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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-10-18

We need a hustler to act as District
Manager for Old Line Health and
Accident Insurance Company: Ad-
dress BOX 151, WATERFOWL, s. Oak.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Let it be Said of Me

Let it be said of me
Not that my wit was subtlest of them all;
Not that its thrust was keenest, that the fall
Of him, my foe, was comprised by my act:
That l was versed in language, lore or fact;
Not that had the gift of speech to sway
A multitude to think the other way;
Not that the world of custom was my guide;
Not that in rich possessions was my pride.
Let it be said of me
Not that strove and ran and won the prize,
And blocked the way when others sought
to rise;
Not that my voice was heard in wild kurrah
When ancient license posed, as higher law,
Not that my eyes were blind when sham
was set
To dazzle folly into mild regret;
Not that my ears were deaf to sob and cry
Beneath the wheels when splendor hurried
by.
Let it be said of me
Wherever there was holy cause to serve,
Or hearts that ache, or perils that unnerve;
Wherever there were ardous tasks to do,
A path to light, duty to pursue;
Wherever there was a child to wrest from
wrong,
Or weary soul athirst for love and song;
Wherever slaves of time cried to be free
My hand was reached-let it be said of me.
Kate Br0aonLee Sherwood.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Closing the Doors

l have closed the door on Doubt:
l will 60 by what light can find,
And hold up my hands, and reach them out
To the glimmer of God in the dark and call:
81 am Thine, though grope and stumble
and fall.
l serve, and Thy service is Kind
l have closed the door on Fear.
He has lived with me far too long.
If he were to break forth and reappear,
| should lift my eyes and look at the sky,
And sing loud and lightly by.
He will never follow song.
l have closed the door on Gloom.
His house has narrow view.
must seek for my soul wider room,
With windows to open and let in the sun.
And radiant lamps when the day is done,
And the breeze of the world blowing through
-Er
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
To Our Mothers

Mother, blessed memories! Have you
ever sat in reverie and dreamed of your dear
old motherf What happy moments were
those when you used to sit by her side and
listen to the wonderful stories she told so
we'll. What manifold healing power
mothers kisses hadf If you got bad bump
on the head, one kiss would make you for
get the pain, if, perchance you cut your
finger, pat on the head and kiss at once
healed it. Then, there were your horrid
old school lessons-but why worry! Mother
would show you how to make the bewilder-
ing figures fit into their proper places.
The weekly bath-Oh, but that was a
treat! Do you remember how mother would
go to the dresser and pick out your nice,
sweet smelling garments, one by one, mean
while inspecting this and that to see if all
the buttons were in place?
And do you remember mothers weekly
baking day9 How she used to allow you
to stand by her side and let you stir the bat
ter or beat the eggs into "a frosty whittier And
can you picture to yourself how she baked
odd shaped men and animals for your de-
lectation3 Dear mother! She was always
endeavoring to do something for your pleas
ure.
On the rainy days when you could not
60 out of doors and you we've boyishly sad,
do you remember how mother invented
games for you? She may have had plenty
of homework to do, but that did not matter,
she thought only of your spoiled day.
Then there were the parties. Do you re-
call how mother dressed you up IN your
best bib-and-tucker, and how she kissed
you and called you her ''Little Man, And
when the hour arrived when you were to
leave for the partyf Mother would look
you over again, give a smoothing here and
a pat there, and with final admonition to
be good boy, she would accompany you
to the front door, bend over you and be-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
The Light That Never Fails
By Mrs. ]. M. MILLER

Of all the dynamics in the moral universe
there is none greater than mothers love.
1t is one passion that is changeless, one
fire that burns unquenchable and undimmed.
1t is rare, indefnable something that
existed at the beginning and will last
throughout eternity. When everything else
in life fails and we feel our feet slipping it
is the one power that saves. We cannot ex-
plain it, we can but feel-for
Earth has no symbol. hath no living sign
To image forth a mothers leve.''
In mothers eyes we caught our first re-
Election of heaven. Her smile gave the ap-
prevail and encouragement to our we'll meant
efforts that the world knows not how to give.
1t is indeed then most fitting that we
pause one day in the year to pay special
tribute to mother-our mother.
Whatever our station in lite the same
sentiment prompts us in the commemoration
of the day known as Mothers Day
Mothers love, that bore with US patiently
in our wrong doings of yesterday, is guild
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
The Old Quaker Bonnet

