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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
AFRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED
The TRUE FRIEND he WHO BEFRENDs You IN The TIME OF STRESS and
MISFORTUNE

the means and methods. it is all suf-
ficient to know that he is up in the
world. On the other hand, there is
very little sympathy, or even con-
sideration, for the man who fails in
what he undertakes. He may be
good man and true, but simply un-
fortunate in his enterprises and
undertakings. However good, how
ever b nest, however useful to So
ciety in other respects he may have
been, the fact that he failed from
worldly point Of view. from the
standpoint of dollars and cents, puts
him out of the running in the race
for public favor or popular esteem.
So. he must go somewhere, to some
one, in quest of the healing balm of
sympathy. He finds the general
run of people cold and Indifferent.
They think he ought to have made
success, and treat him with contempt
rather than pity. STOPPED and bow
ed and bent under the burden of
encouragement and despair, he
looks with envy In the direction of
the cities Of the dead'' and wishes
that he might be sleeping the
sleep that knows no waking" Then
it is that he stumbles onto the
friend in need aud friend indeed,
and is assured that there is still
some humanity left in the world.
Leaning upon this kind friend, he
soon takes on a new courage. new
hope, and turns his face towards the
east, where the horizon gives prom
Use of better day.
Dear reader. if you have a friend
of that kind, cleave unto him as you
would cleave unto those of :ySit
own flesh and blood. He is akin to
the friend that sticketh closer than
a brother"
Mansfield Shield.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

The old saying, A friend in need
is friend indeed" is as true as any
thinrr that has ever heen uttered by.
the lips or written by the pen OF
mortal man. 1t is exemplifed in
the life of most everybody who is
born into the world and forced to
travel through this valley of tears.
Some may be fortunate enough to
escape the necessity of special friend
TX consideration and favors, because
they are born with silver spoon in
their mouth and pass through life
without knowing what hardship is.
but they are so precious few as to
be scarcely worth reckoning with.
There are times, too, when even
Dame Fortunes smiles do not suf-
fee to cheer the aching heart, for
tune, in this connection, meaning
the possession of money and other
handy things of the world. But
what we mean by the friend in need
and friend indeed is the fellow to
whom you can go and pour out
your soul with the assurance of
sympathy and help. He is the sort
of fellow who has the faculty of
imagining himself in your place,
and who is inclined to do for you
what he would want you to do for
him under similar circumstances.
He may be riding on the waves OF
prosperity at the time. The sky a.
hove him may be clear as crystal
and an unhampered sunshine may
be illuminating his pathway, but he
has sense enough to realize that his
lines may not always be cast in such
pleasant places; that the wave OF
prosperity may ultimately carry him
into the whirlpool and upon the
rocks of adversely; that the sky may
not always be so clear and the
clouds of disappointments and
troubles and the storms of misfor.
tune may come to wreck and ruiz
all that he hath in the way of world.
ly goods. He is not, therefore, car.
ried away by the enthusiasm, the
foolish zeal of an exaggerated ego,'
but keeps near the earth where il
will not be SO hard to light if the
crash should come.
The man who succeeds in this
| world is the man to whom most OF
the human race yield Difference and
devotion. 1t does not matter sc
much as to how he scales the ladder
of success. just so he gets there.
Very few questions are asked as to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

We were going to write a story
about two Irlshmen. and had gotten
as far as 1.-TWO Irishmen, named
Clarence and Reginald" when
the editor, breezed around and in
formed US that he wouldn't print
about two Irishmen named
Pat and Mike. Such is the hard
lot of the space writer.
Our Shakespeare Quotations:
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes;
Some falls are means the happier
to rise.''
Beau Esprita.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
AT RANDOM
From oar exchanges
Disrespectful Nature

