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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Mrs. Gotham: Now, they say Chicago ia
to have tho most powerful telescope ever
made. What do you suppose this is for? Mr..
Gotham: presume they want to find out
If the top stories of their houses are inhab-
tied
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

An Extended Popularity. BRowN's
BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs have for many years
been the most popular article in use for re-
lieving Coughs and Throat Troubles.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

She: Do you believe that ones fate can
be read in the hand as palmistly people say?
He: To q certain extent. Give me your
hand, for instance. and can tell that my
fate will be sure to be a happy one.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Bouttown: Better not 60 to the st. Fashion
hotel The bill of fare is In French Gull
tured friend Indignantly: ] can under
stand French. BOuttoWn: Yes, out the
waters can't, and neither can the COOK.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Remember that in Garfield Tea you have
an unfailing remedy for indigestion. sick
headache and every attending i'll that an
abused stomach can make you suffer. Every
druggist sells it; DC, Soc. and 81.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Lady: want a dozen cigars for this
case. Dealer: I'm afraid I've nothing good
enough in stock to suit you. Oh. yea Juse
any kind will do. They arc to 30 given
away . q Christmas pEeeent
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Unwelcome Suitor: That's a lovely song!
Il always carries me away. She: If had
known how much pleasure 1t could give VI
both, should have sung it earlier in the
evening.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

0Guest: Why do you print your bill Of
fare in French? Fashionable restarateur:
Because l want my patrons to think that
think they can read it.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Proprietor: Did you let the lady know it
was no trouble to show your wares! New
Clerk: Yes, sir: l told her that selling
them was where the job came in.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Judge: What is your age, madam? Aged
Witness: l have seen 3! summers. Judge:
How long have you been blind?
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Little Boy: Were you in the war? Cen
eral WhIsker: Indeed / was, and / had
many narrow escapes. One ball grazed my
arm. Little Boy: Couldn't you find a wider
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Creditor: came to see if you could pay
the little bill, to-day! Debtor: Come, now,
this Is little too much. You press me about
that little bill just as though l were q poor
man.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Coughing Loads to Consumption.
kcmp's Balsam will stop tho cough At
once. Go to your druggist to-day and Rst .
sample bottle free. Large bottles Soc and s.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Young man. don't become addicted to tho
bottle. Il 10 a vial haoit.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

"Ah. you flatter me-" lisped a masher to
pretty girl with whom he was conversing.
mo, DON'T was the reply, you couldn't
be any flatter than you are"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Judge: Did your wife pick quarrel with
you? Victim: No: she doesn't seem to have
much choice about them. Any kind suits
her.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

One-half the world doesn't let his better
half know how he lives.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

on vet day.: Is the Noah's ark quite full?
Passenger: All but the donkey. Step in,
al
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. for Chil.
dren teething softens the gums, reduces innamma-
ton, alays pain. wind collie. 8 cents bottle
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

When bad example is set it Is apt to
hatch mischief.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

FlTS-An ITS stopped free py DR.. KllXE's GREAT
HKRvE R1STORKR. No nt after drst days use. Mar
velous Treatise and o. 90 trial bottle free to ft
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20
Important to Floshy People.

We have noticed page article in the Daily Globe
on red ucing weight Mt a very small expense. IL
Will pay readers to send twO-cent stamp for u
copy to Atlas Circulating Library l3 State Street.
Chicago, Ill.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

'HansOn's Magic Corn Snlve.''
Warranted TO cure, or money refunded. = &
your druggist for It. Price IL cents.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

jig dancing music is the kind that reaches
the sole.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
Unappreciated Kindness.

