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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19
Humanitarian Methods Are
Productive of Results.

Convicts." says a New York
editorial, in commenting on modern
prison methods. are not the only ones
who profit by the new spirit which
permeates prison management.
The effect on the people at large is
hardly less helpful or less import
ant.
II =
Men who never before have thot
seriously of the possibilities of re-
creating and re-maklng men are
awake to the whole program. They
begin to see in the prison a hospital
rather than a punishment house.
They see in a prison an institution
whose primary object may come to
be to make men better rather than
keep them locked up.
y 4 #
More humanitarianism, coupled
with more sense, in the handling of
prison inmates has it's deep effect on
human character everywhere. The
average citizen is going to become
more reasonable and more kind
more normal, if you please-because
of new understanding and a new
kindness, which we are exercising
In our treatment of those who have
offended against society. Quetelet,
a famous Belgin prison expert, was
fond of saying that society gets the
criminals it deserves. Lacassague,
a Frenchman whose investigations
led him deep into the whole subject
of criminology, put it in somewhat
similar fashion when be wrote that
society is the sell in which the GRIM
inal microbe hourIshes.
In short new attitude on the
part Of society is going to create
new soil'' in society. The human
izing of the public will indeed prove
TO be productive of the big results
of the humauizlng of prisons.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19
A glimpse AT KIMBERLY
DIAMOND MINES
Continued from first page

L 7
Many puissant books of fiction have
in their rendition construed some
startling representations, which,
have invariably proven the essence
of preciseness.
From the Kimberly and the De-
Beers mines, the yield varies much
in colour. some Of the gems incline
to faint creamy hue, for it is
known when diamond is not white
is is generally yellow Diamonds
that are sometimes picked up from
almost everv shade, from sulphur
white down to deep saffron, which
are said to he more valuable than
stones of the first water.
The freak of nature diamonds aJe
termed the maccle," which are
easily detected by dark ridge ex-
tending parallel across the surface,
and are hewn by the taileur into
slivers, or chip. L. might he men,
toned, many of the maccle specie
find their way into inferior jewel
l-ry depaI tments, but, there is no
method Of hiding a flaw on account
of its transparency.
Upon prevailing frequency OF
mud -rushes the DeBeers mine has
been closed permanently to the visit
ors. By obtaining pass from a
director one may take trip through
the Kimberly mine, altho it neces-
states protection by wearing mac
kintosh, as well as gum-boots, this
is on account of so much water on
the mine level.
Upon stepping out of primitive
lift al the bottom of vertical shaft
one is struck with awe at the be-
wildering activity.
To describe the methods of ex-
tracing the diamonds from the rock
and dirt, altho very interesting, it
would take up too much space in
the Mirror. The output of dia-
monds in South Africa during the
year 1914 aggregates the stipend
Gus sum of s26, S2S,70O, as against
$5S,47S,4OO in 1913. In addition,
Rhndesia produced 4O,O46 in dia-
monds during the same year. The
De Beers Company must be glveu
the credit as creators of Kimberly,
they have been very propitious with
their methods of business. Two
thousand white employees are per-
manently on the pay roll of The Co.,
while six thousand natives are en-
ployed for the crude work.
Imagine large vault lit dimly by
electricity, pandemonium reigns su-
preme as endless numbers of min
lature trucks each loaded with dia-
mondiferous earth, rushes toward
the bottom of the shaft. Every
truck is seized by two stalwart nat
ives who move it quickly toward
the bottom of the shaft where it is
hurled into large skip, which con-
veys it with remarkable rapidity to
the surface. Once empty, it Is shunt-
ed on sidetrack. where it disap-
pears again as if by magic. A SEM
piternal row of trucks bob up and
down with clock-like precision,
The roar of the skip as it makes its
vivid dash skywards. the shrieking
of the locomotives as they dash a.
long, the yell and clamor of the
half-naked natives, help to make up
scene that is like some fantastic
Gahenna. a chaos of mental obfus.
cation.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19
POPULATION

Week Ending Wednesday. Aus.1s
Number of Inmates at New Prison. .10J9
Number in First Grade .......833
Number in Second Grade .16S
Number in Third Grade .................... Is
Received during week. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2
Discharged. ........................... 4
Paroled..............
Last seria, Number. 5000
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19

A Kansas man received gift of several
grains of corn, which a friend had taken
from sealed pot in an ancient western site
of an old Aztec ruin. The Kansas man
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19

