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BoTTICELLI TO SIMoNETTA.

By Edgar Lee Masters.
7 WOULD give you all my heart, and hay
L given
All my heart TO you to have and keep
With your heart, where my heart has found il
heaven
In light immortal, and peace like sleep.
Here is my heart, for you to have and treasure,
Your woman's heart will treasure it,
For love that only love may find measure,
And only love like yours can measure it.
In absence and in separation praying
Before your love, my heart receive,
My heart which kneels to you, SO gently laying
Hands Of deep prayer, too reverent to grieve
For lives divided, yet compassionate,
As my poor heart is pitiful for yours.
These hearts of ours, that know so deep fate,
Even as heart that silently endures,
Lie on an altar of consuming fire, ~.
Our hearts together, taking life thereof.
Ashes must come of two hearts which aspire 81.
To God, who has given love.
Copyright, 1919, by Edgar Lee Masters.
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on shore. Well, then, down in the corner lie must
lnscrlbe for us another contrasting balancing COM
pensating miniatured scroll-a land shape in the
person Of ROGER BREvARD, who is so unquixotic as
to offset GERRIT AMMIDON completely GERRrr AM
MIDoN will marry twice for incredible reasons and
ROGER BREvARD will not even marry once for the
most compelling of reasons-love. The beautiful
melody proclaimed by the violns is brutally
parodied by the tubas.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
WRITING A NOVEL.

YOU have some idea of writing novel. It may
be as well for you to consider the eonse-
quences before proceeding to the irrevocabe act.
One of the consequences will certainly be the dis
covery of many things in the completed manuscript
that you never intended. This is no frivolous
allusion to tie typographical errors you will find
for typewriter is capable of spOonerisms as the
lsaman tongue. We have reference to things that
you did not consciously put into your narrative.
And first let it be said that many things that
seem to you unconscious In the work of skilled
writers deliberate art las the phrase goes). The
trouble is that the elaboration usually spos the
art. An example must be had, and We will take it
in a novel by the gifted American JOSEPH
HERGEsHEIMER. Before proceeding further with
this Manual for Beginners read Java Head if you
can; if not never mind.
An Antipodean Antipathy.
Now in Java Head the purpose of Mr. HEROES
HEIMER was, aside from the evocation of beautiful
bit of vanished past, the delineation of several
persons, Of whom one represented the East de-
stroyed in the West, and another the, West,
destroyed in the East. EDWARD DuNsAcK back in
Salem, Massachusetts,, the victim of the opium
habit, represented the West destroyed in the East
the Chinese wife of GERRIT AMMDoN represented
the East destroyed in the West. Mr.. HERGEsHEIMER
took artist pride in the fact that the double
destruction was accomplished with what seemed to
him the greatest possible economy Of means; almost
the only external agency employed, he pointed out,
was opium.
Very well; this is esthetiesm, pure and not so
simple as it looks 1t is Pattern 1t is a musical
phrase or theme presented as certain flight of
notes in the treble repeated or echoed and inverted
in the bass 1t is curve on one side of a staircase
balanced by curve Oh the other 1t is thing of
symmetry and grace and it is the expression, per-
feet in its way, of idea. KRLING expressed very
much the same idea when he told us that East is
East and West is West and never the twain shall
meet. Mr. HERGEsHEMER amplifes and extends. If
the two brought in contact each is fatal to the
other. Is that ALI
On the Trail.
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On the Trail.

1t is not all it is the mere beginning. When you
examine Jdua Head with the Pattern in mind you
Immediately discover that the Pattern is carried
out in bewildering detail. Everything is symmetr-
cally arranged. For instance, many reader must
have been puzzled and bewildered by the heart
breaking episode at the close of the novel in which
ROGER BREvARD denies the delightful girl SIDsALI
AMMIDoN. The affair bears no relation to the cur
rents of the tale; it is just little eddy to one side
it is unnecessarily cruel and wounding to our sensi
bilities Why have it at ALI
The answer is that in his main narrative Mr.
HERGEsHEINER has set before us GERRrr AMMDoN,
a fellow so quixotic that he marries twice out of
sheer chivalry. He has drawn for us the fantastic
scroll Of such man, sea-shape not to be matched
The mirror., 1919-09-25
Watch Your Habits

