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Abilene weekly reflector., 1915-08-12

1t is not the function of this publication to
criticse Kansas farmers. 1t is rather the
purpose to help, SO far as may be possible,
in a constructive way. However, events Of
the past few weeks emphasize the fact that
a repetition of conditions that have prevailed
this year may make it very difficult for the
wheat growers of the state to secure the
extra labor that is so necessary during the
harvest season. Harvest in Kansas is
ordinarily two weeks earlier than it was this
year. Hundreds of men, eager to work
came into the state at about the time wheat
cutting usually begins. Weather conditions
were such that harvest was delayed and
hundreds of men were without work, and
what is worse, practically without money.
True, many 81 won't works, out to harvest
the harvesters," flocked to towns in the
wheat belt, aggravating what was already
a bad situation. Neither the farmers nor
the men who actually sought work were
responsible for adverse weather conditions,
but it does seem that it is short-sighted
policy on the part of wheat growers to let
laborers who will be needed within few
days, many of them without funds or friends
shift for themselves until weather conditions
settle perhaps to be led into mischief by the
ever present agitator. Such a course is
bound to create the impression among the
men on whom Kansas must depend for help
in the harvest season, that the wheat grow
ers do not need them badly enough to meet
them half way in effort to make harvest
work attractive to the man in search of
job.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1915-08-12

When the State automobile registration
law became effective two years ago, the
Secretary of State estimated that approx
mately $4,000 motor cars were owned in
Kansas. The assessors returns as of the
first of the preceding March showed less
than 10000 1t is now evident that close to
10000 cars will be registered by the Secre-
tary of State by January l. making a gain
of $50 per cent in the number of cars owned
in Kansas in thirty months, or an increase
of per cent each month These figures
indicate that Kansas people, despite dry
weather or wet have been buying automo-
biles at the rate of 1900 month. That's
going some in these days when folks every
where are complaining of unsatisfactory
business conditions What sort of harvest
would automobile dealers reap in Kansas
anyhow, if every one felt that general busi-
ness prospects were encouraging?
The mirror., 1915-11-11
Bury the Past

VlSIG ILo grave. Even II
you could resurrect your dead the chances are they
aren't worth the reclamation
Keeping your mind on a misfortune doesn't
reduce it any more than paying stable rent for
stolen horse will bring the animal back to his STALL
throwing gold watch after purse to recover
it from the ocean.
Everybody else is ready to forget the moment
you set the example, but as long as you wander a.
round with crape-trimmed face and decorate your
conversion with pillow of immortelles they will
naturally recall the late deceased venture and final
y conclude that you aren't interested in any pros
posal for the future.
Few men accept failure lightly; not to be
sobered by adversely evidences fighty and ir
responsible nature but you're overstretching the
period of mourning and beginning to act as if your
backbone went with your bank balance.
Wewill suspect that your spunk is gone-that
you're bankrupt in character and ia courage-ut-
terly cleaned out.
If you have retained initiative and enterprise
show your goods A shop with lowered shades
might we'll be closed Whether your stock is
merchandise or talent, you'll find no customers
without making some effort to attract trade.
About the one thing more useless than an OBJ
solete calendar is the man who persists in living
one.
Time is still on the job and manufacturing
very much superior article than formerly.
The past is not equipped with nearly so many
devices of opportunity.
These recent sixty horsepower days with their
selfstarter and shock absorbers are vastly prefer
able to the slow, creakng, rattletrap years you are
bewaing.
The latest charots of progress. pluckilv driven.
can recover the ground lost in dozen false starts
but they're built to go forward-thats the only
direction in which the travel is safe
You'll keep smashing if you keep looking over
your shoulder. Speed isn't dangerous if you hold
your nerve and hold the road
Get into six-cylinder frame of mind and over
take yourself.
Herbert Kaufman.
The mirror., 1915-11-11
Keeping Ideals on,v would .aans NO, care ss 50 much

