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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
Heroes and Hero-Worship

In all ages mankind has exalted the hero
and admired the heroic. Thomas Carlyle believed
that the hero was the crystalzng force in history
and gave direction to the tendency of every age.
The early literature of every people, but notably that
of our own race, is heroic The heroes who fought
at Troy are the subject of the Iad the adventures
of Odysseus make up the Odyssey. The most
cient English epic, Beowulf, is record of adven-
ture. So are the Morse sagas and the legends of
Charlemagne the history of the Crusades the annals
of Chvalry.
For more than thousand years the tales our
race has told from generation to generation have
been adventure storiesand these still the pop
ular literature today.
With the rationalizing of everything our adven-
ture stories have become logical. The dragons and
the supernatural eats have been eliminated but the
superman still remains.
Six presidents of the United States have been
heroes-George Washington. Andrew Jackson.
William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses
S. Grant and Theodore Roosevet-and the possibi-
ity of hero a successor to Woodrow Wilson
great
The fighter, the man whose leadership in war
makes him the supreme adventurer, embodies
ideal which lies deeply hidden in the common breast
and in exaltlng him the common man feels that he
elevating that which is noblest
There are ntellectuals' who will deplore this.
They will have new perspective of life. How
the trivial tasks of every day be important to
who their comrades stricken by thousands and
who themselves faced death with smile and song?
If the war is great adventure, it is both ply
steal and spiritual. William James, the acutest phil
osopher and yet one of the of greatest common
sense that America has yet produced, has put this
thought into of his penetrating essays: The
Moral Equivalent of War; James said that war is
not wholly destructive and that with all it's sacrifices
it yet leaves mankind with emotional gain which
compensates in some degree for the losses which
war entails.-Sel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
The Basis of Real Democracy

Benjamin Franklin, whose fame in America has
never been equal to his deserts because of his alb
sence in Europe in the service of his country
during all the war of the Revolution. but who has
always been considered in European political circles
as the greatest American of his time. in sending
statement of his religious belief to President Ezra
Stiles of Yale College began it thus: / believe in
one God. creator of the universe; that He governs
the world by His providence; that He ought to be
worshipped; that the most acceptable service
render to Him is doing good to His other chill
dren."
This is the basis of democracy. We have been
fighting to make the world free for democracy
World wide democracy depends worldwide hu-
man brotherhood and upon belief in God the
Father Of all. The German people. unfortunately
for the world educated to the belief that the
advantage of the German nation supreme over
all moral considerations. The kaiser's Colt" was
not the Father of all mankind. The Belgians
French, Serbans and Poles were brothers to the
Germans children of the same heavenly Father. We
have conquered that false political and immoral idea
We have made the world free for d r y,
not anarchy, not Bolshevism (which appears to be
sort of autocracy the supremacy of a differ
ent class of the body politic) not class
racial hatred, but world wide democracy based on
belief in Father and the universal brother
hood of man. This alone can insure the perpetuity
of republican institutions. Selected
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
The Rainy Days Of Our Childhood


l recall the pleasant sound upon the shingles
overhead the sky let fall its teltale drops
of the coming rain Who can forget those rainy
days, with their games of hide and-seek in The gar
ret? How we looked out upon the muddy. puddled
road, and laughed at the drifting sheets of water
that and anon poured down from some bursting
cloud, and roared upon the roof! How the tree
trunks seemed to squirh and twist The dark door
way of the barn. too, what strange capers it per-
formed for our amusement-now swelling to twice
its size. stretching long and thin dividing in
the middle in its queer contortions. Out in the
barnyard saw the row of hens huddled together
the hayrick under the drizzing. straw thatched
shed. and the gabled coop by, in whose dry
treat the motherly old hen spread her tawny WINGS
and yielded the warmth of her ruf1ed breast to the
tender needs of her little family peeping content
eddy beneath her. while the ralnproof ducks dab
bled in the neghboring puddles.-Sel
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
Mr.. Atkinson describes. reader astounded at
recognizing in Of the groups the features of his
brother who left New York several years aRo.-Ex.
Future Hidden From Clay

Could the shade of Henry Clay. reused from the
sumbers of more than threescore years by the pam
demonium as 100 engineers tied down their whistle
cords and shrlled forth exultant shreks, have trod
the atmospheric space from his haunts in the Blue
Grass country of Sault Ste Marie few weeks since,
and looked with dull eyes on the newly finished
engineering feat spread out before his astonshed
gaze, he would have been forced admit that his
declaration back in $40 was at least shortsghted
1t is a work quite beyond the remotest settle
ment of the United States if not in the moon," said
Henry Clay on that memorable occasion, when by
the power of his svertoneued oratory he influenced
the congress of the United States to defeat meas
ure by which canal could he dug around st.
Mary's falls.
He was believed. and the project that now in
finished form ranks in world Importance far greater
than the Suez canal, and in minds greater than
the Panama canal, condemned impractical.
1t until ~ years later that congress its
mistakes and yielded to the persuasion of influential
citizens of Michigan and New York to grant ap-
preparation of land whereby the state of Michigan
could finance the excavation of canal.
j. Paul Chandler in Detroit Free Press
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
New War Savings Stamps Here

