The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-11-25
By J. s.

So according to Goethe, you have to get
your energy under full head of steam be-
fore you can make the opportunity work
for your benefit.
The world may owe you living, but you
cannot collect the debt.
After the war is over and true history
of facts pertaining to the conflict is ascer-
tanned and promulgated, it is possible to
believe that men will then endeavor to
work for preparedness for peace.
If Carranza establishes pension system
for the Mexican soldiers who served under
him, he will be following long settled pre-
cedent, ''To the.victor belongs the spoils.'
We are the originators of new sport
SNOWFALL. But to make the new game
more exciting, the suggestion is offered by
one of the snow birds-Equip the base run
ners with skees.
Japan which has a very good form of
SONCTuIu lOI llS hluO VI pOOPiS, lSSNiliy
paid great tribute to the idea of kingship.
The browning of YoshihitO marked with
elaborate ceremonies and enthusiastically
acclaimed by thousands Ofloyal people, ra-
ther makes the advocate of democracy won
der if there are not other forms of govern
ment than democracy, more suitable for
some kinds of people.
AS an experiment III popular government
the recently proposed constitution for the
state of New York met with decided re-
buke. Like the Constitution spoken of by
Carlyle in his French Revolution, this con-
stitution, "would not march" The ex-
pertinent with the proposed constitution
for the state of New York cost the people
of that state over $2,0OO,OO 1t was de-
feated by over 4OO,OOO votes. 1t would
not march," Could not even be made to
start marching.
Learned men, men skilled In the affairs
of government, had hand in making that
new constitution for New York. They put
their best efforts into the building of that
document, but could not make it march,
The voters would not have it, rejected it,
would not have this wonderful new consti-
tuition. Why? Because like the constitu-
ton Carlyle spoke of it would not march.
Popular government is only in favor of
measures which are popular with it, meas
ures which can march along with the peo-
pie. The proposed constitution did not
want to march
Pendennis has seen in "The Country
Gentleman" an illustration of cotton
picking machine. 1t is claimed it can be
used with good success. If the machine
will pick cotton cleanly and rapidly it will
prove a great blessing to the South.
Cotton is a crop that is very difficult to
harvest The cotton is picked from the
bolls by hand and deposited in sack at
tached to the shoulder of the picker. Ma
chimes have been tried for that work, but
they take in dirt and trash, spelling the
grade of lint.
Expert cotton pickers, who can pick over
five hundred pounds of cotton day are
hard to find even in the best cotton sections.
About two hundred pounds of seed cotton
is the average days work of an ordinary
picker 1t is claimed that the new machine
will pick from eight hundred to a thousand
pounds of seed cotton day. Ifthis is true
the inventor of the machine has done more
service for the South than did the inventor
of the cotton gin.
A cotton picking machine will keep
the children out of the cotton fields and
this would mean greater chance for the
little ones of those states. Thecostly hand
picking method of harvesting the cotton
crop forces the poor cotton farmer into the
fields with their entire families. The in
ventOr of the new machine is young man,
but if his machine proves to be real sue
cess, he will be more highly honored than
Whitney was when he invented his cotton