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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26

made to give the second and third timer chance
when in the discretion of those whose duty it is to
determine it is best for the man himself as we'll as
society," to be set free.
The indetermnate law, if freed from it's maxi
mum and minimum sentence, would be still more
effective, for then it would give the man who had
been railroaded to prison because he had no means
to provide adequate counsel or evidence chance
to prove the circumstances surrounding his case to
an unbiased and sympathetic board of inquiry. It
would protect and benefit the prisoner because his
conduct and previous record would have much
to do with the length of time he would be COM
PEELED to remain; and it would protect society from
the dangers that would threaten through the iber-
alton of men not entirely fit or reformed
We are in favor of the indeterminate sentence
and parole laws because we believe they are just.
Because they we're enacted for the very purpose
of giving the convicted man square deal-another
chance. We favor them, because to our notion
they are fair-when administered fairly; and final
ly because they mark the first step taken toward
the reformation of fallen men and better under
standing of their needs. The many good results
accruing from the indeterminate law speak more
eoquently in it's favor than is possible for us to
do
We favor the proposed indefinite feature-the
adjustment of fixed minimum and maximum SEN
fences because it would, to great degree, elimi-
nate uncalled for and at times malicious criticism
from uniformed outside sources when boards of
parole see fit to release man, after they have
been convinced that conditions warrant such &C
ton. 1t would serve to make criminals come to
realization that their own actions, not only in
prison but outside, are taken into account-that
they cannot go on committing crime after crime
and expect to escape successfully with few years
of servitude. It would be the means of bringing
about surer and more rapid reform, the benefits
of which would be mutually shared by society and
the imprisoned men themselves.
We can very readily see wherein the indefinite
sentence law would not appeal to the man who is
criminal by choice-the man who hates law of any
sort, and who is habitualy bent upon ignoring it
and evading punishment; but to the criminal by
chance, the man who has seen the folly of error
and wants to live in the higher atmosphere of hon
esty and right, the proposed substitution for fixed
sentences means great deal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
THANKFUL
By Edgar Il. Guest

When the sun gets back to business and
the snow gets off the Job,
And the baseball stories carry hits and runs
by Tyrus Cobb,
When the kids start playing marbles and
the girls are skipping rope,
And the good old-fashioned mother mike.
sulphur-treacle dope.
1t is then I'm mighty thankful, as the
waking world view
That the Lord has let me live another grim
old winter through.
When l hear the sparrows quarrel on the
caves at break of day,
And the sun is up before me and has started
on its way,
When the ground is soft and springy and ,
catch glimpse of green,
And the sturdy little crocus is enlivenine
the scene,
1t is then I'm mighty thankful that the
Lord has let me stay
To behold another winter fold its tent and
sneak away.
1t is then I'm glad I'm living, it is then
that don't care
That the burden on my shoulders is little
hard to bear.
1t is then l stand bareheaded, sort of drink
ing in the breeze,
And L m one with all the robins, and I'm
brother to the trees,
And thank the Lord each morning as l
glimpse the skies of blue,
That He's let me live to see another grim
old winter through.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
OUR LITTLE JOKER
By Paddy

The turnkey is sporting a neck tie that
is real scream.
Speak-easy let a yelp out of him that
cost him his name.
The windy kid says he is the guy that
put the salve in oxiline.
There must be more than one little red
coat as the two gents are on speaking terms
again.
Master Rosing is back again, but don t
know if he got straight sentence or indie
terminate.
Under the circumstances it should not be
hard to get all the first class men needed
for the night work.
fThe only thing that bothers me now, -
said c. P. the chief cook for the night
crew, us where to get place to board"
Mex. says he has his name engraved on
fine hall of fame. When asked where it
was said, On that place where the man gives
the railroad train drink
Supt. Robinson and Bill Legs formed a
partnership to 60 into the painting business,
and the way they made the paint fly. they
can taste turpentine yet.
Don't know if the squirrels carried them
up there or the heavy winds of the past
week blue them, any how, the nuts in the
ware house are up in the hospital working
the last few days.
Little Oscar has bid in to give us an
illustration of the by-gone cowboy days in
the west next field day, by doing a little
bare back riding stunt. Nothing doing,
Oscar, back up.
Some one called up Mr.. Bourne on the
18th Of Ireland and said, there is nothing
too good for the Irish, is there, Bourne.
"You bet there amt" we'll, send in a cou-
pie of lead pencils, bang
If anyone says card party to me any more
said "Harry." l will find out where it is
and then 60 the other way. Glad to see
Harry back on his feed again the last few
days after feeling so down hearted for a
time.
Officer Parent has all he can do the last
few days learning the new men in his shop
how to drink out of the water fountain
without cup. It's moving picture show
to me, said he, with the slides going all the
time.
What's the matter Mr.. Mullen? Have
you been grinding feed this morning? No,
said he, as he pulled half sack of -four
out eye, was looking over -four mill
puzzle, and say, said he, as he lowered his
voice to confidential tone. wasn't the
only one that got stung.
81 got letter, Duke ''Did your?
said Duke, "any news No, not much,
only party sent me dunning letter and
said they could not understand my silence
in regard to a letter sent me before ooh!
we'll, said Duke, "the reason is that they
don't know where you are "Ah lay
DOWN.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
:. LIVE SPORT :.
FEDERALs SUE FOR KILLER

