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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

Turkey. since il has given Bosnia to
Austria. TO Seryia it, complete iudepend-
ence. 10 Bulgaria complete autonomy, TO
RoumelIa q nearly independent govern
menr. and has been sh0ru Of other lrag-
ments of its polyeloJ population. has q
greatly diminished force to draw upon for
soldiers Besides this it j. deeply iu debt
and always without money enough % pay
it, army on a peace footing, TO Say uOtA-
inc Of what it would have 20 10 in case Of
war. The Russian indemnity has rot
been diminished even lr 70 llar payment.
Il is q threat held over tic su.tcus head
10 he used at some critical moment. Is
soldiers who were sent home e few week
ago. after their llrst term Of service bad
expired. were not paid, and the.e wa~ p
sort OF mut.ny, which was que..ed with
difficulty. Without money il is impossible
20 buy the arms which 1t needs 20 equip
its infantry. When It gets niles at all it
IS obliged ocontent itself with an inferior
weapon, OF one thrown a little out OF date
by those Just adopted by the great powers.
Brussels Cor. san Francisco Chronicle.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

Henry's lake, amid the Rockies III &c.
yada, has W floating islands One 81
them is about 800 feet in diameter. A
willow thicket thriyes in the center, inter.
spersed with small aspens and dwarfed
pines. These little trees catch the wind
and it IS waited about the lake. which hai
an area OF about forty square miles
Boston Budget
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
Oussr wsAtha~ tsissrnr,~

"nauls.gaps, pigs ,a.la hpd 2ofen'
pine. was The telegraph r.rH repoi'
received Oy the signal Office igoni Ncs'oh
this mornir. Obviously, that means
that the MononQnhcla WAS rising tlcFe'
that there had been nearly % seven loot
gain during the day. that the rainfall was
asa inch. and thot tnc "iuo WAS from
tne northwcst coal acuttlc9 i'o0r bins
and fire balloons wa3 tne message !.oin
Norgautan Naturally that m~can,oIIsln5
river. ! feet q inChcs OF % change, Ob'
inch ~ rainfall. and a uoliberly wind.
Tie signal service does oil it's leroltng
IN c.pher Al river messages IRE Tee
ceived In The above Kind Of inns1oee.
r. sa laughabie thing TO have 10 call Cd;
rho Office ut an cal.y hour ou business and
hear the jargon that is bong called ""l
f,om the telcrams. Tho oldest word IN
the language seem 10 have btcn selected
to form tho cipher. The Use oi " tpHei
az an is characteristic OF tuc difference IN
the management " q government Depart
meut and q private concern. IL is difficult
for an ordinary mind 10 see any need for
il. The only conceivable theory }, can he
fust.ded ON is that thc department "'7 az
one time "a branch OK thc military service
onl t,ot Therefore The fiction -h1u.d DE
Kent no thee soiac mysterious enemy wa5
I'm the country whom il was rcedlul I'd
delude. Many rcoplo VIII be apt go think
That. with all due respect - the depart
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
\ Peculiar Medicinal Plant.

The Jambue seed, or 'Eugenia Jambo.
lana. IS now recognized to have the prop
erty Of arreS:ing the transformation Of
starch into sugar, and hence its great
value as IL medicine. Specimens OF thi.
medicinal plant are 0 being cultivated
In England.-Chicago Herald.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
Tobacco Market
RICHMOND. Va, April %

There Is still q better tone noticeable ia
our market this week Offerings have
been unattracliye. At auction low
grades sold better and more freely than
last week Offerings are about divided
between common dark and common
bright-. Sun-cured sold u , 10 4 cents,
and brieht- up TO 2Gt cents to-day. The
Durham, y. G.. marke; is reported
sitter on low grades, with very little fine
tobacco being marketed while all grades
are firm
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
The cemeterie- of Turkey.

