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The mirror., 1922-05-18
Saltwater, Minnesota, Thursday, May 1S, 1922.

public. They had left the western part,
which today is known as Haiti, virtually
uninhabited, and the deserted coasts be-
came the haunt of the famous buccaneers.
The buccaneers were mainly French, and
in time France claimed the region they
had occupied, introduced respectable immi-
grants and made colony of it known as
"the French Part of Santo Domingo" Un-
like the Spaniards, the French devoted
themselves to agriculture and soon showed
what marvellous productiveness the island
had. During the eighteenth century French
Santo Domingo was by far the most
fourishing colony of the West Indies.
Covered with fine plantations and cult
waited to the very mountain crests, the
French part of Santo Domingo, though
only a. trife larger than the State of
Massachusetts, furnished not only France
but half of Europe with sugar, coffee and
other tropical products.
In order to obtain the labor necessary
for SO many plantations the French brought
in multitudes of negro slaves, who soon
vastly outnumbered the white population.
When the French Revolution convulsed
France and its colonies the negroes of
French Santo Domingo took advantage of
the situation, revolted and after long
struggle succeeded in expelling the whites.
@b Al .,,Io
and in the year 1904 set up the Republic
of Haiti-the old Indian name of the is
land. About twenty years later the
eastern part of the island threw off Span
ish rule and became the Dominican Re-
public.
But independence meant neither peace
nor prosperity. Having gained their free
dom, the Haitians and the Dominicans be-
gan to misuse it. Both peoples showed
from the first an utter lack of capacity for
orderly self-government. The "Black Re-
public" of Haiti quickly degenerated into
an absurd burlesque of France. The
government sedulously copied French poll
teal forms; and the republic was some
times styled kingdom, sometimes an
empire. One of the rulers of Haiti
especially distinguished himself by Great
ing a whole nobility headed by four
princes and fifty-nine dukes; innumerable
marquises, counts and barons completed
the pompous galaxy that surrounded the
imperial" throne. Meanwhile Haiti it.
succession of black and mulatto generals"
at the head of tatterdemalion "armies"
fought ferociously for the spoils of office
and kept the land plunged in horrid
and interminable anarchy. Revolution sue
ceeded revolution and in those senseless
civil wars the fine, well-constructed towns
that the French had left were destroyed
and replaced by squalid shacks, and the
broad plantations and shaded highroads of
the countryside again became bush and
forest.
In the Spanish-speaking Dominican Re-
public no colonial prosperity was destroyed
because the eastern part of the island had
only sparse population of ranchers and
herdsmen and no agriculture worth the
name; but in the course of time things
grew worse even there. To begin with,
shortly after the Dominican Republic had
expelled the Spaniards the Haitians con-
quered it and ruled it for many years.
What the Haitians did to their own coun-
try suggests how they ruled the Domini-
The mirror., 1922-05-18
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Selected
n ONE of the lands that America has
~ guided and protected during the last

ONE OF the lands that America has
IN guided and protected during the last
generation is more interesting than
the great island often called Haiti, but
more correctly known as Santo Domingo.
The island, which lies between Cuba and
Porto Rico, is unquestionably the finest of
the West Indies. A land of lofty noun
tains clothed with splendid forests and
rich in variety of minerals, land of
spacious plateaus and fertile plains that
are capable of producing the finest sugar,
tobacco and other tropical products-Santo
Domingo would appear predestined by ma
ture to be the richest and most prosperous
of the West Indies. AS matter of fact
it lost its early prosperity long ago and
for more than a century has been sunk in
backwardness and misery, from which un-
der recent American guidance it is only
now beginning to emerge.zzThe story of
the turbulent past of Santo Domingo and
its new start is story well worth telling.
AS its double name suggests, the island
of Santo Domingo which has an area of
some thirty thousand square miles, or
about half the area of New England, is
divided politically into two distinct ma
tions. The western third of it forms the
Republic of Haiti; the eastern two thirds
constitutes the Dominican Republic.
Haiti is nation of negroes it has only a
few mulattoes and no native whites. The
people speak corrupt French and look to
France for their culture. The Dominican
Republic, on the other hand, is Spanish
speaking land much like Cuba and Porto
Rico; it has considerable white or near
white upper class, peasantry of mixed
blood-Spanish, Indian and African-and
relatively few full-blooded negroes
Christopher Columbus discovered Santo
Domingo, and the island was the first
Spanish colony in the New World. 1t
had fine start, for at first the whole
colonizing energy of Spain flowed into
that relatively small insular area. Within
eAiiV years AuiItuuCS VI COiOAlStS COVCICu
the land with towns of stone. Even now
after four centuries of decay Santo Domin-
go, the capital city, still shows those state
ly mansions proudly described by an early
Spanish historian as " so fair and large
that they may we'll receive any lord or
noble of SPAIN"
During those thirty years the blood of
million Indians paid for the ingots of
gold and silver that amazed the Spanish
court. But at the end of that exciting
period bloodshed ceased. Mexico and
Peru were conquered, the mines of Santo
Domingo became Insignificant beside the
mines of the mainland, and the Indian
workers were dead. The restless, fortune
hunting eonquistadores who made up the
bulk of the population of Santo Domingo
focked away to the more tempting Spanish
Main and SO depopulated Spanish Santo
Domingo that it sank almost into oblivion.
So matters stood for perhaps hundred
year. Then just about the time when our
ancestors were settling the Atlantic sea-
board of North America the coming of the
French revived the prosperity of Santo
Domingo. The Spaniards had colonized
only the eastern part of the island-the
part now known as the Dominican Re-
The mirror., 1922-05-18
BEAUTIFUL ISLE
Selected

