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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13
The Value of the Ballot.

| have no superstition about the
ballot. do not suppose it would
Immediately right all the wrongs of
women any more than it has right
ed all those of men. But what po-
litical agency has righted 50 many !?
Here are thousands of miserable men
all around us, but they have every
path open to them. They have
their advocates; they have their
votes; they make the laws, and, at
last and at worst, they have their
stong right hands for defense.
And here are thousands of misera-
BILE women pricking back death and
dishonor with a little needle and
now the sly hand of science is steal
ing that little needle away. The
ballot does not make those men hap
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13
o1WOMAN'S CORNERp~
A M l S S l 0 N.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

Small as am, Ive mission below,
A mission that wdens and grows as grow.
IT'S let alone cider and brandy and gin;
'Tis keep well away from these potions of sin.
TITS to make myself noble and manly and true;
TITS to touch no tobacco, not smoke and not chew
That unhealthy weed that true women detest
And all people know is filthy old pest
IT'S to say unto all what say unto you,
Let those things alone, if you would be true,
They are foes to all virtue, and lead down to shame
Shun drink and tobacco, and keep your good name.
Cold water that comes from the well is my drink
the healthiest, purest and sweetest think;
1t never makes drunkards, it never brings woe
I'll praise It and drink it wherever 60
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

Ply nor respectable nor rich nor no.
BILE; but they guard it for themselves
with sleepless jealousy, because
they know it is the golden gate to
every opportunity and precisely
the KIND of advantage it gives to
one sex, it would give to the other.
1t would arm it with the most pow
erful weapon known to political So
ciety it would maintain the natural
balance of the sexes in human af-
fairs, and secure to each fair play
within it's sphere.-George William
Curtis.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13
From the Cincinnati Herald.

From the Cincinnati Herald.
If women, as class, are purer
than men, then men are at fault. If
it is the proper thing for women to
be pure and temperate, and free from
all bad habits, it is the proper thing
for men also. There is no sex in
morals.
Xxx
In advocating woman s rights
don't attach yourself to that class
that imagine that things are going
to be reversed, changed completely
around, and women put in the posi-
ton of bossing the men, and domi-
neering over them. What we want
is exact equality of the sexes, and
liberty for each sex.
*x*
Young man, you admire young
lady for her daintiness, and purity,
and sweetness. If she saturated
herself with liquor and tobacco, if
she did many things that you are
constantly doing you would not re-
spect her; she would not be your
sweetheart very long. Put your
self in her place for little while.
If she is pure and sweet and dainty
do you imagine that she likes you
jusn as we'll if you are impure, and
foul, and filthy? Then imagine her
treating you with the same contempt
with which you would treat her if
she had your habits.
~
Travelling in the country / find
organs in many houses, and pianos
in some. Bat let me say in all
kindness, that seldom hear tune
played through correctly, or song
sung correctly in the country. This
ought not to be so. There is just
as much musical talent in the coun-
try as in the city. There is no rea-
son why it shoul not be cultivated.
1t is a waste of money, buying mu-
steal instruments unless you get out
of them the best there is in them.
In the average country township.
six miles square, there are at least
thirty young ladies that have an or
gan or piano. Club together, hire a
rood music teacher, take lessons as
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13
Women Do Too Much.
New York Advertiser.

