davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-07

value of these ships for foreign trade after the war. He believes that wooden ships would be of little val ue in the keen competition for world trade after peace is declared
 Powers of the President to com mandeer steel have been given an added impetus to the steel ship program. They have removed the objection that the material for steel ships could not be readily obtained.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-07
MANDOLIN CLUB HAS
 REHEARSAL EVERY NIGHT

Say" said merchant today Juneau is getting more metropoli tan-like every day, and the nexl thing we know we shall have an en. tire vaudeville show Last evening my wife and I, in going home, wen new route and wandered into 6 battery of mandolin players which reminded us of Honolulu"
 Others have had the same pleas. ant experience which is a new way of telling that Juneau's mandolin and guitar club rehearses nearly every night in it's headquarters neal Third and Franklin streets.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-07

For Genuine Alaska Gifts" go to the Arts & Craft Shop, Front and Main street.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-07

vents there being any desperately poor in the city
 The Indians are becoming very we'll educated. They have their own schools and these are attended of ten by the grownups, as well as the children. A large number of them can read and write. They feel justly proud that they had been able to do their bit" in the world war.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-07
HAVE YOU SPRUCE FOR
 SALE?

We are in the market for lin. 1A in, IF in. and 2-in. No. l Shop Spruce, the same thicknesses in No. Clear X Better Spruce, and as much 3-in. to 6-in. by 8-in. and over wide, IS it. to 40 it. long, Clear Vertical Grain Spruce as you can get out. In replying please give specific details regarding stock you have on hand covering quanti- ties of the different sizes and grades and whether it is dry or green. Can you furnish any Bevel Siding, Ceiling and Finish in No. 2 Clear & Better Spruce? Can you surface the Shop and Clear Spruce? Can you accept orders for specified thicknesses and grades? In naming your best price please quote delivered F. O. B. cars. Prince Rupert and aboard vessel Seattle, Wash. We would like to have your price both ways.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-07
MURDERER OFF TO PRISON

On board the Mariposa this morn ing was Alexander Mclean, convict ed at Seward last week of killing his wife in a brutal manner at Nush agak last January. Mclean was sentenced to 20 years at McNeirs Island.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Transportation
Continued from page one.9


the men who were in charge of some of the
principal railroads prior to war conditions,
but without any disturbance of local man.
agement. In England, however, the
government assumed financial responsibility
and guaranteed the net earnings if they
would continue to be what they had been
before the war started. In this country the
plan is, that the government shall advise
the railroads what service it requires, and
the responsibility is upon the railroad man.
ayers to provide that service. When work.
ing to that end the railroads are operated
practically as one system.
At all events, the American railroads are
keenly appreciative of their opportunity to
demonstrate to the country the value in
time of war of operating railroads with that
elasticity which. makes private management
possible. venture to predict that the rail-
roads of the U. S. during the period of war.
will rise to the highest state of International
traffic ever known. They will make this
great advance through the cooperative
work of their employees, shippers, con-
signees of freight, passengers and of the
Federal and State regulative bodies. In
deed such a prediction can only be fulfilled
through this cooperation, to secure which
is part of the railroads problem.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Tomorrow

Though this world seems and endless source
of worry, want and sorrow,
Try hard to Danish all hard thoughts, and
to think of just tomorrow;
Perhaps today's just not the day, and every
thing goes wrong,
Then comes tomorrow's radiant light and
changes the whole song.
There are others too, we all know, who's
paths are dark and weary,
Who's lives are just composed of things
that's desolate and dreary;
So never say; this world is wrong, I've never
had show;
Just grit your teeth and clench your fists,
and 60; yes fellow, 60.
1 too have had my troubles; I've received
my share,
1t seems as though it followed me; yes,
followed everywhere;
I've stood it all, and shortly now, I'll b.
in the clear,
I'm going out and tread the road that
banishes all fear.
So take advice from one who knows, and i.
willing now to tell,
Don't lose your faith in all that's good be-
cause you've tried, and fell,
If everything don't seem just right just wal
until tomorrow,
And perhaps you'll find you've done away
with worry, want and sorrow.-Sslsotsd.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
NJ IRRoRETTES
BIZ Uncle John

