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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

Our weekly entertainment, which usually pro-
vdes moving pictures for the benefit of inmates was
given over to program of song by the members of
The Elks' Gee Club of Minneapolis
The singers were heartily and repeatedly en-
cored and each number on the program was treat,
especially the eccentric dancing of Mr.. Fred 1. WILL
OF Minneapolis. was vociferously spplauded, and
which the inmates will long remember and cherish.
The management, on behalf of the inmates take
occasion to sincerely thank the willing entertain
ers for their splendid program and their evident sue
cess at pleasing all their hearers.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

An eight pound surprise arrived at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy G. Stevenson March g. 1917.
The Surprise is bouncing baby boy-congratula-
tons from the official family and The MIRROR.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

of our contemporaries says: "The high
price OF foodstuffs, only phase in our CONNER
cial progress" We under the impression it
was progressive phase in fattening pocket books
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

Some people look for empty praise rather than
for a praiseworthy duty to perform.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

The b. C. of |. is the most prosperous thing we
have in our country.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

Ecuador, that little triangle shaped republic in
the northeastern of South America, has pass
ed eight-hour working-day law for all it's work
This is the first nation to adopt a universal
eighthour law.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

It is true that the price of ice will be raised
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15

NOTICE-In order regulate of this column
mates must their register number and lock number
to all queries submitted for publication Inmates names, of
course will not be published only the initials of each quest
being used (EdD
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15
>. C. o M Nj e II Il S ..

The recent slight thaw reminds us that the snow
on our campus was the deepest for many years and
kept the yard clearing away the high and mighty
drifts.
Not only the pedestrian, but the transportation
of all kinds was hampered by snow blockades but
the law of compensation existing in nature, will
result in good crops Tor the farmer we consider
the temporary inconvenience a blessing in dis
guise.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-15
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NOTICE TO INMATES

For the benefit who appreciate
a Their spare hours give towards
ing an our Night Schools who need helpful foma
with pc to use the Query column You welcomed
KIND collaboration OF Miss Miriam Carey Supervisor of Institution
VIII gladly ndeavo supply the requested information
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
he St. Louis Republic.

From the St. Louis Republic
 Time was when country editors in the same town treated each other with bit ter invective or silent contempt. Occa- sionally they fought it out with fists or hardware. BMt things seem to have veteran editor of the Bowling Green Times, died the other day. The editor of the rival paper, Mrs. D'Arline Hol- comb, wrote such a touching tribute to him that we venture to reproduce it here:
 Large was his bounty and his soul sim cere." In the death of w. F. Mayhall, Bowling Green has sustained an inesti- mable loss
 "A man who for 40 years has been ac- tive in the business life of the town and county; man who has ever stood for moral uplift; a man who possessed prin- ciples of pure philanthropy; man whose heart was touched by the needs of his fellow creatures. His response to all calls of charity was him aa quality, rather than a virtue His family, his friends, his church and his town mourn the loss of w. F. May source of swympathetic hmtaihmtaiaaa hall and his death has opened the source of sympathetic hearts with all who knew him.
 "The closing of such a life falls or human hearts as autumn's day declining on the sky; quietly, peacefully and gent ly it's radiance is withdrawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
.E lille Deeds of Kindness"

"People in this world sometimes do a great deal of good that never comes to light" said c. M Williamson, cash fer of the American Trust and Savings bank, yesterday. Now. you take Sid Lee for instance. He is generally known as a business man, pure and simple. with little sentiment about him.
 And yet I happen to know that he goes down to the Calcis club frequent ly and in that vicinity there is a lit tie blind girl. A long time ago he gave her box of candy or some sweetmeats of some kind and since that time he has never made g trip down there that he did not take that little girl some little gift. She knows his voice when he speaks and she now knows all about him.
 "Furthermore, the other children Of that whole section know MT. Lee be- cause when he makes the trip he all ways goes loaded with something for the children, and they are always look ing forward to his visits.
 "Of course. it is a little thing i'll 2. busy mans life. but think what these remembrances mean to those children down there in the country and espe- cially to the little blind girl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
VOGUE OF THE PALACE CAR

Kathleen Hills in Leslie's.
 Foreigners are surprised that Amer
 ican travellers so generously patronize
 bears striking evidence to the fact that
 we are an eXtravagant people. A tray
 cling salesman once told me that he
 not only enjoyed the Pullman for it's luxury but that early in his career, when he could not afford luXuries he cause he felt the little extra charge provided a sort of health and accident insurance policy. But in these days of all-steel coaches this does not ap ply simply to the Pullman traveller, and I presume the habit formed in the youth of the salesman still remains. It is true that Americans patronize the Pullmans far more generous than foreigners patronJze palace cars and in | this connection I note an interview
 with Passenger Manager w. J. Black i of the Santa Fe System. who reports 1 that this year the demand for Pull
 man accommodations for winter tour l ists shows an increase of 50 per cent l over that of the past year. This may i be regarded as another evidence oi | prosperity. I disagree with MT. Black | that the patronage of the Pullman is
 an evidence that Americans are be-
 coming more exclusive. Where did you l find better mixers than in the smok 1 ing room of a Pullman. or in the l library car, especially when o'clock | tea is being served on our superb linn l ed trains?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