nNE of the most important of the
"slices of China" taken by outside
nations, but one which there has
been no mention of restoring, is the island
which the world knows as Formosa, but
which the japanese, since they gained pos
session of it through the Chino Japanese
war, have named Taiwam
'Ihla Formosa" - Beautiful Isle the
early Portuguese voyagers called it; and
never was more appropriate name given
to an isle of the sea.
If you care to confirm this in one of
several pleasant ways, sail along the west
coast of Formosa in tex pal, or bamboo
raft, on clear day, and you will witness
a pageant of mountain scenery that will
haunt the memory for many day.
Beyond the fertile plain, with its
emerald paddy-felds and its picturesque
little villages dotted here and there on the
banks of meandering streams, foothills
with unending variations of contour sill
houette their tree-fringed SUBMITS against
the paer screen of more distant mountains.
Of these, sometimes five and sometimes
even six parallel ranges are visible at once,
each a separate ribbon of color, shading
from the deepest sapphire to palest azure
beauty from north to south.
On the east of the island you can see
the highest coastal cliffs known, at some
places rising abruptly to an elevation of
about 5000 feet, and affording an i'm
pregnable wall of defense to the wild
aboriginal tribes living in the mountains
back of them.
Formosan scenery is unusual in its di-
versity of vegetation within e,,nh narr",-'
confnes-the greatest length Oh !,
from north to south is about 264 miles and
80 miles is its greatest width.
From the palms and tropical fruit trees
of the western plain it is only short step
to the slopes of the lower moutains, with
their exuberant jungles of various growths
the bearded banyans, the graceful tree
ferns, which in sheltered hooks attain the
height of palms, and the ubiquitous bam-
boo grass.
Here, among moss-strung trees, is found
growing the beautiful butterfly orchid,
while in exposed spaces, nesting among
the rocks, rose-pink azaleas haunt their
gay blooms. A little higher are plateaus
covered with camphor laurel, the largest
tracts of these valuable trees in the world,
while still higher grow the forests of con-
iferous trees-the giant benihi, similar to
the redwoods of California, the largest
trees in the East and the second largest in
the world; the valuable hinoki or Jap
anese cypress, and the pine cedar and
spruce of the New England states; and
higher yet the craggy peaks of the tallest
mountains but sparsely covered with
vegetation of any sort, where eagles build
their nests, and which for the greater part
of the year lie beneath mantle of snow.
The usual approach to the island is the
port of Kelung in the extreme north.
Almost any time one arrives in Kelung
the rain will be found coming down in
sheets, obscuring the hill-crested harbor.
Board train for Taihoku, the capital
city, which on most maps page 2, Col s)
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Answers to Health Questions

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a remedy for excessive perspiration7
A-Perspiration r. nnture's why OF rid
ding tho body Of waste material II r.
not ADMIRABLE 10 interfere With IN. func.
uoning Of the skin IN any way. Tiers
fore. cannot suggest remedy
MISC n q o. have had tho grippe
four times this winter and have been
suffering from iaryngiti- since. WIN
you kindly advise me whether tho sea-
shore or mountains VIII he beneficial -
me and about what altitudsr
A-Ths mountains probably womb
benefit You more than the seashor~. Any
altitude below 1900 feet would b. all
right for 700 az Il ~ the change. NOR,
than Tho elevation. that helps In a Casa
Ike yours.
DR.. Copeland .oiH nrs.oer for read.
/ era Of this paper q1lestiors o-, 7nedi
cal. hyoienic ard sanitation subject,
thGt are Of general interest. Wher.
The subject Of letter is such that i
cannot be published IN iris column
DR.. Copeland tDiII, ichen III. question
is q proper one. torite you personally
/ il a self-addressed, stamped IN
peLope is enclosed. Address All
INQUIRIES to DR.. r. S. Copeland
IN care Of this office.
Copyright. 1922. 5 S-srpsp-z F.r+r-- serr,-.. Ia
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planning A HOUSE WARMING"

