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The mirror., 1916-12-21
Yes, Do it Now

Do your shopping early while the good
things are on tap
Grab the early bargains while they are on
the bargain map.
Don't be one of those kites that hit the
shopping trails
When all the clerks are weary after forty
thousand sales.
What's the use of loafing while the early
shoppers win?
When you are sweating lava, those same
early birds will grin!
Christmas eve the pleasant girls who ladle
out the toys
Will be so worn and weary they'll have no
Christmas joys.
Haven't tthey right to holler at your putter
and delay?
Pray leave them strength to celebrate bit
on Christmas Day!
If you put off your shopping till the very
last hour,
I hope you draw lemon that is second
hand and sour!
The tardy shopper blithely said, "a merry
Christmas girlie!'
The clerk replied, eff you were dead or
did your shopping early
We could enjoy a little fun around our
Christmas table,
But slow-pokes keep me on the run, till
Christmas joys fable, ,''-En.
The mirror., 1916-12-21
A Lesson

One Lesson we must learn by heart,
and that is, each one of us must overcome
all obstacles, which obstruct his progress,
or himself; no one can do it for another.
One can point out the way and give sympa-
thy and encouragement, but the work must
be done by each individual within his own
mind, we are given free will and choose for
ourselves. We have used this power of
choice very foolishly in the past, and have
wandered far from the pathway of truth.
We have eaten of the husks of external
things, and fancied that we enjoyed them;
but now we are awake and know how foolish
we have been. So let us press onward and
upward, looking within for strength and
power, never doubling, never wavering,
and we shall know that we are enjoying real
life.
The race is to the strong and steadfast,
not to the weak and wavering. Do not say,
81 wish had as strong faith as you
have but have it. 1t is as free to one as
to another. There is nothing in the way
of your having it but the lack of determin-
alton. Determine to have faith in your
self; in your ability to work out your own
problems and get the right solution. Say
to yourself, 81 can do it and will do it,
if it is right Have faith and overcome
your own personal diAicuJties.-The Re-
formatory Pillar.
The mirror., 1916-12-21
=. P o E T r Y =
The Proof

When one is born and reared in comfort s
leisure,
Surrounded and protected by his wealth,
When life for him is just round of pleas
ure,
His sole concern but for his precious health,
My friend, it's easy then for him to bluster
About his many virtues with delight,
Because he's blinded by his Mammon's s
lustre,
He's ignorant of life's real gruesome fight!
But when in lifelong battle, never ending,
Your strength, you feel, is ebbing fast
away,
When, desperate and vanquished, you are
standing
Amongst your foes, victim Of dismay,
When all about you, shattered and crumb-
ling,
Your hopeful dreams and aspirations fall,
When sudden blows of fate should send you
tumbling
Down to the floor, your friends desert you
all;
Then is the time, my friend, to proof your
making;
If your a man, in falling grit your teeth,
Do all you can, the force of impact breaking,
And ready for new battle, gain your feet!
-Er.
The mirror., 1916-12-21

Many loafer thinks he is killing time,
but time continues to do business at the old
stand.
1t takes man with an unusual good
disposition not to care rap about the kind
of weather that comes along.
"A regular woman always is glad when
her husband has holiday, SO that he can
put in about eighteen hours doing odd jobs
at home.
"A friendship that makes the least noise
is very often the most useful; for which
reason l should prefer prudent friend to a
Jealous one.
God demands an account of the past;
that we must render hereafter. He demands
an improvement of the present, and this we
must render now.
ANY coward can fight battle when
he's sure of winning; but give me the man
who has the pluck to fight when he is sure
of losing.
Overwhelming cares are nothing in
comparison with overwhelming sins.
Choose rather ten cares, than allow your
self one simple sin.
Regimes expresses of actions what
straightness does of lines, and there can no
more be two kinds of right action than
there can be two kinds of straight lines.
The mirror., 1916-12-21

The power of educated momanhood
is simply the power of skilled service. We
are not in the world to be ministered unto,
but to minister. The world is full of need,
and every opportunity to help is duty.
En-
The mirror., 1916-12-21
The Gateway To Success

"To hustle when you want to,
And to hustle when you don't;
To say, can, l must, l will,
When you want to say i won't
To push with all your might and main,
And stop with nothing less,
Will swing that heavy old gate wide,
That leads to true success. "-Er.
The mirror., 1916-12-21
SPECIAL NOTICE

