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If you desire to send more than one paper,
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the rate of so cents year.
The paper delivered to your cell each week
must be kept clean, and should be folded in
the same manner as you receive it, placing 1T
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lowing the day on which it is delivered to
your cell.
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"Christian charity is friendship to all
the world; and when friendships were
the noblest things in the world, charity
was little, like the sun drawn in at a
chink, or his beams drawn into the centre
of a burning glass; but Christian charity
is friendship expanded like the face of
the sun when it mounts above the eastern
hills"
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tributor. Should contributor fail to comply
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from THE MIRRORS contributing staff.
Approved by WARDEN. Editor.
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QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES

For the benefit of any inmates who appre-
ciate and see the opportunity that their spare
hours give toward means of self education
through correspondent school courses, study Of
good literature, acquiring an education in our
Night Schools, or, who need helpful informa-
ton in connection with their work in
ious departments, will herewith be privileged
to use the Query" column. You are well
come to send in any. queries of serious interest
to yourself, THE MIRROR with the kind col
laboration of Miss Miriam E. Cary, Super
visor of Institutional Libraries, will gladly
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OF each querist being used.-Editor.
O:-Will you tell me where the South
American Journal is published and sub
scription rates per year?-L. B.
A:-May be subscribed for through the
front office. Subscription price $2.S5 per
year.
O:-Q) In what year did the reign of
Henry the VIII begin in England? (2)
Give some information about the ancient
London bridge? Is it still standing?-
L. Nj. r.
A-0) 1909. See Teachers and Pu-
Pills Cyclopedia, No. 6O33. (2) See Har-
pers Book of Facts, No. 6012. Questions
of historic facts, like the above, can be
easily found by referring to the splendid
reference books to be found in our library.
O-Which state is the most thckly
settled and which the most sparSely?-
w. o.
A-Rhode Island averages sos inhabi-.
tants to the square-mile, which is more
than any other state. Massachusetts, ranks
second with about 42O. Nevada averages
only one person to the square-mile.
O:-When was oeomargine first used?
S. D. E.
Alt was originated in France as a
result of prize offered by Napoleon III
for the best substitute for butter. This
prize was awarded in 1869 to a French
man named Hippolyte Mege, whose pro-
cess With some changes, is still employed
in the manufacture of the product.
Q:-Pease tell me whether salt is re-
garded as food.-F. H.
A:--No, it is not a "food" in technical
sense, though in ordinary sense it is in
Siuucu dihoiS loouStuHS. odit Is necessary
to human life and it is contained in most
foods, but it has no nutritive quality.
O-How many times does the weather
bureau make observations PM. r.
AIN order that it may make record
of conditions and obtain facts upon which
to forecast the weather, the weather bureau
at all its stations makes observations three
times day.
NOTICE-All inmates using the Query Col
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their queries invited to use the splendid
reference books in library to be had on
request The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
teehnal subjects Consult the Reference Use.
fu Arts, Literature, Chemistry, Biography and
Science divisions of our library catalogue for
diversified subjects.
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Whatever disgrace we may have de-
served or incurred, it is almost always in
our power to re-establiSh our character.
-RochefouCauld.
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CHURCH NOTICE

Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock
every Sunday morning Protestant and Catho-
lie service every alternate Sunday. Rev. q. E.
Benson and Rev. FIR. COrcoran, Chaplains.
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"A mans life should be as fresh as a
a new water every instant. t."-Thoreau.
The mirror., 1921-07-14

"Wise men make mistakes; fools con-
tinue to make mistakes"
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THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published in
the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and
managed by them. 1t aims to be home news
paper; to encourage moral and Intellectual i'm.
provement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true status of the prisoner
to disseminate penological information and to
aid in dispelling that prejudice which has ever
been the bar sinister to fallen mans self
redemption.
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O:-Will you tell me where the South
American Journal is published, and sub
scription rates per year?-L. B.
A:-May be subscribed for through the
front Office. Subscription price $2.S5 per
year.
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NOTICE-An inmates using the Query Col
umn and desiring more detailed information tc
their queries are invited to use the splendid
reference books in our library to be had on
request. The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
teehinal subjects. Consult the Reference, Use.
ful Arts, Literature, Chemistry Biography and
Science divisions of our library catalogue for
diversified subjects.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Corn Demonstrations in 1920.

