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HALIFAX, N. s., Dec. 3l.-The Allan
line steamer HISTORIAN. after a stormy
passage of twenty days from Glasgow, ar
rived last evening. Wednesday morning,
Dec. Is. in latitude 54.l5, longitude 25. A
the German ship Shakespeare. from
Hamburg to New York. was sighted in a
disabled condition and signalling for as
sistance. The sea was so rough that the
HISTORIAN was compelled to lay near her
all night. The captain of the Shakes
peare and his crew wished to be taken
of. Next morning the Shakespeare was
no where visible. What became of the
crew is hard to say, but the mail steamer
Sandman, which arrived yesterday, passed
the Shakespeare Dec. % in latitude 54.2l,
longitude 20.07. She appeared to have
been recently abandoned.
, 1890-01-01


TIL seven bibles of the world are the
Koran of the Mohammedans. the Tn
Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings
of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the
Hindoos. the Zendavesta and the Scrip
ture of the Christians.
The Koran is the most recent of the
five, dating from about the seventh CEN
fury after Christ. 1t is a compound of
quotations from both the Old and New
Testaments and from the Talmud. The
Tri Pitikes contain sublime morals and
pure aspirations. Their author lived and
died in the sixth century before Christ.
The sacred writings of the Chinese are
called the Five Kings, the word kings
meaning web of cloth. From this it is
presumed that they were originally writ
ten on five rolls of cloth. They contain
wise sayings from the sages on the duties
of life, but they cannot be traced further
back than the eleventh century before
our era.
The Vedas are the most ancient books
in the language of the Hindoos, but they
do not, according to late commentators,
antedate the twelfth century before the
Christian era.
The Zendavesta of the Persians, next
to our Bible. is reckcned among scholars
as being the greatest and most learned
of the sacred writings. Zoroaster, whose
sayings it contains, lived and worked in
the twelfth century before Christ; Moses
lived and wrote the Pentateuch 1900
years before the birth of Christ; Their,
fore, that portion of our Bible is at least
300 years older than the most ancient OF
other sacred writings.
The Eddas, a semi-sacred work of the
S~candfnayiians, was first given to the
world in the foGrreenrh 69RUry.
, 1890-01-01
Dining TnrIf Reformers.

BosToN, Dec. 31.-The members OF
the Massachusetts, tariff reform league
dined this evening. the occasion being
the annual dinner OF the organization.
Among those present were Hon. Roger
Q. Mills. Texas; Hon. Thos. G. Shear.
man, New York; Edward Atkinson,
president; G. w. Elliott, Harvard college,
G. Francis Adams, Hon. Jno. f. An
irews, Hon. Robert Treat Pain, Hon. P.
A. Collins and others
The chairman said: More than one
half the subjects OF taxation under ouI
present tariff could be put into the free
list without diminishing our revenue from
, 1890-01-01

Cry OF MEXICO, (via Galveston.) Dec
81 A reception was given last night at
the American legation to Governor Thayer
Of Nebraska and party. A military band
furnished by the Mexican government
discoursed the music.
At a bull fight at Villa Lerdo, Sunday
the a%mphitheatre fell and nearly one hun.
dred persons were injured, several fatally.
Yaqui Indians in Sonora are on the
warpath, 7 Sunday Lieutenant Gonzalz
and force routed eighty bucks. Many
robberies aye reported.
, 1890-01-01
Bright Prospects

hkNEw YoRKaDec. 3l.-The Conner
cal ALBERT Ier says that interviews with
many leading business men as to the pros
poets for 1890 reveal an almost unsni.
nous belief that the coming year viii! be
enc of unusual prosperity. Erastus Wi
! nan, who is, perhaps, as well pos ted on
business conditions as any man in the
country said: IF next year is not the
= most prosperous year in our history the
great selamities which a man cannot fore.
see must occur. In all my business ex.
Aperience | have not seen a more favora-
9ble outlook"
, 1890-01-01

Boston. Dec. 3l.-There is a fair de-
mand for territory, and other unwashed
woods are steady and sell at previous
prices. The past year has been an I'M
favorable one for the wool trade. and but
little money has been made in the staple
by Eastern dealers. Still few failures
have occurred and it is thought that the
conservative method OF the business in the
future will doubtless bring about a better
condition of affairs.
, 1890-01-01

HELENA, Mont, Dec. 3l.-At a cat
Gus Of Republicans to night Power is said
to be in the lead, but there are prospects
understood that w. A. Clark of Butte
was nominated for one senators hip with
Martin McGinnis and Hauser close for
the second.
, 1890-01-01
Want Settled Government.

