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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-08
Conserving Waste Paper
By Mr.. G. r. S.

Readers of any publication cam
not have failed to note that the
cost of paper has been mounting
skyward very rapidly during the
past year. The situation has
grown quite serious from the pub
lisher's end and, from another
angle, waste paper is worth saving
because it has become so much
more valuable than it was a few
months ago. Every manufacturer
of paper specialties should make a
business of baling his waste. More
than that, every retailer should in
stall a waste paper baler for his
own profit and for the purpose of
conserving the paper supply and
keeping the price within reason.
A short time ago the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
of the Department of Commerce
of the United States issued a
panphlet telling how to handle
waste paper. The pamphlet gave
valuable information to manufac-
turers and retail merchants who
have considerable quantities of
waste paper to handle. The PAM
phlet stated that the reason for the
high prices of paper stock in the
country is the decreased import
from foreign countries of waste
paper and rags, the normal import
being now only so per cent of
what it used to be.
The government pamphlet is en-
titled, ''How to Select, Assert and
Dispose of Waste Paper, Rags and
Other Materials" 1t is compre-
hensive in character, giving in
structions as to what to save in
this line, the way to assort and the
manner in which various kinds of
waste paper and rags are graded.
1t calls attention to the fact that in
times past the collection and sale
of old paper and rags was consid-
cred a profitable part of the busi-
ness of country stores. If a paper
baler was profitable for merchants
a year ago, it certainly is doubly
so to-day This, of course, applies
also to the manufacturer to an
even greater extent than it does to
the retailer.
Data are not at hand upon which
to base an idea of the importance
of waste paper baling to the manu-
facturer, but some idea can be
gained from the experiences or a
few representative retail mer-
chants. In Marshalltown, Iowa,
there has been formed the Pro-
ducers' Waste Paper Company
The members are manufacturers,
jobbers and merchants of the town.
The company is purely co-opera-
tive and was organized for
economic reasons.
In these times it is true that no
business is too small for a paper
baler, and the large concern that
overlooks this chance to conserve
wealth is shutting its eyes to a
frst-class money-making PROPOSE
ton. Conservation calls for baling.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-08

tives, as we'll as the one hundred
or more poems from the surround
ing region who work in the Salina,
were illiterate. There is a tiny
chapel there, but no mass is ever
said or any religious observance
ever celebrated. Every Saturday
was celebrated by season of pro-
tracted debauchery, beginning
early in the morning and extend
ing over Monday.
The chief stock in trade at the
store was imported from Buenos
Aires in casks and demijohns, and
their system of bookkeeping in
practice there was founded and de-
vised to accord in strict arith
metical precision with the possible
earning power of the riotous
workers at the highest rate of
wages, which was at that time
! $500 day.
Their method of collecting and
transporting the harvest of La
Salina is very hard work and
wasteful. The layers of salt which
lay on the surface of Salina aver
ages from one inch to one and a
half inches in thickness and
spreads over the entire sloughs,
covering many square miles.
The removal of this salt for
commerce is the sole source and
object of the local industry at San
Jose. The salt is first broken
free from the moist deposit from
which it arises, with short clubs;
it is then raked together into
small mounds, which stand dotting
the face of the slough like hay
cocks on meadow. 1t is next
shOvelled into sacks made from
strong sugar -bagging, and when
filled weigh about 1872 pounds each.
These sacks of salt are then thrown
into dump cars, which, when load
ed, are hauled over a railway to
great mounds of salt half a mile
away, where the salt is Temporarily
deposited, and later transported to
the railroad station and shipped to
BuenUs Aires.
Having sailed for the most part
of my working life, La Salina, or
the lost sea, as it is called, had a
strange fascination for me, and in
spite of the hard work, l remained
there for two months, feeling more
than half contented. But from the
very beginning l was puzzled to
account for the constantly recur-
ring phenomena in the Salina it.
self. In the first place why did
the salt constantly reappear on the
surface as often as it was removed?
The great mass that composed the
body of the Salina, was made up
entirely of finely pulverized soil
held together by moisture like a
bog, while all of the surrounding
region was coarse sand, gravel and
cobble stones. In the Salina, how
ever, these had evidently sunk to
the bottom because of their great
weight, but why did not the salt
remain at the bottom also, for that
was also heavier than the finely
powdered soil which composed the
body of the slough? Again, at
regular periods in every month the
soil beneath the salt would become
so soft that a man could not walk
upon it, and work would have to
be suspended for some days until
the Salina again dried.