From the Kansas City Star
 A RR. PECKSNIFF, on a memorable
 W occasion expressed sssrs ta strons sst nrs ana
 Todeers' notion of wooden leg. lie
 didn't get it, of course-it was wholly out
 of the question-nor shall we ever get
 Dickens notion of his characters on the
 movie screen. MT. Pecksniff, on the oc-
 ca sion referred to, gave it as his opinion
 that in comparison of the legs or the
 human subject with wooden legs the an
 atomy of nature would have decided advantage over the anatomy of art.
 Now. of course it would be quite as obvious a reflection to say that the mo- vie productions of Dickens, elaborate and painstaking as they are, and engaging as they do the abilities of the very fore most stars in the movie constellations' are decidedly inferior to Dickens in the original The same claim might, indeed, be urged for most authors whose novels have found their way to the screen; nec- essarily, the anatomy of movie art must suffer in comparison with what we may call the human anatomy of the great ere alive masters-the movies are wooden legs at best. &
 But the reflector seems not wholly trifling in the case of Dickens chafac- ters if we stop to think for a moment how essentially Dickens characters. are talking characters; when we recall that there is not one of them that is not prin- cipally identified in fiction by some ver-
 bal expression that stands for them alone and for no other character in all litera- ture. Never did characters in any pages ls so effectually label themselves with speech. Dickens characters it is true. quite as invariably had individuality of
 action and of dress, and these we might look to see reproduced with faithfulness on the screen, but Dickens characters are not to be enjoyed as wax works.
 1 Mrs. Camp, no matter how accurately portrayed as to umbrella and watchman's coat, would not be Mrs. Camp to us un- l less she could proclaim herself. She would have to tell us about the bottle on l the chimbly piece and give us the latest expression of Mrs. Harris before we could recognize her or admit her to be the Sairey of our acquaintance. Certainly, too, we might sufficiently identify MT. Toots by the work of Burgess & Co. (by
 which we mean his incomparable trous-
 CTS. of course), but we might not be
 quite convinced that an impostor had not
 engaged the services of those eminent
 tailors unless we could hear MT. Toots
 assure us, in the words with which he is
 forever associated in our minds with the | joys and sorrows of Florence Dombey.
 that nothing that could possibly happen
 to him would be of any consequence
 whatever. What, too. would be left of Mir Cruncher if he be deprived of an
 opportunity to denounce the Hopping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
DICKENS IN THE MOVIES

habit? Nothing. we should say, and here Cities' seem to agree with us, for they
 have left that honest tradesman out en- tirely.
 | It is not to be contended that Dickens lacks action and that his novels are there l fore ill adapted to movie reproduction. But the fullness of Dickens, the flavor i of him is in characterization, in those inimitable verbal extravagancies of his Micawbers and Keeps and Guppys and | Vegas and Snagbps and Swivellers and ! Mrs. Wilfers that give those characters
 a form in our imagination that never can
 be approximated by mere lay figures of 1 them.
 1 For this reason the opinion may be ven- tured that Dickens movies will not be
 wholly satisfying to a majority of Dick
 ems readers. Plot, which seems essential
 ems, while characterization, which is
 necessarily beyond the Limitations of the
 new art, is the most of him. It really would be interesting to know what the
 effect upon the Dickens cult would be if the next couple of generations should
 take their impression of him from the
 movies rather than from his books We should be inclined to fear that his charac-
 ters would lose the main essentials that
 have heretofore made for their in1mor ! tality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

The reason why a woman would be ter ribly embarrassed if you ever saw her in her nightie in winter is because she goes around in summer wearing trans parent gown that reveals her plans and specifications
 It is hard for the only undertaken in towns to look solemn when there are 1O deaths in one day
 Don't sheer at the poor dub who was tempted and who fell. If you haven't made a fool of yourself yet, you soon will.
 Don't imagine that you will be able to get along with your wife by letting her have her own way. Some women will argue even if you agree with them.
 There never was dog so onery look ing that he didn't have a boy admirei who thought that it could take a prize
 in bench show. | Of course it is possible to come from
 behind and win. But the safer way is to try and get an even break with the rest of the bunch when the barrier goes up.
 We are all in favor of law enforcement
 where the other fellow is concerned. In Horace Greeley's time poor pen. manship may have been regarded as 6 sign of genius. But those days have passed. When you receive a note from
 a man that tempts you to take it to the drug store and have it filled you are ap' to pity him for his lack of schooling. My, but times have changed. Tn, yaps are now located in the big cities and any hustling farmer could make z good living selling gold bricks to business men.
 | When man wants to be entertained ho. ch nrriv xxyitH !. oy16 v,of ronizes kaif and returns with 10 cents When a woman wants to be entertained she goes shopping with a $1 bill ant patronizes a department store and re
 turns with 9S cents. l Many man who has no artistic percep l tions manages to get wealthy because h. can always see the nigger in the woot pile.
 l Any boy can tell you that a mother il person who doesn't want you to g rear the water until you have learned tt
 swim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
THE NEW JEANNE DARC