When asking ones friends in TO cele-
brate the event Of entering a new home,
the hostess should take two things into
consideration: games and refreshments.
The invitations may be written in
simple way on note paper, or may be
delivered over the telephone-or even
by word OF mouth.
When the guests arrive, games are
started at once in the living room.
Guests invited TO a housewarming do
not bring presents TO the hostess A
good game TO begin with is the follow
ing:
New Home Contest: Arrange on a
table about o dozen articles which rep
resent either building a home or set
Ting a new hOme-such as a hammer,
nails, slate shingle, small piece of lin
Oleun, nuts or bolts, tacks, wire hooks
screws, a piece of carpet, sample Of
cretonne, paint brush, scrap of wall
paper. etcetera. Cover these articles
with a large sheet, so that the guests
cannot see them until the signal is
given for the contest 10 begin. Each
contestant is provided with a pencil and
a piece of paper upon which is written
his or her name; when all are ready,
the sheet is drawn from the table and
everybody stands lookingat the articles
for FIVE minutes. Then the sheet is
put back over the table and the guests
are requested to write down the names
Of as many articles as they can remem-
berl Nobody may glance at his neigh
boris paper. At the end Of three min
utes the papers are collected and COM
pared. The person who has enumerated
correctly the largest number of articles,
wins prize. "A good BOBBY prize
would be O memorandum book
Home Hint Contest In playing this
game, the guests sit in circle and
each, in turn, tells of some little dis
covery" he has made about his home
Only FIVE minutes is allowed for each
speaker
il anybody in the audience sings
well, appropriate music makes n de-
lightfll addition TO party Of this sort.
Such songs rs "My Little Gray Home
in the West" "rhe Wee House Mane
the Heather and ctaers Ringing upoI
the subject of homo, are enjoyable.
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UNGRATEFUL MR.. COON.

Mr. Coon had been caught in n trap
but he was not badly hurt so MIR. Man
put him in big box with wire netting
FOR a door and locked him in. And
though he had plenty to cat Mr.. Coon
wanted his freedom.
One day old Madam Black Hen
wandered around to Mr.. Coon's prison.
She WAS alone and Mr.. Coon thought
he would try to work upon her sym
pathy and get her to let him out.
oh, dear" he sighed, II am SO I'M
happy, Madam Black. Do YOU think
it is right that should he kept a prisoner
when have done nothing 10 deserve
such treatment"
Didn't you come here TO rob the
poultry house," said Black Hen with
anything but sympathetic glare al
Mr. Coon.
Who told YOU such story" he
asked, looking very innocent 81
came up here, Madam, to find the
nest OF your enemy the Hawk. | hearC
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Efficient Housekeeping
BY Laura A. Klrkman

At 10 o'clock the party adjourhs to
the dining room, where the table is
decorated in this way: The centerpiece
is tiny house made from cardboard
anybody can make such a house with
the aid Of paste and a set of child's
crayons) The number of the hostess
house is written in yellow crayon on
the door OF the cardboard house, and
a sign reading Welcome" is placed
over the doorway. Grass" around the
little house is made by cutting green
crepe paper into small pieces and
sprinkling it on the tablecloth At each
guests plate lie 'latch-key" favors;
these keys are also made of cardboard,
crayoned yellow or painted with gilt
paint The menu is:
Olives
Chicken Salad
Cream Cheese Sandwiches
Hot Cocoa topped with Whipped
Cream
Chocolate Layer Cake
Nuts Candies
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My Marriage Problems
Adele Garrson's New Phase Of
Revelations Of a Wife
Copyright 1921, Inc
Adele Garrison's New Phase O
Revelations Of a WIFI