Turkish tombstoncs are uarrowest at
the b.se. and soon lean and topple Many
lie PROSTATE, making seats Cor the living.
who are free and fearless neighbors Of the
dead Some OF the cemeteries arc used as
pleasure grounds for tie soldiery. the
crumbling stones mend highways. repair
walls. and repeatedly | have seen q hand
some slab stop q hole to keep the wind
away OF serve rs a doorstep TO II tumble
down hut. Children play in the somber
alleys. washwomen hang clothes and
stretch lines VI the headstones, and ladies
with wells OF snow drifts and mist, drawn
close by henna stained fingers, picnic and
sprinkle sweet basil. for remembrance
above the beloved who have passed from
sight. There is Il soft air OF resignation
IN then manner-the virtue which No
manned taught is the key 10 all happiness
and they wear no mourning Sinful tits
to show sorrow for the loss Of friends Il
is believed that children of over mourning
parents are driven out Of Paradise aad
doomed to wander through space in lark
ness and misery weeping as their relatives
DO On earth-SGsau Z. Wallace ia New
York World.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

II is a remarkable physioguOmical fact
that the LEADING lawyers oil the world
have d great prcpondcrauce Of lip A
close examination of numerous portraits
of the noted advocates Of the past, and q
personal inspection Of the lIs Of the most
noted lawyers at Washington show that
this Zip growth is most Extraordinary in
thar part Of The mouth nearest the chin,
and ina fact, the under lips of our great
lawyers look as though they had been
stuug by So many bees. How this comes
/ um not able 10 state. IL may be n the
pursuing up OF the fps in the endeayor
TO appear wise. Ii may he in the tightly
closed mouth, supposed 10 keep IN the
great knowledge of the law until the
owner receives a $4,000 fee. or IL may
be In the development Of the under Zip
in the arguing Of cases before a jury.
At any rate there IS uo doubt tina, this
extraordinary development exists. as a
look at the sketches OF the lips Of noted
men VIII show Prank G Carpenter in
New York World
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
In tho Eoman Tornm.

Julius. said Mrs Caesar. Il must
have q new dress If we aIe going 10 the
springs The wife Of the mayor Of Rome
must be dressed according to her sta
ton
"We!l. my dear. Do replied the mayor.
here Is Il dimus. 60 buy yourself a
Saratoga
Brutus, ovcrhearinc the remark. went
At once and purchased the tin sword which
so elcctually aided CGsar in collecting
his rents Life.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
Emma Abbot ON Artistic sense"

Emma Abbot on 'AFtlNtlt sense
Can you define tbs artistic sense u
which YOU referredt'
All. there Is the thing That is what
no opera singer can get on without. To
define it would be 20 define art itself II
includes taste and a thousand other thing.
which are .udefnable You know the
best of everything is indelnable. But
what is the use OF defining it: The person
who has the artistic sense knows what Il
is without "a definition and the person who
mas it not car not understand any dofni.
ton Of it. The person who has il II the
ercap.st degree becomes The greatest
artist the rcundest and most symmet-
ricai Michael Angelo bad Il and there
tore he was a great painter. Il great poet.
IL great sculptor and % great architect u
Ae mad a voice he would have been @ great
singer Adelaide Nelson had #, AM
therefore was a great actress. Nature
gave her about the ugliest pair Of hands !
ever SAW on u woman, but it gave 10 her
ulsJ The artistic sense 10 learn So 10 Use
those hands as 10 make chem seem u loo,
perfectly beautiful If l were TO attonpt
Il brief definition Of this sense / should say
it is tina, in MS which prompts us ~ make
beautiful everything with which W. have
to DO. The opera singer must have a
beautiful voice. beautiful manners, beau
tiful costumes. beautiful stage settings
and she must have the artistic sense to
know what constitutes these Chicago
Times Interview.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
CITY coLLEcroE', NOTICE.


OfEAlI lily AOALEi AiNf VIZ hall
HICHMOSp, Va, April T., U.s..
/ ICENSE TAN
This Office viii be open daily trOm . O'Clock
ain. 20 O'Clock pm, from the 18th 20 the gth
OF April. for tAe purIos, Of RECEIVING
THE LICENSE TAN from aIl Doctors, % D.
fists. Lawyers. Commission Merchants, Mcr-
chandisc. stock and Exchange Brokers, Whole
sale and Retail Liquor Dealers. Hotels. Res
t%auruuts. Saloons. Boarding and Eating Houses.
Auctl0rcer-. Lumber Measures. Architects,
Theatres and Halls, Telegraph Express and
Coal Companies. Mercantile. Insurance. Real
Estate. Employ meut, Ticket, ana Sewing Ma
chine Agents nitters Manufacturers, Bot
tiers. Junk ana oyster Dealers Photograph
ers. and all otheI persons liable to--ii License
Tax.
AL bills lema niug unpaid Oh the LEI day of
May. Il Tine OF not less than 81 nor more than
IS for each day thereafter VIII boz imposed.
JAMES ID. CRAIG.
-api-to- myl Collector
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
MrXlCO'S THIEVES.
TALES or TRlCKERY AND Liohr-
FINGERED INGENUITY.

