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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27
Che Vciee$ Of The City

RY A. M.

have been sitting for the last
hour looking out from between the
bars of my door, out through the
window beyond at a little patch of
blue sky and the bough of tree,
looking, bordering, dreaming, won
dering of which city / should write
this afternoon, travelling over again
in memory some of the old trails,
feeling some of the old joys and suf-
fering some of the old disappoint-
ments. My first visit was to St.
Petersburg, but that recalled the
snow and cold and then [ travelled
south TO the sunny shores of the
Mediterranean and fingered for a
while round Imperial Rome" the
city on the hills, but with all it's
wealth of beauty, art and history,
it could not hold me. Then jump
ed to Cairo and thought at last
had got my subject, but after sitting
for time and watching the world
go bye, / began to feel the call of
the East and jumped away to China,
and the first thing | knew was in
Hong Kong, the great foreign city
of China.
l do not know if | am exactly
right in calling Hong-Kong a city.
to be more precise | believe it is the
Island and that the name of the city
proper is really Port Victoria, but
anyhow it is now always known as
Hong Kong. To get a fair view
however, it is we'll to go little fur
Their up the mouth of the Yangtse
river and take, at the same time, the
great Chinese port of Canton. Here
we are in new world, to US, though
old in itself. Acquired by the
British in 1S41 Hong-Kong was
thrown open to the commerce of the
world and is today the great distri-
button center for Southern China.
To great extent it is military
city, but that is not the note tina t
strikes us. What impresses us most
is the vast wealth being rapidly ac-
quired by the merchants and the
enormous volumn of business car
ried on, in these two centers.
Hong-Kong is well ordered, well
laid out town; fine streets, well kept;
good shipping facilities; a calm,
peaceful city. One of the sights
that used to impress and interest me
greatly was the Sikh policemen.
magnificent specimens of humanity.
Their seriousness in the performance
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

0l TIER Qutle6 was worth WatCn1ng,
but what was best of all was down
along the water front when they
came in contact with band of sail
ors, who had been embiding not
wisely but too well. Life for them
then became q delight, and for the
onlooker performance would be
staged that if Coffroth could repro
duce it in San Francisco, would
quickly make his fortune. They
can cetainly scrap and how they
love it!
In Canton we see a different pic
ture. More eastern. not yet so full
ly awake, but what city! What
swarms of human beings crowded
together on land and water. Thous-
ands upon thousands of them live in
house boats on the water itself, and
here we find the true Oriental, not
the article that we have with us to
do our washing, or to be house boy,
but the man in his own setting.
Working from early morning until
late at night for a mere pittance-
four or five cent day carrying
loads that would make stevedore
in New York shudder, doing his
work in the field with crude meth
DDS, but getting surprising results;
making the most exquisite silks or
the most fragile of porcelain; where
ever we see him, whatever he is do
ing, our surprise and admiration
grows. This is not the "Heathern
Chinee" that we have talked and
read about, but wonderful race
that in the very near future is going
to take it's rightful place among the
nations of. the world, and which is
going to change materially the eco
nomic features of this century.
In some ways the Chimes are
backward, some of the sights in
certain districts would cause the
blush to come to the face of even
the most blase of us. Certain dis
eases are rife; the sale of female
children is still common; life is
held in little respect. These are
faults and grave ones but they are
being remedied, against them we
have to put their respect for the
truth, their ingenuity, their patience
and industry, and above all their
awakening belief of their own i'm
portance.
China is going to be the Great
Stake" for which all nations will
strive. Will they themselves be
able to hold the reins, or if not who
will be strong and far-sighted
enough to occupy the box-seat and
guide these hundreds of millions of
willing skillful people to the desti-
ny that is before them?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

February 22nd was observed as a
holiday at both institutions. At the
old prison. the inmates were al
lowed several hours liberty in the
dollhouse corridors and were treated
to an excellent musical entertain
ment. given in the chapel by four
members of the Shubert Club of St.
Paul.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

