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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27
Exercised His Senatorial PrerOga-
tive.

SAN Francisco, Nov. 25.-Sena-
tor Leland Stanford left to-day
for Washington, In spite OF a sum-
mons from the Superior Court to
appear before it and testify con-
corning an alleged violation of the
election laws, with which he Is
charged by ex-State Senator p. J.
Murphy. Senator Stanford exer-
cised his official prerogative and
signed and affidavit which stated
that he was called to Washington
by his Senatorial duties, and that
unless he started to-day he would
not arrive In time for the opening
or Congress on next Monday
Senator Stanford win probably be
examined by commission.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27
The courts OF San Franc

The courts OF San Francisco
have stepped in and called a halt
on the printing steal. The Daily
Report has had q long grab at the
city treasury and secured its
printing bids through the Buckley
ring. It has been the most open
and fragrant piece of robbery ever
saddled on San Francisco and it
is high time the Courts took q
hand In the game.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27

RU. s, g. Fl. and p. o., Carson City, Ne
vada, N OVEN her 18th. 1890. Sealed pro-
posa1s Will be received until IL O'Clock,
noon, Novem Der %, 1890, for furnishing
fuel. lights, water, ice, miscellaneous
es, and sprinkIing streets COR this build
ing during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1891. Particulars on application.
II. j. EDWARDS,
OILS Custodian.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27

The MANHATTAN for a limited
period will offer the residents of
Nevada a Bond Combining Insur-
ance and investment that is in reach
OF all and which every healthy able
bodied man in the State should
possession the protection of him.
self and family.
In explanation read what follows:
Suppose a special agent OF the u.
S. Treasury Department should call
on you today and say:
The Government would like to
sell you bonds for any amount be-
tween ST 900 and $4,000 and if it
is not convenient for you to make
the investment at once, we Will a.
low you to pay for the bonds in
Ten Equal Annual Installments.
And, suppose, in addition to this,
the Government, wishing to make
this the most desirable investment
IN the world, should stipulate in
the bond, not only to pay them at
the end of the term, but in case of
your previous death, to pay them
to your family and AT THE SAME
TIME RELEASE YOUR FAMILY
EROM PAYING ANY FURTHER
MONEY.
Would you not at once close
with such an offer? And yet this
is practically what the Manhattan
Life Insurance Company, of New
York has done and is doing.
For a full explanation of this
plan, address, giving your full name
address, occupation and age,
JIM. IS.
Williams & Hawkins,
Hawkins Cigar Store.
Arlington Block, Carson, New.
S1I 1y
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27

He solicits orders for all such
work, and for Hydraulic and
Irrigation Surveys, and will de all
work in the line of Surveying and
Engineering. Only Good and Re-
liable instruments used. Address p
o Box 546, Reno, New. ale
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27
CRAS. w. IRISH,
Civil Engineer, Surveyor and
Consulting Engineer.

viii make Surveys of Mining
CLAIMS for Patent, and will do all
kiads of above and below ground
Surveys for Mines, including reli-
able Assays of the Ores of same.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-11-27
Hats and Caps

From the Best Manufacturers. No
trouble to show goods. Come one,
come all, next to Wells Fargo.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20
Sunday Services.

Services were conducted by Rev. ]. M. Chandler,
of st. Anthony Park church, ST. Paul. His text
was taken from Psalms cxxvi: l, and Psalms
cxlvii: 20. The subject of his discourse was Our
Country, and he began by quoting the following
lines:
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land!"
Statistics were given showing the advantage we
possessed over European countries in area and
fertility of soil, and in mineral wealth; the num-
Der of useful inventions patented, the increase of
our manufacturing industries. and the liberal COM
pensation paid our artisan and laboring class; the
great opportunity offered by our system of free
education and liberal form of Christianity. The
nestimable boon of the free ballot was contrasted
with that of Russia where men are exiled for
speaking their convictions, and suffer fate far
worse than is inflicted in this country for the
worst of crimes. Said he:
"There is no occasion here for the red flag of
anarchy, for we have and make the fairest
and most equitable laws that can be made. We
should honor the law of our country for in so do
ing we are honored. But there is another and a
higher law, the law OF morality and Christian
virtue. and we should honor our common Creator
by strict adherence to His laws.
ut is glorious privilege to be citizen of this
land and this country, but should make the
most of this probation in preparing ourselves for
an inheritance in that better and more glorious
country beyond
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20

