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The mirror., 1919-10-09
Greatest of all Powers

The magic of beauty is more potent than
that of Simon MARCUS or of Paracelsus.
Beauty is different thing from ornament,
which may be the disguise of ugliness. 1t
is gift for which no artificial attractions
can ever be substitute. 1t is power
greater than birth, wealth, knowledge or
genius.
People may be proud of their birth, but
after all we are not our ancestors. The
rich man may transmit his wealth to his
offspring, but it may be all wasted in a
single generation. knowledge may be q
satisfaction to its possessor, but has it not
been said that ''the more man gaineth OF
knowledge the more he gaineth of sorrowi
Genius, although it wins admiration. may
be an obstacle rather than an aid to sue
cess in lite. Burns and Poe and Baudelaire
had genius, but it did not bring them any
worldly advantage.
Beauty, on the contrary, is key which
opens all doors. 1t shines on the world
like the sun, and its influence is universal.
In Emerson's words, it is sits own excuse
for being" To be beautiful is to be wor.
SHIPPED, idolized, caressed, and adored.
The plain, good people may protest agains,
the injustice of world which prefers beau.
ty to virtue. But the fact remains.
Rochester Post Express.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Acts on Sensitive Nerves

The knockout blow is scientifically ex-
planned as follows: When the lower jaw is
struck on its point, especially with an up
percut, the body portions of the ear inside
is driven forcibly upward into the glenoid
cavity of the skull, above aud behind which
is situated the delicate laby rinth of the in
ner ear.
The jawbone strikes hard upon the thin
plate of bone that supports these sensitive
organs and gives shock to the semi-circu-
lar canals that is instantly transmitted by
them to the bulb, producing dizzyness,
nausea and momentary paralysis.
This explains why sideways blow on
the jaw is more effective as a knockout
than one delivered directly upon the point
of the jaw. For the shock of sideways
blow is received IN one glenoid cavity, that
on the side opposite the one on which it is
struck, while the shock of blow in the
center is divided between the cavities on the
two sides.-Ex.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
The Keokuk Dam

The Mississippi river has beer, ,harnessed!
A genius named Cooper Hugh L., late of
General Pershing's forces in France) turned
| the trick.
He built a concrete dam AZ feet wide at
the bottom, % feet wide on top and about
So feet high across the river; a powerhouse
in which will be housed thirty 10000
horsepower turbines, each with its general
or weighing $50 tons; lock 400 feet long
and ITO feet wide (the width being the same
as the locks in the Panama canal, but the
lift is higher; the largest dry dock lat the
time) in fresh water and an ice fender.
1t was necessary to acquire about $1,000
acres of land, build SO miles Of roads and
streets and clear s, 900 acres of brush and
timber. More than l, 800 property owners
were dealt with. Litigation was resorted to
in only about ten cases. Two hundred and
ghty nine tons OF dynamite were used.
Construction work required about 500, 900
barrels of cement, 7, 500 tons of steel, $780,
700 cubic yards of sand, $500, 900 pounds
of structural steel and 2O,L00,OO0 feet of
lumber.
Now, the ''Father of Waters turns the
machinery that lights cities, runs street cars
and operates factories. Sixty thousand
horsepower of electricity is used in St. Lou
is, 14l miles away. Sufficient power is
generated to light a boulevard from Port
land Me-, to Los Angeles, CAL, using 4S
candle-power lamps set 100 feet apart.
Constro~ ~tion started January S, 1910. The
first current reached St. Louis July !, 1913.
The total cost of the plant was $26, 600, 900.
BY 7. T. Maxey
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Motion Picture Show

Comedy Drama held the interest of the
audience at the auditorium on Wednesday,
Oct. lst.
The Film production featured the Famous
Players Lasky with John Barrymore as
leading exponent in the play entitled: ''The
Dictator The story is from the pen of
Richard Harding Davis. There we're FIVE
reels, all of character that GO to make up
snappy, ingenious portrayal of actors
achievements, scenes, and episodes, typical
of the authors natural wont to create a
pungent story illustrated to edify, amuse,
and moralize.
There was much to charm in the sedate
parts of the play, and much also of the
seemingly ludicrous variety to amuse, that
certainly enthused the audience, and the
concensus of opinion is that it was a good
play, sufficient to leave pleasurable men,
ory.
On this occasion it should be said, the
orchestra seemed to try to outdo itself in
the offering of music, for it is of record,
encore after encore, made it necessary for a
repetition of scme set piece. Mr.. B. in
his song Offering of "Tell Me- also came
in for a share of we'll merited applause.
March, Templar- Brown
Selection-Oh Lady! Lady!- -Kerd
Popular One Step-My Little Sunshine
Song-''Tell Me" Mr. Callahan
Saxaphone Ouartette-S Twilight
Echos; March. Royal Scotch High
Landers. (played by Messrs. B., E.,
H. and CO. music--------M Miller, King
Spanish Serenade-La Palonia- Yradier
Jazz One Step-Jazzing the Blues Away
Heinrich
Waltz Weeping Willow Lane Hickman
Fox Trot-Coo Smith
March-The Olympian---- Arthur
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Origin of Sea Serpent