That young lady, Miss Lind, from
Minneapolis, who sang that beautiful solo
last Sunday morning, has fine voice of
high carrying power. Her singing was
heartily applauded.
Christian Science services were held in
the Auditorium last Sunday morning with a
goodly attendance. Yet there are room for
about fifty more.
Mr.. Silky who has been in poor health
for long time was visitor at the institution
Thursday, and was seen shaking hands with
old friends. He did not remain long as he
is far from being healthy man.
The engineers and power house crews
have been busy for several days, raising a
20 foot fly wheel from the basement under
shop G. 1t is quite difficult job, but they
will finish it soon.
We thought sure last Sunday morning
that it was at least twenty below zero, and
then we were told that it was only one below.
If that was only one below, we don't want
to 60 out when it is twenty times that cold.
"A new chorus from Minneapolis ap-
peared in our Auditorium last Sunday morn
ing, who made hit with our boys. Too
bad the time did not allow them to finish
their program but what they did render was
worth listening to.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Loves Barometer

Even December has its springlike days,
And it was one of these
When first your eye caught mine. A pur.
pie haze
Stirred through half budding twigs o.
many trees,
The breath of love was in the air;
l looked and saw you standing there!
And then--you must remember-arm in
arm
And heart in heart we strayed,
Smiling to watch how the astonished farm
Walked at springs call from sleep and
swiftly obeyed.
Lambs, calves, and colts leaped around,
and Blades of grass,
Brown burnt. stood up and felt soft foot.
steps pass.
You seemed part of all l saw
A cloud-wreath from the sky,
The first white bud upon the haw,
The gracile brook that rippled by.
Forgive me, what say is true
1t was the weather that loved, not you.
And now another day has come;
Overnight the world grew old.
Cold winds toss freezing fake about, ane
dumb
Are all the sparrows, and my heart il
cold.
Lady, if now we are estranged,
1t was the weather, and not !, that changed
Julian AZ. Drachman. in the Argosy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
:. P o e nv
From Oar Exchanges.
Backbone

Backbone is what you are needing, my boy,
If you would be healthful and able,
Courage to de, to dare and be
Alone will make your life stable!
Wishbones may please your fancy, my girl,
Walking in paths fair and easy!
But over the seas where you have to sail,
Tempests will blow strong and breezy!
Courage is just the thing you require.
In holding the plough or the pencil;
There's backbone behind it, and backbone
will tell,
As true as the outlining stencil!
The man with the wishbone is always de-
pendent,
While backbone is sure, strong, and ready;
1t dares to advantage when pathways are
dark,
And when things upset, il is steady!
Get backbone, my boy, whatever the cost;
With life many millions are fooling;
Dependent they live and helpless they die,
Since backbone is out of their ruling!
-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
GL { A n | N G s
From Our EXCHANGES

Sin has many tools, but lie is the
handle which fits them all.
1t is shame for the soul to give out
before the body.
Don't be satisfied to keep going! Be
sure you are going somewhere.
"A man without decision can never be
said to belong to himself.
Not victories, but defeats, make u.s.
Difficulties call out great qualities.
Hard work is the only cure for hard
luck.
Persistent people begin their success
where others end in failure.
Like the bee, we should make our in
dustry our amusement.
One test of intellectual power is stick
ing to thing until you have mastered it.
When we realize the meanness and the
wretchedness of small, persistent desires,
eve begin to be able to lay them aside.
On the whole, courage is the first and
last virtue; courage to attempt, to endure
rebuff, to begin again and again.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
The Prodigal Girl,