Grand Rapids, Mich, March 25,-The
first legal shot of the baseball war of 1914
was fired here today by the Federal league
in filing petition with the United States
district court for the Western district of
Michigan, asking for an injunction to re-
strain William ]. Killifer, Jr., formerly
catcher of the Philadelphia Nationals, from
playing baseball with any club other than
the Chicago Federals.
Killifer signed three-year contract with
the Chicago Federals, but afterward was
persuaded that the reserve clause in his old
contract with the Philadelphia club held
him legally to Philadelphia, and joined his
former team.
The suit involves the legality of the re-
serve clause, long regarded as one of the
bulwarks of organized baseball, and was
brought in the Western Michigan district
because Killifer is a resident of Paw Paw,
Michigan.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
WORLDS TOURISTS EAT

When the worlds baseball tourists re-
turned from their trip March 8, they were
wined and dined in great shape by the pro.
minent sporting men of America, who had
gathered at New York for the purpose.
The banquet was held at the Hotel Biltmore,
and this is the menu:
Russian Buffet.
Blue Point Oyster Cocktail,
Clear Oxtail Soup.
Supreme de Sea Bass Victoria"
New Boiled Potatoes
Medallion of Tenderloin of Beef Bordelaire.
BRUSSELS Sprouts Stuffed Tomatoes
Mousse of Virginia Ham, Paprika Sauce
Fresh Mushrooms in Cream
ROmon Punch.
SQUAD Guinea Hen, Polish Style
Heart of Lettuce.
Fancy Ice Cream
Cakes. Cafe
Sauterne, 1909. Pontet Canet, 1908
G. H. Mumm. Extra Dry.
Meet & Chandon. White Seal.
WE. Cliquot. Yellow Label.
II. A. Book Cigars. Mona Lisa Cigarettes
ApOllinaris.
There were about six hundred guests pre-
sent, each receiving small pocket electric
lamp and large wax doll in baseball uniform,
as souvenirs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
ONE LEGGED ECONOMY

Jimmy the Gun," only has one leg.
He says he lost his right pedal in the Span
ish-American war.
'Chauncy the key man. is also minus a
stamper but his missing member is the left.
The other day in comparing notes and
swapping clutches, they discovered they
both wear the same sized shoe, so they
placed an order for one pair of ''eights, I"
with the Steward.
Moral-It pays sometimes to be a Grip.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
A LESSON IN HONOR AND CHARITY

=, lNGUARDED, and with only his sense Of
I'LL honor standing between him and freedom.
an inmate of the Ohio penitentiary, last
II week, left the prison and went to the
bedside of his dying father at Gallon,
ninety-fve miles away; and returned to
his cell, as he had promised to do, the
next night, to fill out his term.
Other men in other prisons have been
given similar privileges under similar cir
cumstances, and not one have failed to re-
port back to their cells on time. We
have had instances of this kind here: but
the real meat in the Columbus story is
that the fellow inmates of the grief stricken man.
contributed their dimes and nickels to a fund to
defray his expenses to his fathers deathbed
Al Fellows deserves, and expects no great
credit for honorably living up to his word and re-
turning exactly at the specified moment 1t is no
more than any MAN would do under similar circum-
stances We doubt that any man confined in the
Columbus pententary elsewhere would have
acted otherwise. But the incident will 90 far
toward proving to those who doubt the wisdom of
trusting criminals, or who oppose the honor sys-
tenn, that men behind the bars CAN BE TRUSTED
and are still human.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
EXCUSE OUR BUSHES
The Brainerd Dispatch, editor