Old Hutch was observed making
mysterious passes at the dollhouse
wall, short time since, and upon
closer investigation il was found
that he had discovered soiled spot
and was absent-mindedly endeavor-
ing to cover it with whitewash.
though be had nothing whatever in
his hands.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

Both sections of the State Legis-
lature visited the old and new pris
ons this week. The senate arrived
in body from st. Paul, Wednes-
day morning, and after a brief in
spection of the old prison, proceed
ed to the new institution where
they spent the remainder of the day.
The lower house arrived this morn
ing and follow ed out the same pro-
CRANE as Yesterdays.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

A local specimen of the tribe Tin
caro-, who describes himself as sew
enth son of seventh daughter, and
claims for himself the power to in
terpret the future. foretold several
days in advance the coming of last
Fridays blizzard. He gained this
knowledge by watching the con-
traction of plug of Hugo's Best.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27

The best thing in the world to
cure the grippe, said an inmate. is a
hot lemonade and whiskey-minus
the lemonade. And thereupon he
temper arily lost the use of his left
eve.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27
N7RR0RE7TES

The prison orchestra was at the
new prison, yesterday and today, to
furnish music in honor of the visit
of the state legislature.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27
Population

Total number of inmates. ..... 91O
Working at New Prison 1880. 284
Received during week ...... IS
Discharged during week -. 2
Number in First Grade $500. $50
Number in Second Grade -. 22O
Number in Third Grade -. Il
Last serial number ......... 1885
Cell changes: 602-95 6O7-54k
27a-5O9 5Os-279 427-39l 1S9-3rd.
117-Hosp.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-02-27
Chapel Service.

The following is the program rem
dered Sunday Feb. 23rd, Rev. Ben
son. officiating.
March-The New Administration. St. Claire
Orchestra
Songs of the Fatherland ............Robert Rocker
Orchestra
DoxO1oQy Congregation
Invocation ...Chapla1n
Gloria .......'... ..COn2IegatlOn
Hymn-My County ris of Thee. Congregation
prayer SHdpldln
Serenade - Aubade Printaniere..... p Lacombe
Orchestra
NUdpldlu
Hymn-Jesus lover of my soul....... Congregation
March Dixie Girl ................J. B. Lampe
Orchestra
l.. w. Burchard,
Musical Director.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13
PoNTE-A-LA-HACHE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913,

ucation. King Charles of Roumania,
the princes grandfather, is a Hohen-
ollern prince, and was born at Sig,
marigen, Germany.
The Italian Government will school
its il~literate American emigrating cit
liens.
The United States authorities at
Preside, Texas, have telegraphed to
81 Paso for a capias for the arrest Of
General Orozco, who was a member
of the eight-day hegira from Chihua-
hua City.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13

early years of the landslide contests
Gaillard never knew what a morning
was to bring forth. Overnight the
mountains moved and buried the
tracks and the MARTIAL cars. Most of
Gaillard's work was without a chief
assistant. Once, by his careful over
sight, he saved the Government ST..
600, 600. He was buried Monday with
military, honors. Canal Some flags fly
at half-mast. Colonel Goethals issued
a general order, reciting Gaillard's
good deeds done.
The House of Representatives re-
solved Congressional regret at his
death. He was buried.
Solicitor-G General Davis asked the
United States Supreme Court to re-
view the Philadelphia Circuit Court of
Appeals decision holding the govern
ment unauthorized to collect the old
corporation tax upon the dividends of
mutual life insurance companies. The
questioned dividends consist of the un-
business-needed premiums. Govern
ment defeat would mean Government
$1,50O,O0O refund and suspension of
further income tax law collections.
Democrats generally approve Presi-
dent Wilson's endorsement of the
primary system for the selection of
national convention delegates.
On last Saturday inventors and pro.
motors of automatic emergency train
stopping devices appeared before the
House Interstate Commerce Commit
tee, r-hich is considering bills requir.
ing the installation of demonstrated
successful safety devices.
Washington Congressman Johnson
~reintroduced the Taft.vetoed billing.
ham immigration bill, minus the Taft
considered Objectionable literacy test,
Chairman Burnett announced that he
would urge the literacy test unexpurg-
ated bill as a Democratic majority
measure.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13
THANKSGIVING IN LOUISIANA,

