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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-03-13
New Prison News.

New Moon; look out!
Officer Glennon has a system"
Deputy Warden held usual inter-
views this week.
Warden was down several times
during the week.
The firm of Sunny JIM IS no
more; r. N. w. vamoosed.
The baker has a new assistant;
some biscuit moulder, too.
The new altar has been finished
and placed in the auditorium.
Father Doyle and friend were
shown through prison Friday.
Oh you boiler makers shirts.
Officer Glennon started it, too.
Five new students from the sunny
Sonth were enrolled this week.
Speak Easy ought to make
good cashier in a shooting gallery.
"Suds" is still delivering the
goods. Not green goods" but clean
goods.
Rev. Mccoy conducted two visit
ors from Arkansas through prison,
Tuesday.
A party of about 40 ladies were
conducted through the institution
Wednesday.
We will have to hand it to shop G
for having the cleanest and tidiest
shop in the Irvine plant.
Officer Staneck is assigned to duty
in the powerhouse, vice +. Buck as
signed to other duties.
Officer Buck is acting as night
Captain during Capt. Hartman
absence on sick leave.
Several shipments of new office
furniture have been received for
use in Warden's and general office.
J.E. r. has promised to write
some weekly notes on doings at the
prison farm for the new prison page.
Clerks from general Office have
been busy during past week trans
fering records etc., from general
office.
Twelve inmates responded to call
for singers in the choir. Rev. and
Mrs. Mccoy tried them out Satur-
day afternoon.
w. 3. Bourne, general Office man
ager, was down several times dur
ing week. arranging matters in con-
,nectlon with new offices.
A new consignment Of school
books are expected in day or so.
These will no doubt equip all stud
,ents with necessary text books.
The dollhouse captain has a
school of his own. Present course
of study is The Correct use of the
Mop" Text books are not used.
One Of the Troy Laundry Machine
Co.'S, experts spent several days
here during the past week, getting
the new laundry machinery tuned
up.
The Irvine shops have all been
white washed, and the columns and
borders painted dark maroon. 1t
improves their appearance very
much.
A crew OF men have been busy
the past week cleaning up rubbish
in the basement that had accumu-
lated during the construction OF the
buildings.
Night Captain Hartman was tax
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RADIUM RAISED DINNER
A Frog Bred Three Times Its Natural
Size by a British Scientist.