NO" she snapped What's that got
to do with il. I'd ike 10 know
A great deal, I think, | answered
mildly 'Dicky and / always have re-
spected each others wishes concerning
the arrangement and the care Of our
rooms. He knows that | ike my room
always in order, and he Is always most
careful about litterIng II up.
Yes, YOU are very particular about
your own room, | notice, my mother
. in-law said unpleasantly.
And he has told me many times that
it drives him mad TO have any one med
die with his things, ! went on steadily,
ignoring the ill-nstured little fling. So
never touch it myself, or permit Katie
20 do anything save take out the rugs
and draperies and clean the windows
and floor His belongings Tneyer handle
Yours Claire"
Yes, and fine mess they re in, too,
my mother-in-lsw reioined tartly. But
If you want TO encourage Richard IL
that sort OF untidy nonsense, | don I IN
tend TO. l happen 10 be his mother anC
I will not permit him TO have room
look like that in any house l live IN
He didn't keep his room looking like
that when he lived with me, l can tel
you"
l could have retorted crushingly with
the comparison Dicky frequently drew
between the nagging to which his mother
always subjected him concerning his
belongings, and what he termed my
cursed confines" But 7 only replied
meekly: no, I suppose he didn't t.
Then l watched her stalk away TO hel
sons room with the certainty that she
would SO upset his things that, IN hei
own old-fashioned parlance, DickywoulC
be eft 10 be tied" when he should come
home again.
When he should come home again
Ny heart rephrased the sentence as
} question. as I went back into my room
with Junior chnging tightly TO my hand
. Marion had disappeared when | cams
/ into the hall, and guessed that she
had fed 10 her mother for comfort.
5 had sudden poignant longing for m,
t own little mother, laid to rest before
/ ever had met Dicky. But that sh
t would have understood better than an.
one else the problems l had TO fac
9 with my Peter Pan, I was instinctivel.
sure.
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Under each Of these sheIvc, - n rpncs
or cavity called fossa or rneatu.. Each
iossn is pamed according 20 II, relative
position. Therefore. wo have tho In
ferlor.' the middle" and tho ''su-
pcrlo~" fosyae
me bones 81 the face are not solid
They arc honeycombed with SPACES. but
nor ittle cavities like those In the comb
OF money. The spaces are larger some
OF mem capable OF holding a table
spoonful or moro OF Gu!d.
The Nasal Passages.
The spaces aros called IN. "naso,
sinuses' or the "acceasory alnu.es"
They open into the fossae OF the nose
under the turbinated bones
me large space underneath the cheek
~ called the "antrtIn" or Tho ",raxfi-
lory sinus" IT IL tho biggest ~ sinuses.
snd opens into tho middle fosra.
over the eye. underneath tAe inner
end Of the eyebrow. IL another snac.
cahed the frontal sinus. u opens into
tho middle fossa.
There are other cavities called the
sphenotdal and ethmoidai sinuses. which
open Into the nose.
The canal which carries the tea-s
AWAY from the eye IL called the nasal
ouct. This opens into the inferior
foasa Of the nose.
Lining the nasal cavities. covering al
mo projections. dipping down into tn,
Iossse. creeping up into tho sin1se- and
ducts, hiding all tho surfaces 81 tho hill,
and valleys Of this region Is the nucou,
membrane
IN health and normal condition III.
r9ucous membrane is comparativeir thir
and evenly distributed In disease. =
may 10 swollen. red and angry In ap
pearance. especially IN spots.
Kessons for Polypus.
/ This is a condition which may rs.u,
| IN nasal polypus The mucous mem
| brane gets thick and thicker Il be
/ gins 10 develop state Of tn. tissue
not unlike proud flesh" Gradually tn
growth develops until there nay 10
mass as big as hazei-nut perhap
! hanging by narrow stem Ike n pen
II unchecked II continues 10 gro,
until It may be az big as an oyster an
quite Ike an oyster in color and con
| sstcncy
Chronic nasal cstsrrh with pus ,n,eo
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tune to get the right clue from the be
ginning. 1t is very possible If had known
%about this notebook it might have led
away my thoughts, rs it did yours. But
all heard pointed in the one direction
The amazing strength, the skill in the
use OF the harpOon, the rum and water
the sealskin tobacco pouch with the
coarse tobacco--all these pointed to a
seaman, and one who had been n whalcr
| was convinced that the initials II. c.
upon tine pouch were coincidence, and
not those of Peter Carey, since he sci
| dom smoked. and no pipe was found
| in his cabin. You remember that |
asked whether whisky and brandy
were in the cabin. You said they were
| How many landsmen are there who would
drink rum when they could get these
other spirits?" Yes, was certain it was
seaman
and how did YOU find him."
My dear sir, the problem had be.
come a very simple one. If it were q
had been with him on the Sea Unicorn
So far as | could learn he had sailed il
no other ship. | spent three days il
wiring TO Dundee, and at the end of that
time ! had ascertained the names of tn,
crew of the Sea Unicorn in 1888. When
found Patrick Cairns among the har
pooncrs my research was nearing il
end | argued that the man was prob
ably in London, and that he would desir,
to leave the country for a time ! there
fore spent some days in the East End
devised an Arctic expedition, put fortl
tempting terms for harpooners VIII
would serve under Captain Basil-an,
behold the result
Wonderful" cried Hopkins. won
derfulW
You must obtain the release c
young Neligan as soon as possible,
, said Holmes. Il confess that | thin
YOU owe him some apology. The tin DO
| must be returned to him, but of cours,
the securities which Peter Carey ha
sold are lost for ever. There's the cal
Hopkins, and YOU can remove your mar
} If you want me for the trial my &C
dress and that of Watson will be som,
! where in Norway-I'l send particular
later"
= The End.
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TODAY'S INSTALAIENT.