The new 1919 War Savings certificates have
reached the Saltwater post Office. These certii-
Gates being sold under the same conditions as the
series of 1918 and payable in January, 1924.
The certificates somewhat smaller than those of
the first issue and of bright blue hue. The
likeness of Benjamin Franklin appears on the
stamps while on columns on each side noted the
prices for each succeeding month. During January
they will sell for $4.12. increasing penny in value
each month.
The thrift stamps. which sell for twenty-five
cents each the same as for the first issue and
those on hand may be applied on the purchase of
the new certiicates.-Sel
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16

Those who spend everything they are not
only living in FOOLS paradise. but they are doing
gr'evous injury to their country. They are living
in FOOLS paradise because the same degree of pros
perity cannot be expected to continue upon the
turn Of peace. when the inevitable readustments IF
all industries must take place; and they are doing
their country grevous injury because it only by
saving that can provide our Government with the
money which it must have to buy the essential sup
plies for our military forces-Wiliam G. McAdoo.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
A Monkey Hunt in Burma

Our most exciting sport at the Nam-ting camp
was hunting monkeys. Every morning we heard
querulous notes. sounding very much like the squeal
ing of very young puppies, which were followed by
long drawn siren walls. When the shrill notes had
reached their highest pitch they would sink into low,
full tones exceedingly musical
We were inspecting line of traps placed along
trail which led up valley to wide plateau when
the auerulous squealing abruptly ceased We moved
on, alert and tense. The trees stretched upward a
full hundred and fifty feet their tops spread out
in leafy roof. In the topmost branches of one we
could just discern dozen balls of yellow fur from
which proceeded dlscordant walls
1t was long range for shotgun but the rifles
were all in camp. fired charge of "BB's" at the
lowest monkey. and the gun roared out the tree
tops suddenly sprang into life. They were filled
with running. leaping, hairy forms swinging at in
credible speed from branch to branch-not a dozen,
but score of monkeys. yellow, brown, and gray.
The one at which had shot seemed unaffected
and threw himself full twenty feet to horizontal
limb below and to the right. I fred again and he
stopped. ran few steps forward, and swung to the
under side of the branch. At the third charge he
hung suspended by one and dropped to the
ground.
We tossed him into the dry creek bed and DASH
ed up the hill where the branches still swsying
as the monkeys travelled through the tree-tops They
had long start and it hopeless chase. In ten
minutes they had disappeared and turned back to
find the dead animal. 1t young male, and l
knew at once that it gbbon (Hylobates), for
it's long arms round head, and tailless body
mistakable; but in every species with which l was
familiar the male black. This was yellow
and we knew it to be prize.
For the remainder of our stay at the Wanting
River camp we devoted ourselves to hunting mon
keys The gibbons soon became extremely Wild
Although the same troop could usually be found in
the valley where we had first discovered them, they
chose hillsides which it almost impossible to
stalk them because of the thorny Jungle We went
forward only when the calls were echong through
the Jungle and stood motionless the walling
ceased. But in spite of all they would see
or hear us. Then in sudden silence there would be
tremor of the branches. splash after splash of
leaves, and the herd would swing away through
the trackless tree-tops.
Roy Chapman Andrews in Harper's Magazine
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
Terrible Responsibility of Freedom

Liberty is solemn thing. A free people must
be thoughtful people, The subjects of despot
may be reckless and gay, if they can. free
people be serious for it has do the greatest
thing that was ever done in the world-to govern it.
SELF
That hour in human life is serious when it
passes from paterna control into free manhood then
must the man bind the righteous law upon himself
more strongly than father or mother ever bound it
upon him. And when people leaves the leading
strings of prescrptve authority and upon the
ground of freedom that ground must be fenced with
law; it must be titled with wisdom, halowed with
The world has regarded liberty as a boon. not
bond. And there is point in the present
crisis of human affairs which mems ideas so much
need to be cleared up-to be advanced-to be raised
higher standard, this grand and terrible re-
sponsibity of freedom. There is no trust so awful
moral freedom. and all good civil freedom comes
Come that liberty! 1 invoke it with all the ar
dor of the poets and philosophers of freedom With
Spencer and Milton, with Hampden and Sidney, with
Renzi and Dante with Hamilton and Washington,
l invoke it, Come that liberty! Come none that
does not lead to that! Come the liberty that shall
strike off every chain. not only from iron and iron
law but of painful construction, of fear of ensav
ing passion, of mad sef-wil the liberty of perfect
truth and love, of holy faith.-Orville Dewey
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
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. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16