kGtpIIIg IuGdlS onlv sboud hate to hava
mother know young man said when. thru
some fault of his own he came to grief recently
His mother was the sort of woman who does
not eternally lecture her son, but seemed to take
it certainly for granted that he lived up to her
teachings, that it was hard for him to think that
she must find out that he has proved false to the
trust in him.
AS it happened, he seemed to feel the disgrace.
much more than his mother, as she was so filed
with pity for him that it outweighed every other
consideration with her.
Very fortunate is the boy whose mothers
Ideals are so high that he counts all else as little if
he has lived up to them. And fortunate indeed is
the mother who has so inspired her son with love
OF herself and respect for her ideals that he thinks
chaos will come if he finds himself untrue to her
young wife who heard her husband mako
such remark was inclined to be indignant that he
did not consider her feelings as much as those Of
his mother. But the habit of lifetime means
much to boy and as his character. rests unon tho
foundation that his mother so carefully instructed
day by day by example, teaching and PRAYER f.
would be very strange if his mind did not revert
to her first when he had impered her work in anv
way. The young wife should under the circum-
stances have felt the mothers trouble more keenlv
than her own, and have united with the husband in
trying to spare her all possible humiliation Rut
this young wife put herself first. and when she
found her husband jealous in his effort to save b;s
mother, she packed her trunk and deserted him
One would think she had never had a mother Of
her own. and the fact is that she did not have one
in the sense of her husbands mother.
Colorado Chiettain, Pueblo Col
The mirror., 1915-11-11
>. E DIT RI AL =.

The remark: i've really never had an op-
portunity to rise like other people, often comes to
our attention by the vocing of one who will not
admit that it is HIS duty to SEEK opportunity, and
not OPPoRTUNITY's duty to seek HIM. The plant
is the wall of the mental invalid; the with gout
in his backbone. He evidently has the intelligence
to admit the value of Opportunity, but hasn't the
get up'' to seek it. 1t doesn't seem to strike him
as being effective to hustle after Opportunity
than to hustle with joyful and misft unrestraint
after good time' and associations that wear the
brand of loafing and hoodumism He assumes
bells, megaphones and brass bands, and therefore
mistakenly imagines he will be on hand to hear and
see Opportunities parade 60 by in time to fall in
step with it's vanguard But nay. He is mistaken.
He is deluded in his attitude toward Opportunity.
What he needs, is change of purpose that will
create alert desire within him to DO the seeking
after opportunity-an alarm clock of ambition to
him to the possibilities of being on an early
hunt for Opportunity. He also needs change of
moral appetite that will make the corner loafer and
other useless associates distasteful to him. He re-
quires to doctor gout in his backbone He needs
the sand" and grit that will bounce him out of
this habitua reclining in his whee-chair of men,
tai nvalidism. Yea, all he needs is a push by self
purpose to land him into the active center of push
and HUSTLE and in doing this he will not fail to
be welcomed by the outstretched arms of Oppor-
tunty.
The mirror., 1915-11-11
Business Looks Up

Now the doctor looks contented
And his eye with pleausre glints,
As he cuts roll of bandage
And he sorts his stock of splints.
Now the blithesome nurse is hum
ming
With merry ragtime tune:
Things were pretty slack this Sum-
mer,
But she knows they'll liven soon.
Now the thoughtful undertaken
Takes a walk around the block,
As he figures out the orders
For additions to his stock.
Certain harbingers are pointing
To the busy time of year,
As they clear the college gridirons,
For the football bug is here.
-Ex.
The mirror., 1915-11-11

Notice-----Contribution submitted to the Mir
ror for publication must be absoutey einal If not
original. PROPER credit must be given, if known if
writer name is not known. it should be SO steci-
fed by said contributor Should contributor fail
to comply with this request he will henceforth be
dropbed from the Mirrors contributing staff
Signed by Editor
Approved by Warden.
The mirror., 1915-11-11
=: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ::
An Interesting and Analytical Paper Read Before the
Pierian Chautauqua Circle
By Mr. F.. Y.

stretched in welcome to her return
ing one." / did not intend to make
pathos and humility my theme, but
l shall have no regret for my
variation. if it will cause one to.
this night purge his mind of some
vicious memory and replace it
with anticipating cleanness. You all
have heard the story of the Three
Wise Men. but let me tell you of
the Fourth Wise Man who brings
the wonderful Bible story to a fit
ting present. I have changed and
joined into one verse several diff
ferent verses from the Bible, to make
strong their application to my sub
ject.
You remember how the three
shepherds upon seeing the expected
Star shining away in the distance,
the Star that they had been taught
would stop in it's course and rest in
the heavens above the birthplace of
the coming Messiah, how they
Immediately sold their flocks and
fastened to lay the gold at the feet
of the child Jesus? Well, there was
fourth shepherd who, upon seeing
the awaited signal, turned his great
flock and possessions into money
and jewels and set out on the long
journey to Bethlehem. After he
had gone but a short distance he
met a wanderer. helpless and with
out food-he stopped and gave unto
the suffering man food and nourish-
ment. He continued on and on,
each day drawing nearer mis- jour-
ney's end, but each day delayed as
he stopped and gave money to the
needy and food to the hungry. At
last, after years of wandering, an
old man, with but one jewel left to
lay at the feet of his Savior, he
tottered into the public square of
Jerusalem where they were that
day selling at auction some captives
of war. Upon the block there stood,
drooping and ashamed, a beautiful
girl of virginia. purity, the old man
stopped and listened, knowing the
fate worse than death that awaited
this young girl. He looked at mis-
one remaining jewel, the one article
of value yet left for Bethlehems'
Babe, then with last effort, he laid
his offering down on the block and
gave the girl her freedom. He then
staggered into a side street and sank
exhausted upon the ground. Sud-
denly great light shone from the
heavens and a voice of matchless
purity and ineffable sweetness
brought to him these words: This
is my beloved Son in whom l am
we'll pleased, for inasmuch as Yester-
day and Today he gave unto the
least of these. my suffering brethren
he gave unto me. Tomorrow he
shall enter with me into the joys of
Paradise"
A last word, men, using Yester-
days experience as teacher, Today
plan with strength of purpose so
that when the opportunity is given
you Tomorrow, you will: so live.
that when your summons comes to
join the innumberable caravan that
moves to the pale realms of shade
you will not go like the quarry
slave at night. scourged to his dun
geon, bat sustained and soothed by
an unfaltering trust, approach thy
grave like one who wraps the dra-
peries of his couch about him, and
lies down to pleasant Dreams"
Business Looks Up
The mirror., 1915-11-11
Thanksgiving