Clemson College, Feb. 16.-There
were 5SS demonstrators in 1920, ac-
cording to the annual reports of the
county agents, with total acreage
of corn grown under improved meth
DDS of 1921 acres. The average yield
per acre on those demonstration was
1872 bushels as opposed to the esti-
mated average yield for the entire
state of 1877 bushels, which makes an
average increase of 1875 on the demon
strations conducted under improved
methods was twice as great as the
Weld for the state at large. The total
increased yield on these Gemonstra-
tions acres was 161 ,479 1-2 bushels,
and the profit resulting from this in
creased yield was S73,244.
Besides the 5S9 demonstration there
were 1886 cooperators growing 15,l67
acres of corn, who produced an aver
age of 27.6 bushels per acne.
The report; show that 6S7 farmers
planted from pure or selected seed IN
their demonstrations, the acreage be-
ing 1865 acres, ard 1892 farmers have
been influenced to select seed for next
years crop.
Farmers to the number Of 1928
were directly Influenced to use better
methods in growing corn and 1885
were indirectly so Influenced.
An interesting item in the reports
shows that 1864 acres of corn under
demonstrations methods we're "hogged
down., the value per acre when utll'
lied in this way being $3.50.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Makes Live Elephant Vanish.

Stage magicians who cause assis-
tants to disappear from the view of
blsse audiences still receive applause,
but New York performer has added
brand new thrill by vanishing" a
1000 pound elephant, says Popular
Mechanics Magazine in an illustrated
article in its March issue. A huge
cabinet, on legs foot high, with banks
of electric lights underneath to aid
the scrutiny of the skeptics, is rolled
onto the stage by number of help
ers, the front door opened, and a pair
of rear doors thrown back, revealing
circular entrance. Into this black,
tunnellike interior the elephant, COM
ing from upstage, is urged to enter,
amid the "patter" of the magician.
The doors are closed, appropriate
ceremonies performed, and the doors
opened again. The half ton beast is
gone.
Like most effective tricks, the ex-
PLANTATION is simple. The floor Of the
cabinet is really fitting runway,
pivoted at about third of its length
from the front. Cables rising up
through the stage from heavy coun-
ter-weight below are hooked onto this
overhanging front end of the floor,
behind the cabinet legs, by the train
er. When the mechanism is releas-
ed, the animals weight swings the
floor down through the stage, and
down this the huge animal walks or
slides, and the floor swings back to
it's place, with the cabinet empty. The
brilliant light, ostensibly intended to
aid the view under the cabinet, actu-
ally obscures it, so that the small
amount of dropping floor within range
| is not detected, and the disappearance
remains an effective mystery.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

Mrs. NJ. A. Shuler spent several days
in Sumter this week with her mother
and sister. The latter, Mrs. R. W.
Lewis has been quite sick is now
recovering from an operation.
On Friday tomorrow night at
$50 o'clock, there is to be a social
meeting of the Epworth League at
the home of Mr.. A. NJ. Gordon. All
members of the League and all per-
sons interested in League work are
invited to attend this meeting.
Mrs. George R. Grist and her two
little children arrived in Kingstree
yesterday to join her husband and
father, who is a valued employee of
The County Record. Mr.. Grist and
his family will occupy the residence
in north Kingstree until recently oc-
cupied by Mr.. ]. B. Gamble.
On last Sunday morning the Meth
odist church was a scene of rare beau
ty, being decorated for the Easter
exercises, which were given by the
members of the primary department
of the Sunday-school. The color
scheme was white and green, Gala
lilies, Easter roses and Cherokee
roses being used in profusion in the
decorations. The exercises were i'm
pressive and effective. The children
showed that they had been carefully
trained and the teachers of that de-
rartment deserve much credit for the
work they have accomplished.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
How to Figure Your Income Tax.