Sweet poets have sung of the beauties of
home,
Its comfort, its love, and its Joy;
How back to the place of its sheltered dome
1t welcomed the prodigal boy.
They picture his father with pardoning
smile,
And glittering robes to unfurl;
But none of the poets have thought it worth
while
To sing of the prodigal girl.
The prodigal son can resume his old place
As leader of fashions mad whirl.
With never a hint of his former disgrace
Not so the prodigal girl.
The girl may come back to the home she
has left,
But nothing is ever the same;
The shadow still fingers DER dear ones be-
reft,
Society SCOTS at her name.
Perhaps that is why when the prodigal girl
Gets lost on life's devious track,
She thinks of the lips that will scornfully
curl,
And hasn't the heart to come back.
Yes. welcome the prodigal son to his place;
Be merciful, gracious and just;
But shut mot the door in his frail sisters
face
Remember, she, too, is but dust.
-Selectsd.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13

In this broad earth of ours.
Amid the measureless grossness and the Stag.
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
By every life share or more or less,
None born but it is born, concealed o.
unconcealed the seed is waiting.
Over the mountain-growthd disease and sor.
row,
An uncaught bird is ever lowering, lowering,
High in the purer, happier air.
From imperfection's murkiest cloud,
Dart always forth one ray of perfect light,
One fash of heavens glory.
o the blest eyes, the happy hearts,
That see, that know the guiding thread SC
fine,
Along the mighty labyrinth.
Walt Whitman.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Myself

have to live with myself, and so
want to be fit for myself to know.
want to be able, as days 60 by,
Always to look myself straight in the eye;
don't want to stand, with the sitting sun,
And hate myself for the things I've DONE
don't want to keep on a closet shelf
A lot of secrets about myself.
And fool myself, as come and go,
Into thinking that nobody else will know
The kind of man really am;
l don't want to dress myself in sham.
want to 60 out with my head erect,
want to deserve all mems respect;
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf
want to be able to like myself.
l don't want to look at myself and know
That I'm buster and bluff, an empty show.
never can hide myself from me;
see what others may never see;
know what others may never know;
never can fool myself, and so,
Whatever happens want to be
Self-respecting and conscience free.
Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Recipe for SWelled Heads

In the November American Magazine a
writer says:
''He had bad case of swelled head. A
terrible but very common disease. He got
to making money fast, and then he blew
it in right and left for the purpose of show
ing off. He thought that he was wonder.
He felt thae he was invincible. He allowed
his feet to get off the ground, and he be-
come a victim of self-Aattery that can at
tack anybody.
$50 he blew up with a loud report, and
now he is getting back on his feet.
cit takes a man with a lot of sense to
keep level-headed in the presence of sudden
success. Still it Can be done. The way to
do 1t is to keep saying to yourself: Now,
young fellow, don't fool yourself. Re-
member that MILLIONS before you, for I'M
told generations, have shot up like rockets
and then shot down. There is nothing re-
markable about you yet. You are still
about as rare as garter snake-there have
been many like you in the past, and you
haven't even begun to distinguish yourself,
and you wont distinguish yourself except
by doing good job we'll for long time.
Now, the surest way for you to interrupt
that good work is for you to develop a
swelled head. Don't do it. You need
your head for thinking purposes, and a
swelled head can't think straight. 1t won,
get you anywhere, or anything. nor will
it tree you from embarrassment when you
remember what fool YOU WERE"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Pooling the Enemys

The Camoufage is an organization of
artists who fool the enemy with their brushes.
The members have done much to make
supply depots, wagons. motor trucks and
trains invisible. 1t is now almost impos-
sible for aeroplanes to discover French
batteries. In a recent article in the Evening
Sun, MIR. Ernest Peixo.to says that the
theory of protective coloration was long
ago employed by the Indians, who painted
himself so that he would be lost to sight in
the desert when hiding from animals or
pursuers. The French are now employing
the trick to conceal outposts and observers
who are stationed at dangerous points.
cake roads of painted muslin have been
made to draw the enemy's fire while i'm
portant movements of troops and supplies
were going on elsewhere. On one occasion
it was necessary to send soldiers from one
part of the front to another, past the end of
village street that was in plain sight of
German glasses and within easy range of
their guns. The artists painted a street,
prolonging it by perspective, and hung the
long painted screen SO that to the enemy
everything appeared as usual. But behind
the muslin screen soldiers passed all day
without detection and undisturbed by the
guns of the enemy. All sorts of clever de-
vices are used to conceal the hiding places
of observers. AT one place dead horse
lay for several days on slight rise between
the lines. One night French soldiers re-
moved the animal and substituted horse
of papier- mache with a man inside. That
observer occupied his dangerous post for
several days. Every night he returned to
give the results of his observations, which
were of the utmost value to his officers.
-SeIected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Slow Travel in Manchuria

