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better is so easy and the doing
better is SO cheap. Think Of
inhaling the steam and odors
from tub Of dirty clothing,
perhaps from the sick room,
perhaps much soiled from hon.
est labor. Think of the weak
lungs, and throat, the germs
of disease, ETC., etc. It's all
so unnecessary and SO in
effective. The clothes are not
as clean surely not as pure
as they ought to be, when the
work is done. Boil your
clothes in Pearline and water
directions on each package
every grocer has it.
Beware of limitations. 354 JAMES PYLE,N.Y.
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Morsts. Carriaats. &C.

HORSE BLANKETS HORSE BLANKBTsli HORSE
a, rhLANkhTSi, Closing out cheap; great bargains
u warren ST.. COT Church st.
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SILVER SPOONS
FOR NEW YEARS.

Solid silver spoons make IN appropriate
Gift for New Year We will sell 10 for sl2.
Silver has never been 81 low and will soon
advance. Now is the time to secure It..
Coffee spoons. s7.75 per dozen-oystcr forks.
sio-ealad fork and spoon. $40 Everything
else made in silver Mt correspondlngly low
prices. Send for catalogue.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-08
Teome. si.OO per year, in advance.
'eHmS: Six Months so Cents.

other class may it never grow less,)
who see only the bright side of life,
claim our admiration and respect at ali
times, and receive our deepest sympa-
thy in time of adversely. Affections,
moral and physical, will come; vexa-
tiOn and trouble are the sure allot-
ments of mankind; but every man is an
appointed physician to heal himself,
and no other can do it for him. If the
world was made wrong we can console
ourselves with the thought that we had
no hand in making it, and are not re-
spOnsible for what we did not construct;
but we are amenable for the dispOsi-
tion we make of the talents given us,
and may diminish or increase the pleas
ure there is in living. Cheerfulness in
the occupant of stone cell, while out
side the sun is shining, the birds sing
ing, and the new, green leaves rustling,
would appear, at first, inconsistent, and,
under the above circumstances, we ad-
NIT, it is not a frame of mind easy to
assume; but would the reverse make
the position any easier to endure? You
might relate Gn whisper) tale of
woe" to the 8x10 looking glass, or the
white-washed wall, but the consolation
received in return would hardly repay
for the exertion. Necessity makes that
endurable which would otherwise be
uncomfortable. S. MILE.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-08
The Optimist.

How we all love him. His companion
ship affords striking illustration of
immense relief, after listening to the
meanings of his melancholy brother,
the pessimist. Laughing at care, drown
ing trouble in mirth, giving smile in
exchange for frown, are some of the
qualities which command our respect,
and compel our friendship. How pleas
ant, after enduring cloudy, dismal
day, it is to see the sun shine out in
full splendor dispelling the clouds and
Frightening every object exposed to his
golden rays. So the bright rays of
conviviality emanating from the whole
souled optimist who is in love with the
world and mankind, sparkling with
good cheer and goodwill towards every
body, dispel gloom and drive away dull
care from all who are fortunate enough
to know him. Undoubtedly, great
many people are so constituted that it
is utterly impossible for them to see
the bright side of the world and ignore
the dark. Such people should have our
sympathy; but instead they are pretty
sure to receive our contempt; while the
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-08
Gambling.