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We pour life too full and strain the
the measure. A quart pot will not
hold three pints, neither will fifty
years hold the concerns of seventy.
More than half of housekeeping
woman's time is spent in worrying,
and good share of the other half is
spent in preparing food AS though
the stomach were the immortal part
of us! Take one quarter of the time
woman devotes to making pies
preparing buildings, putting up
preserves, icing cakes and frying
doughnnts, and let her devote it to
rest and recreation, and she would
not look like shred of parchment
paper at 40.
1t is the non-essentials that kill
us. WI must learn to simplify be-
fore We can escape the. doom Of pre-
mature age. Nature never intended
us TO live as we do. If she intend
ed us to eat puff pastry she would
have grown it on some of her trees
She has provided simple foods, in
the shape of cereals, fruit and veg
etables, and if we CONFIRMED our
selves more closely to her estab-
lished order of diet, we would be
happier and,a harder race. The on
ly thing that is ever going to solve
the domestic problem is simplifica-
ton, and the sooner we begin to
both in the manner of our
living and in what we expect of
those who serve us, the better it
will be for mistress and maid.
We talk much of the good and
faithful servants 81 two or three
generations ago. Did our great
grandmothers require their meals
served in courses, and an extra
plate for everything, from bread and |
butter through to sauce and cheese?
A dinner of fifty years ago was
served all in one course, and the
mistress helped both in serving and
removal. Now she sits with her
toe on an electric bell under the
table, and requires as complete a
paraphernalia of service as apper-
tains to the house of a grand duke.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

often as you can afford it, set apart
couple Of hours each day for earn
est practice, vie with each other-for
perfection, and you will be surprised
at results. There is no reason why
country girls should not have cul-
ture along the line of their talents
as well as city girls. And while l
am talking, let me suggest that the
boys with musical talent be given the
same chance as the girls. Refine
ment and culture become man
equally as we'll as a woman.
Xxx
Let me go little farther while l
am about it. You all need culture
along other lines. You should let
your minds go out beyond the hori-
zon of your present life. l know
your limitations, and what obsta-
cles are in your way, for have liv-
ed more than half my life in the
country. You have no big library
close at hand as we have in the
great cities. Most of you can't af-
ford a big library of your own.
Now, let me suggest plan. Let
the young men and the young wo-
men, and the older men and women,
club together in one club, and re-
solve to raise money and treat your
selves to the best current literature
going. Select a list of the best
periodicals going, such as The
Arena, The Century, Harper's, The
Cosmopolitan, The Forum, The
North American Review, The Public
Opinion, The Literary Digest, and |
will name you many others in the
future. Then let them go around,
each reading them. In this way
you get the best thought along sew
eral lines-and that is what you
need. If you read along one line
only, you will become narrow and
bigoted. Think over what you
read. Don't just simply gulp and
swallow. Weigh it all well. Get
together and talk it over, and you
will learn truth every day, and your
minds and your souls will broaden,
and you will know more of human
ity and the world. Don't be afraid
to spend money for good literature.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

1t must be pretty nice home,
and more than ordinary attractions
in the way of games, studies and
amusements that will keep boys
from the saloon, the way they are
now fitted up and supplied with so
many attractions to lure young men
and youths away from all that is de-
sirable in the future. We do not
believe that the catechism and the
whip, and the harsh commands and
the seedlings and the threatenings
of parents will ever prevail against
the saloon and barroom attractions
as they are licensed and conducted
nowadays. And yet the people are
afraid of the cholera; when all the
cholera in the world has never done
half the harm to humanity that is
done every year by the saloons of
one great city.-Pomeroy's Adj
vance Thought.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

WHEN you go to buy nails see
that they are not Carnegie nails.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

DON'T use Carnegie iron or Steel,
in any shape.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

WANTED-1oo.o 900 PEOPLES PARTY
w Speakers for the presidential campaign.
How to educate them in time is the problem.
The solution is found in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

WE'LL pay you to getup club:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

1t will do you infinitely more good
than many of the things for which
you now spend money.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
OUR JURY SYSTEM.