A friend of ours who lost his minC
studying the income tax law, writes
as follows from the State Lunatic
Asylum:
81 desire to say that there need be
no trouble in figuring your income
tax if you adhere to the following:
"In the first place it must be work
ed out by algebra, astronomy, trig,
onometry and sirtax.
"If your income is S2,400 a veal
and you have a diamond ring and
an automobile and are married to
good looking girl, 26 years old
you take the amount of your income
add your personal property, substrac,
your street number, multiply by your
height and your wife's height and
divide by your telephone number.
eff you carry your minus, separ'
ated by your plus, to schedule G, or
the tenth line of which you will sub
tract the multiple, which you will
put on line X, schedule X, entering
in column A.
eff you have child in the family
subtract 5000 from your income, ado
the amount of your personal proper,
ty, subtract the size of your collar
add the child's age, multiply by the
amount you have given the church
during the year and divide by the
number of your automobile license
tag.
"After you have it all figured out
you won't have to pay income ta2
of any sort-for they will have you
all over at the county hospital ano
strapped down" n."-Pickens Sentinel.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Discovering a Mistake

Some counties where officials felt
that it was necessary, in the face of
the grave business conditions, to econ
omize by dispensing with the county
agents, are now discovering that this
was a serious mistake. Face to face
with the necessity of diversifying
without the exact knowledge of what
crops to plant or how 70 go about
planting them; with theedbsolute ne
cessity of cutting the cost of produc-
tion from one-half to two-thirds be-
low that of last year not knowing
just how to reduce this cost-cutting
without reducing the yield; with the
importance of selling every farm prod
uct at the highest possible price with
out definitely organized cooperative
selling association; with the desire
to increase the live stock on the farm
without a thorough knowledge of
breeding, care, and feeding and of dis
ease control; with the will to plant
home orchards without the knowledge
of spraying and pruning; with mort
cages or notes falling due on land and
equipment without Knowing how to
get extensions of credit, there aas
never been a tine when a county
agent has been so vitally necessary
to farmers of any county in the south
as during this year of uncertainty.
Much as they desire to do so, coun-
ty authorities cannot economize by
cutting off their county agent, for this
is not economy. They save some few
thosand dollars that go to pay the
salary, but they rob the county of
from ten thousand to several hundred
thousand dollars of income which the
county agent will bring into the coun-
ty by his work. No good ccunty
agent should be regarded as an ex-
pense, but as productive agency that
brings in wealth to the county many
times over his salary every year. 1t
is all right to economize, but care
should be taken not to economize by
cutting off the source of supplies.-
Progressive Farmer.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Useful Bulletins

Bulletins on the following subjects
may be had for the asking, at the
Demonstration office over Candles
drug store, opposite the court house
If it is not convenient for you to cal
at the office write to the Home Dem
cnstration Agent, Miss Hattie Nc
Murray and have it mailed out to you
Removal of Stains.
Economy in Clothing.
Textiles and Clothing.
The Renovation of Clothing.
Home Laundering.
Canning, Picking and Preserving
Jelly Making.
Making of Vinegar.
Home Gardening.
Beautifying the home Grounds.
Easy and inexpensive Ways OF
Maintaining and beautifying the
Home.
Monthly Operations in Club Gar
denS.
Plan for Perennial Garden.
Preparation of Vegetables.
Butter Making.
Cottage Cheese.
Fruit Growing.
Insect Enemies and Diseases of tine
Tomato.
Community Sanitation.
Diet in tuberculosis.
Diet for Constipation and Dlar-
rhoea.
Food for Mother and Baby.
Food :, Children from One to Six
School Lunch.
Care of Food in the Home.
Sugar as food.
How to select Food.
The Planning of Three Meals a Day
The Serving of Meals.
Meats, Care and Cooking.
Use of Poultry Products.
Care of Baby Chicks.
Mites and Lice on Poultry.
Poultry Culture for South Carolina
Poultry House Construction.
Poultry Diseases.
Guinea, Goose, Duck and Turkey
Raising.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
From Salters Route No. l.