Robbers of time are more dangerous
than robbers of money, because they
take away that which no money can
purchase or replace; and one of the
most notorious robbers of time is gam
ing; for it tends to no Improvement
either of body or mind. Is it the part
of creatures who are capable, by intel
lectual and moral Improvements, of
rising continually in the scale of being
is it consistent with their rank to
spend their time in shuffling and distrib-
uting number of pieces of spotted
paper, to the entire exclusion of all
ideas excepting those few which belong
to the game? Is our span of life in
this world too long? Have we time
more than enough? Why else should
men waste their time with more prOdi-
gality than even the spendthrift wastes
his money? Why else should they con-
trive to annihilate time by turning a
large portion of their existence into a
mere blank? But besides being waste
of time, gaming has, in manifold view,
very pernicious tendency and, accord
ingly, in every civilized and well-regu-
lated state, it is either totally pro-
hibited, or limited and restrained by
law It seizes and overpowers the
minds of people like sort of enchant-
ment, and withdraws their attention
from the various necessary occupations
and duties of life. 1t irritates the pas
sions and sours the temper, and leads to
contention, to profane swearing, to in
temperate drinking, and to a general
dissipation of property and prof1igacy
of manners. By anxiety and incessant
nightwatchings, it Injuries the health.
Gambling for money, in large bets, is
the highway to every kind of knavery
and villainy. 1t habituates the mind to
lying and cheating. The successful
gambler obtains his money at the ex-
pense of moral principles. The unfOr
tunate gamester, stung to the heart
with the sense of his losses, and rendered
desperate, is in prepared state for
burglary, highway robbery, or, indeed,
for any kind of villainy whatever, by
which he may hope to repair his losses,
or to support himself without industry.
If all our unhappy fellow creatures
who have died on the gallOws, or are
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confined in the state prisons, had writ
ten memoirs of their lives, it would
probably be found that more than three
fourths of them had frequently spent
their nights at the gambling-table. 1
see by the papers, that the late Rufus
Hatch of New York, who leaves most
of his property to his children, warns
them, in his will, not to use tobacco in
any shape or form; nor to touch, taste
or use wine or liquor in any way, and
to especially refrain from gambling.
Let youth of either sex be solemnly
warned against this vortex of destruc-
ton. Shun gambling; avoid it as you
would the mansion of death. Shun it
as you would den of robbers, around
which are to be seen innumerable skulls
and bones of murdered men and women.
A, A, w
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AS I See It.

have been rejecting somewhat upon
the way we are situated here and the
circumstances which surround us, and
have reached the conclusion that we
are not in the most undesirable place in
the world: though we could wish for
something more congenial, we should
always remember that there are people
in even harder luck than we, and that
our surroundings are pleasant and easy
when compared with some of our fell
low beings. Then why not take the
most favorable view of the situation =?
The fault, without doubt, lies in
ourselves. The evil into which we have
fallen, is due to no exotic germ-nO
foreign protoplasm, but to our own
weak natures. 1t may possibly occur
to some of the boys here that pleasure
and pain are very unequally and unfair
ly distributed in this life. If so, is it
not quite probable that this is fault
which has originated with humanity;
fault that man can do much to cure if
he be so disposed, without resorting to
the desperate remedy Of self-tOrture or
cosmic suicide? For my part, l am not
an adherent of the old school of Leib-
nitZ, who saw, or pretended to see every
thing in felicitic state; neither am a
disciple of the pessimistic schools of
SchOpenhauer or Won Hartman, who
held antithetical views to those of his
predecessor, Liebnitz. Pessimism is all
very well for the stole, and optimism
for the bOn-vivant and merry maker,
but good, solid reasoning, boys, is what
you and l want; and after reasoning,
energetic action with line of well de-
fined and proper resolutions. This, and
this only, can carry us safely through
this world of abysseS and pitfalls, which
open wide on every hand to engulf the
erring one. would advise every man
in this institution to regard his incar-
ceratiOn here as past error of his own,
and so direct his thoughts and actions
in future, as not to bring about a recur-
renee of the misfortune, when he is
once more free man. J. H. S. r.
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Does Imprisonment Reform?

There is no doubt that Imprisonment
for crime fulfills the first half of it's OBJ
ject, viz: the punitive part; but whether
the latter half the nobler object, which
is the reformation, be obtained, is a
question that remains open to argu-
ment. Punishment can never reform
as long as it is accompanied with degra-
dation. While impunity may incite to
crime and encourage criminals, degra-
dation strengthens his evil propensities,
prevents repentance and renders reform
impossible. We have wandered from
the right path, and if we wish in all sim
cerity and earnestnesS to lead nObler
life, our path must necessarily be thOrny.
Why should the punishment inflicted be
called temporary, when it is indefinite !?
When the law has been satisfied, public
opinion carries it on. The law takes so
many years of ones existence; preju-
dice takes the rest. Is it to be wondered
at that so few of the good resolutions
still heavy upon the body, touches the
so soon be broken after the fetters are
removed. The freed prisoner is poor;
honest employment is hard to obtain;
and if he have no employment, he is liza
BILE to arrest. Society repulses him at
every point and refuses him, on account
of his past, even the dole that it reluc-
family casts to it's deserving poor. The
only ones who do not cast him off, and
are willing, Notwithstanding his back
sliding to extend the helping hand, are
his former companions in vice-they
possess this solitary virtue even in their
degradation Need we wonder then
that reforms superinduced by life in a
penitentiary are SO shortlived?
BRIGHAM.
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The Incorrigible.