The Brainerd Dispatch, editor
tally says:
The Saltwater Mirror in its new
form has arrived at that period in
newspaperdom when it is recogniz-
ed as one of the brightest and best
weekly publications in the state.
Its field. of course, is not as extern
sive as it's many competitors
throughout the state, but the most
is made of conditions as they exist,
and many publisher with liberty
and the world at large at his COM
mand can well take lessons from
the paper published within the
walls of the Minnesota state prison
at Saltwater. 1t was started 81
years ago and is the oldest prison
paper published, and the best,
being six columns in size and filled
with interesting reading, not only
to the inmates of the prison but to
the public at large. The motto of
the paper is cit is never too late
to mend"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
TRIAL BY NEWSPAPERS

- lutte an agitation has been started among
VJ criminologists recently looking to the
- forceful adjustment of what they term
II newspaper trials or to be more expli-
CIT, newspaper convictions; and so
strong has the movement become, that in
at least three states laws have been enact
ed, and in two others bills are pending
before the legislatures, which make the
editor Of any paper publishing reports
calculated to show the guilt of an accused
person prior to the trial; guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and punishable by imprison
ment AND fine, both sufficiently large to
insure the careful observance of the law even by
the editors of the yellowest Sheets
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
in commenting on the matter says: '"The agita-
ton is the result of careful Investigations made by
committees appointed by learned societies which
have been looking into the defects of our court
system and determining the influences which tend
to prevent the proper administration of the
laws"
The Journal points out many instances where
innocent have been raroaded to prison
through the influence of the press in prejudicng
public opinion against the defendant prior to his
trial. and calls for firm and immediate action on
the part of the law makers, that laws may be en-
acted in every state whereby newspapers will
have to the publication of sensational Office
made evidence.
We hope that some statesman aspiring to leg
isative honors in Minnesota may take up the sug-
gestiOn and place upon the statute books a law
that will forever wipe out an atrOciOus newspaper
evil-a law that will enable an accused man to
have fair trial before a jury unbiased by exag-
gerated or manufactured newspaper rot
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
INMATES NOTICE.!

All Mittens furnished by the in
stitution are supposed to be return
ed not later than April 1st.-You
will therefore comply by leaving
your mitts on your bed before
leaving your cells next Wednes-
day morning. j. j. SULLIVAN,
Deputy Warden.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-02-12

Article l. Name. The CIVIC League
CT Charles Town.
Article II. Object.--The object OF
the society shall Be the improvement;
of Charles Town in Sanitation. Clean
l;ness, Beauty, Morality and the gen.
eral good citizenship of lis people.
Article LII. Members.-xAny person
can become member of this society
by signing the constitution and paying
a small annual fee.
Article w. The officers shalt con-
sist. of. President, Vice President,
Secretary, Corresponding Secretary,
Treasurer and an Executive Commit
tee consisting of the chairmen Of the
standing committees.
Article v. The Society shall meet
annually to elect officers.
Article vi Sec. 1. The Standin !
Committees fthe Society shall con-
sist of chairman from each Of the
three wardssof Charles Town and one
from Ransom, and the chairmen OF
committees ON street clsaning.t S. c.
q. Collection and disposal OF gar
bage and improvement of alleys.
Sec. 3. On beaut' flying streets and
gardens. The key note Of the So
ciety is the responsibility of its mem
bers 70 rthe conditions which, will
help the health, morality and beSu y
Of our town. =
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-02-12
From The Womaa's Civic League.