Il must really apologize, Hopkins
said Sherlock Holmes. Il fear that the
scrambled eggs are cold. However, you
will enjoy the rest of your breakfast all
the better. will YOU not. for the thought
that YOU have broguht your case y
triumphant conclusion.
Stanley Hopkins was speeches. with
amazemcnt.
Il don't know what TO say, Mr..
Holmes" he blurted out at last, with
very red face. 1T seems 10 me that
] have been making a fool OF myself
from the beginning. understand now,
- what | should never have forgotten,
that ! am the pupil and you are the
master Even now ! see what you have
done, but l don't know how you did 1t,
or what it signifies"
We'll, well said Holmes, good
humoredly. I'VE all learn by expert
ence, and your lesson this time is that
YOU should never lose sight OF the alter
native. You were so absorbed IN young
Ncligan that you could not spare q
thought 10 Patrick Cairns, the true
murderer Of Peter Carey"
The hoarse voice OF the seaman broke
in on our conversation.
See here, mister" said he, 81 make
no complaint of being man-handled II
this fashion. hut ] would have you cal
things by their right names. You say
murdered Peter Carey, ] say ] killed
Peter Carey, and there's all the differ.
cnce. Maybe you don't believe what
say. Maybe you think | am just slingin,
YOU yarn."
Not at all" said Holmes. LET Vi
hear what YOU have to say
It's soon told, and, by the Lord
every word Of il is truth knew Blacl
Peter, and when he pulled out his knit,
whipped harpoon through him sharp
for knew that il was him or me. That
how he died You can call it murder
Anyhow, Id as soon die with a rop'
round my neck as with Black Peter
knife IN my heart"
How came YOU there" asked
Holmes
IN tell il 70 YOU from the beginning
Jus; sit me up little, so as can speal
easy IL was in So that it happened
August Of that wear Peter Carey wa
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The Sandman Story
By Abby Phillips Walker
Copyright 1922. by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc. y. Y
By Abby Phillips Walker

jumped Mr.. Coon and caught her by
the wing II will eat YOU and then no
one can blame YOU he said.
But at that very second MIR. Fox
came along, He jumped right into
Mr.. Coons face. Here, what are
you doing" he asked, for he was
hungry too.
"0h, Mr. Fox save me from this I'M
grateful creature" cried Black Hen
forgetting that Mr.. Fox was an enemy
of her family as well as Mr.. Coon.
Mr.. Coon dropped Black Hen and
Mr. Fox, standing in front of the open
ing to the barnyard, heard her story.
let me see just how everything
happened" said sly Mr.. Fox. You
go inside again, Mr.. Coon and you,
Madam, stand just where you did
when YOU let him out. | am afraid
you are expecting too much of my
| friend, Mr.. Coon, Madam Hen"
When Mr. Coon heard tins he was
sure Mr. Fox was on his side so ne
ran in and quick as wink Mr.. Fox
dropped the latch.
And now, Madam, because you
made such fuss about being carried
off by such a fine fellow as my friend
Mr.. Coon" said Mr.. Fox Il will carry
you off myself Just to prove my friend
ship"
He caught Madam Hen, who gave
loud cry, Then around the side o
the barn came Mr.. Dog with bound
and with leap he caught Mr.. Fox b!
one ear.
Down went Madam Hen on tn
ground and this time she not stol
to tell any story. She made her tw'
feet carry her as fast as they coul'
to the barnyard.
Mr.. Fox got away and ran HON
thinking he was very silly TO hsv
listened to Black Hen. Il ought t
have carried her off to my den and hear
her story afterwards he said,
So there in the box Mr.. Coon had I
stay, thinking how false a friend wa
Mr. Fox and forgetting that the caus
Of his being there was that he was $
ungratefui to Black Hen for her kinc
ness