Oh, the quaint old Quaker bonnet,
And the dear old heads that don it
How placid and serene the face within
What neatness and completeness,
A calm and restful sweetness,
AS set apart from all the faint of sin!
Oh, the tender Quaker yoices
How they cheer US and rejoice us
With appealing music all their own,
With tone of gentle sadness
Triumphant DER the sorrows they We known
Oh, the dear old sanity faces,
Mirroring the Christian graces,
In radiance of beauty how complete!
Let US these old faces cherish,
And the memories they nourish,
Ever, ever as benediction sweet.
Charles Dennis.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
A Song

Dear love, l now say goodbye
For evermore, and 60 from you,
My love for you can never die,
But will live on and still be true.
And you can never set aside
The dear sweet hours that used to be,
When l had claimed you for bride,
And eyes and lips had answered me.
Then all the world was full of light,
And life was like a summer sky,
while everything was dear and bright,
With fragrant breezes floating by.
Where er 60, whate'er 1 do,
If near or far, or here or there,
My thougts will always be of you
And in my heart for you prayer.
Oliver Perry Mdnlove.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10

Sir Robert Ball had delivered lecture
on "Sun Spots and Solar Chemistry says
the Chicago News. A young lady who
met him expressed her regret at having
missed the lecture. "Well," he said, 81
don't know as you have been particularly
interested. 1t was all about sun-spots.
"Why," she replied, cit would have
interested me exceedingly. have been q
martyr to freckles all my life.''
AN electrical designer and inventor
stationed at Milwaukee has developed and
patented Aashlight Illuminating instru-
ment; which enables person to play
talking machine record in the darkness of
night or in badly lighted room. easily,
safely. and satisfactorily.
The device is somewhat like an ordi-
nary searchlight. When In operation, the
instrument is attached to the talking ma
chimes tone arm, with cords coming out of
its case, which also holds the hidden
source of power.
With the illumination thus furnished, it
is easy to place the neediepoint accurately
at the proper place on the record.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10

stow her greatest blessing upon you-a
mothers kiss. How she would look fond
ly at you and tell you to run along. Do
you remember when you came safely home
how mother opened the door kissed you
and asked you to tell her all about the party.
Yowdid not notice the wrinkles of care up
on her smiling face-of course mott You
were too happy. But what if mother was
tired, she never let you see it. Mothers
never do. They are loving, non-complain-
ing creatures.
What would this world be were it not for
the mothers who create and mold its men?
Did you ever stop to think that every boy
is the shadow of his mother? A mothers
foot rocks the cradle, and, although most
of US do not realize the fact, mothers
hand rules the world.
All of our best instincts are instilled into
our very hearts by the loving examples set
by our mothers. 1t is she who teaches US
not to be selfish. 1t is she that teaches us
to respect womankind. 1t is she that tells
us to be kind to dumb animals, and finally
it is she who gives US good sound advice re-
garding life's problems.
What do we. not owe to our mothersi
The answer is self-evident when we look
about us and see the hundreds of good men
and women that inhabit this mundane
sphere. When the last word is said we
owe everything to them.
So in commemoration of those mothers
we have set aside day and called i,
"Mother's Day." In celebration of that
day YOU should write a letter to your
mother. Perhaps she is worrying herself
into an early grave because of you. She
would much rather know that you are in
prison and alive than to think you dead.
Write and tell her all about your trouble, it
will relieve her anxiety and you will feel
better because of it. Of course she will for
give you-mothers always do, God bless
them. -SeLected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
p o e TT r e e
Leaves From Our Poets.
In Vain

