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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
K 0 N | C K | FPS

After Patsy Hogan had left Dublin for
the country, and rented cottage with a
small backyard, he returned to town and
purchased monkey. Not a word of his
scheme would he disclose to his old cronies.
But afterwards he explained. Twas
like this: 1 chained the monkey to a
stick in me yard, and the coal thrains
were passin' all day, and on iv'ry thrain
there was a stoker. In one week l had
two tons of coal in me cellar, and the
monkey was never wanst hit!
81 know man that has been married
thirty years and he spends all his even
ings at home"
THAT'S what call love-"
ooh. no, it isn't, it's paralysis"
"But suppose" said one of the specta-
tors on the common, "that the parachute
should fail to open after you had jumped
off-what them"
"That wouldn't stop me-" answered the
parachutist, "I'd come right down."
The Passerby-You took great risk on
rescueing that boy; you deserve Carne-
gle medal. What prompted you to do it?
The Hero-He had my skates on
A local doctor once sent his man with
box of pills to a patient, and hamper
containing six live pullets to be left at the
house of a friend. Unluckily the mes
senger bungled over his errand, and took
the hamper to the patient and pills to his
masters friend. Imagine the consterna-
ton of the patient on receiving along with
the fowls the following prescription:
1.-TWO of these to be swallowed every half
hour"
An old negro was taking an examina-
ton for the position of rural mail carrier
and one of the questions asked by the ex-
the earth to the SUM-"
The old darkey looked frightened.
"Lawsy me-" he said, eff youse gwine ter
put me on that route, I'se resignin' right
now!"
A gentleman from Georgia says the
labor situation in the South this year re-
minds him of this story:
A negro applied to cotton plantation
manager for work.
"Afl right" said the manager. "come
around in the morning and I'll put you to
work and pay you what you are worth"
"No, sub; can't do dat" replied the
negro. "Ise gittin' mo- dan dat now"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Rebirth

like to think that in the future bidder
Survive the gentler natures 1 hav'
known.
And some day, to glad reunion hidden
shall have again their friendship fol
my own.
often dream of those sweet faces shining
Through mists and shadows that may
intervene,
In that fair land of loves own true divin.
ing,
Where faith still keeps the meadow
lands SO green.
l crave again that early, childish bless.
ing,
That l may have in Gods good time
and place,
TIL touch of seme long-vanished hand:
caressing,
The love-light of lost, familiar face
To-day l climbed misty height and won.
dered
At rolling seas of white that met my
eyes;
Then came upon me, when the mists were
sundered,
The sudden vision of paradise.
So may it be in life's prophetic story,
When l shall face the Unseen Land to
be;
The mists shall lift from this strange allie
CORY,
And 10! my own, my loved, shall well
come me.
John Denning.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Thirty Million Lives is Boil
SheViSt Toll

Thirty million men, women and children
have died in Russia from violence, famine
and disease during the last three years
according to statement on present condi-
tons in the once great empire which was
made in New York by Princess Canta-
cuzene-Speransky, granddaughter of Ulys-
ses Grant, in an appeal in behalf of the
American Cenadal Committee for Russian
relief,
The tremendous death toll mentioned by
the Princess was exclusive, she said, OF
FIVE million men who had laid down their
lives on the Russian front fighting for the
Allies.
Princess Cantacuzene, whose husband is
a former commander of-the Cars body
guard, was an eyewitness to many of the
terrible scenes which resulted in the es-
Establishment of the Soviet regime in Rus
STA. She described how hundreds of Ger
man spies and agents poured into Russia
following the revolution and industriously
spread Bolshevik propaganda among the
peasants.
She declared that the Russian peasants
were good natured and amiable until in
famed by vodka distributed lavishly by
the German agents and misled by extra
VACANT promises which they were too ig-
norant to realize were impossible of per-
Torrance.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
RESIDENT OFFICIALS
N | R R 0 R E 7 7 ES
Christian Science services were held
in the chapel Sunday morning