The other evening modest, unasSum-
ing young man dressed in the neat uni
form of the ''2nd infantry corps" called
upon me and in rather melancholy
tone of voice, announced himself as
the managing editor of THE MIRROR,
the official organ of the prison.
glanced at him and Immediately saw
that [ had a duty to perform and with
unflinching temerity explained to him
all the details necessary to successfully
conduct his paper. | noticed a Wearied
eXpreSSiOn-a sort of tired feeling as
which | attributed to a bad digestion
official life, but which really were
caused (as he afterward told mel by the
rays of light from the incandescent
light reflected from my cheek. Not
deigning to notice the slight Interrupt
tion thus made by him, descanted on
themes, new and old, which in my opin-
ion were best calculated to arouse the
latent intellect and enthuse new vitality
into modern journalism. | resurrected
and brought to his notice some of the
eminent correspondents of the past;
Zone Lung" Jumbo" yum Y Yum,' -
and other journalistic stars of greater or
lesser magnitude. again noticed that
ominous tWitch Of the facial organs and
Immediately recognized the fact that |
was delving too deep into literary lore
for him to follow; hence the twitching.
So with an encouraging smile drifted
by degrees into lighter vein of con-
versation and with a few well chosen
sentences from the Testimony" of a
thief who had to be sent to the peniten-
tiary in order to learn the evil of his
ways, [ soon put him at his ease. /
GRATED upon subjects where "Heavy
Thoughts were conspicuous by their
absence, and "Shorn Poets; were appre-
ciated for their true worth and existed
upon their merits. Twas just warming
up to my subject and had the editor by
the collar to insure an audience, when
my attention was called for an instant
to some small domestic affair which, up
on being adjusted, was about to re-
sumo, but lo the editor was gone. He
had taken advantage of that moments
absence and flown, and the calm, white
washed air of the cell room waited to
my ears in tremulouS cadence, like
the relieving sigh of soul upon deliv-
cry from purgatorial punishment-a
single word-good- S. MILE.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
The RefOrmer.

The sailing of ship by the stars is
an interesting lesson and suggests the
true attitude of the reformer. The re-
former must be honest, eager, and am
bilious; the advanced man of the age;
who becomes, of a necessity, reformer;
he lives between the old and the new, he
must not do as our forefathers did, but
must be ever experimenting. The true
refOrmer will make his duty to man
kind and its elevation, his pole star, and
not sail in the wake of another ship.
The real honest reformer that has man
kind at heart, has no model, his posi-
tiOn is unprecedented and unique; he
must create his own ideas on the line
of advancement; he must travel in new
and untried ways, and as reformer, he
needs some peculiar endOwmentS; he
must be reasonable, and able to perceive
and realize his own defects; he needs
sufficient judgement to distinguish
truth from falsehOOd, he must ever live
up to the letter of his word, he must be
willing to yield the less important to
the more important, he must be patient
with his subjects, remembering that
though he SOwS on poor soil. it will
yield if properly cultivated. He must
have high moral purpose as the basis
of all his actions; and in all his dealings
III the advancement and uplifting of
mankind, he must ever have at the bot
tom, truth, and righteousness.
BRIGHAM
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14

nature to be so. Criminals, like poets,
are born not made, and like many other
diseases which is given birth with hu
manity, it is manifested earlier in some
than in others, but if the germ is in us,
it is sure to manifest itself sooner or
later Why then should we blame
whisky-it is true, perhaps, that it has
served to expose the disease earlier than
it would have otherwise appeared; and
all right minded people should bless it
for SO doing; for it thus puts them on
their guard. What then is the root of
the evil? | answer; in accordance with
scripture: | am created by Divine
Being who gave me this nature, and, as
scripture further teaches, for some wise
purpose. This may be true, but when
[ am taught that | am a free moral
agent, | demur. Man is slave to his
nature, and he is not consulted as to
his choice of the nature he would pre-
fer, hence | hold. that if there is any
one thing to blame for my criminal ma
ture and manifestations. the blame is
with my Creator-if your clothes does
not fit you, it is the fault of the tailor,
not the saloon keeper. God has made
me what | am, and have no lower to
change my nature, no more than I have
to change the color of my skin, hence
all that | can say is, Lord, Thy will,
not mine be done. DEXTER.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
A Boom in Bombs.

