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The mirror., 1920-01-15
Cost of Tires

Twenty-eight million tires yearly are
necessary to equip the passenger and
motor trucks in use in the United States.
To this should be added not less than H.
100000 more tires, for many vehicles ac-
cumulate mileage to such an extent that a
second set of shoes is necessary, to say
nothing of the thousands of inner tubes.
"Forty million tires and their inner
tubes at an average cost of SIS gives a
total bill of $1,OoO,OOO,O ,OOO-a fairly tidy
annual expenditure for road travel and
transportation. Hence it is high time to
pay a little more attention to the effect
of the various road surfaces on the motor
vehicle instead of considering only the
damage by the motor vehicle to the road"
says M. o. Eldridge, director of roads of
the American Automobile Association.
"You can scarcely pick up a paper
without seeing in it something about how
and why the fast moving passenger car
and the loaded motor truck damage the
road, and as you read on you note how
the writer proposes to design highway
to Withstand these effects, and how speed
and weights should be limited, and how
the cost burden should be distributed.
"Few of those who discuss Transports
The mirror., 1920-01-15
24-Hour Clock

France has joined the scientific time
dividing countries and now numbers the
"a hours of the day on some newly-in
vented clocks. The hands of these clocks
make the same revolutions that they make
in the clocks of "primitive" people who
use the 12-hour clock face and they make
the circuit twice in the "a hours. In one
the hours are indicated along a spiral
line, being inside the spiral from 0, mid
night, to II o'clock and outside the line
from midday, IL, until % is reached
The oath hour is marked by 0, the start
ing point.
In another clock the face presents more
of the familiar appearance but it also has
quite novel features. 1t has two circles
an inner one, black, representing the hour:
of night and an outer one, white, for day
Beginning after midnight the Roman
numerals are in the inner black circle
from I to V, then in the outer white cir.
Gle from vi to XII. The color of tn,
setting of the hour thus shows whether
the hour is night or day. Arabic mum
berals are used on the outer white circl,
from 13 o'clock until II o'clock when i
continues on the black from 1S to a.
Selected.
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M | R R 0 R E 7 7 ES

Mass was held in the chapel Sunday
morning, Rev. Father Barry, officiating.
The ice harvesting crew started cut
ting Wednesday. There should be an
immense crop this year.
The eight-hour system is working
very smoothly. Someone must have
worked overtime to figure it out so nicely.
AN administering system has been in
stalled in the twine factory and is giving
good results. Hygrometer readings are
taken every hour and record made
of same.
The front Office ceiling has received
its application of deadening felt and,
with the new lights to be installed, will
make working conditions much more
pleasant.
The Repair Sales department is being
transferred to ST. Paul where a warehouse
has been leased. This is to expedite
shipments and do away with the annoying
delays of repairs to users of Minnesota
machines.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Remarkable War Prophecy

The great war was anticipated in de-
tail ten or twelve years ago by the late
General Nogi. Here is what this distin-
guished japanese soldier said in speech
delivered at the time of the siege of Port
Arthur:
"The great war of the future will have
Europe as its field of operation, and will
decide the Franco-German conflict and
the Anglo-German rivalry. France and
Germany will perform that decisive part
in the Belgian plains, very probably near
Waterloo. ..... The result of this war
does not appear to me to be doubtful; the
French will beat the German on land and
the English will inAict maritime defeat.
This war will be the lsat struggle by force
of arms which will be produced in our
time"
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Natures Own Aircraft

We may now look for the first swallow,
which mysterious instinct calls home to
our stables and roofs, after a vast flight
through the continent of Africa, says the
London Express. What marvellous
machine" is that sharp-winged creature
that marks the passing of our winter
even in uncertain seasons, of which the
poet wrote: "Spring has set in with its
usual severity" 1t seems so short a
while since the swallows mobilised for
that southern flight twittering and cir
cling in the autumn sun, lining the way
side wires and fitting in Aocks, like hol-
iday-makers at a railway station. And as
the swallow-army spread its steel-blue
wings in the Great Retreat, ~the hobby
hawk raided them with German science,
skirting the edge of the migrating crowd,
and picking off the stragglers with a
lightning stroke.
Very little is known about the impulse
which carries birds round the world in
this way. 1t seemed incredible to our
forefathers, who fancied the swallows
spent the winter in sleep "at the bottom of
the horsepond!" But bird marked in
StaAordshire has been caught in Natal,
one from Lancashire on the Cape
Veldt, and third from Ayrshire in the
Orange Free State. Engineers may well
despair of rivalling Natures own aircraft.
They have no fuel troubles; they sweep
in vast squads through the darkness of
night, and keep barn-door appointments
in England with the regularity of the
sun.-Exchange.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Lookers-on Are Hypnotized

