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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24

of Remneas' fast ones. Alec then
realized that Warden Conley had
gone the frame-up one better, and
he buckled down to head off the
prison nine. Gordon, an Anaconda
semi professional, was next up for
the prison nine. Then the line up
switched to the stars of the regular
prison nine, who had a legitimate
claim to the M. S. P. uniform.
when did you get in Bill%'
Queried fan as Bill Lussi raced
past the second sack and wheezed
his way to the third sack to wait for
the next hit. Lussi never answered
the question.
The rest of the prison team who
were in the terms were all recog-
nized before the game had progress
ed past the fifth inning. Jack Hal
las indentity was not generally
known until some Butte fans saw
him jerk at his belt and pull at his
cap when he went to the plate.
This was an indentification mark as
good as a tattoo. The left-handed
twiler was in good shape and he
twirled as if he was out to win.
Warden ConIey was on the coach
ing line and the prison players with
the requisitioned and paid recruits
carried the prison colors to victory.
AS part of the frame the prison
ers let the Dillon club get a lead.
Then their war clubs fell on the for
mer Detroit star, whose fielding was
loose enough and they noosed out
the IA to 13 victory. The Butte
in on the know" crowd hurried to
collect it's bets before the Beaver
head aggregation could make an in
ventory of the rights of Butte play
ers to wear the Montana State
Prison" uniform.
To avoid the questions of friends
who had recognized them in prison
uniforms, the Butte ringers" were
hurried from the field in the auto
mobile of a Butte attorney. The
Butte hackers cleaned up $4,000 on
the game, it is estimated. Anaconda
Standard
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
HARD FOR FR|ENDLESs
man TO MAKE GOOD
New Locality Offers Better
Opportunities.
Man Who Has Spent Years In Prison Has
Deteriorated. II Not as Efficient as
He Was. But He Can Prove
Himself Honest.
Star of Hope
Star Hope

To reform and make good after
leaving prison is not as easy as some
would think, especially to the man
who is friendless.
A man leaving prison with ten
dollar bill and no friends or relatives
to give bim helping hand, is sure
ly up against hard proposition. In
the first place, if it is in large city
that the man looks for work, he
Is asked, Where did you work last?''
If the man tells the truth, he does
not get the job, as people do not care
much about hiring ex-convicts.
The man with the ten dollars and
no friends, has to get work right
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24

ct uuUeT TIC present court pro-
cedure, the district attorney or some
ambitious assistant is frequently less
interested in seeing exact justice
done than he is to gain prestige and
a reputation by securing numerous
convictions.
Unjust convictions occur. espe-
cially to those that are poor and
lacking in influence, more fire.
quently than the SNUG, superficial,
complaisant and unthinkng citizen
would imagine. Granted that man
has suffered through miscarriage
of justice, he may succeed in con-
vincing a few intimate friends of
the fact. but the mass of the people
would listen in open cynical unbe-
lief, or with veiled skeptlcism
Daily he would be reminded by the
demeanor of people toward MIN,
that they have not forgotten that he
is a Jail bird'' and the fact would
be made clear that he was viewed
with disapproval. The mean, mali
Icious and the hostile would not hes
itate to avail themselves of his past
as a means to work him injury and
defeat his hopes and ambitions.
+ For this reason, no greater mis-
take is possible to he made than for
the discharged prisoner to return to
his old locality. Let him select a
new locality, as far from it as posi-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
RELATES EXPERIENCES