Contributed to the Lower Coast Gazette)
All over our beautiful state this day,
From palahal homes and those less grand,
In rural towns, or in city gay.
On islands or bayous of the land,
or where other, smaller streams swift flow,
People give thanks to the bounteous Giver
In church and out, their fond praise bestow.
through all the year thanksgiving
This day special thanks giving.
Special thanks for the flowers which bloom
Zen in November as in rosy June,
And thanks for the suns dispeling gloom.
Thanks for the trll of the hooking birds tune,
For robins and swallows from the cold North
Flocklng each year to this sunny cline.
Give thanks with the pelican who feeding her Young
Acts as u ouisanas emblem sublime.
For these constant Thanksgiving
But now heartfelt thanks giving.
The Orange groves with their evergreen trees
Yielding the large, golden balls SO sweet,
The rice garnered from low, marshy leas,
The cotton, sugar and corn we greet,
The nuts and fruits, each in its season,
Are welcomed for use by everyone.
Products Of every description in reason
Are grown by our %southlands genial sun.
For all a years THANKSGIVING
And Novembers Thanksgiving.
Give thanks for life at the Passes. all
And the Jetties, through which come and 20
The beautiful ships, both large and small
Crossing the Gulf of Mexico.
Be thankful for ease, for labor, too.
In country, seaside and every home,
Be thankful for gifts, some rare and new
Till to legions have the blessings grown.
Thus every day thanksgiving,
Now this one days thanksgiving.
For the ties which bind to loved ones here.
For health, reason and wealth, all ioys rife.
For railroads extending far and near,
For State part in the great Nations life,
For surcease from all deep sorrows known,
By civilian or soldier in the ranks.
For these and all true compassion shown,
Oh Father of Mercies! we give Thee thanks.
From day to day Thanksgiving
And once a year Thanksgiving!
Mary F. Savage.
Oystervile. La, Nov. ~, 1918.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13
LATEST NEWS.
STATE, NATIONAL and FOREIGN
STATE NEWS.

The Bank of Vacherie, at Vacherie
La near Donaldsonville, was ordered
closed by State Bank Examiner W. L
Young.
A syndicate headed by Harris
Forbes & Co., of New York; Potter
Choate & Prentice, of New York: the
Whitney-Central National Bank, O,
New Orleans, and the Hibernia Banl
e Trust Company, of New Orleans
purchased the entire Louisiana 4 IL
per cent bond issue at 96.142, amount
ing in total sum to $10,567,940.
The bonds are issued to raise the
money necessary to retire, the out
standing Louisiana bonds due .Janu
airy /, 1914.
Before adjourning, the State Board
OF Liquidation provided for the pay.
ment of the old outstanding bonds at
the office of Harris, Forbes & Co.,
New York; the Whitney-Centra Bank,
New Orleans; the Hibernia Bank &
Trust Company, New Orleans, or the
State Treasurer's office at Baton
Rouge.
A vote of 4 to 8 accepted the Harris
Forbes G Co. bid.
Governor Hall, State Treasurer
Smith, Secretary Of State Hebert, and
State Auditor Capdevielle voted yes
Lieutenant-Governo Barrel, Attorney
General Pleasant and Speaker L. E.
Thomas voted no.
The short-term notes will bring 98A.
Lieutenant-G Governor Barret wanted
the successful syndicate to give Louis.
lana the bonds at wholesale prices,
Harris, Forbes & Co. we're unwilling,
but promised Louisiana bidders the
bonds at the syndicate purchasing
price or less.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13
FOREIGN NEWS.