Professor Dawson Turner, at the re-
cent meeting of the British Association
in Birmingham, England. made the as
tonishing announcement that by treat
ing a frogs egg with radium he had
bred frog three times the normal size
of the species
The application of this discovery may
have several very important results for
humanity. Perhaps its first, or at least
the most obvious, value is that it will
furnish us with means of increasing
the food supply and thereby keeping
down the ever-inereasing cost of living.
Even at it's present stage of develop
ment the experiment is capable of great
ly reducing living expenses. Frogs legs
are delicious, succulent food similar in
taste to fine chicken, and in many ways
superior to the choicest quality of beef.
Frogs are very easily raised. and when
they are bred to a large size one leg will
yield a dinner for large family at very
small cost, probably not more than 10
cents pound Frogs are now quite
cheap and when increased in size they
will become relatively cheaper
1t seems reasonably certain. however,
that the process can be applied to all
the food animals, including beef crea-
lures.
A steer three times the normal size
will certainly represent very great
economy in the production of beef. In
fact it has already been calculated by
the scientists of the British Association
that such an animal would cost one
third less than the present type. owing
to the economy of feeding one animal
instead of three and the great saving of
time.
At present an important item I'm the
cost of raising a steer is the fact that
the breeder must wait for three years
before the animal reaches a profitable
size for food purposes. If the steer
grew three times as large in three years
it would be equivalent to saving of
one-third in time.
After the successful application of the
process to many animals it will doubtless
be tried on man.
OF course. in its application to man it
must be considered in very different
light from the mere increase in bulk.
A previous speaker at the British AS
ISOLATION, Professor Dickson, had DEM
onstrated that within another century
the food supply of the world would at
the present rate of consumption become
insufficient to keep the race from star
walton. Professor Dawson Turner's ex-
periments showed that science would
have at least one way of meeting the de-
felt.
Dawson Turner's experiments We're a
continuation of those already begun by
Professor Roux, of the Pasteur Institute,
Paris; Professor Butler Burke. of Cam
bridge University, and many others. AT
an early period after the discovery of
radium it was found that this wonderful
substance would promote growth under
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needle. When one cell was separated
from it's companion cells it endeavored
to do its normal work. and it often went
strangely astray in the absence OF its
companions Thus body cell separated
from the head grew a head. head cell
placed among the parts of another egg
resulted in a tadpoe with two heads.
1t was found that two eggs could be
amalgamated to form one gigantic crea-
ture.
Professor Dawson Turner proceeded
upon the plan of applying the degree of
radio activity. which had already been
useful in stimulating plant growth, to
the body cells of the frog embryo which
had shown themselves susceptible of
great abnormal development in expert
ments.
After many thousands of experiments
Dawson Turner succe aded in obtaining
combination that greatly stimulated
cess also appears to be one that may be
continued indefinitely.
Each cell of the embryo has the intel
ligence to enable it to develop into a
normal part of the adult organism. But
when certain cells are activated by ra-
dunn they acquire n different character
and assume a dominant force like a man
inspired by some extraordinary ambition.
In theory it appears possible that this
discovery may be applied to man.
There would, of course be little adyan-
tage to be gained from producing an
enormous man, who would help to COB
BILE up the available food supply. The
desirable object would be to breed a man
of increased brain power.
The stimulation of the body cells of
the frog would be replaced by stimula-
ton of the brain cells of the man.
Perhaps the discovery that a healthy
animal can be bred With two heads on
one body may eventually prove applica-
bic to man. There is an old saying that
two heads are better than one. and this
ought to be all the more true if we
could combine the two heads compactly
with one body
What might we not expect if we could
breed man with two heads, one con-
tanning the brain of a Shakespeare and
the other of an Abraham Lincoln!
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Thee Sout-Mate Of a Plant.

Every day science discovers new
marvels in the previous mysteries of
Nature. sweet secrets are unfolded
to wondering man. one of these is
the story of the soul-mate of plant.
It reads, according to the Christian
Herald, like this:
In Paris dwells man interested in
rare and exotic plants. friend who
had been in the Amazon brought him
home a rare tree. In the winter he
keeps it at the dollhouse, but when
summer comes carries it into his gar
den. So beautiful is the bloom that
he gave garden parties that men
might behold the wondrous flower. One
summers day he noticed strange
thing that set his pulses throbbing-a
singular fruit had begun to set Send
ing for an expert, they took counsel to-
gether They knew that this was the
only tree of the kind in Paris, ana
they could not understand from
whence had come the pollen that had
fertilized the plant. AT length they
published the story in the papers, and
that story brought the explanation. A
merchant wrote that years before he
had brought to Marseilles a young
plant from the Amazon. The pollen OF
that tree, nearly 400 miles away, hao
been carried on the wings of the wind
over hill and vale and found out the
blossom that awaited it's coming.
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A Chapter of Facts.