Christian Science services were held
in the chapel Sunday morning.
"A large crew of men with shovels
were at work Monday opening up the
yard drains. In fifteen more days the
first day of Spring will be here, but we
would advise against putting on B. V. DIS
for a while yet.
The first day of March was bright,
balmy day, with cloudless sky-very
lamb like. We may now expect March
to show its teeth later on, and exit like a
roaring lion."
We are going to miss some local
color this summer. Our drum major is
with us no more and Duke, the prison
dog, died last fall. The positions are
now open.
If you are unsteady inclined, or have
had experience in bands or orchestras,
now would be good time to let the mus
ical professor know about it.
The price of Minnesota Binder Irvine
for 1920 is as follows: Standard, 500 it,,
1870 per lib. Sisal (white), 500 it,, 1870
per lib. Manila, 500 it,, 1910 per lb.
Best Manila, $50 it,, 17Ac per lb.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Three Salers

Three Salers went sale-ing out into the
West;
Out into the West as the sun rose high.
Each thought of the bargain that she
would love best,
And wondered what marvels her money
would buy.
For men must work, and women must
spend,
Tho money is scarce, and no one will
lend,
And the Bargain Sales be raging.
Three wives sat up in their bedroom dim,
And they turned up the gas as the sun
went down.
They looked at fat parcels, and purses so
slim;
And happily planned their next jour
ney to town.
For men must work, and women must
spend,
Tho ruin be sudden, and credit will end
And the Bargain Sales be raging.
Three husbands still gaze on the silks and
lace,
In the morning gray, when all hope
has flown;
But the women are sleeping and dreaming
in peace
Of land where the sale-bills are never
torn down.
For men must work, and women must
spend,
And the sooner it's over, the sooner the
end,
And good-by to the sales and their rag
ing.
London Blighty.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Did Welshmen Discover
America?

In an amazingly interesting old book,
published by the author John Williams,
Vale street, Denbigh, Wales, in 1856, en-
titled, "Ancient and Modern Denbigh," l
lighted upon the following rare bit of in
formation.
"In A. D. 1859, Madogap Owen
Gwynedd, and his followers, are said to
have left the Vale of Clwyd Tin North
Wales), and to have reached America
800 years before Columbus discovered
that vast continent. Returning, next year,
they took many more with them, and are
said to have founded a tribe of Welsh
American Indians"
England had been conquered by the
Normans in the previous century, and the
sons of the great barons William the Con-
queror had brought with him from France
were taking possession by force of the
conquered kingdom, as they could. They
were not always successful in their little
individual wars, and a good many Saxon
earls and squires held their own against
them. Especially did the Normans have
a bad time trying to GUST the ancient
Britons from their property in Wales. Il
was not until 1888 that David, last king
of the old British Empire, was defeated
and King Arthur's royal crown was taken
by the Norman-English, as was the Welsh
relic "croesenydd" made of the true cross
and enclosed in gold and silver, embossed
with jewels by ST. Helena, the British
princess through whom it may be said
that the Norman-English became Chris
tan.
The author fails to quote the document.
airy evidence of the discovery of America
| by the Welsh.-Montreal Star.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Tricks of Fishermen

Sardines are very shy fish, and the
nets used to catch them are of very fine
thread and mesh.
Now fy-fshermen often dull their gut
casts by soaking them in coffee, and so
making them less visible. Acting on sim
liar lines, the sardine fishermen have
taken to dyeing their nets blue, and thus
causing them to be less conspicuous.
Line fishermen, again, are learning all
about tides and currents, for the discovery
has been made that line set between the
currents will catch many more fish than
one set in a direct Aow.-Exchange
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
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Ssleetsd-el
The Ouija

If you wish to be in fashion,
Best develop quick passion
For the ouija.
3 1t is catching as the flu is,
AS persistent quite as glue is,
Is the ouija.
For all kinds of information,
For the newest old sensation,
Quite the latest dissipation
Is the ouija.
If you're psychic, though but slightly,
You'll be treated most politely
By the ouija;
1t will answer any question
That disputes your digestion,
Will the ouija.
All the scientists are blocking
Out their lists of problems, locking
Up their libraries, and Aocking
To the ouija.
You remember how the tango
Fell before the jazz fandango?
So the ouija
Has stopped short, unshook the shimmy
Evening parties now cry "Gimme
Just the ouija."
And it wouldn't be surprising,
With the whole land SIGNALLING,
If we'd soon be governizing
By the ouija!
-Nezv York Sun.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
United States Casualties in
the War

