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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-11
Municipal Matters
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$762.S3
Commissioner Rudgren offered a
resolution that the following
claims be allowed:
Superior Chemical company,
$4,000; The-Home Painting and
Decorating company. $4,000. Car
ried by unanimous vote.
Commissioner Rudgren submitted
an ordinance authorizing the Mayor
. and Clerk to settle accounts, which
on his motion was considered by
unanimous vote.
Commissioner Rudgren offered q
resolution that the ordinance au-
thorizing the Mayor and Clerk to
settle accounts, be adopted. Car
.ried by unanimous vote.
, Commissioner Fitzsimmops sub
mitted the reports of the various
! city officers for the month OF
June, which on his motion were Or
dered received and placed on file,
Commissioner WITCH offered a
/, resolution that the ordinance pro-
viding for the improvement OF
Twenty-s.xth street from Thir-
teenth to Seventeenth avenue by
grading, draining. curling with
combined concrete curb and gutter
and paving with asphaltic concrete
be adopted. Carried by unanimous
vote.
Commissioner Murrin. read a re-
port of the Board of Local I'm.
provements recommending the
adoption Of an ordinance providing
for the construction of Waterman
on Seventh street from Eighteenth
to Nineteenth avenue: also an esti.
mate of the probable cost Of said
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-11
READY TO START
WORK ON BRIDGE

Having received permission from
te var department to reconstruct
pc trestle bridge to Campbell's is
md, the Tri-City Railway company
NOV waiting for propitious wealth
conditions to begin work, accord
y to 7. c. Roderick, general man.
yer OF the company.
tentative proposals presented
one time ago to the Chambers OF
commerce of Moline and East Mo-
me for the construction Of a We
cie and street car bridge have not
- acted upon. Definite propos-
- Will be prepared as soon as thu
snectors Of the TRICKY Railway
mated,
Inc Tri-City Railway company, It
eeen stated by Mr.. Roderick,
.nos ready to cooperate In a COM
nl.y enterprise that would re-
Y 10 the construction Of q two
lpose bridge. That a vehicle
Mse 70 Campbell's island would
: great boon to the PLEASURE
eFs all are agreed, but no one
~ . lar hit upon a practical plan
financing the construction Of it.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-11

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07
SETTING TYPE FROM A DISTANCE

Automatic typesetting by telegraph is re-
garded as possibility of the future
through the development of existing pr;t-
ing telegraph apparatus. In England the
Murray telegraph printer was originally
designed for typesetting, but this aim was
overshadowed by its use for simple tele-
graphic purposes. The apparatus is able
to operate automatically the mechanism of
the linotype typesetting machine. 1t is
only necessary to substitute the keyboard
of such machine for the keys Of the type
writer on which the kilograms are orGinar-
lily recorded. Thus correspondent of a
newspaper could telegraph an article,
which would be automatically set up in
type as fast as it came over the wires.-
Industrial School Times, Kearney, Neb.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

l was compelled to submit the foregoing
in rather raw state, that is to say, some
what unfinished.
However, the reader can readily supply,
from his Imagination, what threads of the
story are not sufficiently woven. But l
might add here a few enlightening facts.
First of all "Dapper Dick" died a short
time after without reconciliation with his
sons, but they took his corpse and gave it
a decent burial. The sons are both promi
nent in public life in their state, yet would
probably have ignored their sinful father
if it had not been for the publicity grow
ing out of my story. l also acted as
foreign" correspondent for the local pa
pers of "Dapper Dicks" former home,
which netted me nice little check in ad-
dition to Blade earnings. Naturally the
question arises: What become of the
secretary? She was last heard of in Tia
Juana, Lower California, Mexico. Am
indeed sorry l cannot offer this ideal ma
terial in clearer form, but may work out
something later
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

badges; it is a business that does not call
for advertising; the less said about it the
better; the thing is to do it. Nor is it
novel or revolutionary experiment. You
will be living just as you were made to
live. And when we all live as we were
made to live, we shall find life worth
while.-Washington GLADDEN. in Good
Citisen.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

Start out with the deliberate purpose of
making friendship the ruling principle of
your life and keep right at it, all the year
round. Probably you will not need to be
reminded that friendship begins at home;
but even there it may be we'll to duly
consider whether anything is left undone
that we might do to make life pleasanter
and more rewarding to those who live I'M
der the same roof. That we love these
people goes without saying, but it may be
that we sometimes find scant time to be
friends with them. 1t will not be necessary
to join anything or to resign from any
thing to- carry this purpose into effect.
Right where we are, we may set it in oper-
alton. On the pavement, in the street-car,
in the elevator, in the counting room, be-
hind the desk, behind the pillow, in the
schoolroom, in the nursery, in the kitchen,
the new purpose will find ample room for
exercise. 1t is not simply a question of
manners, though that is much. A year of
genuine courtesy would make some lives
seem much better, worth while. But it is a
sincere purpose of kindness, of doing
good turn, of helping every day in large
ways and in small, all whom we can reach
with hand or voice or influence. To make
that the main business of life is the simple
proposition. You do not need to wear any
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07
NOTICE TO INMATES