More difficulties were encounter
ed during his journey from St. Paul
to New York than when stranded in
London as result of the European
war, DR.. Samuel G. Smith, pastor of
the Peoples church and one of the
members of the State Board of Pa
role, declared in an informal narra-
ton of his recent vacation expert
ences last night at the church.
I never have much money, so
the fact that currency was difficult
to obtain when war was declared by
England did not trouble me great
DEAL"
Il did not have any real trouble
with my baggage in England as
many other tourists did. / had
more trouble in getting my baggage
safely to New York in time to catch
my boat
A delay in the station here result
ted in the placing of his baggage on
the same train he was taking, said
DR.. Smith, and generous crossing
of palms with silver was necessary
to make hurried tranfer in Chicago
and again at New York to insure the
placing of his trunks on board the
steamer at the last moment.
DR.. Smith gave an interesting de-
scription of the churches and places
which he visited. but made no COM
ment upon the war.
The declaration of war came
down like thunderbolt and only
the more experienced travellers were
prepared at all. For several days
before England became involved, we
heard the rumble of the war clouds
and as a result we abandoned con-
templated trip to Germany"
DR.. Smith announced that later he
will give an address discussing the
merits of the war as he judges them
from the knowledge he obtained.
Pioneer Press.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
IS IMPRISONMENT DESTRUCTIVE?

Criminal justice must work to-
wards one of two ends. The elimi-
nation of the criminal or his reform.
alton; it must either be destructive
or constructive. In days of old it
was frankly destructive. The man
convicted of felony, be the offense
serious or trivial, was at one time
almost without exception hanged,
Punishment then was swift, certain.
complete and merciful because the
criminal was spared the lingering
agony Of slow punishment. Today
the avowed purpose is to reform the
criminal, but, especially in this state
in this state as in no other
Christian state-is in it's effects de-
structive and in very many cases,
because almost endless, cruel. This
cruelty is not to be found in the
prisons but in the length of the
sentences imposed.
Long sentences make life hopeless.
The man is so handicapped by age,
loss of initiative, the physical de-
terioration always lnseparable from
prolonged Imprisonment, that unless
he is a man of more than ordinary
strength of character, there is little
chance Of his making good.
We do not criticise the courts for
imposing such sentences. 1t may
be that in the light of such facts as
were presented to them, they were
justified in every instance, but, the
fact remains they are destructive and
cruel-justly cruel possibly but cruel
nevertheless.
The question, however, is not
whether they were just, nerciful,
or cruel, but whether they accomplish
their purpose. Do they decrease
and prevent crime? May it not be
that such sentences account, to some
extent at least, for the fact that
approximately one-half of the men
in the New York state prisons are
recidivists, and serving second,
third. fourth, or. in some cases.
ninth term? A man who, having
spent ten or fifteen or more years in
the enervating atmosphere of pris-
on, when set adrift. an alien to soci-
ETY., without a single home or whole
some social tie, is very likely to
lack both the incentive and the
strength to fight against the tempta-
ton to follow the line of least re-
sistance and violate those laws which
he feels have robbed him of the best
there in life.-Star of Hope. Sing
Sing Prison, New York.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
THE RACE PROBLEM

To those who are looking for signs
of human progress the present boil
ing over of the European pot is
likely to be peculiarly discouraging,
and especially when we see nation
which makes a claim to be the lead
er Of civilization and the special ally
of God diverting itself by dropping
bombs from the sky on women and
children. One must not forget,
however, that the ideal of universal
brotherhood is slowly gaining ground
and that the present upheaval is not
a sign of its failure, but only of the
fact that the great majority of men
are still living along the old line.
The old forces are still active and
must necessarily come to an out
break now and then.
The struggle for radical or ma
tional supremacy depends on a GER
tain instinct for self-preservation
which goes far beyond the individ-
ual; else why should the individual
sacrifice himself in order that the
race may continue? We are willing
to sacrifice ourselves in order that
our descendants may have larger
share of the good things of the
earth. That is surely altruistic. in
limited sense. 1t depends on the
notion that lineage is purely
physical matter. question of germ
plasm.
There are plenty of reasons why
the conception of brotherhood, of
relationship, should transcend ma
tional and racial limits. One of
these is the doctrine of reincarnatlon,
universally accepted in many orien-
tai countries. but with which we of
the West are practically unfamiliar.
When we once adopt the view that
the man is not his body, but his soul,
and that the soul returns many times
to earth, when we see that though
we may be an American or Ger
man today we shall in all probabili-
ty sometime be Jap or Russian,
and that he whom we despise or
fear as of an alien race may once
have been our fellow countryman. it
will not trouble us too much which
race ultimately inherits the earth,
for sooner or later we must be born
into it. Viewed from this stand
point, we really have no greater re-
sponsibility concerning our remote
physical descendants than we have
for those of another nation. While
it is right that we should leave our
house in good shape for those who
come after us, we need not trouble
ourselves as to who they will be.
As individuals we will rather see to
it that we make such progress that
when we return we may be help
to any race we may happen to be
born intO.-Critic.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24