I asked all manner of questions
of the natives, including an old
negro, who was claimed to be 105
years old, and who had lived there
all of his life, but could obtain no
explanation that was satisfying. 1
then decided to begin a little in
vestigation on my own account,
trusting to my inherent sea-sense,
natural or acquired, to lead me
to the solution of the problem.
i(Continued on page 81
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-08
SIGH OF THE SEA
by Mr.. l.. j, w.

Among the most interesting of
the many remarkable natural fea-
lures to be found in South Ameri-
ca are La Salinas Grandes, and
La Mar Chiquita, or the lost seas.
in the hill country of Argentine;
the last dregs and draining of
long departed sea.
Every Argentine school boy
knows of their existence, but un-
til very recently no one OF earth
knew that they have distinct and
regular tide which rises and falls
in perfect accord with the phases
of the moon and the mighty sway
ing of the south Atlantic Ocean.
After accepting a position at
San Jose, only short distance
from the lost sea, boarded a Gen.
trail Cordoba railway train and
started north. Early the next
morning our train was sidetracked
near a cattle corral in little mud
village labelled San Jose." about
400 miles northwest of Buenos
Aires.
San Jose is anything bat an at
tractive place, although set among
rather imposing surroundings, it
appears to the traveller nothing
more than a scattered collection of
mud huts, all built of mother earth
and stucco, and put together in all
shapes and sizes. The permanent
population of the place is a pos
sible one hundred native Indians
and about twice as many mongrel
dogs. But to offset this, the
mountain scenery in many parts of
Cordoba is grand. but San Jose
must have been forgotten by the
gods.
After a good inspection of the
place at the store for my employ
ment, i was told that l was to
work in La Salina. l did not
know then what LA Salina"
meant, but 1 soon exposed my ig-
norance by asking. The following
day, in company with several
poems, we were sent to Salina in
high wheeled cart drawn by two
mules, and the daddy of all
donkeys towing an "out-rigger"
along side.
The shores of Salina are about
three miles from the station, and
the route lies through a partly
cleared forest, and ran through
bed of coarse sand, the wheels
sinking half way to the hubs.
AS our chariot mounted sand
dune in a clearing about a mile
from the shore, l caught my first
glimpse of La Salina shining in the
distant sun light like a tranquil
and expansive lake. AS we ap-
preached near, however, it resem-
bled very much a vast plain be-
meath light fall of snow. With
but few exceptions all the labor
ers at La Salina were half-breed
or full-blood Indians; sturdy,
strongSand we'll built fellows, and
nearly all young men in the first
flush of their early manhood. But
irresponsible and as needless as
they were, l found them to be
true hearted, sincere friends,
staunch workmates and congenial
comrads. The labor at La Salina
was unnecessarily hard and fit only
for the strongest men and mules.
The food was of the coarsest de-
scription; no shelter of any sort
was provided except such as they
could erect themselves with the
branches of trees and tall grass
woven together. The company
store" system was in full vogue,
and canteen in connection, in
which the poems received moth
ing for their labor but the COM
pany's scrip, redeemable at the
store only, and that mostly for rum
and tobacco,
at San Jose there are no public
schools, and nearly all of the ma
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-03-08
Continued from last week.

COntlnueQ from last week.
They endeavOr to make good
actions seem contemplate in other
mems eyes, and try to belittle ev-
cry noble and praiseworthy enter
prise by casting suspicion upon the
motives of those connected with it.
Such individuals are an incubus
on any society. and the best way
to paralyze their efforts to create
dlscord, is to ignore them alto
gether. Let grumblers form a
circle by themselves. Let them
herd together: give them the cold
shoulder when they appear, and
make them uncomfortable during
their sojourn, and if they cannot
be cured they may be more easily
endured, and perhaps discover the
error of their ways and reform.
There are some people who
dearly like to grumble, no matter
whether they be right or wrong,
crying or laughing. working or
playing, gaining a victory or
smarting under humiliation, pay
ing or being paid still they must
grumble, and in fact, they are
never so happy as when they are
grumbling; and supposing every
thing was to their satisfaction,
(though it says great deal for
our power of assumption to assume
any such absurd impossibility),
still they would grumble at the
fact of there being nothing for
them to grumble about.