Habit is a cruel taskmaster Most men who
have daily routine of employment fall into certain
ways of daily life that in time become more exact
ing than any Simon Legree that lived. Even
work becomes habit as the years pass and the less
variety there is to the labor the greater influence
will have in forming habit. The case of John Ag-
new who after 81 years the service of the city of
Chicago pensioned and died recently because he
was deprived of his daily toll is striking instance
of the effect of habit "Idleness is killing me,' was
his complaint. At his age it was almost impossible
for him to learn do anything but that to which he
has been accustomed for much longer period than
the average man lives, and he simply rusted away
until death ended his fretting. Fortunate is the
who vary his daily tasks so that they will not
fix a hold on him that, he grows older. it will
be impossible for him to shake off-Ex.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
The Great Within

The keeper of menagerie once tried the ex-
pertinent of raising young dog and tiger cub in
the same cage The two grew together, ate to-
gether, played together and slept together har-
moniously as if they belonged to the same family.
The puppy, being larger at the start. domneered
over the tiger cub. knocking him with his paws
and assuming the attitude of master and leader not
only in their play but on all occasions. In time the
tiger outgrew the dog in size and strength but al
though much the smaller Of the two, the dog was
still the MASTER and when they quarreled he would
drive his antagonist into a corner where he would
lie down and put up his paws in self defence and as
though appealing for mercy.
Finally their owner decided to separate them
and removed the dog from the cage. No sooner did
the tiger miss his companion than he began to pine
away and lose his spirit He refused to eat, and
would take notice of no one. Alarmed at his con-
diton. the keeper after few weeks brought the dog
back. The moment he saw his little playmate the
tiger rushed-to the front of the cage. put his paw
out between the bars in effort get at him. The
dog stretched his paw up to meet the tigers and
they evidently overjoyed to see each other
again. Notwithstanding the fact that if the jungle
beast realized and put forth his strength he could
easily have killed dozen dogs, he could not forget
MS naolt OF SUBMISSION 10 MS DaDynOOo companion,
and when the dog put back into the cage he i'm
mediately assumed his old ascendency the tiger.
Most of are like this tiger. We have formed
the habit of covering before things that have no
power over except what our imagination gives
them. This habit has held us in slavery SO long
that it has become part of our very being. We
do not seem to realize that there is something
within us that can laugh at Fate, something far
greater than tigers strength which we have in
herited from divine parent, something which
makes masters of circumstances and gives us do
minion over everything in the universe.
-Orison Sweet Marden in August Nautilus.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
Ability

Any given day the last thirty years million
young men and women were writing down words for
publication-all of them by and large, with about
the same implements in about the way. BY
and large there little difference in their training
for that occupation. They have been taught not
ly 10 write but to write dramatically, and had
joyed certain advantages that gave them taste for
writing. Otherwise they would not have been
spending their time at it. Pretty much general
sort of proposition they started at taw. Some of
them became newspaper reporters, good, bad and in
different. Some Of them found their writings in de-
mand by larger audiences. Some of them command
ed worldwide attention.
Now everybody understands that as matter of
course. The most violent radicals understand it as
naturally child understands what food is for.
Recently. for example. American radicals of the
pnkest hue have exerted themselves to find phrases
by which to express their admiration of Spaniard
named Ibanez, who put words ON paper in a way 80
excellent that everywhere in the world people who
derive pleasure from that art are eager to get as
many of his words possible.
Everybody says matter of course: Among
those million young people who started on the same
road pretty much at taw there were very different
degrees of ability. Some had small ability and did
uOI SoC OtutTS got Iartuef, III tD0 measure OF
their ability. Still others. peculiarly gifted dis
tanced all but few rivals. Some subtle difference
in the contents of their skulls accounts for it'
But as soon as man forges ahead on different
road, if instead of putting words on paper he ad-
dresses himself making shoes or selling dry goods
and succeeds at it that people take his shoes or
dry goods in preference to others-why, then the
radicals account for him in totally different
manner. They say he must have cheated somehow,
got some unfair advantage, the system" slip
ped him ahead of his rivals
Being themselves engaged in putting words on
paper they have understanding of it. But busi-
ness-makng shoes, selling dry goods building
trolley lnesas they look it, one blockhead can do
that well another; the blockhead who got ahead
must have illicit advantage. Much radical
criticism of business generally proceeds on that bas-
is.-Ex.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
Philip Gibbs Finds Our Wealth Harmless