the advocate generator some other official having
the power, considered the sentence excessive and
reduced it to thirty years before he brought
to prison.
Mr.. Matthew Marvin. of Winona. brother of
Mrs. Randall, was guest at Warden Randalrs
home Monday and Tuesday. Mr.. Marvin was ex-
pected to arrive last Saturday evening and grand
welcome had been prepared for him at the War
dens home where his old comrades of the First
Minnesota regiment were invited to meet him,
but he was detained in Minneapolis where he had
been to help Judge Lochren in correcting the
roster of his regiment for the history of the Min
nesota state troops engaged in the late war which
will be published in short time. However, he
came later on and as he said had glorious time
shaking hands and talking over old times with old
comrades residing in saltwater. He returned to
Winona Tuesday afternoon whittier he was &C
companied by Mrs. Randall who will remain there
for a short time.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20
Uncle Sans Border Line.

Do any of our people ever query how the divid.
ing line between the United States and the Do
minion of Canada is marked, and how travellers
in those wild regions northwest of the Great
Lakes can tell when they step from the domains
of Uncle Sam into those of Queen Victoria? For
many years the question of boundary between the
United States and the possessions of Great Britain
was discussed, and at last ut the convention of
London, in 1918. the fortyninth parallel of north
latitude was decided upon. A parallel OF latitude.
however, being an imaginary line. is very poor
guide to traveller so the next thing to do was to
mark that line so that all who passed that way
should know where it was located.
Accordingly the country in that vicinity was
surveyed, and monuments were set up at even
mile intervals. the British placing one between
every two of ours. These extend from the Lake OF
the Woods to the Rocky Mountains where the line
enters forests the timber is cut down. and the
ground cleared rod wide; where it crosses small
lakes, stone cairns have been built, sometimes be-
ing eighteen feet under water and eight above: in
other places, earth mounds, by fourteen
feet have been built. The most of these monu-
ments which number 3SS in all, of iron 1t was
found that the most solid wooden posts were not
proof against the ravages of the Indians, prairie
fires and the weather, SO that nothing but iron
would do.
These pillows hollow iron castings, fitted
over solid cedar posts, and we'll bolted through.
and are sunk four feet in the ground They are
eight feet high, eight inches square at base and
four at the top, and upon opposite sides, facing
north and south the inscriptions cast in letters
two inches high: Convention of London" and
October 20. 1872 The pillars weigh 2s5 pounds
each. and were made at Detroit, Mich So you
see Uncle Sans border line is very distinctly
marked all the way from the lakes to the summit
of the Rocky Mountains.-Wide Awake.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20

If you don't know what everybody else
knows you had better hold your tongue;
and if you know something that everyone
else knows. you had better hold your tongue
also; at the same time. if you know some
thing that nobody else knows. keep it to
yourself. Co. Herald.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20
LOCAL PICKINGS.

