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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-09-12

The loving cart is the strong heart The gener
Gus hand is the hand to cling to when the path is
difficult There is room for the exercise Of charity
everywhere in business in society and the church;
but the first and chiefest need Of it is at home,
where it is the salt that keeps all things sweet the
aroma that makes every hour charming. and the
divine light that shines starlike through all gloom
Cameron (Mo.) indicator.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-09-12
For The Mirror.
Stray Thoughts.

For The Mirror.
Stray Thoughts.
Idleness is the door to all vices.
Upright walking is sure walking.
The boughs that bear most hang lowest
Self-cOntrOl is the root of all virtues.
Celebrity: the advantage of being known
to those who do not know us.
The highway of virtue is so little fire.
Quented that collisions are rare.
Some of the brightest lights go out in
consequence of using borrowed oil.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do we'll, without
the thought of fame.
A good many people know just what is
the matter with others. but have never
found out what is the matter with them
selves.
Lies field will yield make it,
A harvest of thorns or of flowers
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
ACAUSE FOR TEARS.

Mr.. BLAINE is en- route for 1ndianap-
oils. Shortly his eongealed presence
will be ushered into that of the silent
president-elect. They Will touch finger
tips and perhaps hold converse together
as to the prevalence OF mild weather
outside of Maine. Then the uncrewned
king will withdraw, none the wiser for
his journey. Fer it is coming to be un-
derstood by the American people that
at least until he is inaugurated, MI.
BENJAMIN HARRISON has mind of his
own; collection of gray matter over
which no figure shadows but his own.
And it is becoming we'll understood that
up to this date Mr.. BLAINE and his
henchmen have failed to induce that
mind to bow down to them and acknowl-
edge their supremacy. Coyness, coquet-
ry, threats, bluSter, tears, have not
moved the man of destiny who is mind
ing his own business at Indianapolis.
There is no doubt of his having held
the opinion since election that the
American public is greater than the
Mosaic organism of the resident Of
Maine. Failing to hear from that pub
lie universal or even general demand
for the Florentine letter-wTiter, Mr..
HARRISON has not bent the knee nor
kissed the toe of the PenobScot grandee.
He remains a free-will advocate yet,
and there are none to weep but Mr..
BLAINE. His tears meet the tide of the
Northwestern coast, and are carried
away Oh billows of salt to the abysses
nf the sea
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
MEN OF LAW.

With the caucus for speaker OF the
house tonight the actual session OF the
legislature of the state OF Minnesota
opens. The legal session begins Tues
day. A large proportion of the mem
bers are now on the ground, prepared to
make st. Paul their home for the next
ninety days. The GLOBE gives them
cordial welcome to the leading city of
the Northwest, and hopes that pru-
dence, wisdom and justice may attend
them ON their labors. The state has
grown to such proportions that legiSia-
ton for its needs must be of the highest
order and designed for the benefit OF the
many. Grave questions, such as the
regulation of the railroads, grain inspec-
ton, the tax laws and kindred others
demand for their rightful settlement
the best thought of honest minds. Our
sister state of Iowa gives us excellent
warning as to the evils of reckless tenn
perance and railroad legislation. We
have the authority Of Northwestern
railroad magnate that the Minnesota
session of 1887 in its railroad legislation
checked the building of 1000 miles Of
new road. 1t is not unreasonable, then,
to ask that questions as delicate as this
be approached with the firm determina-
ton to act upon the basis of a just me-
dietor between the two factors affected
by every law.
The members of this coming session,
viewed at the hotels, present a finer
personnel than any similar body which
has sat at the state capitol for some
years. They come largely from the
business element of the state, guarall-
tee that conservatism will not be foreign
to their actions. The entire state will
wish them God-speed when on Tuesday
the gavel falls and their labors COM
mence.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
FOOLISH CRITICISM.

