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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07
QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(Report for Glass c. by E. L. H.
Queen Elizabeth, otherwise better known as
Good Queen Bess. daughter of Henry VIII. and
Anne Boleyn, assembled the throne of England in
1858 and reigne' during the next forty-fve years.
F~v of England succeeded to the
difficult circumstances; and none
.r,-r he government with such uni
fornsr felicity Though unacquainted
with the pTactI., of federation, the true secret
for managing ligious factions she preserved her
COMMISSIONS in which theological
involved all the neighboring ma
.1o-is; "a n her enemies the most
powerful princr> of Europe, the most active, the
most enterprise. g, the least scrupulous, she sue
cessfully defended herself against them. Not.
withstandipg that her position and even her life
depended upon her adherence to the Protestant
cause. she prosecuted that sect Of the Protestant
known as the Purtans, as vigorously as the Catho.
lies. What chiefly tended to gain Elizabeth the
hearts of her subjects during the first twenty-five
years of her reign was her frugality in conducting
the affairs of the nation, thus preventing impos
tons upon the people. who were at that time little
accustomed to bear the burdens Of government
Probably no sovereign in Europe could command
SO large a credit as herself.
The two principal historical events of her reign
Queen of Scots. in 1887. and the Spanish Ar.
mada.' In 1883 King Philip II. of Spain, the most
powerful monarch of the time, fitted out the
"Invincible Armada for the purpose of invading
and conquering England; the disastrous failure
and repuse is too well known to need further men,
toning. England henceforth took her place
among the leading nations of the world. In 1894
the Irish Rebellion occurred which finally led to
the execution of her favorite, Essex.
The reign of Elizabeth has often been called the
Golden Age" and not without cause, for with.
out doubt it the most glorious reign England
had ever seen up to this period The growth of
commerce phenomeaal here first hear of
that modern bane, monopoly" In literature we
have Spencer, Sidney, Bacon, Milton and the i'm
mortal Shakespeare among explorers and dis
coverers such men Raleigh Grenvlle Hawkins
Frobisher and Drake. Although three hundred
years have almost passed since Elizabeth's death,
the effects of her policy and the influence of the
writer's of her time remain with us.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07
Reeding A Dollar.

What is the milling on a dollar or other coin?
Probably not one person in 500 would answer this
simple question correctly. There is popular
belief that the corrugations the rim of
dollar are the milling. Chronicle reporter
thought so too until the point happened to arise
in a conversation with c. NJ Gorham, coiner at the
Mint. the other day.
Mr.. Gorham went into the coming room and
picked up blank round piece of plain silver
cut out of silver bar. 1t had gone through one
machine, which had slightly rounded the edges.
The blank was dropped in a milling machine.
and when it came out a second or two later the
rim was fiat and the edges of the rim were raised
little above the level of the sides. The verb
'miling used in this connection is this raising
of the rim Of a blank piece of money. and the
noun milling is this plain raised rim without
reference to any corrugations anywhere. The
purpose of the milling is to protect the surface
of the sides from wear.
The milled blank was dropped into a stamping
machine, from which it dropped perfect dollar
While in the machine the piece dropped into a
corrugated collar and the piece expanding under
great pressure the rim was forced into the CORFU
cations and became similarly corrugated. These
parallel notches or corrugations generally called
the milling constitute the ''reeding" The term
is adapted from its architectural use to express q
ings multiplied, parallel to each other.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
to-
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07
Grammar in a Nutshell.

Three little words you often see.
Are articles, a an the.
A nouns the name of any thing.
AS school, garden. hoop or swing;
Adjectives tell the kind of noun;
AS great small, pretty, white or brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns stand.
Her head, his face, your arm, my hand.
Verb tells something to be done
To read, count, sing, laugh. jump, run.
How things are done the adverbs tell.
AS slowly, quickly, ill or we'll.
Conjunctions join the words together,
AS men and women, wind or weather.
The propositions stand before
A noun, as of or through a door.
The intersection shows surprise.
AS All! how pretty-oh! how wise,
The whole are called nine parts of speech.
Which reading. writing, speaking teach.
National Weekly.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07

The Wig ilantes out in Arizona hung a
man the 9th er day because he was a con-
frmed liar. Good gracious! If it gets to
be the rule to hang liars. none of us-that
is to say, there are great many men who
will be in danger. Texas Siftings.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07

There are sermons in stones and buttons
in the contribution. bOx.-Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07

(Report for Glass c, by e. L. H.
Queen Elizabeth, otherwise better known a
Good Queen Bess. daughter of Henry VIII. AM
Anne Boleyn, assembled the throne of England il
1858 and regne' during the next forty-fve years
of To
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Farmer. and tho Wool Tariff.

