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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-29

AITKIN COUNTY corn and clover
lands. Improved and unImproved.
Timber and open. On good ROADS. Near
market. 10000 acres to select from. $40
to $50 per acre. Easy terms. Free list
and maps. HUDSON Land Agency,
Aitkin, Minnesota. (1l2114)
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DR.. AXEL OFTEDAL,

DIX. AAGA O3 y GO&A,
Physician and Surgeon
once over CnrisIlanson Drug
store, No. 10 broadway. Once
phone, 4I2Ws residence phone,
zS4s-W. Onice hours: 10:UU TO
1900 a. m; $500 to 6:eU p. M and
1900 to 500 p. N.
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MIR. FARMER: Write us. Re improved
farms. good buildings, good ROADS.
dral telephones, rural mail, cheap
lumber ana fuel and fine water 1913
miles from Winnipeg, on Edmonton
main line. ]. H. Evans d Co., Gilbert
Plains, Manitoba. (1Ubl31)
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Business Chances

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DRUG STORE for sale--Good, olean
stocked store In very prosperous
Doing excellent business and good pros
pect for doubling present amount thia
year. Inventory taken Feb. L. ap-
proximately $1,000. VIII give 16N or
inventory. If you mean business write.
If not don't. Address asa, care Forum.
(1041131
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FOR SALE-Good embellishments. Box
81, Sumatra, Mont. (9T123)
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FOR SALE CHEAP
Six-room house, modern except fur
mace, Bergstrom coal stove, gas range,
good lawn and two apple trees in back
yard. Location, 1ZO Attn St., South.
Moorhead, MINI. Address r. L. Lang,
Dooley, Mont (lO5)
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PIN SETTLERS wanted at the Grand
Bowling Alley. Salary per game or
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Our Strongest Muscles

The strongest muscle in the human body
is the gluteus maximus. Hardly move
ment of the lower extremities can be made
without bringing it into play, its chief duty
is to balance the pelvis on the head of the
thigh bone. 1t assists in carrying the leg
forward and outward in walking, and with
out its aid any movement of the body fro m
hips would be impossible.
As it is the strongest, so it is also the
largest muscle we possess. In the full
grown man it can exert force of ITO pounds
to the square inch Of its section in the
thickest part.
Another strong muscle, which is situated
in the calf of the leg, is capable of sustain
ing seven times the weight of the body. The
great tendon, which is inserted in the heel
bone and which is called tendon achilles, is
also of singular strength. When removed
from the body it has sustained weight of
1000 pounds. yet sometimes by the sudden
action of the muscles of the calf. to which
it belongs, it has been snapped across.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Perils of Oil Cargoes

The explosion of vessels earring petroleum
frequently occurs, and this is generally
caused not by the cargoes of oil which they
contain, but by the inhammabe vapor
which is left behind after the huge tanks of
the ships have been emptied.
1t is difficult to remove all the oil that
adheres to the sides of the tanks, and the
evaporation of the oil film left in them after
they have been pumped out takes place with
great rapidity. Moreover, the vapor thus
formed mingles readily with the air and is
capable of rendering more than 1000 times
its own volume of the latter inhammable
A spark may thus cause fearful explosion
in the hold of ship that is apparently emp
ty.
A film of petroleum spreading over the
surface of the water has keen known to pro-
duce enough of this volatile and dangerous
vapor to cause confagration, by which a
number of ships lying in harbor have been
suddenly enwrapped in roaring flames as il
by stroke of magic. Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
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From Our Exchanges.
November TWilight

There. in the west, the clouds, cold, steel
gray,
Hide the lingering light Of November day;
Now ending, save where the ,somber fold
Is cleft by potent ray, like shafts of gold.
That sends Ger earth-that Natures sway
Has made drear, by winds that wildly play,
Sad notes on minor strings-its brightness
untold
Clear CLEANS of light, that gladden. all the
way.
Mayhap. some life, like this day, that ends.
Swallowed by Affections clouds, that lower,
Blind to what the future holds in store,
Is cheered by Hope, that blessed friend.
Who comes, all unsought, to lend
A strength and beauty, unknown before.
Louise SnOD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Winning Immortality