| Man seems to think that when he shouts
Nature ought to pause in her vast and va
ried business to give attention. Heis con-
siderably vexed with her when she pays no
heed, and would like to pay her back in
some way, had he the power and wit to
contrive retribution. No small measure
of the anger that flames incontinent toward
his fellows is the baffled rage that obtains
played him false and to have taken a des-
picable advantage of his comparative pig
myhood. When you cannot kick crisis
or person, you kick table or a chair.
You know perfectly well that it does no
good. But you must have an outlet for
the pentup ire or you may fly in pieces like
an overtaxed machine. And so, man goes
to war, largely to pay off his grudge or
long standing against Nature that he never
yet could bend to his own likes and dis
likes or persuade to grant passport that
he might sroam the twilight jungle of his
will in complete impunity.
There is what we call the natural law,
and we like to think that because we have
named it we have made it. Since Adam
was given the privilege of nomenclature of
everything he saw it has been man pretty
conceit to think that the moment he dis
covered a natural object and classified it
he conquered it and owned it for his uses
We have paraded up and down creation
appropriating everything in sight, and when
Nature, outraged, stands lofty and says;
''This is mine!'' we are incensed. We are
inclined to dispute any overlordship what
ever. Our precocity is equal to the un-
abashed persuasion of ourselves that if we
had been given the rich raw material that
was plentiful to the Creators hand we
could of have made better job of it. In
fact we spend much of our time, like dis
gruntled tenants, suggesting repairs to the
universe. Every time it rains we upraise
our voices, conclamant like frogs in the
and knowing that one day we shall order
the weather as we like it and not let
heaven ruin our lawn parties, our clothes,
our tempers.
Nature reasserts her possession when
and where she will. She enters without
knocking. Under the paramount, .inscrut-
able will she knows no law but her own
She does not care for mans shaken fist or
penny whistle screaming against her.
Yet since she is so powerful she is unac-
countably kind. She seems curiously to
take care for this feeble, injured, I'M
feathered, nearly hairless nurseling of hers.
She is strangely, at moments, benignant
and maternal. She must like us or she
wUuru rIauy CnanCCo anu
do so many very foolish things. But she
can most terribly draw the line and lay
down smoking path right through the
heart of things when she chooses.
1t is better to find out which side she is
on and to take that side. An idiot pre-
sumes that to be natural is to be unli-
censed. He does not see how firmly Ma
ture lives abreast of her own legislation.
She patiently complies with every one of
her own prescriptions. She asks of man
nothing that is foreign to her own expert
ence. 1t is time we learned our lesson of
our first and greatest teacher-the lesson
of obedience. Ledger.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
PI c K u P s
By Uncle John.

by Uncle John.
Mass was held in the Auditorium
last Sunday. Father Murphy of.
ticiatiug.
If all the New Year resolutions
that have been made are carried ont
IN here. quite few will turn over
a new leaf and resolve to see every
ball game that is to be played in our
park. Good resolution.
As sure as the sun shines you can
never come back and live this day
over again, so think of the future
and act according ly. A day lost.
is lost forever.
Perhaps you think (and there are
good many who do mott that the
world does not owe you living
unless you work for it. Start the
New Year right-get busy-and you
will find happiness.
This walled-in City of ours is not
very big, but there are over thou
sand In here as loyal to our COM
mnnity As Won can find anuuhAro an
earth.
The Orchestra Boys visited the
Hospital last Thursday and enter
tanned the Inmates for an hour
with some good lively music which
was very much appreciated by all.
A man who loves children and
dogs Is not bad at heart, but beware
OF the man of whom children and
dogs show fear.
The United States of America is
a big Country. and yet you could
put it all in Brazil, and still would
have 100000 square miles left.
Some country, eh?
The dictionary is good, useful
book with plenty of words and
meaning, but if you want to look
for ideas, you will have to search
your mental dictionary.
The Old Hay seed who few years
ago, had to do all work by hand, is
to-day doing the same by merely
pushing button on the wall and
get up and take an automobile ride
to the City. What change.
1t is but natural for a man to
laugh, when some other man takes
a fall on the side walk, yet that
same man would feel sorry if he saw
Mule fall on the street.
Oh yes. Christmas and New Year
have passed and now the bill col
lector is on his way.
If people would only think more
this old world of ours could be made
better. It's alright to say: let we'll
enough alone" say no. the best
can be made better, and in doing so
to make the best better, we must
think more.
We overheard a remark last Sat-
urday by man who said: Il can't"
Now. my friend there is no such
a thing in the english language as:
I can't" The question is: did
you every try hard? If you try
hard you will succeed"
Father Murphy delivered one of
the most eloquent sermons we had
the pleasure to listen to for some
time. We are always pleased to
see Father Murphy coming for we
know we will hear something good.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
Inmates Attention |!

