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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
The Death Penalty.

IT any reason, in addition to those
that have long been urged, were needed
to abolish legalized murder in this
Christian nation, it has been furnished
by the late census report The only
reason worthy of notice set forth by the
advocates of the death penalty in favor
of the law of retaliation is that without
the fear of death staring the evil in
clined in the face, human life would be-
come more insecure than it is with the
black shadow of the gallOws to serve
as a warning to those who need re-,
Straint. The figures show that in
Michigan. where no man has been killed
legally for killing illegally since 1916,
III Rhode Island. where capital punish
ment was abolished in 1852, and in Wis
consin, where judicial murder has not
disgraced the fair name of the State
since 1S53.-in these States the crime Of
murder has been less frequent the past
ten years, in ratio to the population,
than in the remaining Northern States
where life has been exacted for life.
Comment is unnecessary. If capital
punishment can live after this authori-
tative declaration, it must continue to
live in the future. as it has done in the
past, on prejudice, superstition, and
stupid ignorance The legislator who
is familiar with the facts bearing on
the subject and who will vote to con
tinue this old Jewish barbarism or who
will refuse to vote for it's abolition is
false to his race and a stumbling block
to true civilizatiOn.-A7ld J. Palm,
in american JO,tamol Of Politics for
December,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
From Cape Horn to Capetown by Rail.

From Cape Horn to Capetown by Rail.
1t adds something to the zest of life
If one has healthy, active fancy-to
reflect that there are people now living
who may travel by continuous rail from
Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope.
The plan of pan-American rail
way to connect the South American
systems, through Central America,
with the systems OF Mexico and the
United States, is already well advanced
There are to be roads from the Cana
dian Pacific away up to the Peace Ri
yer and Mackenzie Valleys; and it is
not very hard to believe that these may
ultimately be extended across the
Rockies to the Ukon Valley in Alaska
and continued finally to the narrow
and shallow Behring Straits, across
which connection would be made
with the Siberian road. Continuous
rail travel from Siberia to CONSTANT
nOple will soon have become an accom-
plished fact. and the link from Con-
stantinOple to Egypt may be expected
quiet confidently. At the present rate
of developments in Africa, the con-
structiOn of a road from Egypt to the
Cape ought to be realized within TWEEN
ty-five years. The Channel tunnel will.
of course, have been built. and cleo.
tricity or some still more powerful mo-
tive force will have superseded steam;
so that the CalifOrnians and Puget
Sound deniZens would naturally 90 to
London by fast Alaskan and Siberian
express. If they chose they might re-
turn by steamship, making the passage
in two or three days from the West
Coast of Ireland to Labrador or Hal
flax. In view of all that has been done.
in the past twenty-five years, such fur
Their development Of travelling facilities
is easily within the realm OF sober pre-
diction.-Rerieac Of ReUieuS.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Why it was Rejected.

4 farm editor received the following story and
sent 1t to the curio column collector, who return
ed it because he knew it stated facts and not
fiction: A horticulturist had missed many apples
every night. Finally he set watch, expecting
to trap his neighbours boys. In the dim light he
saw limbs of apple trees shaking, and he heard
the fruit falling He had seen no one enter the
orchard. Nonplused. he crept up close to the
shaking tree. He saw hedgehog descend from
the tree, roll over on the apples until his back
was laden with the fruit attached by the quilts,
and wabble off. The farm editor didn't doubt
the story, but wondered what an insect-eating
animal wanted with apples.
For the worms" triumphantly explained the
curiO man.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Cell Room Colorings.

1t am dead sartin, de spOoks be gettin mighty
promisc'o us round yere.
1t makes man feel pesky pO'ly-dis layin'
awake nights-Fi only had dat dOg-gOn'd rabbit
foot-it would give me heaps of satisfaction, jest
bout dis time.
When you sees de snow a falln' all day long
and de mOmeter a creepin,' an a creepin' into
its boOts-it am a dead sure sign dot de loggers
will hab good sleddin' in de pneries.
OLD JAYsON
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Individualism and Socialism.