There are two things about
which we should never grumble:
the first is that which we CANNOT
HELP, and the other that which we
CAN HELP.
Don't put yourself in the path of
criticism. Remarks are often
made one to the other in conf
dence. But what a farce. You
might better make your remark in
the open and save it from being
repeated from mouth to mouth,
until it is so enlarged and exagger-
ated upon that you fail to recognize
that you are really the author of
it. This l find is a daily occur
renee, and only terminates in Sc
we're criticism and possible injury
to yourself.
A man would get very false
notion Of his standing among his
friends and acquaintances if it
were possible--as many would
like to have it possible-to know
what is. said of him behind his back.
One day he would 60 about in
glow of self f-esteem, and the next
he would be bowed under a miser-
able sense of misapprehension and
disgust. 1t would be impossible
for him to put this and that to-
gether and .''strike an average"
The fact is, there is strange hu-
man tendency to take the present
friend into present confidence.
With strong natures this tendency
proves often a stumbling block:
with weak natures it amounts to
fickleness. 1t is proof, no doubt,
of the universal brotherhood; but
one has to watch, lest, in an un-
guarded moment, it lead him into
ever so slight disloyalty to the
absent.
Never employ yourself to dis
cover the faults of others-look to
your own. You had better find
out one of your own faults than
ten of your neighbor's. When a
thing does not suit you, think of
some pleasant quality in it. There
is nothing so bad as it might be.
Whenever you catch yourself in a
fault-finding remark, say some ap-
proving one in the same breath,
and you will soon be cured. Since
the best of,us have too many in.
firmities to answer for, we ought
not to be too severe upon those OF
others; and therefore if our broth.
er is in trouble, we ought to help
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-25
The Red Mouse
A Story of Love, Jealousy and Politics
BY WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE
TIE STORY THUS FAR

THE STORY THUS FAR
MIRIAM CliALLONER. devoted young
SSns SnssaqS ,S s SIS al az SsS
lie. i'm ally re6es When he Vrg comes stasseTiHs
home in broad daylight after nights
sSS hs IL IRe
G q SMILEY isT chSGST
hSnd haSns ns %s from 'SG
TSsre, is. a thriliiue scene as the husband
money, " and i'G as " he "Sr s"Ts from the I hcHse
hand PfaF& to nina B afF ns na hdss
her @ face IN her hnaS b 80 hSt she and T'E Surss 9s
,",J ,1",gJ, iINwEENcE cHALLoNEE, the hn,s;
Sna2 ss %sy to ssSa s F 6 WON wng.S sS
nfectloH he fears he is iosing because OF the
by Colonel Hargrayes,, He is nhysiSal
STsS Sd%a s.a sn9 ne nSsnSfs Ss% RS to ss hm
boo9 having FHHmnSd IN GTs9FlHESTEs ETanss
snGs G pTeyous $Rsnfa
turns turns TO the sam6lng den nrd nnd fSES hm thS thhS
money "fssr Pemmlgpn T"% rSfusss Su, Win wink
Of Of A eye srara1s Gr G% hts is 6aG Gsi iva ,Gay$
come by jealousy whom Pctnmican tslis nm nm
track WITH r soooo oo' in nVH bntinE sSols 6oa
Won. with Lefty Love, the other woman,
70 ali all tES BasE cnGs of rage and
sravrs 2 ha he wishes TSrs hm
through the secret door ot the house and
hurries to Lefty Loves apartment, hopihB 10
Upon his arrival at Lefty Loves apartment.
Chaloners anger is famed until II becomes
burning fire the maid informs him that
Lefty IN at the race track with HarsrhNer
until the woman returns. Then he drives her
into n NJ Of anger by telling her that she rs
throwing him down for HarRraves because ne
IL no longer able 10 shower her with Eitts hhu
ments and never to return. Challoner. never.
theless, stands his ground and forces Lefty
to phone to Hargrayes to come TO the rooms; %
After she does So. he whips revolver from m
fear and despair. he sits down and awaits 3
the mans arrival. Knowing his intent 70
shoot Hargravcs on sight, Lefty uses her old
time methods of kindness TO win his thoughts 5
weak and very soon is drinking the wine she
pours for him. Hours later he finds himself
In n dnzcd condition. all alone in the rooms,
and knows that he has been tricked There;
passes once more into Cradelbaughs, $, intend
ing to wait there until his rival appears
Wncn Hargravcs arrives Challoner chhl-
lenges him TO game of cards. he to bet his
the affection Of Lefty Love II he lost: Tho
gambler accepts and soon the game is on.