Professor darcy Thompson, during
the course of a recent lecture at the London
Royal institute. said that he had no doubt
that the cuttle-6sh was the strange beast
which the ancients had named the sea SER
pent. They must have seen it during one
of its playful gambols, and have mistaken
its wedge-shaped tail for the head Of the
serpent, and the end of one of its enormous
ly long arms for the tip of the serpent's
tail.
No story of ogre, giant, or witch was
more strange and terrifying than the cuttle-
fish or octopus. Nevertheless, the cuttle-
fsh's ''bone'' had homely associations 1t
was used for pet canaries to pick at, and
for lawyers to clean up part hment' 1t was
also used to polish the doors of carriages.
Sci.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Saltwater All Stars Outplay
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Fros and Jam scored. Hick was given free
transportation to first ahd Lohr struck out,
retiring the side. No more scores were
made until the seventh frame. then liver
clouted out single and scored on Burn 5
three bagger. Then in the ninth the lc-
Gals got two more runs on two singles and
one double.
Goullette, who pitched the first FIVE in
Dings for the visitors, held the locals to on
ly two safe hits. He struck out four men,
passed one on balls, issued two wild
pitches and hit two batsmen. ,Byers who
relieved him in the sixth, just simply tossed
the balls to his opponents to give them
batting practice and at that the locals were
unable to pile up any great number of hits.
Five safe hits we're all they could accumu-
late off Byers, while at the same time he
struck out three men and passed one on
balls.
Wells our local twirler had an off dav.
Due perhaps to the Worlds Series not GO
ing to his liking. He pitched only five in
nings, and during that period he allowed
eight sa hits, passed one on balls; hit one
batsman and struck out eight men. Wolf,
whe relieved him. showed up good for his
time in the box. He struck out four men
and only allowed two safe hits.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
The Engineer

ne seven Steel-rtpbed coaches
Draw smoothly to the shed,
And you and other passengers
Now hurry home to ted;
You've done your easy hundred miles
In ninety minutes clear
Then thank the man who brought you,
The old gray engineer.
Your hope, your love, your children,
The prayers that you have prayed,
Lie in his faithful fingers
On trestle, curve and grade;
By crossing, draw and culvert
His leaping engine roars,
And clear as altar lamps he sees
The green-lit semaphores.
Unthanked and unremembered
He holds your life secure;
Bis service does not falter,
His hand and eye are sure:
A thousand tons 60 flashing
Along that ribbon slim;
The roar of his tall driving wheels
Is very like hymn.
His miracle of power
Is terrible and swift;
Farewells and lovers meetings
Are equally in his gift;
In starlight or in snowstorm,
A man of creed austere,
He brings you home in safety
The old gray engineer.
-Christophsr Morle
The mirror., 1919-10-09
My Pocket Book

Alas, my Want Provider, can it be
That this sad semblance of thy former self,
This shrunken, slim, emaciated wreck,
Is thine own self indeedl
But yesternight held thee in mine hands
And gloated Ger the bulging corpulence,
Whilst varied visions passed before mine
eyes
Of what thou couldst procure.
The morning came, and in the surging
pool
Of mercenary strife, my gentle mate
Forged gaily forth to take frenzied plunge
With thee in custody.
Grave apprehension filled my waiting soul;
For memory whispered that this self same
pair
Had taken other jaunts that sickened thee;
And here thou art with me, again pre-
pared
For painful convalescence.
Philip Plendsy
The mirror., 1919-10-09

One town Of 1000 people in Georgia pro-
duced $4,000 pounds of pork from pigs
raised in back yards during 1918. The
production of this meat was stimulated
largely by pig club work conducted by the
State College of Agriculture, in cooperation
with the United States Department of Ag-
riculture.
The mirror., 1919-10-09