Q-Please tell something about Robert Fulton
boat, the "Cermont.'-W. B.
AThis vessel which is generally regarded first
be successfully driven by notable trip
Aug 1907 1t 130 feet long, IL feet wide,
deep and 100 burden propelled by paddle Wheels
either de which driven by engine of make
known as Watt and Bouton.
Q:-Can person constutonay hold more than two con-
secutve President of the United States-H S. K
AYES. Nothing in the Constitution to prohibit. but
precedent has established being enough for any
Q-Kndly inform me if there any books in library
giving information concerning the pneumatic I've
tried several cyclopaedas and Book number 4197
find out how many times the punger in this pneumatic
hammer strikes the die per minute (2) About how many
merchant marine ships does England complete per year,
GLIDING tugs? How much tonnage does merchant
marine per year? ~ What was the American
amount of tonnage before the war-A. G.
A-There many different kinds of pneumatic ham,
impossible information desired without
knowing kind of hammer you have in mind. (3 Inform
alton asked for requires much space The 1918
Worlds Almanac pages 81 and 372 contains about all
formation asked for.
Q boat of certain draft, length and beam is
equipped with propeller of d. diameter 22 pitch, turning
1900 R. p M. After allowing for slip of approximately
Is per will the speed of the boat be Is "a M. P H.?
not what the calculate the peedsa ~ What
would the horse power of engine have be 22x
23 propeller 1900 R. p NJ ~ When is stated
internal combustion engine stated of fuel
horse hour does that signify the engine
stated of fuel under full load and maximum work.
ing speed for each rated H. P?-J. J.
A:-N) This evidently you have used
the formula in figuring this problem O The question
asked is too indefinite exactly but wheel three
baded, with its blades equal in width the diameter and
installed in boat of fairly fine lines, would require approx
imaey from so to 70 HIP 81 1t that the engine
the stated of fuel H. p developed
tinuousy during of hour. For instance if engine
consumed 1Pt P Hr and developed H. P for period of
hour the fuel consumption would be pnts. If engine
developed 10 H. P for hour the fuel consumption would be
10 if the engine developed 10 H. P for oneha hour,
the fuel consumption would be pts.
-Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis.
Can you inform if the Presidents salary has been
raised from SIS, 900 to $1O0, OOO-D. R.
A:-The Presidents salary has been raised, is still
$75 OOO
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16
Lost Son Recognized

Richard o. Atkinson's article. Christmas in
Y. M. G. A. Hut the Russian Front" which an
peared in the December number of Harper eazine
has been the means of discovering to his family the
whereabouts of a long lost son. Upon looking at
one of the illustrations of Russian soldiers whom
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16

weekly published in the Mnnesota State
edited
managed by them aims to be home to encourage
intellectual
public with the Of the prisoner to peno
the sinister to fallen mans selfredemphon
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16


Services in the Prison Chapel at nine clock Sum
ay morning. Protestant and Catholic service every alternate
Sunday Rev. C. E. Benson and Rev. Fr Corcoran Chap
n
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16

President Wilson may now be able to vote il
Paris but he can't in Washington, D. c.
Washington Post
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-16

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-21
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE.

Routed shorts and enthusiastic bulls
We'd with each other In bidding for
favorites among the active issues during
the last hour on the Consolidated Stock
Exchange yesterday. The advices were
generally along the lines of improve
ment. Uncertainty about the European
situation and the engagement OF about
3d. 900 for South American shipment
practically were disreEarded by the aver
age trader.
Mexican Petroleum on substantial de-
mand was advanced Z points to 1855 VI.
Royal Dutch Of New York 5H 70 ll6h
and Pan American Petroleum an TO
s6k. American International Corpora
ton stood out among the marines, adj
vancing 7K from its early low TO l0SE
CASTOR. williams 4 wigmore was bid
up to Sc.
The steeIs were strong throughout the
session, United States Steel common
moving up IN to 1851, Cruciblo 3 "
TO e3h, Republic Iron and Steel 1 u TO
soN and Bethlehem b IN TO s5A. On
urgent inquiry for the food properties
United States Food Products gained 4
points to SIN, Corn Products . to TAN
and virginia and Carolina Chemical 2K
to ssX. United Cigar Stores moved
widest OF the tobaceos. gaining az to
islh and entering new high ground for
this year. Texas and Pacific. on sus-
tanned demand. was advanced IN to
s5H, q new high level Missouri Pacific
moved UP IN to sax. Read
ing lM to 50 and St. Louis and
San Francisco to 2i%. reaching a new
high mark. On buying said to be for
strong interests American Can rose ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-21
FINANCIAL NOTES,