uaI CUSTOM, PRESIDENT VIII
son has issued a proclamation designating Thurs
day. November 25, as national Thanksgiving dav
Among other things, the President calls attention
to the fact that the United States has been at
while most of Europe is at war. I'VE have been
able to assert our rights and the rights of mankind
without breach of friendship with the great nations
with whom we have had to deal" saws the Pres.
dent.
-Erchange
The mirror., 1915-11-11

for, AS man thinketh, so is he."
But again, if clean, strong and true
conceptions are impregnated in the
mind, the offspring will be a tower
of saving power aud beacon of
guidance for all following. MAN is
mind and evermore he takes the
tool of thot and, shaping what he
wills, brings forth a thousand joys,
a Thousand ills" Yes, man is mind
in that he is the naturalization of
minds creative thots and so govern
ed, brings visual energy to bis mas
ter's will. Minds man takes thot
and begets gladness or sadness. sane
ness or insaneness, eternal Heaven
or endless He'll.
He thinks in secret and il comes
to pass.'' Take a grain of seed,
small and apparently insignificant
IN appearance, bury it in the soil,
where by the passing crowd it Is
unseen and unknown. Soon a
slight wisp of green, timidly, yet
firmly, is admitted to the seeing
world. You know the rest-in but
few months that speck of vegata-
BILE matter has heightened and
broadened. and gives physical nu-
triton to spiritual mentality. So is
the life of thot, conceived in dark
ness, nurtured in solitude, it ma
lures in either salvational great
ness or degrading littleness.
Environment is but mans look
ing glass;" A strange line, yet
sternly true. As water seeks it's
own level,'' so does man look for
and, in the end, find mental, moral
and physical surroundings that har-
monize with his own desires. Do
not misunderstood me, please, 1 do
not mean to convey the idea that
man and his environments are al
ways at peace, because, you know,
quicksands are deceptive, and gor-
geously beautiful flower may for
the time be but the resting place of
poisonous insect. What I do mean
is this: mans environment is his
looking glass, and reflects his every
thot only when he has reached a
state of satisfaction and does not,
by worthy endeavor fight for trans
portation elsewhere. Men, let
clean Today mate with a purified
Yesterday, so that the child Tomor-
row, will stand straight and true,
and have no cause to be ashamed of
his parents.
The more one thinks, the more
one realizes that Grey must have
had an inspiration from heaven
when he said:
Full many a. flower is born to
blush unseen and waste their sweet
ness on the desert air."
You all have. many years ago, in
some quaint and old fashioned sur
roundings. perhaps III a country
village, perhaps by a wayside well,
met a character that seemed to, no
one can determine how, just smooth
all defects from sight and rest
halo of peace on ones conscience.
Years have winged their flight from
the ken of your mind, but men, TO-
night. when alone with thoughts
only, as companions, if you will but
let the present lapse from memory's
hold, and bygone years be revived,
your minds eyes will see a paint
ing that the hands of Raphael
could not compare nor an Angelo
initiate. You will see the pathos of
little child's trusting, worshipful
eyes as they look up for guidance
into yours. then. the canvas shifting.
The mirror., 1915-11-11

The Gurkas, Turkos, Sikhs and Fiji Islanders
that are bringing civilization to Europe can at
least be congratulated for having been previously
civilized by civilization
The mirror., 1915-11-11