slipper Gentlemen 81 the neHica" Cap
itn,-Adroit Thieves Ivcrywhcrc-somc
Interesting stories % rhcn Cunning
Adventure o. an English Rc,ideut.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

Market steady
Quo,G.iops-Middline o. loR mt'ciiHg.
SIC. good ordinary. Sc.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

HIGH.I l- I. H.. ut
I,we.iy h,ltI t "t
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

Cyrus ". Field says that by hard work
u man may accomplish anything in thi:
world.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

ASA SNYDER co.. l'-aI.n
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26

lNntT Auf "NI.r
]. n. TEASDAII. lll' d.. H.
S2.rl and q mems b..
hoes.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-26
DIRECTOR

BUSINESS UIOI,I

The Directory be.ao 81 ri
business Ao'ises, gazing H,r
business, riH be- JO'Irf rlIG r.I
Of reference for w. lra.1ran I,f
and all he diffr.at jnpIeie .I
Analytical ChtmI.f.
Or. HENRY FROtIiND. 1r-.
Chcmi~t 90 Chesapeake
mona aud Allegheny uf
trntiou Co. urol Ind IIrai.. H.
Arshif,rtH.
u. J. DiHMODA. tH5 ba
-rcspOu1rUCN .l.tHI.
fftrUt...
WILLIAM n. GANuN'
street. liafr eUflI..
@laGl.NfU<.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14
THE JUDGE MODIFIED HIS SEN.
TENCE

One OF the keenest things ever said on the bench
term of the Supreme court at Augusta he SEN
fenced a man to seven years in prison for grave
crime. The respondents counsel asked for an in
vestigation of the sentence the ground that
the prisoners health was very poor. Your Hon.
Or" said he, II am satisfied that my tlient can
not live out half that term and l beg of you to
change the sentence "Well, under those cir
cumstances.' said the judge II will change the
sentence. will make it for life, instead of seven
years. 1t is needless to add that the resi- ond.
ent chose to abide by the original sentence.
which the judge permitted him to select.-Lew s.
ton Journal.
Wherein is it keen? Is it tit subject
for wit? The lawyer may have made mis-
take, or may have did only his duty in his
statement to the court, but judge who
would so far forget his responsibility as to
make play on words at the expense of the
liberty or possibly the life of the telon. is
to be criticised to say the least. Judges
have been known to add many years to a
mans sentence for some indiscretion of the
accused or the conduct OF the attorney de-
Tending him. during the trial, but that such
a thing should be encouraged by the press
is beyond all reason.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is weekly paper pub
aished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published IN its columns is contributed by the
inmates, except that properly credited. Its sup
port must come from the outside as every inmate
is given paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library ind after paying
for the pr ntng outfit. contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects are to en-
courage individual intellectual effort, provide a
healthy journal for the inmates of this and other
prisons, and, above all, to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the of moral adj
vancement and prison reform. THE MIRROR
II be sent to any adlr receipt of subscrp.
t on price: ST. per year G0c. for six months.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

principle of Imprisonment is punishment.
He must claim that men can be made bet.
ter by forced surroundings and that the
short terms of Imprisonment which consti-
tute the great majority of all imprison-
ments. should be periods of burial from the
world. That one imprisoned should be
cut off from that source of information
which affords every true reader untold en-
joyment and shapes his thoughts Oh every
live question of the times. Ii there is rea-
son for excluding daily papers. there is an
equally good reason for excluding the
weekl:es. for the latter are made up almost
entire from matter published in the uailies
Our conclusions upon this subject, based
upon experience and what we have read
pro and con is. that it is the height of non-
sense to exclude any paper from prison
that has an unrestricted circulation outside
of prison walls.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