LISBON, Dec I.-Advices from Bra
I'll say the government has urged the pc
litical parties to constitute Immediately
some kind of representation for different
states in view of the rapidly increasing
disorganization and discomfort with the
military dictatorship.
, 1890-01-01
ParneIl Wants "A Trial.

DUBLIN, Dec. 3l.-The Freeman'S
Journal says: Parnell has instructed his
counsel to obtain for him at the earliest
moment a citation to defend himself in
the suit for divorce brought by Capt.
O'Shea against his wife in which he is
named as CO respondent.
, 1890-01-01

Hot SPRINGS. Dec. 3l.-Dr. G. w.
Lawrence, the Oldest and most prominent
physician of Hot Springs, died last night,
aged 20.
VIENNA, Dec. 3l.-The contralto
Emma Turella, who frequently sang with
Patti, is dead.
, 1890-01-01
Fires.

LONDON, Dec. 3l.-A disastrous fire
has occurred at the industrial school in
West Pan. Twenty four lives were lost
and The buildings almost totally DESTROYED.
New YORK, Dec. 3I.--A fire at l29
a time much excitement prevailed.
For SALE-Old papers. LEADER Office,
, 1890-01-01
S FROM THE WIRES.

Snith, 62 years old, watch
Massachusetts state prison,
morning while insane from
lf3h grippe.
w. Patton. d. d., presi-
ard university. Washington,
at West6eld, N. j., this
ongestion OF the lungs.
mays another Nihilist plot
s.. Petersburg fnlfal 'sensplrato rs
have been arrested ifl he palace passages
some resisted and on5twas killed BY an
officer.
Four boys between the ages of 6 to s
years werc playing under the edge of a
sandbank yesterday afternoon, at jackson,
Tenn, the bank caved in burying the
little fellows under ten feet OF sand.
Life was extinct before they could be got
,out.
. Alderman Porter and Constables Shep.
4Sard, Parker and Carney of Pittsburs
Cere convicted to-day of conspiracy to
fraud. This makes five alderman con-
~. receiving money to settle illegal
ilfiIne cases. Others are now
3 terms in the w~orkhouse.
- w. +. Sanders has been nominated
United States senator from Mon
Ftana. He will be elected in this joint
session tomorrow. For second senator
ship I. G.. Power. %. Platt Carpenter
and Lee Mantle have been placed in
nomination. The house adjourned until
4 O'clock to-day.
1t is estimated taere has been a dc
crease of nearly 81. 600, 900 in the public
debt during Dece4ber. This makes a
reduction for the first half of the
fiscal year of about s24, 900, 900,
against $3l ,522, 900 during the CORES
bonding period OF the previous fiscal
bar The reduction for the calendar
wear ending to-day is Sl,4S1, 600,
ssi 1881 ,0c0 for the calendar year
of S2S-
, 1890-01-01

III. W. II. Baldrida ANruggist, Escon-
.1.Sb, Cal. says: Gen %erlain's Cough
eRemedy is the best Sewing medicine |
handle. Everyone who uses it speaks in
glowing terms of its efficiency" For sale
by B. B. David, druggist
, 1890-01-01

DENFEat Dec. 3l.-A special meeting
OF stockholders of the Denver & Rio
Etfznde railway vas called to order at the
pf6ce of President Motif this afternoon
for the purpose Of ratifying the lease of
the junction line now under construction
from Rife Greek to Grand Junction. A
little oyer ST6 per cent. OF the stock was
represented at the meeting. The lease
at this line was ratified and the meeting
fnnod nishout transacting further
, 1890-01-01

rch1ves & Historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1890-01-01

FoR sALE-old papers. LEADER office,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
AFTER THE FOURTH OF JULY.
M. c. DAWSON.