DR.. Jules Morel of the Hospice Guis
Ian, Client, Belgium, in recent work
declares that anthropologists cannot
classify the incorrigible without hav-
ing recourse to the science of pathology.
Degeneracy may involve at the same
time the physical and the psychical
state, but it may vary greatly and pre-
dominate in one and the other of these
The school of LOmbrOsO has devoted
too little of its attention to the OppO-
site etiOlOgy which considers the amel
ioration of man. Mr.. Morel studies
successfully the sO-called incOrrigibles
as well among children as among
youths.
"In order to give to the theory of in
corrigibility some eminence, some sci
entific value, it would be necessary to
be able to set forward certain specimens
having passed through all the different
systems of treatment and education
The proof of incOrrigibility in men,
who, psychically, present no hereditary
taint is therefore yet to be made.
"The reformation of SO-called incOr-
rigibles should be attempted in the re-
form schools and prisons; it should be
continued even outside OF these lnStI-
tutiOns."
Mr. Morel would like to see the au-
thOrities charged with visiting the
prisoners, kept continually informed of
the pSychical condition of those whom
they are called upon to reform, and
that the recidiviSts receive favOrS and
be even accorded relative freedom if
they offer serious evidence of refOrma-
ton. He closes his work by declaring
that if every country had the fortune
to have law for the protection of
childhood, if the authorities had suffi-
cient latitude to tear away the children
from parents or tutors incapable or un-
worthy; if the governments would Or
ganize methodically, a system of educa
ton for these unfortunate creatures, in
very few years, we should see Grimm
ality decrease to considerable extent.
F-MOnthIy Summary.
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A Look Ahead,

There has been great deal written
in our paper on the subject, what we
are going to do when we get out. 1t is
one of great Importance think. The
day of our release may be the turning
point in our lives. We will, all of US,
probably, be given chance to become
good and useful citizens of our state.
But we must, on leaving here, start in
the right direction. Now the question
comes, what is the right direction? We
all have different ideas on the subject;
mine may differ from every one else;
but 1 think if they are carried out they
will never bring me back here again.
When we leave here the first thing we
ought to do is to get work. You may
have a trade, and want to work at it.,
but if this should prove impracticable,
why, take any honest employment that
can be had till something better can be
procured. Find good place to make
your home; one where yOu will have
good company; where your evenings
can be pleasantly spent; instead of
spending them lettering on the streets
and in saloons. Keep away from such
places above all things, if you wish the
respect of the people with whom you
come in contact. Those people l mean
whose good opinion is worth having.
1t will not hurt you to attend church
and get acquainted with the pastor, and
if it is necessary, tell him your story,
and if you need help and cousel, he will
gladly give it to you. 1t does not make
any difference what you have been in
the past, it is what you are going to be
in the future. 1t is yours to mar or
make. The people will watch your
career, and if you try to be man, try
to live an honest, upright life, they will
soon recognize the honest effort you are
making, and will be glad of chance of
helping you in your struggle. But if
you are not honest in your efforts to
lead good life, they will soon find it
out. If you do your part you will not
want for friends, and they will be the
right kind of friends too. 1 tell you it
pays to do right, but it does not pay to
do wrong. Look at your own past lives
and they will answer the question fully.
We must not get discouraged if every
thing does not suit us, but try, and
keep trying, and things will come right
which a great many of us forget. We
III dllu dCCOulpllOll UlllIiSo Wy Jul wv IL
might and strength and the conse-
quence is that we make failure of it.
We must look to higher power for as
sistance and guidance. When we are
sure of His help and approval we are
bound to succeed every time. If we
slight Him who is ruler over all, we will
fail every time. I hope every one that
reads these lines may go from this
place and say as l say, with Gods help
/ will never return here again. have
not tried to preach to you, and could
not if | would, but I shall myself try
and follow out the lines of thought and
action have laid down here. So will
close by saying l wish you all success
in the future drama of life and wish
THE MIRROR, prosperous future.
r. w, III,
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For The Mirror.
DECORATION DAY MEMORY.