"A mark of respects.
-Unfair-Colored frts.
"A crying evil-"Cop.A"
The photographer is a taking kind of fellow.
The last and decisive test of friendship-De-
test.
Mr. Edgar Atwater. of st. Paul. a visitor
yesterday.
"A. McGrath and D. ]. Mckenzie, of Saltwater.
were callers last week.
Inherited rights that few demand for
themselves-Death rites.
-"Time heals all wounds except the wound
er's:" it takes cash to heal his
-"There is time like the present tme"-if
the present is a first class watch.
Mr. O. c. Ford and wife. of Cooperstown,
North Dakota, were visitors yesterday.
Mr.. w. Arbaugh of Palmyra. N. Y. viewed
the sights of this institution the first OF this week.
1t is jam up" said the bad boy as he gazed
wstfully at the preserve jars on the uppermost
shelf
Miss Gertrude A. stoker. of Winona, was
visiting the Wardens family for few days last
week.
. D.
Agnes K Russell looked through walled city
last Friday.
Mrs. C. M. Tyler and Mrs. Maggie Alcorn,
saltwater ladies. looked through the prison Mon.
day afternoon.
The tub and pail makers fast becoming
experts in the business and increasing the
output every day.
There are fewer inmates confined in this
prison at present than at any previous time dur
ing the past seven years.
Mr.. Matthew Marvin, of Winona, F. E. Pow
ers Mrs. ]. L. Hughes. Of st. Paul. were in the
prison Saturday evening.
-ExDeputy Warden Westby has received a
government contract to survey three townships in
st. Louis county this state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Cumming, of st. Paul. and
Miss Jennie Fregir, of ottawa, Canada, visited
this institution last Sunday.
Secretary Hart, of the board of Correction and
Charities, visited the prison Monday and spent
some time in THE MIRROR office.
Sheriff Anderson, of Goodhue county. brought
in one prisoner whose whiskers will not float on
the breezes for the next six months.
Statement of population, March 10th: Working
for Thresher Co., 1862; working for state 147: sick
and infrm. 10. Total population, 1928.
Our list of Massachusetts patrons is stretching
out. Helen d. Sewall of Mt. Hermon, will here
after be regular reader of THE MIRROR
We saw Charlie Cargren around the other
day jabbng the ground with his stick-a pretty
sure indication that he is thinking of wall.build-
ing.
Mrs. R. S. Parker. city. Miss Hope Dunn,
Hamline Miss Oracle Gates, city, and lisa Coffin,
Hamline visited the prison in company one day
last week.
We understand that the Compromised bath
house will soon be ready for use. 1t has been
long time coming. but when do get it, it will be
good one.
What under the has happened to our
white pussy cat? She looks as if some of the
fremen had used her as swab for cleaning the
boiler Aues.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20
Fruitful Soil.

The soil Of California is so fruitful said a
native of the Golden State, that man who &C.
cidentally dropped box of matches in his field.
dicovered the next year fine forest of telegraph
poles.''
THAT'S nothing to my State" said native of
Illinois. "A cousin of mine who lives there lost
button off his jacket and in less than a month
he found bran new suit of clothes hanging a
fence near the spot.'-Texas Siftings.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20

did you hear Of that duel between those two
medical studentsT' mo. Pistols swords2"
Neither. They practiced on each other."-sun-
shine.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-20

judge Prisoner. do you confess your guilt?
mo. your honor; the speech of my lawyer has
convinced even me of my entire innocence.'-
Fliegende Blaetter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
HYPNOTISM IN CRIME.
Experiments That Show Dreadful Posi-
bHities for Wrong-Doers.

Experiments That Show Dreadful Posi-
bHities for Wrong-DOers.
Science not only accounts for a great
deal, but has great deal to account for.
The other day M. Charcot publicly
hypnotised gendarme. and then told
to assassinate M. Grevy, whom he would
IND In the corner of a garden. The poor
constable went out and stabbed tree
with paper knife, and came back
trembling and confessed the murder.
Such feats have been done in Leeds as
we'll as in Paris, and we know what is
the power of the magnetizer. 1t has
hitherto been one of the fairy tales of
science, but now it is said to have added
a new and terrible chapter to the records
OF crime. One waits for proof, but &C
cusation is definite enough.
One malefactor, a French libertine,
actually in the hands of the police, is
said to have selected his victims, choos-
ing those of an emotional temperament
and then to have magnetized them and
and ordered them to commit suicidesJ
One poor girl did do so. Law and SCI
ence are equally interested in the re-
suit OF an investigation which, it is
said, will shortly be held. If the facts
are proved the question will arise
whether the offense actually amounts
TO what the law recognizes as murder.
II pot, we certainly ought to have a
new law, and we shall probably have
a new word. ITO suicide person.
seems contradiction in terms.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
STRANGE PHENOMENA.
Freaks OF Nature Which Terrifi ed and AS.
LOniShed All Beholders