The Comm ttee on Clean Streets Of the
Woman's C1vlc League sent in petition.
to the Town Council last week asking
that the following ordinances Of the cor-
poration Of Charles Town shtAbd be en-
forced: 38, Any person OF persons
erecting or permitting hItching post to
be maintained in front of their ptEperty
shall be required to keep the street and
gutter adjacent to sush post in clean
and good condition. Any owner Of snci
property Or tenant in possession failing
to keep the street and gutter adjacent t.
such hitching post in a clean and good
condition, on conviction shall be fined
not less than five or more than ten dol-
lars Also art.3o, same chapter: No p T.
son Shall be allowed or permitted to hitch
his hos or-ll"rses to any bolt, post or
other ii:tchlng device within the cprpor-
ate limits aud allow or permit such
horse or horses to remain so hiiched fn1
a longer time than FIVE hours. Anyiper.
son violating this ordinance on convic
ton shall be fined not less than one OF
more than five dollars. The council was
a 50 petitionedy to repair and Gle n the
street adjacent to the Jail. and prohibit
the hitching to the telephone poles on
George street by the Jail, as the street is
in a most unsight'y and unsanitary CON
dition.;- The petition was referred tothe
= Mayor aud Ire was given power to act.
Every visitor to our town remarks up.
on the uns ghtly condition of Washing
ton street. We not need to take much
care about advertising Charles Town, if
we see that Charles Town is clean, com
Portable aud be tutfu'; our visitors will
then advertise the town. for us. The
league wants TO make collection of Ian
.teru slides showing slmi.ar civic work in
other cities and showing existing condi-
tionsin our own town. 1t is Impossible
tof chieve permanent cleanliness, but
permanent public opinion demanding
civic cleanliness will tend to produce
clean y cond tons.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-02-12
COMMUNITY
BREEDING
Has Brought Great Improve
ment In Agricultural condi-
tons In Many Sections
DEVELOPS COOPERATION
Many Communities In West vlruInIs
Would Profit Greatly BY Estab-
fishing Some Such System.

There il no i advantage gained BY
keeping three or four breeds Of cattle
In the same community, except the
satisfaction of personal preferences,
but there are many advantages to DO
derived from keeping one and the
same breed in the same community.
Probably the most important reason
why the same breed of cattle; sheep
or hogs should be kept in one commu-
nifty is that it makes for community
interest. The more we can have in
common as farmers the more interest
we will have in the welfare of our
neighbors. Such community breeding
is certain to be sympathetic tie bind
ing the people together in the accom-
plishment of anything they desire.
Community team work is worth much
in the improvement of any country
community. In fact, 1t is essential. 1t
brings strength without much effort
1t teaches efficiency in the care and
rearing of animals, as one can not help.
making comparisons of his animals
with those of his neighbors.
A scrub sire, no matter how little
he costs, is too expensive to use at
the head of any herd or flock. The
cost of purebred bulls often prohibits
their use by farmers with small herds
Of COWS, but if three or four farmers
could combine to purchase good sire
the money outlay for each would be
less than If scrub sire were pur-
chased and each farmer would then
secure the many benefits to be de-
rived Where the same breed is used
sires can be exchanged to prevent in
breeding and the usefulness of the sire
Is thereby much extended.
Community breeding is a very sim
pie thing, but the value which it will
be to the community is untold. There
are many instances on record to which
we may point as proof Of its advan-
tages. Wisconsin has f1fty-four COM
munity breeding associations, the
strongest OF these being the Waukesha
County Guernsey Breeding association,
organized in 1906 to promote the
breeding and improvement Of high
grade and pure-bred Guernsey cattle
in Waukesha county. Wisconsin. AL
though only organized eight years,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-02-12
Two Bishops Tell Of States
Advantages.

Chai lesion. w ", Fe5.1O Two of
he most widely known clergymen in
Vest Virginia have recently taken oc-
casion, in .tters, to call tie attthtion
Of The people of the country to The ad-
,vAHiages to miners who want to find
cool locations where they can rails e
their families to the best advantage.
-Efey are the r.. Rev DR. George Will
lam Peterkin, Protestant Episcopal
Bishop Of West Virginia. and the Ri.
Rev Dr. Patrick James Don hue, Ro-
man Catholic Bishop of Wheeling.
In discussing the Prohibi ion Jaw,
witch goes into effect on July lst,
Bishop RtLerkm took occasion To- say
Very naturally, and properly..it
xptct. d that the fleet of the Prohis
hilton law. going into effect July /.
@lil be great and advartag, Gus, espec-
tally for miners in this State. Such =
law. faithful ly carried out, cannot bur
Prumote the well being Of the comnun.
ny in tnat il removes many tentpt~-
Toes to indulge in 4 vice which is 81
destructive Of character and pros perity
industrious miners and other laborers
h"uld he glad to embrace tn oppo,-
tunity of fleeing tht mselves and their
families from the dancers and draw.
bat ks the sal ,on il evitaLly brings will
1T. :"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-02-12
Farmers to Hold Annual Institute
February 17-10.