1t may please some of our readers
who also read the false declarations
of the rum press about enforcement
of the prohibitory law, to read what
is being done by the Legislative en-
forcement sheriffs of Maine. When
they tell you that the law is not en-
forced; that conditions are just as bad
as under the Democratic booze regime;
that the people want good" rum and
can only get poison" but plenty of
that; that the officers of the law are
not attempting to enforce the law
because the people" don't want it
enforeed,-when you read all these
things in the Waterville Sentinel,
Portland Argus and Biddeford Rec
ord, you may compare them with the
following news item from the Port
land Express:
So great is the stock of liquors
seized by Sheriff -Scully and his liquor
deputies and under libel that both rum
rooms and one of the big detention
rooms at the County building have
been filled up with as many kegs and
parcels as could be packed in them
and it has become necessary to utilize
the corridor just outside the liquor
deputies Office as well as this office
itself for the storage of contraband
liquors held by the sheriff. The coun-
ty commissioners are now contemplat-
ing c,itfiup a doorway from the rum
rooms to the detention room which
has not yet been used for storage, to
add to the available space for storing
liquor and also the convenience of
handling it.
There are now stored in the rum
rooms. detention room, office and cor
ridor at the County Court House APP
proximately 1000 gallons of beer and
ale and over 1000 gallons of hard
liquors, mostly whisky.
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emiah J. Crowley and his peace dis
turbing denunciation of the Roman
f., Catholic Church. Augusta and the
Kennebec Journal can afford to ignore
such attacks and go on in the even
tenor of their peaceful existence, re-
Numbering the deplorable incidents
that have been recorded where such
influences have been given full sway.
A little more than one year ago
the throes of anarchy as the result of
the l. w. w. and it's parades under
such banners as No God, No Master"
Last Sunday night the Opera House
at Lawrence was crowded at pa
triotic meeting in observance of the
anniversary of Lawrence's Flag Day
when 10000 people paraded the streets
of the city in protest against the dis
play of international Workers of the
World" banners and disturbances. AT
this meeting the other night, Hon.
Bird S. Coler of New York, former
president Of the borough of Brooklyn,
was the principal speaker and his ut
terances may profitably be given
careful thought, in view of the nation
wide discussion of the problem of the
Bible and religious teachings in the
schools Mr. Coler said:
We are aiding Socialism vastly by taxi
ing religion out of our public schools
We are spending millions OF dollars 1or
an educational system which has no re-
Iigious content. We are doing TINS IN
the face of the expression OF every edu-
Gator of note from Plato down to the
present day, that an education Without
morals is evil rather than good we are
turning out of these public schools Tor
which we pay SO much money graduates
who believe that science has demolished
religion, whose training has been given
with the object of preparing for material
success. We must reintroduce religion
into our educational system If we are to
have a righteous nation and to stand up
against the red tide.
There has been opposition on the
ground that we are denominationally
divided, but plan has been proposed SO
just and 50 simple that | cannot under
stand the prejudice against it. Let every
creed control its own schools and II 1t
gives sufficient education to pass an eX-
animation on secular subjects by the
State regent then let the State pay per
capita for the education of each child so
educated Let even the agnostics MAIN
tain their own educational institutions;
let there be no injustice to any class or
creed In this way, instead of turning
our great educational funds into a war
chest for the Socialist party, We shall
inform and inspire the future generation
of American citizens so as to cut out
the evils at present existing in our po-
tfn and ind tCf Iinl vet nm
to develop the vast possibilities of good
toward an ever-increasing civilization
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Hoaan's Ohio Sahara.

On and after November 4 no liquor
will be served on railroad dining cars
in Ohio. Nothing stronger than grape
juice will be found poised on trays of
colored walters. Attorney General
Hogan has found that the constitution
forbids a moving saloon and conse-
quently has instructed the state liquor
license commission to issue no licenses
to railroad companies for selling wet
goods. News Dispatch.
1t Is evident that the liquor interests
slipped cog somewhere in Ohio.
They allowed man not in the service
or control, or in sympathy with the
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oct13dtf

certain conditions. If radium of a GER
tain strength be turned ON a living ami
NAL, it has the effect of destroying
micro organisms, such as disease germs,
and thus it favors the growth of the
cidal powers. however, it's long-contin-
the animal and the main organism itself.
But experiment has now shown that the
radium rays may be so modified as to
exercise only favorable effect on the
animals cells
Other experiments have shown that
radium will greatly hasten the develop
ment of plants. A tube of radium of
100000 activity was buried in the centre
of pot planted with oats. "A second pot
was arranged in the same manner. but
without the radium. At the end of four
days the plants from the radiumized
seeds were three times higher than those
in the unexposed pot. but here was an
other enigma. The tallest plants were
those which We're farthest away from
the tube. The radium tube was then
taken from one pot and placed in the
other. Immediately the second plants
began to grow, and within three days
were taller than those in the receptacle
from which the radium had been taken.
Professor Dawson Turner in creating
gigantic frogs and other monster ami
mails. was especially guided by the ex-
periments of Professor RouX. of the
Pasteur Institute. Paris. Roux showed
that the embryonic cells of animals were
capable of being influenced in an extra
ordinary degree, so that the character
of the resulting organism might be en-
tirely changed. This was due to the in
dividual intelligence of the embryonic
cells. entirely different thing from
the intelligence of the adult organism.
The intelligence OF each embryonic cell
strove to do its natural work in building
up the complete organism. Roux manipu-
lated the embryos by means of knife and
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Coming Events