With the delivery to the cells of
the Holiday Issue of TIE MIRROR,
will be included a Christmas Greet
ing Card. which, through a special
concession by the management, you
will be privileged to enclose with
your Christmas letter, providing
there is no writing thereon.
c. S. REED, Warden.
The mirror., 1916-12-21
NJ R R 0 R E TIES
By Uncle John

We wish you all a merry Christmas.
The first real snow of the season fell
last Friday.
-B-335 would like to exchange Grit and
Utica Globe for Weekly Kansas City Star.
Hope is like the sun which casts the
shadow of our burden behind us.
One big car of -four was received for
the Stew ards department last Friday.
Mass was held in the Auditorium last
Sunday morning, Father Corcoran oficiat-
ing.
"A goodly number of boys took ad-
vantage of the season and went to Confes-
sion last Saturday and "a received Holy
Communion last Sunday morning.
And now Villa has ordered General
Pershing out of Mexico, he sure has nerve,
or is it merely bluff. If not, there may
be yet some fun for the u. S. boys.
Several of Uncle Sans boys in full
uniform, passed through the institution last
Saturday. Among them was one of our
former guards who showed the boys around.
The Board of Parole held several meet
ings so far this month, and we do not
know if they have finished as yet, but we
do know that they have been generous.
Several new men were added to the
Band-list during the week, but still we
have several instruments waiting for some
men who are musically inclined 10 learn.
We had thought that the apparent de-
sultory movement of the wheels of time
was but psychological phenomenon, but
from the fact that our last pay-check was
dated November 3lst, we adduce that the
months are in fact becoming longer.-"Op-
timo.''
You should mind what you run after!
Never be content with bubble that will
burst or frewood that will end in smoke
and darkness. But that which you can
keep and which is worth keeping:-
Something sterling that will stay when
gold and silver fly away
Those of you who have a mother still
living, remember her at Christmas, and
write a few lines to her. She would not
wish for greater Christmas gift than to
hear from you.
Lots of people actually believe that
their troubles are interesting to others.
NO power on earth, or under the earth,
can make boy do wrong without his con-
sent.
An air of abstraction isn't breezy enough
to fan spark of genius into flame.
There may be times when it isn't neces-
sary to speak the truth-but at such times
it is usually unnecessary to speak at all.
The last word is the favorite with all
women.
Honesty is the best policy, but its no
good unless you keep the premium paid up.
There is safety in silence. The fish
that keeps its mouth shut doesn't get the
hook.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing
10 attempt.
If every man lived up to the good
opinion he has of himself what an earthly
paradise this would be.
-Thoughtlessness depends primarily
upon lack of attention. The way to cure
it is to cultivate habits of attention.
Did you say he lived in New York,
day in and day out?
No, day in and night out!
If you cannot see anything good in
your neighbor's belief of behavior, your
mind is evidently sickly and you need to
The mirror., 1916-12-21
n 0 7 | c E

All inmates desiring to write to the
State Board of Control will notify
their officer, who in turn is request
ed to send your notification to the
Deputy Warden's Office Friday
noon in order that special paper for
that purpose may be furnished you.
Letters written on regulation size
paper will not be permitted to 60.
c. S. REED,
Warden
The mirror., 1916-12-21
G | E A N | N G s
From Our Exchanges

We wish you a merry Christmas.
"A jump is as broad as you can see it.
NO sleeping dog ever caught hare.
Every master was once an apprentice,
Glorious is war, but peace is more
healthy.
Improve your friends-when you are
through with yourself.
Patient silence is often ones best re-
source.
Grief counts the seconds; happiness
forgets the hours.
Beware of silent man and dog that
does not bark
The hand OF the poor is the purse of
God.
If fool criticises you, be thankful; it
is compliment.
There is big difference between a
wish and dogged resolution.
Intelligent people make many blunders,
because they never believe the world as
stupid as it is.
Ambition has just one reward for all:
A little power, little transit fame, a grave
to rest in, and a fading name.
This would be better world if we
were as liberal with our applause as we are
with our knocks.
The mirror., 1916-12-21
Chapel Hrngrai11
Sunday, Dec, 18th.

