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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-20

has played so long and IN some
instances so we'll?
Its a game that the people are
beginning to understand, to value
at its true worth, and to despise.
Over and over again when the
people have raised their voice in
anger against the Steel Trust for
its enslavement of its workmen,
its twelve hours a day, seven days
a week, for pitiful wages, has not
the same thing happened?
Has not some Sauve attorney
for the trust gone to the news
papers in bondage to the trust
and had, them print columns on
columns about the Steel Trusts
model'homes for workmen, about
its Libraries for workmen, its
meeting halls for workmen, its
this and that philanthropic plan
for workmen?
And Ism t 1t about time that
game was stopped?
The working men and women
of today do not want medical SUI
pervision, and supervised model
homes, and supervised libraries,
and supervised halls, given them
by the trusts and corporations.
What the working men and
women of America today want is
decent living wages so they can
hire their own doctors, and buy
their own homes, and their own
books, and hire their own halls.
They don't want charity or
philanthropy; they want the right
to live in freedom and independ-
ence. They don't want things to
he cr;-rar, Aharrn. ILL., -rrnr,A n Or
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15

The writer firmly believes that
some day the Golden Rule will be
the only law among men. Some
day men will recognize each other
as brothers, then there will be no
poor, no rich, no insane, no Grim
inals. John Fisk, Americas great
historian, left as legacy to the peo-
pie Of this country the theory of
Universal Brotherhood. The Flu
turists would scoff at the eminent
scholars idea and give us their phil
osophy of egotism instead.
There is humorous side to the
Futurist's logic that reminds one Of
the Frenchman's idea of cleanliness.
Now this Frenfhman had, one sum-
mer, an English artist to board
with him. The Englishman re-
quired the Frenchman to provide
water for daily bath and this per-
picked his landlord. When the
Englishman left the Frenchman was
asked by neighbor how he liked
his guest. He wun dirty man; he
takes wun tub water and must wash
heself every day to keep clean" re-
piled the landlord. The Futurists
reason along the same lines as the
Frenchman.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15
The Means and the
End.
Editorial: "The Mediator.

Many a police officer. who was a
fine, clean, and manly fellow while
serving as patrolman, undergoes
decisive moral change for the worse
in the event he is transferred to the
department of detectives. He be-
heves and not without reasonable
excuse for the belief, that his new
tasks place a premium upon a GER
tain kind of cunning.
There is no justification for the
trap which the detective lays in
order to establish the guilt of a sup
posed criminal. To place an insur-
mountable temptation in the path
of man or woman, places an equal
share of guilt upon the tempter as
we'll as upon the one who is tempted
and who falls.
There is little public sympathy
with these tactics. The only decent
way to establish guilt is to do so
legitimately.
Every act is either right or wrong,
! regardless of what ultimate end
may be in view. The completed
act of today stands as an indelible
record. 1t is the substance. while
the final end that is sought is merely
the shadow.
That the end justiies the means
is a dangerous theory of conduct.
The end is far off in the future; it is
an uncertain dream, a vision, hope.
1t is made of fgments of fancy or
calculation; it has no body.
The only time that exists is the
present. The acts of today and OF
yesterday are the only acts that we
can lay our fingers upon.
i If the end that we seek is justi-
! fable, then the means to that end
must be justiiable. For the end is
the sum of the means employed tc
accomplish it. No act is rendered
either better or worse by the, eng
g. -O0-V
which may be sought. asmo,
i The clerk who steals adyi of aAa
time which he has agreed tsaseAf ta
his employer, and fati fkaHtiaEhi5Kehaoat T.
cepts 81 ab5FAaY i}sdB dBlsg IS
J is addmgtanRad raGt 9IuhisrssqFA
His record, wlefher. saemobrdmeh
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15
Did We Think of Her.