Pemmican, the head waiter, rushes TO the
cardroom soon dfterward when he hears the
Is the flash OF a revolver and HarRraves falis
dead Challoner rushes from Cradlebaughs
and Pemmcan switches off the electric Lights
in the room. At O'Clock the next morning
in an alleyway back of the building. He re-
ports the find TO the desk sergeant and sug-
Rests that the man must have been murdered
In Cradlehaugh's. Thcreupon he Is told that
better, the sergeant advising that it is a case
for the captain.
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and was about TO talk to Central, but
changed his mind. hung up the receiver,
wheeled round on the sergeant and asked
Were you going home?"
The other stretched his arms and yawned
Yes. Why?"
The captain passed over two black cigars
smoke 'em-they'll keep you awake And
say he went on, placing his hand sooth-
ingly upon the others arm, you wouldn't
mind looking up Chairman Peter Broderick
would you? 1t isn't everybody | can trust"
He seized pad and wrote hastily for
moment, and finally handing the slip OF
paper to the sergeant, added:
First. try these four addresses. II he's
not at any of these. then try his home :;
you'll be sure to find him there But see
him-don't take no for an answer and
after you have told him the whole story
get his orders-see?"
II took an hour and n half to locate
chairman Peter Broderick; the sergeant
found him home - in his rooms on the
ground floor of the Iroquois Club. He
waited for some time before he could gain
| access TO that estimabe gentleman, for
Peter Brodercks hour for rising was high
| noon. The boy who aroused him awakened
| n slumbering lion; the Iroquois Club cow
| cred when Broderick woke up 4; others cow
| cred, too. Broderick's word was law every
| where, and yet he wore no badge of au-
| thorty. held no ofiice--he did not even
| want one. He was higher than authority,
| stronger than civic force: he was power
| personfed. He had attained that mystical
| position in the universe, known wherever
| men cast ballots as Chairman of the County
| Committee, which meant to owe no man
| duty. hut TO demand servitude and fealty
| from every man. II meant more-it mea mt
to hold the bag! It meant that whatever
Peter Broderick wanted he got.
Well" roared Broderck to the SER
| geant, what in thunder do you want?"
| The desk sergeant briefly set forth his
| credentials and authority, and then plunged
boldly into the purpose of his presence
! THE captain wants to know what he s
to do about this Hargraves murder"
Broderick stared hard at him.
| "Hargraves murder =" he repeated What
| Hargraves?"
| The sergeant told him.
| Great Scott! so he's dead. Confound
him He bled me like thunder at draw
| the last time met him.
The sergeant went on to give him the
| facts; Broderick the while was thinking
| deeply. Finally he interrupted the other
| with the question:
Look here, sergeant, what was there to
prevent Hargraves being shot down by a
highwayman or a thug? Can you tell me
that?"
Officer Keogh says"
Hang officer Keogh," yelled Broderick.
"keoSh is going to say nothing but what 8
he told to say. Look here-do you know
who killed Hargraves?'
mo"
Does anybody know"
mot vt"
80 far so good Now. then. that's
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Ethel Gilbert, Mr.. and Mrs. George Gill
bert's daughter. was married this after
noon at o'clock to Mr.. G. Harris Olewine,
of Bellefonte The wedding was held at
the Gilberts home. on Wycombe avenue.
Ethel made a lovely bride, for she is so
sweet-looking Her cousin. Helen Taylor,
was the maid of honor
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going to hAvs.it 1 W9l,( q
Broderick stopped him - IN
the sidewalk and shook Hin ~ n
Thorne." he exclaimed. "th6F1
man I'd rather send to the unito<
hand on IT," 7<
And pushing Thorns into the ~
: taxicab he commanded the drivsr<tc| /
them TO Cradlebaughs back entrano1. n.
Quick as you cant" he added, -
Once in Cradlebaugh's, the domIn6
influence OF Broderick again assertsd r.
where's Pemmican?' he indE
grufiiy: and without waiting for an ai1|
Send him along right away" Az.