There are many rich people in New York-more.
suppose than in any other city in The world, but.
apart from cosmopolitan men and women who have
luxury beneath their SKINS there is no innate sense
of it the social life of these people, In the hotel
palaces, we'll as in the private mansions along
Fifth Avenue and Riverside Drive, all their outward
spendor does not alter the simplicity and honesty of
their character. They remain essentially middle
GLASS;" and have of the easy licentiousness of
that European aristocracy which. before the war,
faunted it's wealth and its vice at Paris, Vienna,
Monte Carlo and other haants where the cocottes of
the world assembled to barter their beauty and
where Idle men went from boredom to boredom in
search of subtle forms of pleasure. American women
of wealth spend vast sums of money on Dress and
there is the glitter Of diamonds at many dinner
tables, but most of them have too much shrewdness
of humor to play the vamp,'' and the social code to
which they belong is swept clean by common sense
My DEAR" said an American hostess who belongs
of the old rich families of New York. forgive
me for wearing my diamonds tonight 1t must
shock you, coming from scenes of ruin and desola.
tion." This dowager duchess of New York as like
to think of her. her diamonds as the mayor of
provincial town in England wears his chain of of
fce but she sat the head of her table in one of
the big mansions of New York / saw that wealth
had not numbered the soul of this masterful lady,
whose views life as direct and simple as
those of Abraham Lincoln She was the middle
class housewife in spite of the footnen who stood in
fear of her..-Philip Gibbs in Harpers' Magazine for
August.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

Notice Contributions submitted to the Mirror
for publication must be absolutely originals if not
original. PROPER credit must be given if known; #
writer name is not known. it should be SO speci
6ed by said contributor Should contributor fail
to comply with this request he will henceforth be
dropped from the Mirrors contributing staff.
Editor.
Approved by Warden.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
@ o E r. IE s
NOTICE TO INMATES

For the benefit appreciate
that their toward Of self education
through correspondent
Night Schools helpful
ton connection with their will
Win pc privileged the Query welcome
send queries yourself
kno OF Miss Miriam Institutional
Libraries will gladly endeavor supply the information
NOICE-ln order regulate the conduct of this column
mates must sign their register number and lock number
to all queries submitted for publication. Inmaes names
course will not be published only the initials of ques
being used. Ed.)
The mirror., 1919-09-25
Q:-What is.a plunge batteryl-L. K.

Q:-What isa plunge bateryl-L. K.
A:-Device for obtaining electric by chemical
action So called because both of its elements may
be Withdrawn from exciting fluid imperative and
30 prevent waste when current is wanted.
Q:-What is the relative burden of debt carried by the
great nations that participated in the war?-J. r.
A-Debt of the great nations follows: Great Britain
900; Germany $40 O0O France $780, OOO
OOO 600; Russia $27 000 000 0OO Austria Hungary $24 OOO
OoO0O0 United States $2 00O 000 900; Italy, $12 O0O
100000 OF this the United Britain will re.
ceive return of about $0 900 money loaned
Q-Is the temperature inside steam boiler with steam up
any higher than the of boiling What is the
inside boiler 40 pounds of steam?I
A-Ihe boiling point of water depends pressure
exerted its surface In open level of the
water bo 212 degrees Fahrenheit but as we ascend
to the top of high mountain, the will boil at
lesser temperature until it is Impossible cook eggs in it,
Since water gets hotter than the required
make boil this is easily understood Now when the pres
sure on the water is increased the boiling point the
peatue which the bol until when under
zoo pounds the boiling point 3S5 degrees
AT pressure of 40 pounds PRESSURE
2S6 degrees.
O-Why does the white feather denote cowardice?-B c.
A:-White feather in game cocks indicates breeding;
birds showing white feather in pumage regarded
worthless for fighting purposes Hence expression origin
ally employed by keepers of such birds, to
feather, meaning to show cowardice
Q:-How registered for military service under
the seective service law obtain copy of his
Ale should apply to local draft board headquarters
where he registered Copy might also be obtained office
of state adjutant general capital.
Q-Please explain the difference between terms vac-
cination'' and inocuation.''-N. o.
AVaccination introduction system of attenu.
aed modified virus of disease produce mild it
and so prevent viruent attack Ordinarily it refers
ducon of virus but vaccination resoed
various other diseases in both and
mails Virus is introduced through puncure skin through
abraded surface In medical incubation may
practically thing vaccination To noculate
communicate disease by introducing infectious ys-
tenn of ANIMAL through skins insert virus of part
ocular disease into system through skin. Formerly
applied only intentional communication of smallpox
includes similar introduction of modified virus Vac
cinaton deliberate introduction of prevent
disease; incubation be thing and in addition may
accidental introduction of infectious deliberate
introduction of such for purposes other than preventing
curing disease
Q:-Pleae indicate the pronunciation of the word
"repatriate. IN. o.
A:-Ree pay -tree-ate, accent second syllable.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

