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The mirror., 1920-01-15
Back Tracking Civilization

One by the continents are being linked, the
oceans spanned and space is annihilated by the
aeroplane. Read and Brown bridged the Atlantic
through the air and Captain Ross Smith has flown
from England Autralia distance of II 500 miles.
Captain Smith crossed dozen or more countries
and the continents of Europe and Asia to reach his
goal and claim prize of $4,000 offered by the Aus
tralian government. His flight of nearly halfway
around the earth carried him above the ancient lands
which for centuries Graded the human race. He flew
Egypt where 5000 years before the birth of
Christ 100000 sweating slaves toiled 20 years to
build the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. Flying back along
the track of civilization he passed desert wastes
where Babylon once teemed with life under Hammur
api where Sennacherio pundered where the Assyrans
raised their vast palaces and imposing towers along
the Tigris; where Nebuchadnezzar looked down
the splendors of his Chadean kingdom from his lux
urious Hanging Gardens. He passed over forgotten
battlefelds where Cyrus defeated young Belshazzar
and where the fate of Troy sealed As he pressed
farther and farther toward the ancient east he
had his eyes been keen the eagles have watched
savages and wild beasts roaming among the ruins of
temples and cities built in India by of civilization
that thrived bloomed and decayed before the Romans
under Caesar visited his Albion.
Captain Smiths exploit is mighty personal
triumph, but it is wonderful expression of
the point which the has developed. Given the
machine and the flying experience there thousands
who could duplicate his feat Within the next few
years, perhaps within few months, brave men in
staunch aeroplanes will circle this old earth riding
lightly upon the wing of the morning Archimedes
after working the theory of levers declared that
given fucrum he could the earth by application
of his principle. This wise old Greek who discovered
laws of mechanics which applied in every man.
made machine used today would be astonished could
he know that had discovered means of lifting
weight of several tons into the air and directing the
movement of this mass independent of any contact
with terra frrna
A fulcrum such as Archimedes could not con-
ceive, mighty fucrum by the of which the human
race can move itself to heights of knowledge and
progress and achievement, is at hand. 1t is the
aeroplane-Exchange.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Trade Of United States With Mexico

Trade between the United States and Mexico
consists chiefly of exchange of manufactures pro-
duced in the United States for manufacturing material
produced in Mexico. Curiously too, this trade has
continued to increase during the full period of tur
MOL through which Mexico has passed in recent years.
Our trade with Mexico, says statement by the Ma
tional City Bank of New York, aggregated in the
fiscal year 1919 $277 100000 against $131 100000
in 1914, and $117 900 in 1910 The exports alone
from the United States to Mexico in 1919, $11oOOO,
600, against $39O0000O in 1914 while the imports
from that country were $158,OOO,OOO against $685.
100000 in 1914. The United States has supplied in
of Mexico, and taken probably four-ffths of her ex-
ports, this estimate being based upon the latest avail
able official figures of the Mexican government
coupled with certain known official figures have not
yet been issued.-National City Bank Bulletin.
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Man, Just Man

real man is who is always busy. He is al
ways identified by the way he deals with the people he
meets. He is courteous to everyone. He is consi-
derate. If he the father of family he will teach
his children to be courteous every He true.
When he makes promise he makes it good He does
you to think of him as an aristocrat. He
knows that there is such thing as an aristocrat,
except in the heart. The real aristocrat has heart
The who insists on having other people think he
is aristocrat would not know the meaning of the
word heart. To say man has no heart is the last
word of condemnation.
The real man is not hypocrite He is exactly
what he to be-a straightforward candid hon
orable, plain, courteous gentleman. He is always
right hence he look the world straight in the eye
He has nothing concealed, he afraid. He will
say yes He is on the right side of everything
and every question, he understands the right He
makes mistakes but he is always ready acknowledge
his and them. He is always teachable
He is glad to learn from the humblest source as well
the highest. He is reverent The Bible is the
Word of God to him, so he will square his life by its
teachings. He may not be churchman, but he will
never be heard reviling the church.-Masonic Home
Journal.
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-. G. o M M E II Il S -.
Thrift

