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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
What Are You Going To Do?

What are we going to do when we
get our discharge from here, when the
fateful day arrives for us to walk out
the gates, once more free man? Tru-
ly the subject is difficult one to discuss
calmly and as the great bard. has writ
ten, 'must give us pause" Every one
of us knows what an ex-convict means,
and what we must perforce expect when
we mingle again with society, and jostle
up against those whom we know, and
by whom we are known. The stealthy
glance, the significant, wondering, sus-
picious looks we will encounter and
must expect; and the close scrutiny with
which every act and motion will be
regarded.
1t will be torture, it will be CALLING,
and it will take more than powerful
will to bow meekly to the burden, but
we must do it, or else go somewhere
where we cannot be known, at least for
time-nOt until we have proven by
our straightforward, honest, clean lives
that we are bent on once more doing our
duty to ourselves and our neighbOr
And this leads me to the point l wish
to submit to you. 1t may not be worth
much but still tis one way out of the
difficulty.
Briefly, then, l speak of the placer
mines of Alaska or Peru. There is a
wide choice of climate and language to
suit all temperaments. 1t does not re-
quire any experience to gather the
metal. From five to fifty dollars per
day, and even more, is to be readily
made by little exertion. All that it does
require is bold, stout heart, and dog
ged determination to "get there;" and
there is not one of us who has not these
requisites, or, at least, Semblance to
them, for it takes all of these qualities
and more, too, to be criminal.
Of course the odds are about fifty to
one that you make failure of it; not
that you will not find the gold, but that
you will be clear-headed enough to stand
prosperity, husband your gains, and in
vest them in a judicious manner. The
gambling hells and saloons will most
certainly be your neighbOrs on either
hand, and if you can avoid that mael-
strOm you will surely succeed. The
odds are most certainly fifty to one you
do not, unless you keep your wits about
you, and your eye steadily on the goal
in sight. Disease and death will also
most certainly come, but if your body
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Our Enemy, Boys.
SHORN POET.

Streaming down the ages, blighting
the rosebuds, shriyelling the grasses,
scorching the heart and blistering the
soul, has come lurid tongue of flame
which, heated by the madness of hell,
has hissed out the terrOrs of death, and
dropped over the world a sea of unut-
terable despair. In the darkness of the
midnight it has glared about the hearth
stone wet with the weepings of wives,
mothers, and children, and has brOnZed
the beauty of earth with the horrible
cast of hell. Twisting around the altar
of the church it has withered the sweet
est flowers that ever attempted to bloom
for the adornment of heaven. and has
fed death from the very waters of life
At the gate of heaven itself it has
glared with appalling madness and
seemed like an impossible wall of flame
between misery and bliss. Dripping
burning drops of agony into the ten
derest depths of writhing souls, they
have heaved with unutterable pain and
called on God to blot them from exist
= ence forever. This blighting curse Of
the world, fellow convicts, is the demon
INTEMPERANCE. Language has never
been made that can depict it in all it's
hideOusnesS. Look on the stack of
skeletons that rearS it's CHASTITY head
high in the clouds and shapes the
whiStling winds into an utterance of
whitening denunciatiOn of the fiery
monster that gnawed the flesh from the
bones and tossed them into the hideous
pile; come forth from hell We damned,
writhing spirits that were robbed of
heaven by the sparkling tempter, and
cast the red shadow of thy wretched-
ness upon the faces of the living;
graves, give up your fostering bloated
millions, and stretch them in all their
rum-scorched ghaStlineSS and horrible
rottenness over the plains and mount
ain tops; come hither, broken hearts
and torn, bleeding souls from the time
of Noah until to-day; hold up your
withered hands, ye countless starving
women and children; come all We floods
of tears, that scOrched where'er they
touched, and boil together in one vast
steaming, seething ocean; come death,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
For The Mirror.
SPOOKS AND GENII.