Did he think of her when he struck the
blow
Of her who sits where the light is dim?
of her who. crushed by unending woe.
Would willingly give her soul for him?
His victim fell and was freed from care
And ceased to suffer and ceased to moan;
But she lives on to remain aware
That his blow fell not on the dead alone.
Did he think of her when he raised his
Of her who weeps through the lonely night?
Of her who prays as the moments pass
And trem bles as one who was haunted might?
Did he pause to think his lips were
pressed
On the tainted mouth and the painted cheek.
Of her who rocked him upon her breast
When his heart was pure and his hands were
- weak?
oh. he pities her nowt He has time at last :
To give her thought-but she weeps away!
Her heart is crushed and her joys are passed.
Her hopes are slain where his victim lays.
And whether the law is to be denied
Or whether if punishment shall be felt,
Her soul has already been crucifed-
Her breast was struck by the blgVdfk0ealt.
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15
-j $1.OOa Year
TERMS: 6 Months Fifty Cts.

will in the end change his ideals, no
matter how fine they were to begin
with.
Ideals are at best indeterminate
and vague. They change from day
to day, unknown to ourselves, in
response to our acts during the
passing hours. Our ideals hang
suspended in delicate balance, so
delicate that they swerve and re-
spond to the influences of the va
guest thought or mood. They are
the sport of the winds of circum-
stance. Only completed acts stand.
They are not to be erased or even
modified, and certainly their wrong
ness is not diminished by any end
or ideal that may be in view.
Rosy ideals are often the salve
that we smear over questionable
acts in an effort to obscure their
dark texture. We have no right to
attempt to justify evil conduct by re-
ferring back to motives better than
the acts. Motives are never con-
vincing, save as they reach tangible
fruition in clearly defined acts. De-
PENDANTS in the courts are constantly
trying to ameliorate criminal acts
by pointing out motives that were
better than the acts for which society
is demanding punishment.
Motives that do not embody rug
ged honesty and a sincere effort at
efficiency always fall short of the
mark. And in business, the strug-
gle for success is so severe that we
cannot afford to fall short of the
mark.
Only service pays. And good
service, in whatever capacity, is
nothing but the sum of the smallest
details of our acts.
| The only real aristocracy of serv-
ice, and in the best type of service
every detail of our acts must COM
prise an end in itself.
The growing demand for cour-
tesy originates in the Importance of
the little acts. The little acts de-
termine the effectiveness or lack Of
effectiveness of personal contact with
our fellows.
Just as bright ideals are hurt by
inconsiderate acts, so do considerate
acts inevitably make better ideals.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15


kept vigil over me, cooled my burn
ing brow and soothed me with
words of love and assurance.
AS grew older, and became a
spradling youngster of thousand
faults, your mind reached down to
me and taught me direction showed
me which was the right road and
which the wrong-which was the
solid way and which the mire. And
it was then that you taught me to
pray, and injected into my young
life the faith you had in Gods good
ness and mercy, a faith which has
never left me, even though l may
have momentarily wandered from
the path you would have had me
trod.
And how often, dear mother, do l
think of your prayers
In the dreary hours of midnight
When all about's asleep and still
Not the sound of ripping streamlet
Or the voice of whip-poor-Will.
Then think of dear loved faces
AS around the camps beat.
| Think of other scenes and places
| And mothers voice so sweet.
Mother-who in days of childhood
Prayed as mothers can but pray:
| Guard his footsteps in the wildwood
| Let him not be led astray."'
Yes, if it were only for the faith
you gave rae Mother dear, and your
prayers, / could not help loving you
and now that I have reached man
! hoods estate, and have battled anG
buffeted the world alone, know thu
powerful influence your prayers hat
for your boy far away from you, fol
when your dear spirit passed ou
from US, when, as with your las
breath you murmured the hymn o
my babyhood:
Ny faith looks up to thee,
Thou lamb of Calvary.
Savior Devine."
it seemed that my spiritual guard
ian had deserted mel felt alone
for even when | was far from you
your thought and your presence wit
me was ever manifest and I felt tn
influence of Mothers prayers.
But even though l may hav
strayed, and just once carelessl
put aside the discretion you taugh
+ me, the memory of mother, her prid
, in her boy and her prayers hav
instilled in my breast the manhoo
to live life of atonement, and i
my future life do what | can t
make those l love and dependar
upon me as happy as you, throug
your love made me.
Yes, give me the white carnatic
let me wear it: if not, / viii wes
what it stands for in my heart bt
k cause it typifes all that is good an
o pure-I will wear it there alway
It in your memory because you live
4 life of true Christian womanhoo'
- a life of devotion to me; becaul
o you did your full duty as yo
: saw it and as it came to 20
o and then because becau,
;. you are-My Mother.
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15
The Philosophy. O
6$Otism
Pendennis.
Pendennis.