The tariff on wool is all right and the
farmer of this region wants to keep it
right where it is. He will do what he
can in this direction if he knows what
is to his own interest. The republican
party is the only party now on deck
that is in favor of the present tariff on
wool. The democrats are bowling to
have it taken off. They are looking
after the man who wears wooden CLOTH
ing. As the Pioneer has said before,
the settler in these regions, who has to
nut up with billiards, frosts, drouth,
lack of society and the many other dis
advantages Of frontier life, is entitled
to little sugar in at least one direc-
ton. He gets it on the wool he has to
sell. The one industry that is helping
our settlers more than anything else
is the sheep industry, and yet there are
some people, and some of them live
right here, who want to take away
from him what profit he gets out Of his
wool clip. It is wonderful thing that
there should be men who will, for the
sake of political idea, work and vote,
politically. against their interests and
the interests of their neighbors and
their community, but such is the case.
Nandau IN. d. Pioneer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
No Rread.

Antoinette de Bourbon, the mother Of
the Guises, had, in addition to her other
fine qualities, great good sense. One
example Of the discipline to which she
subjected the young Guises indicates
that had there been more mothers like
her In her class there would have been
less Of ruthless extravaganza on the
part Of the royalty and nobility OF
France.
The young mobiles were out hunting,
and rode through fields which had been
sown with corn. The duchess heard Of
It. That evening, according to the ira
dition preserved at Joinville, there was
no bread on the supper table.
The princes at once asked for bread,
astonished at such negligence in this
well-ordered household.
my children" replied Antoinette,
1T is necessary to economic flour, since
you have destroyed the future harvest
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Pnnos OF AMERICAN WOOL


About the Same - Last Year In spite IT
. Decline OF All Foreign Wools-saved
by the Mckinley Bill-A Good Outlook
Tor Our Farmers.
In accounting for the fact that the
price Of American wool has not sub
stantially advanced since the Mckinley
law went into effect, it has been shown
that the benefits OF the new law to our
farmers were none the less real because
American wool had only held its own,
that the world prices for woods are very
much lower this year than last in every
country except in the United States.
Australia is the great wool producer
OF the world. 1t appeared that Aus
tralian secured wool declined from "A
cents pound in February, 1890, tc 80
cents in March, 1891. On the other
hand. the Mckinley tariff has so stimu-
lated the domestic markets that the
prices of American woods have not gone
down with this universal fall in foreign
markets.
The fall in Australian wool is strik-
ingly shown in recent report by Con-
sui Griffin from Sydney, New South
Wales He says.
According to the Melboure Argus, one OF the
highest authorities on Australasian wool, the
average price per bale for the season Just closed
was only Eli s.. 3D., against ETA los. 4d for
1SS9-9O thus showing decline Of f3 lis. I'd. per
bale from that Of the previous -eason
And again:
Mr.. Molineaux "a reliable authority states
that the average prices Of the New South
Wales woods were 20 per cent. lower than they
were twelve months ago. The current prices
throughout the season were as follows: Super
| good greasy fleece, from 20 to q! cents per
pound; average IA to 10 cents per pound in.
ferior, II cents per pound; superior greasy
lambs' wool, 10 to 90 cents per pound; good
greasy. lambs WOOL IA to IS cents per pound
average greasy lambs wool, IL to 10 cents pei
pound; inferior lambs wool, 10 to ~ cents pei
pound secured fleece 90 to 80 cents per pound
Under the conditions existing before
the passage of the Mckinley bill, moth
ing could have prevented the prices OF
American woods from going down in
sympathy with this decline in the Aus
tralian wool market. The Mckinley
law came just in time to prevent this
and as a consequence American farmer.
this year have been receiving nearly OF
quite as much for their wool as il
brought last year. In other words, the
new tariff has robbed foreign WOO
growers Of the power to depress Ameri
can wool prices below reasonable fig
ure. When foreign markets regain
their buoyancy, American woods vii
also advance. Wool growers need have
no fears that the Mckinley law has moi
done or will not do for them all that wa'
promised in the great wool campaign o
| 1890
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Trade Under the New Tariff.