A final revised list of casualties of the
United States expeditionary force in the
war has been issued in Washington, as
follows: Killed in action, including 3S2
at sea, 34,S44; died of wounds, 1880;
died of disease, 1878; died from accident
and other causes, 5,102; wounded in
action lover IS per cent returning to
duty, 215,423; missing in action (not in
Guiding prisoners released and returned, g.
Total of 293, 070.-Exchange
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Motion Picture Show

On last Sunday morning the inmates
were given another big treat in the way
of movie" pastime that was thoroughly
enjoyed throughout. The first to appear
on the screen was comedy drama en-
titled "Bound in Morocco, in which
Douglas Fairbanks played the leading role.
There were four reels that sped on and
on revealing from start to finish pan
Drama of dazzling luxurious awe-inspir-
ing features of Far-East life and scenes
as builded and put in motion by the
author as would best fit the story and
typify Moroccon customs.
The play is not without its touches of
humorous incidents that blends agreeably
with other elements of this production.
We would be apt to be confronted in one
series with the exact replica of ancient
structures of the weird round-towered
style and through whose portals and in
ner recesses are divulged living trace of
tales most dire, resembling such, as have
happened and worse without doubt, to
humans, of ages past
Exhibited among others,-desert scenes,
sand plains here and there crossed in fash
rides by cratic hunts of Moorish cavalry
in quest of victims. The one however,
that perhaps appeals most to the magma
tive mind as he eontemplates attributes
of the race would be in series that are
presented showing exquisite architectural
design and scope of interior court cham
bers of the palace and wherein amid its
Turing embellishments of fantastic fur
nishings, one can gaze on court life such
as exists under Sultanic decree and favor.
The proves of the master of the role,
Douglas Fairbanks, seems as never better
illustrated as he executes with minutest
detail and lofty dare every line that pin
ions him to his Characterization of intru-
der to saviour. 1t is play of char
acter, by~which its stupendous makeups,
magnificent settings, and with its talent
of human players, draws wrapped atten-
ton from its onlookers and instantly wins
interest and appreciation.
Immediately following and through the
courtesy and generosity of Manager Boil,
of the Majestic and Hilltop theatres in
Saltwater, there were presented two reels
of a lively comedy act entitled, can
Oriental Romeo" that furnished consider
able amusement and put everyone in ex-
cellent humor. A feature of this presen-
tation was the beauty of witnessing these
comic stunts as they are developed and
put into action on shore of the seaside re-
sort, thus affording most acceptable and
agreeable, pleasant time-making oneself
almost realizing he were actually in the
very arms of the rolling and surgine
surf amid environments of the ocean:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04

charms at some one point of Americas
great bordered domain.
The music by the orchestra was excel
lent as is noted by the enumerated pieces
appended in the programme.
March-The Fighting Yanks-----Crosby
Selection-She's a Good Fellow-----Kem
Song Fox Trot-Patches- Roberts
Valse-In the Afterglow-------- Grey
Oriental Novelty-The Vamp-------Gay
One Step-Oh Mother I'm Wild--Johnson
Moderato-Blue Bells----------Zamecn
Fox Trot-Church Street Sobbin Blues
March-The Fight is Vandersloot
R. J. REIcHKITzER
Musical Director.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Have a Heart

Be not the first to discover
A blot on the name of friend
A flaw in the face of lover
Whose heart may prove true to the end
We none of us know one another,
And oft into error we fall;
So let us speak we'll of brother
Or speak of him not at all.
How often the smile of gladness
Is worn by friend that we meet,
Just to cover heart full of sadness,
Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
School Report
C. S. REED, Warden.