What is thrift? Should we practice it? Many
readers will be astonshed learn that there
troversy over the proper to both questions
The dictionaries do not help us much. Thrift
many things and has many interpretations that
it is hard determine which meaning applies to par
tcuar case Frugaty and economy, and pru
dence in the management of property, in
acquiring property all under the head of thrift
find ourselves confronted by contradictory views
of what meaning fits our own case. If thrift
frugality Americans thrifty but if it
success in acquiring wealth. we
The Treasury Department has issued leaflet,
entitled Thrift American Ideal that tells
what saving does for man. for the community and
for the whole country The implication s of course,
that thrift is simply saving: that and nothing else.
Some men who do not accept the governments
implied definition, and who do not regard excessive
and undiscrminatng saving wise, have raised the
controversy regarding the second of the two questions
They maintain that BUSINESS, general prosperity,
tonal growth in wealth and the personal comfort of
the people are best promoted by a scale of
expenditure governed by the and the needs of
each person.
1t is not necessary to enter the controversy All
we need to keep in mind is that the government does
not ask us to save the point of deny
ourselves reasonable personal comfort. 1t urges
merely to avoid waste and needless expenditures.
The act that principle the better it
will be for ourselves and for the country. We have
what saving can do when it is forced upon
Because limited ourselves in of sugar and
other things that we wanted and because saved
wheat by mixing substitutes with what we had we
able support allies who would surely have
lost the war if we had not fed them.
The continued high price of food, fuel clothing
and other necessares will be blessing rather than
calamity if it induces to practice true economy;
that s and to sparingly what is useful:
not to pinch and starve ourselves or to go clad in
threadbare garments but in all things avoid
vagance and waste. What is economy and thrift for
man may be extravaganza for another, but it is
extravaganza for anyone to throw away clothing and
other articles that still useful or to allow what
can be made into good and appetizng food to 60 to
the garbage pail.
The essence of true thrift is no avate; about that
side of it there is chance for controversy.-YouHs
Companion.
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What the Flu" Did

The following paragraphs are taken from re-
article, entitled, "The Conservation of Health
is Vital" by Mr.. c. E. Lovett of the Modern Samar-
itans:
"Life insurance rates are based upon normal
death rate, and it is only when Spanish influenza
makes its and an extraordinary NOR
taty that the insurance companies and fraterna So
cetes become alarmed and find it absolutely necessary
themselves the utmost to check the spread
of this great scourge and endeavor find some pre-
ventve
1T has been estimated by an expert of the Lon
don Times that during the three months from Septem-
Der l to December l, 1918, there were 100000
deaths from this terrible pandemic DR.. Frederick
L. Hoffman estimates that during 1918 the mortality
from influenza and pneumonia in this country
amounted to 100000. This made an increase in the
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Yet the breach between Mexico and the United

Yet the breach between Mexico and the United
States constantly widens. We complain against Mex
their government and that government replies
with sneers scarcely veled Our state department
leans backward in the attempt to promote and MAIN
tain friendliness over the border and the Mexican
statesmen proceed deliberately to cultivate intimate
relations with Germans we have but late called enc
mics, largelyit seems superfcally-to show spite to-
ward America.
A fellow courtryman who long has had occasion
to travel in Mexico supplies with explanations The
group associated with Daz consisted of active, inte
gent exploters, altogether unscrupulous passonatey
determined to get rich in hurry. 1t granted great
concessions to foreigners bulded industries hastily and
overcaptalized heavily borrowed all the tricks of high
finance. There existed at the time another group
landed propretors, enormously rch but not given
spending, enamored of state wherein they held the
fate of thousands of ignorant povertystrcken poems
in virtual servitude
Americans who developed mines and oil fields and
agricultural tracts in Mexico paid wage above the
prevailing wage scale of the country and provided the
poems opportunities break with their servitude The
Diaz group did not 1t contented to get the
money, and gave thought the social upheaval
the Americans unconsciously were bringing about.
Whatever opposition then apparent the part of
the lords of the soil.
Madero true patriot in that his heart went
to the haf-starved peons In his war on the Daz
group the landed propretors found ii convenient to
join. But once that Diaz and his group were de-
stroyed they work parayze the endeavors of
Madero and, though they had no hand in his murder,
they found in that nothing to mourn over AS
as they were in control of the government they set
themselves the task of restoring the old patrarchal
state to its last detail.
As compared with Diaz, Carranza is simply
conservative of another color. As compared with Ma
dero, he is reactionary of reactonares. He intent
fastening the poems their ancient dependence
the land owner, and so makes such war he
Americans who give the poems chance acquire
liberty and higher standard of living. He encour
ages the Germans who bend the landed propretors
and painstakingly avoids disturbing the wage scale
the padrone system, the allegiance the gentry"
Americans got along with the Diaz crowd be-
cause the road to riches for that group in the
swift development of natural They could
have been on happy terms with Madero because they
had as he had distaste for serfage They never
likely to be encouraged or tolerated by Carranza be-
cause he has committed all his energies to the preser
vation of the special privileges of his privileges
which the mere presence of Americans threatens
Toledo Blade
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Q:-Who and operates the Weland Cana9 L
there vessels going through?-H. P.
A-(a) Canada. (b) Yes