The twenty-third annual meeting Of
the Frederick County Fafmers Insti-
tute will be held in the Auditorium at
Winchester on February II and Is. and
promises to be the best and most at
trsctive convention of farmers ever
held in the State
Jefferson County people are cordially
invited and we hope may be present in
large numbers as tne meetings will be
most interesting and instructive.
The speakers are all men of national
reputation, and The, institute managers
are to be congratulated on securing
their services. Following is a partial
list of the distinguished speakers who
have promised TO be present. each of
them an expert in his line of work:
DR.. Bradford Knapp. of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, will tell about the
farm dem istration work and its won
derful results ia the south
DIR. Rommel, of the same depal tment
will tell of the advantages of pure bred
live stock and community breeding.
DR.. Eggleston. president of the Vir-
ginia POLYTECHNIC Institute, will explain
the policy of that great institution un-
der new management.
Mr. D Gram Border, of Baltimore,
will tell the. fruit growers some new
and better Ways to sell apples.
Mr. Penny baekel:s sese ere nary of the
Nationti Good Roads Association, will
give the farmer the latest iufolm ton
on the subject of better roads.
Special meetings will be organized for
the ladies'.
Conferences will be held each day on
special sutj ,cts, led by x 2es's.
Everybod5 and his VIII. ADD chl.!ren
will be on h a,l g ~ il b c,fcd
to order at 10 d. III AID 2p m each
day.
Those WHO ,a., Lite will miss he
best part u n pr. g. Il-z-.zz.zz--.=-=
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-02-12
Colonel Martin Optimistic.

While on visit to his home State of
Missouri. recently. Col John l. Martin.
Sergeant at Arms of the National
Democratic Committee and one of the
best posted as well as most popular
men in the United States, was inter.
viewed in Hannibal, as to Democratic
achievements and prospects
How, do you find the feeling of the
country on recent Democratic legisa-
toni" he was asked.
mo doubt the change for the better
recently recorded in the money and in
vestment markets since the turn of the
year, in the Empire State of New York,
and the important development in the
financial situation this week in prime
commercial paper with rate; that were
the lowest for over year as SHOWN by
special dispatch Of the 18th instant
from New York, will stimulate con-
fidence throughout the entire country.
1t was truly said that it is now expec-
ted that the easing up of money both
here and abroad, and with increased
Importance of commercial paper in the
new currency system, The demand for
paper will be greatly stimula' ed and its
Importance as a favorable investment
greatly enhanced
''This also means that the merchants
will be enabled 20 secure funds for
business on more favorable efms than
at any time during the past year OF
two. Leading commercial papar brok-
ers are. therefore, taking q most hope
fui view of thels situation, and give it as
their belief that unless all signs fail,
the outlook for business in this depart-
ment promises everything good for
1914, that is. merchants, big and small,
are looking forward with more coiifi-
dence and optism to the new year. Z"
AS to the tariff, said Colo1,l Mar
tin. "a prominent dealer has bee
quoted as saying That the passage Of
the tariff bill, as w.li-as. the currency
act, leaves no doubt in The mind of the
merchant OF the mixer as to what
policies to pursue along mercantile aud
banking lines. Merchants h i've already
inaugurated p ,licies adaptable to the
tariff law. and bankers I'LL over tie
country are showing favorable consid
GRAFTON of the new federal reserve act
'In my home town If ST. Louis,
Harry B. Wallace and Colonel Fred
erick D. Gardner, two If the largest
manufacturers there, and in fact in the
world, in their lines, declare that con-
tidence in the future, and ability to
finance legitimate enterprises, is raTi,ii-
.ly being established insthe minds of all
men AS they come to study and under
stand the law. While the new banking
bill will not 'be in operation for five or
SIX months, cor fdence will pfecede tie
actual working of the law as its .provi-
sions become better understood =