An education is a good thing, but
the highbrow whose bump of knowl-
edge is so prominent that he cannot
see his fellowmen is a better cause
of laughter than the illiterate who
knows not of what he sees. Alas!
and anon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
when The WHISTLE BLOWS AT NIGHT
By No. 11OI6, In The Star Of Hope.

Amt no newsboys yelin' when our days work is
All about the lection the latest baseball
Amt no time to gaze upon the lovely sunset glow,
But it's hustle when the whistle signals. ''go!''
Amt no beautiful landscape, field O. wavn grain;
When do little twoep to the cell house again;
Amt wife soothe when feeln sick
But like soldiers marching the keepers sounding stick
Amt bill of fare to tell just what we like
Sy why don't left eet?
The changes; same old cinder tracks;
Same old buckets resting upon the wooden racks;
Same old whistle tootn when finished for the nght
Same old cell house standing there loomin big and bright
1t makes sort O. lonesome forever gain at the sky
An ongn the world amovn beyond these walls high
But the time goes by, mountn day by day.
My heart it starts to futern, an silently pray,
That the Lord will give strength to be more,
An minge with old time friends in the days of
Our earthly life is limited; old age claim its own;
weak backs strengthess grown
1t will be to late to figure wei reap what have
When the days work the shops lights all turn low
The whistle calls hoarsey an the wheels begin Slow
Then march the yard slacken pace,
know l. m day home an a smile my face.
thank God am healthy an will win out in the fight,
keep promises make when the whistle blows night
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24

Hope for better things as the pendulum
of the clock of time swings back and forth,
and soon your hopes will materialize.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-09-24
make a success at something if you
will but keep up the fight.

Remember that were it not for
the trials and troubles that we meet
and surmount life would be one con-
tinious round of pleasure, and pleas
ure without an occasional sorrow
would soon lose ito charm, and with
out Its charm pleasure would bring
little real happiness.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

n please explain the cause
Of the ghdstly color of
X peoples faces bhen near
the long bright tubes of glass in
Photographic galleries"
A.-The long, shining tubes are
mercury vapor arc lamps. Red
waves of light are almost totally
missing. The other colors are
present, but 1t requires the waves
of energy causing color sensa-
lions in the optic thalamus In the
brain to be present in all visible
lengths combined to make pure
white light. These are violet, in
digo, blue, green, yellow, orange
. and red. Take out any one of
these, let the others fall on any
object capable of rejecting them,
then the appearance will be
strange. unnatural and weird.
some say CHASTITY, and the human
face does indeed look uncanny.
An immense number OF photo
graphic experiments have been
made with every kind of light.
visible and invisible, with start
ling results. Rays OF all colors
have been allowed to fall on sur
faces Of all other colors, a strange
new thing in optics. The result
ing rare and beautiful effects
have been viewed with the I'M
aided eye, with the spectroscope
and then photographed.
Effects entirely new have been
discovered, and the fascination
of it all is now Turing leading
physicists into new corridors
within natures splendid light
maze. BY means of this series
of intricate processes hitherto
unknown short radiant energy
waves have been discovered, far
and away shorter, more delicate
and rapid than the shortest wish
BILE violet waves.
The absorption of invisible and
therefore undiscovered undula-
lions is branch of research by
itself, and strange chemical &C
tivities have been thus detected
in ultra violet regions; force go
ing to waste so far as man is
concerned during all these CEN
turtles.
These newly discovered short
waves are themselves most ad-
mirable discoveries. A series of
very remarkable substances has
been made by advanced expert
menters-wave- filters. BY their
use new and extraordinary eff
fects are obtained. Any length
of waves can be sifted or filtered
out, and any series whatever can
be isolated and secured in a state
of purity.
A wide field is now being ex-
plored. Thus a pane of clear
glass acts like wooden board to
these tiny waves; It is Opaque to
them. But these beating waves
have effect on the surface of the
human body.
Weird effects are obtained by
photos taken in filtered light;
thus a garden full of flowers will
vary in the negatives; some flow
ers will be invisible that show
plainly in other kinds of waves.
The end Is not yet-merely a be-
ginning in these new researches,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
The Science of
History
By REV. THos. B. GREGORY