AT recent meeting of sleight-of-hand
experts all the magicians confessed their
utter inability to describe the method by
which the rope-climbing trick, so often
described by British travellers in India, is
performed. Iba Batuta, an Arab from
Tangiers, says a writer in the Boston
Transcript, described the trick as follows
1 was entertained by the emir in his
own house at Hangchow in most splen-
did manner. AT the banquet were present
the khan's jugglers, the chief of whom
took a wooden sphere to which
was attached long strap, and threw it
up into the air until it went out of sight,
while the strap remained in his hand. He
then commanded one of his helpers to as
cend by this strap. The boy obeyed and
climbed out of sight. His master then
called him three times, but no answer
came. Then he took a knife, apparently
in anger, laid hold of the strap, and also
went out of sight. He then threw the
hand of the boy upon the ground, then
his foot, then his other hand, then his
other foot, then his body, then his head.
He then came down, painting for breath,
with his clothes stained with blood.
The juggler now took the limbs of the
boy and applied them one to another. He
then stamped upon them, and the boy
stood up complete and erect. 1 was as
tonished, and was seized in consequence
by palpitation of the heart; but they
gave me some drink and I recovered.
The judge of the Mohammedans, who
was sitting by my side, swore that there
was neither ascent, descent nor cutting
away of limbs, but that the whole was
mere juggling.
The strange part of all such tricks is
that as in the case of the trick of making
a tree grow from the ground and bear
fruit before the spectators eyes, a camera
reveals nothing of the kind.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
A Floor-all Decoration

When that Prince Of Wales who after
wards became King Edward the Peace
maker, visited North America, a great
ball was given in New York in his
honor. So many attended that in the
midst of the festivities the floor gave way
and the whole company went sprawling
towards the cavity below. A set of
verses went the rounds at the time, and
run as follows:
Twas a grand display, was the Princes
ball,
A pageant or fete, or what you may call
A brilliant coruscation;
Where ladies and lords of noble worth
Enchanted a Prince of Royal birth
By Royal demonstration.
Little Queens, arrayed in their regal guise,
They charmed the Prince with dazzling
eyes,
Fair ladies of rank and station
Till the floor gave way and down they
sprawled
In tableaux style, which the artists called
A Aoor-all decoration.
But soon the floor was set Alright,
And Peter Cooper's face got bright,
When, like the swell of an organ,
All hearts beat time to the first quadrille,
And the Prince confessed to joyous thrill
AS he danced with Mrs. Morgan.
Then came the waltz-the Princes own
And every bar and brilliant tone
Had music's sweetest grace on;
But the Prince himself ne'er felt its charm
Till he slightly clasped,with circling arm,
That lovely girl, Miss Mason.
But ah! the work went bravely on,
And meek-eyed Peace trophy won
By the magic art of the dancers:
For the daring Princes next exploit
Was to league with Scott's Camilla Hoyt,
And overcome the Lancers.
IT'S now a dream-the Princes ball.
Its vanished glories, one and all,
The scene of the fairy tales;
For Cinderella herself was there,
And Barnum keeps for trial fair
The beautiful slipper deposited there
By His Highness the Prince of Wales.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
The Scythe Tree

Farmer johnson strobe from the field
With an eager step that was long and
1.-THE;
The summer sun, like blazing shield,
Burned on high in the hazy sky.
A forked bough, as he hastened by
Seemed fitting place for his scythe.
So he swung it up in the balsam tree;
"There let it hang till I come" said he.
Then he homeward hied him, humming q
tune,
But he heard word at the farmstead
gate
Under the fervid heat of the noon,
A ringing call to each volunteer,
For all the land was alive with
fear,
Doubt and fear for the country's fate
So Farmer johnson shouldered his gun,
And left his sythe to the rain and sun.
Fifty years have sped since then,
Fifty fastening years and more;
By southern wood and brake and fen
Faithful he fought, and in gallan,
wise,
Fought and died, and now he lies
By the far off Carolina shore,
Where the long trades blow, and the
grasses wave
Over the loan of his sunken grave.
"There let it hang till I come" he said
Of the scythe, he left in the balsam tree
And they let it hang, as the feet days fed
Till the small bole, fed by the
kindly earth,
Clasped the sythe with a motherine
girth.
To-day whoever so will may see
The starry emblem of freedom flow
Over the tip of the sythe below.
He gave his all, and he never came,
He that was strong and young and 1.-THE
But the balsam boughs seem to name hi
name,
Name his name both late and long
Clinton Scollard.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Danial Webster'S Neglected
Grave