The French Futurists would have
us believe that society is in the last
stage of degeneracy. A recent ar
ticle witten by one of the leaders Of
this latest of all cults, advocates the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15
Tribute To The Memory
OF Mother.
a Gonvict's
Vol. XXVI.-No. Al
Four Double o. One.

Some day in the not far distant
future, an appreciative and mother
of-the-home loving people will erect
a monument or tablet to the MEM
ory of that modest, unassuming
young woman of Philadelphia whose
inspiration led her, several years ago,
to suggest that one day in each year
be set aside as Mothers Day." and
on it, the men and women of Amer
lea show their respect and love for
she who gave them life, by wearing
a white carnation.
1t was lovely thought and it at
once appealed to the people of the
Quaker City so strongly that the
Mayor issued proclamation desig-
mating the second Sunday in May as
Mothers Day." recommending the
wearing of the flower and that SER
vices appropriate, be held in all
churches. From this, the move
ment was taken up in many states,
until now, nearly every state in the
union celebrates the second Sunday
in May as day for the mother SEN
timent to predominant, either through
proclamation by the Governor or
by an act of the legislature.
And why should 1t not appeal
to all mankind? Why should not
the day be enthusiastically welcomed
and scarcely observed by men and
women in every condition of life:
How, as we pin on this memory
flower, will it bring recollections of a
tenderness and a patient care she
devoted to us in our helplessness
Perhaps bring to mind. a letter
long neglected which would make
her dear old heart leap with JOY
and gladness; and If perchance she
has gone far beyond the reach OF
any earthly postman, will it bring
thoughts to mind that will serve to
make better men and women of u.
all?
So on each succeeding Mother
Day" let us wear her flower th'
white carnation, a symbol of he
purity and love, her devotion an(
care; and let us think of her as il
her due. Aye, let us write to her il
our most loving strain and say:
am thinking If you my darlin!
mother, and am going to writ
just as / think, just as though yo1
were at my side and / was tellin.
y you of my hearts burning love TO
you, and the inspiring lnfuenc
your memory and your often ex
pressed hopes and prayers for m
welfare shall have over my futllr
life.
am thinking, mother dear. bac
as far as memory goes just wher
it begins-when as you fed me OF
-,of your own strength, you locke
down into my eyes with your eye
of love and gave me that assurane
of security such as Mothers pre-
>ence and assurance only can CIV
| see myself as a toddler, and pi
ture in my minds eye the manifol
troubles and cares / brought upt
you, and when little legs were tire
and stairs were steep, your har
reached down and gave me streng
to climb. and when little eyes gre
heavy. can now hear the swe
voiced hymns you sang me
-dreamland with. Then when sic
ness came, and my little body ach'
aud fever burned, how, through Il
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-05-15
SALTWATER MINNESOTA. THURSDAY MAY Is. 1913