Before the enactment of the tariff bill
by the Fifty-first congress, predictions
were freely made by the free traao
press that the raising Of the Chinese
wall" of protection must decrease the
volume of our foreign trade and that
the ultimate result must be to conflne
us altogether to our home market.
1t is easy now to test these prophecies
in the light of events. The new tari6
has been in operation now for about
eight months The official report OF the
treasury department as to the values Of
imports and exports Of merchandise for
the months ending April so, and for the
four months ending at the same time,
gives the following figures:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
In tho Wrong Once.

Peddler-My dear sir, do you know
how much time you lose dipping a pen
into ink? Ten dips minute means 600
dips an hour or 5000 dips in ten hours
and each dip consums-
Business Man-Yes, know; have
figured it all out.
Pcddler-And yet l find you still writ
Ing in the old way.
Business Man-yes, am using the
fountain pen you sold me about month
ACCUSING it in the old way because 1t
won't write any other way.
Peddler = Beg pardon; I'm in the
wrong office. Good day.-Good News.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29

self. In IL was the gcrIs whieA 0as
vegetated, and still is to grow and ex.
pard into the universal liberty OF man
kind.
But, with all tnesc glorious results,
past, present, and to come, it had its
evils too 1t breathcd forth famine,
swan in blood, and rode in fire; and
long, long after, the orphans cry and
the widows wall continued to break
the sad silence that ensued. These
were the price. the inevitable price.
paid for the blessings it brought.
Turn now to the temperance revolu-
ton. In it we shall find stronger
bondage broken, a viler slavery manu-.
mitted, q greater tyrant deposed. In
it, more of want supplied, more disease
healed, more sorrow assuaged. By it,
no orphans starving, no widows weep
ing. BY it, none wounded In feeling,
none injured in interest; even the dram
maker and dram-seller will have glided
into other occupations SO gradually as
never to have felt the change, and will
stand ready to join all others in the
universal song of gladness And what
noble ally this, to the cause OF polit-
ical freedom; with such an aid, its
march cannot fail to be on and on, till
every son of earth shall drink in rich
fruition the sorrow-quenching draughts
of perfect liberty. Happy day, when;
all appetites controlled, all passions
subdued, all matter subjugated, mind.
all-conquering mind, shall live and
move, the monarch of the world!
And when the victory shall be COM
plete-when there shall be neither q
slave nor drunkard on this earth
how proud the title of that land, which
may truly claim to be the birthplace
and the cradle of both those revolutions
that shall have ended in that victory.
How nobly distinguished that people,
who shall have planted, and nurtured
to maturity. both the political and NOR
al freedom of their species. abraham
Lincoln in 1912. l-g
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29

The democrats have not the power to
make the controlling issue in the next
campaign. The issue is already made.
Nobody can dodge it or get rid of it.
Politicians do not generally make the
issues for which the people really care.
The millions decide what they want or
do not want for themselves And they
are going to vote mainly on the tariff
question in the next campaign.
''The billion congress-" one demo-
cratic organ unweariedly shouts. BSt
it will sing small when the next con-
gress has finished its appropriations.
1.-THE force bill'' is q favorite topic with
southern editors. If they could only
realize how close northern democrats
are to utter disgust with their party,
and to abandonment of it, because of
its defense of southern infamies for
twenty years past, they would change
their tune. Unlimited coinage of sill
YER" western democrats cry. But they
are beginning to understand that they
can count upon the loss of every eastern
state as absolutely certain, New Jersey
not excepted, if they commit their party
to that idea, and they do not know
whether they or the Farmers Alliance
will catch the silver vote Of the west.
Meanwhile the tariff question con-
Germs the labor and the business of
every man in the country. Taken with
its natural and legitimate adjunct, the
reciprocity policy for expansion Of trade
with Central and South America, it is
SO strong that democrats would like to
dodge it if they could. Nor are they to
blame. They can not agree among
themselves what sort of change in the
tariff they want. A large portion of
them know that the new tariff is help
ing the industries of the country beyond
all calculation. They know that any
attempt to frame different tariff
would split the democratic party, for
Mr.. Randall's death did not take from
the east all the democrats who can see
daylight. The organs of importers at
New York tell the party that it must
fight for free-trade or be beaten.
Against them is the personal interest of
every American worker, every Ameri-
can manufacturer, and all the farmers
who are able to comprehend what is
going on in the world. The people are
going to vote about the tariff question
in the next presidential campaign, be-
cause there is no other that so directly
concerns their happiness or their indi-
vidual prosperity.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Totals. -. ................. 40