The country editor who has presumed
to criticise the St. Paul ice palace as a
burden upon the DOOR, displays lack of
sense characteristic OF some OF his Tel
lows. While it is now practically GER
tain that there will be no ice palace, the
fact remains that the lack Of it has
brought great hardship to the poor. 1t
makes comparatively little difference to
the poor man whether the weather is
warm or cold, if he is without work,
money and food. He must have labor
to secure money, and money TO get
food. During past winters the ice pal
ace, through the employment 1t has
given in the cold months to the poor OF
st. Paul, has distributed from $4,000 to
$4,000 among them. At the same time
the street-cleaning force Of the city en-
gineer's department received daily EN-
ployment in the work OF removing snow
and ice from the streets. The street
car company and the railroads gave EN-
ployment, also, to considerable numbers
of men for the same purpose.
This winter from none of these instl-
tutions have the poor been able to Sc
cure work. There is neither snow to
remove nor ice to cut. The financial
gain from this is with the corporations;
the poor must bear the loss. The ice
palace, as factor in this direction. has
been just as much benefit to st. Paul as
it was an amusement or advertising
medium. 1t has been of more general
benefit to all classes OF people than any
other public enterprise ever inaugu-
rated in this state, and should remain in
favor until better is found.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
EX.-PREsIDENTs.

1t is stated in some of the papers that
ANDREW JOHNSON was sent to the
United States senate at once upon the
expiration of his presidential term. 1t
was six years later that he was elected
to the senate. He was one of the pug
nacious, irrepressible natures that
could not be content to recline quietly
under his own shade tree, or cultivate
poultry after having filled the highest
station. he was candidate for nomi-
nation for president by the Democrats
and defeated. Later he lacked two
votes of being elected senator. and run
for congress, causing the election of
Republican. In 1875 he was elected to
the senate but died not long after.
There is no other instance of an ex-
president being sent to the senate, but
the subject is attracting good deal OF
attention since the message OF Gov.
Hill, recommending that they be made
fixture there. One man who filled
the presidential chair served very eff
ciently in the lower house subse-
quently. but he was the only such
instance.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
A BoTHERsoME CLASS.

If there is one thing that member of
the legislature is to be pitied for, it is
his sufferings from the horde of appli-
cants who are seeking the minor Offices.
The parasite of a parasite SO we'll drawn
by BULwER leaves no comparison with
the genuine American applicant for in
significant Offices. They are a class
unto themselves, so distinctly pestifer-
Gus that the Jersey mosquito fades from
memory. They plead and they entreat,
they badger and they hound, until the
unhappy official whom they pursue
could see them ground to death without
dropping tear. Yet, if he turns deaf
ear to their pleas, lie is branded before
his constituents as cold, unselfish
man, a character unfit for his position. a
traitor to his country's cause. He must
yield, or if ever seeker for Office again
himself confront a storm of malicious
ISLANDERS aroused by the disregarded in
sects. To be defeated in campaign by
the rejected applicant for the position
of door-keeper is something so humiIi-
ating that the average legislator usually
prefers to suffer his presence than to re-
sent his impertinence and gall.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
TODAY,S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON Jan. 6. Indications: For
Wisconsin and Minnesota: Snow or rain !;
warmer: southwesterly winds, veerlng 10
westerly For Iowa: Light local snow or
rain; warmer; winds becoming northwest
erly. For Dakota: Local snow or ram
warmer, except i'll western portion, nearly
stationary temperature, winds becoming
uorthwesterly.
WEEKLY RAINFALL REPORT.
UNITED STATES SIGNAL OFFICE, ST. PAUL,
Jan. S, 1SSS.-For the week ending JAN A;
No rain or snow has fallen, according to re-
ports from the six stations located over that
portion of this state mainly comprising the
watersheds of the Minnesota aid Upper
Mississippi rivers. The depth of snew re-
ported on the ground was four inches at Al.
exandria, one inch at Fergus Fails, ana
nothing at Redwood Falls, Fort Ripley, Or
tonyille and Tracy.
P.F. LYONS Observer Signal Service.
CENTRAL. OBSERVATIONS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
Samuel Berry and His Terri
BILE Slide Into the Jaws
Of a She-Bear.
California Hunters Who Brave
Death for a Shot at
Bruin.
The Forked Tree, and the Tale
1t Told to Weary
Searcheps.
A Sheep-Herder and His Last
Encounter With a Noun
tain Monarch.

