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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
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They Will Return


They will not come in swinging line,
They will not march along the street,
But they will see each tender sign
We make for those we long to greet.
They'll see the tears in gentle eyes
That watch the broken ranks 60 by,
They'll hear the mothers sobs and signs
And understand the reason why.
The missing brave for whom we yearn
In victory's hour will return.
Because his comrades left him there
To sleep meath Flanders poppy rows,
Think not that he will fail to share
In all the praise the world bestows.
Think not he will fail to hear
The music and the shouts of Joy.
He will be always lowering near.
Oh, mother of each missing boy,
He'll know, across life's dusky rim.
That all your smiles are meant for him!
When they return to sound of cheers,
And all their cruel tasks are done,
The shouts the living soldier hears
Will soon reach the absent one.
When all the battle flags are furled
And peace hae come to every land,
The Joy that reigns throughout the world
The dead will know aud understand.
They will be near to hear and see
And share in victory's jubilee.
Edgar Il. Guest
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
Birdettes

A swallow can travel in the air at a rate
of 100 miles an hour.
Birds can fly for twenty-four hours at a
stretch without descending, even in boist-
eroas weather.
The canary lives about Is years, and the
nightingale IL years.
The eagle lives about 80 years, the raven
80 years, and the parrot has been known to
exist over 100 years. These facts have Just
been computed.
The vulture when swooping on its prey
cuts through the atmosphere at $50 miles
an hour.
Owls screech when bad weather is at hand,
and as foul weather often precedes sickness,
so the owl is looked on as funeral bird.
Wild birds generally seek their prey in
the daytime. while beasts of pray general
ly seek theirs at night.
When feathers are taken from an ostrich
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
If He Came Now

If he came now!
My heart would be like once quiet street,
Hung with gay lanterns on a fete night,
wild
With singing And my heart would be a
child
Sleepily waking to kiss, then Ainging
Sleep from it, springing
With all too ready feet,
Out of the night, into the world again,
And finding that its toys were all once
There where i: left them, waiting on the
floor.
To be played with again. My heart would
be
An opened book filled tull with witchery,
Filled, too, with pain,
An opened book that had been left too
long
Upon dusty shelf. 1t would be song
In a young mouth. And it would be buds,
too,
Opening under the moon, and shivering at
the dew,
But liking it. And it would be fame,
Red in the night. l used to be glad when
he came,
But not so very often glad-because l
thought
That would always have him. Then war
caught
Him up from me and bore him out
To be where danger is; and killed my doubt,
My hesitation and half fears. All, now
1 would run to welcome him, if he came
now!
Mary Coralym Davies,
in Good Housekeeping
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
The Women Who Laughed

There we're women who wept when the
troops went out;
They were brave, as our women are,
But when they were wounded-who is not
They couldn't help showing the scar.
There were women who wept; they were
brave enough, no doubt,
AS our women have always been;
But the women who laughed when the
troops went out,
Are the women who helped them win.
There are women who waved, then held the
Small handkerchief to their eyes,
And wept, at the end, in their soldiers
sight.
They were loving but hardly wise.
But the kindest of all were the women who
Were gay till the troops departed;
Till the sharp ordeal to their men was
through,
And the crowded train had started.
When out on the plains of Picardy
Your soldier thinks of you,
You'll be proud if he says-to some pal,
maybe
''She's nothing but grit, clean thought
For he sees that the hardest war that s
known
Is the war that the women fight;
And he's glad that the woman who's all
his own
Will be keeping his home.fire bright.
There are women who weep-and they re
brave, no doubt,
As our women have always been;
But the women who laugh when the troops
60 out,
Are the women who help them win.
Mary Carolyn Davies
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
The Grist of Life

Beside the toll, the years
Grind out the grist of life;
Sometimes with binding tears,
Sometimes with bitter strife.
Sometimes tits natures way
To shift the running gears,
And this may change the play
To doubts and anxious fears;
But she, in all the grind
To make results complete,
Must in the hopper find
The "fnest of the wheat
The grist is grinding on
While we're at work or play,
We're in the grind in song
And things of every day.
And here the thought comes in
It's ever making fate.
In all that we would win
UP to the minute date.
So we must bear in mind
The wage to which we meet
Can only be refined
From Finest of the wheat
L. B. Mitchell
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
N | R R 0 R E ES