Summary-Three base hits: Byers, An
derson, Burn. Two base hits: McPher-
son, liver. Sacrifice hits: Wells. Stolen
bases: Peulen, Hoy, Anderson, Mcpherson.
Sandberg, Huelsman, liver. First base ON
errors: Visitors E. M. S. P. 2. Left on
bases: Visitors 3, M. S. P.5 Earned runs:
Visitors 5. M. S. P. 8. Hits off pitcher
Goullette, 2 in FIVE innings; off Wells, 8 in
five innings; off Byers, S in four innings;
off Wolf. 2 in four innings. Struck out by
Goullette, q; by Byers, 8; by Wells, S; by
Wolf, 4. Passed on balls by Goulette, l.;
by Wells, l; by Byers. 1; by Wolf, l..
Batsman hit by GoulIette: Wolf, Hick.
By Wells: Anderson. Umpires: Mr.. Cay
ou and Mr.. Hogberg.
Won Lost Pct.
NJ s. IL 5SS
The mirror., 1919-10-09
N |R R 0 R E TT ES

Mass was held in the chapel Sunday
morning.
Saving is thrift. Ee saving-buy
w. S. S.
The song of the lawn mower is now
but remembrance.
Owing to the fact that The MIRROR
goes to press Tuesday, we are unable to
give results of the "WorId Series'' in this
issue.
The printers and pressmen have gone
on a strike in New York, and if not ami
cably ended soon, will no doubt delay the
output of current magazines, etc.
-Danny's Sluggers Of Saltwater, headed
by Danny Donahough of the Saltwater
state champion team, will cross bats with
our own M. S. P. crack team on the local
diamond, Saturday, Oct. IL.
Winter uniforms were issued to the
yard men and farm laborers last Sunday
and the balance of the inmate population
were fitted out last Tuesday.
The cold raw air as a diversion for
once for Saturdays outing on the campus,
forcibly reminded US of times of yore when
overcoats were a valued asset, and used
comfortably in exhilarating outdoor exer-
else.
"Wednesday afternoon of each week is
always looked forward to by the inmates as
a most enjoyable time and treat and they
surely realize thankfully, the provision
thus made by the officials of the institution
for cessation of work, and an hour or so of
solid comfort and refined entertainment.
The Twin City Luthern Pastors asso-
citation of the Augustana Synod, held
conference at this institution last Monday.
Our esteemed chaplain, Rev. Benson is
member of the association. After the busi-
ness session the members held forth at an
enjoyable luncheon served in the officers
dining hall. There were between forty and
fifty members present.
Those of the inmates land there are
many) who attend chapel services on Sum
days, whether it be Protestant or Catholic,
certainly cannot help but appreciate the ex-
cellent and helpful discourses given re-
spectively by the chaplains, Rev. Benson
and Rev. Father Barry. The music and
singing in addition, is always such as to
make US all feel better for the acquiring of
this religious exercise with particularly it's
regularity.
Still another interesting item of news
CLEANED day or so ago, tells of the mar
riage of Mr.. Walter G. Nelson and Miss
Evelyn Bunce that took place in St. Paul,
Sept. 25th, Rev. Sydenstricker, officiating.
Mr.. Nelson was an overseas service man
and resides in Saltwater. He was formerly
employed in the general Office at this insti-
tuition, but is now on the clerical force in
the farm machinery plant Office here. The
MIRROR joins in offering congratula-
tions and best wishes to the happy couple.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Discharging a Cook

One result of the bolshevist law that
persons who are employed cannot be re-
moved arbitrarily is instanced by the Bull
etin Russo, published by the League tor
Regeneration of Russia at Lausanne, Swift
zerland. 1t declares that at Smolensk a
bachelor had a cook whom he wished to
discharge. She refused to leave her place
and he was unable to turn her out. On the
advice of bolshevist friend the bachelor
married his cook and Immediately after
ward divorced her. As divorced woman
she was legally compelled to leave the
premises.-Ex.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
The Mirror

l lift baby up to the mirror
And let him look in the glass
To offer to the reflector
His flower or leaf or grass.
And the baby he sees in the mirror
Returns his very smile
And offers flower or leaf or grass
And is just as free from guile.
And God lifts me up to the mirror,
And holds the world as glass;
I offer his life reflector
Loves flower or leaf or grass.
And the world see in the mirror
Returns my very smile,
And offers flower or leaf or grass
If it finds me free from guile.
For what after all is the gift devine
That can offer a world
Save hopeful smile in life's mirror
That my soul may be unfurled.
Harold W. Gamnsans IN Sept. Nautilu
The mirror., 1919-10-09
It Isn't The ToWn-It's You