The following is the program rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Father
Corcoran officiating.
March, The Winning Fight. Orch.
Novelette, Bees Orch.
Selection The Sleeping Princess Orch.
Hymn My Faith Looks up to Thee Cong.
Scripture ---------Fr. Fr. Corcoran.
Idyl- Sleepy Hollow Orch.
TTayer ------ ------Fr. COrcOran.
Gospel Reading g--Fr. Corcoran.
sermon --------rr. COrcOran.
Hymn Wonderful Words of Life Cong.
March -- His ExcellencyOrch
r. Reichkitzer, Musical Director.
Population
Number of Inmates at Prison..............98o
Number in First Grade... ..8l9
Number in Second Grade. ..........147
Number in Third rade......................23
Received During Week.. ...................5
Discharged .......................... ..........12
Last Serial Number. .5425
The mirror., 1916-12-21
MUSICAL PROGRAM
Wed, December Goth

MARCH The Winning Fight Holzman
OvERTURE-Sunshine and Showers
III. Fath
NovxLrY, One-Step-Le Sifaeur Co
Il. Lake
(The Flirting Whistler)
WALTzEs-From the Chocolate Sol
Oscar Straus
Fox TRoT-Pretty Baby ----------
-- Van Alstyne and Gunable
SELECTION Evolution of Dixie, N. L. Lake
(As Played by the Boston Symphony
Orchestral
MEDLEY-.When the Sun Goes Down
in Romany ----------------Ber Bertan
HEAvE~s ARE TELLINe-From 1.-THE
Creation ''-----J. Haydn
SoNe-( Ireland Must be Heaven for
My Mother Came from There)
Larry Buck
The mirror., 1916-12-21

When man SAYS, "When l start to
do something, do it" he is always dis
appointed at the applause he receives.
1T may be claimed for the $1.00 um-
brella that at least it strains the rain before
permitting it to fall upon the bearer
The mirror., 1916-12-21

Inmates are hereby cautioned not to
use the margins of The Mirror for ad-
dresses of friends or other written
matter. If you wish The MIRROR sent
to your friends, you are required to
send in their addresses to the Deputy
Warden's Office through your officer.
In this way the matter will be attended
to.
j. j. SULLIVAN,
Deputy Warden.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
RECEPTION GIVEN AT
HOTEL ROGFRSON
Dinner-Dance in Honor of Robert
RogersOn and Bride Banquet and
Special Entertainment.

One of the most delightful social af-
fairs of the season was the dinner
dance given in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Rogerson at the Rogerson hotel
Friday evening. The early part of the
evening was devoted to a reception in
the hotel lobby. The spacious rooms
were beautifully decorated for the oc-
casion in apple blossoms and lilacs,
aided by the use of Japanese screens.
Punch and cakes were served through
out the evening. All formality was
thrown aside and the guests felt free
to enjoy themselves to the utmost The
overflow from the lobby was taken
care of in the cafe where, under the
able supervision of Mrs. Arroll, they
were served with a sumptuous eight
course dinner. The dining room was
artistically decorated in yellow and
white festoons and spring blossoms.
The entertainers for the evening
we're: Miss X. Karryn, Wilton Peck,
VIM. Coburn, Miss Carlyle and Neil
Schettler. Dancing was in order in
both the lobby and dining room
throughout the evening and music was
furnished by Alfonte's and Friedman's
orchestras.
There were, during the course of the.
evening, about four hundred guests,
including large number from out of
town, personal friends of Mr.. Roger
son.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
RAILROAD MEETING
AT CASTLEF0RD
Large Delegation From Twin
Falls and Clover
PEOPLE FAVORABLE BUT TAKE
TIME TO CONSIDER.
viii Meet Friday Night and Discuss
QuestiOn-Big Dinner Served at
Glover.

I'VE want a railroad from Twin
Falls, and if there is any reasonable
assurance that one can be secured with
our help we are willing to cooperate
to such extent as we feel that we can,
both in planning and in contributing,
but we want to talk the whole situa-
tion over among ourselves and consid-
er the matter from every point of view,
before making any statement as to
just what we are prepared to do, and
we will hold our first meeting Friday
night to consider the matters"
The above paragraph, while not a
literal quotation from the speech of
any one person, is a summary of the
ideas expressed by the people of Cas-
tleford, who met a delegation of As
who went out in a dozen autos from
this city last night to talk railroad ex-
tension.
They were not inclined to jump into
any scheme hastily, as two previous
projects, one from Bull and one from
this city, had fallen through but when
it was explained that the idea of the
Twin Falls visitors was not to force
down unmasticated and undigested any
plan worked up without their previous
knowledge, when it was explained that
Twin Falls was there with a tentative
plan, which it was hoped that they
would consider and help perfect, and
that their cooperation for the COM
mon benefit of Castleford, Glover and
Twin Falls, the Castleford people at
once entered into the discussion and
asked a number of questions, the an
swers to some of which had not been
definitely settled in the minds of the
delegation from this city. An inter
esting development of the meeting was
the virtual assurance contained in a
letter from the Amalgamated Sugar
company, that a beet sugar factory
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
MAY DAY EVENT
THING OF BEAUTY
Parade of City School Children
Opened the Exercises
BEAUTIFUL FLOATS SHOW MUCH
ART in CONSTRUCTION.
May Pole and Folk Dances at the Pub
lie Park Attended by Large Crowd,
Prove Pleasing Features.