LOOK at the opposing forces of socialism and
individualism. The world must become more
individualistic than it has ever been VET Every
soul must feel its own relations to God and So
cialism must become deeper and more spirit
ual force than it has ever been yet. Be yourself.
cultivate yourself, educate yourself, and neglect
nothing that can tend to develop yourself to the
utmost of the possibilities God has implanted in
you. And thus you shall become able to aid
your brothers and the world, and by so aiding
them you shall grow to be the man that God in
tended you to be.
"1s one simply to cultivate himself that this
thing, this unit in which he is more interested
than In all the rest of creation, shall be as per-
feet as it may be, and am to help my brother
man simply that he may be relieved in some par
tcular that seemed to touch my sympathy?
Yes, and more. The real reason is that these
are the ways for us to reach the God like life
which God designs. You can make body and
soul and spirit a unit only as you serve above
yourself the God who made you. and as you
serve above your brethren the God who made
them. And never forget that the coming of man
to God is simply realizing of how near to you
God is and always has been. Let God illumine
to you the purpose of self-sacrifice and your
self-culture. Neither let it seem terrible and
hWlul tnlHS, d tHlng tndC can only or can most
naturally be approached with fears and agoniz-
ing. 1t is a most lamentable overlooking of the
mercy and goodness and love of God to think
that coming to him is thing of dread Such it
may be in many eases, but the natural way of
coming to God is one of the most natural things
one can do. An invitation to seek the Lord
should be taken just like an invitation to do any
of the most natural and pleasant things of your
life.
"Be your best for the good of Gods children
For their sake sanctify myself Do not think
that men are to be saved by dragging them away
from themselves to something unnatural to
them. AS we look to young men it seems to me
nothing can be more natural than to say to them:
BE pure. Be pure in body; keep your body clean
as the temple of the Holy Ghost. Keep your
selves in state of the unsoiled purity which re-
pels and scOrns the stain of RIGHTEOUSNESS,
Keep your mind and your thoughts pure, free
from evil intent and without the faint of ignoble,
the base, the petty and the mean.
And thus we close one year and lay it away
among the years of God, neither daring nor car
ing to ask whether it be good or bad. but only
hoping that out of it may come good and peace
and enlightenment for the years that are to
come. bishop Phillips Brooks.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Shipping Logs BY Times.

4 train of flat cars loaded with saw
logs for the Daniel Shaw Lumber COM
pany is Ell route from the north to Eau
Claire, Wis, on the Omaha road. The
logs were loaded at Cartwright, and the
train consists OF about twenty cars.
For the first time the plan of transport
ing saw logs to Eau Claire mills from
the pineries by rail during the winter,
instead of floating them down the river
in the spring, is being tried The rail
roads are pleased because it gives them
"haul" not only on lumber. but on
logs, also. The Daniel Shaw company
will receive by rail in this Way this sea-
son over 100000 feet of logs. The
Dells Lumber company is also trying
the experiment. This company received
a carload of logs from Boyd, over the
Wisconsin Central, and has about 100,
car loads more cOming.-PiOneer Press.
1t is simple, childlike way that leadeth to the
highest wisdom; the world knows it. You need
not seek for wisdom in remote places, or travel
in strange countries for it, she standeth at the.
door of your soul and knOcketh, and if she shall
but find an empty, resigned, free place in tho
soul, she will there reveal herself indeed and re.
joice therein more than the elements. If the
soul yield itself up to wisdom for full posses.
sion, then she penetrates it with her flaming fire
of love and unlOcketh all mysteries 20 the SOUL
Jacob BoeEme.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
TOO LATE.

Too late, too late! The door was lightly hung,
And to the gentlest pressure might have swung:
turned
To where the lamp across its threshold burned.
Led by false lights the portal have passed
Blind TO the rays thy starry candle cast;
But now the scales have fallen from my eyes
Must be shut for aye from Paradise?
The Critic
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19
Six New Vessels.

