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The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

License was carried in Boston last
year by only 1900 majority and
this year the Boston Herald be-
lieves it will be defeated and prohibi-
tion substituted. If this should prove
to be the case, or if the majority in favor
of license, should be small, the advo
Gates of this form of restraining the
liquor traffic would be utterly confounded
because it would represent the deliber
ate verdict of city which had tried that
plan for many years, unbiased by any
political issue, that it had proved a COM
plete failure. After that we should hear
very little talk about local option laws in
Maine, because nine tenths of the people
who are in favor of local option are so
simply because they think it will es-
tablish the license system permanently in
the cities. If they see, as they will if
Boston repudiates license, that that will
not be its effect they will soon cease
to feel any interest in it,
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17
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The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

The call for an extra session of Con-
gress soon after the Fourth of March
grows fainter, and it may be expected to
cease altogether pretty soon. The organs
which were so sure that the people de-
manded the repeal Of the Mckinley bill
right off are becoming less certain as the
days go on and they see other organs as
high and influential in the party as they
declaring that was not the meaning of the
peoples verdict at all.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

The Philadelphia Ledger has been
comparing the cost and results of Arc
tic expeditions, and concludes that
Lieutenant Peary's, which cost less than
$25, 900, was more fruitful in scientific
results than any previous expedition.
The Franklin expedition and the relief
parties cost Great Britain over 81, 100000
and the British North Pole expedition
cost $251, 200. Lieutenant Peary ap-
pears to have the record for lightest
cost and greatest profits.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

Boston has more politics to the square
inch than any city in the Union. Having
just got through voting for President
and Governor, it is now all torn up with
the question who shall be mayor. Mr..
Matthews would like to be renominated,
but the friends of Mr.. Owen Calvin are
on deck making loud demands, not un-
accompanied with threats, for that gen
tleman.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

The New York Sun has a story that
the tariff plank which got into the Demo-
cratic national platform was brought
into the convention by the opponents of
Cleveland with the expectation that it
would give rise to protracted wrangle
which would compel the postponement of
the nomination until the next day when
the chance of beating Cleveland would
be better; that William G. Whitney,
divining it's object, urged the Cleveland
delegates to let it go through, and that
they followed his advice. The prompt
ness with which the northern Democrat
ic organs repudiated the plank gives a
certain amount of probability to this
story. But it is safe to say that the gal
1ant Col. Watterson will not permit it to
go unchallenged.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

If the Chamber of Commerce expected
to get some glimpse of the next Presi-
dents policy rom his speech at their
banquet they were utterly disappointed.
The coming President showed that at
some time in his career he had read the
Scriptures, and that the story of Elisha
and the bears still fingered in his mind,
and that is about all.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

According to a canvass by the Boston
Herald there will be opponents enough
of free coinage in the next house to de-
feat it. Seventy-one Democrats and 1873
Republicans the Herald thinks can be
depended on to vote against it. 1t will
be seen that the great majority of the
Democrats are in favor of free silver and
almost to man the Republicans are
against it. Yet the Herald was fond of
telling its readers in the campaign that
the Democratic party was the sounder
financially. Evidently the independent
paper sometimes fbs for political pur-
poses.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

If Congress distributed the offices the
demand to meet in extra session imme-
diately after the fourth of March would
strike responsive chord in every Demo :
cratic breast.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II.

With potatoes at 81 bushel and eggs
three cents apiece it would be difficult
even for the Eastern Argus to squeeze
out a plying tear over the 'poor far
mern of Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-17

There remain several Democrats in the
city who have no yet been mentioned in
connection with some of the offices.
They should get their names on the list
Immediately.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

schools. 1t would be difficult to secure
ambitious and industrious pupils with
out running some risks. You must
awaken the desire to rise, even though
the desire to rise dishonesty may de-
velop itself in some pupils.
The gravest charge against the
schools is that they kill the pupils with
hard work. Every city has it's story of
pupil (always girl murdered by the
severe tasks of the school. The simple
truth is that negligent mothers are
more guilty than the schools. 1t is a
mothers business to know all about her
children-to know when they are over
wonderland it is also the mothers
duty to put a stop to hurtful work.
Teachers are not hired to take the place
of parents. We could not afford to pay
enough teachers for this service. The
public school system assumes that
mothers attend to their duties, and re-
tain their authority. If school work is
hurtful to a young girl, the mother has
the right to remove the child from the
school. If she does not find out that
the work is too hard. how can she ex-
pect the teacher to discover it? The
general health of public school chill
dren proves that the system is not too
severe: but it will often happen that
young girls are physically unfit for
study. 1t is the business of their moth
ers-not of their teachers to know
when such disabilities exist.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03
An Appeal for Justice.