Put every tiny robe away!
The stitches all were set with tears
Slow, tender drops of JOY; today
Their rain would wither hopes or fears;
Bitter enough to daunt the moth
That longs to fret this dainty cloth.
The filmy lace, the ribbons blue,
The tracery deft of flower and leaf,
The fairy shapes that bloomed and grew
Through happy moments all too brief.
The warm, soft wraps, oh, God, how cold
1t must be in that wintry mold!
Fold carefully the broidered wool;
Its silken wreaths will ne'er grow old;
And lay the linen, soft and cool.
Above it gently, fold on fold,
So lie the SHOWS on that soft breast,
Where mortal garb will never rest.
How many days in dreamed delight,
With listless fingers working slow;
fashioned them from morn till night
And smiled to see them slowly grow.
thought the task too late begun.
Alas, how soon it all was done
Go lock them in a cedar chest,
And never bring me back the key!
Will hiding lay this ghost to rest,
Or the turned lock give peace to me
No matter-only that dread
Lest other eyes behold my dead.
would have laid them in that grave
To perish, too, like any weed,
But legends tell that they who save
Such garments, ne'er the like will need,
But give or burn them-need will be
l want but one such memory!
Rose Terry Cooke.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
:. p o ET r Y =
From Our Exchanges.
The Inevitable

l like the man who faces what he must
With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fights the daily battle without fear.
Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust
That God is God-that somehow, true and
just
His plan works out for mortals, not tear
Is shed when fortune, which the world
holds dear,
Falls from his grasp--better with love crust
Than living in dishonor, envies not
Nor loses faith in man, but does his best,
Nor ever murmurs at his humbled lot;
But with smile and words of hope gives
ZeSt
To every toiler. He alone is great.
Who by life heroic conquers fate.
Sarah Knoaoles Bolton.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Woman-God's Gift to Man

Woman! Gods gift to man!
Since times immemorial the world has
been held together by love, and woman is
its over-Aowing spring.
Upon her shoulders rests the Universe,
and to the mothers is due the worlds graft
tude for its progress.
Somewhere back of every really great
work that has ever been accomplished in any
age there has been a woman-a mother, a
wife, daughter.
Without her refining influence, where
would the world be todayl
Through the magic power of her goodness
she has wrought miracle upon miracle.
These Sovereigns of Love are the Real
Rulers of the world.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Hope

Hope-what little word
Yet the meaning is sublime,
A word of sorrow, we leave behind,
When Hope keeps pace with Time.
1t glows like ray of sunshine
Throughthis struggling world of care
Is ever ready our souls to light,
For darkness is snare.
So never let Hope from you stray,
Guard sacredly for tbs said,
That nothing else can take its place,
When Hope, in Life, is dead.
-Coralb B. Scheme
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
A Mother to Her Son in Prison

Do you know that your soul is of my soul part,
That you to be the fiber and core of my heart?
None other pain as you, dear, can do:
None other please praise me as you,
Remember. the world will be quick with it's blame,
If shadow or stain ever darkens your name.
Like mother. the son, is the saying so true.
The world will Judge largely of mother by you
Be this then. your task if task it shall be,
To force this proud world to do homage to me-
Be sure it will say. when it's verdict you've won,
She reaps she sowed: To-! this man is her son."
MOTHER.
Author Unknoacn
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
/ M IRR 0 RETTES
By Uncle John
Show Your ColorS
Here's Flag Etiquette

If you are not up on flag etiquette here
are the rules:
Raise the flag at sunrise or after, never
before.
Lower the flag at sunset.
When draping the flag against the side of
a room or building, place the blue field al
ways to the north or east.
Bunting should be draped or hung with
the red at the top, following with the white
and blue in accordance with the heraldic
colore OF the flag.
1t is mark of disrepect to allow the flag
to fly throughout the night.
A flag flown upside down is signal of
distress.-Pioneer Press.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Baseball Notes
Bu 'BobbLes''

The team that played here Saturday had
but three of the players that performed in
their first game here, viz: Thompson,
Fisher and Donald. Garin and Telford
have also played here previously as members
of other teams from Minneapolis.
The score this time should have been flve
to one in our favor but for the misplays
just when they did the greatest damage.
A couple of muffs in the eighth inning
were no doubt due to injured hand which
bothered our second baseman.
Injuries also deprived Manager Rutherford
of one of the men he had counted on to play
in this game. 1t is thought, however, that
this player will be able to play next Saturday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10