Although 1t is much easier to reach
Manchuria now than it was ten or fifteen
years ago, the man who would travel in the
interior of this primitive part OF China, as
soon as he leaves the few railroads must
rely upon means that were standard CEN
tury ago.
If it is winter he will rattle over the frozen
mud in cart drawn by three horses, At
night he will stop at an inn where he must
supply his own bed and large part of his
own food, unless he is willing to be satisfied
with little boiled corn. The walls of his
loom will be of paper and eyes will peer at
him through holes hastily punched for the
purpose. In the morning his driver will
awaken him before daylight and start him
on another long day of jolts and freezing.
In the summer travel rs easier and pleas
anter, but also much slower. A boat may
be taken upon one of the rivers. 1t will
crawl along between pleasantly shaded
banks and green fields, every little while
coming to rest upon ssndbar, so that pro-
gress is unbellevably slow, even going down
stream. Against the current the boat is
laboriously poled and dragged with heavy
| ropes.
By these means the traveller may pene-
| trate into region where change is unknown
and the principles of Confucius still rule.
He will meet natives who have never seen
watch or a railroad train, although they
nominally belong to one of the oldest civil
lizations; he will see the squalor and dirt
and disease that 60 with ignorance.
The fact will be forcibly brought home
to him that modern progress travels over
good roads in its progress towards the goal
of commercial and industrial efficiency
selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
The Will.

Blame not the times in which we live,
Nor fortune, frail and fugitive;
Blame not thy parents, nor the rule
OF vice or wrong once learned at school;
But blame myself, o man!
Although both heaven and earth combined
To mold thy flesh and form thy mind;
Though every thought, word, action. will,
Was framed by powers beyond .thee-stiII
Thou art myself, o man!
And self to take or leave is free,
Feeling its own suficiency;
In spite of science, spite of fate,
The Judge within thee soon or late
Will blame but thee, O man?
Say not, II would, but could not. He
Should bear the blame who fashioned me. :"
Scoring such pleas, the inner voice
Cries, Chine is the deed, o mani
Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Chautauqua Report

regular meeting of the Chautauqua
Circle was held in the school room Sunday
afternoon, Dec. 9th, with nineteen members
responding to roll call; two members being
excuse, two members being dropped from
the rolls for non attendance, one member
being released from the institution since the
last meeting and one member dropped from
the Circle membership for other causes.
The president called the meeting to order,
and after the distribution of class books and
roll call, the first number on the pro-
gram, debate, on State Industrial lnsur-
ance, was announced, which took up the
whole period, with the exception of one
paper read by Mr.. D., entitled, "The Fe-
male Politician The debate was the first
held by the circle during this term, and was
greatly enjoyed by all. Mr.. B. had the
affirmative side and Mr.. L. the negative.
Both of these gentlemen are able takers
and deep thinkers and each gave consider
able thought and study to their respective
sides of the question and delivered it in a
very able and forceful manner; some dis
cussion followed. A vote was then taken,
and when counted the negative side had
nine votes and the affirmative eight.
After the paper by Mr.. D. was read,
which was up to his usual standard, the
President announced the members who are
on the program for the next meeting. He
also announced that another debate would
be held on January 23rd, Mr.. L. and Mr..
S. will handle the affirmative side while
Mr.. K: and Mr.. H. will look after the
negative side. The question to be debated
is:-Resolved, That DR.. Haiseldon's theory
is permissible in a civilized country as it
tends to improve the human race.
The next quarterly to be held in Janu-
airy was then discussed, and it is predicted
that it will be the best quarterly meeting
ever held in the history of the circle. Con-
| siderable rehearsals are being given the
members who will be on the program. The
Critic who had been reappointed by the
President was then called upon for his re-
port, which was delivered in his accustomed
high-class style. In Mr.. P. the circle have
found the right man for the place and the
only way he may expect to be dethroned is
by being released from the institution.
p. H. D. Sec'y. y
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Though it Regular" Talk