; 0. S. Church. of the Grand hotal, San
Francisco, is the owner of large ranch
in Sierra county. He is handy with his
gun, and is choekful of "reminiscences
and experiences with big game in the
mountains of Sierra. The other night
he was in a reminiscent mood, and,
after observing that from present lndi-
cations this was to be great winter for
bear and deer in Sierra, said to an Ex-
aminer reporter:
''The most horrible experience ever
knew man to have with grizzly was
near the Sierra Buttes, twelve miles
from Sierra City, Ill the Gold Lick coun-
try.
1.-The man was Samuel Berry. famed
in the North as all expert hunter and
trapper. At odd periods he made his
headquarters on the ranch of my father,
A. D. Church, in the aforesaid county,
twenty miles from Truckee. That ell
tire region is full of the various kinds
OF game that California hunters so
much delight in, ane on the occasion of
which | speak Berry was there with a
big load OF traps, dogs and guns.
He had started in for the winter S
campaign, and was well equipped in
every way. He set out from otlr house
on the 29th of November, on SNOW shoes,
intending to return that night. AS it
developed afterWard, he made his way
over the level valleys Oh the SHOW, and,
reaching higher ground near Sierra
Buttes, took off his long wooden snow
shoes and climbed to the heights in his
lOng-tepped ic0Wliide boots. lie set a
lot OF traps for marten, mink and other
fur-beaiing animals, making a Wild de-
tour of about fifteen miles. This prob
ably took him eightor ten hours. He
had left word at Our house that he
would be home that night, but he did
not come. The weather was cold, for
the altitude is pretty great there, the
ranch being itself 5000 feet above the
sea, and it was nearly continuous
climb from there on.
well, We got anxious about him, for
it is sparsely settled thereabout, and we
figured it that he must have been tripped
up in some way. Not coming home the
next day either, we organized a posse
of six or eight men and set off in pur-
suit. We followed his trail, and pushed
forward until night shut down Oh lis
and we could 60 no further.
Next day, re-enforced by about fifty
of tile ranehers and miners who had
gathered in to aid in the search, we set
out in all directions, hunting steadily
the entire day. There had been a light
fall of snow, however, and in many
places his tracks were obsured, and
might came again on us without cur
search being successful.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07

the most tragic battle With a Wlld AMI
NAL that ever occurred in that. section.
Y0u see, it was ssjust the beginning
of the solid part of the winter, and the
old bear and the cubs had sought this
secluded place to hibernate. Probably
they had been there for some days. and
the old one was hungry and sullen at
being disturbed, especially as she had
the cubs.
1.-THE tracks of the three led out in
the snow, and along the tracks of the
big one was a trail of blood, showing
that poor Berry had fought heriOcally
for him. Some OF our party followed
the trail until it was finally lost in the
deeper snow below. Whether the old
bear finally died from her wounds, of
course we could not know.
"Beny's gun was found near where
he first ran on to the bear, and the knife
was still in his hand when the body was
discovered.
II could tell you lot of other stories
about hunting in Sierra. A couple of
years ago Sheep-herder named Henry
Thompson, who made trapping his
business in winter, mysteriOusly
disappeared. Nobody could get hook
or crook of him. He had q number of
traps which he was watching. The traps
were set for sable, foxes and all similar
fur-bearing animals. Thompson had
been pretty successful. 1t was the last
Of November, too, when he dropped out
of sight. Well, the snow fell. He had
no friends to look after him, and
finally, after there had been about
so much talk over the affair, the matter
dropped. Well, in September, at the
head Of Hamlen canon, the bleached
bones OF the poor fellow were found.
lie must have encountered bear, too,
for the dried flesh, which, in some
places, still clung to the bones, and his
clothes showed marks of griZ-
zly's teeth. Ordinarily a grizzly will
not attack man unless wounded,
but in this case he might have disturbed
one which was hungry, owing to the
absence OF smaller game, and had at
tackled him. All the circumstances
pointed to this. Where the poor trap
per came from no one ever knew, but
ly buried in the old graveyard in Sierra
City.
Henry Hines is the king of the
bear-killers in Sierra county. Hines is
an Old-timer from away back. He gets
more bear and deer than any other
hunter up there. lie is well equipped
for the business, having plenty of good
guns and blooded hunting dogs.
'1There is a great abundance of black,
brown and grizzly bears in that region.
1t is the finest hunting ground / know
OF. There are not many antelope any
more. They are found little further
toward Oregon. But for deer, grouse,
quail, pheasants and all such similar
game, with bears, we are well stocked
mn -
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
THE MISSOURI IDEA.