Christian Science services were held in
the chapel Sunday morning.
Mrs. Frances Lane of Anoka and Mr..
A. J. Linden of St. Paul. both soloists.
sang several delightful selections to an
appreciative congregation at chapel services
Sunday.
January broke all records known by
anyone at this institution. No one can
remember of so mild a January, with so
little snow, in the past thirty-six years.
The German press is beginning to show
peevish dislike for President Wilson.
-Sixty-six members of the Dome Club
of St. Paul, wives of members of the Legis-
lature, were entertained at this institution
Wednesday, January %. Representative
H. H. Harrison of this district accompanied
the ladies.
The mild weather which prevailed dur
ing January caused noticeable increase in
the number of visitors passing through the
institution.
Mot for a moment did the sun show the
least intention of giving the grounding a
chance to see his shadow to become scared
thereat and scurry back to his safe retreat
to stay for six weeks more, recovering from
his fright, Sunday, February 2-"Ground-
hog Day." IA more disagreeable day could
hardly be imagined; both overhead and I'M
derfoot. 1t ralned and sleeted, glaciating
the sidewalks till they were like CREASED
glass, that walking was very difficult. But
notwithstanding, if there is any truth in the
quaint old belief of the grounding and
his shadow influencing the early arrival of
the spring season. we may soon look for the
first tiny flower peeping forth and watch
the robin at his never-ending task gathering
in the harvest of angleworms.
The report of the first quarterly meet
ing of the Pierian Chautauqua Circle will
be found on page two of this issue. In
point of attendance (about 1900 outside
people attended) and excellence of program
the meeting was one of the most successful
ever held at the new prison.
"A snow storm followed on the heels OF
Sundays rain storm, and by Monday noon
there were several inches of the beautiful
on the ground.
Our regular movie show Wednesday,
January %, was hve-reel Lasky produc-
ton entitled GA Kiss for Susie,' with
Vivian Martin in the leading role. The
musical program follows:
March-Liberty -Zamecnik
Overture-Pique Dame Suppe
Waltzes-Tiger Reed
Intermezzo Arabian Nights
David and Hewett
One Step-There's Little Blue Star in
the Window Hickman
Selection-The Rainbow Gill; Hirsch
A Jazz Fox Trot-You Can Have 1t,
Don't Want 1t Hill
March-The Olympian- Brown
Prof. R. J.. Reichkitzer, Director.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
20 ET-TREE =.
Lsoces From Oar Poets.
The Sugar Plum Tree

Have you ever heard of the Sugar Plum
Tree1
It's marvel of great renown!
1t blooms on the shore of the Lollipop sea
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town;
The fruit that it bears is 80 wondrously
sweet
(As those who have stated it say)
That good little children have only to eat
Of that fruit to be happy next day.
When you get to the tree. you would have
hard time
To capture the fruit which l sing;
The tree is SO tall that no person could
climb
To the boughs where the sugar-plums
swing!
But up in that tree sits chocolate cat,
And gingerbread dog prowls below
And this is the way you contrive to get al
Those sugar-plums tempting you so;
You say but word to that gingerbread
QO&
And he banks with a terrible zest
That the chocolate cat is at once all agog,
AS her swelling proportions attest.
And the chocolate cat goes cavortine
around
From this leafy limb unto that,
And the sugar plums tumble. of course to
the ground
Hurrah for that chocolate cat.
There are marshmellows. gumdrops, and
peppermint canes,
With stripings of scarlet and gold,
And you carry away of fine treasure tina,
rains
AS much as your apron can hold!
So come little child cuddle closer to me
In your dainty white night cap and
gown,
And I'll rock you away to that Sugar Plum
Tree
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town.
Eugene Field
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
February