Each inmate is accorded the privilege of one
subscription to THE MIRRoR, to be sent home
or to friend, free Of charge. In order to
obtain this privilege you must write your 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 wish to enter additional subscriptions, they
will be charged for at the rate Of so cents q
year for each subscription.
The paper delivered to your cell each week
must be kept clean, and should be folded in
the same manner as you receive 1t, placing it
at the foot of your bed ON the morning fol-
lowing the day ON which 1t is delivered to
your CELL
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07
ROMANTIC PERSIA

Kasvin was full of tall plane-trees,
where perched enormous quantities of
crows that at dusk tapped cawing about
the streets. We stayed with the Sayyid's
brother and were royalty wined and dined,
although it was Muharram, the month in
which the Persians do not drink wine or
allow any sort of amusement.
There is something very pleasant about
the simplicity with which middleclass Per-
slams live. The rooms are often bare ex-
cept for rugs and a few chairs and
couches. There are no servants about;
the sons of the house bring the pewter
trays at meals and wait upon the guests.
There are no beds or ornaments of any
sort; at night and at siesta-time mat
tresses and quilts are brought out of cup
boards and unrolled. Everything seems to
go on with strange quietness and without
fuss. Out of the patterns of rugs and
cups of tea and soft-voiced, subtle talk
and the vaguely cloying taste of sweet
drinks is woven an extraordinary harmony
of Incidence. In Persia suppose it is
the same throughout Isam-life gives me
the impression of having no surge and Tor
rent to it. 1t is like a dry watercourse
that has once been a swelling river, but is
reduced to few quiet pools rejecting the
blue and the clouds. Yet such pools,
troublingly discontinuous, intermittent,
perhaps contain within their limits more
intensity of wriggling, intricate life than
ever the river did.
1t seems to be the custom in Persia to
turn in Immediately after supper. That
night in Kazvin, when l was left alone
with my bedding in one of the upper rooms
of the house, l managed to crawl through
my tiny window on to little roof, from
which l could see the fat moonlit roofs
and the inky-shadowed courtyards of the
town. On many of the roofs l could see
figures in blankets rolled up asleep; occas-
sionally there was some movement in a
courtyard. l thought of story of Maui
PEASANTS in which girl stands up darby
naked in the moonlight on the fiat roof of
a house in Morocco. And for some reason
a spasm or revolt against the romantic
Morris Gest-Pierre Lott sort of Orient,
and there are tons of it even in the East,
came over me. 1t is in the West that
bloods flows hot and that the world is dis
orderly, mysterious, romantic that fan
tastic, unexpected things happen. Here
worn out. Wishing myself at Broadway
and Forty-Second Street, l lay down on
my soft mattress.-From the Opinions of
the Sayyid, by John Dos Passos, in asia
Magazine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

NOTICE-Inmates submitting contributions
to THE MIRROR for publication must sign their
name and register number. Original articles
preferred, if not original, proper credit must be
given to the writer if known; if writer's name
is not known, it should be so specified by con-
tributor. Should contributor fail to comply
with this request he will be dropped from THE
MIRRORS contributing staff.
Approved by Warden. Editor.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

"A disciple of CONTIGUOUS being asked
concerning his teaching, replied The
doctrine of our master consists solely in
integrity of heart and treating his neigh
bors as he himself wishes to be treated"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07
LETTERS TO BOARD OF CONTROL

All inmates desiring to write to the State
Board of Control will notify their officer, who
in turn is requested to send your notification
to the Duputy Wardens Office Friday noon in
be furnished you. Letters written on regula-
ton size paper will not be permitted to 60.
J. j. SULLIVAN,
Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

"What rich man uses and gives, con-
stitutcs his real wealth. That which thou
hoardest whose is it? Other covetous men
will sport with it,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07
CHURCH NOTICE

Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock
every Sunday morning, Protestant and Catho-
lie service every alternate Sunday. Rev. @. 4.
Benson and Rev. FIR. Corcoran, Chaplains.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