0:-Please of the best health in this
and other What kind of climate is best for that
is inclined to be tubercular?-W. S.
A:-There best health resorts, best eli
for ubercar persons The majority of people have at
period during their life habord ubecuar germs and
the method of living thinking and eating have determined
results. There of the disease in the
rural districts than in large cities and the ocaled
bercuar hospitals but places learn their patients how
live and what The climate of Minnesota equal
to any continent except the of clothing
during its winters
o-what was the principal clause the resolution in
troduced in the Senate by Senator Foote of Connecticut
of December 1922 that caused much debate be-
tween the Massachusetts, and South Carolina senators?
C. S. E.
A-Senator Foote of Connecticut in December, 1929,
moved that the committee Public Lands be instructed to
inquire into the expediency of doing two things aboishng
the Office of Surveyor General and limiting the sale of public
lands.
This resolution constructed by Senator Benton to
be attempt stop emigration to the Mississippi valley
and the West The debate then drfted to the whole
ton of the future policy of the government public
lands and the chief speaker this topic Robert Young
Hayne of South Carolina great advocate of the doctrine
of State Rights On the day following the addresses of Ben
ton Hayne Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, replied
Hayne-gnoring Bentonand made great defense of the
against the West and uphodng the constitutional doc
trine of Union which Webster deeply devoted
opposed any sectional divisions of the nation into East and
West The debates extended several days and
suit Webster recognized the first great defender and
expounder of Constitution and advocate of the Union
while Haynes fame became connected with the doctrine of
States Rights
See MacMasters History of the American people, volume
6. (Not in the Prison Library.
O-What material is used for making Panama hats?
p. N.
A-Unexpanded leaves of semless pine, native
of Central America and Columbia Soft parts of leaves
are first removed and fiber then soaked in water to make
it pliable Weaving is done largely under water.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Why Carranza Hates Us

AS neighbors, Mexico and the United States
should be the closest friends AS republics the bond
between them should be strong. Mexico has lived by
reason of the trade have developed with her and
we have thrived on Mexican commerce. There is no
impossible barrier of language or conflict of religion
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O-Pease give me the date of the death of Admiral
George Dewey; also the cause and burial.-M T.
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CHURCH NOTICE
in the Prison Chapel o'clock Sunday
alternate Sunday
Rev.. G. and Rev. FIR Corcoran, Chapans.
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NOTICE TO INMATES:
privilege Of sending
home friends of charge To do this should write
rnumbe address
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The delivered cell week must De Kept
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10

winners, Paula Of Jopa)la, sAme ownsu.
Boston Terriers-Winners dog, 6odns
wick Solitaire, Frank s. Young. Reeeevs
winners, Kings Rival, Elbort r. PhlupA
Winners, Bitchos-0roesi's Lady. Toni
Grossi, Reserve winners, Nancy T. II,
Dr. p. A. Tnynor.
Old English sheepdop, W. II. Csr's
Jonos, the only entry.
Poodlos, Winners, does, Mary X. Bal
lantyne, Champion Tho Dudke Of 0er-
mantown.
Open, bitches, rat, A. N. Clyde,
Champion Flrurctte; second, A. h. Clyde,
Champion Beau's Girl.
Winners, bitches, fir,t, AIMS Il. CLYDE,
Fleurette, reserve winners, Champion
Beaus Girl, same owner. =,
Dobsrman Pinscher. Winnseg, dhU,
Ralph T. Miller, Rolf der Oeherm Polisist.
Limit, bitches, Mrs. r. I. Miller, Lady
Carlowill
Open, bitches, r. T. Millr, schnupps
Won Ever Faithful
Winners, bitches, r. T. Miller, Sob
nuppc Won Ever Faithful reserve winners,
Bullterriers, w. r. Ford's Yankee
Boston Terriers, Puppy dogs, ]. A.
Novice dogs, under 15 lbs. J. A. Miller,
King O'Beauties.
Open, dogs, Is lbs and under 20 lbs,
i. S. Young, Sedgwick Solitiare.
Limit, dogs, 20 lbs, and not exceeding
25 lbs., L. T.. Phillips, Kings Rival.
Open, dogs, 20 lbs, and not exceeding
% lbs, Z. Z. Phillips, Kings Rival.
Winners, dogs, first, f. S. Young, Sedg-
wick Solitaire rcyerse F. F. Phiiliua
Kings Rival
Puppy, bitches, first, DR.. P. A. Tray
nor, Nancy T. II; second, A. Lonnenburg,
Mickey G.
Novice, bitches, under Is lbs, A. Son.
nenburg, Mickey c.
Open, bitches, under Is lbs, l.. Wams-
ley, Challenger's Daughter.
Limit, bitches, Is lbs, and under 20
lbs, first, Mrs. G. c. Rickerson, Rick's
Sunny Girl; second, M. T. Grimes. Miss
Sports Buddy.
Open, bitches, Is lbs. and under 20
lbs. first, Toni Grossi, Groesi's Lady;
second, Mrs. c. c. Rickerson, Rick's
Sunny Girl.
Novice, bitches, 20 lbs. and not ex-
ceeding 25 lbs, first, H. Rowe, Joan Of
Arc III; second, Mrs. G. Nj. Walsh, Toots;
third, E. J. Fitzpatrick, Trixie Queen.
Limit, bitches, 20 lbs. and not exceed
ing 25 lbs, first, Harry Rowe, Joan of
Arc Ill; second, e. J. Fitzpatrick, Trixie
Queen.
Open bitches, 20 lbs. and not exceeding
% lbs, first, Harry Rowe, Joan of Arc
Ill; second, E. ]. Fitzpatrick, Trixie
Queen.
Winners, bitches, first, Toni Grossi,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10