Some there are that keep themselves in peace
and have peace also with Others And some there
that neither at peace within themselves nor
suffer others to be in peace; they troublesome to
others but always more troublesome to themselves
And some there who keep themselves in peace
and study restore peace to others. Keep thyself
first in peace and then thou wilt be able to bring
others to peace."-Thomas Kempis
The mirror., 1919-09-25
Notice to Inmates.

WAR SAVING or THRIFT STAMPS can
be purchased each month by all who
so desire. You must notify your officer
not later than the goth of the month
if you wish to purchase stamps during
that month.
c. S. REED,
Warden.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

In Japan massage treatment is administered al
most entirely by blind persons. The reason is be-
cause in the blind the of touch is more delicate
than in persons blessed with sight.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

When girl was married in ancient Greece the
BRIDES mother carried the sacred fire from her own
hearth to that of the new home.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
NOTICE TO INMATES:

this should write
wish send the and hand same desire
the Of 50 cents delivered to your cell sacn
should be folded the
you bed the morning follow
ingth he lay o which it is delivered to cell.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
=. CO M M e II + S =.

Ice will last longer if used only in winter.
No bird possesses the power to fly backwards.
A canary can either be kept in cage or cat.
Prohibition will remove wine stains from table,
cloths.
Tip your home servants regularly you tip
hotel employees.
A needle passes through 80 operations in it's
manufacture.
The mirror., 1919-09-25
CHURCH NOTICE.

CHURCH NOTICE.
Services the Prison Chapel nine o'clock every Sum
day morning. Protestant Catholic service every alternate
Sunday Rev. c. E. Benson and Rev. Fr Corcoran Chap
lans.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

canary can either be kept in cage or cat.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

1t has been written, an endless significance
lies in work" man perfects himself by working
consider how. even the meanest arts of
labor, the whole soul of man is composed into a
kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to
work.-Carlye.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

No bird possesses the power to fly backwards.
The mirror., 1919-09-25

weekly published in the Minnesota State
founded
by them aims to be home to encourage
the public with the the prisoner to peno
sinister fallen mans selfredemption
The mirror., 1919-09-25

NoTlcEA inmates using the Query Column and desiring
tailed information their queries invited the splendid
books library request
Text Books especially complete their information
subjects Consult the Reference Useful Literature
Biography Science divisions library catalogue
subjects
The mirror., 1919-09-25

There is no road TO success but through clea,
strong purpose. Nothing can take it's place.
purpose underles character.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-29
MRs.FfuTONS TALKS
CONDUCTED BY
f(es VIZ FELTON,
A SHORT COTTON CROP.