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 disseminated pathological information and to
aid in dispening that prejudice which has ever
been the bar sinister to a fallen mans self
redemption.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07
QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES


ciate and see the opportunity that their spare
hours give toward a means of self education
through correspondence 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 our var
ious departments will herewith be privileged
come to send in any queries Of serious interest
to yourself THE MIRROR with the kind col.
alteration of Miss Miriam E. Gary. Super
endsavor to sappy the requested
NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
OF this column inmates must sign their name.
submitted for publication. Inmates names. Of
course, will not be published, only the initials
Of each querist being used.-Editor.
O:-Would you kindly state how many
Americans lost their lives and how many
were wounded in the Worlds War. l
mean service men only. L. S.
A:-Killed in action, 1856; died of
wounds, 1901; died of disease, 1904;
died from other causes, $780, wounded,
1895; missing in action, 1920.
:. On what countries have cannibals
lived. K.
A:-Cannibals have been found in his
toric times in North and South America,
Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand
and the Polynesian islands.
Q:-What do the words "Sinn Fem"
mean Pr. @.
A-These words are Of ancient Gaelic
and mean "for ourselves alone"
Q:-Do dog days begin on the fifth or
the 18th of July?-L. K
A-The Romans called the six or eight
weeks of the summer "dog-days," on the
theory that the dog star, Sirius, rising
with the sun added to its heat This
period began about July 1. Owing to
procession of equinoxes the time is diff
ferent now, being usually counted from
July to August II, period beginning 20
days prior to heliacal rising of Sirius and
ending 20 days after. The ancients be-
lieved that this period was one of particu-
larly evil influence on the earth and its in
habitants but in reality conditions prevail
ing at that time are no worse than in any
other period of continued hot weather.
Owe have had several discussions
as to what literature is. Will you please
tell us what it ISL. P.
A-Literature is defined as the collec-
tive body of literary production embracing
the entire results of knowledge or fancy
preserved in writing Your discussion,
however, was probably upon the point as
to when writing may be considered ltera-
ture. Here is the opinion of Stopford
Brooke, an authority on the subject:
writing is not literature unless it gives
to the reader a pleasure which arises not
only from the things said, but from the
way in which they are said; and that
pleasure is only given when the words
are carefully or curiously or beautifully
put together into sentences"
NOTICE-All inmates using the Query Col
nmn and desiring more detailed information n
their queries are invited to nse the splendid
reference books in our library to he had on
request. The Intern ational Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
technical subjects Consult the Reference Use
fnl Arts, Literature. Chemistry Biography and
Science divisions Of our library catalogue for
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

Labor makes known the true worth of
a man, as fire brings perfume out of in
Cense."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

NOTICE-All inmates using the Query Col
nmn and desiring more detailed information n
their queries are invited to nse the splendid
reference books in our library to he had on
request. The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
technical subjects Consult the Reference, Use
fnl Arts, Literature. Chemistry, Biography and
Science divisions Of our library catalogue for
diversified subjects.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-07

Q:-What do the words "Sinn Fem"
mean?-R. G.
A:-These words are of ancient Gaelic
and mean "for ourselves alone"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-11

ing Of such al election. said cleo
ton shall not be held; and il the
name or names OF any persons shall
appear in Il petition il favor OF
holding an election and also in q
petition against holding an elec-
ton. it Shall not be counted for
either. but nothing herein contain
ed shall prevent auch person from
causing his namc 10 he erased from
either petition. and in that event.
ii shall be counted on the petition
on which it remains.
Provided in any event that be
fore any petition is presented Tor
the purpose OF having any county
or municipal election held for any
purpose aforesaid, such petition,
with the names Of the siSners shall
be published at least one week
prior to presenting i in some
newspaper published at the coun-
ty seat Of such county or in which
such municipality is located, and
nc election shall be ordered 10 be
held until this is done.
After approving additional CLAIMS
brought over from last year the
Board adjourned.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-11
CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES

The public almost everywhere
will agree with Secretary of the
Interior Fall that "all natural re-
sources should be made easy Of
access TO the present generation
provided that general statement is
accompanied by reservation
guarding against the extinction Of
the resources.
The West itself, which contains
most Of the resources remaining,
and which is ordinarily thought of
by the East as unduly eager to
utilize them, is inclined 10 be eau
tious now The Sunset Magazine
calls attention to many forms of
wealth that have been wiped out
almost wholly by making them too
easy of access" 1t refers pointed
ly to the buffalo herds. the salmon
Of Atlantic streams, the disappear
ing sockeye salmon Of Pudget
Sound, the halibut Of Washington,
and the timber and oil deposits of
big areas now cleaned out or i'm
poverished. over against this it
sets the more hopeful picture Of
Alaska seal herds now multiplying
again, as a result Of wise conser-
vation, after Threatened extinction;
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-11
HoMELY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Those who grew up under Il
regime which the present genera
ton likes to jeer at were taught
that the chief value of education.
won by hard study, lay in giving
one resources of the mind. 1t made
people feel cQual TO tackling any
problems of life, no matter how
difficult.
Besides resources for the work
day. there were resources for lciS-
lurc. The cultured man could al
ways find JOY in books. in quiet
contemplation The trained mind
does not need TO be amused II
amuses itself, and usually Tor the
worlds betterment.
The chief defect Of the young. as
their elders now look down upon
them from the height Of maturity.
seems TO be that they are. accord
ing to all old standards, uneducat-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-11
Murder Commit ted
by Drunken Negro