destruction of b u anity. The |
American Futurist expresses his |
wall in a more doleful whine and |
condems the manners, modes, gov
ernment and costumes of the United |
States.
Where the Futurists find evidence
from which to deduct their conclus-
ions is beyond comprehension.
There is in all their raving the same
narrow egotism. Their philosophy
is egotism rampant.
The past decade has witnessed a
great awaking of the American peo-
plea quickening of national feel
ing. The people have become
aroused to a sense of responsibility
and there has been wonderful
moral uplift. Cities have been re-
generated, the social evil has been
attacked and strenuous war made
on vice.
Investigators have brought to
light conditions that have given the
philosophers of egotism material to
formulate into slanderous distortions.
They point to the muck raked up by
the Investigators as evidence of ma
tional degeneracy and their TRADES
of abuse and egotisical judgements
display a gross ignorance that is
fatuous imbecility.
The people are attacking vice and
reforms in there laws because they
are growing in moral strength.
Society is advancing and will not
tolerate vice to exist and propagate.
Philosophers of egotism ignore these
facts, and like all book made propo-
gandists arrive at inverted conclus-
ions.
The Futurists are city people and
consequently coms IL contact with
the slums and see the seamy side
of society at it's worst. The rural
districts furnish no converts to the
cult. One can understand how
those who see only a small portion
of the entire population would De
liable to form an adverse idea OF
: society. Their range of observation
is small and consequently their
:, point of view narrow.
D Travel anywhere in the United
e States and you will find thousands
of good men and women patriotic
e honest and sincere. lido not believe
= the Futurists ever got out among
t the people and learned to know
e them-really came acquainted
: with genuine folks. The American
d people are good people, when yor
Il come to know them. Broad minded
o charitable, honest as a rule, indus
t trious and very intelligent. The
b per cent. of law violators is very
small compared to the law abiding
n masses.
r If you wish to become acquainted
J with the American people you will
d have to travel through the rura
g communities and vis.s the small
d towns. Travel along the countr.
l, roads and get in close touch with th
'e people that live on the farms. G.
u to work in some. small town an,
u. learn to know the joy of Gvin
'e among real folks. The writer ha
wandered a great deal and alway
found, whether he travelled nortf
f east, south or west, the same unfail
ing goodness among the people
the same broadness of mind, dept
of soul and kindness of hear
Millions of good people live in th
7e United States.
st The philosophy of egotism is th
r. doctrine of dispan. The Futurist
Of are advancing a theory that implie
ne an acute attack of indigestion
T.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-04-04
Notice of Intention to Lease County
Property.

Notice is hereby given that the Board
of County Commissioners of San Juan
County, State Of Washington, intend to
lease the following described property be-
longing to the County of San Juan, to- wit:
Lots |, 2 and 3 Of Block ''C'' Addition
to the town Of Friday Harbor, Washing
ton. with the tide land and appnrtenan-
ces; subject to Improvements thereon be-
longing to Capron and Ramsden, APP
praised at 100000, consisting of wharf,
two warehouses and creamery building.
Also Lots l and 2 of Block 'D'' Addi-
ton to the town OF Friday HarbOr, Wash
ington, together with the tide land and
appurtenances; subject to improvements
thereon belonging to l.. B. Carter, APP
praised at S2O0000, consisting Of wharf
and two warehouses.
Notice is also hereby given that the
said Board Of County Commissioners Of
San Juan County, Washington, will meet
at its room in the Court House in Friday
Harbor, Washington, at the hour OF z
o'clock pm. on the 18th day of April, 1913,
for the purpose tf leasing said proper y.
The bids for said leases to be sealed. and
lease awarded to the highest responsible
bidder.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION
ERS, of San Juan County, Wash.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-04-04
Court Notes

Tacoma-Roche Harbor Lime Co..
VS.. Federal Telegraph Co. for DAM
ages demurrer to plaintiff was ov-
erruled.
Soderberg VS.. McRae. Judgment
entered for the plaintiff for S1O.-
900. sssre . ....s. :ssz@ sHs ssazyzs
In the estate Of A. E.. Pfffner as
administrative filed a final account
for distribution, and the court made
an order fixing time for an account.
In the matter of the estate Of
Katherine N. Jesper the court ap-
pointed as administrator Hugh Jes-
per.
The case of Johnson VS.. Houston.
the court decreed that the land be-
longing to johnson enclosed by his
fence to. be.his.
In the case of Houston it was
found that his entire orchard be-
longed to the Tacoma-Roche Harbor
Lime Co.
In the estate of VIM. Gilmore the
court entered order for personal
property.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-04-04
NORMAN L. BRIGGS, Owner