We publish from the New York Mail and
Express an article upon the appearance of
the world to one who has served over
thirty-two years in the Sing Sing prison.
1t will strike most of our readers as inter-
esting reading matter but the prisoner alone
will appreciate what thrty-two years of
Imprisonment means. One of the strange
features of the case is the unqualified state
ment of the writer that the man was innO-
cent of the crime for which he was impris-
Oned. 1t is to be hoped that Minnesota will
never be guilty of such wrong, but as the
laws now are such thing would not only
be possible, but almost inevitable. if the
letter of the law was followed out. Only
the humanity of the chief executive of the
state stands guard over those who have
from any cause received a life sentence.
This should not be. and with properly
constituted Board of PardOns would be i'm
possible.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

tect society. and not as means to satisfy
the revengeful spirit Of the party wronged.
All religious bodies believe that sinners can
reform and become good christians. Would
it be greater change for convict to
abandon his evil ways and become as good
as the average citizen? think not. Il.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

We are pleased with a friendly notice in
the neat and able paper put forth by the in.
mates of the Minnesota penitentary, at
Saltwater, called THE PRISON MIRROR.
If The Worlds Advance Thought has
frightened the gloom of single captives
cell we are indeed happy.-WOrld's Adj
vance Thought
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

Science and the methods thereof are of
ineXpressible Importance in solving material
problems. But however much knowledge
about material things one may acquire, and
however carefully that knowledge may be
classified. it will not avail in the search for
spiritual riches The latter can be had for
the asking, by the ignorant as we'll as by
the learned. and the open sesame to the
treasure house is Naturalization.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14
THE NEWSPAPER IN PRISON.

ton of those who labor for the prison. that
it may be productive of the best results. is,
''What should the prisoner read?" In dealing
with the subject at this time we have main
ly in view, it's discussion through our me.
dunn of expression. THE MIRROR.
Every prison that lays claim to modern
penal science. has a library, and it is no eX-
aggeratiOn when we say that of all libraries,
whether public or private none are so gen.
orally patrOnized by those who have access
to them as are the prison libraries of the
United States. Every volume they con-
tain is read and re-read with an interest
unsurpassed in the reading world. The
inmates of the prisons of this country are
made up of men of every degree of taste,
in the matter of literature. From the dime
novel tiend to the earnest searcher after
knowledge, all leisure moments of those in
mates who read at ali, say, eighty per cent.
of the whole number, are spent in reading.
Generally speaking. the prison library is
made up of good and bad literature. There
is decided preponderance of light fiction.
This is read by those who read to pass away
time, and not without profit IN some de-
gree, but those who have given the
subject most thought are of the opinion
that such reading is productive of more
actual harm than good. 1t arouses false
sentiment, gives false idea of life, arouses
the baSer passions. and altogether is
curse to the prisoner who follows such a
course of reading.
A question that has often suggested it.
self to us In regard to this subject is, why
exclude the newspaper and admit the SEN
satiOnal, corrupting nOvel?" 1t is certainly
more healthful for man to read of the cur
rent events of the day than to keep the
mind filled with false pictures of life. and
the passions inhamed by the reading of
sensational and licentious novels; yet the
daily papers are excluded from many pris-
Ons. The latest departure in this direction
is to make the paper published in the prls.
on the only one allowed inside the walls.
This plan is pursued in some of the reform
atOries and is advocated by some very earn
est workers in the cause of prison reform.
We believe it useless and hurtful depri-
walton. We know of no good reason for
keeping the prisoner in ignorance of the adj
vancement made in science. the political
condition of his own and other countries,
or any of those things which go toward
making the newspaper interesting and in
structive to the intelligent reader If there
is any just objection to the newspaper
having unrestricted circulation in the prison
it must be to prevent the criminal from
reading such literature as will exert an
evil influence upon him. We believe the
objection to be unsupported by sound doc
trine. 1t is one of those conclusions reached
by ''the jumping process and will not
stand the test of common sense. He who
argues it must claim that the newspaper of
to-day is productive of more harm than
He must claim that the only true
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