Oct. 16-17-Annual meeting of the
League of PoStmastefs of the third and
fourth classes at Augusta, Me.
Oct. 22-24-Maine State Sunday School,
Annual, Augusta.
Oct. 30-31-Maine Teachers Association.
Bangor
Nov. 4-5-State Conference of Charities
and Corrections, Gardiner.
Nov. 4-5-6-Third Meeting Maine Live
Stock Breeders Association, Orono.
November 6-S-Bangor Fruit Show,
Bangor
Nov. FIFTH Annual Session National
Grange Patrons of Husbandry, Manches-
ter, n. II.
Nov. 1S-20-Maine State Pathological,
Lewiston.
December 15-16-17-1S Maine State
Grange, Bangor.
Dec. 22-27-Berwick Poultry Associa-
ton. Berwick.
Jan. as. 19l4.Bangor Poultry Associa-
ton. Bangor.
Sept. 15-20-National Encampment Re-
union, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Religion. Tea,hina or Anarchy?

Certain rabid spcialistic sheets are
fercely attacking Mayor Nevbert of
Augusta. the city Of Augusta itself,
and the Kennebec journal. for the
recent position assumed against Jer-
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booze business, to be named for at
torney general Which means that the
heavens must be moved to let in the
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Holman Day, now living in Port
land, has just completed his new
play written especially for Henry r.
Savage. and plans to visit New York
Immediately on business connected
with it's completion.
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The clearing weather of Monday
morning was hailed with delight by
the masters of the large fleet of YES
sells that had been anchored in the
lower harbor of Portland for from one
to two weeks and no time was lost in
getting to sea, the whole crowd with
one exception making a quick get
away. Included in the fleet were the
barkentine Mabel l. Meyers, bound to
Turks Island in ballast, four 4-masters
going to coal and southern lumber
ports, and some, 80 sail of coasters,
mostly lumber laden, on their way to
Boston and New York. The same
conditions prevailed all along the New
England coast, the various harbors
having been blocked with wind bound
vessels while a host of tugs and
barges which had been lying on the
shoals and at Vineyard Haven all
made start Monday, few of the SAIL
ing vessels. however. getting by Chat
ham, the wind Monday afternoon be-
ing reported light and dead ahead
An immense amount of coal for Port
land is on the fleet heading eastward
and in all probability nearly $4,000
tons will be afioat in the harbor this
week.
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Australia is irrigatinc more than
two million acres of grazing lands
with artesian wells.
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MAINE FAIR DATES.

Oct. 14-l6-Topsham Fair.
Nov. 1S-20-Maine State Pathological
Lewiston.
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The election of Hon. Edward b.
Winslew of Portland as director of the
b. & NJ. has appeared to give general
satisfaction. Portland correspond
ence of the Bangor Commercial gives
the following: He is thoroughly ia
miliar with the business and needs of
the State of Maine, and has been and
is identified with many lines Of bank
ing, manufacturing and commerce.
He is an up to- date man and is ready
at all times to accept suggestions.
That he will be valuable addition to
the directorate of the Boston & Maine
all believe and he will greatly
strengthen the Maine contingent In
the council of the great line. Presi-
dent Mcdonald is himself practically a
Maine man and his knowledge of the
needs and possibilities of giving in
creased business to his system could
not we'll be improved on"
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Spragues Journal of Maine His
tory for October has been received.
This number like the previous ones
is replete with interesting matter
relating to the early history of
Maine. which is treated in an origi-
nal manner that appeals to the or
binary reader as well as to the most
profound students of Maine History.
Notes on Judge Jonathan Sayward
of old York by Frank d. Marshall
of Portland: a paper on Joseph Ell
lery Foxcroft by Judge Charles w.
Hayes; The Lexington of the Seas.
and interesting account of the Ma
chias naval battle by Editor
Sprague, and poem "Biguyduce'
tancient Castine) of marked liter
airy merit by Mabel True of Fox
croft, are among the leading feat
ures of this issue.
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Topsham holds the boards this week
with the surety of good weather and
crowds in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal
And even the weather fails you!
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Maine Gossip
"Tbe Children Up in Heaven"