TIME publication 1ss years ago
of Vlco's Schema Nuova"
New Science" - cleared
the way for the mighty engine of
human thought now known as tie
philosophy of History" which, in
the hands of such men as Mon
tesquieu. Buckle, Lecky, Draper
and others, was to work out such
splendid results
Giovanni Battista Vico, the
son of q poor bookseller of Ma
pies, was born in 1868. At an
early age he manifested the abil-
ity which usually belongs only to
men OF mature age, and while
stlll a young man he demon
stratei a profound acquaintance
with history. philosophy, science
and Jurisprudence
Nico was the first 10 ask
why have we a science of ma
ture but no science OF history ?"
and the Schema Nuova" was the
great mans answer to that all
important ques ion. In the course
of his hook he developed the idea
that man, as well as the material
world in the midst of which he
moves. is subject to lava law
wide-rea ching. immutable. un-
compromising. by which all HUI
man actions are governed. and in
the light of which the history of
those sctious must be studied and
explained.
No man, not even the strong
est. Iaa altogether break away
from lis intellectual environment.
and this great italian was to the
last more or less dominated by
the conventionalism of the Mid
die Ages, which was still the
fashioh OF the Gay; but in spite
of all that he reached out for,
grasped, and left behind him for
the help OF future thinkers tire
material out Of which they were
to construct along right lines the
majestic temple of historic truth.
Nearly the whole of Vicos life
was spent in Naples, in poverty
and loneliness, but his name is
destined to outlive the social.
financial and official grandees OF
his time.
With silent, urselfish heroism
he traced out new paths into the
neglected fields of thought. and
sowed in those fields the seeds Of
the truth TO be. II was not given
him to be a reaper in those
fields, but by just and beneh-
cent arrangement it IS so fixed
that IN the grand harvest time
the reaper and the sower shall
rejoice together.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Editor The Georgian:

Editor The Georgian:
A Baptist minister, the Rev.
Robert J. Huff, of College Park,
in a At of encouragement, at
tempts to take his own life and
almost succeeds. In coming back
to consciousness with new lease
on life, he pleads in extenuation
of his act the adverse environ
ments extending over months and
years Of his life, claiming that
the causes leading to the act
made the act justif1able and that
1t would be forgiven by the AL
mighty. He also makes the claim
that a man can commit suicide
and not be forever lost.
AS a minister Of the gospel Of
Jesus Christ, desiring to uphold
the truth, wish to demur to both
these arguments, and try to pre-
sent the truth in different as
pect.
A sin was committed by his act
at lf-deStruCtion. Sin is par
donable only on conditions. He
took the poison and had he died
by his own act, there was no
chance to meet the conditions of
pardon for the act. but a lapse
into unconsciousness The con-
ditions of pardon for sin are two:
repentance toward God and faith
In Jesus Christ. He did not meet
these essential New Testament
conditions of pardon for sin. and
hence he would have been con-
demned for self murder-a sin he
did not repent of and could not
in a state of Inconsistencies The
Rev. Mr.. Huff says he believed he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