freaks OF Nature Which Terrified and As
tonished All Beholders.
At Rome, in 1922, it rained dust, mixed
with blood for three days, and when the
heavy clouds drifted away it looked as
II the sun was swimming in sea of fire.
-Four years later, in 1926, a snow fell in
Syria, which presently melted and
hOWed in carmine rivers of blood. or
some fluid much resembling it in every
particular. Many of the old writer's
record three-days' shower of blood-red
rain in the island of Rhades and through.
out Southern Italy in 1885, A monk
writing in 1851, tells of loaf being cut
ont of which blood flowed as freely as
from fresh wound. In 134S there were
many great tempests. Several towns
and thousands of people were swallowed
up, and the courses OF rivers changed or
stopped. Some chasms in the earth sent
forth poisonous fluids, as red as carmine
ink, as at Villach, in Austria. Ponder
Gus haiistones fell in many parts of
Germany the same year, some of them
weighing from tweEty to seventy
pounds. At Lamech it rained flesh.
dust, comets and meteors: fire.
brands and corrusca tions were in the
air; mock suns, with fiery tails, sailed
through the skies. Soon after these
terrible scenes at Lamech it began at
Cataya, near the sea, and went sweep-
ing throughout Southern Europe. An
lgneous vapor or sulphurcus fire broke
from the earth at Caahery, Asia, and
utterly consumed men, beasts houses
and trees, so injecting the air that
great plague followed. Young sepents
and millions of venomous insects fell
from the clouds.
In 1861 Burgundy experienced the
novelty OF shower of blood-red rain.
which ensanguined every thing it
touched; and in 1868 the Antiura reap
ers found all wheat heads to be as red
as blood. In 1888 bread put in the oven
at Nuremberg was taken out covered
with bloody sweat. Wertemberg had
a shower of birthstone and ashes in
1854. In 1895 Limerick and Tipperary,
Ireland, had many showers of a soft.
fatty substance resembling butter. II
was OF dark yellow color and ALWAYS
fell at night. The people gathered il
and used it as an ointment, reporting
many astonishing cures.-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
is DIVORCE NECESSARY2
A Minister Who Holds That Some Men
Die While Yet Alive.

Die While Yet Alive.
Can the marriage tie be dissolved save
by death? The negative of this it would
be difficult to maintain, writes Rev. P.
S. Moxom in the North American Re-
view. Mans power of self-destruction
is not confined to the physical realm.
Maria ge is quite as much a moral rela-
ton as it is physical relation. just as
certainly as one may destroy his life by
Vice, or destroy his moral sensibility by
elf-abandonmcnt- to evil impulses, just
so surely may he destroy both the phys
ical and the moral tie which he has
formed by marriage. That the laws
governing society should and must rec
ognize such dissolution is unquestion-
able. There are both rational grounds
and social necessities for divorce To
many minds the very idea of divorce is
repugnant. 1t seems to be violation
of the Divine order of human life. But
one must not ignore facts. Amputation
is repugnant to sensitively organized
nature; but if limb is gangrened it
must be cut off. The entire prohibition
of divorce would work harm to individu-
ais, and, through them, to society. 1t
seems pretty clear also that to some de-
gree it would promote vice. 1t certain
ly would inflict great wrong on many
Innocent and defenseless people. In
some cases it would even destroy the
family. Society must protect itself as
a whole, but in doing this it must not
disregard individual rights and needs.
Indeed, as surgery often saves human
life by cutting away member of the
physical organism, so society often saves
the family by cutting off a noxious
member
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
REPORTING RAPID TALK.
How Tom O'Neill Took Notes of Beecher's
Lecture on Evolution.