NJ. c. DAWSON.
We put him to bed in his little nightgown.
The worst battered youngster there was in the
town;
Yet he said as he opened his only we'll eye:
"'Rah. 'rah. for the jolly old Fourth Of uly!''
Two thumbs and eight fingers with lint were tied
up,
On his head was a bump like an upside-down cup,
And his smile was distorted, his nose all awry,
From the joys of the glorious Fourth of July.
We are glad; he had started abroad with the sun,
And all day he had lived in the powder and fun;
sky,
To salute Young Americas Fourth of July.
1 said we were glad all the pieces were there.
AS we plastered and bound them with tenderest
care,
But out of the wreck came the words with sigh:
IF tomorrow was only the Fourth Of July!"
He will grow all together again, never fear,
And be ready to celebrate freedom next year;
lies
A crackerless twelvemonth 'twixt Fourth of Julys.
We kissed him good night on his powder-specked
face,
place,
And he murmured as sleep closed his open
eye:
II wish every day was the Fourth of JULY"
New York Sun.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

Judge Walter T. Burr died suddenly
early Sunday morning. Hon. Walter T..
Burr was we'll known and highly esteemed
as the late Municipal Judge of st. Paul.
He was righteous and merciful magistrate
and gained the respect of even those whom
he punished. The writer remembers being
in the court one busy morning when a
white haired old father appeared before the
court with his son, boy OF fourteen or fif-
teen years, who had been arrested for gross
misdemeanOr toward his feeble parent
Judge Burr called the boy up to his side.
and after sternly telling him with what he
was charged, gave him lecture on the duty
of son to his father and the disgraceful-
ness of his conduct that made the boy trem-
BILE with a sense of the enormity of his con-
duct. He commanded the boy to look at
his father who had always been kind to him
and remember that but a short time and
that old gray head would be seen no more
on earth. The boy burst into tears and
promised the Judge that he would thereafter
honor his father. The judges voice fall
tered with emotion as he babe the boy ''go
and sin no MORE" and father and son left
the room together.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

The Chinese government is thinking
seriously of excluding citizens of the United
States from its territory. If it should do so
there would be great howl 90 up from the
United States government, yet it would
have less reason for complaint than the
Chinese government has. Mr.. Tsui. the
Chinese Minister, in an interview with a
New York World reporter. puts the matter
in this light:
In China the passage of the seclusion act
is generally supposed to be the work of tn e
politicians. l know, of course. your argu-
ment about cheap labor and the destruction
of fair wages. You say the Cinnamon come
to America and save all the money they can
and then carry it home with them, that
they don't become citizens. Isn't that ex-
actly what every American in China is do
ing? The Chinese laborers have built your
great Western railroads, and their cheap
labor has made possible and has carried
through to successful completion vast works
and enterprises which would have been i'm
possible without their labor. The Chinese
are satisfied with small wages and do not
strike. Chinese cheap labor has been tried
in various parts of the world and IS always
success.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

ST. Cloud has trouble in supporting
twelve good grocery stores, but manages to
keep from twenty-five to twenty-four sa-
looms running all day, nights and Sundays
and pay their $12, 900 license fees in addi-
ton. This is an example in political econ.
Omy or social ethics as you prefer.-St.
Cloud JOurnal-Press.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