Ignorant soldiers. But the hard d-neaded
 Dunois believed in her and credited her with a military skill which nothing in her previous life could account for. Was '! it the spirit of the warrior archangel Michael working in this frail human tenement? Credo quia Impossible. It is
 sometimes easier to accept the less plausi-
 ble explanation. There is the record of this soul with the pure flame of re- ligious and patriotic fervor that failed in the end only when faithlessness quenched it; judge that record how we will, the wonder remains. Is it likely to be dis spated by new Jeanne In the person of Clotilde Perchaud? Is the task of driving the Germans back to the Rhine to be laid upon her slender shoulders? An incred u.ous modern world will not readily adapt litself to such a reincarnation. Yet Clotilde seems to have convinced the theologians of our time much as Jeanne convinced those of the credulous fif- teenth century.
 Unlike Jeanne who in daily life had been much like other girls of her age and time, Clot1lde Is described as haVlnS .. a peculiar personality and disposition. Sine has been studying by herself since she was A. but she still remains iliterate In the ordinary sense; even though she is mysteriously grounded in the funda-
 mental principles of Catholic theology.
 There are strange tales of her posses sion of the gift which the Scots call sec cond sight. But her story so far as we ye thave it, lacks the persuasive simplic- | ity of Jeannes. The Maid of Orleans wrought the salvation of France 800 years ago. It is permissible to conclude that today it does not lie in girls hands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

if this would be the last great war. They have an idea that when it is ended the military spirit will be gone forever.
 This will be the last war until the next one. If the world is ever so un- fortunate as to see another titanic struggle the race by that time may be schooled to think in terms of tril- lions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

"A
 | NA born to obscure duties rescued @
 S S France from greater dangers than
 now encompass her. The English and
 the Burgundians had made the vacillat- l. ing Charles VII little more than King in motley; the whole spirit of the French Jeanne came Voices bidding her aid her
 country and promising a great deliver
 ance At first, no doubt, they seemed
 only part of the day dreams which any
 girl might have; but their supernatural soliciting became more and more ln-
 difficulties, she convinced even the skeptics of her divine mission. That tlS- ure in white armor, bearing banner with the fleurs-de-ls, leading to victory where hardened troops had failed, has been for all these centuries the glory and the inspiration of the land she saved. Is the girl from the little farm at Puy-Salnt- Bonnet, now cloistered in Paris con vent, to be another Jeanne, even in this day when the miraculous seems but the
 baseless fabric of a vision. Is she moved by some inexplicable impulse from within,
 or has the story of Jacques Darc's daugh-
 ter fostered in her mere delusion!
 There always has been, there probably always will be, much dispute as to the motive power in Jeanne's own achieve uents. M Anatole France, for instance, holds to the purely scientific view of her case She was beguine, the victim or superstitious imagination. and her dreams became realities only because she exercised strange psychic Influence over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
Czar Refused to
BeGray His Country

BeGray His Country
 M LTHOUGH considered perhaps GN the weakest of his line, the former Czar Nicholas of Russia has shown that he is a patriot and firm in diversity.
 An Associated Press dispatch from Petrograd describes in a graphic manner the Czar's last moments as autocrat of all the Russias. The cor respondent of Moscow paper, whose report was transmitted from Petro- grad to the United States, says the Emperor was travelling toward his capital on the night of March IA in complete ignorance of the revolution which had swept him from his throne in a few hours.
 Telegrams about the revolution had been sent to the Emperor, but he had received none of them. He was kept in ignorance of his fate until ? o'clock in the morning, when the imperial train reached Vishera, a station on the Moscow-P -Petrograd railway, 125 miles southeast of Petrograd. Nicholas was awakened from sleep and went into the dining car of his train, where attempts were still made to deceive him, but General Zabel, a member of lis suite who had protested against hoodwinking the unfortunate mon- arch, told him that his power was at an end.
 General Ivanoff said: "There is only one thing to do now. It is to open the Dyina front to the Germans and let them quiet the canaille. Nicholas replied angrily: q shall never become traitor to my coun- try" The deposed monarch expressed a pathetic wish to return to the inn perial estate on the Crimea. q will go to Livadia, to my gardens. I ann so fond of flowers"
 Nicholas Romanoff, stripped of his imperial honors in day, thanked God that it was over, that he would be able to spend the remainder of his life as a simple country gentleman. After all, that is the life he is fitted for. It was not so much the man as the system he represented that caused the Russian people to revolt The deposed Emperor could not read the handwriting on the wall, or he was prevented from doing so by the leaders who surrounded him. Had he yielded to the desire of his subjects for a more democratic form of gov ernment his place in their affections would have been secure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
ORDEAL OF DEFENSE