The New York Tribune says that in the next
three months the Navy will be increased by the
addition of SIX new vessels in commission and
ready for service, representing nearly as many
different types of warships of modern cOnstruc-
ton and all fine specimens of naval architecture
and fighting machines. This will be the first
time since the beginning of the building of new
Navy that so many vessels have been placed in
commission practically at one time, and it will
be the largest increase it has received from
numerical standpoint in one year since the war.
The Bancroft, the new practice ship. will be
placed in commission early in December and
sent to Annapolis for duty. The monitor Mon
active service January TO- as also the gunboat
Machias, at Bath, Me. The large twin-screw
armored crusier New York, the pride of the
Secretary and of the Navy, will fly her pennant
January 81 and on the same day the Detroit will
be placed in commission. On February 1S, the
Montgomery will receive her complement of
officers and men and be ready for active service
All these vessels except the Montgomery will be
kept on the Atlantic station until after the Naval
review in New York, when they will be sent to
different stations To fit out all these vessels will
necessitate sending to sea many officers now on
shore duty and awaiting orders. and will further
draw heavily on the enlisted force of the service
which is hardly ever up to its full quota. How
to meet this demand for men to man the the new
ships in view of the limited number allowed by
law, is perplexing question which the depart
meEt will have to deal with, and it would not be
surprising if some of the ships will fall far short
of receiving their full complement of sailors
when they are placed in commission
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

the cellroOm. 1t seems he uses a little too much
soap and I've in washing the floor, with the result
that when running the mop ahead of him he
slips, falls on his "tomick,'' and lies there until
the pain leaves him.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

The Bell Telephone company has de-
clared regular dividend of So per share
and an extra dividend of So per share.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-19

widower in Allegany county, N. V. recently
married widow. He brought into this domes-
tic union two children while she brought three
Now he wants a divorce: and why? At family
prayers she noticed that he prayed for his own
children. but persistently neglected hers
crisis came. She demanded that he repeat the
service and give her children show. He refused
So she grabbed his hair and pulled until he Yield
ed and prayed for all alike-but the end is not
yet. 1t isn't the religion of these two unhappy
people that is at fault-it is their misfit matri-
mony.-V inOnd Republican.
Finish every day and be done with it, For
manners and for wise living it is vice to re-
member. You have done what you could, some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; for
get them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is
new day; you shall begin it we'll and serenely
and with too high spirit to be numbered with
your old nonsense. This day for all that is good
and fair. 1t is too dear. with its hopes and in
vitations, to wait moment on the rotten yester-
days.-Emerson.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
THE MODEST FORTUNE
OF Gov. Mckinley Swept Away by Failure
of Friend.

ID
YOUNGSTOWN, February IA sensa-
ton was caused in business circles today
by the failure of Robert L. Walker,
banker and capitalist. The failure will
be widespread in it's effects, involving
Governor Mckinley. The indications
are now that every dollar of property
owned by the Governor will be swept
away. During the past ten years Mr..
Walker has been rated as a very wealthy
man. He organized the Youngstown
Stamping Company, and has been it's
president since it began business. Today
the Commercial National bank made
levy upon the plant of the stamping COM
pany to secure judgement of $50, 900
This was followed by Mr.. Walker giving
mortgages to Gov. Mckinley and Thorn
as Guion of his homestead. Seeing no
hope of being extricated from his diff
culties, Mr.. Walker this afternoon made
an assignment AS near as can be esti-
mated his liabilities are 100000, mostly
paper for small amounts held by country
banks. The failure is due to Investments
in property enterprises requiring a large
outlay of money They have not been
productive. This used UP all the funds
at his command and necessitated secur-
ing the endorsement of his paper by
friends. From boyhood Mckinley and
Walker were close friends. At Mr..
Walkers request the Governor endorsed
the notes. It is estimated that the Gov
ernor is on the paper of Mr.. Walkers to
from $4,000 to $50,00G If itamounts to
less than the first figure efforts will be
made by the Governor to take care of it.
Otherwise he will lose every cent he has
in the world. The Girard stove works,
in which Walker is a large stockolder,
failed tonight. Liabilities $4,000; as
sets unknown,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
A ROUGH PA SAGE.
Wind Boxes the Compass and Waves Wash
the Decks.
rspecial to the Press.l

HALIFAX, N. S., February 17.-Steam-
Laflandre, twenty-one days out of Rotter-
dam to Philadelphia, has arrived dis
abled. The captain states that such
weather was never before experienced by
him. 1t was not only terrible but lasting.
Entire passage the steamer was under
water all the time The wind blew first
from the northwest. then southwest, then
south. then southeast and east, until it
had gone all points of the compass and
back again. Big seas washed completely
over the vessel, boats were smashed and
other damage done. Only fifteen miles
were made on one day: on others twenty,
thirty and forty miles. 1t took six days
to come from Cape Race.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
corbett and Mitchell Make a Match.