eff you want to live in the kind of q town
Like the kind of town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in grip,
And start on long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really new,
It's knock at yourself when you knock
your town;
It(isn't the town-it's you.
Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead,
When everyone works and nobody shirks
You can raise town from the dead.
And if while you make your personal stake,
Your neighbors can make one, too;
Your town will be what you want to see,
1t isn't the town-it's you.'
Author Unknoson
The mirror., 1919-10-09
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Art and Life

The children of the flesh of men,
Thew pass from night to night;
They weep and laugh and labor, then
Are lost to human sight.
Musing on such fate, the mind
Stirs with a tragic sense
So brave they walk the stage assigned,
So soon they hurry thence!
The children of the artists brain
Elude mortality.
O'er them Time swings his scythe in vain,
Till time no more shall be.
In many hearts, in many lands,
They live again their tale.
As, young or old, the Futures hands
Arise to give them hail.
As here the crafts of men assure
Their presence to the years,
So, too, shall memory's bronze endure,
With all their smiles and tears.
Such lives within our lives can be;
Such comrades Art can give,
Are men but shadowsi Is it we
Or they that truly liver
George Sterling in San Francisco Chronicle
The mirror., 1919-10-09

An attraction in the public park at Ouray,
Colorado, is pond containing rs. 900 gold
fish, of all varieties and sizes.
The mirror., 1919-10-09

A neighboring paper commented upon
the resignation of q certain young lady
school teacher with many kind words for
''the excellent reputation for teaching she
bears" When last seen the editor was do
ing mile minute clip, just two jumps
ahead of the irate young lady who scream
ingly informed him that she never taught .
she bear in her life and if she ever caught
him she'd teach him something about writ
ing news.
The mirror., 1919-10-09

What do we live for if not to make the
world less difficult for each other.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
r o ET-TR EE :.
Leaves From Orr Posts.
The Calf Path

One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home, as good calves should;
But made trail all bent askew--
A crooked trail as all calves do.
Since then two hundred years have fed,
And. infer, the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.
The trail was taken up next day
By lone dog that passed that way;
And then wise bell-wetner sheep
Pursued the trail Ger vale and steppe,
And drew the flock behind him, too,
As good bell-wethers always do.
And from that day o'er hill and glade
Through those old woods path was made;
And many men wound in and out,
And lodged and turned and ben, about
And uttered words of righteous wrath
Because twas such crooked path.
But still they followed-do not laugh
The first migration of that calf,
And through this winding woodway
\stalked
Because he wobbled when he walked.
This forest path became lane,
That bent and turned, and turned again;
This crooked lane became road,
Where many poor horse with his load
Toiled on beneath the burning sun.
And travelled some three miles in one;
And thus a century and half
They trod in the footsteps of the calf.
The years passed on in swiftness feet;
The road became village street;
And then before they were aware.
A city's crowded thoroughfare;
And soon the central street was this
Of renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and a half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Each day hundred thousand rout
Followed the zlgzag calf about;
And o'er his crooked journey went
The traffic of continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead.
They followed still this crooked way
And lost one hundred years day;
For such reverence is lent
To well established precedent.
A moral lesson this might teach
Were ordained or called to preach;
For men are prone to 60 it blind
Along the calf paths of the mind,
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done.
They followed in the beaten track;
And in and out, and forth and back,
And still their devious course pursue
To keep the path that others do.
But how the wise old wood gods laugh
Who saw the first primeval calf!
All! Many things this tale might teach,
But l am not ordained to preach.
Sam Walter Foss.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
ATTEA I'll 0 NJ!