Our Sam he Is a runner man;
So lank and thin and tall,
That if he stood side ways to you,
You'd see no Sam at all.
His head is cast in Africs mould.
Weird fancieS shooting by
The windows of cramped cavernS filled
With spOOks and genii.
Hobgoblin legends he relates;
OF ghosts and haunts and Sprite,
Till his poor soul. so narrowed up.
He cannot sleep at night.
A veteran dog once rOamed our yard,
Too old for service grown;
But many sneak he made on Sam,
SuSpecting him bone.
With trembling steps on errands bent.
CircuitOuS routes he tried;
But found that dog dead on to him
And they each other eyed.
The dog would water at the mouth,
Whenever Sam he saw:
Delicious to the sense of taste,
This great long bone to gnaW.
Now, antic in his motions Sam,
And frisky on his feet
Declaring he the dog heard say:
"Ah bone! You are my meat!
At length, Sam to the Deputy went
A mOurnful tale told he;
Of how that dog annoyed his steps,
And watched with ghOuliSh glee.
The dog close by heard every word,
And turned in movements slow;
Threw up three hOwls-fell down and died,
To hear that bone talk so.
And. now through all small hours of night.
When conscience fain would sleep;
Sam ever hears three hOWlS 20 up,
And SpOOkS in myriadS creep.
They caper round in aerial strides,
His head inside they gain;
A veritable politician now
A politicians brain.
Thus on lfe's bright prospective goal,
Has wingleSS chaos dawn'd-
Though every step he had gone dOggd
But now he is sd0g-gOn'd.' . 80
SHORN POET
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

Tobias F. Hudson, prisoner in the
Maryland penitentiary, has invented an
improved socket for incandeScent lamps
and constructed number of unique
clocks, one of which, the warden says,
keeps better time than the expensive
French clock in the prison.. 81. Paul
Ti1neS
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

is clean and healthy, and from the infec-
tiOus taint of the rum shop, you will
surely give good battle to both, and at
any rate instead of filling felon's grave,
I would rather lay my bones amid the
ice and snow of the north, or the vine
clad hills and fertile valleys of the
incaS. WAYNE,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
just Suited Him.

Berkely Van Nobs: But, my deah
boy, why on earth should you join the
Republican party?
Reggy Westend: Because it s so small
and exclusive, don't ye know.-Puck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

An epidemic of crime is sweeping
over Georgia. Convicts are being sent
to the penitentiary at rate never be-
fore known in the history of the State.
On Oct. there were 1910 convicts in
the penitentiary. Now there are nearly
2,1OO. This is a startling increase in so
short time. The time will soon come
at this rate when Georgia's convict
army will number 5000. Some time
ago Gov. Northen was considering the
propriety of inviting all the Superior
Court Judges in the State to meet in
Atlanta and confer with a legislative
committee on the lawlessness in the
State. He had casual conversations
with one or two Judges who thought
it good idea, and it may be carried in
to effect the next term. The laWleSS
ness is attributed to various general
causes. Mob rule has had something
to do with it. This is the observation
of the States best Judges. Of late the
Judges have been making the penalties
more severe, and it seems that the per
centage of convictions is larger.-The
Summary.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

Coming out of the big end of the
hOrn-Music.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Money no Longer q Career.

y While upon the subject of money, let
me repeat what a noted New Yorker
said to me the other day, and let me
add that he is in a position to know
whereof he speaks:
"MOney is no longer a career as it
used to be in this city," said he. "Rich
men are at discount, and the fact is
creating revolution in their view of
riches and in our feeling toward them
and their fortunes. Time was, and not
so long ago, that millionaire was a
marked figure. His house was pointed
Out-On Fifth or Madison avenue-his
company was cOurted, he found the
second class of society, which we call
the -Four Hundred, eager to admit him.
The career of the Vanderbilts illustrates
that era of wealth. They had their
Houses pointed out, they set the career
of money before their children. They
got into society. The history of Jay
Gould illustrates the changed condition.
His house was known to few. He
never got himself or any of his family
into society, and such thing never
would have been possible. He married
one son to an actress, a daughter to the
son of a doctor. He was glad to seek
alliance with talent and virtue, and he
held those qualities above his own mere
wealth. ---'-------e--------- . =-'---
"My profession has brought me a
rich clientele. am aStOnished at what
see every week of my life. | find the
city full of millionaires who are cutting
no Splurge whatever. Their houses are
not even on the avenues. Nothing
about the exteriOrs Of their homes at
tracts public attention to their wealth
or existence. AS | meet and talk with
these men | learn that very many of
them are anxious to marry their daugh-
ters to fellows of talent and promise
regardless of the money which they can
supply in abundance. Their sons they
are educating for the professions. They
admire and envy the so-called aristO-
cratic set and many would like to enter
it, but know they cannot do so. They
see that a marked career in any useful
line of professional work gives man a
better standing than money does, and
they note the astonishing fact that
talent admits men where money cannot
get them, and that brains and skill are
counted and run after as money is not.
It's wholesome change and a grand
one. 1t is another of the gradual
changes by which this city is becoming
transformed from mere city into one
of the great capitals of the world
Julian Ralph, IN Precedence Journal.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15