A true lover of virtuous patriotism de-
lights to contemplate its purest models;
and that love of country may we'll be
suspected which affects to soar so high in
to the regions of sentiment as to be lost
and absorbed in the abstract feeling, and
becomes too elevated or too refined to
grow with fervor in the commendation or
the love of individual benefactors. All
this is unnatural. 1t is as if one should
be so enthusiastic lover of poetry as
to care nothing for Homer or Milton; so
passionately attached to eloquence as to
be Indifferent to Tuly and Chatham: or
such a devotee to the arts, in such an
ecstasy with the elements of beauty, pro-
portion, and expression, as to regard the
masterpieces of Raphael and Michael An
gelo with coldness or contempt. We may
be assured that he who really loves the
thing itself loves its finest exhibitions. A
true friend of his country loves her
friends and benefactors, and thinks it no
degradation to commend and commemo-
rate them. -Daniel Webster.
Visitors at the grave of Daniel Webster
at Marshfeld, Mass, are not gratiied
with the conditions which they find. The
last resting place of the great statesman
is sadly neglected and lack of care is
shown on all sides.
The last home of Daniel Webster, To-
Gated at Marshfeld, comprised some 1900
acres of land. The family burying plot
is on a knoll on this estate with no traces
of care, save two American flags, placed
there last May by the G. A. R. These
mark the graves of Maj. Edward Webster
brother and veteran of the Mexican war
and Col. Fletcher Webster son and vet
eran of the civil war.
A marble slab two and one-half feet
high, bearing the name "Daniel Web
ster," signifies the grave of the great
American. The slab also bears the date
of the birth and death of Webster and an
epitaph written by himself. At the left
is the grave of Webster's wife.
Some ten years ago the State Legisla-
ture appointed committee to investigate
the purchase of the estate, which had been
sold to a Boston business man, but the
asking price was 100000. The COM
mittee thought the price prohibitive and
recommended the State acquire the small
cemetery and passage from the neigh
boring highway. 1t also recommended
that memorial gate be constructed at
the entrance. The total cost of purchase
and Improvements was estimated then at
$4,000. The committees recommended
| tons were never carried out.
The only memorial to Webster on the
estate is boulder which was placed on
the highway, at one corner of the proper
ty, by the Boston University Law School
Associati
The mirror., 1920-01-15

tion questions give thought to the fact
that our 100000 motor cars, which re-
quire annually 2s,0oO,00o tires, exclusive
of renewals, create problem, namely:
How fast will these tires wear out on
each type of road surface? Compare, for
instance, the smooth residence of some city
streets with the rough, gritty, and Ainty
surface so often encountered on country
roads, and try to imagine what tidy
sum in tire bills would be saved if we
could all travel on avenue surfaces. The
saving in tire costs alone would pay the
difference in construction cost in many
instances" s."-Exchange
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Tired

am tired tonight, and something,
The wind, maybe, or the rain,
Or the cry of bird in the copse outside,
Has brought back the past, and its pain.
And feel, as sit here thinking,
That the hand of dead old June
Has reached hold of my hearts loose
strings
And is drawing them up in tune.
am tired tonight, and miss you,
And long for you, love, through tears;
And it seems but today that saw you go
You, who have been gone for years.
And I seem to be newly lonely
l, who am so much alone;
And the strings of heart are well in tune
But they have not the same old tone.
I am tired, and that old sorrow
Sweeps down the bed of my soul,
As turbulent river might suddenly
break
Away from a dams control.
1t beareth a wreck on its bosom,
A wreck with snow-white sail,
And the hand on my heart-strings thrums
away,
But they only respond with wall.
Ella Wheeler Wilc0ox.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Motion Picture Show