.
Lecture on Evolution.
'Speaking of rapid takers makes me
think of the time l was sent to report
lecture by Henry Ward Beecher," said
the mayors private secretary, Tom
O'Neill, at the Press Club the other day.
81 was something of stenographer and
had always been able to keep pace
with every man l had been assigned 70
take. So, with no misgivings, | sharp
sned my pencil, and took my seat at the
reporters table and waited for the dis
tinguished divine to begin. The subject
was Evolution" Which in those days |
knew absolutely nothing about. Well,
be started in, and for a minute every
thing went all right. The second min
nte he took a squirt, and found myself
pushing my pencil at a high rate of
speed. The third minute he put on more
steam, and l had to write SO fast nv
pencil got hot and came near setting the
paper afire. The fourth minute he
spurted again and 1 was lost. He kept
on squirting until at last he struck his
gait. Heavens! how he talked. No
manuscript. No notes. He just stood
up there by his desk with one hand on
it, othe other by his side. His mouth
was open, and without changing the
expression of his face or moving a
muscle the words came rolling out one
after another like drops of lead from the
summit of shot tower. l did my best
to keep somewhere within sight of
him, hoping that at each word he
would pause long enough for breath to
allow me to catch up. ''Great Jove,
why doesn't he stop to take drink of
water?' l CALCULATED. But he didn't
stop, and at times 1 hurled under nv
breath some very bitter things. Well,
at last the thing was over, and, wiring
ing out my spiration-soaked clothes,
l went to the Office to write out my re-
port. L had a bundle of notes four
inches thick, but after l had finished
the three-minute lot was at sea. In
stead OF sub-heading his remarks, max
ing full notes occasionally which
would have enabled me to catch the
drift of what he said, 1 had kept on
taking word here and there.
Well, l found that l had uncon-
'"ANAA OiiAJ OhO OAOIU O10S, anu
for clew to what the lecturer had dis
coursed on there was only mass of
its, 'hes,' She's 'ors,' ifs and 'ands.'
and so on. Of course, could get moth
Ing from them, and was at a loss what
to do. Had | been a new reporter I
would have gone to the city editor and
told him that had been stuck But I
was too old for that, and was about to
go to him and resign my position when
a lucky thought struck me. Irushed to
the library, took down the encyclopedia
and turned to evolution 1t was too
late to make an abstract, so copied two
solid pages from the book and turned
In my copy Itwas appropriately head
ed, and appeared next morning, meas
urlng about the same amount as the
lecture, which more rapid writer's had
taken down all right for their papers
l was afraid the city editor was going
to compliment me on my report, but he
evidently forgot it. And from that day
to this | have never heard word about
it."-Chicago Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-04-11
p,-rA ANDplNr.

They that will not counseled can
not be helped.
Its very wise far VINO knows
as much as his SOn.-@nerVllle jour
nal.
An ontimist is an reflective indi-
vidual with nerves atpncert pltcn.-
Century.
Culture does not IKE gentleman.
A regular beet mabe a cultivated
thing.-N. o. Picayud
Won NAV not be alb to teach an old
dog new tricks, but VI can teach Ola
tricks to a new dogauite readily
brakes Magazine.
A good motto for tbse days is that
which Cromwell gav{ his Ironsides:
''Trust God, and keep Pur powderdry
Union Signal.
An ant is said to lie only one sum-
mer. Perhaps this is he reason tna0
old Solomon advised th sluggard to IN
terview this interestint insect.-IeXaS
Siftings.
Our desires always increase Win
our possession. The knowledge that
something remains YET unenjoyed I'M
pairs our enjoyment of the good 'De1or'
us.-Dr. johnson.
The same truth may Suggest on'
duty to one man, and quite 4nother q III =.
to another man. 1t is important u
snow the truth: and it ifs7falaly 6,
important to see the applieation OF thai
truth to our particular CASES. S
Times. ~
The wise and wholesome restraints
of parental love, of family ties, of a
good government, of public opinion, and
even of social observances, are the besI
possible preparations for that self-re.
straint which is the rock on which all
true liberty is built.
Many persons think that there can
not be too much of what is so good a
thing in itself as sympathy. The duty
OF its cultivation is clear; but it is not
yet SO clear that a wise cultivation in
cludes pruning as we'll as nourishing.
So long as it is abundant it is not eX-
pected to be discriminative, and thus
sometimes, running to seed unchecked,
it develops into rank injustice.-Once a
Week.
Practice and theory must go togeth-
Or. Theory without practice to test it,
to verify it, to correct it, is idle specu-
lation; but practice without theory tC
animate it is mere mechanism. In
every art and business theory is the soul
and practice of the body. The soul,
without the body in which to dwell, is,
indeed, only ghost, but the body with
out the soul is only a corpse.-N. Y.
Ledger.
If man elects to mount the rounds
Of the world S ladder, he must have
what Charles Lamb calls ''grit." The
man who expects that quality of nature
must become pugilist, knocking the
'i'' out of all ''ifs.'' 1t is the chief ele.
ment in the body polite of every sue
;essful man. A man low down you car
not keep low down if he wants to rise
Men rise from cutters to rule in palaces
Of Kings, and to command the men con-
tent to remain in bondage.-Old Home
stead