Winston Spencer Churchill in "Why Ger
 many Must Lose" in Golfers
 The defending troops are exposed to far more terrible ordeal than those att tacking. They are subjected for many hours to the intense and excrucating torture of the bombardment. By this they are driven into underground shel- ters, killed, buried alive, stunned. or driven mad Then suddenly and swiftly breaks upon them the great eruption of furious attacking infantry. If this on- rush cannot be stopped by such machine guns as have not been destroyed. or by the fire of a sprinkling of surviving rifle men, the defenders in he area success fully assaulted are practically all &C., counted for. The more they have been cowed by the artillery, the more they tend to remain crowded in their dugouts until the moment when 1t Is impossible for them to emerge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
A Man Who would Not soueal

'l was certainly sorry to see David Overton meet such tragic death,' said George H. Bodeker, the detective who worked the Lawler murder case against Overton. q first read of Overton's death in The Age-Herald extra. and although do not blame the deputies for killing him, or any of the other escapes, don't believe Overton was as bad as he was cracked up to be.
 T worked the case against Overton and there are many inside facts which never became known to the public. I would have liked to seen Overton live a short time after being shot as I believe he would have told the truth of the entire affair. There were men deeper in the crime than Overton.
 Many of the people in the Huntsville section liked Overton. He was a man of fine character, kind hearted and was respected by all for the manner in which he treated his family The murder of Judge Lawler was very brutal, and the law was right in taking it's course, but do not believe Overton was the lone prominent Madison county politician who was instrumental in the crime.
 The memory of Overton will live long in the minds of the Madison county peo- pie, because of his connection with the Lawler murder, but more so as man who wouldn't squeal.' I admire him for +l,a+
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
The devil knew not what he did when he made man polite.
 -Timon of Athens.

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lor,I, help me to say 'Our Father" Help me to include in my prayer all the children of my Father. And may they all be my brothers-my big brothers and my little brothers. May l stand in my prayer in the midst of them ail--not only the fine and the strong, but the lame aud the halt md the blind, the poor. the feeble and the frail. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
OPTINIISTS.

The sunshine people never seem
 To mind cloudy day; Instead of speaking gloomy words,
 You're apt to hear them say: No matter what the weather is,
 Iris foolish to complain Then they steal your umbrella and Go plodding through the rain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22

many features of great practical inn portance, among them an exception ally varied exhibit of road-making machinery. The last word in such de- vices will be seen here. That was a valuable exhibit at the good roads congress in Atlanta two or three years ago, but many Improvements have been made since then.
 Seven or eight governors have ac- cepted passively invitations to at tend the convention, and several more have accepted tentatively, conditioned on war activities.
 In connection with the convention there will be a meeting of the Bank head highway, projected from Wash ington, via Richmond, Atlanta, Bir- mingham and Memphis, to Los An geles. Representatives are coming here from all the principal cities along
 ie route.
 Senator Bankhead is recognized as the leading man in public life work ing for the good roads cause. It was he who induced Congress to appro- priate $75,000,000 last year, extend ing over period of five years, to aid each state in building good roads, and it was he who made the prediction when President Wilson signed his bill that the appropriation would prove so popular that Congress would eventual ly vote $50,000,000 to be expended an- nually for improving the highways. In view of what he has done in be- half of good roads a highway from Washington to California, bearing the name of Bankhead, would be fitting monument to Alabamas senior sena- tor.
 The forthcoming convention will undoubtedly be the largest and most interesting ever held in the south, both in it's personnel and in the ex- tent of it's road models and mechanical contrivances to be assembled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
BADLY NEED.-.,.

It's a pity there are really no good fairies in the world"
 ''Yes, indeed answered the motorist. Think what a pleasure it would be to have a good fairy step out into the road when your car broke down and with one wave of her magic wand send you speed ing on your way!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-22
TAKE. TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY

By Beaumont and Fletcher. Take, o take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn,
 And those eyes. like break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn! But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, though sealed in vain. Hide, o hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are yet of those that April wears!
 But first set my poor heart free
 Bound in those icy chains by thee