The problem which must be solved by all
countries that are found neutral at the end
of the great war, will be to still remain
neutral. There will be great armies of
seasoned veterans fully prepared to fight a
victorious host, flushed with victory. Let
US hope that the coming Of the first peace
will not see the dawn of another war.
Statistics are dry reading, but still, there
is some comfort to be obtained from them.
There are the statistics of per capita wealth,
that even a man who is broke can relish.
He is included in the figures and is worth so
much per. capita. Indeed it may be said
that no man is really penniless for everyone
is allowed sta,istically SO much wealth per
capita.
Tainted money was one of the metap-
horica. quips produced by the first crusaders
against the citadel Of monopoly. Just at
present there is demand for a name for the
kind of money made by the manufacture of
neutralized m unitious of war.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08
ANOTHER WOMAN TELLS
How Vinol Made Her Strong

Beallsville, Ohio.--"I wish all ner-
vous, weak, rundown women could have
Vinol. / was so rundown, weak and
nervous could not sleep. Everything l
ate hurt me, and the medicine / had Ia
ken did me no good. decided to try
Vipol, and before long ! could eat any
thing / wanted and could sleep ell night.
Now am well and strong, and in bet
ter health than have been for years. Z"
Mrs. ANNA MLLIsoN, Beallsville, Ohio.
We guarantee Vinol for all rundown,
weak and debilitated conditions
james II. Wui,,-n.s, ,..sg 80, Hart.
ford, Ky. VinOl is sold i'm Beaver
Dam by Y. Wilbur Mitchell, Drug
gist.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08

British sources there came story,
soon after Miss Caselis death to
the effect that all the privates had
missed and that an officer had kill
ed the nurse by firing his revolver
at her head. Then there was a
semi-ofTlcial German denial of this.
and a semi-ofIlcial German narration
to the effect that the execution had
been conducted regularly"
ut wasn't shot from an officers
revolver that killed Miss Cavell. !"
continued Mr.. Solved. 1T was, as
was told, rifle ball.
Nov, as to the effect of her
death. in Germany it was regarded
as a big blunder.
When a German submarine sank
the Lusitania, Germany said that it
was matter of military necessity,
and that the Fatherland was justifi-
ed But in the Clvell case none of
the thinking officials attempts, when
they talk frankly. to put any con-
struction upon the execution except
that it, was very foolish thing.
"They deplore il, honestly. Not
upon moral grounds-not because II
was a woman, nurse who had help
ed hundreds of sufferers. that was
put to death. No. But they. thought
it was a stupid thing from a psyche
logical point of view-that 1t would
make so many enemies for the
Fatherland and would inspire to fur
Their hatred those who were already
Germany's foes
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08
ATROCITIES Of
TURKS f|END|SH
Dying Mothers See Babes
Hurled Into Fire.
DRAW FINGER AN0 Toe NAILS
OF Men Prisoners - Many
Olh.r Horrible TOrlureS
We're Perpetrated.
MANY KILL SELVES TO ESCAPE

London. Nov. 30.--viscount Bryce
tonight made public details of fur
Their Armenian massacres. which, in
a letter accompanying them, he says.
'surpass in horror, IL that we're pos
sible. what has been published al
ready"
81 feel" his letter continues,
that such crimes ought to be ex-
posed to the utmost, and that the
charity of other nations will more
than ever be drawn to the unhappy
refugees when 1t is known what
their friends and fellow countrymen
have suffered
Viscount Bryce says the details
confirm and amplify the CHASTITY his
tory of deportations by which Ar
!, menians in Northern and Eastern
Anatolia were driven to a death of
fiendish cruelty.
The first part of the evidence. he
says, was received by the Commit
tee of Inquiry in the United States
and the second part comes from an
Armenian at Tifiis, who received it
from refugees who escaped from
regions where the events happened.
"The sufferings of the peasants
and the mountaineers in the regions
of Van, Mush and Sanun." viscount
Bryce says. seem to have been even
more terrible than were those of the
peaceful town folk described in Part
1 of the report. Every successive
piece of evidence increases the hor-
ror of the story and confirms the
dreadful certainty of its truth.
These atrocities" were not pro-
duced by Imagination. Many of
them are vouched. for by several CO.
incident testimonies. They all are
In keeping, and the evidence is most
complete, and some of it most terri
BILE. At this present phase of events
the civilized world is powerless to
intervene. but we must bear these
unspeakable crimes in constant
memory against TIE day of reckon
ing"
After giving the parts of the evil
dence received from the United
States, viscount Bryce says that the
following extracts were taken from
his correspondent at Tifiis:
Toward the end of May Djevdet
Bey. Military Governor. was expell-
cd from Van. Djevdet fled southwark
and entered Sairt. with 5000 SOL
diers, whom he called Butcher bat
talions' He massacred most of the
Christians OF Sairt, the details of
which nothing il known. On the
best of authority, however. il is re-
ported that he ordered his soldiers
to burn in the public squares che
Armenian Bishop. Eglise yartaved.
and the Chaldean Bishop. Addai
Sher.
'On June rs the, Turks surround
cd the town of Bitlis. aud cut its
communications with neighboring
Armenian villages. Then most OF
the able-bodied men We're taken
AWAY from their women by domicil-
iary visits. During the following
few days all the men under arrest
were shot and buried in deep
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08