Farlslan petition bearing 167,849
citizens signatures, demanding the re-
turn of the Catholic nuns to the hos.
pitfalls was presented to the Paris NUM-
cfpal Council.
The French Ministry was dissolved
following a vote of no confidence on
the Government supported no Rentes
taxa ssa measure. President Poiu.
csre mas asked Socialist Senator Gss
Itoh IaAiSergue to form a ministry. The
.34Sooialist has not declined.
AOn Monday last the advance guard
che ~bedraggled Chihuahua City Mex
,can Federal army struggled into
ojinaga, opposite Presidio, Texas.
In this remarkable eight-day, 1885,
mile struggle against hunger and
thirst, were General Salvador Merca-
DO, Huerta's deposed chihuahua mill.
tary governor and commander of the
Northern F%ederals, General Pacual
Oroco and a host of officers.
Along with them came, burdened
with all they could carry, men, women
and children of the richest Mexican
families. Wealthy Luis Terrazas, who
owns half of Chihuahua, brought with
him a vast cash fortune, fearing the
rebel loot of the evacuated Chihuahua
City.
Provisional President Huerta's fam.
lily is reported to have left Mexico
City.
A battle north Of Tuxpan is expect
ed soon between General Mas Fed
eral troops and General Candida Augi.
lars rebels.
Washington army observations pre-.
dict Federal military trains oil-supply-
ing field hostilities on a large scale.
President Wilson told callers Mon
day that the United States does not
plan any Central American or any.
part-of-the-globe American protector.
ate.
Villa, Mexica rebel leader, claims
the only Federal-occupied United
States border towns are Nuevo Laredo,
opposite Laredo, Tex, and Piedras Ne
gras, opposite Eagle Pass, Texas. The
Federals still hold Guaymas, Saltillo,
Monclova and Monterey.
Fearing practical rebel resentment
manifestation, some of the large Mex
lean oil.producing companies cancelled
their Mexican National Railways fuel
OIL contracts. The English Cowdray
interests and Huasteca Oil Company
have already cancelled their contracts.
The W~aters-Pierce Oil Company is still
considering future oil contracts action.
December End dispatches report the
expected surrender of seven Northern
Federal generals.
Huerta writes French bankers that
the Northern troops were withdrawn
for tactical reasons.
Huerta sent the Mexican Minister of
Finance, Adolfo de la Lama, to France.
seeking money.
The United States Government will
help the Dominican Republic to hold
a December Is fair and free election.
Gable dispatches announce Turkish
new English, Arabia, Mesopotamia and
Syrian oil well concessions.
Francisco De La BaBrra, former pro.
visional president of Mexico, denied
that he goes to Japan to purchase Fed
eral ammunition.
Cardinal Luigi Oreglia di Santo Ste
fano Aloysius. dean of the Sacred Col
lege at Rome, Italy. died last Friday.
was IS years old and the only SUR:
cardinal created by Pope Plus
TX.
Prince Charles, eldest son Of the
Roumanian Crown Prince, will enter
the German army on January LIST, as
lieutenant in the first foot guards at
Potsdam, to complete his military ed.
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13
NATIONAL NEWS.