Gro1i's Lady: reserye winner, DR.. p. A
| Scottish Terriers. wipners, dcr, Mis-
Elsie 6sxtnn, Eddie.
winnes, bitches, J. J. Stevens, Mes
tho Orphan.
Pskins,ss. Puppy. dog, Mn. A. Nc.
Clure Haley, Yen Chang Of Llsnrud:
Npyice, dogs, Mrs. c. Morse, Woni
Tsi II.
:, Ameican.bcd, dogs, Mrs. s. n
Thomas Xii.
Limit, dogs, under lbs, Mrs. A. j.
Fry, f-0nw Of Barnegat
Opsn, dop, under s lbs., NJ. A. 8tovell,
Kso Of Mill Farm.
Limit, dogs, 8 lbs, and over, Ed. King,
Wong Kew.
Opsn. dogs, 8 lbs. and over, frst, Mrs.
A. McC. Hallsy, Champion Lo Hai Chi;
second, M. A. Stoyell. Champion Young
Went of Hydegrec; third, Mrs. s. II.
Thomas, WI Chsnk
Opsn, doss, not exceeding lbs, Mrs.
Walter Scholes, Wee Tu of Mill Farm.
Winners, dogs, first, Mrs. A. McC.
Haley, Champion Lo Hal Chi; reserve
Marie A. Stovell, Kao of Mill Farm.
Puppy, bitches, frst Mrs. A. McC.
HALEY, Chaou Erh of Llenrud; second,
Mr.. and Mrs A. Bartsch, Cla-vi-Nita; I;
third, Mrs. G. r. Bower, Pao-Chu Of
Ssnea Lu.
Novice bitches, first. Mrs. G. r. Bower,
Toxic of Mill Farm; second, Mrs. G. r.
Bower, Lady Ritsy; third, Mrs. W. II.
Patterson, Tsu Hsi.
Americnn-bred bitches, first, Mrs. NJ.
2. Paul. Litchi Of Mid Trees; second, Mrs.
G. R. Bower. Boobies of Mill Farm; third,
MIR. and Mrs. A. Bartsch, Cla-vi-Nits.
Limit, bitches. under lbs, first, Mrs.
nj. Y. Paul, Ii Tchi of Mid Trees; second,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Mackrell, Ashton
More Chica.
Open, bitches, under lbs Mrs. @. II.
Bower Boobies of Mill Farm.
Winners bitches, Mrs. M. 4 Paul, Ii
Tchi of Mid Trees, reserve, Mrs. George
r. Bower.
Toy Poodles, American-brcd, dogs,
Mrs. E, Clark, Col. Teddy, Jr.
Limit. dogs. not exceedings lba Mr..
and Mrs. II. Vanderslice, Boy.
Open dogs, not exceeding lba. Mr..
and Mrs. T. Hartmann. Wonderful Boy
IL.
Winners, dogs, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Hart
mann, Wonderful Boy H. reserve, Mr..
and Mrs II. Vanderslice, Boy
Puppy, bitches, Joseph Hely, Tuttie.
Novice, bitches first, MIR and Mrs.T.
Hartmann, Hartmann Wonderful Sur
prise; second, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Harde-
kopf, My Dollie.
American-bred, bitches, first, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Hartmann, Society Belle; sec
ond, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Hardckopf, Tutsie;
Third, ]. b. Stidham, Beauty.
Limit, bitches, not exceeding Z lbs,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10