There are men, and their number is
not small, whose own self-knowledge
justifies them in the belief that all
courts are corrupt and that poor man
has no chance in our courts, or who
have so often asserted such an opinion
that they have come to believe it. I'm
der our present system, most reprOach-
es of this kind are thrown upon the ju-
ry; but the jury is an impersonal, ever
changing body. The odium of an I'M
just (body) verdict, or one that is con-
demned by public sentiment, whether
such condemnation is merited or not.
is decided among twelve men, who sepe-
rate to their several homes and never
meet again to act together under any
circumstances whatsoever. If, through
mistake or for any other reason, they
have given an unrighteous verdict, the
harm is largely confined to the particu-
lar case decided; there is no danger
that the same body will repeat the of
tense and thus acquire emulation of
Odium. Would not a succession of I'M
popular verdicts, occurring in tolerably
close succession, even if right, tend to
bring continuing tribunal into con-
tempt, and would not the tendency be
toward causing the populace to suspect
bribery and corruption on the part of
the court? Would not every decision
in which there was any general interest,
if made contrary to an uniformed pub
lie opinion, whether right or wrong, by
court already unpopular, add to it's
unpOpularity? We need not occupy
space to show that anything that tends
to bring our courts into contempt, or to
throw suspicion upon them, is subver-
sive of our institutions.
A fair-minded man with an average
amount of common sense has often but
to carefully sit through and watch an
important trial of this kind to know
how unjustly juries are sometimes
abused by the newspapers and the gen.
eral public, for performing their plain
duty under the law and the evidence
submitted to them.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
CRIMINAL SENsATIONALIsM.

The manufacture of sensations is a
business that some newspapers engage
in regardless of the injury or wounds it
may infiict. For the purpose of sensa-
ton purely, Boston paper published
story to the effect that a short time
prior to the murder of Mr.. and Mrs.
Borden, their daughter Lizzie, who is
accused of the crime, visited a Provi-
dence lawyer and secured from him an
opinion as to the course to pursue in
case of death of her father in regard to
the distribution of his property. This
was told with great circumstantiality
with many details, one of which was,
that the lady client of the Providence
lawyer was somewhat mysterious, and
at neither interview did she give her
name or residence. After her arrest
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
OUR JAILS.

Why can't workshops be established
in our county jails, in which prisoners
may employ their time to advantage?
Thus, those who are arrested on suspi-
cion, together with those who are await
ing trial and any who would be serving
a jail sentence, can have an OppOrtuni-
ty of making the best of their time
The older criminals could be separated
from the younger, and instead of jails
being schools of crime, they would be-
come schools of industry. Apply to the
jails the pathological trinity-the three
things which underlie all hope of re-
form: Industry, Education and Relig-
iOn-and these in their order. These
we believe to be sufficient to secure re-
form. These steps would only be the
legitimate results of increased knowl-
edge of the possibilities that have been
conceived and impressed upon the peo-
pie in connection with the prison re-
form movement that has been inaugu-
rated in this and other countries. What
says our indefatigable Secretary Hart
to this?
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

Judge Hooker lectured - kindly and pointed
out the fact that when he was released from
prison he might start anew provided he turned a
new leaf. The court said that the statement
that convict couldn't regain position in good
society with good motives in his heart was
largely mythical, and that the disgrace emanat-
ed. not from the imprisonment, but from the
crime itself.-.MinnedpOlis Journal.
Very true, your honor. But what
view is society taking of it? The most
critical period in the life of a convict is,
perhaps, the moment that he puts aside
the prison garb and turns away from
the sOmbre shadow of the prison walls,
to enter upon real, active, free life. 1t
is then that society should stand ready
to take the man and keep his feet in
the path of right, by kindly assistance,
not in pecuniary sense, but in the way
of that brOtherly interest which weighs
much more than dollars and cents, and
especially in the way of giving employ
ment, whereby he may earn honest
bread.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
3O5.