Salters Depot, March 29.-After a
period of ideal spring weather the
temperature has dropped below nor
NAL and everything seems inclined to
retreat to winter quarters again.
We are glad to report Mrs. G. Wal
ter Scott much improved having been
confined to her room for sometime
with a severe cold and malaria
Mrs. Frank " Buddin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe C. Coker II Lake City and Mr.
Charlton A. Buddin of Cades, spent
last weekend with relatives here and
at Kingstree. Mrs. Buddin will re-
main for several weeks with her chill
dren.
Mrs. ]. A. Scott was in Greenville
several days last week with her Sis
ter who is very i'll in a hospital there.
We are pleased to see Mr.. Herbert
Chandler out again, he having been
quite i'll with chills and fever.
The Boyd school was closed all OF
last week because of the teacher, Mrs,
Martha Wolff, being confined to hel
room with a very severe cold. We are
glad to report that Mrs. Wolff is able
tc take up her work again.
Easter passed off very quietly here
The children enjoyed several commu-
nifty egg hunts and a number of ouI
"men folks" a fish fry of Black river
Saturday evening given in honor OF
their visitors, Messrs. C. A. Buddir
and Joe / Coker. owl"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Parent-Teachers Meeting.

The next meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association will be held in
the school auditorium Monday, after
noon at 500 o'clock.
A talk will be made at this meet
ing by the Hon. P. H. Stoll.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31
Play-"My Awful Aunt.

Indian.own School house, Friday
Eight, April 1st 1921. 500 p. m. Ad-
mission 25c and 15c. Refreshments
served after play. 3-24-2tl
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

A FEW HOME, mercantile buildings
and farm lands at the right prices.
See NJ. H. Plowden, Kingstree, S. C..
2-3-tfc.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

EGGS FOR SALE-Rhode Island
Reds $500 per setting of Is. Single
Comb Black Minorcas, $500. Single
Comb Anconas $1.50. Brown Leg
horns S1.50. White Leghorns S1.50.
S. w. Mimms, Kingstree, S. c.
1-6-13tp
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

EGGS! EGGSi-From my prize win
ming Rhode Island Reds at $500 per
setting of Is. Come and see my
matings. w. w. Holiday, box 1
Kinpstree. 2-3-tf.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

PLUMBING-When in the market for
frst-class Plumbing job drop US
card and if you need light ask
us to show you Delco light which
is the standard of the world. Car
ter Electric Service Co., Lake City,
S. C.. 3-17-tf.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

WANTED-Man with team or auto
to sell McConnon's products direct
to the consumer in this county.
McConnon & Company, Winona,
Minnesota. Mention this paper.
3-24-2tp.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

FOR SALE.-Two brick stores 15xs0,
one brick store 26x80. situated in
town of Grfeelyville, S. C. Prices
absolutely erect. Apply Alsbrook,
Greelyyille, S. c., 3-24-2t
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

FOR SALE.-One McCray Market
Refrigerator, Capacity two thous.
and pounds ice. One four hundred
and forty account McCaskey Regis
ter. These fixtures are almost new.
At about half-price. Apply Ais
brook, Greelyville, S. C. 324-2t
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

FOR SALE-Five thousand pounds
White Spanish Peanuts, pre-
paid per pound 10c, 100lbs or more
7c per pound, F. o. B. Albert R.
Moseley, Jr., Salters Depot, S. C.
1tp.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

REWARD OFFERED.-Notice is
hereby given that a reward of $500
will be given for proof to convict
the party or parties who destroyed
by shooting my undertaking Sign
located at Marsh branch. P. S.
Courtney, Kingstree, S. c. 324-6.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-31

VELVET BEANS FOR SALE-I
have 20 bushels ninety-day Velvet
Beans at $500 per bushel, also
5000 pounds of same unthreshed at
S1.75 per hundred pounds. R. D.
Gamble, Nesmith. S. C. 3-31-2tc
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-03-12
JUNTA DE MEDICos ExAMTNADo.
DoREs. coNvocAToRIA DE
EXAMINES