your winning. The game that is lost can
not be regained, but so long as you have
the cards they may be shuffled and new
game be played. Life has been likened to
game of cards. All men are in a sense
gamblers; the most successful are those
who look ahead and carefully and patiently
shuttle the cards for the game they hope to
win. And they. like the most expert gam
bier, often make miscalculations and lose
where they felt sure of winning but they
only smile, shuttle the cards and play again
and again, until finally the cards come their
way and they sweep the table of the stakes.
Patience alone will not win; we must shut
fle the cards. The too patient man is in
danger of the imputatiOn of laziness. No
expert gamblers patience permits him to
trust others to shuttle the cards when it
comes his turn. If he did he would not
long have the wherewith to gamble. 1t is
the same in the lines of legitimate business.
To succeed man must attend to his af
fairs himself; otherwise, if he trusts others
to plan and manage his affairs he will dis
cover some day that his business has been
neglected or directed in the interests of
some one else. The convict who folds his
hands and patiently waits for some one to
get him out usually serves his full sentence;
the newspaper publisher who sits in his Of
flee and patiently waits for people to come
in and subscribe thinks the business is
played out; the preacher whose patience
permits him to preach the same sermon
three or four times year thinks Christian
ity is playing out; the angler who patiently
fishes where there are no fish imagines
there are no more fish in the sea. And so
it is in all the walks of life-tO succeed we
must keep shutting. The patience that en-
ables us to bear ill-fortune with fortitude,
to overlook the mistakes of others, and to
accept the inevitable, is the only kind of
patience we should have. Patience and in
dustry together are a power, but man
possessed of one without the other is either
a sluggard or a vacillating, fretful being.
Patience and shuttle the cards." but above
ALL ''shuffie the cards."
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
The Hand-ChOpperS

Howard and Curtis, inmates of the Ore
gon state prison. the miserable scoundrels
who each chopped off his hand with the
idea of avoiding work, have now new job.
To the middle of stout stick is attached a
chain to the end of which is fastened a
piece of pig iron weighing fifty-four pounds.
The hand choppers are compelled to keep
hold of either end of this stick all day long
and to drag the iron back and forth in the
ward. Not word are they allowed to
speak to any other prisoner. but they must
drag. drag, drag from morning to evening.
never losing trip back and forth in their
monotonous and degrading work. and when
their days disgraceful drudgery is over.
they are locked up by themselves. with
never whisper even with any other pris-
oner. This is rather novel punishment
for these miserable devils. but it seems to
work well as warning to other would-be
imitators. Statesman.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
AFTER TEN YEARS.

Gov. Ross pardOned, on June "a, Andy
O'ROurk, who was sent from Galveston
county on charge of rape. O'Rourk has
served 10 long years, and it now comes to
light that he is an innocent man. What
pity to incarcerate an innocent party and
let them remain in prison half life time.
A person that would maliciously and will
fully swear mans rights and liberties
away from him and allow him to remain
capital offense and punished by DEATH
Standard Enterprise, Rusk, Tex.
A young man serving twenty years.
sentence on like charge was pardoned a
few months ago by the governor of this
state, upon the grounds of innocence, as the
prosecutrix made affidavit that the crime
had never been committed. Only for this
confession the man would have probably
ended his days in the prison. A few years
ago a man was pardoned out of the Fl.
Madison, Iowa. penitentiary after having
served twenty years on similar charge.
In this case the prosecutrix confessed her
perjury upon her dying bed. We might
cite several other cases of the kind that have
SOhiO uluOl Jul OOOO1 SoGiOA III AoUO yOUlos
but in no case did we ever hear of the per-
jurer being punished by the law. 1t is a
terrible thing to be charged with rape, not
only because it is henions crime but be-
cause to be charged with the offense is al
most equivalent to conviction. And even
when man proves his innocence the stigma
clings to his name ever afterwards. We
would not be so hard on the perjurer as the
Standard Enterprise advocates. but whether
the state prOsecutes or not it should to some
reasonable extent recompense the sufferer
tor false imprisonment
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published in its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited. It's 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 and after paying
for the printing outfit. contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects 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 cause Of moral ad
vancement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

1.-The Deaf Mute Critic" is the title OF a
new paper published at Dubuque, Iowa.
1t is an interesting eight page paper. The
following is the first paragraph of its salu-
tatory.
We tip our hat and bow to the public.
Listen! speech is silvern; Silence is
golden" but this journal shall speak. 1t
will not be silent on topics of freedom, edu-
cation. improvement and the welfare of
all. especially the deaf people of the coun-
try, their success or failures in life, and
other news of interest.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