The above line was clipped from THE PRISON
MIRROR, published by the prisoners in the state
penitentiary at Saltwater:
Only two words, but what world of sorrow.
sadness and repentings are contained in them.
Population, 3O5; " that number of men once re-
spected and happy, enjoying all the rights and
privileges of this country; 3O5 men cut off from
the rights of citizenship; 3O5 men who arise in
the morning and go to bed in the evening with
out the ambition of manhood; 3O5, whose mind.
and hands. and energy are given to the state
whose law they have offended.
population $685. and twice that number of
loving parents who have bowed their gray heads
in sorrow and shame at the disgrace cast upon
them in their old age. Population, $685. and
thrice that number of loving brothers and sisters
who have to bear the burden with him who is
immured within the cold prison walls, and who
must go through life with the finger of scorn ever
pointed at them because one of their blood is in
Guided in,
population, O5.'-Little Falls Transcript
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
The Disgrace of Pinkertonism.

There has been much said and writ
ten in the last four weeks about the
disgrace of Pinkertonism. Reference
has been had in this verdict to the
character of the Pinkerton system and
of the Pinkerton guards. But there is
another disgrace that ought to be en-
phasized in this connection-the dis
grace of condition of things that re-
quires the importation or dare devil
men to secure rights which local au-
thorities do not guarantee. 1t is dis
graceful that men cannot be secured in
the possession of their own property.
disgraceful that men cannot 60 to work
except at the risk of their lives in an
establishment from which others have
voluntarily withdrawn. 1t would be
well for those who join in the general
cry against Pinkertonism to have Sc
riOus thought or two about the dis
graces that are the occasion or Pinker-
tonism.-Irom Trade RecieaO.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

and during the preliminary examination
the Providence lawyer was induced by
curious interest to visit Fall River, and
in the court room, in Lizzie Borden he
saw and recognized his secretive client.
Miss Borden, when the tale was COM
municated to her assured her friends
that it was fiction. An investigation
followed which brought to light the
name Of the Providence lawyer who
was referred to whose name was con-
cealed in the sensational narration.
Upon inquiry of him the bottom of the
story falls out completely. He refutes
all the details of the duplicating nara
tive; he has never seen Lizzie Borden,
nor given any client advice upon the
interrogatories attributed to her; he was
not in Fall River during the time the
case was in court nor since the deaths
of Mr.. and Mrs. Borden, in short there
was no truth in the story.
Up to this time the prosecution and
persecution of Lizzie Borden has been
unable to furnish motive for the terri
BILE crime charged upon her. This story
was concocted to supply motive, and
produced powerful impression, as was
natural. AS in fiction generally the
authors fatally neglected to prepare
statement that would stand uncontra
dicted upon analysis.
The recklessness Of newspaper in
preparing and publishing such matter,
line of supposed news that is seized
upon with avidity and reproduced in
most of the papers of the country, ex-
hibits to what dangerous ends publish
ers will go to create market for their
publications. Every paper copying the
story from it's original source has aided
in the imposition and inflicted injury
upon the victim of the falsehoods.
Great as is the wrong perpetrated
upon the Individual, equally as great is
the wrong upon the public and upon
journalism generally, for it is impossi-
BILE, either at the point of publication
or elsewhere, to discriminate between
that which may be true and that which
is false. A suspicion and uncertainty
is created which brings newspapers into
contempt and impairs their influence.
The newspaper which is published for
sensationalism is entitled to no stand
ing in public confidence and should be
spurned by readers and condemned by
honorable Journalistic. Paul Neacs.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

1t is said that the city comptroller Of
Trenton, n. j., talks of resigning, be-
cause he is compelled to count the tails
of dead dogs. According to resolu-
ton passed by the common council the
city dog catcher must deliver to the
comptroller the tails Of all dogs killed
by him as a proof that he has killed
them. Well, gentlemen, don't let that
trouble you. Send us a pardon, and
we will proceed to fill that vacancy if
it costs us a leg.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

We beg to recommend, to some of our
boys, the careful perusal Of "COntent-
ment." to be found in the "Autocrat of
the Breakfast-Table.' Their moderate
desires (of these few when again at
liberty, is summed up in
- l care not much for gold or land;
Give me a mortgage here and there,
Some good bank-StOck-SOme note of hand.
Or trifiing railroad share:
l only ask that Fortune send
little more than | shall spend"
If you are to face the world again
with this idea impressed upon your
minds, we are ready to wager our edi-
torial goggles, against peck of pota-
toes, that you will hear something drop
within the space of three months.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