School will close for vacation next
Friday night.
Many a mans hobby is merely a
clothes horse.
The Chautauqua Circle held its last
quarterly meeting of the season in the audi
forum last Sunday afternoon.
Paddy is feeling very lonesome now,
since his partner has left him. So he took
trip around the galleries last Friday night,
looking for consolation, and found it.
One of the new arrivals asked if he was
entitled to put his papers in the exchange
basket if he gets any. Sure brother, do as
others do ahead of you.
Mass was held in the auditorium last
Sunday morning, ninety one received Holy
Communion, with Father Barry officiating.
Our ball team made a good showing
last Saturday against the Minneapolis team,
and would easily have won the game, only
for that double play, one of our boys pulled
off for them.
We are glad indeed to note that our old
friend Hutch received his "Glory Ticket"
from the Parole Board, good luck 60 with
you John, wherever you go.
Last Sundays band concert in the audi
forum was the finest program ever rendered
in the institution, and the number of visitors
was the largest ever seated in the auditorium.
Our Musical Director put in several weeks
of hard work with his musicians to make
this meeting success, and judging by the
applause for every number rendered, Prof.
Reichxitzer has reason to be satisfied.
Father Corcoran with three visiting
Priests heard confessions last Saturday after
noon in the auditorium. About IS of the
boys went to confession; that's the reason
that there was no band parade last Saturday
afternoon.
The band boys appeared in their sum-
mer uniforms last Sunday morning. A sign
that Spring is at hand.
"A goodly number of visitors were in
the park last Saturday, but it was not what
it will be as soon as the weather will permit
the visitors to come.
Patriots can serve their country without
making profit, while the soldiers are fight
ing at the front.
April sure left US reminder of its chill
ly wind and weather. Let us hope that
May will bring us sunshine and warmth.
The Optician was at the institution
during the week, fitting and fixing glasses
for goodly number of inmates.
The Board of Parole held several meet
ings during the week and were very liberal
indeed.
The Ince production cast on our screen
last Wednesday was one of the best "movie''
plays we have seen here of late. 1t was
gripping war play entitled, Somewhere in
France and gave an insight into the work.
ings of the wonderful German and French
spy system; giving clear idea of the work
ing of "wheels within the Wheels" or how
those nations at war can never be sure of
even their own sDvs-R
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
-Four Things

Four things man must learn to do
If he would make his record true
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow men sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust IN God and heaven securely.
Henry Van Dyke
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10

ing and cheering us in our hopes for To-
morrow, when the clouds shall have rolled
away and we take up the broken threads of
life and weave them into, fabric such as
will repay her for the love she has lavished
"a love that is "higher than the stars, wider
than the sky and deeper than the seas
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Eternal

Unworn the ancient carols pour
From throat of living bird.
The very strains that Ter and DER
In vernal gladness heard,
The turtle cooed in fir and pine,
And mid the myrtles, sung
The nightingales of Palestine,
When Solomon was young.
Theron Broom.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Inmates Attention.!

Hereafter inmates are not permitted
to receive wearing apparel of any
description from friends or relatives.
All inmates buying socks, under
wear, nightshirts, handkerchiefs, etc.,
should send them to the Laundry
and have their 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, 1917-05-10
The Needless Solar System

"The comet, he is coming, Emerson,
And when the dread thing crashes
Over the System, snuffing out the sun,
The planets will be ashes
"The thing will scatter ruin wild and wide,
Unless perchance we've missed him!
We'll l can get along, the sage replied.
Without the Solar System. "
Nautilus
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
A Wish
By Mr.. J. B.

Propitious spirits in the atomed air!
What else but thesel-n silence lowering,
Ouelling all fretfu thoughts of grey despair
And asking of the soul and offering.
The somber clouds of have stolen way,
Leaving a calmer sail upon,
And thoughts like birds. take wing and sail away
Ger green dells to springs of Helicon;
There with the muses. in foreign clime
On mounts eysian DER sylvan land,
Or, living in the past of modern time,
Where memory Oft would dwell in haunts again.
Condoling with the living for lost frends,-
Forgetful of that self which cries for food
To heights where the lone fowl ascends
breathe the air, carefree from solitude.
The meadow-lark is singing his old song
May-tme song, somewhere; go, how your?
Still though its notes ring sometimes over-long
l can't see him nowhere-the sky's so blue
The Beggar-School house seems ragged grown,
Since he no more comes through the weeping pine;
And Of how brother forests do bemoan
The of him who Evangeline!
All, have quafed O. silence in these hours,
Exering draughts from founts of Yesterday:
With playmate friends I've gather'd earh's flowers
And found companonshp life's better way.
An offerngf| cannot part with grief
That's follow me through trails I've left behind;
But will give it for the hearts relief,
A wish-a wish that had been more kind
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10