When fellow gets tangled up so that in sheer
desperation he like a runaway hOrse) kicks over
the traces. barkS his mental shinS and utterly
demOliSheS the dashboard of his literary repu-
tatOn, is there anything in the code of nine
teenth century journalistic christianity which
compels the editor of highly respected period
zeal to resort to Munderbusses and IL shot. See?
and With threats of dire vengeance and with
arms aforesaid to utterly blast. destroy. crush
out. and eNtngush the last lingering spark of a
poetic genius which in eNllberant ecstasy of i'm
aginatiOn has nur>ed into existence: We think
not! and we appeal to our :" fellow bretherin.'' to
all POLITICALLY peaceful inclined intellectS. to
whOnlSOever it may concern. to bear us out in our
views. There are gentler and more agreeable
methods of declining with thanks. than bI,tnde,-
bussing a fellow poet full of cOnglOmerated lead.
or soaring him into apOpleXy or under the house.
Heavy Thoughts says he belts you are wrong
yes. decidedly wrong. A far more poetic and
agreeable way to have stranged that sXs. night
mare author would have been to invite him to
produce another horse to match it and he would
have died in the effort. See? And then there
would be no legal proceedings necessary to ex-
Onerate the managing editor for the verdict
would read justifiable pOeticide. RIM.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

Is it safe to confer great trust on
an impure man? Clean hands do not
belong to an unclean heart. A man
cannot be unqualifiedly trusted with
anything if his virtue cannot be trust
ed. The whole moral life is so inter-
locked, all it's manifestations are to a
discerning eye so expressive, each of
all and all of each, that the scripture
statement, he that Offendeth in one
point is guilty of all, finds its echo in
the proverb which expresses the I'M
doubted human consciousness, .faIsats
i,a at,1o tialsus IN omnibus The quality
of the source will appear in all it's
streams. "DOth fountain send forth
at the same place sweet water and bit
ter?" 1t is indeed a blessed truth that
human life is capable of great renova-
lions. However we may explain it,
men are sometimes entirely transformed
in character, the base man becoming
estimable, and the dark heart shin
ing with light; but while a hopeful
charity will have it's eye always open to
this possibility, wise judgment bids
us look for evidence of such change
before we fully trust a man long known
to be untrustWOrthy.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03
Luck.

On looking at the underSide of the table-leaf
in my cell, read the following: :. Ed - ar.
rived May 23d. 80. Will depart Feb, DIST. 49,
Better luck next time" Luck! What is it? To
my mind there is hardly a word in the vocabu-
larry which is more cruelty abused than the word
luck. In my humble opinion the philosophy of
luck is at the bottom of more dishonesty. wicked
ness. and moral corruption than anything else.
1t SOws its seeds in youthful minds just at that
visionary season when judgment has not been
ripened by experience, nor imagination corrected
by wisdom; and it takes more minds from the
great SchOOhOuse of useful lfe and more arms
from the great workshop of human industry.
than any other thing to which my mind reverts.
1t is a moral palsy against which every just man
should arm himself Men lose their luck by let
ting their energies exc through bad habits and
unwiSe projects as our worthy Protestant chap
lain said the other Sunday in his discourse.
Some lose their luck in late morning maps, some
in late evening hours: some lose their luck in the
bar-rOOm. and in the ballroom: some lose their
luck in folly, some in fashion. some in idleneSs.
some in high living. some in dishonesty, and a
great many in bad management. and under this
head the writer perhaps lost his luck Indeed
bad management is at the bottom of all bad luck.
1t is bad management to train up family of bad
habits. to eat out living and corrupt his life
1t is bad management to drink liquor. and chew
tobacco and smoke. and swear. and visit thea
tres. and chase after the fashions. and fret and
ScOd, and get angry, and abuse people. and
mind other peoples business and neglect our
own. 1t is bad management to expose our health
or OvertaX our powers, and get sick. and take
drugs to get well; to be idle extravaganza or
mean or dishonest. All things tend to bring that
evil genius which men call bad luck. We all
fancy that something will one day turn up for
our good. for which we have never strven.
A. A. w.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

The gay and festive politician is now
informing the people that there is "a
crisis" he is summoning the voter to
the support Of 1.-The principles of free
government; he is assuring them that
Tubbs is the man. and that now is the
time to rebuke corruption in high
places, and ''vindicate the majesty Of
the American people, And ever and
anon he will in tender accent say:
"Thanks. make it GIN
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