All being is eternal. The only thing
that dies is form. But since form is mere-
ly vehicle or mode of expression, nothing
is really lost. There is perfect conservation
of all that is.
Immortality is conscious eternality, that
the soul is eternal in both directions, back
ward as well as forward, in the past as well
as the future, then few of us have yet at
tanned Immortality. for we are not conscious
of our existence before birth. There is a
wide difference of opinion as to the form
our soul life took before it came into its
present bodily incarnation. Most of the
Oriental religions held that we have lived in
other bodies. Perhaps this opinion is ia
vored by majority of the human race. 1t
is now being accepted in some degree by
Western nations. The prevailing view
among us has been, however, that while the
soul has always existed, it never before had
bodily form but was in the bosom of God.
Whichever view is correct, the point re-
mains the same, that we are not immortal
SO far as the past is concerned. for we do
not remember the past. Therefore i'm
mortality must be won. Gods memory is
perfect. If this be granted, the conclusion
is inevitable that only through Him do we
attain Immortality. We must come into
union with Him, with His thought and His
pemory.-James II. Edgerton.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
To Win Out is to Hang On

The man who wins is the man who works.
The man who arrives at the point of his
ambition is one who never gives up. Any
way you look at it, it's the mans own fault
if he does not get up in the world.
The man who shirks work and lodges
trouble can never expect to rise. 1t is much
easier to give up when the job becomes too
difficult. But to find excuses for not tack
ling hard tasks is to admit inability to ac-
complish things worth doing. Men who
succeed win out because they hang on when
others let go.
Failure, in m ost instances, can be traced
to lack of steadfastness of purpose. I'm
planting the germ of ambition in your breast
is to create a desire to do something-to
succeed. Only the man who buckles down
to enthusiastic effort, who uses his hands,
his head, his eyes, can win.
To reach the end of long trail-to rise
to the heights of victory-is matter of per-
sonal caliber and equipment. Success is
only for those who are willing to endure a
siege of misjudgment, who are prepared to
face the fire of criticism, who are ready to
accept defeat until they become vaccinated
against it.
Hiram said: "Most men who give up
would have arrived had they kept up"
Anybody can do easy things. But it
takes Somebody to accomplish the diff
cult.-Better Citizen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
When Will it End

Absolute knowledge have none, but my
aunt's washerwomen' sisters son heard a
policeman on his beat say to tailor on the
street. that he had letter just last week,
written in the finest Greek, from Chinese
coolie in Timbuctoo who said the negroes
in Cuba knew of a colored man in Texas
town who had it straight from a circus
clown, that a man in Klondike heard the
news from gang CT South American Jews,
about somebody in Borneo who heard a
man who claimed to know of a swell society
belle estate whose mother in-law will I'M
dertake to prove that husband sister, niece
has stated in printed piece that she has a
son who has friend who knows when the
war is going to end. -Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Glad

l know boy whose folks are rich, they
give him everything;
He's got the most expensive toys that Santa
Clause could bring;
He's got wheel an skates an kites an
|. carts with rubber tires.
An railroad trains that run on tracks with
real electric. wires.
But he can't go on fshin' trips an he can t
even swim,
Because he has Pa that has no time to play
with him.
toys he had,
l wouldn't be as mean as him, but I'd he
always glad;
| wondered why it was he frowned an
whined like people ill.
An then l learned the toys he had were
bought TO keep him still;
He couldn't shout or make noise or get in
peoples way;
His Pa was tired when he got home an
didn't want to play.
My Pa can't buy lot of toys. When
want something new;
wait until my birthday comes. It's all
that he can do
To keep us clothed an fed, he said, but
every night e>comes
An plays the games want to play, an we
are just like chums;
An he knows how to curve ball, an he is
teaching me;
An he takes me TO circuses an things
want to see.
guess it's not the toys you have that real
ly makes you glad;
That rich boy has lot of things an yet
he's always sad.
An when we 60 on hshin' trips he looks SO
queer know
His insides are just hurtin' with the wish
that he could go;
His Pa won't take him anywhere, he's al
ways in the way;
I'm glad I've got the kind of Pa that's not
too rich to play.-Ee.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Promotions. lin Business

In the American Magazine, Thomas E..
Wilson, the Chicago packer. says:
81 often ask a man why he is doing a
thing certain way. If he tell me that he
does it that way because it has always been
done Just like that am inclined to be some
what dubious about his ability. Not in
frequently the fact that custom has been in
force for thirty years is sufficient proof that
it is wrong. We should be constantly on
the lookout for better ways of doing things.
Any business not showing constant advance
ment usually deteriorates. Individual posi-
tons are no exceptions.
''One of the great foes to good organi-
cation is the practice of promoting by seniori-
ty alone. John Smith is moved into va
cancy because he has been in the depart
ment longer than some other fellow. This
plan permits an inferior man to block the
way of good man. There should be no
rules about promotion which can in any
way hamper the selection of the best man
for place. In fact, 1 do not like to have
too many rules about anything. Rules
tend to make people follow custom without
knowing why and without using much
initiative. If you would make success OF
your business, you must not follow the
customs of thirty years ago"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
The Power of Concentration