The Ohio idea is familiar. 1t is par
tisan and peripatetic. The Missouri
idea is newer and not so well known.
AS anomalous as it seems in coming
from that quarter, it does not relate to
office-seeking or to holding, but to tenn
perance. 1t does not aim at eytermina-
ton, but restriction and regulation. Its
first achievement was the closing of
saloons ON Sunday in festive and broad
gauge st. Louis. Since then, a practi-
cal business organization, called the
Missouri Alliance, has been effected in
the chief cities. This body has per-
fected the details of an act that will be
pressed for passage i'll the legislature.
Druggists can hot sell anything intoX-
lcating, except under virtually pro-
hibitery restrictions. Manufacturers
and wholesalers can hot sell in small
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
Traded Wives for Better Or Worse.

"A
In Washington county two married
couples were living only short dist
ance apart. and by neighborly inter
course each man became enamored of
the others wife, while the ladies soon
learned to love the others husband,
and thus became estranged from their
first love. When matters took this
shape it came to be noticeable by all
concerned. and many evenings passed
while each husband was at the others
house pouring out his tale of love and
fidelity into the willing ears of the
listeners. Finally, one OF the husbands,
a little belder than the other. proposed
an exchange. This was met with glad
ness by all the parties interested, and
the proposing party consented to the
trade on condition that the other would
allow him s. in cash and seven bushels
of Quaker peas. This was readily con-
sented to, and the trade was made. each
wife going to the others home, carry
ing with her the children, and are now
living in the sweetest domestic felicity.
They will try to have the courts make
the trade legal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
A RAILROAD COMEDY.
Acted 10y Three Enraged Officials,
a Facefious Drummer and a
Tpunfy
Trunk.

a Facefious Drummer and a
Trunk.
Boston Courier.
''4ou have no idea of the anDoyanees
we have to suffer from the travelling
public, and especially from the travelling
salesmen." said conductor on heard q
local train travelling out of the city.
*Only the other day two statesmen en-
tered a compartment. They sat oppo-
site each other, and one of the two
placed pretty heavy trunk upon the
seat next to him,
Look here.' says /, you'll have to
take that trunk Off the seat
NO said he, i will not take ii
down.
"'Well,' says 1. we will see. Will
you take that trunk down; yes or no??'
sHa! hal laughed he, you are jest
ing my good man.
''As at this very moment the train be-
gan to move, / had to defer proceeding
against the offender until the next sta
ton. As soon as it was reached |
rushed into the department full of rage
and asked, Now, will you take the
trunk doWn?'
"'Please do not bother me with that
trunk or [ shall complain of you at
headquarters. roared the passenger in
voice of thunder. / never met with
such impudence before, but as the
train stopped for couple OF minutes
only | had again to wait till the COM
ing station. There | informed the
StationmaSter Of tue case. lie entered
the compartment, saying:
''Sir, the conductor is in the right, and
/ have to demand of you to remove the
trunk or leave the train"
81 shall neither take it down nor
leave the train, answered the passenger,
and as we were already 1--WE minutes
late, had just time TO wire the matter
to the next station.
Il enjoyed in advance the scene at
the next station. Upon our arrival the
chief OF that station said to the passen-
ger:
81 shall have to ask you to leave the
train at once
''.Sir.' rejeined the now thoroughly
infuriated passenger, what do you
want of me? | have paid for my
ticket and have done nothing reprehen-
sible whatever, and yet this miserable
hirellng has not ceased to bother andln-
suit me-
''OWing to this quarrel the train was
now ten minutes late and the last eX-
press close behind us.
You'll have to leave the train if
you do not at once take the trunk downp
shouted the enraged chief.
"I shall do that under no circurl-
stance whateverH screamed the passen-
ger. whose frontal vein stood out like
whipcord from his dark-red forehead.
AT this juneture the head baggage
master entered the car and, trying to
conciliate the warning elements, said
in soothing manner to the passenger:
"'But why do you not take the trunk
off the seat? Don't you see that owing
to your stubbornness the train is now
ten minutes late?'
".But why On earth should ] take this
trunk down? There's no power that can
compel me to-
''All three of the railroad officialsalow
approached the passenger to eject him,
when the other passenger, who had
been an amused eyewitness to the
quarrel, said quietly: But why should
he, indeed, be compelled to take it
down? 1t is my trunk and not hisv"
Tableau.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07