Edward p. Davis has been appoln'rrL .I ~
assistant secretary OF the Guaranty
William r. Compton Company arc o ,.'.y
ing S5l5,eoo OF per cent Sehastla" '''"'''
Arkansas, serial bonds. ,,,,,.y
Ktdder, Peabody & Co, F, ) 49,, ,i,n
& Co and the Chase Securities ,"r. 10 an
are forming a syndicSe 10 uh'r'rs rrs.
issue OF s6.6oo,o 900 MIST and sHCohIi .rttsd
ferred and common stocks OF me
Drug Company at par. $50 snare -,
Equitable Trust COMPANY ha- n''' 90
pointed trustee for the tb.Ou'.',p 10
ture bond issue Of the Allied Pa k'FN' ,
which will be offered to the plhla s',,
Stockhoiders OF the Irving Na''.t',
Bank yesterday voted to ir.reas" a.,
banks capital stock from 'A''V','''
900 900. an.
Guaranty Trust Company has nf,n TX AZ
pointed transfer agent Of the cap,'a I'm.
OF tho White Eagle Oh and RehH'"S
United States Industrial Alcohol , .or,
pany has declared iis regular 9l".a.r,si
dividend OF IL per cent on Us h,o,1trs
stock, payable on July IS Z" S'o'N"''
of record on June 80 .-..,. vlI
Intercontinental Rubber company .,.o
close down It's factory AT IoFre"", low
indie nnitely, because Of the preNhi''ns ,d
level OF prices for all crude runn"tS s H
conditions in Mexico, which make sup
piles OF raw material PreeaF'ous
costly. rsv
Metropolitan Trust Company o. mi H,
York and the American Security anu .o.I..
Company OF Washington have nren ~ is.
mated by the protective oor"'ni ''"" o.
positarles for the per cent h"It an
the Washington Utilities COMPANY
Texas Producing and Refining C2mra ss,
better than $500 barrels, Two nCN weI n
nearly hnished. Three other UnsetS
1nrk asld are drilling
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-21
virrinia Carolina Chemical.

with the food stocks coming back into
favor with the speculative public. the
financial fraternity cast about yesterday
for others to add to It's list One Of
these, which Is not directly food stock
but which through its subsidiaries
manufactures food products. IL the vir-
ginia Carolina Chemical Company,
which has been under the process OF &C
cumulation for several days past and In
which It was repeated several days ago
a new pool had been formed. The stock
made another new high yesterday and.
accompanying the activity, insiders let
It become known that the current assets
of the company OF May 81 amounted to
s52,7Os,3sS, whereas the liabilities were
only $40. According to the same
sources of information, the company
annual report for the fiscal year ended
Juno so, which il due shortly. will show
that tho book value of the stock Is APP
proxImately $3.50 a share. II has earned
"a per cent. on tho common In the last
three years, and OF this amount only
slightly more than per cent has been
paid to holders In dividends. The divi-
dend Is now at a per cent. rate. and
II is understood that the directors plan
moro liberal disbursements later In the
year.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-21
GOSSIP OF WALL STREET.


Wall street came quickly on the fence
yesterday in differences OF opinion as to
whether the Germans would sign tho
treaty. and now It's belief 10 almost
unanimous that oficially war will be
brought to q conclusion on Monday.
And as a direct result Of this opinion
the so-cailed peace stocks went soaring.
Directly after the armistice was signed
last fall q few stocks were picked out
and placed in the front rank Of those
which would benefit most largely and
quickly by tho resumption of normal
trade relations. Among them, Of course,
the food stocks take front rank. On this
supposition United States Food Products,
Corn Products, Virginia Carolina Chem
ical, American Lnseed and the biscuit
stocks have been widely purchased. In
ternational Harvester, Royal Dutch and
American International were three
others expected to be directly in line for
immediate prosperity with the coming
Of peace. All OF these como under the
general head of peace stocks and. as
such, led the market yesterday. Shorts
became uneasy on the publication Of q
report that the German Government n
weimar had accepted The treaty, and
their scrambling to cover considerably
accelerated the sharp furry In all oil
them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-21
Union Pacific.

One Of the consistently strong stocks
In yesterdays constructive session was
Union Pacific. which closed at the top
price Of 124 for net gain OF IN
There IL a good deal Of bearish talk
about the rails In general on the theory
that the return of the roads to private
hands will be followed by lowering
of rates without a corresponding reduc'
ton In wages. but It lie believed In i'm.
portant quarters that U. p. could stand
a considerable reduction In net income
without prejudicing its 10 per cent. divi.
dend rate. This belief was strengthened
by publication of the roads net railway
operating income for the year ended on
April 80, 1919. This figure amounted
to S50,s28.403 or $12,200.000 in excess
of the Federal contract payment On
the basis OF actual earnings the per.
centage on Union Pacific common stock
would be 1887 per cent. or SGT Per
cent. above the dividend payment OF IL
Der cent.