hYs&, Mr.. and Mrs. +. Hartmann, Won
dsrful MickAy; second, Mrs. J. B. Std
ham, Boauty.
Open, bitches, not exceeding z lbs.
first. Mr.. and Mrs r, Hartmann. Cham
pion Milg Wonderful; second, same
owners, Champion HArtmann's Vennis.
Limit, hitehes, oyer Z lhs., Mr. and
Mrs. Ovville Sister, Babe.
Winner. Bitches, FIRST, Mr.. and Mn. +.
HArtmsppA Wonderful Mickey; reserve,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Hartmann, HartmAnn's =
Wonderful surprise.
Chihuahuas. open dogs, 6rst, Cortse;
escond, Morion; thiyd, Dino; Mrs. A.
Radcliffe, owner Of all THREE entries. :.
Winners, dogs, first, Cortse; sccotd.
Merton; Mrs. A. Radcliffe. owner Of both
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10
AMERICAN LEGION.
ArraaGsm<nts Csmplcted fos STATE Com
ventbon in Dover Nert "Wednesday.

Preparations are being rlade ~ Tie
American LegifD Tor the convention to
the forces of any party ~ candidate and
ganization IL IA said
State officers will t~ eleeted and routine
matters disposed n. There are ~ posts
in the state and each r,sf viii send ono
deleg e. 70 the convention
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10

secretary Of literature, Mrs. II. A. Roop;
secretary Of tithing, Mrs. n. 3. KeIso;
secretary Of extension, Mrs. Adam StcnseI
secretary Of nt>rdcpominatioDal work
Mrs Ella Riley; secretary Of publicity, Mrs.
J.. /. Chamberlin
Meetings will be held in the various city
churches, in alphabetical order, during
the coming season. Miss Matilda Spencer
from the Chinese field, Is expected to be
present at ono OF them.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Quastesiy Meeting Held 1t Asbury
Church Yesterday Afternoon.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
cicty of the NJ. f.. Church held its fourth
quarterly meeting at Asbury Church
yestssdey afternoon.
Election ot officers resulted In the choice
Of the following. District president, Mn.
P. 4. Croncy; district secretary, Mrs.
Katie Butler; vicc-prnsidents,. wives Of
the district minister; recording sccre-
tnry Miss Reba Smith; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. r. f. Shilling; treasurer,
Mrs. Fannie Joseph; pianist, Mrs. G.. G.
Nccse; superintendent of young peo pics
work, Mrs. g. r.. Plufnmer; niperinten-
dent Of children's work, Mrs. II. A. Roop;
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10
Probably Had Paid Hotel.

Nine men arrested In hotel poker
game had only 1910. One OF our con-
temporaries suggests that they may have
been dollar year men, hr,t il nav be
that they paid their hotel bill in advance.
Detroit Free Press.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-10

Every Evenings classified adverti~-
ments bring results. Proved BY he .a,is.
faction Of many and vii be ~ you Adv
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-10-26
viENAESE TAXED HEAVILY
Levy Made on Practically Every Daily
Activity In Austrian Capital.

Levy Made on Practically Every Daily
Activity II Austrian a! a.,l'!., Capital.
In Its effort to find a solution Of its
financial difficulties the municipality
Of Vienna is resortlng to taxation not
approached in any country during the
war
As a first step It has raised the de-
post Of gas consumers from between
100 to 300 crowns 70 5000 CROWNS per
meter. No interest ls Fd1d on this de-
post.
The new schedule Of taxes contem'
plates levy on practically every
daily activity. There will be tax OF
Q ner cent on all salaries Of employees,
to be paid by the employers. Hotel
rooms are taxed 20 per cent ana q
Graded tax is levied on apartments u
be paid by the occupant. On apart
ments renting for 5000 crowns a moh.l
the tax will be three times the rent. II
more than one domestic servant Is EN-
Moved the employer must pay h'gl
| tax on each additional servant :.
Ten per cent on the customers Oil
in a restaurant, an occupational Ia
for certaip forms Of semiprofesslon
and many kinds of new business u
censes are 70 be imposed.