Some rather startling conclusions as
to the future conditions of the American
plate-glass market, and the prices that
are likely to rule, as well as some forci-
BILE illustrations of the operations Of a
protective tariff, may be drawn from
the above figures, with other contempt
raneous facts. Prior to 1888, the inn
portation Of plate glass for glazing pur.
poses was very large. Since that time,
however, the home product so largely
increased each year that the importa-
ton steadily decreased until 1890, when
it entirely ceased, SO far as glazing
quality is concerned. According to the
above table, the product will be seventy
per cent. larger before the close Of 1891.
and plate glass become SO cheap that II
can be used in the most ordinary struc-
lures
Fifteen years ago plate glass was sell.
ing at an average price of about S2.5e
per square foot land the manufacturing
lost money at that, but to-day the aver
age price per foot is about sixty cents
and the margin Of profit is still large
These changes, both as relate to prices
and the supply Of the home market by
home product, have been achieved
under fostering tariff, and in the faoe
Of the fact that the product has been
far short of the demand until the past
year.
The only plate glass Of any large i'm.
portation now is the silvering quality Of
small sizes, which American manufactr
urers claim they can not afford to pro
duce under the present low duty On
glass under ten square feet.
The benefits Of this protected indus-
try to the country may be briefly
summed up in the complete supply cf
our entire demand for grazing quality
glass at less than one-fourth the price
formerly paid for it, the employment
meanwhile of vast numbers Of work.
men, and the retention In this country
Of the money we formerly sent abroad
for glass, thus encouraging our own
shop and store keepers, agriculturists,
and producers and manufacturers,
rather than those of Europe. The plate
glass manufacturers have just now, II y
true, problems Of serious moment to
work out-the need Of more skilled
labor and the possibility of overproduc-
ton. But the former will come at their
own risk, when they understand the
situation, and reciprocity will provide :
means for disposing Of the surplus
product. Y. Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Adding Insult to Injury.

While conversing with Miss Esmerel.
da Longcoffin, an old maid Of Houston,
Tex, she asked a young man in ban
tering tone:
"How old do you really think amp"
"About thirty" he replied.
''You are joking" said Miss Longcof-
fin, indignantly. fasg 8y
''Well," said the wretch, looking al
her more critically, "you can't be much
older than thirty-five or forty. "--Texas
Siftings. stt4.4 .fr
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
CLEANED HERE AND THERE.