would have been saved had he
died. But be has set up a senti-
mental God who does not abide
by His own law or word, but be-
cause a human being has suffered
on account of adverse circum
stances, this sentimental being
Will override His law and Word
and pardon elf-murderer. The
Rev. Mr.. Huff Is superficial in his
IDEAS and incorrect in his the
ology. and evidently poor teach
er in matters spiritual.
His second position Is also
faulty and untrue, viz: that
man can commit suicide and not
be forever lost. There is only
one chance for a suicide to be
saved and that is that he or she
who commits suicide does so after
reason is dethroned and has lost
equilibrium. The deliberate, pre-
meditated act of self murder
without repentance for the rash
and sinful act, is an unpardonable
sin. To pardon such a sin God
would falsify His own word and
break down His own law. and De
stroy His own government TO
speak after the manner of men
God would undo Himself
Better bear the ills we have,
than rush into the presence Of a
holy God, who is bound by HIS
own law and word to execute
judgment against sin.
The Lord save the people from
such teachers of the Word %
God as the Rev Mr. Huff mas
proven himself to be.
w. o. BUTLER, Pastor
Culverton, Ga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Man Was Meant To Be
Master of Him
self.

A woman who believed her
self religious declared she would
rather die at once than live on
earth If she must give UP what
she liked to eat and drink and
take to diet of any kind.
Coffee was her little god; and
she found no interest in a day
If she was deprived of her bev-
erage.
The moment we depend on one
thing to eat or drink as an abso-
lute necessity to our happiness
and comfort, we are on the way
to III Health.
IT Is not norman condition.
And 1t Is not a dignified posi-
ton for a sane grown, educated,
wholesome minded man or wom-
an.
To be the slave Of anything is
to prove we are not masters.
And man was meant to be mas
ter of himself and of his envi-
ronment.
We all need food and drink to
sustain life: but the moment we
need ONE ARTICLE OF FOOD
OR ONE SPECIAL DRINK in
order TO feel well or be hanpy.
we are slaves of habit, and
should take ourselves in hand.
Therefore, It Is good to take a
fast now and then. to prove to
ourselves we are not such slaves.
and to make ourselves masters Of
our own appetites.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

FIVE o'clock! Send away all the rest of the line
We simply can't see any others to-day.
Well be here tomorrow, about half past nine,
To take up each case in the regular way
Good gracous This business does get on ones nerves,
The wearying worry that one will get
Some day something more than he really deserves
Has left me this evening completely upset.
CEND out for taxi. I'll go home and dress
And then to the club, where I'll leisurely dine
And try to forget all the sordid distress
And craft and deceit in that long ragged line.
No one understands what hard life | lead;
Its awful discomforts l never could tell
j only endure such calling, indeed,
Because, wei. the fact 10, II pays pretty we'll,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
ALONE

BY LILLIAN LAUFERrY.

TITO be alone In tho Wilderness
Vast plains where no feet have trod,
Alone in the vast sky spaces,
Is to be alone with God.
But to be alone In the city,
Where human tides sweep BY.
Nor stop to learn your heart
Or mark your longing cry;
In solitude. mid life and Joy,
Alone to sob for breath
To whine in the close-packed places
Is to be alone-with Death.
ssx--
To be alone with the bigness
That streams to a star-lit goal,
Is never to be alone but dwell
With God-and your own strong soul,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
A Matter of Self Control
All of Which Depends
on the Individual.

Simple as this experiment Is,
not one ailing individual in a
score has the will power or self
control sufficiently developed to
carry 1t out.
To live entirely for a few
days on any plain food. and to
drink a quantity Of water at in
tervals, will act as a cure to nu-
merous ma1adies. But the slave
of his appetites must first be-
come master.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22

NEXT n ex-eonvict in dreadful distress
~ Been used pretty rough; how furve he looks.
Move my fellow, you've made the wrong guess
We've something to do besides rescung crooks!
Consumptive like all of em are suppose
Can't sleep in the park in a midwiner gale;
Well haven't time for your sort, goodness knows
And you ought know how o get back into jail
CRIPPLED boy next he in here last year.
Look him up the books; yes his down.
We found he had followed a shady career
He marker boy in a pooroom downtown.
Who's this tapping in through the hall with a cane,
mongrel deectedy trotng behind?
Lead him out of the door and gently explain
That e running a for the blind.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Marvels Of Light and
Color
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.

n please explain the cause
of the ghdstty color of
X peoples faces ,chen near
the long bright tubes of glass in
DhOtO0rnnbic 00IIeries"