The Brazos and Colorado Rivers, of
Texas, are overlooking their banks,
the floods have drowned hundreds,
marooned thousands and done disas.
trous damage to all crops and cities
in the path of the water devastation.
Cold increases tk~ suffering. Ford
supplies are almost exhausted. Ia 50
Capt. E. P. Bertholf, command ~,
the United States revenue cutter. hard
ice, pleads for more life-saving vessfeu
for high seas, Great Lakes and s.es:-
Ohio and the Mississippi River serv-
ice.
The report urged the replacing of
the cutters, Perry, Woodbury., Man
haitian and Winona with modern yes.
sells, at an estimated cost of 1925, 900.
The report advises the construction
OF three light draft cutters, valued at
$24O,OOO in all, each with four power
full motor boats, equipped with all
known ~life-saving appliances, to fol.
low the crest of the Ohio and Missis.
sippi floods, assisting sufferers.
The report publishes the inability to
fill vacancies in the services
commission personnel.
Congress is urged to authorize seven
additional 1915 cadetships, and to
make permanent authorization in 1916
Tor tWenty-one cadets and cadet en-
gineers.
The consolidating of the revenue
cutter and ~life-saving service into the
c%oast-guard is recommended.
The House Banking and Currency
Committee began rural credits legis-
latlon consideration. Republican Cali
fornia Representative Hayes opposed
the German Landschafft system under
which mortgagers forfeited their land
upon default of principal or interest.
Texas newspapers cannot carry
liquor advertisements in dry territory
circulating papers.
representative Hulings, of Pennsyl.
vania, resolution authorizing President
Wilson's acceptance of the Winston
Churchill. Lord of the British Admiral
ty, suggestion for one years naval
construction abandonment, will be yot-
ed on Monday.
On last Saturday the California Re-
publican State Central Committee
pronounced its own dissolution as a lie.
gal entity and met to reorganize under
the Progressive emblem. BY this the
Republican party dies its California
death. The revivified corpse is Pro-
gressive.
The Fort L~eavenworth, Kansas, Fed.
eral prison maintenance cost for the
last fiscal year was $225,151. The av.
erage number of prisoners In confine.
ment was S99.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Hamlin issued a collector of customs
order, declaring a 20 cents a hundred
countervailing duty on imported Ger
man split peas. The order also pro-
vides for a slight countervailing duty
on German wheat flour.
Lientenant-Co Colonel David DuBose
Gaillard, United States Army directing
engineer in the Culebra Cut, Panama
Canal Division. died in Baltimore. Col.
Gaillard had been In the Johns Hop
kins Hospital since August II, with
a growth in his head, the result of sew.
en- years of patriotic and arduous Ca
nal Zone labor. His death is the ef-
feet of long hours Of work and expert.
ence in his fight against the shifting
soil of the Culebra cut. To him had
been given the most difficult canal
construction task, the mastering of the
eight miles long Culebra Cut land
Slides and quicksands. During the
Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-13

LOT them said he would be glad to buy
the oysters on his own appraisal if he
had the money. 1t has been proven
since that their appraisal was at least
twice as much as 1t should have been.
(Both a%ppraisals more than confirmed
the prices we had paid for the proper.
ties.)
Our first intimation of Door manage.
ment came a little later in the fall.
when bills began to pile up for work
that had been authorized on the oyster
properties, more particularly on the
Providence plant. At first We made an
appropriation of $4,000 for putting the
Providence plant in an up-to-date col.
dltion for doing business and later it
was stated to us that we could save
Sl7'OoO a year by investing another
S25,OOO to establish a steam plant at
Providence. These bills exceeded the
appropriation the directors had author.
lied. Some of the directors went down
Immediately and investigated. We
found the work contracted for at Prov.
ldence would cost the company at least
100000, and it was too late to stop.
In the end the authorized expenditure
of $4,000 was not enough, and the
amount ran up to something over $685.,
900.
Later Mr.. Raye pointed out to us
tnat our numerous selling agencies
were not making good. This did not
develop in time to enable us to correct
our selling policies for that season, az
contracts had all been completed. It
was evident that we must have a new
executive head, and this was under.
taken as quickly as possible. AS . re-
suit Mr.. Brooks resigned as president
of the company on December Z, 1911.
There being no toher man available to
take his place, at the earnest solicit.
alton OF the friends who had put in
much money, l was persuaded to take
the presidency of the company. |
have served without salary.
Late in the spring of 1912 our man.
ayers began to complain of a dearth Of
large oysters. We had counted on get
ting three-fourths of a gallon of open
oysters from every bushel Of oysters
in the shell. Intsead Of this our mil.
lion bushels had yielded less than 5OO,-
900 gallons. This alone curtailed gu
expected receipts by more than $3.50.
900. In other ways the results of the
seasons business disappointing.
Sales not being nearly as large as esti-
mated by Mr.. Brooks, and against the
Ten cents extra per gallOn profit which
we were told we would receive on ac-
count of our trade mark, we found in
closing the branch selling houses that
our selling cost had been forty cents
per gallon, that is, it cost forty cents
to get ten cents. The selling agencies
- .+%E-@
instead Of being feeders we're suckers.
At this time dividends on the pre-
.ferred stock were passed, and we cut
down expenses in every way possible.
To illustrate how expenses had been
cut down-before the Boston office
was established there were approx
mately n hundred employees in the
~ ZL. go.