Proof positive that each one of us is fol-
himself the center of the universe, tina,
what ''our folks dc is the proper thing
and all else mere eccentricity, is seldom
lacking, but it comes out most engagingly
in childhood.
'She can speak French most beautifully
concluded Elsie's big sister, Sara, after
having described at length to the family a,
the supper table the charms and accomplish.
ments of new friend, girl who had lived
several years abroad, and had come recent.
ly to Sara's school.
Il know a GIRL put in Elsie at thi.
point, with an air of importance, '::and she
used to live in England. She's in my
kindergarten, and she can speak English,
l guess
''Well, what of that1'' demanded Sara
$50 can you speak English.
"Oh, no, can't; don't know how
Why, of course l can't speak English,
Elsie appealed from the laughing faces now
turned toward hes. 'tcan l, motheri''
Certainly you can speak English, child
it's what we all speak; we're speaking il
now
"What? Is it English we're talking
right this minutef Is it truly, motherf"
cot course my dearl What languag'
did you suppose it was that we talkf'
"Why, mother, l didn't suppose it wa!
English, or any other language. though
it was just regular talk, of course"
-Yomth's Companion.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Moving a Pyramid Five Miles

One of the strangest and most difficult
engineering tasks that has ever been attempt
ed in long time will be the removal of a
granite pyramid erected 40 years ago at the
top of Sherman Pass in the Rocky Noun
tains. This pyramid is to be moved FIVE
miles and set in place again. 1t is so feet
high and so feet square at the base. To
reach its new site the pyramid must be taken
down, a stone at time, and then regretted.
The pyramid is unique among monu-
ments. 1t stands on one of the most lofty
eminences ever chosen for such purpose,
some 5000 feet above sea level, and COM
memorates the names of Oliver and Cakes
Ames, the men whose constructive genius
made it possible to carry the first railroad
across the Rocky Mountains. This monu-
ment is now located at the point where
this line formerly crossed the backbone of
the continent. A change in the line, car
ried out to reduce the grade and mileage,
left the pyramid five miles off the right-of-
way. So it has been decided to move the
monument to a prominent position in the
present line, where all may see this colossal
tribute in stone to the two Ameses.
When the rails of the railroad were first
spiked to the ties over Sherman Pass the
work was considered one of the wonders Of
the world.
At the same time that the Ames monu-
ment is being moved to a uew pedestal,
engineers are driving second tunnel un-
der the mountain at the top of Sherman
Pass, building the first double track acros.
the Rockies-the highest continuous piecs
of double track in the world.
These two events, the driving of tn,
new tunnel and the relocating of the Anne
| monument, are in the nature of celebration
of the great work of these pioneer railroad
builders. -Sslse:sd
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
Buck up Brother

Buck up, Brother! Turn your eye
From the things of days gone by.
Fix your vision on Today
And the morrow on the way
Past is past, and what hath been
In the realm of JOY or sin
Kesteth there for good or rue,
Spite of all that we can do.
Let that Chapter close, indeed,
Save the lessons we may read
In its teachings of them
Yet may come our diadem.
Buck up, Brother! Close the book
And toward the future look.
And Today with purpose true
Let your Soul be born anew.
Reassert your Manhood fine.
Cry, "Tomorrow-that is mine.
And my days will not be vain
Now that l am born again!'-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
To the Hen-Oh, Lovely Hen

Alas, my child, where is the pen
That can do justice to the hen?
Like Royalty, she goes her way
Laying foundations every day
Though not for Public Buildings, yet
For Custard, Cake and Omelette.
Or, if too old for such a use
They have their fling at some abuse,
As when to censure plays unfit
Upon the stage they make hit,
Or at elections seal the fate
Of an obnoxious candidate.
No wonder, child, we prize the Hen,
Whose egg is mightier than the Pen.
-Er
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-13
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 q slip of paper, attach
to articles and give to cell hall
captain.