It is but little faded flower
Fast passing to decay,
Yet hath its withered petals power
Times passage to abey.
Within PRISONS walls it blOOmed,
To tell to one immured,
That though to close confinement doomed.
His ailment would be cured.
1t OpeS the door of prison cell;
1t takes down bolt and bar;
1t leads to scenes remembered well
In pleasant home afar.
1t tells that life is not all black
1t bids US not repine,
That winters clouds must be rolled back,
And summers sun re-Shine.
1t tells of hOpe-that blessed gift
Eternal Springing forth
From out the human breast to lift
The soul to thoughts of worth.
Know, little flower thou hast not breathed
Thy sweet, brief life in vain.
The incense of thy petals wreathed
Bright fancies in my brain.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-08

ST. Peter: Well, sir, what claim have
you on celestial abode?
Applicants: / never tried to show an
editor how to run his paper
St. Peter (calling) Front. One solid
gold halo for the gentleman! Step right
up to your place, my dear sir!-Elec-
t1'ic Spark.
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well" said the editor to the dying
delinquent, chow do you feel about the
future?"
Its bright all bright" gasped the
delinquent.
II thought sO," said the editor. "In
about fifteen minutes you'll see it blaze"
atlanta Constitution.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19
Now They VIII Drop II.

And now you will hear no
moro of the "tariff question,
1t has played its part. 1t served
as q bone to quarrel over dur
ing the election. Its usefulness
Is ended. Farmers who carried
torches and 'rahed for the
old party will go to hu.king
their corn, standing off the
storekeeper, humping to get
their interest money for old
Shylock-and wondering when
the good times are coming
which the political stump
speakers promised them. The
workingmen will continue to
rise at six, 60 to work at seven,
"cuss" their low wages, threaten
to strike and spend their noon
hour telling how many s'two-
fer'' cigars and how many
glasses of free beer they got
parading in an old party pro-
cession. But the "tariff" will
not be in it. That question is
settled-till the next campaign.
Chicago Sentinel.
You will see much in the
papers about what Congress
is going to do and they may
even swear that they have
done something for the peo-
pie, but before the next cleo
ton you feel in your pocket
and see for pourself how much
| they have done.-ED.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19
Government Ownership will Come.

The growth of opinion in this
country IS in favor of govern
ment ownership of the railways,
the telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS, and in favor of municipal
ownership OF all municipal mo-
nopolies, is simply remarkable.
That the complete ownership and
operation of all our great public
and national monopolies will soon
become fact, there seems to be
no reasonable doubt. The time
was, in this country, when it was
thought to be impossible for the
government to be unable to man.
age the postal service. That
day has gone by. To-day many
good meaning people think the
government could not manage
the railroads, the telegraph and
the telephones. The day will
soon come when this possibility
will come. There is no other
way to settle the railroad ques
tion.-Minneapolis Progressive
Age.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19

there as ., Indianapolis and ST.
Louis, because they could mee,
SO many Of their co-wsskers a,
less expense than in any other
way. To charge that ,hex are
enemies OF the Alliance. Or rlot-
ing for its downfall, is ridieu-
Ions, as time VIII prove.
AZ every session Of the Ali
ance we mus, expect slaat dele
gates will have their favoritcs for
office. In the pas, in our order
II has invariably been true sAa,
the candidate Tor Office has been
defeated. | hope in the iasnre
that ], viii always prove uue.
then the Office viii seek the man.
and there will be no heartburn
ings through disappointment.
We cannot permit so grand an
order, with such noble objects in
view, to be used TO aid any indi-
vidual in his personal ambitions.
Where the attempt is made !, is
our duty to prevent j, by all hop
orable means. 1.-THE time should
ever come when the majority of
our delegates n, any session
should consider the election of
any particular person to ofiicc,,a
necessity for our order, then we
will have reached our zenith.
Men are nothing in this move
ment. Success for our princi-
pies, everything. Two much
space has already been consumed
for or against individuals. Push
our demands to the front. Train
your guns on the opposition, and
do not permit yourself to be side
tracked on minor issues or per-
sonalities.
Yours fraternally,
II. l.. LoucKs.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19