The suns rays ordinarily warm and cheer;
focus them through a strong magnifying
glass and they can burn city. The force
in an acre of grass is strong enough to move
all the railroad trains in the world, could it
be concentrated; scattered, it moves nothing
but an acre of grass. In one man is power
enough to change the map of the world. to
bring happiness and health to continent =
if that power be concentrated to one pur-
pose; but millions of men, scattering their
force over many interests, fail to do more
than live and die unknown. Blows falling
repeatedly upon the same spot will destroy
the strongest wall; blows of the same force
scattered over the surface of the wall may
fall till doomsday without more than scratch
ing its surface. In concentration lies the
power to achieve; in dallying effort is the
assurance of failure.
The story is told of boy who had great
difficulty with his arithmetic lesson. Each
night he had to give two long hours to its
preparation, or go to class with it unPre-
pared. He took to timing himself, to see
if he could not do the work in less time.
The first night he allowed himself an hour
and fifty minutes, the next an hour and
fourty- five minutes, the next an hour and
half. Within month he was preparing
his two-hour lessons accurately in half an
hour. The determination to reduce the
period of preparation had resulted in an al
most perfect concentration, and he realized
that he had formerly been paying an hour
and half at night to his inability to apply
himself.
This case is not unusual. Many boy
is wasting hours on work that would only
require minutes, if he gave his whole mind
to it. In the will to concentrate is half the
victory.-The Boys World.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
SeaWeed as Food

Kelp is an enormous sea plant which
abounds along the Pacific coast. A full
grown plant will have stem 800 feet in
length, which bears at the top an Dir bulb.
From this bulb grow fifteen or more giant
leaves, each one of which will attain a
length of thirty or forty feet.
This plentiful vegetable is entirely ignored
by us, but the Japanese prize it highly.
They make what is known as "kombu'
from kelp. Because it fades in the curing
process much of it is dyed green. Just as
French peas are dyed to give them their
pleasing color. This shredded, dyed exon
bu" is used as a vegetable and is cooked
with soups and meats. 1t is even made into
a sort of CONNECTION by sugaring small strips
of Unpopular Science Monthly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
A Prayer

know it cannot be irreyerence,
This feeling that have anent that time,
When with my life's work finished, 60
hence,
Leaving this low plane for the upward climb,
My Father God and Christ my beauteous
Brother
Have ever owned the deepest heart of me.
Yet when journey on, there is one other
first would meet, and clasp, and hear, and
see.
God and His Holy Son have host on host
To welcome and to comfort and to cheer,
| think They would not mind it if the mos,
Beloved soul They took from me drew pear
To show the way. Lord! Up the golden
street
Let my love lead me to Thy shining feet.
Ella Wheeler WilcOs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
The New Profession

There may be gold and precious stones and
other riches rare
But right along aside of them, with which
they can't compare,
like to name another thing, certain kind
of gink
Who is treasure and a jewel-the party
who can think.
He never needs to hunt job or howl about
raise;
He makes his business thinking, and he
finds that thinking pays.
The ordinary dub may do for singing cash
or ink,
But every little while they need the fellow
who can think.
When he bumps up against wall in doing
this or that
He Doesn't give the matter up and drop it
where it's at;
There isn't any obstacle that puts him on
the blink
He finds some other way to do, the person
who can think.
We talk about commodities forever in de-
mand
Like food and clothing, anything in all the
mighty land;
But there's a market always brisk, if skies
are gray or pink
The market for the valuable gazabo who
can think.
The funny thing about it is it isn't any gift,
It's Just the difference between the men who
work or drift
It's just the difference between the easy-go-
ing gink
And one who takes the trouble just to stop
bit and think.
Young maH if you are wondering what
business to adopt
Or seek an occupation where you never can
be stopped,
If you would like to win success and win i.
in wink,
Adopt this new profession -be the fellow
who can think.-Selscted
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
p o E TT r z Z
Leduss From Our Poets.
November

November has no verdant meads,
No trees with LEAKAGE crowned;
No wealth of flowers or golden grain,
No fruitage rich is found,
For Mother Nature flung her gifts
So lavishly away,
That none are left for this late month,
Not any bright array.
But Indian Summer. tender heart,
Comes with pathetic smile,
With olive haze she wells the hills,
And fingers for while.
With quiet morns and slumb'rous air,
And pensive afternoons,
She soothes November's discomfort,
And shows him golden moons.
And some dear birds are lingering,
Quite loath to wing away
From scenes where they had rioted
Through many summer day.
And for this month feast is set
A feast of glad good cheer;
An honor given no other month
In the circling year.-Emma Lente.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Going the Route