The road to ruin is kept in good repair
at the expense Of those who travel over it.
Why worry about trifesl The hole
that lets the water into your shoe will let it
out again.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
6 | { A n | n 6 s
ADVANCE IN PRICE
Material Used in ConstruC-
ton of Agricultural Imple-
mentS Greatly Advanced.
From Our Exchanges

Very few consumers of farm implements
know the enormous increase in cost of
materials used in machine construction
To such we submit a few items which
should give a general idea of why prices
of machines have been so largely advanced
and will go higher before another season.
s ssth s 18th
Price of pig iron, per ton,--$l9:75 SALTS
Price of steel bars, per cwt. 500 1915
Price of cast scrap, per ton 1875 2l.5O
Price of black sheets, per cwt 2.S5 6.25
Price of wire nails, per cwt. $40 $50
Cotton duck, used in making binder
canvasses, has increased more than fifty
per cent in past season, while paint, oils,
lumber, and all other materials, have been
proportionately advanced.
The State was fortunate in buying at
time when it was possible to build its out
put of machines for this season and to sell
same to consumer at but small increase
in price as compared to the large advance
made in other lines, which gives the con-
sumner the benefit this season.
As it is certain that prices will continue
to soar upward so long as conditions of war
exist and until the conditions can be ad-
justed to normal after the war has ceased,
our advice would be to those who may be
in need of new machinery, either this or
next season, to buy as early as possible, as
prices will not be lower, but higher.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Monthly School Report
C.. S. REED, Warden.

| 4. ,. REED, warden.
Dear Sir:
The following is the school history fol
the month of April 1917:
No. of school sessions 1s
School attendance at opening session
April ed, 1917. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. l67
Average attendance during month - 16s
Highest $780, TIC
Lowest $500" 15S
Average compulsory attendance - Q
Average voluntary attendance ia
No. excused by Medical Dept. during
month-Temporarily commandments Is
No. excused by Medical Dept. during
month-Permanently - 6
No. excused by Deputy Warden dur
ing month-Temporarily ------ 10
No. excused to work nights, April
lst-Permanently- Observation-Disclosures 4
No. excused by School Superintendent
during month-Temporarily -- G
No. excused by School Superintendent
during month-Permanently ----
No. enrolled during month ---
No. (who attended schooD discharged
from Institution Z
No. pupils reported for breach of In
stitutional
No. pupils reported for Incidence and
lack of interest in school work.
Illiterate 81
J.J. Sullivan,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
Chapel prugrai,t


The following is the Program rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Reverend
Father Barry officiating:
March America Forever Orchestra
Overture-The Wedding Ring Orchestra
Hymn-What a Friend We Have
IN Jesus --------------Congregation
Scripture --.-------F Father Barry
Flower Song-Bowl of Pansies- Orchestra
Prayer Father Barry
Gospel Reading Father Barry
Sermon ------------------F Father Barry
Hymn-At the Cross Congregation
March-Daughters of the Revolution
Orchestra
r. ]. Reichkitzer, Musical Director.
Population
Up to May 7
Number of Inmates at Prison.......... 947
Number in First Grade..... IA
Number in Second Grade ITS
Number in Third Grade %
Received During Week.. ............. 8
Discharged Observation-Disclosures. ......16
Last Serial Number. $3.50
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-05-10
A NOTICE TO INMATES

You are hereby directed to place
your copy of THE MIRROR at the
foot of your bed on the morning
following the day on which 1t is
delivered to your cell. Non-com-
pliance with this order will cause
forfeiture of privileges.
j. j. Sullivan,
Deputy Warden.