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rooms tonight; and-I should he very
glad if YOU would bring your friend
Mrs Inncss with you; that is, you
know, if she will not mind my not
knowing her. or I'll hook You a box
at the piece tonight. If YOU like. and
I'll Join YOU there. Perhaps that would
be better. and we can make the supper
an after thought. Mrs. lnneSs might
prefer it that way
"Oh, Mildred won't mind" said Miss
Gwynn. lazily. Shell come II | ask
her; and then, besides. she's just dotty
to meet you. She told me. when ! SAID
Id met you, that she'd rather"
Well, that's all right. then" Thor
old interrupted, hastily. It's very
good Of you TO come. Tell Cathrart to
ask for the box as no goes in
There were several things Thorold
had promised himself If he ever let
everything so. and now that he had
determined TO let everything go ne
wanted to begin with them at once.
and make going back an impossihility.
Mrs. Inncss was not one Of the things
he had promised himself, but she
would servo as we'll IN 'tII'''4''' iiN'
husband was. or had been. an officer III
India. where he had died. or where
she had left him still living: no one
Of her acuuaintanccs was particular
enough te know or care which. She
sat at Thoruld's right at supper, and
smiled upon him cncOuragingly. She
was very huch pleased with every
thing, and assured him that his chef
was as much of a master OF his art DIS
| his master was OF his.
II and my cook thank you.' said
Thoroh, Gravcly.
mildred always goes wrong when
she tries to be grand" Miss Gwynn
whispered to CathCart. | tell her II
lust sit still and let them look, and not
talk. And now she's telling him her
anecdotes OF the aristocracy. That's
the way she always begins with a new
man She lays siege to him. l don't
bother with 'enl. don't"
Cathcart answered with 4 heavy bow
and a whisper, which caused the young
model to wave her fork at him play
fully and say. "Oh. you, you don't
count"
Mrs lnness had tried several moves;
openly expressed admiration for his
work did not seem TO answer. Either
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Spanish bolero. to which the model
danced.
That was very good indeed" Thorold
said.
1T makes me dry" the girl answered.
Did YOU see about that champagne?'
AS he walked back into the dining
room for the champagne. he was dis
tinctly conscious that he was not hav-
ing n good time. He argued that this
was so because the Impressions Of the
afternoon still hung upon him. and that
when they had worn away no would he
in a more appreciative mood.
What a prig 1 am" Thorold sail,
impatiently. He decided swiftly that
he was much too superior person,
and that il he meant to enjoy his new
freedom he must crush the rising pro-
tests Of past tastes and traditions and
give himself tc the present. He came
into the room smiling. Sing us some
thing, Miss Gwynn." he said.
Il wouldn't dare. before you" she
said; and then. to show how little she
meant this. she sat down and ran her
fingers over the keys OF the piano. "l)l
sing you something Of Ivette Gull
bert's." she said. MY French Is beast
", but I have to sing hem in French
so that Cathcart won't understand
"Oh, don't, Trx." said Mrs. lnness
They're so low
Thorold caught himself smiling at
this, and to find that Mrs. Inness had
her own ideas Of propriety. Then he
corrected himself mentally for still
criticising AMI posing as a superior b.
ing. He was sick and Disguised with
IT all and with himself The girl at the
piano was singing with none OF Gull
berts innocence OF manner, but whs
giving each line its full meaning. Mrs
Inness laughed, and looked consciously
at the floor: Cathcart approved doubt
fully, and suggested as a compromise
song from the music-halls.
NO" said Miss Gwynn; i've beer
funny long enough. Let Thorold play
something. want II be audience
now"
ooh. do. Mr.. Thorold." said Mrs In
ness, cffusirely.
Play us a lot OF things" said tht
model-'the things you play TO the
swells."
II say. Thorold," said Cathcart. ii
you wouldn't mind. I'd like it awfGlly
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ITO me- Listen to me-. Archie Ihls
NAV be a mood or a pose, or it may he
that YOU are only run down and over
worked and nervous, and are eNaggef-
ating these wiCkednesScs YOU hint or.