And the streets of the city shall be full
of boys and girls, playing in the streets
thereof. Zech., viii, ..
ooh, what do you think the angels say?'
said the children up i'm heaven;
There's u dear little girl coming home
today,
She's almost ready to fly away
From the earth we used to live in:
Let's go and open the gates of pearl
Open them wide for the new little GIRL
Said the children up in heaven.
God wanted her here. where His little
ones meet,
Said the children up In heaven;
"She shall play with us in the golden
street;
She has grown too fair. she has grown
too sweet
For the earth we used to live in;
She needed the sunshine this dear little
girl,
That gilds this side of the gates of
Said the children up in heaven
$50 the King called down from the an
gels DOME
Said the children up in heaven
MY little darling, arise and come
To the place prepared in the Father
The home my children live i'm
Let's go and watch the gates of pearl:
Ready to welcome the new little girl
Said the children up in heaven.
Ear down on the earth. do you hear
them weep"
Said the children up in heaven:
For the dear little girl has gone asleep.
The shadows fall and the night clouds
sweep
Der the earth we used to live In;
But we'll go and open the gates of pearl,
oh, why do they weep for their dear
little girl?''
Said the children up in heaven.
ely with her quickly, o angels DEAR
said the children up in heaven
"See-she is coming, Look there. Look
there.
At the Jasper light on her sunny hair:
Where the yelling clouds are riven!
All! hush, hush, hush. all the swift
wings furl
For the King himself, at the gates of
pearl,
Is taking her hand. dear, tired little girl,
And is leading her into heaven
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We have just received delicious
Savage of Waterville, consulting
horticulturist with headquarters at
Cascade Park The berries were
beautifully formed, each being, fully
one inch in length. The sender says
they were taken from a cane sprouted
from the Eldorado curing the spring
of 1912. This cane" he continues,
lis about II months old and is still in
vigorous condition. The fruiting
period has lasted more than nine
weeks"
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Maine has been very thankful for
her escape from Thaw. Here's hop
ing we'll be as successful with Mrs.
Pankhurst.
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cALANTHE LODGE. NO. Sc, K. p.
Regular convention Work in Rank of
Esquire, Oct. Is. Meetings commence at
7.3O.
CHAS E. PEASE, C. C.
GEO. e. FRYE, K. of r. and 8.
m-tu-W.0
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

TRINITY coMMANDERY, NO. T.
X. T. Stated conclave at Masonic Tenn
pie, Friday, Oct. H. 730 r. M. All So
journing fraters are cordially invited to
attend.
CHARLES r. GETCHELL. e. C.
THOS. H. BODICE, Recorder.
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r. 8. cAPEN REBEkAH LODGE NO.
81, l. o. o. F. meets End and 4th Wednes-
day evenings at 100 o'clock.
JENNIE, NJ HERRIN, n. G.
SADIE E. METCALF, Rec. Sec.
mch26 m-W-f1yr
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Wednesday, October is. 1918.

What the poor need is in
come. The best way to help
them get it is in the form of
wages. PROF. Emily Greene |
Balch of Wellesley College.
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JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. q
Meetings at 7.30 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
u. w. LOvEJoY. C. p.
C. e. STEWART, Scribe
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ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting at 7.30 Friday evening. Friday
evening, Oct. II, work in the Initatory
degree.
JOHN C. HOWES, N. G.
+. +. WESTON, Sec.