''SNe knew by this time that Berry
must have met with a terrible fate. Ii
not killed by wild animals, he must
have frozen in the bitter weather pre-
vailing in the top of the mountains at
that time.
1.-The excitement in all that part of
Sierra county grew intense, and on the
morning of the third day there was
gathered at our ranch such ahetrOgene-
Gus mass of riflemen, laborers, frontier
ranchers and trappers as had never be-
fore been seen. The crowd numbered
fully 150, and it was understood from
the start that Berry was to be found
that day. Some of Berry's most init
they vowed that they would neither eat
nor drink until they had found him.
Hounds were brought into requisi-
ton and all possible clues were fol-
lowed up. They had climbed the
mountains many miles north of Sierra
City. and it was far in the afternoon
when one of the searehers struck the
trail of Berry's snowShoes. They fol-
lowed it down the decliyities as fast as
possible, but in many places the newly
fallen snow had obscured it. and they
lost a good deal of time. The squads
separated, and closed intogether at in
teryals. Finally small party discovered
it again after it had been lest for near
Iy an hour. They followed it down into
a big canon, where owing to the exceed
ingly precipitous descent, the hunter
must have descended like lightning.
s',)ust at nightfal they came upon a
great forked tree that had fallen in the
storm, and just within the fork was a
great hole in the snow that had been
tramped down, as though desperate
Struggle had occurred there. The snow
ola man led out from it. A few feet
away was one showshoe and the pole
which had been used between the legs
teguide the long runners.
t.Two rods below was "a sight frightful
tobehOld. Berry lay there stark and
stiff in death, his body fearfully torn,
and the SNOW all about red with his
blood,
stIfei had come down the big canon
late in the afternoon. and, as snoWShoe-
men do when beiated or exhilarated by
the chance of flying ride, had come at
lightning speed. He had not noticed
the wide-spreading forks of the tree,
covered as the extremities were with
Snow, nor great she bear ana her two
cubs which were secluded there. He
must have rushed Tight III among them.
s.Itis presumable that the bear. being
thus surprised. madesat him. for he had
shot and wounded her. This, however,
only enraged the beast more, and she
followed him up. Berry lost one of his
snowshoes. and then was helpless.
Morse than this. in the confusion he
lost his gun, and thus he must stay and
engage in hand-to-hand conflict with
thesbear. Berry. frem the look of his
body, must have been already wounded
in the left thigh and severely in the
rms.
s.Iie drew his knife, the only weapon
he had left. and fought nobly for his
life, backing down hill as he could
meanwhile.
.sBelow the crotch of the tree, where
the body was found. tiie snow was
again fearfully torn, and Berry, weak
from loss of blood, had succHmbed. and
at the last moment his face was bitten
off by the bear.
s.It was the most desperate conflict
ever heard of, and. strange TO say, the
story has never been told. yet all the
old hunters of Sierra remember this as
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07

1t IS not probable that Gen. HARRISON
used the words, ''no man will ever put
me in his breeches pocket" His mind
may have run in that channel when di-
reeted towards Maine, but his conserva-
tion of ideas since the election, and
general prudence, would preclude a
statement that pointed so directly and
obnoxiously to a great party chief, who
stands in the pathway of the coming
man with chip Oh his shoulder. How
ever, if BLAINE is in the cabinet, the
public will not easily disbelieve that an
attempt at that feat has been success
fully made.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
The Toll Gate in War Times.

Indianapolis News.
The colenels and the majors had all
told their recollections of the war, and
even the priyates had been heard. 1t
was the turn of the home guard.
1--WE didn't have much blood, but we
had stirring times when Morgan invad-
ed Indiana while you were down to the
front. l was only private, but we all
served with as much spirit and zeal as
if we were members of the generals
staff. remember riding about carry
ing the tidings that Morgan was APP
proaching. Down on the Shelbyville
pike lived an old friend of mine. Rid
ing down to his farm j called him out:
Hello in therei' / shouted.
w hats up? was the reply.
"'AIorgan's coming. He is this side
of Shelibyyiile. Better look out,'
.Great Godp the eccentric old farm
ser exclaimed. IS that soo Ride down
to the toll gate just below and tell the
keeper not to let him through until l
drive up my shoats.'"
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-07
PRAYERS AND TEARS.

Oh. the passionate prayers that prayedl
Were they profitless all and vain,
Or is the answer but just DELAYED
That may win greater gain:
Willdhey come like ships from abetter cline
Bearing blessings for me III Gods good time.
Oh, the passionate tears that wept.
Did they wash away no blight,
Or were they gathered the while I slept
And turned into Jewels bright.
WILL the angels roll them as pearls to me
In the days and the days that are yetto be?
susie NJ Best