1t is rather mixed state of things
where disturbance of the peace is held
to be treason, and an attempt to quell
it is found to be murder and conspiracy.
But such seems to be the state of affairs
in Pennsylvania. All the troops have
now been withdrawn from Homestead
and peace, it is said, prevails there.
Meanwhile grand jury has found true
bills against the Homestead rioters who
are charged with treason, and the same
jury has dealt in similar fashion with
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

We have received a number of COM
pliments on the appearance and con-
tents of the last issue of our paper.
Like all publishers who take pride in
improvement we aim to make each
number better than the preceding one.
There are few of us who are wholly sat
isfied with our accomplishments and it
is our desire to attain the height of per-
lection, but it is difficult matter to
always shape matters to our purpose.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03
AN UNJUST COMPLAINT.

1t would be a strange thing if the
public schools of the country gave en-
tire satisfaction. They are so numer-
Gus, they cost so much, such large
hopes are built on them, they so per-
vasively affect the most sensitive social
regiOnS-thOse of the family a
very large amount of criticisms, huge
aggregate of discomfort, would be prop
erly and naturally expected. The Won
der is that there is SO little dissatisfac-
ton. Perhaps the most sensitive spot
just now is the pass examinations-or
the system of regulating the rise Of
pupils from one department to another.
1t is affirmed, for example, that in New
York and other cities the teachers are
constantly employed in coaching their
pupils for examinations. 1t is declared
that there is very little of proper teach
ing. that most of the work is simply
examining for the sake of passing. and
that the pupils really learn very little are
not in any proper sense being educated.
The whole mass of these children are
being crowded up a stairway and the
getting up, by whatever means. in the
higher grades is the sole object of teach
ers and pupils.
1t is easy to see that there must be
much use of the spirit of emulation.
and the pride of standing. in teaching
great masses of young people. There
are Owlish philosophers who would
have children and young people act
from the motives that are supposed to
regulate the lives of their grandfathers.
A public school boy or college boy is
often, perhaps commonly, spoken of as
though he were companion of SOcra-
ties and George Washington. This kind
of critic assumes that the lad knows
all wisdom and only needs to select
some bits of knowledge and chew them
with the relish of a Plato. The critic
cannot put himself in the boys place.
He cannot realize that the boy does not
know everything, and does not much
care to learn anything. This critic has
the practical teacher at a great advan-
tage; knowing boys and girls as saints
and philosophers, he can condemn the
practical instructor who has never met
any such boys and girls. The teacher
wants to get work out of his pupils:
and he goes about it practically, and
does get the work done. At the end of
his work, the pupils are doubtless very
unsatisfactory. In fact, we are all of
us, always more or less unsatisfactory,
There is no doubt that the pass sys-
tenn has developed some bad features.
Perhaps some trace of these features
will be found everywhere in graded
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

The common acceptation of the term
dandy . is that it applies to anything
of a superior order, whether animate or
inanimate. Such being the case it
will be readily understood when we re-
sort to the vernacular and apply the
adjective to The Washingtoniam pub
lished semi-mOnthly. at the Washing
ton School for Defective Youth, at
Vancouver. Wash.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

No one, probably, was ever injured
by having his good qualities made the
subject of judiciOus praise. The vir-
tues, like plants, reward the attention
bestowed upon them by growing more
and more thrifty. a lad who is told
often that he is good boy will in time
grow ashamed to exhibit the qualities
of a bad one.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

There are very many voters, wise and
upright men, who have not yet deter
mined for whom they shall vote at the
coming election for President, and great
numbers on both sides who have here
tofore steadily sided with the one party
will now vote with the other. Rarely.
if ever before, have so many changes
in party attachments or so little inter
est in party contest been manifested
at this stage of presidential canvass.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

Reformers, from being deeply i'm
pressed with the evils they seek to re-
dress, and actively engaged in war
fare against them, are apt to contract
certain habit of denunciatiOn, extend
ing to persons and things at large, and
by which their character for amiability
is injuriOuSly affected.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

per published in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t
was founded in 1887 by the cOnvcts 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
acquant the public with the true status of the
prisoner; to disseminate pathological infOrma-
ton, and to aid in dispellng that prejudice
which has ever been the bar sinister to 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, 1892-11-03

the guardians there, who are charged
with murder and conspiracy. Perhaps
the courts will unravel it all when the
cases come to trial.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-11-03

The man who puts heart in his work will al
ways have work to put heart in.-ET.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-21
TO LIVE AT SOUTH COVE.
Philanthropic Young Boston Women VIII