The program of celebrating the Fourth
OF July at Joliet prison, yesterday, was as
original as it was humane and Christian
like. The convicts were allowed to mingle
and talk for certain time without restric-
ton and were given good dinner. 1t is
fit that on Freedoms Day even convicts
should taste measure of freedoms sweets.
Chicago Evening Journal.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
"SHUFFLE THE CARDS.o

Patience and shuttle the cards" said the
Patience and shuttle the cards-there is a
text in those words for a. good practical
sermon. The saying may be construed to
mean, that if you have lost game do not
worry over it. but shuttle the cards for the
next game which there is q possibility of
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
The st. Paul Dispatch prints the follow

The st. Paul Dispatch prints the follow
ing as authentic news from Reading, Pa:
Detective Lyon was acquitted two weeks
woman to settle her case in court. At the
trial he refused to kiss the Bible, merely
affirming in the words: Il hope that God
will paralyze me if took that $40 gold
piece" When Lyon appeared on the streets
yesterday he was unable to talk, even in a
whisper. 1t is thought his vocal organs are
paralyzed.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
its many pleasures.

A man got badly hurt out at one of the
lakes last Sunday and not doctor could be
found in the neighborhood to attend to his
injuries, so printer was invited to fix the
fellow up, and it is said he did good job.
1t takes printer to put ''pied" ''form''
together in good shape.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

A terrific cyclone swept over Fargo,
OAK, about 2 o'clock Monday morning
creating great havoc. The only lives lost
were those of a Widows seven children.
The mother is not expected to survive for
she too was severely injured in the de-
structiOn of her home and children.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

More than ten thousand teachers are in
attendance at the convention in St. Paul of
the National Educational Association. Now
would be the time for the small boy to get
his revenge by the Guy Fawkes tactics.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

A new candidate is out bidding for hon.
ors in the Minnesota field of journalism. 1t
is bright promising eight column sheet
called the Sleepy Eye Dispatch and is ed
tied and published by H. G. Hays. at
Sleepy Eye, Brown county.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

In behalf of the inmates of the prison
THE MIRROR thanks Warden Randall and
all the officers and guards for the hearty in
terest they displayed in their efforts to
make our recent holiday one to be remem-
bered for it's many pleasures.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH,
A Grand Good Time --EnjOyedI Alike
by officers and COnvicts.s Not a Cloud
Ut~y

A Grand Good Time--EnjOyedIA Alike
by Officers and COnvfcts.s Not Cloud
to Obscure Its'MemOry.
A more agreeable day than the Fourth of July
never dawned upon the st. Croix Valley. If it had
been given into the hands of man to regulate the
weather for the occasion he could not have made
it more to his liking. 1t was not too warm for
lively exercise nor yet too cool for lemonade.
Truly the lord of the weather was in full sympa-
thy with our plans for the day.
Never before in the history of the Minnesota
state prison holiday looked forward to with
such lively anticipations the just past. for
it had been announced some time before that we
were to have the freedom of the yard, privilege
never before enjoyed. On the evening of the Sec
time until the Fourth everybody was on the gu
vive to learn all possible of the coming celebra-
ton. A trip around the galleries on the evening
of the third discovered the boys cleaning up, put
ting on clean clothes and making general prepara-
tions for an early start on the morrow.
Soon after the six o'clock bell rang on the morn
ing of the Fourth, many hands were busy decorat-
ing the corridors with green boughs and flags.
Main street was also decorated with green bOughs
which were attached to the fence posts along the
lawn. Promptly at eight O'Clock the
according to the following
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

Dress Parade. $500 A. M
Foot Race-4OO feet ....................90 800 A. M.
Potato Race 600 A. M.
WheelbarrOw Race. 10 80 A. M.
Jumping-standing and running. .11:00 A. M.
Exercises Chapel. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1880 p. M
Fat Mems Race. 300 p. M
Old Mems Race. $3.50 p. M.
Sack Race. 400 p. M.
Final Foot Race. .............. .4:30 p NJ
Blind Mans Bull 10 :UU L. M.
Tug of War. 5:15 P. M.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-10-14

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%. 124 ACRES aud another of 52R ACRES,
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