With gladstone hearts the hundreds
Of students and pupils in the Twin
Falls public schools and the people of
the city and vicinity welcomed the
ushering in of a calm and pleasant
morning last Friday, assuring the pro-
per atmospheric conditions for the
best effects in the May day festival,
which was to prove to be the largest,
the best arranged and the most sue
cessful of all similar celebrations ever
held in the history of the city.
In every nook and corner might be
seen groups preparing for the big
event and ready to spring something
on their unsuspecting competitors for
popular attention. On one vacant lot
the all too sophisticated sophomores
were arranging their forces, in an
other the freshies, not so green as
part of their costumes might indicate,
were busy while in still another the
seniors and juniors, dreamyeyed over
the previous nights Epicurean feast,
were preparing to secure the applause
which was freely given them later,
though as the event proved not quite
wide-awake enough to compete the
imitators of Cassius who had not Jared
so sumptuously the night before. As
all the grades were assembling to win
loud plaudits later ON the greenery OF
the park which made for them a per-
feet setting for their event. OF course,
the high school band was in line, fol-
lowed by drum corps from the grades
and when the long procession started
the streets were lined with a multi
tude awaiting their approach, for the
stores were closed and business was
suspended for time. The grades, toe
numerous for minute description, head
ed the long procession, followed by the
freshmen, lead by two gorgeously ar.
rayed horsemen wearing tall yellow
caps with robes Of black and orange
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
MEMORIAL DAY
PLANS PERFECTED
Decoration Day Comes On Tues
day, May 30.
SERVICES AT METHODIST CHURCH
PREVIOUS SUNDAY.
Request For Autos and For the Co.
Operation of City and Other Organ
izatiOns Asked.

At regular meeting Dan McCook
Post, G. A. R., of this city, the follow
ing action was taken with reference to
due recognition of Memorial Day,
which this year falls on Tuesday,
May 30.
The Sunday preceding, May 2Sth,
the Post in a body, accompanied by
the Ladies of the G. A. r., will attend
the Methodist church, to hear sermon
by the pastor and hold the prescribed
service.
On Memorial Day the Post and par
ticipating bodies will assemble in the
park at $3.50 a. m, where parade will
be formed and starting promptly at
1000, march via Shoshone and Main to
the end of the paving, where vehicles
will take them to the cemetery for the
usual service there. In this cOnnec-
ton it should be remembered that a
special appeal is made to city people
for autos.
The afternoon service will be held at
2:30 in the high school auditorium,
where there will be an address and the
usual memorial service. S. P. Ather-
ton was chosen marshal, and will
select his own assistants.
Comrades Barnes, Vance and Green
how were constituted committee OF
general arrangements for both days;
and the adjutant was instructed to eX-
tend an invitation to the national
guards, the band, the Boy Scouts and
all the local civic organizations to par
ticipate and assist in the parade and
other exercises. The post commander
was also instructed to interview the
mayor and the officers of the CONNER
cial club and beg their influence to-
ward closing the business houses for
two hours in the forenoon and two
hours in the afternoon during the pa
rade and service.
1t should be remembered that the
membership of the G. A. r. has be-
come both few and feeble, and that as
sistance must be rendered by others II
these patriotic occasions are to be con-
tinued and perpetuated 1t is conf
IDENTIFY anticipated that the owners oi
autos will respond generously to the
request for the use of their vehicles.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
BALL MEETING TONIGHT
Twin Falls Team Has Material But
Lacks Organization-SeasOn Opens
Sunday.