You can never lift mortgage by
pulling at bottle.-Elmira Gazette.
SUPERINTENDENT WISE reports that
17,s15 pupils in the schools of Balti-
more are receiving temperance lnstruc-
ton. tt
LOAN tell you how to stop pauperism
in this country in four words: stop
the drink traffic" Liquor is RESPONSE
BILE for eight-ninths of the pauperism
of America.-Rev. 0. c. Brown.
The commissioners of police in To-
peka, Kan. testify that there has not
been in 1890, in. that city, place that
even the most radical anti-prohibition-
list could call saloon or tipping house.
THE old superstition that grog is a
good thing for men before, during and
after march has been proved by the
scientific men of all nations to be fall
lacy, md is only still maintained by
men who mistake the craving arising
solely from habit for the promptings of
nature.
1T is encouraging to note that recent
ly at Lathrop, No., several druggists
have been indicted and fined for selling
the tincture of Jamaica ginger without
prescription. One of the number
who stoutly maintained his right to
sell the tincture of ginger or any other
tincture ''of recognized medical util'
ity," was overruled by the court and
fined forty dollars for selling intoxicat.
ing liquor. National Temperance Ad.
vocate.
IT is said that the liquor traffic has
done more to demoralize the Alaskan
Indians than all other causes. The
government has issued orders to the
revenue cutter Bear" to seize all
liquors on board whalers in Alaskan
waters except small supply for me,
dicinal purposes. This is highly com
mendable. It's great pity to demon
alize the barbarous tribes under the
protection of our government will
American whisky. Would it not b.
well for the government to consider
what can he done to prevent the de
moralizing effect of liquor in the states.
PROF. PIERRE FRANCOIS SPANK, an
eminent pathologist and microscopic o.
Barn, Holland, has been awarded the
prize for she best essay on the care o
drunkards and the cure of drunkenness
offered by the Inebriates' home at Fort
Hamilton, n. Y. The competitors have
had a year in which to prepare theiI
papers. The Dutch professor made
msny delicate microscopic experiments
with rabbits as subjectS The result
of these experiments will overiov pa
biologists. who have held that drunk
enness is disease. Prof SPANK find'
that alcoholism is disease that has it,
origin in the habitual use of alcohol o
other strong drink. 1t is a disease pc
culiar TO Itself snd calling for peculiar
! treatment
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
TURN YOUR GLASS DOWN.

u urged TO lift the glass that temptA
In city grand or humble town,
BE he that tempts the king or car.
Quick, turn your glass and set II dow,
III those that ask you vex and tease
Perhaps condemn you with frowu.
BE firm. mind not the laugh and sneer
Quick. turn your glass and set it down,
III health you crave and strength OF arm,
Would keep your hardy hue OF brown,
Nor have the scarlet flush OF sin
Quick, turn your glass and set it down,
III in your trouble others say:
''1n sea Of drink your sorrow DROWN
Look out lest drowned the drinker be-
Quick turn your glass and set it downl
Cold water, boys, hurrah, hurrah,
Will help to health, wealth and renovn
Ii urged to give these treasures up
Quick. turn your glass and set it down.
--4sey. Edward A. Rand, in National Temper
ance Advocate
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29

Old Mr.. Baldston ION his wedding
journey)-If my little peach-blossom has
any wish ungratifed, she has only to
express it.
Mrs. Baldston-You are 80 good. Te-
amechus. If you would only give me a
real good spanking and send me home,
the way dear old grandpa used to do, it
would seem so-o-o natural. Once q
Week.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
A Great Event.

Boston is noted for many great
events in the history Of the country"
said Bagley, proudly, to newly-arrived
Englishman.
"Ya-as; was reading only yesterday
that man was arrested there for kiss
ing his wife. Judge.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Coming Trouble.

Is "This seems like one Of the old.
fashioned one-ring performances, dear.
lest, doesn't it?" he whispered, as he
slipped the golden circlet on her finger.
81 don't know, Harry" she answered,
obviously, "but / am afraid there will
be something Of q circus when you
speak to pa."-Chicago Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
LINCOLN ON TEMPERANCE.
Glowing Words Uttered by tlie Msrtyred
President.

Prestdent.
Whether or not the world would be
vastly benefited by total and final BAN
ishment from it of all intoxicating
drinks, seems to me not now an open
question. Three-fourths of mankind
confess the affirmative with their
tongues; and believe all the rest ac-
knowledge it in their hearts Ought
any. then, to refuse their aid in doing
what the good of the whole demands?
OF our political revolution Of 1870 we
ARE al justly proud 1t has given us a
degree of political freedom far exceed
ing that Of any other nations of the
earth. In it the world has found So
Sutton of the long-mooted problem. as
TO TIC capability of man TO govern him.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-29
Taking Him at His Word.

what ought I to give you?" asked
the diner, as he put his hand in his
pocket for tip.
II leave 1t with you, sir" said the
waiter, politely.
Thanks; can make good use of it"
And the waiter was tipless.-Puck.