rho General nature OF the business proposed
., ,-sD.acted by this corporation is that OF
"yas,rrrttng, maintaining and operating dams
."si. bitches, fumes, reservoirs, acqueducts
ga .1ch other appliances and structures as
~ he necessary in impouuding, conducting,
,n,ro,ling aud delivering water for irrigatio n
.,35,mestic pur poses, and the buying, selling
-T ac,1iriug in any lawful manner water
9.,ocbises and appropriations OF water, to-
.,,Ssr with dams. reservoirs, canals, bitches,
-, rates and all other structures, appur-
,.n.nees and appliances necessary or conven-
;,ot in the operation thereof; also, to construct
'r5 maintain, purchase and acquire, telegraph
.r5 telephone lines, mines, quarries, stores and
',,,s. houses. stocks of goods, lands, tenements,
5,,rcbises. stock of other corporations, and all
s'r3s of property, real, personal and mixed,
-rs hold, manage, improve, deal in or dis
,,,s NJ the same; and may borrow money aud
100 10 repay the same; to mortgage, pledge
o,bvpothccate any or all property this eorpo-
,.,ioD may own to secure the payment of any
,r8sbtedness by II incurred.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
ARTICLE V,

The affairs OF this corporation are to be and
they shall be conducted by board of direc
tors, consisting of nine (9) stockholders who
shall be elected annually by the stockholders
on the last Thursday in June, at an annual
meeting of the stockhold ers, which shall be
held at the Peoria branch office, at $50 p. m.
of that day in each year.
The officers of this corporation shall be a
president, vice presi dent, secretary and trea
surer, who shall be elected by the directors
from among the stock holders, at the first meet
ing after their election, and who shall hold
their office for one year, and until their success.
sors are elected and qualified, and until the
first election of officers, the following named
persons shall be such officers, namely: Pres
ident, John II. Francis; vice president, N. R.
Gibson secretary and treasurer, James NJ.
Rice,
In witness, whereof, the Peoria Canal Com
pany has caused its name to b. signed hereto
by the president and secret ary, and to be &C.
knowledged by them, and proposes to have the
same recorded and published as required by
law.
PEORIA CANAL COMPANY.
By JOHN II. FRANCIS, President.
JAMES NJ. RICE, Secretary.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
VII.

The stockholders OF this corporation and
their private property shall be exempt from
the corporate debts OF this corporation
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
STATE OF ILLINOIS , ga
COUNTY OF PEORIA, %

Before me, Emma Donnelly, notary bubble
in and for said county and state, on this day
personally appeared John II. Francis and
James NJ. Rice, personally known to me to be
the president aud secretary respectively of the
Peoria Canal Company, corporation organized
under the laws of Arizona, having its principal
Office at ella Bend; Arizona, ana branch Of
fee at Peoria, Illinois they being the persons
whose names, as such president and secre airy,
are subscribed TO the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged TO me that the Peoria Canal
Company, and they as its president and sec
rotary respectively, executed the same for the
purpose and consideration therein expressed,
Given under my hand and seal of Office this
2nd day of August, A. D., 1898.
[leall EMMA DOM ELY,
Notary Public.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
VI.

The highest amount OF Indebtedness or liabil-
iiy to which this corporation is at any time to
subject itself, is the sum OF one million two
hundred and fifty thousand Isl ,2Jo,0CD dollars.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
Notice..


Estate of John Bohn, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
administrator of the above named estate to the
creditors of and all persons having claims
against said deceased to exhibit the same with
the necessary vouchers within four months
from the first publication of this notice to the
undersigned at the Office OF l.. II. Chalmers in
Thibodo building, Phoenix, Arizona, which
Office will be the place where all business tran
sactiOns in regard to said estate will be tran
sacted SAMUEL BONN,
Administrator OF the estate of John Bohn, de.
ceased.
First publication August 9th, 1898.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
II +.