The motion pictures shown at the audi
torium last Sunday morning constituted
FIVE reels of Famous players" produc-
ton entitled, "Mr. Fix it." Douglas Fair
banks as the star gave another exhibition
throughout, of his fine qualities as high
caste movie artist. The way he cuts up
in acting as host to the party of kids he
brings home for a feast and frolic and the
CONSERVATION of the home folks and other
guests that ensues is humorously inter-
esting. The homely style of entertainment
indulged in, in the mansion, brings out in
many catchy parts, the potent factors that
go to make up the traits of "real good
fellow" The play is excellent in its
varied interpretations played with good
cast, fine scenery and good exhibition of
physical culture. The following pro-
gramme as given by the orchestra was
well received.
March-Liberty Day. Zamecnek
Selection-The Better 'Ole--------Lange
Waltz-Pickaninny Blues Hickman
One Step-I Don't Want Doctor, all l
Want is a Beautiful Girl---------Mills
Fox Trot-Tell Me Why-----------Ros
waltz-Iove -Zamecnik
One Step-Hippity Hop-------Donaldson
Fox Trot-Freckles s-------------Johnson
Jazz Waltz-Lullaby Blues-------Russell
Medley-If You'll Just Wait Little
While (From Miss Millions) --Hubbell
March-Mt. Healthy --------------Blaus
r. ]. REIcHKITzER,
Musical Director.
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p o ET-T r Z E
Leaves From Oar Poets.
Some Day

Some day good sense will reign again
So let's throw up our hats,
Some day we'll all be sane again
Our belfries free from bats.
Some day we'll quit our foolery
And buckle down to toll,
Cut out the rant and droolery
And make the kettle boil.
Some day we'll tire of clamoring
And paving up the ground,
Of knocking and of hammering
OF yelps and empty sound.
Well tire of all the dwelling
And loud wind-jamming men,
And we'll go swiftly swivelling
To our old jobs again.
The brawny handed carpenter
Will pass the windsmiths by,
His plane, when he has sharpened her
Will make the shavings fly.
The blacksmith blithely, gaudily
Viii make his bellows roar,
And he will fire out bodily
The strike-suggesting bore.
The rows of Kings embattled US
And drew us from our place,
The big commotion ratified US
And got us off our base.
We've been wildly capering
Since war received the skids,
We've all been vainly vaporing
And talking through our lids.
Our old time jobs are calling US
Let's get to work again,
Or coppers will be hauling us
To poor farms in the glen.
Selected
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The Lisper

She lives wife acrosst from us
In Miz. Ayers'us house'at she
Rents part to the Mingusuz-
Yes, and Elsie plays wiv me.
Elsie lisps so, she can't say
Her own name, ist any way!
She says "Elthy"-like they wuz
Feathers on her words an they
Ist stick on her tongue like fuzz.
My! she's purity, though!-An' when
She lisps, VIII she's purity men!
When she telled me, wunst, her doll
Wuz so "thweet," an 1 p'ten'
I lisp, too-she laughs-at's all
She don't never git mad none
Cause she amt one bit spilled
Of all children-over' one
She's the ladyliktst child!
My ma say she isl One time
Elsie start to say the rhyme,
Thing thong of thixpenth-Whee
ist yell! An ma say I'm
Unpolite as I can be.
Wunst l went wiv ma to call
On Els;ts ma, an eat an all;
An Elsie, when we've ct,
An, we're playin' in the hall,
Elsie say: cts etikett.
Fer young gentle mems like me-
Eatin' when's they's company,
Not to never ever crowd
Down their food, nor 'thip their tea
Ner thup thoop so awful loud"
James Witcomb Riley.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Man-Making

We all are blind until we see
That, in the human plan,
Nothing is worth the making if
1t does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world unless
The builder also grows.
-Edsvin Markham, in The Naati
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INMATES ATTENTION.

Inmates will observe the follow
ing rules to insure prompt mail ser
vice.
Place register number in upper
right hand corner of envelope in
space printed for same, and to be
covered by stamp (see card in your
cell).
J. J. SULLIVAN,
Deputy Warden.
The mirror., 1920-01-15

Genius is a gift to few for the benefit
of many from whom most of the few are
excluded.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
K0 MI C kLIPS