For the past eight months it has been contin-
uously reported that Constantinople was in the
various stages of falling, or preparing to fall
probably falling into condition of further falling
The mirror., 1915-11-11

"A thousand volumes in thousand
tongues, enshrine the lessons of
Experience
Yet MAN shall read them ALL and 90
forth none the wiser;
If self-love lendeth him a glass, to
color all he conneth,
Lest in the features of another he
find his own complexion"
The above quotation causes us to refectfully
ask Of what good is experience to us if we let
sef-lOve and cOnceit to color all knowledge we
gain therefrom- nulify its teachings that we can
be taught thereby to own good! Yet this is
often the attitude we take toward lesson EXPERT
ENCE has taught, that venture. policy or endeav-
or has been ill-chosen or misdirected We often
accept the sting of defeat EXPERIENCE has dealt us
as tho it were of no consequence as guide to fu-
ture strlvings. This attitude spells defeat We
gain only the fullest measure of circumspection
and prudence by accepting the admonitions of Ex-
PERIENCE as guide to better way of achieving
our hopeful plans. By negleeting to observe the
guide post that EXPERIENCE places in the path of
individual purpose so that error is avoided. we
stray from the path that leads to success Let
EXPERIENCE be a welcome teacher to you Rele-
gate egotistc self sufciency to the scrap heap for
these are traitors to your advancement, morally
and intellectually, they seduce to failure and obv
1t is best to stand your ground even if your
corns ache.
A large advertisement is no indication of large
reputation.
1t is often better to be taken at your word
than by your neck.
The mirror., 1915-11-11
CHURCH NOTICE.

Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock every Sum
day morning. and Catholic service every alternate
Sunday Rev. c. E. Benson and Rev. FIR Corcoran Chap
IanS.
The mirror., 1915-11-11

1t is best to stand your ground even if your
Orns ache
The mirror., 1915-11-11

1t is often better to be taken at your word
,han by your neck.
The mirror., 1915-11-11

A large advertisement is no indication of large
ltatiOn.
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BELMONT

BELMONT. O.. June fq-wr rf.,ry
eaten was caller 81 belmont Monday
lr. Origon and wife Of ponnsvfgaria
vas visiting his uncle Mr. T0En yV
Kemp. one day last week
Mr T. ~. MUhoan and son ga,forf
called on M. H1mnn sunday
Mr. and Mrs victor Eerrp ana chill
aren called on friends near stumptown
M "a Wilson was a caller Of g. ID.
30 .cncf.s saturday evening
VIZ byron Kemp and wife visited HE
rather. Andrew , Kemp Monday.
NJ ana Mro. clyde Travis visited M
N1nfoe1fn'1 sunday.
hr. John Kemp was a caller a. Bel.
mon "wednesday
Mics Minnie Thompson was a caller
40 irter kemp'H Monday.
NJ Morgan Hatcher was a caller AZ
Hunter Tuesday
MI Waller Wheeler was n caller Al
John Illrria Tur.daF rrrnniF
NJ Dennis Kemp was "a caller no John
kemur' Tuesday
Mceera. Herman aud uaihrrf girt- and
sister. Nirrlnin. visited fhfIr aunt Ms
HATTIE Price. Saturday rnf SUNDAY
NJ Emmett Powell uar rrfItr a. T
Infrnrrr "wednesday evening
NJ. C11rIc7 .Melhoan wee caller 90
Hunter Monday
VI Ervio Hatcher made n business
Irlu fn belmont Saturday
There VIII o. au Ilr cream festival
af Nj Zion church SATURDAY rtrainr
June 1911. Evcry body invited 20 come
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Bridgeport Briefs


Miss Lottie Kemp and Miss Mar.
Jory Patterson will leave TODAY for
Athens 10 attend school.
Mrs. Chas. w. King and young son
Harold and her niece. Helen smith.
iett Friday 10 spend over Sunday
with her sister Mrs. Geo. Robinson.
of st. Clairsyille.
Mayor and Mrs. r. f. Burns. Of
Oklahoma City. are the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. r. r. Barrett for a few DAYS
Miss Nell Hildebrandt. OF Cam.
bridge. is the guest OF local people
for a few days.
Prof. r. y. Hunter. OF New York
and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Hunter have
moved TO GAINESVILLE.
Il. w. Starkey. OF Lafferty. was in
thls city yesterday on business.
The !. o. o. r. will hold their ragu-
lar meeting In their hall this evening
Several from this city will go 10
Martins Ferry this evening TO attend
the Indian hunt and initiation of the
Forresters. 'He
Charles Enlow and wife OF Evans.
vile Ind, are the guests Of local
Any items OF interest for this paper
can be left at Roberts g. Fredricks'
drug store. no
Mrs. John Whittier. Of Pueblo. Colo
Is in the city visiting at the home OF
her brother. Officer Cole.
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ARMSTRONG; MILLS