see that capital, through all
manner Of corporations and
associations, is til thoroughly
organized, vigilant, active and
unscrupulous. Ii will bring
to bear every influence possi-
bic 10. break down farm organ
izations. for they realize that
the Alliance is an educator that
is responsible for the presen,
political revolution that is
breaking the power to lead
men through partizanship. The
Alliance has set men to think
ing and reasoning. 1t has
loosened the bonds that bound
them together.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19
- vcua rvoort Has the Rostrum.

The Alliance Independent,
/ lincoln, Ncb. }, Of the 5th inst,
hys:
"The commander-in-chief of
BE- Industrial Legion, lately or
anized at Memphis, is regis
Bred at the Lindell. Paul Van
|ervoort is a natural organizer,
nd great things are to be ex-
ected of him by those who
Iced him at the head of this
rparently soon-to be gigantic
|roanization. Whether or not
lie Legion shall be the medium
sat shall weld into one solid
balanx the serried hosts OF la
hr. whose ballot can strike the
tters from 100000 INDUS
al slaves, remains to be seen.
ertain it is that thousands be-
he it and hundreds in this
ate are on the tip-toe Ct ex-
citation ready to challenge fate
der it's banners. Mr.. Wander
bort, you have the rostrum'
ess the button.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19

The Republican party has
elected its last president. The
Democratic party will never
elect another candidate.
The people are aroused.
The Popnlist cause is i'm the
saddle and will be the next
great party. The cause of the
masses must have a defender
if we hope to perpetuate the
republic.
The Democratic leaders are
chained to plutocracy, and
there is nothing to hope for
from that party.
The same is true of the Re-
publican party.
The rank and file of both
old parties are honest and well
meaning, and sympathize with
the people.
Ignorance, prejudice and
party favoritism have kept
them in darkness.
The light is breaking. An
other four years of education
and the common people will
begin to understand that they
are the power and that they
are the people in shape te
direct government, and not the
few who request the money
pOwer.-Denver Road.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19
Popular Vote for President.

The Brooklyn Eagle publishes
i following instructive table on
|s subject:
For Grover Cleveland the
=nocrats in 1892 cast a vote of
p7, ,242. The increase was
.602. Benz. Harrison's S vote in
92 was 5,282, ,o06. In 1888 it
s 5,44o,7o8. His loss was
4,622. The nominee of the
|pulists, James B. Weaver, re-
|Ted in 1892 total of ooo,oo8.
ae Greenback Labor candidate
68S had 3o3,57S. The gain
s. 689,4I6. Bidwell, the Pro-
6tionist candidate in 1892,
led $50, 1914. Four years earlier
& Prohibition vote was 24o,-
d. The gain was 34,oo8. On
4 total vote for President the
erage quadrennial increase
8 been about 100000. 1he
nance in 1892 was only 1885,.
4. Here is the aggregate
|{e and the percentage OF IN
6ase since the second election
Mr. Lincoln:
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-01-19
Land-Loans In England.

Our so called great financiers
delight to initiate the financial
legislation of Great Britain,
and one of the most important
measures that has passed the
commons of the great parlia-
ment was a land-loan scheme
"a scheme for the government
to aid the Irish tenant to pur-
chase his home. 1t passed the
commons on June 18th, by a
majority 129 out of total vote
of 321. The measure provides
that the British government
shall advance the money to
buy out the landed estates, and
allows the tenants 10 purchase
their holding by paying annual
installments. To this end
s165, 100000 is to be appro-
priated. The purchasing ten
ants will be required to pay
such installments as will COM
plete their payments in forty
nine wears. AS fast as the in
stallments are paid the money
is to be used in other pur-
chases.
In payment for the land the
government is to issue to the
owners stocks Or bonds at 3 81
per cent and payable in not
less than 80 years.
This is to all intents and pnr.
poses a government lean on
real estate, and if Great Britain
can make such loans to free
| the Irish tenantry from land.
lordism, might not the unltee
States government make SINH
lar loans to free the American
| farmer from Shylocka-Pro
gressive Farmer.