You, February, seem to be
Old January's understudy,
But play the part too vaudevill-y,
With wind too moist and snow too
muddy
You overfreeze and overthaw-
Your "Hos Ter Jo"-like recitation
But hints that you're, at best, a raw
Imitation.
From the Hoosier Calendar
The church festival of Epiphany, some
times called "the manifestation of Christ to
the Gentiles," is observed, and has been,
since the year 813, in honor of the adora,
ton of our Savior by the three nagi, or wise
men, who, led by the star, came to pay
Him homage.
St. Valentines day is named in memory
of beloved martyred Roman priest. Feb
ruary fifteenth was originally observed as
the anniversary of his death, but later it
was changed to the fourteenth day of the
month. Centuries ago there was a belief
that the ,uating season of birds began on
St. Valentines Day-hence the custom of
sending love notes.
Famous Birthdays
Thomas A. Edison is one of the world s
genuises whose inventions have stimulated
industry and forced advancement more rap
idly in ten years than any other influence in
like time in the history of the world, was born
February IL, 1847, at Milan, Ohio. He
began his career as newsboy on the Grand
Trunk Railway, where his tendencies to ex-
pertinent led him to fit up laboratory in
the corner of baggage car.
He became telegraph operator and in
1869 began his career as an inventor.
Among his great gifts to the world and the
industries which his inventions have built
up are the stock ticker, incandescent lamps,
manufacture of dynamos and electric fix
lures, moving pictures and talking mach
ines which have sprung from the phono-
graph. To Edison has been credited the
remark that ''genius is two per cent inspir-
alton, and ninety-eight per cent perspira-
ton.
Susan B. Anthony, founder of the first
state Women's Temperance Society, a
founder of the National Woman's Suffrage
Association, and one of the great leaders in
the cause of woman advancement, was born
of Quaker parents, February 49, 1920. at
Adams, Mass. For fifteen years she was a
school teacher, during which time she was
active in temperance and anti-slavery move
ments. For many years she was president
of the National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton, and as lecturer on and advocate of
woman's right, she toured England and
the United States. She was eighty-six years
old when her death came.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
Living

Having thought little-I have suffered,
but tasted triumph.
Having loved. have friends
Having been loved, have lived.
Having worked -some-the Joy of doing is
not unknown to me.
Come what may intend to think and love
and work with all my might-to the
end.
Fred B. Mason
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06

they are cut two inches above the stump.
The stump is allowed to remain in the bird
for about two months, and then becomes so
loose that it can be painlessly Withdrawn.
The ostrich, therefore, is not hurt in any
way.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
The Planting

The Planting
Who plants a tree may live
To see its leaves unfold,
The greenness of its summer garb,
Its autumn tinge of gold.
Who plants flower may live
To see its beauty grow,
The lily whiten on its stalk,
The rambler rose to grow.
Who sows the seed may find
The field of harvest fair,
The song of reapers ringing clear,
When all the sheaves are there.
But time will fell the tree,
The rose will fade and die,
The harvest time will pass away,
As does the song and sign.
But whose plants in love,
The word of hope and trust,
Shall find it still alive with Cod
1t is not made of dust.
1t cannot fade nor change,
Though hopes may scattered be,
For love alone has high repose
In Immortality.
W. Lomar Childress, in Mortified
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
H U N 0 R

''Lemme see one O. dem cuckoo Clocks
said Mr.. Erastus.
''Here you are
"Could you change de tune littlea
wants an alarm clock. don't take to desc
hasty an excited alarm clocks. If you
could train one O. desc to cackle like
chicken, 1 could wake up spry an hopeful
every time
Mistress, engaging new maid-You say
the last family you worked for were Ger
mans?
Maid, apologetically-Yes m; but they
was sterilized before the war broke out.
Fishing is poor mans sport as much
as it is a rich MANS
s'That's true. A hsherman's success
does not depend so much on his assets as
on his lie Abilities
He was always Boosting about his an
cestors and one dav employed genealogist
to hunt them up. In due time the con-
noiseur in pedigree returned and was cordi-
ally received by his patron!
$50 you have succeeded in tracing back
my ancestorsi What is your feel''
''Two hundred dollars
''Isn't that very highf' objected the pat
ron. "What's it for?''
principally" responded the genealogist,
s'for keeping quiet about them.''
A business-like man stepped into
butchers shop. "a piece of mea, for
roasting" he ordered briskly.
The meat, mostly bones, was thrown on
the scales.
''Look here!'' demonstrated the man.
''You're giving me big piece of bone"
''Oh, no, ain't!'' said the butcher
blandly. you're paying for it,
"Ma," roared Mr.. Jagsby, "where in
the demnition bow-wows is my hat1 l
can't keep thing about this house. lisa
shame the way things disappear without any
apparent reason. would like to know just
where that hat is
$50 would T. replied Mrs. Jagsby,
coldly. ''You didn't have it on when you
came home last night"
Buy Thrift Stamps. New issue, cost
81. Is this month. Worth $500 in 1924.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
Inmates Attention.!