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-At four this af-
ternoon Pugilist Mitchell and party met
party at the Office of the Boston Globe in
the Pulitzer building, Mitchell at once
covered Corbett's $4,000 deposit for a
match for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world. Mitchell accepted all
conditions laid down by Corbett. 1t was
arranged the fight should take place the
second week in December next before
the club offering the largest purse. Five
ounce gloves to be used. A "a foot ring
was agreed upon. The fight must be to
finish. There can be postponement or
draw.
Later-It is now learned that dispute
arose at the meeting in regard to the di-
vision of the purse, Brady wanted the
winner to have all the purse while Nit
chell demanded the purse be divided so
and 20 per cent. The meeting adjourned
until tomorrow afternoon, while Brady
communicated with Corbett. Corbett
replied tonight winner must take all. !"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
Verdict in the New Hampshire Horro

Verdict in the New Hampshire Horror.
DOVER, N. H., February 1.-THE cor
oner's jury in the County Asylum in
quest submitted their verdict to the clerk
of courts here today.
They find that the evidence leads to
the conclusion that the fire was started
by Mrs. LaFontaine, who in some way
obtained match and ignited her bed or
chair cushion.
The false economy of the county COM
missioners is condemned and the jury
find that the victims of the fire "came to
their deaths by misfortune"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
PEACE oN:rHE PRAIRIEs.
Gov. LeweIling Backs Down and Signs the
Peace Agreement.

TOPEKA, February 17.-The governor
has signed the peace agreement. The
troops are to be sent home, the militia
disbanded and the Republicans to be left
in possession Of the House.
The Republican house today adopted
amid the widest enthuiasm the follow
ing agreement which was signed by the
governor:
It being the understanding the House
presided over by Mr.. Dunsmore has
secured a hall In which to meet, the
House presided over by Mr.. Douglas
shall remain in possession of Representa-
tive hall undisturbed and unmolested.
m.re shall be undisturbed and un-
molested in possession of the hall which
it has secured. If so desired it may
select room in the State house for
meeting other than Representative hall.
No arrests are to be made by either
house of members or officers of the
other The miliatia to be Immediately
relieved, and the sheriff's posse i'm
mediately disbanded.
A note was added, signed by the gov
ernor and committeeman, stating the
| above is not to be construed as recogni-
ton by either house of the legal organi-
zation or character of the other, or by
the governor or senate as recognition of
either of such houses, and shall not be
| used in court or any legislative body as
evidence for any person, party or body.
Immediately after the agreement was
| adopted, dispatches were sent out by the
| adjutant general ordering all troops now
eli route to the capital to return home.
The Populists loaded down the wires
with messages to their supporters, stat
| ing that all occasion fer their presence
here has passed for the time being.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
safetv of the Mattie B. Russell.

CHATHAM, Mass, February H.
Schooner Matte B. Russell, before re-
ported off here in distress, was this
morning taken safely to Hyannis by
Capt. Gould and crew from Chatham
station, and boats and crews of wreckers
from Chatham. The vessel narrowly
escaped sinking as she sprung leak.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18

Local Weather Report.
PORTLAND, NE, February II, 1898.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18

The President Inclined to Issue Gold
Bonds-House Passes Amended Pension
Bill-That Deaf Pensioner who Runs
the Telephone Democrat and Protege
of Gresham.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
ESTABLISHED JUNE 2s, 1se2-voL. 81.
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