trenches dug by the victims them
selves. The young women and child
rem were distributed among the rab-
BILE. The others. the useless lot,
ere driven to the south, and are
believed to have been drowned in
the Tigris.
ANY attempts at resistance. how
ever brave, were quelled by the reg
ular troops. Many Armenians. after
firing their last cartridge, took pois-
on in order not to fall into the hands
OF the Turks.
ut Is In such fashion that the
Turks disposed of about 5000 Ar
menians at Bitlis. At Mush early in
July the authorities demanded arms
from the Armenians and large
sum in ransom of notables of the
town. The head men of the village
were subjected to revolving tortures
Their fingernails and then their toe
nails were forcibly extracted; teeth
we're Knocked out. and, in some
cases, noses were whitfield down, the
victims thus being killed under
shocking, lingering agony.
'The female relatives of victims
who came to the rescue we're attack
ed in public before the eyes of their
mutilated men. The shrieks and
deal cries of the victims filled the
ar. yet they did not move the Turk
ish best.
"In the town of Mush itself the
Armenians, under the leadership of
Cotoyan and others. entrenched
Themselves in churches and stone
built houses and fought for four
davs in self-defense. but Turkish ar
tillery, manned by German officers
made short work of all the Arme-
nian positions. and every one OF the
Armenian leaders, as well as their
men, were killed.
when they were dead and ST.
lence reigned over the ruins of the
churches and houses the rest of the
Moslem rabble descended upon the
women and children and drove them
out of the town and into large
camps, which already had been pre-
pared for the peasant women and
children.
''The CHASTITY scenes which follow
ed may seem to be Incredible. yet
these reports have been confirmed
beyond all doubt. The shortest
means employed for disposing of the
women and children in the various
camps was by burning. Fire was
set to the large wooden sheds in Ali
jan. Mongrakom. Khasjogh and 9TH
er Armenian villages, and these alb
solutely HELPLESS women and children
were roasted to death
Many women went insane and
threw away their children. Some
women knelt down and prayed amid
the flames which were burning their
bodies. Others shrieked for help,
which came from nowhere. and the
execUtioners, who seemed to be I'M
moved by this unparalleled savagery.
'grasped infants by one leg and hurl-
ed them into the fire, calling out to
the burning mothers. Here are your
lions!'
Turkish prisoners. who appar-
emily witnessed some of these scenes.
were Mortified and maddened at re.
membering the sight. The odor of
burning flesh, they say, permeated
the air for many days"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08

Few of us realize the danger of
loughs and colds. We consider them
common and harmless ailments.
However statistics tell us every
third person dies of lung ailment.
Dangerous bronchial and lung dis
eases follow a neglected cold. AS
YOUR body struggles against cold
germs. no better aid can be had than
DR.. Kings New Discovery. Its mer-
II has been tested by old and young.
In use over 50 years. Get bottle
to-day. Avoid the risk of serious
lung ailments. Druggists. m
Advertisement.
When riches take unto themselves
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reach our castles in the air.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08

Deep-seated coughs that resist or
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08
Selfish Child.

London Nursemaid-Tm goin' t
leave this place, mum.
Mistress-Why? Don't you like
the child?
Nursemaid-Oh, yes, mum. Blu
'e's that afraid of a soldier can
get 'im near one.-L Punch.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08
Owes Her Good He. lth To Chamber
Iain's Tablets

81 owe my good health to Cham
berlain's Tablets" writes Mrs. r. G
Neff. Crookston. Ohio. 1.-TWO years
ego | was an inval'd-due to stom1c''
trouble took three bottles o.
these Tablets ard have since been il
the best of health" Obtainable ev
n-,-- here n
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-12-08

There isn't much luck in finding a
horseshoe if somebody comes alonf
and claims the horse that's attached
to it.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
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South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
| Am The Newspaper
BY JOSEPH III. FINN,
President NichoIs-F'inn Advertising Co.

Born of the Deep daily need a natOn-I the Voice
of Now-the spirit of the Times-Monarch of
things that Are
My "cOld type" burns with the fre-bIood human
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earth. J drink from the cup of every living joy and
L sleep nOt-rest not. / know night,
day. / know death, yet / am born again
l leap into fresh being with every worlds event.
Those who created be-the brains
beart's-bIOod that nOursh go the way of human
dissolution. Yet i live On--and
/ Majestic my Strength-SubIime in my Power
Terrible in my Potentialities-yet democratic
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/ the Newspaper.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-09
DEMOCRATS DIVIDED.

How pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity. Mark the per-
feet harmony that characterized the
proceedings of the conference of the
Republican members of the House of
Representatives. compared with the
secret conclaves of the Democrats of
the Senate and House, and whose coun-
ellis were troubled and inharmonious.
The concord of the Republican forces
is significant of the reuniting of the
party that has been going on through
out the country. The divisions in the
Democratic ranks are omlnous of the
future integrity of that organization.
There are 1876 Republicans in the
House of the Sixty-fourth Congress.
and they are sure to make some noise
as the session proceeds. The Demo
Gratis have bare majority of 25. 1t
will take masterful leadership to hold
that majority intact on all occasions.
Owing to present disagreements with
administration measures the President
has realized that this majority will dis
appear, and expects Republican help
on, at least, one important matter, that
of preparedness. If this scheme can
be whipped into shape acceptable to
the Republican membership it will be
supported by them, not to help Demo
cratic President particularly, but in
vindication of the original national de-
Tense policy of the Republican party.
The Senate Democrats are as hope
lessly split on the question of cloture
as the House membership is divided on
the administrations defense plan.
There does not seem to be any prospect
ofsunited party action on some other
questions, such as the ship purchase
bill and proposed methods of raising
revenue. Under these circumstances
"watchful waiting" would be a com
mendable policy for the Republicans to
pursue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-09

EIt is infinitely to the credit of
majority of the Democratic Senators
that they refused to permit White
House influences to name their presi-
dent pro TEN. 1t is still more refresh
ing and Indicative of a return to reason
that the State Democratic caucus should
have thrown the Presidents cloture
rule out of the window. Mr.. Wilson s
efforts to make over legislative pro-
cedure and fashion the Congress of the
United States into an instrument of his
academic ideals and visionary theories
have brought the country to such a
crisis as forces the question whether
there is not actual danger in further
indulging his passion for experiment
and paternalism. If this Congress
were to give him his head as the last
one did there is no telling to what ex-
tremes of venture he would go under
the impulse of his assumption of po-
litical wisdom, superiority and virtue.
Hence, it is well that an end be put to
his dictarorial methods. Let Congress
play Its legitimate part in the govern
ment and the President contine himself
to his lawful sphere.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-09

IT is fact that we've got to support
home trade and home industry. We
must keep our money home by spending
it in Oakland with home people. The
mail order houses sell US goods cheaper
because they don't spend any money on
taxes which go to keep up our schools,
governments and roads. Sure, they
can afford to do it, but remember, any
town pays the freight in the end. A
dollar going out never comes back, not
one cent of it.
If you are game and fair to your
home, if you want to boost and believe
in your town and its future, you've got
to keep informed about it, and the only
way this is possible is by being a con-
slant reader of the home paper. The
Republican contains all the news of
home, it is ready at all times to cham
pion the causes of home, it is ready to
fight your battles when they need to be
fought. 1t costs you but one dollar and
twenty FIVE cents a year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-09
GORTNER

The Swan Meadow literary society
will render its first program Friday
night, Dec, II, 1915. The question for
discussion will be, Resolved, that
Monopolies and Trusts should be abolish
ed" The speakers for the occasion
will be as follows; Affirmative, Harry
Stahl, Al Fike, and Clyde Gnegy; mega
tive, Marshall Wolfe, Lee D. Sanders
and Ernest Soelters. Every body cor
dialy invited to attend.
Miss Laura Sanders mas left Gortner
for Keyser, w. Va, where she intends
to spend the winter.
The remains of Mr.. George Sanders,
who died at his home near Deer Park
Thursday evening were brought to
Gortner Sunday.
Quite number of people from here
attended the Literary at Sunnyside
Saturday.
A number from Gortner attended the
revival meetings at Pleasant Valley.
The meeting closed Friday night, and
are nowsbeing carried on at Under
wood.
Misses Marguerite Roth, Hope Gnegy
and Grace Arnold were guests at the
home of D. w Dodge Sunday.
BLUE EYES.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-09
The Little Country Church.

The following may give a Christmas
hint to some of the country church peo-
pie of Garrett county. The New York
Post says:
Give me snug little church, dressed
for the holidays in greens, wreaths of
holly, long hanging garlands, pine and
laurel, perhaps rather aWkwardly, but
none the less lovingly, arranged by
interested church members, not by a
hired florist, and filling the building
with the breath of outdoors.
| want some trees on the pulpit and
high overhead a blazing star of fire.
shining out into the semi twilight of the
building. | want to rise in the starlight
ed darkness of properly frosty Christ
mas morning and in everyday clothes,
wearing mittens, if l choose. and nv
second best hat, walk briskly through
quiet streets to the church and Join the
waiting congregation.
There won't be a crowd There will
be no display. Only a few score of
those to whom Christmas means
wonderful reality will be there. And
there will be congregational singing,
lots Of it, and we'll run the gamut of
the hymns of the Nativity. Wen read
the appropriate Scripture responsibility
and listen to the Christmas story told
once again by the kindly voice of the
clergyman.