Punishment is never Just fable. Nature
never Furnishes. And the day will come
when man. too. will cease to punish. for
punishment is revenge. The true man will
only restrain. guide and teacl-never pun
iSh.-Lucifer.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

Gus, and is doing his best to regain what
his imprisonment lost him. How different
would be the condition of prison life if this
could be said of every discharged prisoner.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

We acknowledge most friendly call
from the former editor Of THE MIRROR,
apOls, where he is employed, on Sabbath
morning and attended chapel services. He
requested that we apologize to his many
friends who were expecting a short call
from him, and state that he came over on a
hasty errand and was compelled to return
on the first train after noon. He is prosper
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14

A citizen OF EatOntOn, Ga. smokes about
twelve pounds of tobacco yearly in a pipe
that he declares is over two hundred years
old. This leads mathematical person to
calculate that if that were the average
amount used in the pipe since it's first day,
2, 400 pounds of the weed have been burned
in its bowl. and if the first S12 had been
put out at compound interest at the rate of
10 per cent. it would now have grown to
the sum of S1,755. 443, 200. Just how this
would have benefited the first owner of the
pipe does not appear.-Dodge County
(Minn.) Record.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-11-14
The MIRROR is prosper

&a8V Gus. II we had the money
due us for subscriptions and advertising we
could contribute two hundred dollars to the
library fund and have money enough in the
treasury to complete our second volume.
This is mild request to ''settle." Call On
Mr.. Frank Berry. Warden's Clerk. or ad-
dress PRISON M1RRoR enclosing amount
due. A large number of our subscribers
have failed to remit the subscription price,
Some who subscribed the first year have
not notified us 20 discontinue and we reckon
them among our subscribers. Any one re-
ceiving The MIRROR. who does not care
to remain on our list will please notify us.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-06

We have received from Mr.. Nathaniel
Mckay proof slip of horrible story,
which he has given to the press gener-
ally, Of the wretchedness. poverty, misery
and low wages which he was able to dis
cover in two months search in free
trade England We have read this sad
screed, and We will guarantee that we
can duplicate every story of misery which
Mr.. Mckay relates, on the east side of
New YORK and i'll the mining regions of
Pennsylvania We will forfeit $500 if we
cannot secure more narrowing accounts
of human misery in Russia, one of the
best protected countries in Europe, or in
Germany, for that matter
There is not a fact brought out in Nc
Kay museum Of horrors which is not
the concomitant of overpopulation-too
many people for the amount of work to
be given out If Mckay is anxious to ez-
cite the American people he should let
loose few bugaboos from China, that
beautifully protected Flowery Land where
poverty tiourished and humanity famished
perchance 5000 years before the timber
grew which Noah used in the construc.
ton of his ark The idea of comparing
INC couulIlpH VI people Ill InlS irte- rlcn
practically unsettled country with the
teeming lives of the Old World, where
hundreds stand ready TO seize every jot
of work offered, is too absurd for consid
Grafton
The only relief that we can see for the
people so pathetically portrayed in Nc
Hays penny dreadful is for them to fol
low the example of the McKays and come
to America. There is no tax on immi
grants, and after we have filled tie lane
with human beings, as England is filed
we may know what the bitter struggle fol
existence means. We shall have hunger
and want and low wages then, ever
though we build a Chinese wall about our
selves.-New York World.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-06

CHICAGO, Oct. 6-The August statement
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
way company is mucl more favorable than
many people Anticipated, The total net
earnings for the month were 1851, $50, and
for the year to Aug 81, S2,3S,626. The to
tai decrease in net earnings for the frs,
eight months Of the var is g, 594, 81. The
Burlington officials think that the worst i.
now over, and that fpm now on, for at least
fourteen months to ONE, every month will
show handsome incease in both gross and
net earnings
The Milwaukee andNorthern and the Du.
luth, South Shore & Atlantic roads have is
sued a new joint tariff making rates as fol-
lows from Chicago toDuuth, West Superior
and common points: &c, SO, Is, 80, %, q, 81
lS IL and IL cents The same rates will
also apply to Houghtn, Mich.
The Monon announces reduced fare to tn,
VOORHEES, Democraticmeeting at Paoli, Oct
10, the Blaine demonstration at Indianapolis
Oct Il, and the Gosprt fair Oct. 10 to Il.