I But you cannot afford to do It 100
often. 1t is not a pretty pose. and were
I not a long suffering lady. | would not
tolerate il for moment 1t takes n.
the affection have for you and all my
patience not to accept YOU at your
word and tell my people you are not
the sort OF young man they should al
low their daughter TO see. Bat | think
we know. each other pretty we'll now
and think there Is more overwork and
late hours in this than anything else
But you cannot keep it up too long.
Bad habits are just az hard TO Owe
come at the end as good habits. ana
even Balzacs twenty-five years OF VIZ
tue which cannot be overcome III daT,
can be overcome In year. And II you
will live in bad atmosphere YOU can
not expect to be as strong and healthy
as you would be if yoM lived in the
open air. I don't think it is worse than
that. You have allowed yourself To
STAY in q bad atmosphere which docs
not agree with you. Don't be afraid TO
run away. | have great regard COR
the man who runs away. If you are
wise, and tho boy know, you will pack
your things tonight and sail with rs
| tomorrow. and leave all these women
and worldly young men behind you.
Come and pla.' with me on The steamer.
and spend the summer with all Eour
old friends at the old places where no
one thinks you're n great man. ana
where you won't see your picture IN
| all the shop windows. That's leally
what you need. What do you saw"
| She stopped and looked at him. BIT he
made no response. and she hurried on.
as though to cover up the fact that
she had failed 10 move him. II can't
understand some women" she cried.
/ impatiently: they fall in love with 4
man because he is good and strong.
and then they at once begin 10 pull
down the very things they most aa-
mire in him. And l cannot understand
your sex either. You are such chit
dren. You make such problems AMI
difficulties out Of nothing. Why. 1t Is
as simple as animal alphabcts. -
an ape. and is a bear. That's all
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+ Thorold had had surfeit OF 1t OF
wanted It more highly spiced, for he
did not. seem 10 heed it. So she adopted
a politely fashionable tone, and talked
OF the great people OF the hour and OF
! their escapades, until she suspected
! from light in Thorold's eyes that
/ he was already intimately familiar
with what had come to her at second
hand, and that he knew 1t had come
to her at second hand. So she became
! herself. and was bold and amusing and
daring and familiar. Thorold watched
her without attempting to conceal his
admiration. not for her. but for her
beauty, which was unquestiOnable. J.
seemed to him. now that IT was wit
! ten that he was not 10 appreciate his
good angels, he must make the most CT
his bad angels. and this one was nc
worse nor no better than tho rest and
she was certainly wonderfully good &c
look at. If you arc ready" he said
I'VE will take the coffee in the other
room"
Cathcart sank into one OF the big
| leather chairs with sigh Of content
Jolly sort OF place, this Thorold." he
said
Mrs. Inness poured out some brandy
! for herself, but Miss Gwynn went back
to the dining room. and returned car
| rying the champagne in lis bucket. and
placed it beside her on the floor
This is Liberty Hall. Is 1t not" she
said. Il fancicd so. You'd better tell
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I II you'd sing that Well Of Truth. Ia
like TO hear you do it yourself a IKE
to say Id heard you
Every instinct and taste OF ~hich
Thorold was possessed was onenaeo
and rose in rebellion as they spoke 10
him. He hated them, and he hated
himself for having brought them 10
this room. The wickedness OF Mayfair
and not OF Bohemia, he determined
would be his dissipation in the future
He could at least choose his associates,
as heretofore. and he was not unmind-
full that there were those Of his own
class a little more wicked than Mrs.
Inness, If not so beautiful. What
child I am" he exclaimed. He reit-
Grated 10 himself that he had chosen
his own way. The best and strongest
help for good that had ever come into
his life had, so he believed, failed hiln'
had ceased to move him that very day;
and he thought. in his inexperience,
that what he needed now was to make
going back, or the thought OF going
back. an impossibility.
And then there camo to him an Ia
spiration. In the three months N
which the Puritan conscience and the
artistic temperament had been strug-
Cling for the mastery he had written
and composed the music for n song.
He called II The Days That Are Gone
The song was the expression OF all that
had been going on in his mind; II
meant to him the story Of what he had
gone through, and through which he
was still going-all that he had lost
all his doubts. and regret for what was
lost. He had not sung II 70 any one.