The liveried man who did hip ia
bowed a bit familiarly to him. but
deferentially to Thorne. The latter hs 4
as patron Of the place, but one VIM
not play. 81
Almost instantly Pemmican cams. Z
face was hasgard, pale. his eyes heavy
eieepiessness and upon him genera1ly
the air OF man who had passed ttrc
some nightmare that with the dawn
| turned out to be hideously true. Eae.
| them at once to the private room ~
the captain Of police was waiting.
| Copyright by Dodd. Mead 4 co.) n
CONTINUED TOMORROW,
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CONTINUED TOMORROW,
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CHAPTER uI-OContinued)

CHAPTER III-(Continued)
T1HE captain appeared unusually early in
i the morning with some half.dozen papers
in his hand. slapping the morning editions,
scareheads. uppermost in front of the SER
geant, no blurted out:
What's this here?"
The sergeant glanced at the topmost
sheet and skinned rapidly over the de-
tails
Don't know where they got the facts
but 1t looks like they got em right"
The captain scratched his head then for
the next few minutes he looked out of the
window and watched the passing throng
he was ponderng deeply Finally he in
quired
What did you do?"
The desk sergeant grinned.
Not a bloomin' thing" he answered.
The captain shot n glance of surprised
approval at his inferior
"For once, by gum" he conceded, you
hit the nail upon the head. This isn't a
case for the polce-not yet"
Then for who?" The desk sergeant
looked dubious.
For Peter Broderick," said the captain.
nodding
whats Peter Broderlck got to do with
it?" inquired the desk sergeant, still doubt
The captain seized the telephone, but
paused to explain:
Peter Broderck has got everything to
do with It, since the people put this blath-
erskite Murgatroyd into the prosecutors s
office You know as we'll as / do that
there's been too many rumpuses in Cradle
baugh's-and Murgatroyd sent word from
the courthouse that the place would be
closed up, cleaned out If there was any
more trouble there"
"And Broderick?" persisted the sergeant
"Broderick gave me orders TO be tipped
of hard when anything happens to Cradle
baugh's-no matter what And that" con-
cluded the captain, "is enough for you and
me; we've got to obey orders-see?'
He removed the receiver from its hook
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McMANES-STALEY

A wedding of interest to persons in this
city took place In st Paul's Roman Catholic
Cathedral, Pittsburgh, this morning, when
Miss Pauline Regina Staley, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John a. Staey and Mr.. Leo =.
McManus. of West Philadelphia, were mar
ried by the Rev. B, ]. Bradley, of Emmts-
burg, Md Miss Gertrude McManus, sister
of the bridegroom, was maid of honor, and
Mr.. Joseph a. McManus was his brothers
best man.
Miss Staley wore n gown of white EN-
'broidered lace over shell-pink crepe de chine
Her hat was of pink georgette crepe,
trimmed with French flowers, and her only
ornament was the gift of the bridegroom, n
platinum barpin of diamonds They will
be at home on their return in Philadelphia.
Among the guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Pat
ricius McNIanus, parents of the bridegroom (:
MISS Cecil McGovern, Miss Marie McManus,
Miss Elizabeth McManus, Miss Helen NJ.
Kelly, Mr.. Joseph +. Kelly and Mr.. Francis
Morris, of this city.
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Weddings
DEACON-MACDONALD

A quiet wedding took place today AT the
home of Mr. and Mrs. James Macdonald
of Greene street. Germantown, when their
daughter Miss Marjorie Macdonald. be-
came the bride of Mr.. Gerald Hartley
Deacon, also Of Germantown. The Rev.
Walter Sandt performed the ceremony.
which was attended by the two families
only. The bride had Miss Josephine
Stevens Alcorn as maid of honor and Mr.
Newton Brey was best man. a small re-
ception followed. After an extended we'd
ding Journey Mr. Deacon and his bride
will live in Germantown.
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Municipal Band, Conneu Park, sixty third
street and Elmwood avenue s o'clocI
Free. 7'-e "A
County Medical Society. College Of Ph$S
sicians. Members 80
Fairmount Park Band. Belmont Mansio1.
o'clock. Free. -
Philadelphia Band. City Hall Phase. d
o'clock. Free. 81 +,
Colonel p. II. Goodwin, of British arur
medical corps. speaks on medical aspect u
war, Mitchell Hall, College Of Physiciau&
$3.50 o'clock. Physicians