The Internal machine has sprung into
popularity again. The police of Lon
don have discovered few of the latest
improvements in the bomb line, and as
usual the inventor has disappeared.
Perhaps he has gone to the continent
to make promiscuous distribution of
his samples among the powers that
OppreSS A short time ago Emperor
William was presented with an infer
nal machine, but the vigilance of his
suite discovered its dangerous nature in
time to prevent any accidents; the
crank that sent it. made lucky mis-
take in purporting it to be radish seed;
had he made his bomb in the form of a
small beer case and represented it to be
new kind of beer, the royal suite
would have blown themselves up in
their eagerness to sample it. None but
a Frenchman would send German,
radish seed. The Spanish authorities
intend to transport the principals in
the Barcelona plot, to beautiful island
off the coast of Africa and there in
struct them in the art of sugar culture.
In this the authorities err; they should
| land the cOnSpiratOrS upon some desert
isle, and provide them with good sup
ply of dynamite, nitro -glycerine, powder
and the ingredients that are contained
in internal machines, with the object in
view, that in the absence of other SUBJ
jects to plot against, they would begin
to make war among themselves, and
soon the whole colony would be blown
out of existence.
The dynamiter is peculiar genius of
the crank order. His greatest peculiar
ity is the ingenuity with which he con-
structS his weapons. 1t is wonder
they do not have their Internal ma
chimes patented. Surely such ingenuity
should be protected. Patent radish seed
for instance Another popularity Of
these cranks is the bungling manner in
which they carry out their plots; they
seldom score success and when they
do, are always caught; the papers term
them conspirators; they would be right
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
Donnelly Criticised.

Reading Atlantis, by Ignatius Don
nelly, 1 noticed where he speaks of the
Hindoos as descendants from possible
colonists from Atlantis, from the fact
that the first man in their traditions
was called Adima, and that the Sans
crit Adm means first. He seems to
have passed, without notice, the fact
that, in the Hindoostani language of to-
day, Admi means man. Again, further
on, in speaking first of the ancient
Irish as fire worshipping descendants
of Atlantean origin, and by that means
connecting them with the fire worship
per of the Asia of to-day and Central
and South America of old, he fails to
note the significant connecting link be-
tween Ireland, America, Sardinia and
India by means of the 'rOund towers"
The Parsees of India to-day are des-
cendents of the ancient Magician fire
wOrShippers of Persia and preserve
most Of the customs and traditions of
the far past in their religious ceremO-
nies, and in connection with the dis
posal of their dead They use round
towers of masonry to-day, gridironed
On top, and on these gridirons they ex-
pose their dead to the decompOsing
action of the sun. Can it not be in
ferred then, that the round towers
are charnel houses of ancient days
from which the metal bars have been
removed by those requiring weapons or
material for spear heads, etc? And is
it it not the custom of some of our
North American indians OF dispOsing
of their dead on elevated racks, crude
survival of an ancient custom?
This is humbly advanced as perhaps
another thread for that fabric that the
"Sage of Nininger" has so carefully,
learnedly and Skilfully woven to prove
his Atlantean theory, which seems to
me most conclusively deduced. He has
shown us innumerabIe wavelets tapping
the shores of all surrounding lands as
strong evidence that the Atlantean
stone did sink from the center of pre-
historic world. r. F.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14

shysters are looked upon by reputable
lawyers as tramps, and by the frugal and
industrious; with contempt and aver
sion. Not having the necessary legal
knowledge to conduct important cases
in the higher courts, the ShySter must
find his clientage in the police courts.
where his peculiar talents are employed
in the defense of criminals of the low
est description. Having no reputation
to Sustain-unless it is reputation for
low trickery and questionable practices
that would bring the blush of shame to
the cheeks of pick -pocket-the shyster
is ready to do anything in the way of
petty rascality that will bring him a
few dollars. If straw bonds are re-
qulred, the shySter is the man to pro-
cure them. If witness for the prose-
cutiOn is to be brlbed to absent himself
during time Of trial, or a convenient
witness made for the defense, the
shyster can be relied upon; for these
things come within his line of duty.
One would naturally suppose that the
services of man of this stamp would
be in great demand by the criminal
class; but ShreWd criminals know the
value of integrity in others and will
not have the ShySter at any price if
they can secure the services Of an at
torney of honesty and ability. They
know the latter will battle manfully for
his clients rights, and they know equally
we'll that the shyster-if any one is in
terested to the extent of a few dollars
in having the prisoner put away
will send his client to the penitentiary
with perfect self-cOmplacency
There are many men now serving
long terms in prison who have good
reason to regret the folly which prompt
ed them to employ counsel (?) of the
above description and stand trial, when
they would probably have received
comparatively light sentences had they
pleaded guilty to the crimes. charged
against them. 1t was wise old darky
who, when one of these incOmpetents
was appointed to defend him, cried out:
"Take hit away, jedge, take hit away;
is gwine to plead guilty
KRANK, 1851
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
Written for THE PRISON MIRROR.
AN ODE TO SNOW.
[BY SHORN POET. |