Inmates will observe the following
rules to insure prompt mail service.
Place register number and page num-
her in upper right hand corner of
envelope in space to be covered by
stamp.
Your future page number will be same as
shown on all incoming letters.
Do not write between lines.
Sign your full name to all letters.
il. SULLIVAN. Deputy Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06

The man who counts his hours and
kicks about his salary is self-elected
failure.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
Chapel Hrnpran1
Sunday, February z

The following is the program rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Reverend
Benson officiating.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06
]Brinn,, @ffirials

Prian,, @ffirials
Board Of Control
Ralph w. Wbeelock, Minneapolis
C.. E. vasaly, Little Falls
c. ]. Swendsen, St. James
Downer Mullen. Secretary.
Board of Parole
c. E. Vasaly, Chairman
c. S. Reed. Sec'y for Prison
Rev. H. c. Swearingen
X. w. Scott, Sec'y for Reformatory
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06

AHe IOiiowiuS u inc PIOSFSm rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Reverend
Benson officiating.
March-Yankee Scout Orchestra
Selection Simple Orchestra
Holy, Holy,
AusoCauon NnaPlalh
Gloria Congregation
Scripture Reading Chaplain
Hymn-Brightly Cleans Our Banner
---------------------Congregation
Prayer ACKNOWLEDGMENT Chaplain
Selection-Serenade Orchestra
Vocal Solo--------- Mr.. A. J. Linden
Vocal Mrs. Frances Lane
0ei'nou ---- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Vocal Solo--- Mr.. A. ]. Linden
Hymn-What Friend We Have in Jesus
---------------------Congregation
Benedlction- ------------C Chaplain
March-The Convoy Orchestra
R. ]. Reichkitzer. Musical Oirecto,.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06

Monday, February 3
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06

Fishing is poor mans sport as much
as it is a rich MANS
''That's true. A hsherman's success
does not depend so much on his assets as
on his lie abilities
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-06

Mistress, engaging new maid-You say
the last family you worked for were Ger
mans?
Maid, apologetically-Yes'm; but they
was sterilized before the war broke out.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-24
GERMAN GOVERNMENT
TO Re FORMED FEB. 6
Constitution viii Be Adopted
as Old Regime Ends.

Berlin, Jan. 24.-The German ma
tional assembly, which will convene
at Welmar February 6, is expected to
be in session about two months.
The first business before the as
sembly will be the selection of pro-
yisional government, because the pres.
ent government considers its existence
at an end with the converting of
constituent assembly. The assembly
will then take up the adoption of a
constitution.
The present government, as such,
will not present any proposal, and the
draft drawn up by the ministry of the
interior will be submitted merely as a
preliminary suggestion to form the
basis of discussion.
The obligatory task of the cOnstitu-
ent assembly will be finished with the
adoption Of a constitution, but it he's
the right to make of itself a consti-
tuted, instead of a constituting body;
and this probably will be done. In
that case, the assembly will be oblig-
ed to regulate tax and financial ques-
tons by legislation.
The peace question probably will
not be considered, as it is not expect
ed that the Germans will be admitted
to the peace conference before the
adjournment of the assembly.
German main headquarters has
been transferred to Kolberg, Pomera-
MIA, and Field Marshal Won linden
burg will take charge of operations
to protect the German eastern from
her
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-24
SHIP GUST CUT

Reduced at Hog IsIand From 1924 Z
Ton to 1912.
Philadelphia, Jan. 24--Cost Of ships
at Hog Island has decreased since the
first vessel was launched several
months ago, Charles PieZ. of the
Emergency Fleet corporation, told the
senate commerce committee in Wash.
ingtOn
Mr.. PieZ presented IL table showing
that wt..!e the first vessel cost 1924
Il ton, ii,ter vessels from the twenty
fifth to the THIRTEEN will cost only
SOP ton.
Hog Islands first ship cost $2.4272.-
600. and tlr. PieZ said the average
cost of the first seventeen would be
S1.S94O00
Replying to questions by Senator
Harding. Mr.. PieZ said eventually the
ship construction activities would he
reduced 40 per cent and that when
conditions reach normal basis the an
nual tonnage output would be about
2.500OOO
The number of vessels huilt in 1917
1918. Mr.. PieZ's report said was SO
completed: 244 were launched and
80 per cent complete and 7S2 on the
ways. :.'1@ per cent complete. That
made Il total tonnage for the two years
of 1850, $50. he said. and in addition
there were fourteen ships contrac ted
for in 1918 in Japanese yards for
which the United States had furnish.
ed material.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-24
SAYS PENNA, TROOPS
WERE MURDERED"
Charges Green Soldiers We're
Sent Into Battle.