AkMST RONGS MILLS. a.. june Is
some concern is being felt az present by
those interested as 10 the prosper Zoo
the oil and gas production of our utI
fields here. Both 81 thusa ur ducts srr
falling of quite rapidly iu The amount
produced. The oil production now falls
considerably below one hundred barrels
per day. wuerc formerly So wa- several
hundrtd Of barrels per day The guam
titN Of Ea%. too. fs falling down. The
great Mobley we'll which carried d pres
sure that FOR about two years. was ire
ms ndous. hHs usruus entirely exhaust
90. The kef re- gas from the casing beads
on the wells that axe producing OH. is
failing steadily. Iumftrg tt the gas
plant goes on steadily.
During Mr.. Nciucr's absence SIR.
Frank Trigg has been running both
tOWa
Air and Mrs +. r Hoover and Miss
Gertrude Mobley are attending conn
menccmeut exercises st Marietta CoI-
leEe this week. charlie Hoover b. Ia
ember Of the class
John g. Gay and .istr Mrs Eliza Gra-
ham. of seattle. Washington. are yIsif-
Ing their brother W. IS. CAY ~ route D.
Miss Dorothy Lancaster Of UeIlslra.
Oh spending "a few weeks VISITING III the
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BelIalre Briefs

Misses Vera and Mildred Long have
returned from Oberlin college to spend
the summer with their parents.
Miss Virginia Grafton will leave Sat
urday for Wooster to take a course in
a normal school.
Wilma Irwin is I'll at her home in
South Bellaire.
Mrs. T. c. Nicholson and Mrs. Steve
Hopkins have returned from a visit
with friends at Bethesda.
Mrs. Albert Powell entertained
friends yesterday afternoon at her
home on Rock Hill.
Mrs. W. J. Campbell and daughter,
have returned from visit with friends
at Bethesda
Miss Anita Mason has returned from
Akron, o., where she has been teach
ing in the public schools.
Mrs. Clara Hermann and daughter.
have returned from a visit with
friends at Dayton.
Jesse Seabright OF this CITY. who
graduated a few days ago from the
Walsh university at Charlottesville.
Ind. is spending the summer with his
parents in this city. He will enter the
law department of the University Of
Michigan next fall.
Mrs. r. l.. Muller OF Georgia, is Wis
iting her daughter. Mrs. T. T. Seal. on
Belmont street.
Mrs. Marie Snedeker r. expected
homo today from a visit with relatives
az Bethesda.
Mrs. Charles Lancaster and daueh-
ter have returned from Delaware. O.
where they attended the commence.
ment OF Ohio Wesleyan University.
Mrs. r. W Hall Of Franklin street
IL guest OF friends At Ollie Station
Miss Wilma KOmpart il home from
Tifhn. where she attended Heidelberg
college.
Dr. shober Smith OF the Pioneer
hospital. New York. r. visiting his par.
ents, New. and Mrs. @. y. Smith. on
Guernsey street
Members Of the Variety club were
entertained last evening Al the home
OF Miss Josephine Carroll on Rock
Mrs. Len Moore and children will
leave Monday for Lancaster, for a few
weeks visit with her parents
Mrs. A. s. Malone continues I'M At
her home on Noble street
Sunday. June 20. will be CbIIdreD,s
Day al the Second VI. r church A
special program will be rendered.
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have been ordered through the simms q
hrim agency.
The woman who was injured IN the
battle among the ms4 men last Thurs
day II recovering as we'll as could be
expected.
The local police kept a sharp lookout
Tor the Bethesda postOffice robbers yes
terday.
The city council will meet in regu-
lar session In their rooms on North
l. curtin street this evening.
The chautauqua ticket committee held
IN important meeting in the Board OF
itade rooms last evening.
Mrs. X. III. Wilson Will entertain a
number Of her friends this evening In
honor Of Miss Binkley.
Ihe Loyal knights OF the World Will
meet IN regular session In their hall ON
Hanover street Monday evening
me Boys Brigade Of the First Pres
byterian church he'd an Important meet
ing in the churcn last evening.
-Four extra police were sworn in
7 thursday evening 10 assist the loca.
Officers IN keeping peace at the mill.
There viii De no rays ia this city to-
daN and business Is expected 60 De very
quiet
Mrs Blanche l.. Lupton and Miss Ella
Lupton entertained with fancy work
party at their home last evening