The code of honor in force among
the boatmen of the Mississippi riv-
er in early days was rude, perhaps,
but strict, SO far as it went. There,
for instance, was the case of Bill
Mccoy, who fell into the clutches
of the law eighty years ago. Brought
before one of the courts at Natchez,
he was committed to jail. The va
cation of court was just beginning,
and unless Mccoy could find bonds
man in the sum of $4,000 he must
swelter in Jail throughout the long
summer months. At the last mo-
ment Colonel w., wealthy citizen
of Natchez, came to the rescue and
agreed to pay $4,000 if Mccoy did
not present himself to stand trial in
the fall.
In vain the colonel's friends tried
to persuade him not to take the re-
sponsibility, even "the courts" ad-
vice that he let the matter alone
was unheeded. Mccoy was released,
shouIdered his rifle and in due time
reached his home in cold Kahn
tuck"
Months rolled on and the time of
the trial approached. Everywhere
the chances of McCoy's return were
discussed. The colonel had not
heard from him since his departure
The morning of the appointed
day came, but the prisoner did not
present himself. The court had
transacted it's other business and
was on the point of adjourning
when Mccoy, his beard long and
matted, his hands SCARED and bleed
ing, rushed into the courtroom.
Colonel W. embraced him as if he
we're long lost brother, and eyes
unused to tears filled to overlooking
when Mccoy told his story.
Starting from Louisville as a
hand on aatboat, he found in a
few days that, owing to unexpected
delays, he could not reach Natchez
at the appointed time. No other
craft presented itself, and so Mccoy
abandoned the ''flat" and, with the
aid of rough tools, shaped canoe
from the trunk of fallen tree. He
rowed or padded his canoe with
only the briefest stops for food and
rest 1900 miles and redeemed his
promise almost at the expense of
his life.
His trial became a mere form
His chivalrous conduct and the
want of any positive testimony won
for him a quick verdict of "not
guilty. Youths Companion.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-04-04
No. 11221
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS
SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT
PRIVATE SALE

In the Superior Court of the State of Washing
ton for King County, in Probate,
In the matter of the estate of Washington c.
Rutter Deceased,
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an
order OF the superior Court of the State of Wash.
ington tor King county, made and entered on
the 27th day OF March, A d. 1913, in the matter
OF the estate OF Washington c. Rutter deceased
the undersigned, as administrator of the estate
of said Washington c. Rutter, deceased will. on
or after the 2Sth day of April A. d. 1918 sell at
private sale the following described real estate,
belonging to said estate, situated in San Iuan
County, State of Washington, and particularly
bounded and described as follows to witt:
All OF Lot Four ca and the Southeast quarter
OF the southwest quarter of Section Seven ~
township Thirty-seven (S7) North of Range One
~ west OF the Willamette Meridian and all that
,ortion OF Lot Five Isl of said Section living
North OF the South line of Lot Four Tal of So ia
Section extended Easterly to the Shore of puget
Sound containing oS5z acres of land more or
less, according to united States Government
survey, together wlthall ard singular the ten
emen.s, hereoltaments and appurtenances there
unto belonging, or in any wise appertaiuiup.
bios VIII be received for the whole of the here
t oescripeo real property at any time af-
Ter the GATE OF the first publication of this notice
put the sale Will not be made until at least ff3
teen oaVs after said date to wit, on or after the
z5,n gay OF April, A. d. 1913, AID said sale can
NOT be made after the expiration of six months
thereafter. Such bids will be received and sale
mace SUBJECT to the following conditions to-wit:
"a; ~; Al olds must be in writing signed by the
erty proposed TO be purchased
-; Al! bids must be either left at the Office of
n .. peterson, attorney for the administrator.
~ Room 747 New York Building Seattle WASH
1ngton, or delivered to the said administrator
personally, or filed with the Clerk of the Super.
County. -0- f>'hs
s. The Sale cannot be made for less than nine
erty. Fiop
4. Terms of Sale will be cash; Ten per cent.
OF purchase price to accompany bid and balance
payable at the time OF sale
s. The sale will be made subject to the ap-
prevail of the Conrt
Dated at Seattle, Wash ington this 27th day OF
March, A. ID. 1913.
FRANK H. PAUL
administrator of the estate of
Washington c. Rutter, Deceased
n. S. PETERSON,
TAT New York Building
Seattle, Washington
Attorney Tor Administrator
Date of first publication of this notice Anr;,
4, 1913.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-04-04
Hooked 1t.

'eNow, here is book!" exclaimed
the seedy man as he dashed into the
bankers private Office.
Don't want any books" grunted
the banker.
"But this one you can't help be-
ing interested in"
'Haven't time to read books,
and"-
'sBut | am sure you will take this
book" persisted the seedy man.
''Look here, sir, do you intend to
leave the room or must
Don't need to call the porter;
I'll 60. This is your book though"
'SMy book %
eyes; your pocket book. l found
it in the hall"
Then he vanished, book and ALL
London Mail.