He had even locked the doors when he
sang it alone; for II had been written
when he was feeling more deeply than
he had ever felt before. and he guarded
il for that reason. even while his artis-
tic Judgment assured him that it was,
as a work Of art. the strongest thing
he had ever written. j. seemed to him
now that if he could bring himself TO
sing that song To these people he would
shame the best that was in him and
the best that had ever come from him.
that he would mock the thing that
meant most to him. and that if he cast
it before these swine no other senti-
ment or principle or tradition OF his
life could lay claim 10 recognition. He
turned impulsively toward his guest.
smiling strangely.
written. Its not funny song; its
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it is-just animal pictures. There is
no question Of which to choose. or
there shouldn't be. for a man like YOU.
What is the admiration OF lot OF silly
women TO the friendship OF such
friends as YOU have. who care for the
best that is In you" How can you tell
me there is AIRY question about ii-or
Of which To choose"
Thorold stood up smiling, and shook
his head. Il tell you t is no use
Alice" he said. II am honestly not
worth it. I've given up. and I'm going
my own way. All these things You say
have lost their meaning. They don't
reach me. 1t is like some one talking
a language l have forgotten. You
needn't think it didn't hurt at first
when l saw which way l was going
but it doesn't hurt now. l like 1t. and
do il because | like il. and am not
going to pretend l don't. | am pleas
ing myself entirely. Don't look at ne
like that. I'm not worth troubling
about. I'm not worth thought from
you, Alice" He stopped. and added
sharply. "Ccrtainly not tears
I'm not ashamed OF my tears. If
there are any in my eyes, the girl
answered.; but I should think YOU
would be-
I'm not" he said. simply. Think Of
it-Im not, That's what I've come to.
And yet. there was timo when every
word you spoke meant"
stop. don't" she said. hrcathlossly.
and holding her hands before her.
don't! How could YOU"
That. l should think" he said.
would convince you Of the truth OF
all l have said. | can't go much lower
than that, can -" He did not look 1T
her again, but turned and left the room
without trying ts take her hand or
saying goodbye. THAT was my last
chance. II has failed. and now | can
so to the devil with Il perfectly clear
conscience"
Miss Rcatrice or "TriX" Gwynn..
who lived next door to Mrs. lnness.
out ST. Johns Wood way. posed for
the great artists and all Uf tho fasi.
ionable photographers. She had two
very dear friends. the beautiful Mrs.
lnncss and Captain Cdthcart. Il Very
brave and CCCdnaturci hu; simple
souled gentleman and officer of the
Inniskillcn Dragons.
Il cant stop, thanks" Thuvoll said.
Il just came to SEQ il you and Cath
cart would come in to supper At my
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carved. They are unfortunately broken
to pieces, only the bases being in good
condition.
The walls of the room are in a much
better state of preservation. Some of the
beautiful doorways, with jambs and lin
tells, are almost perfectly preserved. These
were inlaid with faience, and in some
cases with pure gold. Enough remains
to indicate that this must have been a
gorgeous room, and it is probable that it
was the most richly decorated ever built
in ancient Egypt.
At one end of the room is a raised dais
with steps leading to it. This dias and
the stairs are also inlaid and carved.
Upon this dais stood the throne upon
which the mighty Pharaoh sat when he
listened to the leaders of the Israelites.
The palace is about 140 feet long and
100 feet wide and contains twenty rooms.
A row of pillars decorated the 'front.' and
behind the entrance there was grand
vestibule containing two parallel rows,
running across the building, of six COL
umns each. These were about four feet
in diameter, and the height was proper
tional Only the bases and some frag-
ments remain, for the fire seems to have
been highly destructive. 1t is evident
that the palace was constructed without
regard to cost, and it is most unfortunate
that so much of it has been destroyed.-Ex.
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drawing-room and soon attain consider
able amount of ease.