Pittsburgh, Jan. Ex-senator PePn-
rose is right
Men were sent into the fight at
Argonne forest who had never fired
a rifle in their lives 1t was simply
murder to send them in. | don't know
who was responsible. but it was, who
ever had charge of the requirements"
This statement was made by Lieu
tenant Colonel Bertram l.. SuccOp in
answer 10 Il query as to the truth of
statements made in the senate by
Senator PenroSe. Colonel SurcOp has
just returned from France. He serv-
ell through all the heavy fighting Of
1--WE had many men sent us who had
been indicted into the army by the
draft only Il few days when they We're
shipped overseas" said Colonel Sue
cop. "Most had been drilled more or
less hut many had never been on the
rifle. range and had never fred rifle
As fast as we found this class of men,
we put them at other work. We did
not send them to the front.
"ReplacementS TO the twenty-eighth
division came from all over the coun-
try. They were fine young fellows,
but they had been rushed across the
sea with little preliminary training.
They sent these green boys into the
sfighr of Argnnne forest. st. Nhiel and
others of the big fights.
"What do I think of that practice?
I think it was murder. 1t could be
called nothing else to send boy in
there who had never fired a rifle, who
knew little of its mechanism He was
going up against old line, seasoned
troops.
1T was this plan of sending green
men in requirements which cost us
so many officers and non-commissioned
men. \ captain, lieutenant, sergeant
Or corporal had to stay with the boys
who We're green. His trained and sea-
soned men could go ahead and take
are of themselves in a measure.
1T WIS an easy matter for German
Sharpshooters TO pick out the man
who who seemed to be boss. That is
yhy we lost so heavily in officers
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-24
THOUSANDS OF HUNS
READY TO COME TO US,
Fighting Congressman Urges
Ban on immigration.

Washington, Jan 24-Thousands
of Germans who fought against
America are anXiouSIy waiting for
the peace treaty to be signed to emf
CRATE to this country. the house i'm
migration committee was told by
kota, Il lieutenant in the infantry
overseas during the war. speaking in
favor of legislation stopping immi-
grafton during the reconstruction peri
cd.
Mr. Johnson said he spoke with nu-
merouS German prisoners and ihal in
variably they stated they intended 10
come to America.
They didn't want 10 return to their
country. and they realized that Eng
land. France or Italy wouldn't toler-
ate Them" Mr. Johnson said. THE
question is. shall this country tolerate
them? American soldiers in France
are unanimously of the opinion that
it should not"
Another reason advanced by Mr..
Johnson for preventing immigration
was that it would result in the coun-
try being flooded with undesirable ele-
ments.
'The moral strength of every war
ring nation has been broken down."
he said Things are tolerated which
would have been promptly stopped be-
fore the war"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-24
MODERATES WIN IN GERMANY
Majority Socialists Have Plurality
With 1854 Votes.

Basic, Switzerland, Jan. A.-Re-
portsfrOm all the twenty seven cleo
tOral districts in Germany, returning
the full number of 421 members of the
national assembly, show the Majority
Socialists have Il plurality in the as
cembly with 1874 votes.
The distribution Of the members by
parties is as follows:
Majority Socialists. 1854: Christian
Peoples party, So; Democrats, II:
German National party. "a Minority
Socialists. "a: German Peoples party.
%: Guelfs, 4: Ravarian Peasants
league. 4: Wurttemburg Bourgeois
party, 2: Peasants and WOrkmcnS
Democratic league, 1. Total, 421.
(The German National party and
the German Peoples party which to-
gether have total of 81 votes. are
hacked by the Conservatives and Pan
German element. The Democrats are
"Bnurgenis" Liberals).
Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier.
failed to win seat in any of the
constituencies where he was a candi-
date.
Since German troops were summoned
to put down the Spartacan uprising in
Berlin. the army has been assuming
a position of greater Importance. ac-
cOrding To adyiccS received in Lon
don.