Hereafter should any inmate acci-
dentally soil or misuse the writing
paper supplied by the institution
for correspondence purposes, he is
requested to not further mutiIate the
paper, but to RETURN it to the offic-
er detailed to collect letters. All
letters written upon anything but
the ENTIRE sheet of regulation paper
will not be accepted for mailing.
j.. SULLIVAN, DEPUTY WARDEN.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
M IR R 0 RET 7 ES

we nave received request from
the Dakota County Tribune Of
Pennington. Mimi, for permission
to publish an imaginative story by
one of our former inmates. H. d.
Nc D. This request is a compli-
ment as well as an appreciation for
the work of former contributor of
the Mirror. We take pleasure in
granting this request, and at the
same time thank The Dakota County
Tribune for the interest shown. and
the NEED of encouragement it gives
to those of our present contributors,
to strive for the best that is in them
to fill the columns of The Mirror
with original matter.
Will the pessimist please rise and
tell the congregation what harm the
optimist does by smiling like
spring sun in the face of adversely?
A man who recently dug we'll
and liberated a gush of water that
transformed his valuable acres into
good-sized pond. can truthfully
exclaim: well, enough!
Some characters are a good deal
like dime novel" dressed in
deckle-edged paper and gilt bind
ing.
A man by the name of Tall is to
construct a house in Saltwater
which leads us to remark it will be
a tall building.
When the inmates assembled in
the Chapel last WEDNESDAY evening it
was to witness the best picture show
that has been staged in the prison
for the last three months; and to help
things along our friend Mr.. NJ. sang
a song entitled The Song of Songs
No high priced warbler has any
thing on Mr.. NJ. when he gets his
canary machinery in motion, and we
would Just like to hear him sing My
Wild Irish Rose or the River
Shanuon' as we feel confident he
could do it justice. The music by
the Orchestra was fine and lots of
it. and when it comes to selecting
the musical program, the Professor
can sure deliver the goods.
Never imagine you have mono
poly on neutrality-suspicious. has a
considerable surplus from which
she can hand you a package.
This is the time of year the kid
dies have their slides''-to say moth.
ing of the "slides'thePamama Can.
al has.
Nonsense is no sense-know sense
is some sense.
Some folks hold on to crouch
like miser to his gold but only with
this difference, where the former has
no value the latter is worth hold
ing on to.
Despise not your fellow-inmates-
for this attitude make it harder fol
them to respect you.
One of the belligerents shouts that
it's wants war ito the bitter end"--
be reasonable, the end will be bitter
enough!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

All inmates who buy or have
sent in to them socks, underwear,
nightshirts, bath towels, handker-
chiefs, etc., should send them to
the laundry and have your number
marked on them before using.
Write your name, register number
and cell number on slip of paper.
attach to articles and give to cell
hall captain.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
:. POET-.TREE =.
Leapss from Budding Poets

Leapss from Budding Poets
v---D1-!i
Because you love poem,
do not try
Composing one, your sphere
do not mistake,
For many have an appetite
for pie
Who cannot bake.
Sci
Someone, Somewhere
By J. B.
The crying brooks froze over now
The birds have flown away
And things look so sere and dark and
For her who waits each day.
Down by the snow-clad rustic gate
With head bent sad and low
Her heart does pine, for the sun don't
shine
As it did years ago.
Chorus
There is some one who waits some
That someone is faithful and true,
Tonight there is someone, somewhere
Keeps light burning for you.
In fancy's own dream can hear
The sweet pleading voice in it's pray
Tonight there's some one who pleads
for a son
That is waiting, waiting, somewhere.
There's the small quaint church cross
the way
The school house on the hill
And she heaves sigh when passing
The lone pine by the mill.
What joy would light the waning smile
If he'd come back again.
Relief tears see, still there must be
Ever the sad refrain.
Song
By J. B.
The moon lies sleeping
On the crest of the bay,
OF love he's dreaming
His old smile seems to say:
Chorus
30 steal away my pretty June
Now is the time to catch the moon
Well dip our hands and wake with
spray
The old boy while he dreams away
And sing loves song as we glide
along
II Over The eiluer-noirrnred hau -
June I'm dreaming
Like the moon 'crost the way
Just keep love dreaming
AS we glide o er the bay.
Some haze meat and Gamma eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
- But we haze meat and we can eat,
Sac let the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