Esta Junta celebrara examenes para
las profesiones abajo relacionadas du-
rante el pr6ximo mes de abril. en- el
orden siguiente:
M6dicos y oste6patas, dias 5-e-7, O..
Practicantes y opt6metras. dias II = i2.
Nurses y ComadrOnas, dias 1s II.
Las solicitudes y demas documentos
asi como los derechos de examenes de-
beran ser enviados al secretario que
suscribe desde esta fecha hasta el Gia
20 del actual en- que expirara 81 plsEo
de admission.
Tmpresos de sOlicitudes y demAs in
formes seran suministrados Ell esta So.
cretarfa, por el sr. Tomas Vera Riera.
por correo personalmente en- Ia ohcina.
Los examenes tendrAn iugar en- el
salon que Ocupa la Junta calie de Allen
No. 3, Palacio Rojo
DR.. M. ouevedo BAEz.
secretario Junta de Med.
dicos Examinadores
San Juan, P. r.. mario io, 1871.
Advt.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-03-12
Il bOmbaTdsO de Ia luna

Terminate la guerra y hartss los hom
bres de matarse unos a otros. vamos q
comenzar "meternos con la luna, que
,L.aldito el dafio que nos hsce
Las operaciOnes daran principle ol
verano pr6ximO, segin asegura el pro-
fesor Robert Gaddard, de Clark c5llege
de Worcester (Msssachusetts).
Uno de los primerOs dias de Julio Sc
propOne "rOmper Ell fuego'' sobre Ia
luna. -
Aperas 10 ha anunciado. ha salido Ell
professor de Astronomfa americana Picke
ring, alarmanGo a las gentes con ame-
nazas de terribles represalias pOr parte
de los lunaticos (no los locos o los mania
ticos, sino los habitadores de nues;ro sa-
telite); porque, Greer q este, "a luna
esta tan:oisn ocupada, como no pOdia me
nos de suceder en- los actuaies tiempos
de escasez de viviendas.
FL professor Pickering afrma que sus
observaciones telesc6picas le hasen su-
poner que en- la luna existen seres vivos.
Y 81 ell professor Robert Goddard So
obstirl en- su i5ea de bOmbardear Ia
luna, no terdria NADIA de extraho que
esos seros nos devolvieran 81 sumpli6o
enviandoros algo que al contacto con
la terra produpsra una llsmsrada visi-
ble a centenares de millas en- el sspacis.
hiciese tambalear ala Humlnidaa'.
Pero vamos al sistema a que Sc pro.
pone apelar Ell professor Goddard prs
bombsrdear la luna, mas de 100000
kilon'etros y de que nos ocupauios 50.
reramente hace algunos messs, euando
lanz6 la idea que ahOra piensa poner en-
ejecuci6n.
Ertonces dijimes que Robert Goddard
habia inventado unos pToyeetiles ma.
rera de cohetes
La fabrication de estos ha sido eossea.
da por el Institute de cieneias smithso.
riano de Washington. Cada uno pesa tres
toneladas y contiene una carga de p6l-
vora sin humo, y sera impulsado q grai
velocidad, por un dispositivo especial,
cuya construction SO conserva sscrota
pero que posee una pOtencia propu'sora
enorme.
81 los calculos del professor no fsllan
no ocurre algo durante el viaje del pro
yectil que caminara a raz6n de seis
mil ries por segundo, i b-r.51 tocara
en- ell blanco EN- pocos dias. y Sc produei
"a una terrible fogotada, que sera visi
BILE desde la terra para los Observable.
res.
De los experimentos que viene des1e
hace tempo realizando con su proyecto
Ell professor Goddard, di6 cuenta, dias pa.
sados. sir James Deward en- la Royal
Institution, de Londres.
Con Ell auxilio de una composition
de nitrate, dijo el conferen-iante. God
dard ha logrado investir q sus cohetes
de velocidades superiOres q 1900 pies
por segundo A tai velocidad Sc caicu.
la que e12 libras de p6lvora lsvsntarian
una libra de inflnita altura, 0, ea otres
terminos, la envisria al espacio. 81 ei
cohete pesa tres toneladas, Sc re2ueri-
rian 1886 toneladas de p6lvora para
darle ell impulse necesariO''
Aparte-afadi6- de las dihcuitades
por su movimiento de acertar daF en-
ell blanco, existsn Otras en- cantidad dss
conocida que 10 impedirian.
Sc supone, por tantO, que todos los e.
fuerzos del professor Goddard SO tradu
ciran en- pura perdida de tempo y d.
nero.
-
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-03-12

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