Virgin-pure, yet. naughty snow
Laying" on the ground!
With your palecheek, so unbluShing,
With no pasSiOn-pulSeS flushing;
Where no liquid fire is rushing,
With that amOrOuS, thrilling glow.
Calmly white and beautifully
Laying" on the ground!
Laying" while the sun is setting"
Long, long years beyond discerning,
At your own Set-time returning,
At the Sunheam'S Oblique yearning-
COmpaSSed by a three-mOnthS span.
In your bosom. men of learning,
EruditiOn-ageS' earning.
View'd and review'd secrets burning
Hatching-Out some deep-laid PLAN
Laying" while the sun is setting"
In this age awakes feeling,
In humanity, for revealing,
Buried truths you've been cOncealing
From that gifted animal-maG.
Tell me. Snow, tits no vague dreaming,
But is SpeclOuS and fair-seeming,
That your object here-lS Scheming,
Scheming since the world began.
80 Laying" while the sun is setting"
In your cold womb germs are breeding,
FreshetS and young bliZZardS feeding,
From whose grasp there's no receding
When, in time they float and flow;
Those Spring-freShetS, as if knowing,
DevaState, in OverflOwing;
And bliZZardS, fast to cyclones growing,
But prOpheSy a heartleSS foe.
Laying" while the sun is setting"
OF virgin-purity-emb
Oh, you naughty:
Naughty
Snow
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
THY WILL, BE DONE.
A Champion Of Gods Worst Enemy
and the DEVILS Best Friend.

Many years ago in the State of Texas.
there were gathered together a number
of men from all parts of the country.
After conversing for while on various
topics, after the conversation had been
continued sometime, and began to lag,
one OF the party spoke up, saying, 'boys
let us all tell our right names.' Like
the fellow in the above instance, |
would ask the "boys'' of this institu-
ton, who feel inclined to reveal the
causes of their downfall, to come out
like men and tell the truth.
1t is our nature to cast the blame of
our downfall upon somebody or some
thing. Adam, when brought to account
for wrong doing. cast the blame upon
Eve, who in turn cast it upon the SER
pent; since which time all men have
endeavored to make themselves appear
guiltleSs by casting the blame elsewhere
In the days of Adam, it seems, that
no one particular thing or object was
the victim of all this blame and censure.
possibly, because there was no such
thing as whisky those days; had there
been, however, | have no doubt that
Adam, like his sons of the present
generation would have said. whisky
done it.
People of the present day criticise
Adams alleged cOwardice and unman-
illness for thus striving to cast his sin
and wrong doing upon the woman, and
others criticiSe the woman for blaming
the serpent, thus the man, the woman
and even the serpent of the past have
their champions, but whisky the ap-
parent serpent of the present, has none.
Our esteemed friend r. E. r. dumps
his burden of guilt where thousands
before him have dumped theirs, and
thus is repeated over and over again,
the same old story, whisky did it. .
Whisky was the match to the powder
but unless the powder were there, the
match would have been harmless.
"Where there's will there's way.
If a person is inclined to commit crime,
and has not the courage to carry out
his inclinations, he appeals to whisky
for artificial courage, his own manhood
lacking the genuine article, and then if
he is apprehended in his wrOng-dOing,
''Why whisky done it,
Boys, let us at least be reasonable.
When we blame whisky for being the
cause of our downfall, the world can
easily believe it; but when we say that
it made criminals of us, no thinking
man will believe it; for unless there is
that desire in our nature, all the whisky
under heaven cannot make criminals of
us. If am criminal-thOugh not by
choice, however-it is because it is my
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
r-, 81. 90 per year, in advances
TENNIS: Six Months so Cents.

ly named, bungling, blunder- bussing
chumps. The greatest fraud connected
with these dynamiters, is the manner
in which the people treat them after
they have gotten into the hands of the
law. They make heroes of them; their
comrades envy their fate-"glOriOus
martyrdom," 'Sic semper tyrannis,
ETC., etc. A diet composed of their own
concOctions would discourage all their
aspirations for that GLORIOUS martyr
DOM" &C.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-12-14
The Shyster.