Agent my dear madam, it's a
shame to let your husbands life insur-
ance lapse"
"Pll not pay another cent. I've paid
reg'lar fer eight years, an, I've had no
luck yet"
"The shade of Julius Caesar is present
and wishes to converse with you," an
nounced the medium.
Nothing DOING" replied the client. ~
want to have word with the late James
| ]. Jones of Hickory Hollow"
81 don't know any such person."
"Well do. He died last week owing
me $4O."
For four consecutive nights the hotel
man had watched his fair, timid guest fill
her pitcher at the water cooler. MADAM"
he said on the fifth night, eff you would
ring, this would be done for you."
"But where is the bell?" asked the lady.
"The bell is beside your bed," replied
the proprietor.
"That the bell!" she exclaimed. Why
the boy told me that was the fire alarm,
and that was not to touch it on any
| account!"
Manager Thomson you are dis
charged.
Clerk-But I've done nothing, sir; abb
solutely nothing.
Manager-Exactly. That's why you're
discharged.
Business Man-Who is at the phone?
Typist-Your wife, sir.
Business Man-What does she want?
Typist-The only word can make out
is "idiot," sir.
Business Man-Tll come at once. She
probably wants to talk to me.
Pat and Mike were fighting in the
street, and although they had previously
agreed that when either had had suf
fcent of it he should cry out "Enough!"
Pat, who was obviously getting the worst
of it, still remained silent. Then, as the
fight progressed, the tables seemed to turn,
and Mike began to get a terrible hiding.
Suddenly Pat caught him fair one on
the point of the jaw, which sent poor
Mike sprawling to the ground. "Enough!"
he cried. "Glory bel" exclaimed Pat.
That's the word I've been trying to re-
member for the last 10 minutes"
Lady-Here, my poor fellow is quar-
ter for you. 1t must be dreadful to be
lame, but I think it must be worse to be
blind.
Tramp-It is, mum. When was blind
they was always handing me counterfeit
quarters.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
POPULATION

POPULATION
Corrected January IL
Number of Inmates at Prison.. go. 901
Number in First Grade..... ..................72I
Number in Second Grade... ..............171
Number in Third OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Received During Week....................... l
Discharged ......... ................... ....."....
Paroled ............................... .....
Last Serial Number er.,,...,,...,.... 63l7
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PRISON OFFICIALS
BOARD OF CONTROL

BOARD OF CONTROL
c. E. Vasaly, Little Falls
c. J. Swendsen, ST. James
Ralph w. Wheelock, Minneapolis
Downer Mullen, Secretary.
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CELL CHANGES
Corrected January IL
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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 Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-12
EAST RUPERT

Mrs Shaw CT Hebron, n. Y, is as-
s'stng Mr. Harwoods family
A. A. Roberts had the msfo tune
to lose valuable COW last week
Mrs. Clark Harwood, who has been
very poorly. is able to be around the
house
| Schuyler Towsley and family made
IA short call to his fathers Sunday af.
ternoon.
Earl Harwocd and family spent Sun
day with Mrs. Harwood's b.Yther in
Manchester,
Clarence Marvin and wife and
Charles Towsleys fam y took Il trip
to Granville Friday evening.
Frank Mcclure with his wife and
daughter were Sunday CUES IS of Mrs.
McGuire's sister, Mrs. Henry Dan
forth.
Mrs. Taylor Mann and daughter
Loretta took a trip to Berlin, N. V.
10 see her daughter the latter part
Of the week.
Morton c, Danforth of Har' ford,
Conn, made short visit to his
b others and other relatives Saturday
and Sunday.
James r. Hil>, who has employment
in Cobbeskll, n. Y, spent short
tine the last of the week with lbs
parents and other friends.
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THOUSANDS HAVE KIDNEY
TROUBLE AND NEVER
SUSPECT IT
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected

Judging from reports from drug
gists who are constantly in direct
touch with the public, there is one
preparation that has been very sue
cessful in overcoming these condi
tons. The mild and healing influ-
'ence of DR.. Kilmers Swamp-Root is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest
for its remarkable record of success.
An examining physician for one OF
the prominent Life Insurance Com
panies, in an interview of the subject
made the astonishing statement that
one reason why so many applicants
for insurance are rejected is because
kidney trouble is so common to the
American people, and the large ma
jority of those whose applications
are declined do not even suspect
that they have the disease. 1t is or
sale at all drug stores in bottles o.
two sizes. medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test
this great preparation send ten cents
to DR.. Kilmer e Co., Binghamton, n
Y, for sample bottle. When writ
ing be sure and mention the Hen
Inington Banner.
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SOUTH DORSET

dance was held in school last
Saturday nigh.
d. NJ. Sheridan Of East Dorset was
guest of friends in wp-Sunday.
w. L. Tully attended a meeting foi
school directors in West Pawlet Mon
day.
Mrs. Mary Malone Of Manchester
was Sunday guest Of relatives in
town.
John Battles Of West Rutland was
week end guest Of his aunt, Mrs.
Julia Burns.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Brooks and fam
lily were Sunday guests OF Mrs. AIDA
Brooks and family.
Mr., and MIS-. C. W. Monroe OF Paw
let we're he week end guests CT Mrs.
AIDA Brooks and family.
william White, who has been spend
ing he winter in Orwell, has return
ed to his home here,
Miss Gertrude c. Tully Of North
Dorset was a week end guest OF her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs w Il. Tully.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Schleider OF
Manches er Depot were guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. McDeyitt Satur.
day.