C. S. REED, Warden.
Dear Sir:
The following is the school history for
the month of February, 1920:
No. of school sessions ------- II
School attendance at opening session
Feb.
Average attendance during month-151 7-12
Highest Sc ----- l55
Lowest 6 ------l47
Average compulsory attendance - 0
Average voluntary attendance Isl 7-12
No. excused by Medical Dept. during
month-Temporarily- SO
No. excused by Medical Dept. during
month-Permanently ---------- 0
No. excused by Deputy Warden dur
ing month-Temporarily -------- 10
No. excused by Deputy Warden dur
ing month-Permanently- ------- o
No. excused by School Superintendent
during month-Temporarily- 0
No. excused to work nights in twine
plant -------- ------------ U
No. excused by School Superintendent
during month-Permanently---- 0
No. enrolled during month 2
No. (who attended schooD discharged
from Institution during month"; 5
No. pupils reported for breach of In
stitutional rules during month";
No. pupils reported for incidence and
lack of interest in school work. 0
llliterate Average during month";
J. j. Sullivan,
Deputy Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
CHAPEL PROGRAM
Sunday, Feb. 70, 1920

The following is the program rendered
in the auditorium last Sunday morning,
Rev. c. E. Benson, officiating.
March-The Fight Is On-----Orchestra
Selction-Love in leness-----Orchestra
Holy, Holy, Congregation
Scripture Reading -------------Chaplain
Hymn Need Thee Every Hour
----------------- Congregation
Prayer ------------------ Chaplain
Observation-Disclosures Orchestra
Sermon ------------------- Chaplain
Hymp-Pass Me Congregation
Benediction -------------------C Chaplain
March-The Yanks----------Orc Orchestra
r. ]. REIcHKITzER,
Musical Director.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
NOTICE TO INMATES

You are hereby directed to place
your copy of THE MIRROR at the
foot of your bed on the morning
following the day on which it is
delivered to your cell. Non-com-
pliance with this order will cause
forfeiture of privileges.
]. ]. SULLIVAN,
Deputy Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04

Unless your hard luck story is enter
tanning don't tell it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
Monthly Library Report

The Librarian has furnished the following
Library report for the month ending Feb.
90 1904
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
PRISON OFFICIALS
BOARD OF CoNrRo1
BOARD OF PAROLE

BOARD OF PAROLE
c. E. vasaly, = Chairman
c. S. Reed, Sec'y for Prison
Rev. H. C. Swearingen
H. K. w. Scott, Sec'y for Reformatory
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04
POPULATION
CELL CHANGES

Corrected March 1, 1920
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-04

tors on the common, "that the parachute
should fail to open after you had jumped
off-what them"
"That wouldn't stop me-" answered the
rarachutist, Cpd come right down."
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-12
Candidates Meet.

Republican candidates met at the
court house, Jasper, Monday, and Sc
leeted officers for their primary,
March 6. To save expense, three
officials, an officer and two clerks,
who will serve as judges, were ap-
pointed for each precinct. Officers
will be paid So for their services that
day, the candidates feeling that they
should be paid, and depositing to ne
cessary funds,
Time for entering race will be clos
ed ten days before the primary, or
Feb. 25th, 80 If anyone desires to en-
ter the race he should enter his name
and assume his pro rate of the ex-
pense on or before that date. To
save the candidates expense thiDac-
ton is taken, so as toaIave time to
print and send ballots by mail in
stead of special messenger, which
would be costly.
The candidates qualifying were J.
A. Raulston and G. w. Coppinger,
for sheriff, Jack Smith, e II. Willis,
Joe E. Kilgore and S. l.. Rogers,
for trustee. l..
A sheriff, trustee, tar assessor and
members of school board will be e.
lected Aug. 5,
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-12

the value of these classes of pro-
perty will be enormous. To il
lustrate, we have proof in our
office now fixing a valuation on
the property of one corporation
of over So. 300, 900, which was as
sessed in 1919 at about $275, 900,
or about three per cent. of ito
value. We are now valuing the
property of another corporation
which was assessed in 1919 at
$3.50, 1000. This corporation has
already consented to a SIS, 900, 900
assessment. We have not yet
consented to this assessment, for
we believe that our completed
proof will show that it is worth
more money. The home owners
of your County have been paying
practically all the taxes of these
two gigantic corporations. We
are going to give you a square
deal and you should not be dis
turbed by a misunderstanding
of the law or by false statements
about its effect.
Yours very truly,
A. V. LOUTHAN,
Chief Tax Statistician.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-12
KetCha|I.