In the police courts of our large cities,
where men are tried daily for offences
ranging from vagrancy to crimes of the
most serious nature, the shyster is found
thriving upon the wickedness or mis-
fortune of others. The class known as
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-30
PEOPLE OF EUROPE.

THE late Dllse of Sutherland made
anddestroycd ninety-eHc wills before
framing one StS bis satisfaction.
TIE king Of Greece receives the small
estinconc OF any European sovereign,
his salary only amounting TO e4U,OUO
AncHI,1KE KAHa EUDwid, now on a
tour Of the world, with Hcaeli this nei igh-
borhootl in October. Tie is the Austrian
heir apparent,sbut as no is travelling
iticognito hiS appnrency will not exs
tend to his official Pc rson.
Mrs. 1IERNAHD IEEnss, the Englislr,
actress, has vast collection of ,lan-
,oing dosls, inechstlicuti toys and money
boxes. Size makes q point of buy-
ing all the clever little inventions
which are hawked about the streets of
London. fTf
TIE earl Of Aberdeen. the now gov
oYnof general. Of Canada, is Ea dark,
sfeh,icr man aboit fofEy- six years old.'
about medium height nnd intellect tual
iloatking. TO wca,f&. futl dark beard.
dresses modcstly, md has fcw OF the
characteristics OF the. typical English
mon. k.4 J ~ .@s4.L - 4. T IS, 3.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-30
TIE oEnEsT.

u. .
THE oldest artist ittsotyn to be still mt
work is N gs. F9ss, OF Washington, who
has been marriott sixty-six years.
Tsfe ohiess: loconotiee 3eagiucer, Is
Probsbly Albert Johnson, OF RalciSh,
N. O.. lie is over eighty, hns q pension
from tho company and likes 70 tell how
he rem tho frat engine rinte Raleigh.
TaIsEEof the oldest ssatcsmen in Ea-
soper GiadstSneS DO lGieFS and Bis
Hlazels, afo the most commanding fig
ufes in its three greatest empires.
And tho venerable Sosspth, almost rs
OLE IA sttss century, AsSanf inspiring
presence In fourth.
WIEN Jefferson Davis body was re.
iaterrcd Gsn. tieorYe Wallace, Jones,
Eet DAbuguS, acted aaJpaii -tcarer, iTc
IL in his min etieth year. and is tl,e old.
cst6x-ecnntOr. lie wos u contemporary
OF jackson, BENTON aud Crittenden and
sotnething ofn daslisS In ilis day.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-30
ELK0, NEVADA, FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 1898.
MENTIONED WITHOUT aAMEs:

bride and groom recently weddeG
In St Johns, Mich, were ngetl, re-
spectively, twelve and thirteen years.
WHILE in tho agony of death from
suicide young woman Of Louisville,
Ky, scrawlcd her will with pencil on
q piilow-case. This pillow-case is to
be legally filed and recorded.
SrAoE-sTRUCK girls arc, said to be
moro numerous in Fort Scott, Kan. :,
than in any other city ofsits size. They
dcclaim while sewing, while washing
the dishes, and some of them even
utter their prayers in theatrical style.
GEIsMAN authority asserts that
writer's cramp can be avoided py hold
ing the pen or pencil so that the move.
Insnts take place at tho hrachio-carpal
articulation, but the now reporter says
he thinks he'd rather run his chances
as to the cramp
cooUETTrsn beauty in Bayonnc, N.
j., discarded the man to whom she was
engaged because he was getting too
fat. On being demonstrated with by
her mother, she cool1y said: "0h, it is
my intention to accept him again
when grief shall have made him thin
ner." . $
A CHINESE priest in San francisco
was robbed and terrified by supposed
corpse. The clergyman was preparing
his incantations over the coffin wnefi
the supposed dead man threw his arms
about the frightened divine, while his
confederates rushed in 8nd robbed the
house. a +