Page 1.
Weather indications.
General telegraph news.
Page 2.
Democratic ward caucuses In Portland.
Page 3.
Sunday services in the various churches.
Page4.
Current Comment.
Editorials.
Page 5.
Stories told in Portland.
Missionary field day.
Music and drama.
Deaths and marriages.
Page g.
The Columbian bell.
Wit and Wisdom.
The Methodists and Bishop Brooks
Page Z.
Financial and Commercial.
Marine News.
Page 8.
Drill of the High School Cadets.
Caucuses of Deering Republicans.
Personal
Brief Jottings.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
PORTLAND, MAINE, SATURDAY NORM

be provided for. The power to issue
bonds would, he thought, enable the
Secretary Of the Treasury to maintain
the gold reserve without his issuing
them.
without final action the Senate ad-
journed.
Maine Pensions.
Pensions have been granted to the fol-
lowing Maine people:
ORIGINAL.
John Cooling, Andrew Johnson,
Thos. Walsh, Jeremiah Perkins.
Samuel Gonnors, Charles A. Weeks,
CoOrteS Bancroft,
ORIGINAL WIDOWS, ETC.
Melinda S. Dunbar.
Minor children, David Minor. children, Galen
TOzter. worcester,
Lydia Stevens.
Maine Postal Changes
These changes in the postal service in
Maine are announced:
Route 1901. Garland. by West Charleston.
to Charleston, eight miles and back, six times a
week, by a schedule OF not to exceed ia hours
running time each way, from July /, 1898, to
June 80, 1897. Ass
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
oRIGINAL WIDOWS, ETC,

Melinda S. Dunbar.
Minor children, David Minor children, Galen
Tozter. Worcester,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-18
THE WEATHER.
Snow, Followed by Ciearin,

- SHoW, rO110"ou uy CIeaTIHg.
WASHINGTON, February 17-For New
England for Saturday: Snow; shifting
to southerly winds; clearing in South
New England Saturday evening; slight
rise in temperature.
Signals displayed from Portland to
Norfolk sections.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1893-08-02
Proclamation.


Whereas the Common Council OF the corpo-
ration OF Charles Town has. at It's special meet.
ing held on the oath day of July, lesj, adopted
the following ordinances:
Be it ordained by the Common Council of
Charles Town.
LIST. That the Bonds of the Corporation OF
Charles Town be issued TO the amount of three
thousand dollars for the following purposes,
viz:
$1,000 for opening and extending Charles
street from its present northern terminus
through the grounds of the NJ. 4. Church,
south, and building iron bridge over w. L
K r. on Charles street extended and $1,000
for building iron bridge over Eyitt's run OH
West Main street
End Said bonds shall be negotiable coupon
bonds Of the denomination of one hundred
dollars. payable thirty-four years after date,
but redeemable at the pleasure OF the corpora
ton of Charles Town ten years after the date
thereof and shall bear interest at the rate OF
5 per cent per annum. payable seIni-snnually
3rd The sum Of three hundred and fifty dol
lars shall be levied annually on the corpora
ton Of Charles Town 10 pay the interest on
said bonds and TO provide sinking fund of
500 for the payment of tho principle thereof.
ith. The Mayor Of this corporation shall is
sue his procIsmation rrciting this ordinance
and appointing the 10th day of August, 1893.
as the time at which a special election shall be
held by the qualified voters of the corporation
tn decide whether they will ratify or reject
this ordinance
Now, therefore, /. Gustav Brown. Mayor of
said corporation. do appoint the 10th day Of
August. 1893. at which an election shall be
held by the qualified voters of this corporation
to decide whether they will ratify or reject
said ordinance The person voting for the
ratification of that ordinance shall have writ
ten or printed upon his ballot "For Ratihca-
ton" and the person voting against ratifca-
ton shall have written or printed on his bal
lot FOR Rejection"
specify as required by law that the bonded
Indebtedness Of the corporation OF Charles
Town at the present date is ten thousand dol
lars. and the II ating Indebtedness Of said cor
poration at this date IS three thousand and
i've hundred dollars. q. BROWN, Mayor.
w. l.. HEDGES, Clerk.
Firs, Ward-Yoting place, Market House
Commissioners. V. NJ. Firor, George Welsh
and Thos W. Davis Clerk. J. b. McElroy.
Second Ward-Voting place. Citizen Engine
observation-disclosures Nick Starry. VIM. r.
yesterday, and w. II. Moore; Clerk, W. l..
He'd es.
Third Ward-voting place. Court House
Commissioners. Geo. n. Flagg. ID. q Donnelly
and Barney Lloyd Clerk C. II. GalIaher.
July %. 1898.