Inmates are hereby cautioned not to
use the margins of The MIRROR for ad-
dresses of friends or other written
matter. If you wish THE MIRROR sent
to your friends, you are required to
send in their addresses to the Deputy
Warden's Office through your officer.
In this way it will be attended to.
j. j. SULLIVAN
Deputy Warden.
The mirror., 1919-10-09

Little Jeanne was tremendously interested
in the patriotic songs she heard At the COM
munity singing to which her mother had
taken her.
A few evenings later she was playing
close by as her mother practiced At the
piano. Mother" she asked, ''can you
play that piece about the 'soapy pearl
like that one best of all.
Her mother knowing the child had con-
fused some words, played various melodies
she remembered hearing at the community
singing and finally discovered, through
this method, that it was the song ''Over
There Jeanne referred to. The refrain,
$50 prepare, so PREPARE was the one
which, to her ears, had sounded like ''soapy
pear"
The mirror., 1919-10-09
GAaprl Hrngrai,s
Sunday. October s

The following is the program rendered
in the Auditorium, Reverend Father Barry
officiating.
March-TempIer r---------- -Orchestrh
Selection Broxen Blossoms Orchestra
Hymn-Onward Christian Sold,ers-.--
---------- ------- Congregation
Scripture reading Father Barry
Selection-Melody of Love--- Orchestra
Prayer Father Barry
Gospel reading g--------------Father Barry
Sermon------ Father Barry
Hymn-There Shall Be Showers of Bless
ing ne------------------- Congregation
March-Olym Orchestra
r. ]. Reichkitzer. Musical Director.
Population
Monday, October 6
Number of Inmates at Prison.. go. 873
Number in First Grade..... ............7O5
Number in Second Grade... ..l56
Number in Third Grade.
Received During Week.. .....................
discharged ...........
Last Serial Number r....................... 6223
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Priau,s @ffirials

Beard Of Control
c. F.. Vasaly, Little Falls
c. ]. Swendsen, St. James
Ralph w. Wbeelock. Minneapolis
Downer Mullen. Secretary.
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Monthly Library Report

The Librarian has furnished the following
Library report for the month ending Sept
80, 1919
The mirror., 1919-10-09
Board Of Parole

Board of Parole
c. E. Vasaly, Chairman
c. S. Reed. Sec'y for Prison
Rev. H. c. Swearingen
H. X w. Scott, Sec'y for Reformatory
The mirror., 1919-10-09
k0 MI C kLIPS

Henry Peck-s'My hair is coming out
dreadfully. Do you know of any way to
prevent iti''
Doctor-''No; you ought to have thought
of that before you got married.
The small boy went with his class to
visit the zoo. He stopped in front of the
kangaroo cage, and after studying the queer
animals for awhile, asked the attendant
what they were. ''Natives of Australia"
was the reply. "Great Scott, an my sis
ter married one of 'em" gasped the urchin.
Struck by the notice, ''Iron Sinks in
shop window, a wag went inside and said
that he was perfectly aware of the fact that
'iron sank
Alive to the occasion the smart shop
keeper retaliated:
''Yes, and time flies, wine vaults, sui
Phdr springs, jam rolls, grass slopes, music
stands, Niagara Fails, moonlight walks,
sheep run. Kent hops, holiday trips, scan
dal spreads, standard weights, India rubber
tires, organ stops, world goes round. trade
returns and"-
But the visitor had bolted After COL
Letting his thoughts he returned and show
ing his head at the doorway, shouted:
'Yes, l know, and marble busts.''
The mirror., 1919-10-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08

~ am getting older. and the older
] grow the sicker l grow. Want the
truth? ! don't like the looks OF this
job for a cent. l think you're In the
wrong valley. my Pied Piper. II I
were in your patent feathers. I'd turn
this hooker's nose back toward New
York and stick TO the old stuff"
Below. william scowled. This con-
versation was all more or less Greek
to him. One voice was familiar, but
for the life of him he could not place
It, II might be that Ruth had told
him the truth, that she was tired and
fussy because of the long journey on
the train.
Alloy. there. what do
you mean by sneaking up alongside
this way"
where do you get that noise"
snarled back william, furious at hav-
ing been interrupted. A few more
words between the two men inside the
yacht might have decided the matter
one way or the other definitely. This
Is free water, l guess"
Sure II is; and the frecr the het-
ter for YOU. We don't like snoops
sticking their noses into our paint.
Get move on or III drop a bucket
of slops on you, my handsome rub
berneck."
TRY 1t. you big boob, wouldn't
mind few minutes close harmony
with you"
"Lor' lumme, IL il amt some white
hope out for lark" jeered the man
at the rail Move on. and none OF
your lip. You hear me- III give you
twenty-nine seconds to sheer of"
Hotel growled William. sitting
down. The man above had two dis
tinct advantages--height and right.
The veneer with which we solemnly
incase ourselves consists mostly OF
the observance Of certain formaiities