Wouidst shape noble life? Then cast
No backward glances toward the past
And though somewhat be lost and
gone
Yet do thou act as one newborn
What each day needs. that shalt thou
ask
Each day will set its proper task.
Goethe
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

u. =. NELL, WdrucH.
Dear Sir:
The following is the school history
for the month of December, 1915
No. of school sessions - II
School attendance at opening session. l7e
Average attendance during month"; Its
Highest s &c., l84
Average compulsory attendance--
Average voluntary attendance I4t
No. excused by Medical Dept. during
month-Temporarily - 2!
No. excused by Medical Dept. during
month-Permanently
No. excused by Deputy Warden dur
ing month-Temporarily
No. excused by Deputy Warden to
work nights-Permanently 8
No. excused by School Superintendent
during month-Temporarily
No. excused by Scnool Superintendent
during month-Permanently
No. enrolled during month - l.
No. (who attended schooD discharged
from Institution
No. pupils reported for breach of In
stitutional rules
No. of pupils reported for Incidence
and lack of interest in school work
Illiterate- Observation-Disclosures 9
]. ]. Sullivan
Deputy Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
w atery Duet

A charming young singer called Hannah
Got into flood in Monta ma
AS she hoated away,
Her sister, they say,
Accompanied her on the piano.
Penn State Forth.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
NOTICE

Before presenting themselves to the
dentist for the purpose of having
their teeth examined and treated all
inmates should procure a tooth
brush and have their teeth as thor
oughly clean as possible.
C.S. REED. Walden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

By optmo
Once lean and hungry critic(?)
In manner impolitic
Voiced his sentiments mephitic
OF scribe.
Data from the days of Caesar
Brot this egotistiic "geeser
Till you d think he was some teaser
With his "eibe.
With his poison pc" (cl) saber
He'll assault his friend or neiighbor.
And he II fume and fret and labor
For day.
To enunciate his fetid
Foulins phrases. self-conceited
Like man who much o erheated
In the fray.
Phrases over-r1pe and mellow
Demonstrate streak of yellow
In this would-be critic fellow
OF to-day.
O. poor mortal self-deluded
When you speak your minds denuded!
Proving that your wits exuded
all away.
He who ego inflated.
Who himself has much 0 GRATED
Proves that he but Anticipated
After all:
If for sake of witticsm
He makes adverse criticism.
Full Of rancid mephitism
And pure gall.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
munthly Srhnnl Rrpnrt-

c. S. REED, Warden.
Dear Sir:
The following is the school history
for the month of December, 1915
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
Gtraprl Brnprar'1

The following is the Program rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Father
Murphy officiating:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
population

Pupulatinn
Week Ending Wednesday. JAM 5th.
Number of Inmates at New Prison. .IO2I
Number in First Grade sla
Number in Second Grade. 100
Number in. Third Grade ls
Received during week..............
Discharged.
Last Seria, Number .5138
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

" e 111'o11uH IdSt ouHuay, rstuer
Murphy officiating:
March, Panama Pacific Orch
Idyll The Straw Ride Orch.
HYMN Rock of Ages Cong.
Scripture Reading ---------- Fir. Murphy
lntermezzo- PetaDs O Orch
Prayer FIR. Murnhv
Gospel Reading Fir. Murphy
Hymn Abide With Me------C Cong
March Miss Liberty Orch.
Us. Reichkitzer
Musical Director
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