The farmer raised his wheat and rye
And held his crops for prices high.
Remarking, "That's the farmers biz.
And he got his.
The speculator cornered grain
And turned it over for his gain;
And laughed with glee as prices riz.
And he got his.
The miller turned it into -four.
And so it travelled, hour by hour.
Of many a man, the story is,
That he got his.
The ultimate consumer sought
A shop and paid for what he bought
So much it made his poor brain whiz
AS he got his Washington Star.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
A Paper-Mill By-ProduCt

One of the important secrets of financial
success in any manufacturing enterprise is
to convert all or as much as possible of the
raw materials handled into money. Realiz-
ing this. Maine paper manufacturers are
much interested in the question of saving
the pitch by-product from the manufacture
of spruce pulp-wood-spruce turpentine-
and selling it.
When the wood, immersed in acid, is
cooked in the digestors in the pulp making
process the pitch comes out and floats on
top. All that is necessary then to save it
is to skim it off by mechanical means. The
average quantity obtained is about barrel
for each So tons of pulp produced by the
mill.
A Philadelphia concern, it is announced,
has worked out and patented process for
utilizing this spruce turpentine IN the manu-
facture of liquid for removing paint and
this concern would like to have al. of the
mills making pulp from spruce save their
pitch by-product.
Though the price of spruce tutpentine is
comparatively low, it is believed that the
mills, particularly the larger ones, would
find it profitable to collect it There is some
question as to whether the removal of the
pitch improves or weakens the acid which
is used over and over. Several pulp manu-
facturers, it is said, would begin to collect
ing the by-product if they were certain
that the quality of the acid would not be
lowered thereby.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Begin at Home

Don't be so eager, SO anxious, SO keen,
To discover the faults of your neighbor
To jeer at his figure, too fat or too lean,
To run down his play or his labor,
To sniff at his knowledge, great or small,
To scof at his garments or dwelling;
Don't criticise cruelty his acts one and all,
His faults and defects don't be telling.
For each of us mortals in the vale of tears
Can find plenty to do if we try
Just all of the spare time we have thro' the
years
To remove every blemish from a."
Hays.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
Inmates Attention.!

Inmates will observe the following
rules to insure prompt mail service.
Place register number and page num-
her as per example in upper right hand
corner of envelope in space to be covered
by stamp.
Your future page number will be same as
shown in stamp space in example. and
will be found on all incoming letters.
Do not write between lines.
Sign your full name to all letters.
il. SULLIVAN. Deputy Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
In Remembrance of Mother

Life loved her, though it took her away,
She was noble and extremely kind.
loving. mother true and good, though she
never complained,
When her happiness was denied, by her
loved ones who rejected heI life's ways,
And now death has loved her, and has taken
her away,
From those who loved her, but who had her
life's joys,
And now she has gone from this world to the
next,
With sweet smile that betrayed no COM
plant from her lips.-Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
The Passing of Rastus Brown

Contributed By Mr.. d. II.
George Washington Rastus Brown,
Resident of college town,
One night, on chickens bent,
To old Doc. Coles hen-coop went.
Doctor Cole, professor he
In the College of Surgery
In an absent-minded state
Left bundle by his gate.
George Washington Rastus Brown,
Some hours after the sun went down,
Spying the bundle by the gate
Did it quickly appropriate.
Took also hen or two,
Then very quietly he withdrew,
To nice secluded spot
To investigate what he had got.
Now the bundle did contain
As Doc, did afterwards explain :
A gruesome thing from the dead,-
Nothing less than human head.
From the place there on the ground
Where the head and hens were found,
Thirty feet, where he came down,
Were seen the tracks of Rastus Brown
On the corner of street,
Where belated folks did meet:
Knocking them to left and right,
A negroe passed in hurried flight.
He was moaning as he ran,
A goary towel within his hand,
He cast frightened backward look
At every other jump he took.
That was the last in that there town
They ever saw of Rastus Brown,
And there are folks willing to bet
That Rastus Brown is running yet.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
ObSeSSiOn

said, 81 shall forget my love,
And sought the crowded street.
But saw my lover features in
Each stranger | did meet!
Then said /, Glove l will forget"
And straightway. closed my eyes,
But my lovers laughter came to me
In all the cities cries.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15

The professor, engrossed in his work
late at night, left his study to get book in
a neighboring room. His dog improved
the opportunity to leave his place by the
stove and made himself comfortable in the
professors chair.
"Dear me- said the perplexed man when
he returned, "can have been sitting on
that poor dog the whole EVENING""
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-15
M IR R 0 R E 7 TES
By Uncle John

Christian Science Services were held in
the auditorium last Sunday. The attend
ance being beyond the average.
Miss Jenny Lind, of the Twin Cities,
after an introduction by our Chaplain, sang
two splendid selections, which were sincerity
applauded and appreciated by all her
hearers.