The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-05-27


income from coal and reducing use of
water-power, the "white coal" of the
streams.
The German public seems to be gen.
timely staggered by the revelations made
in the documents demanding the handing
over of certain German officers for trial.
The real character of militarism seems to
have been imperfectly understood even by
the German people themselves.
Dapper, fastilious, precise in appear
ance, also in mind, is Paul Deschanel the
new President of France. In his younger
days he was the ultra-exquisite gentleman
of Young Paris. But with all his care for
an extremely attractive appearance no one
in Paris of that day ever regarded young
Deschanel as merely dandy" He had
perhaps the acutest brain and the subtlest
critical judgment of any young man of
his generation. He is still at sixty-three
just the same brilliant, self-confdent
young man. No Frenchman is better
dressed or has more graceful manners.
The small, finely shaped head is gray now,
but the brain within it is just as subtle
and fastidious and essentially Partisan as
ever.
A church still stands in the midst of
fashionable West London that as far back
as 1874 William Passavant, a well-known
architect, declared: "Of all the mad
freaks which ever entered the brain of
architect or man to devise, this church
out-Herods all the rest" 1t has a circular
tower, on which is placed a kind of
heather temple, from which again rises
the circular tapering steeple nicknamed
the "extinguisher." The architect was
Nash, who seems to have borrowed his
inspiration for the monstrosity from Ger
many. The church, All Saints, Langham
Place, forms a grotesque termination to
the view of Regent street and Oxford
street. Here, however, some of the fore
most clergymen of the Evangelical School
of the Church of England have ministered
acceptably to the spiritual needs of the
teeming and cosmopolitan population be-
hind its walls.
The Chinese Government dare not dis
band its army, although it has reached a
numerical strength second to none in the
world. One and quarter million strong,
it is proposed to demobilize 100000 of the
infantry as beginning to more general
reduction. But the Government is met by
the patriotic demand of the soldiers who,
according to law, ought not to be demob-
ilized till the order applies to all alike
and all at one time. The Chinese are not
at all alarmed by this consequence-what
they do not see their way clear about, is
the payment of the soldiers at demobiliza-
ton. Funds are very short. A willy
Chinese politician of Pekin proposed that
payment should be in bonds or notes,
backed by the Government seal. But
John improved" on that idea by stating
that the soldiers would accept the notes
if the oficeholders in the Republic also
accepted their payment for services rem
dered by the same form of tender. There
the problem remains.
One of London's problems at the present
hour is what to do with mummy that
lies at the back of the Mansion House in
one of the oldest churches of that ancient
city. No one knows where it came from,
and the jocular element around the Man
sion House describe it as "Old Jimmy-a
former Lord Mayor of London" The
rector is in quandary over its disposal.
The figure is perfectly preserved: eyes,
hair, nose, teeth, nails and ribs.
Inside the door of the mummy's box is
glass lid, which was removed few days
ago for the first time for many years. The