A meeting of the Merchants associa-
tion has been called for tonight at the
commercial club rooms to consider the
state of the national game, locally
speaking, and to take such action as
will bring the pennant here this year.
The Twin twirlers are teetering back
and forth on the verge of battle with
Kimberly opening the 1916 baseball
season. Everybody wants baseball but
nothing has been definitely settled and
the nine which promised to run away
with the pennant, right off the bat, y
is still in the doldrums, with plenty of
material but no organization. Man
ager A. r. Kelly has resigned, for a
emulation of small reasons, which in
the aggregate were enough to make
him step out of the leadership but not
enough to make him sore on anybody.
Tyler Christin was naturally the man
to whom the fans turned yesterday,
but the business men were interested
in the Castleford excursion and could
not attend the ball meeting, and Chris
tin had a tempting offer from Jerome
so it is question whether the meeting
tonight will be held in time to save
him. In the meantime Kimberly is
buckling down to practice and unless
something is done right now the Twin
Falls obituary this fall will begin
something like this "The season start
ed off inauspiciously." There is plen-
ty of latent and unorganized interest
in baseball here, but it needs to be put
in tangible form. That a large meet
ing will be on hand tonight is the hope
of all
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
NOTED SPEAKER HERE
AT MONDAY LUNCHEON
Ellison White Chautauqua Bureau
0rat0r-All Are Invited to At
tend.

The commercial club will entertain
j. G. Herbsman, of the Elison-White
lyceum bureau at luncheon to which
all are invited, at the Parish hall at
the Episcopal church, Monday, May 10,
at 1890 o'clock Mr.. Herbsman, who
is a speaker of national reputation,
was formerly head of the department
of public speaking at the University of
Washington. On the same day cam
paign for membership will be COM
menced by the commercial club with
e. L. McVicker at the head of one
crowd and L. Chaplin at the head of
the other. The club wants every mer-
chant. clerk and tradesman who can
get away to attend. The luncheon will
be prepared and served by the Ladies'
Guild Of the church.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
HOG CHOLERA STATION
STAYS HERE THIS YEAR
Letter From Congressman Smith
Confirms RepOrt-Hazy on Re-
sale Prices.

The report that the hog cholera sta
ton will be maintained for another
year in Twin Falls, has been confirm
ed by letter received this week from
Congressman Addison t. Smith, by j.
Mcmillan of the Twin Falls CONNER
cial club. In reply to petitions bear
ing on the subject sent from Buhl the
department of agriculture announced
some time ago that work would be
continued in Idaho. These petitions
were sent as a result of a report that
the government contemplated discon-
tinuing the work here.
That the department is still needed
is proven by the fact that cholera
broke out in the herd of Roy McMas-
ters on the Salmon tract Saturday,
and that other hogs, since vaccinated,
were exposed.
Congressman Smith, speaking of the
referendum votes on preparedness, vo-
cational training and the maintenance
of resale prices, assured Mr.. Mcmillan
that he favored the first two and was
studying the last named.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-09
TERRIFIC WIND
SWEEPS THE CITY
Gale Blowing Fifty Miles An
Hour Strikes Twin Falls
TELEPHONES, TELEGRAPH AND
LIGHTING SUFFER.
Total Damage Not Great In Amount
Though Much Repair Work Is
Needed.

A wind blowing at the rate of ap-
proximately so miles an hour swept
Twin Falls and all southern Idaho
Saturday night, putting telephone,
telegraph and electric light lines out
of commission, knocking sign boards
and small outbuildings hither and yon,
and filling irrigation bitches with de-
bris so that in some instances they
overflowed. A gale had been blowing
all afternoon, but toward evening, fol-
lowing a temporary lull, it arose al
most to the dimensions of small hur-
ricane. The entire system of the Elec-
trio Investment company was not out
of business for a short time and %
cities and towns left without light and
power. This was quickly remedied in
most cases, the current being off less
than half an hour, in this city, but
Buhl and Jerome were in darkness all
night The eastern part of the city
was flooded from a clogged irrigation
ditch The Western Union Telegraph
company wires went out shortly after
o'clock and did not resume opera
tions until Sunday morning. The tele-
phones suffered considerably but not
so universally as the lighting and tele-
graph systems.
A large force of men is still at work
repairing the damage, which measured
in dollars and cents will not be very
large.
A fire which broke out in pile of
trash near a barn in the south part of
town during the high wind in the af-
ternoon threatened adjoining property
but was extinguished without much
trouble by the fire company.
The wind was the heaviest expert
enced here in five years.