From very many parts of the
south we get gloomy news as to
the shortness of the cotton crop.
Even in Texas. where they are said
to get only one seasonable year in
every three and four, the cotton
crop has been dreadfully injured by
rain and poor culture. The same
story comes from south Georgia and
Alabama. Boil weevil has put on its
'1ong-leagued" boots and leaped over
into many sections where boil WeeVll
had never before been prevailing.
Doubtless the crop that is left will
bring a good price to somebody. IL
will bring a good price to FARMERS
if they do not push it too fast to
market.
If they do, however. the specula-
tors will reap a harvest. 1 earnest
lv hope there may be some sort of
organization that will hold the con-
fidence of the farmers where they
can be cautioned, appealed to, reas-
oned with and protected from too
I am a, "cottontot' myself.
know how easy it is to get in a
panic and push cotton to sale when
it would have been wiser to hold II
longer.
The twenty-fifth day of August
has rolled around again, and L am
always interested in remembering
the date. 1t was even twenty years
ago since The Semi-Weekly Jour
nal was set agoing. Of those who
were on the staff twenty years ago,
two remain; Mr.. John. A. Brice, the
treasurer, and Myself, the aged
friend of the readers of the paper.
I have endeavored to save the clip
ping of the Country Home column
during those two decades. Just these
clippings make a big pile, and l
hazard nothing when I tell you they
are an encyclopaedia of current
events in the known world of civ
ilization. They touch upon every
prominent subject known to history
of that era,. Having a leisure day
last week. 1 spent hours of diligent
toll in gathering a big lot of them
together, considering in my mind
the feasibility of putting them in
massive scrapbooks, for those who
might own them after I have passed
on, and am largely forgotten. The
Spanish-American war was over,
but we had the Russ-Jap war in
1904. We have had, as you all
understand, four dreadful years of
bloody war in Europe. Two million
three hundred thousand soldier
boys were sent across the Atlantic
ocean to finish up that bloody world
war. How many died from wounds,
disease or accidents I cannot tell
now, but it is recorded that between
fifty and seventy thousand of these
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-29

| felt queerly.
Had 1 got next to him wanting to
d0 for him? Why had he terminated
our chat in so abrutp fashion?
Puzzled, dissatisfied, yet happy to
know he was home and safe, l walk
ed home to try and pass the hours
before I'd see him. Late afternoon
came, but no David.
Then Gail, my neighbor, came, ask
ing eXcitedly, Child, where's your
father and the boys?'
Il don't know. Fathers over town,
I guess, and boys are at corrals
milking.
1 stood. just stood-waiting-
cob! honey, your brothers dead!'
My mind seemed to grasp out the
question. ''Which?" as it tried vainly
to take in the awful thought. Oh,
Margery!
leaned 'gainst a small eucalyptus
tree. The world was bathed in sun
light about me, but my world was
suddenly void and empty. David!
My inspiration. Yet he never knew!
Gone away before I'd ever told him
how he inspired, encouraged, helped
me-and now 1 couldn't tell him!
Gail offered words of sympathy,
but L wasn't listening. | was trying
to reach out and get things in my
mind, but l couldn't. She begged me
to go with her, but L didn't want
folks then. Alone! That was my
portion. L went indoors, crushed.
Soon they came for me and fol-
lowed meel1ly down to dear Mrs. ker-
phey's, a woman with a heart as big
as-the world.
How came David to die? I tried
to learn, but it had only been
phone message. 1t seemed he'd been
to town that day, on his horse, and
had been found dead by the road
side-why, of course, my mind reas'
oned, it was his heart-he'd fallen
from his horse dead. OF course,
hadn't his heart been so that he
barely got across when he took out
insurance? L remembered his let
ter, deliriously joyous-"Thank God!
he died happy" [ whispered. Then
Lyn came by, and seeing us talking,
stopped to hear-not what she'd ever
thought to hear-but "DavidS dead.
Lyn wept, but I never cried.
Time passed. The small boy who
assisted David galloped madly by on
way to corrals, searching for Berne
and Van. Father couldn't be found.
Twilight came.
Then the others joined me at
Mrs. Kerphey's. We stood at the
veranda's edge-the hush of the des-
ert night about us-our awed,
hushed tones tremendously blend
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-29

American boys were killed in action.
paid the price, facing the enemy,
and can never return to the homes
and the dear ones that were left
behind them.
How the mother heart of this ma
ton has been sorely tried to be
patient, to be patriotic, to be for
giving and to bear all the burdens
that were heaped upon mothers and
wives. I know 1 understood, because
my heart ached for them. But we
still live; you, my dear kind reader
and L, the aged pilgrim, pressing
along to the Seth mile-post of life's
Journey. Nothing is worth troub-
ling about now, except to be good
and to try to do good Nothing is
so much worth contending fir as
human liberty. We must stand in
our places and try to be good Amer
leans, devoted to good works, and
TO be ready for the great hereafter.
With all my heart I appreciate
the good will and friendship of the
readers of The Semi Weekly Jour
nal With the most fervent PRAYER
that l can offer from a grateful
mind and soul, I hope all will be
well with you and yours for the next
and coming twenty years ahead of