The Montgomery (Alabama) AdVer-
tiser observes sadly that the decadence of
the parlor indicates "the slow passing of
the home as gathering-place for friends"
protesting to see therein an irreparable
loss to social life. 1t says:
The model home of a generation and
more ago was spacious object within
whose ample walls weekend parties were
held, and ballroom floor lay, while un-
der the house was cellar to keep things
in that might be needed on pleasant oc
casions. But the model home is dwin-
ding in size, along with families. The
cost of maintenance, in the matter of SER
wants, lights, fuel, and furniture, not to
speak of the cost of building of large
houses. 1t has become necessary to make
smaller houses. When something had to
be sacrificed, everybody agreed on the
parlor. With these alterations came also
change in social customs. Dinner-parties
are frequently given at hotels and recep-
tions at downtown clubs. Dances are
usually given downtown. AS rule, the
last thing people seem to desire now is
company in the house.-Literary Digest
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IMMIGRANTS THAT PROSPER

There are several classes of immigrants
of which no records are kept by the de-
partment over which the United States
commissioner of immigration presides;
but they are immigrants that, in their own
quiet way, have done much to make the
new world more like the old. These are
trees and plants; and if the new world
has drawn somewhat heavily on the old
in this particular, it has paid its debt in
kind, as may be seen by the following list:
The chestnut came from Italy.
The onion originated in Egypt.
The nettle is native of Europe.
The citron is a native of Greece.
Oats originated in North Africa.
The poppy originated in the east.
Rye came, originally, from Siberia.
Parsley was first known in Sardinia.
The pear and apple are from Europe.
Spinach was first cultivated in Arabia.
The gourd is probably an eastern plant.
The walnut and peach came from Persia.
The horse-chestnut is native of Thbet.
The cucumber came from the East
Indies.
The ounce came from Crete.
The radish is a native of China and
Japan.
Peas are of Egyptian origin.
Horse-radish is from Southern Europe.
Selected.
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THE PASSING OF THE PARLOR

Time was that when man built
house he always made provision therein
for room known as the parlor. But that
day is no more. The plans now may call
for sleeping-porches or pergolas or living
rooms or what-not, but the parlor is
basse, which, as any one who has received
instruction in French by absent treatment
knows instantly, means consigned to obi
won. Commenting on the passing of the
parlor, the Rome (Georgia) Tribune
Herald indulges in bit of philosophizing
in the course of which it is suggested that,
as the paror has become obsolete, so also
have the formal, stilted manners and
funny, artificial forms of speech that could
flourish only in a parlor atmosphere
"The parlor was heritage of false
aristocracy, and in its passing we have
one expression of the new democracy"
says the paper We read further:
When person entered the parlor of
mans home, he clothed himself with due
formality, he stacked on ceremony, sat in
a bolt upright position with his hands
crossed, his feet obscured, and talked in
tage-whispers, using only correct phrase
ology. Around the walls of the parlor
hung the portraits of the households an
cestors in the center was large, round
table, on which were placed the family al
bum and family Bible. A big horsehair
sofa sat in one corner, while what-not
stood in another.
Inthis parlor the children of the house
never dared to assemble, but on certain
state occasions the elder daughter of the
house, or a younger one if she could beat
her sister to it, sat bolt upright in solemn
grandeur and received the final sworn
assurances of her accepted lover. But the
parlor is thing of the past; it has passed
in its checks, as it were. Now the guests
assemble informally in the library or
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John Wesley said: "We should trample
under foot that enthusiastic doctrine, that
we are not to do good unless our hearts
are free to it." And that is sound sense.
But doing right when we dislike it, is
only Practice. And we are not Perfect,
we do not come to Mastery, to Peace and
Satisfaction, until, by this practice, we
have got to where we Like to do right.
What we need most is Good Desires.
If we have them, Life is Easy, if not,
Life is hard.
Desire lies beneath the Will, and is i'm
pervious to reason.
1t is dumb, blind and automatic
We say we cannot help what we Like
and Dislike.
How, then, are we going to change this
most important part of us? 1t is abso-
lutely essential that we do change it; yet
we seem unable to get hold of it.
The answer is, that while our Desires
cannot be changed Directly, they can In
directly.
For this is the Law, that what we do
over and over, by and by we learn to like.
We can change our Desires, then, by
Three indirect agencies: by Love, by Will
and by Practice.
First, Love. Find what we Ought to
Like; see it, live with it, cultivate it; it
is Lovable; and at last we learn to love it.
Remember, we do not Fall in Love (that
is any great Love-; we Climb into Love.
Second, Will. ,Determinedly let us set
our Purpose, every day, every hour, upon
what is Good and True and Beautiful.