The murder Of Leroy MickenS, a
negro boy about 1G years old, ana
p painful wound in the left hand
of Mr.. ]. J. Christmas, is the toll
cxacted by a 3S caliber pistol ln
the hands of the dr1l.,k-crazed ne
gro. Digs Franklin, a seventeen
year-old negro boy.
The shooting occurred Sunday
night at about o'clock on the
eastern extremity Of Hampton Ave.
beyond the tobacco warehouse
From the testimony taken before
the coroner at the inquest held at
noon today it seems that there had
been several fights and consider
able amount Of noise heard from
the negro houses IN this section
during the early part of Sunday
night. These negro houses beng
situated Immediately in the rear
OF. the residence Of Mr.. j. j.
Christmas, it was stated that Mr..
Christmas finally went back to
these houses in an effort to stop
the disturbance. Just as Mr.. Christ
mas got 10 the house he saw Digs
Franklin shoot the young negro
boy, Leroy Mickcns. and saw Mick
ems when he fell on the street. It
is stated that Mr.. Christmas then
asked what the trouble was and
received as his only answer the
bullet wound in his hand from the
pistol Of the craZcd negro. The
negro assassin then made his es-
cape. Mr. Christmas was taken
to the hospital and received all
medical aid. His wound is pain
ful one but is not of a serious na-
ture When a physician reached
the negro boy that had been shot,
he was fcund dead. He was IN a
bed Of one of the nearby negro
houses where he had been placed
by friends. The bullet had enter
ed the rear of his left chest just
below the shoulder blade, had
penetrated his heart and both
lungs. Death was said to have been
almost instantaneous. From the
testimony received this morning
there was no evidence Of 2 quarrel
having existed between the dead
negro boy and his murderer.
Testimony received from several
negro girls showed that they had
seen Henry Franklin, better
known as Digs Franklin, with the
pistol and that they had done all
that they could to prevent his
using the pistol and had tried 10
keep him quiet.
The verdict reached by the corr
onerS jury was that: Leroy Mick
ems came 10 his death from pistol
shot wounds at the hands Of Her
~ Digs) Franklin in the city Of
Sumter on the Sth day Of January,
1922.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-11
JUST AS OUR GRAND
FATHERS THOUGHT.

The date was 1857. The place
vas nortf1ern Missouri. The Civil
War was two years away. The
persons were two farmers sitting
together on worm fence. The
theme was the only one they knew
hard times!
You know what they were say
ing. Their world of finance was
warped and twisted. Interest
rates were high and money almost
impossible to get. Their good wives
were gathering UP eggs and selling
them for eight cents per dozen.
They had to beg the dealer to buy
their pork. Their corn was worth
fourteen cents and their oats We're
not worth hauling away over the
poor roads.
1t was hard time. What did
they do? They>faced the situation
with hope and hard work; and in
few years their farms We're paid
for, their children educated, and
they mad a comfortable nest built
for old age. But in 1867 the clouds
Of gloom hung close owe, their
puzzled heads
Today the grandsons of the farm
ers of 1867 are sitting in their au-
| tomobiles talking hard times, and
poor markets. and low prices They
are talking the language Of their
fathers. Abraham Lincoln had a
poem written by a Scotchman
! which he kept over his desk in the
White House which read, I'VE are
the same our fathers have been
We are surely the. same when de-
preston hits our pocketbooks.
Time has shown that the farm
ers Of 1867 and 1898 did not have
| all the facts, for had they been
able to forecast the future days
they would have been singing in
stead of moaning. Better days
! came just as truly as better days
are Surer to cone 10 us.
Just as our fathers and grand
fathers faced the financial chaos
, order, so will we. In the mean
time. there are two things we can
| do to help:
Let's stop talking to each other
about hard times. We are not
starving yet, and there is no. pros
pect Of that. Ii we keep on suG-
sestins to each cher that, things
are going to the devil" it will
grease the slide 10 that state of
things.
Then we must keep suggesting
to each other that we believe in
/. each other; pledge each other our
, mutual faith, to our country and
the God above US, that we will
stay on the job and plug and save
and dig until the new economical
day daWns. If we will all do that.
our eyes will be wide open to enjoy
the new day when it comes.-Dr.
j. w. Holland, in the Farmer. St.
Paul.