We may not be big guns, yet we can
keep up pretty brisk fire of small
arms. We may not be great and shin
ing lights, yet our light shines and
burns steadily. SO keep up your cor
respOndence with THE MIRROR, boys,
as there is a great work before us, and
we all hope to rise to it's great require
mentS.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

per published in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t
was founded in 1887 by the cOnvicts and is edited
and managed by them. Its objects are: to be a
home newspaper; to encourage moral and intel
lectual Improvement among the prisoners; to
acQuaint the public with the true status of the
prisoner; to disseminate pathological informa-
tion and to aid in dispelling that prejudice
which has ever been the bar sinister to a fallen
mans self-redemptiOn. The paper is entirely
dependent on the public for its financial sup
port If at any time there should accrue a sur
plus of funds the money would be expended in
the interests of the prison library.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29

Death has taken Nels n. Heen from
our midst. He was sixty-three years
old, and was sent from GOOdhue Co. to
serve a sentence of three years. Re
QuiescOt il pace
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
Have you asked yourself what you are
to do during the long winter evenings

An exchange has failed to give The
MIRROR credit for an article written
by one of our men, headed: "Can To-
bacco-Smoker be Gentleman?" Cease,
friend: it hurts.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-04-13
INFLUENCE OF EVIL ASSOCIATION.
Takes the Lead of a Gang Which Baffled
the Police of the World.
Is FINALLY LANDED IN PRISON.
an Opium Fiend---GambIes Him
self Away, etc.

CHICAGO, April 12.-George Wilkes,
King of the Forgers, is dying in Bellevue
hospital, New York city. Thirty years
ago his rich uncle secured him posi-
ton in the bank of Brown Brothers &
Co., New York. He soon became fav-
orite on account of his talent, but was
finally discharged from his position of
trust because of evil associations. He
then started on bold career of crime,
which earned for him the sobriquet of
king of the forgers. For twenty years
he was leader of a gang which baff1ed
the police of every country in the world,
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
were secured by the criminals through
all kinds of forgeries. King George came
to Chicago, his old home, in 1882, when
he and his gang committed a number of
forgeries on banks in Joliet, Lima, O.,
and Kansas City. He made $I5, 200 on
one deal. Detectives secured the para
phernalia of the whole gang, and the
passers of the checks were found, but
King George eluded the officers In
1881 Wilkes was the leader of band of
thieves and forgers in Milan, Italy.
They forged and tried to place in circu-
lation bonds and bank notes worth ST.
100000. Wilkes was arrested and sent
to prison. He secured his release four
years later by turning informer against
his associates. In 1886 he was arrested
in New York for swindling banks in
Rochester, San Francisco, Cheyenne and
Butte City. but managed to escape con-
viction, and went to Paris to lose his i'll
gotten money, as usual, by gambling.
King George has been victim of the
morphine habit for years. A poIicem an
found him lying unconscious in vacant
lot in New York city Thursday night.
Some enemy had assaulted him. He
was taken to the hospital, where he is.
now diving
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-04-13
A Christian Burial.

WINLocK, Wash, April 13.-The muir
derous whisky fiend Dick Hancock, who
attempted to kill his wife; and perhaps
thinking he had done so, Immediately
afterwards killed himself, by sending a
bullet. into his miserable heart; was
given a christian burial according to his
just deserts. As a visitor to Winlock
puts it: "It was amusing in CHASTITY
way, to see the way in which the people
up there vented their Indignation upon
the body of Hancock, whom they would
have hung again had there been any use
in it. They just put him, dressed in an
undershirt and trousers, into a common
dry goods box and placed him under the
ground without the least sem blance of a
funeral service"