Sbrciaf 10 ht Ne7Og.
Mrs. Florence Carnard, who
has been on the sick list was in
her place Monday, teaching
school. --
Sunday school at Ebenezer is
progressing nicely.
Jim. Matt and Hubert Smith
visited friends and relatives in
Dunlap Saturday.
Ross Ellis and Miss Clara
Smith, Foster Price and Miss
Mae Smith were seen car-riding
Sunday.
Miss Della Smith spent Sun
day with homefolks.
Joe Geary. of Jasper, attended
Sunday school Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. john Parker and
family visited Mr.. and Mrs. John
Smith Sunday.
Chester Hughes, of So. Pitts
burg, spent the weekend with
Sherman Raulston, and was the
guest of Miss Daisy Lee Alder
Saturday night.
Several men from Battle Creek
are attending court again this
week. Blue Eyes.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-12
LOWER
TAX RATE
To the Taxpayers of Marion:

To the Taxpayers of Marion:
For the purpose of correcting
the false impression which pre-
walls in some parts of your coun-
ty that the rate of taxation will
not be reduced as the assess
ment is increased. beg to sub
nit to you statement showing
approximately what your State
and County rate will be for 1920.
Based on the value of real es-
tate, established by proof thru
out the State, and upon the es-
timated value of personal proper
ty and railroad and public utility
property, the assessment for the
whole State for 1920 should ex-
ceed $1,000, 100000, and your
State rate will be reduced to $25
and perhaps lower.
Your County rate in 1919 was
$1.8O.
The total assessment for. your
County in 1919 was in round
numbers about $4, ITO. 200.
The total assessment for your
County, based on the proven val
ue of real estate and estimated
assessment of personal property
and railroads should be about
$12,816,8OO.
Based on these estimates, your
County rate for 1920 should not
exceed for all County purposes
SOC.
Making your total State and
County rate for 1920, 84c.
AS compared with a total
State and County rate for 1919
of $3.50. ....
Your County Court will not fix
the County tax rate definitely un-
til the State Board has completed
it's work and your rate will then
be fixed on the new assessment.
Your County rate should be re-
duced by your County Court in
exactly the same proportion that
the assessment is increased.
The work of the State Board of
Equalization is assessing all pro-
perty at actual cash value will
not increase your County taxes
one dollar. This statement is
being issued that you may be
definitely assured that the rate
of taxation will be reduced as the
assessment is increased. .. ..
You will understand that we
are going to do all in our power
to put personal property on the
tax books and we are now max
ing an energetic investigation of
the property of all corporations.
We know that the increases in
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-12
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cans would turn the city over to
his care as we'll as all the islands.
But such was not the case and
in December the Treaty of Paris
gave the Philippines to the u. S.
for 500, 900, 900. Immediately a
howl arose to the heavens from
Anguino, like so many slaves
the Americans had bought the
PHILIPPINE" He said: Il will
not stand for it. l will fight. -
For four.years this young boy of
% kept the armies of America
busy like one of the Mexican
bandits Of modern times. An
guino cost the U. S. $4,000. 900
or more than the islands. Now
we are helping to make a fortune
for this man!
When America finally took
charge of the islands they found
everything in a ''topsy-turvy"
state. There were still many
head-hunting wild tribes in the
different islands. and these all
had to be brought into a state of
civilization. The Moros were
the widest of the outfit. This
tribe was Mohammedan who had
come from the Malay Peninsu-
lar. Their chief sport, like all
Mohammedans, was killing
christians. 1t took America
quite a few years to teach them
better sport and other diversion
for their excess energies. Even
yet if they felt they had a ghost
of a chance against America, it
is thought they would rise in re-
volt.
America has established a
splendid system of schools in
these islands. which has done
much in bringing about a better
era. They have also shown
them how to farm in a scientific
manner. The "Yanks" have
taught them how to make money
and how to spend it. They have
given them a desire for knowl-
edge and a real desire to get
ahead in the world.
America has promised the
PHILIPPINE islands their liberty
and each year they celebrate
this long hoped for event.
Next week | shall write of
some places have visited, most
likely Manila, as this is a very
interesting place to all visitors.
j. D. CONDRA,
Ph. M. l, U. S. N.
U. S. S. 80. Dakota"
Care P. M, San Francisco.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-12

Our friend, Mat Ford, R. 2,
Long Island, Ala, slUps us long
enough in our peregrinations to
order the News sent to him
once more. The News is indis-
pensible with him.