The amount Of the capital stock of this cor.
rors,on shall be two million 81 10000 dollars,
divided into twenty thousand (2000O) shares Of
The par value Of one hundred slOO.OO dollars
ssrb. and the same shall be paid in Install
renr, at such times, upon such conditions and
in such amounts as the directors may hereafter
desrmine, provided, however, that certificates
oi stock shall not be issued until the same are
fully paid. and thereafteE the shares OF stock
,epre,eated by such certificates shall be non
a,ss.lJ.e,
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Call for City Warrants.
Notice to Creditors.

In the matter Of the estate of E NJ. Mills, de.
ceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims against F. NJ. Mills, deceased, 10 present
aud exhibit the same with the necessary youoh
ers 20 the undersigned at the law office of kibbey
4 Israel, No. i2l6 East Washington street, III
the City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Terri
tory Of Arizona, within four months from date
of this notice MRS SUSIE X. MILLS,
Administrators OF the estate of Z. NJ Mills, de
ceased.
Dated August 9th, 1898.
First publication August G, 1893
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
TERRITORY or ARIZONA, I 90
COUNTY OF MARICOPA, IS

TERRITORY or ARIZONA -.
COUNTY OF MAmCOPA,
Before me, Jesse b. Woodward, notary pub
nc In and for the county of MaricOpa, al d ter
rlory Of Arizona, on this day personally APP
peared John II. Francis, william Jack, James
NJ Rice, n. Il, Gibson and Thomas Armstrong,
Jf' known 10 me to be the persons whose
names are subscribed to the foregoing articles
OIL Incorporation, and each acknowledged to
me that he executed the same for the purposes
ana consideration therein expressed.
"Yen under my hand and seal OF Office this
10Th day of June, A. D. 1893.
.Nolarial Seal JESSE b. WOODWARD.
Notary Public.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
VII.

The board Of directors Of this corporation
shall have power to establish bylaws and TO
make all rules and regulations necessary Tor
the management of the affairs OF this corpora
ton, and may I'll any vacancies in the board.
These articles of incorporation may be
amended at any annual meeting of the stock
holders, or ct any special meeting thereof
called for that purpose by majority vote OF
the stock Of said corporation voting in favor OF
such amendments, and when any amendments
are made as herein provided, the same shall be
signed in the corporate name by the president
and secretary and acknowledged by them, and
when so signed and acknowledged, and re-
corded and published as required by law, they
shall have the force of amendments to these
articles
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 18th day Of June, A. d.
1885,
JOHN II. FRANCIS, tSeall
VIM. JACK, tSeall
JAMES NJ. RICE tSeall
Mr.. GIBSON, [Seall
TUCg ARMSTR0NG Jr fsaal1
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15

The Affairs Of the corporation are TO be and
lsy shall be conducted by board OF direct
0r consisting Of i've (5) stockholders who shall
be elected annually by the stockholders on the
last Thursday in June and until an election
Of llrcctors shall be had, the incorporators
hereof, as above named, shall constitute the
board or directors. The officers Of this corpo
ration shall be president, vice-president ana
asecretary aud treasurer. who shall be elected
by the directors from among the stockholders
4, the first meeting after their election, ana
shall hold Office for one O) year and until their
successors are elected and qualified; and until
the first election OF officers, the following
named persons shall be such officers, namely:
President, John II. Francis Nice.President, N
R. Gibson, Secretary and Treasurer, James NJ.
Rice,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
"

The time Of the commencement of this cor
,cr,ffoa hall be upon the date and at the
tine Of The iling of these articles with the
county, recorder of Maricopa county, Arizona
territory And the termination thereof she'll
.s 5i,y COZ years thereafter.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15

the branch office at Peoria, Illinois, June 20,
1898, at Z o'clock p. m, by the unanimous ac-
ton OF the stockholders meeting, Article V,
of the Articles of Incorporation was amended
to read as follows:
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
Peoria Canal Company,