And we shall grow to desire it. "For
the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence,
and the violent take it by force"
Third, Practice Faithfully Doing con-
stantly what we know to be Right, at
length will wear away our preverseness
and stubbornness of heart, and we shall
wake up some day to the realization that
we Want what is Right, even as the de-
sire of the Bridegroom is toward his
Bride.-Dr. Frank Crane in Nautilus.
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PARAOH'S THRONE FOUND AT
MEMPHIS

A wonderful Bible relic has just been
excavated at Memphis, according to ad-
vices received from Egypt. The very
throne hall in which Moses called down
the ten plaques upon Pharaoh and the
Egyptians is reported to have been dis
covered. This remarkable achievement is
the latest work of the Eckley B. Coke,
Jnr., Expedition to Egypt. It is in charge
of DR.. Clarence S. Fisher.
The wonderful hall stands in the great
palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah at Mem
phis in Egypt-the greatest palace yet
found. And not less wonderful than the
finding of the hall is the finding of the
gorgeous throne itself on which the
Pharaoh sat when he gave audience to
Moses and Aaron.
Scholars generally agree that Meren-
ptah was probably the Pharaoh of the
Exodus-the Pharaoh who would not let
the Israelites leave Egypt until he was
smitten with the ten plaques, and who
even then changed his mind, pursued
them, and was overwhelmed in the Red
Sea.
The Pharaoh of the Oppression was Ra-
meses II the Great. The Bible mentions
his name in connection with the cruel
labor he forced on the Israeites at the
towns of Rameses and Pithom. Now an
original inscription of Merenptah, the son
of Rameses, speaks of his victories over
the Israelites, and this makes it probable
that he was the Pharaoh of the Exodus,
the monarch "who knew not Joseph"
This being so, it must have been in the
throne room of Merenptah's palace that
the scene described in the Book of Exo-
dus occurred-scenes that are among the
most impressive in the sacred history. 1t
was here that the majestic leader, Moses,
and his priestly brother, Aaron, appeared
before Pharaoh and warned him to let
the Israelites leave Egypt. 1t was here
that Aaron cast down his rod and COM
manded it to change into a serpent, which
devoured the rods of the Egyptian sor-
cerers.
The palace is one of the few discovered
in Egypt and the only one at Memphis,
the early capital of Egypt, which was de-
stroyed some six hundred years B. c. The
palace still shows marks of fire, and it is
presumed that it perished in the sack of
the city and was never rebuilt. The most
important feature of this palace was an
immense throne room which occupied the
centre of the buildings. This is room
about forty feet by sixty feet in area. The
roof was upheld by six immense columns in
two rows, all of which were elaborately
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NOTICE TO INMATES

Each inmate is accorded the privilege of
sending one paper home, or to friends free of
own name and register number and the name
and address of the person you wish to send
the paper to, and hand same to your officer.
If you desire to send more than one paper,
each additional copy will be charged for at
the rate of SO cents year.
The paper delivered to your cell each week
must be kept clean, and should be folded in
at the foot of your bed on the morning fol-
lowing the day on which it is delivered to
your cell.
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THE REGENERATION OF THE WILL

Down underneath what you Think and
what you Do, is what you are.
And what you Are, is indicated by what
you Like. Or what you Want.
You may Do good and Talk good but
you Are not good until you Like to be good.
1t is we'll to do thing because it is
right, even when you don't want to do it.
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NOTICE-Contribution submitted to THE
MIRROR for publication must be absolutely
original; if not original, proper credit must
be given, if known; if writer's name is not
known, it should be so specified by said con-
tributor. Should contributor fail to comply
with this request he will henceforth be dropped
from THE MIRRORS contributing staff.
Approved by WARDEN. Editor.
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CHURCH NOTICE
Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock
every Sunday morning Protestant and CathO-
Tic service every alternate Sunday. Rev. G. E..
Benson and Rev. FIR Corcoran Chaplains.
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"The frontiersman needs courage; what
else than a frontiersman is he who goes
fearlessly onward into the future?"
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"He who lives from day to day lives
the longest"
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The time of life is short; to spend that
shortness basely, 'twere too long-Shakes-
teare.