Because you love poem,
do not try
Composing one, your sphere
do not mistake,
For many have an appetite
for pie
Who cannot bake.
Sci.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

Mass was held in the Auditorium
last Sunday. Father Murphy of.
floating.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06

Some haze meat and Gamma eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
Sac let the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-06
aant,thly Gthrary Rrpnrt

The librarian has furnished the following
library report for the month of Dec.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-31
THE GOVERNMENT WINS
TEN MILLION DOLLAR SUIT

San Francisco, Cal, July 3O.-Judge
Benjamin F. Bledsoe or the United
States district court awarded to the
United States government today title
to 100 acres of Kern county oil lands
valued at $1O,OOO,OOO and known as
the McCutchen section in the govern
ments custer brought under the Taft
withdrawal order of 1909.
The suit was against G. w. McCut-
chen, the Standard Oil company, the
Union Oil company, the General Pc
troleum company and other title
claiming interests, being one of many
brought by the government to recover
in the aggregate California oil lands
valued at several hundred millions of
dollars.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-31

the cool shady, woodland places, by
the shores OF still lakes and along the
dusty and flower bordered highways
Of this life, the hoss and buggy move.
Slowly the talk drifts towards i'm
perishable condolences, to little low
ing "asides," to the touches of friend
ly hands and feet, till someone says:
Il could ride so forever" The word
has been said, the o:d story is told
again-and the troubles of long life,
time together have begun.
VIII no one stop them? Will no one
shout aloud to them: Young folks,
the rapids are before you! Stop now
before it is eyerlastingly too late,"
No. No one shouts thus, and so they
90 to their doom and are married and
live happily ever after-or, at least,
for some time, and the tide rises and
the tide falls. And nobody tries to
stop it-Minneapolis Journal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-31
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
ThedfOrd's Black-Draught.

McDuff, Va.-"T suffered for severa
years" says Mrs. J. b. Whitaker, 0
this place, with sick headache, anl
stomach trouble.
= Ten years ago friend told me 10 try
lhediOrd's Black-Draueht, which | did
and found II to be the best family lnedi-
cine for young and old.
] keep Black-Draught CT hand all the
time now, and when my children teel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and il
ooes them more good than any medicine
they ever tried
We never have long spell of sick
nps; n our family, since We commenced
nsins l. 'ack-Draught"
: Tbe5f5, rs Black -Draught is purely
veGetable ID has been found 10 regu.
isiS. weak sion 'achs, aid digestion, re-
iieve indigestion. colo, wind, nausea,
headache. sick sto. zach, and similar
-sympt1nlS,
, u as Deen in constanl use Tor more
thsr 70 years, and has heh@iI'eu EHcTe
than a million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Black-Draught. Pncs only &c GeI
package TODAY. n = "a
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-31
M'ALESTER GETS FEDERAL
BUREAU ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Oklahoma City, Okla. July 80
Following announcement some weeks
ago that officers of the Oklahoma
branch of the federal bureau of ami
nal industry would be moved to
some other point, DR.. W. L. Hiatt, in
spector in charge, today said that
headquarters would be removed to
McAlester from where the work in
the state would be directed This is
done to put the officer in charge more
adjacent to the field of operations.
Tick eradication which began in the
western part o. the state several
years ago has practically been com
pleted, and almost the entire western
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-31

Miss Allie Breeding Of Lexington
spent Saturday with friends here.
Mrs Everett Cruce left Saturday for
Oklahoma City. where she will visit
relatives.
The Wednesday Embroidery Club
has disbanded until the latter'part of
September.
Mrs. o. l.. DENIES and family return
ed yesterday from Sulphur where
they have been on vacation.
Mrs. w. H. Bumpass has as her
guests Misses Freda and Corinne
Mallory of Dallas, Texas.
Mrs. c. II. Louthan of Oklahoma
City arrived today to be the guesi OF
Miss Hal Fraley and other friends
here.
Miss Grace Blackburn of Marietta
spent last night in the city with rela-
tiyes. She is en- route to Atoka,
whore she will remain a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Frame, Miss Eliz-
abeth Myers, and Messrs. Bert Simp