, at
times seem an uphill business to try to do
job work and get the paper out. The boys
of Grove should feel proud of the effort
made by Eat and Mr. D. M. N.
In the July Strand Magazine Conan
Doyle continues to hold the spotlight in
the realistic detective story "The Poison
Belt" Conan Doyle needs no 'introduc-
ton to readers of fiction, and The Strand
is to be complimented upon having him on
their list of authors. Frank E. Verney
presents "The Dividing Line a war
story which is the right story at the right
time. "Unto Caesar" serial story by
Baroness Orczy is good. Said story has to
do with Rome during the early christian
era.
A great many weeklies throughout the
country believe in large l6 OF "a page paper
once a week, with stale news, in preference
to semi-weekly with news as near up-to-
date as is possible for weekly. The
Martin County Sentinel, Fairmont, MIMI,
has long put before its readers sixteen
page paper but in the last issue makes the
announcement that The Weekly Sentinel
is no more; that semi-weekly will hence
forth be published. This is another good
paper making a good move in the right
direction. Success to The Martin County
Semi Weekly.
Parents and many others are at the pres
ent time making kick through the papers
of the country against the literature which
the younger generation are reading. Hard
ly day goes by without news story of
some boy getting into trouble through the
reading of Diamond Dick, "Jesse
James, or some other book of the same
character. There are lots of magazines and
papers published for children which it
would pay parents to see that their child
rem have. Not alone are these papers for
children but adults can read the stories and
become just as interested as the child.
The Youths Companion is paper for
children, which is full of good, Wholesome
reading and the issue of July 3 was espec-
tally good.
The July Lippincott's has strong patri-
otto flavor. The leading special article is
"When History Repeats by Colonel
Willard French. 1t is an appeal for sane
ness and deliberation in efforts to change
our Constitution, and points out the posi-
BILE dangers which lie in the adoption of
the Initiative, the Referendum, and the
Recall, about which so many pirate glibly
without more than superficial understand
ing of what they mean. Every voter and
every would-be voter will find much to
ponder in this paper. Elizabeth Maury
Coombs contributes charming tale of an
old Confederate veteran, entitled "Not in
Action, Suh.' Tween Night an
Mornin is story of the American
Revolution, by Gertrude S. Mathews and
John L. Mathews Celebration, by
Helen Coale Crew, is a clever Fourth of
July paper. Gettysburg by H. Perci-
val Allen, is timely poem of unusual
merit
At hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts,,
one night Robert Edeson was aroused
from sound sleep by the noise of a violent
sobbing from the next room. Inasmuch as
the voice was that of man, he could not
understand it. The sobbing and weeping
became louder and louder. Thinking
somebody was in distress, Mr.. Edeson put
on his bath robe and dashed into the hall
way. He raped loudly on the door, but
failed to extract any reply. The weeping
continued as loud as ever. Finally Mr..
Edeson squeezed his sylphlike, one-hun-
dred -and eighty FIVE pound form through
the transom, and saw in the room, all
ablaze with light. huge fat man, fully