Philanthropic Young Boston Women Will
Work Among the Poor and Needy.
Nine philan thropic young Boston wom-
en- will spend the winter in the South
Cove in the interest of the poor women
who live in that region. They are not
simply to visit and labor in that malo-
dorous quarter, but they are to live
there. The little coterie insists that it
is not an institution. 1--WE are simply
ladies who prefer to live at South Cove"
they declare, rather than at the Back
Bay" The only individual member
who allows her name to be public
ly connected with the movement is Miss
Katherine Conan, professor of eco
Monies at Wellesley college, who stands
sponsor for the movement Three other
volunteers from Wellesley are included,
one from Bryn Mawr, two from Maine,
and the remaining two, who will live at
90 Tyler street, are from Roston's Back
Bay.
The line of work to be pursued here
has not been made public, but the good
of the masses and the furtherance Of
the ideal democracy are the aims held
in view. Reading clubs and classes and
all manner of helpful and refining in
tiuences are to center at the South Cove
college and radiate among the tenement
jewellers and the dodgers in the neigh
borhood of Tyler street.
WELLESLEY college girls are especially
enthusiastic over the project, and in
Back Bay regions there are indications
of the strongest kind of a fad for col
lege settlement work Conservative
parents view the scheme somewhat
aslance, but if a genuine Boston fad
gets on foot parents and public will be
powerless and the South Cove will rank
among ideal strongholds of culture
Chicago Post
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-21
VARIOUS NOTES.
crat.

BRANDY and gin deceive the drinker
because he fancies he drinks them, but
they drink him. "A Kaffir Chief.
HAMBURG is said to have the worst
water and the best beer of any city.
Observe the result when cholera comes
and draw the moral.
A PROVISION of the International
Union of Carriage and Wagon Makers
is summary dismissal from the union
for any member who becomes intoxi-
Gated.
THE Lutheran World says that our
country could we'll afford to trade the
saloons that curse our land and people
for the Asiatic cholera. Even in Asia
the cholera does not work the harm
and death and ruin that the saloons do
in our midst
NINE LoYsoN, wife of Pere Hya-
cinthe, now on a visit to the United
States, puts as the first step toward
the evangelization of France the prohi-
bition of Intoxicating drinks, and says
that 'in France the wine cup is the
god of the masses"
Our of fifty-seven children in ten
families of drinkers, but ten showed a
normal constitution. while out of sixty
one children of non-drinkers, there
were but eleven who were not normal
" developed. Such figures speak for
themselves.
IRELAND groans over her heavy rents,
and England for many years has been
set at variance anent the Irish ques-
ton; but the real Irish question is of
whisky. SAYS Prof. Bayrett, of Bel
fast: The Irish spend ia a year more
on alcohol than or all their rents"
MnDURA, town ot New South
Wales, was founded bv the Chaffey
brothers in 1855. BY means of irriga-
ton it has been transformed from a
desert into beautiful slrden. BY the
terms of the Mildula Irrigation act no
liquor is allowed to be sold in the set
Element, and in consequence everyone
appears happy ana prosperous.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-21
NE HAD SNAKES.
They Were the Real Things and Their
Effect Was salutary.

II was always n great lover of
snakes" said st. Louis man recently.
when boy / lived near Bonneville,
Mo-, and my parent on my fathers side
was somewhat addicted to the habit
of looking upon the wine when it wore
its war paint. He came home one
Saturday night with pretty good jag
aboard, and the next morning had a
heao~ Cat was wondrous to behold
There was a sharp frost that night and
when | went out to do the chores / APP
propriated my fathers overcoat. Dur
ing the morning found nearly a
dozen garter snakes that had been tied
up by the frost, and put them into
the pockets of the overcoat, intending
to thaw them out and put them insmy
menagerie. When the breakfast bell
rang forgot my pets and left them in
the coat pockets, After breakfast we
went to church, and, as the old gentle
man felt pretty shaky, he kept his
overcoat on and Rugged the stove. On
the way mother had lectured him
soundly and pointed out that he was
only little ways removed from the de,
lirium tremens, AS he sat by the stove
the snakes thawed out and began to
circulate themselves. The old gentle
man was so wrapped in meditation
that he did not notice them until he
was literally covered by them. Then
he raised war-whoop that could have
been heard from Tadmor in the wilder.
ness to Yuba Dam. He made a break
for the door, shedding snakes and ex-
clamation points at every jump, When
we got home we found that he had
emptied his pocket flask into the sink
and was wearing a blue ribbes in his
button-hole. st Louis Gloh@ Demo,
crat,