A., MEN nv THESE PRESENTS: That
HNo" a. II francis, william Jack, James NJ.
We, 'T " R. Gibson andT homas Armstrong, IT,
R'ss' a. associated and do hereby associate Z,
bsYe together ior the purpose OF
onIss,.'s' corporation and becoming incor-
lorni'S ,, - the laws of the Territory OF Ar
Iors'e' 1--WE we do hereby make, adopt, sign and
Ion'' CIV ,,os for such purpose these articles OF
rforporaIiJn'
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15

mans handwriting said to be- key os character but the
IN O
rubber stamp shoddy cheap
the the dearest
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-08-15

,,r,ss of the iucorporators OF this COM
Inc Tohr II. Francis, william Jack, James
pany ",' R Gibson and Thomas Armstrong,
N. hC'' ,,,ne of this corporation is and shall
1.-the PEORIA CANAL ooNrAST ana s ITS pi na a.
Ps P P.gd, in the County OF Marieopa, Terri
'l1 iona, but branch offices may be es'
"t! s y, nj such other places as the board OF
s ..,,r. NAV by the bylaws of this corpora
ai'', .,.,,ide, and such business may be trans
n1N .rch branch offices us may be provided
s' 'In ,rcb bylaws. Provided, however, that
'' u, .,,ch bylaws are adopted all business of
. .D'',,,rnorstion done or transacted at the City
Wv p,,g,niv. in said county shall be as valid,
land binding as though done and trans
',I' the principal Office OF this company.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29
LADIES MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.

conversation thus: AS a Commits
sioner of Health l must profess my
self altogether opposed to the ar
tistic theory of beauty. There IS
the Venus de Medicis, which you
artists regard as giving the perfect
type of female form. should re-
quire that a typical statue with
such pretensions should bear evil
dence of perfect power of life, with
steady prospect of health and signs
of mental vigor; but she has neither
Her chest is narrow, indicating I'M
robust lungs, her limbs are without
evidedce of due training of muscles,
her shoulders are not we'll braCed up
and her Uranium, and her face. to,
are deficient in all traits of intellect.
She would be a miserable mistress
of a house and a contemplate
mother" But the listener assured
the sage critic that he had made a
most artistic criticism of the statue,
and that his auditor would join in
every word as to his standard
of requirements. Mr.. Hunt was
aware, he said, that he was talking
heresy to the mass of persons who
accepted the traditional jargon of
the coghoscent1 on trust, but in his
oponion "the work belongs to the
decadence of Roman virtue and
vitality, and its merit lies alone in
the rendering of a voluptuous being
without mind or soul" If no
authorities Of equal weight will
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29
KILL AND CURE METHODS.
[ChicagO Blade.l

In Sioux City the other day, an
ambulance drove to a hospital with
two patients. The driver represen-
ted that one Of them. whom he
pointed our, was suffering from
delirium tremens, and that the other
had fallen distance of twelve feet
and lit on his head. The hospital
physicians treated the patients &C
cordingly, with the result that the
delirium tremens victim was soon
as good AS new, and the one who
had sustained the fall was a corpse.
About this time it was discovered
that the ambulance driver had got
things mixed, aud that each patient
had been treated for the others af-
Fiction. The doctors had never
found out the error. All of which
goes to show that even when doctors
fail to disagree their wisdom is not
always infallible.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29

that afforded by a company of
picturesquely dressed women NOV
ing around amid paintings and cost
ly brio braC. Bachelor teas are
amusing as showing to what eX-
tremes Of foolishness idle swelldOm,
as represented by its dudes, will go.
"A mannish woman is bad enough,
but a sissy man is worse" sCorn-
fully remarked a guest who had
lust come from ore of these affairs,
where the host had danced nd
ance upon the gracious goddess
who condescended to pour the tea
for him, while he looked out that
chocolate spoons did not get mixed
with tea and other stylish essen
tials, the omission of any one OF
which would have been an unpard-
enable sin.
The queen OF the teaCups on this
occasion wore reception gown III
combination jacket and Empire
style, made of Changeable blue and
gold velours. The full front of the
skirt was confined under a high
girdle formed of two rows of velvet
ribbon. The 'bolero jacket was
composed of alternate rows Of vel
vet ribbon and velour. The En-
pire sleeves were long and close at
the wrist. A beautiful costume
which appeared this week at a re-
ception was one of figured wool |
goods in pale heliotrope, with the
dashes in a darker shade. This |