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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28
MUSIC.

When Wesley said that "the devil
should not have all the bright and lively
tunes,'' he spoke wisely and we'll. There
is beyond question more exhiliration
and joyousness derived from the hear
ing of or participation in lively, spark
ling melodious tune than in plaintive
air. however beautiful its composition.
The religion of Christ is the religion of
peace, love, gladness and above all sim
plicity; then should His disciples employ
for His glorifcation and praise, music
that combines all those qualities. What
knowledge of the joyousness of our faith
can stray wording derive from a
wailing dirge of penitent sorrow? Let
us only use such in our closets, when
humbled before our Creator. But when
we proclaim His goodness and array His
majesty against the powers of evil and
sin, let us anticipate victory by paans
and heart stirring melodies. When
man sets himself in line of battle against
man, he does not proceed with the Dead
March from Saul, but fiaunts his banners
to the breeze with rousing quickstep.
The devil has appreciated the powers
of music and sets few snares undated
with some of it's many bright and alluring
forms. Let evangelists take the lesson
to heart. If the devil is stealing the
most stirring themes from the language
OfGOd whereWith to advertise his wares,
does it not behoove the FISHERS of men"
to show their wares with at least an equal
skill and vigOr. Let the seekers after
souls spread before the careless wander
er DESTROYS of passing his leisure evening
pleasantly, cheerful and pleasant souls
repast. Open bright music hall where
the thirsty may refresh themselves with
Misunderstanding beverages. Invite the
young and thoughtless to come in and
enjoy brighter, purer pleasure than
the DEVILS traps can give. Youth is not
vicious of absolute choice. Rather is
it prone to good; but being infrm of
purpose it follows after mirth, gladness
and brightness without needing the
accompaniment, or perhaps believing in
his strength to resist temptation. But
if dry temperance is handicapped by a
lugubriOus hymn tune whilst Satan
mounts alcohol on merry waltz, alco-
hOl will win "bar accidents
Memory recalls many pleasant visits
to one of the most brilliant of Satan's
snares in the great city of London,
where exquisite Music and her hand
maiden, the rhythmic dance, baited a
gorgeous trap of liquor and licentious-
ness. 1t was not from love of liquor or
lewdness that that bright gladstone hall
was visited by many, but because of
the fine music and exhiliration of the
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

The accident to the Camperdown at Malta
would seem to indicate that her unwieldiness
had something to do with the Victoria disaster.
To all appearances England's boosted maritime
supremacy depends very much on unseaworthy
job lots of crudey wrought iron.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

1t was only cigarette stub carelessly dropped
onto the floor instead of into the cuspidor, yet it
cost st. Joseph, No., million dollar blaze. Such
is our way of to-day. Carelessness of trifes re-
suits in perpetual trouble, loss and misery, but
we do not seem to profit by the lesson.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

Mohamed Russell Alexander Webb, Americas
convert to Islamism, addressed the congress OF
religions in defense of the benefits of polygamy
in some cases. This part of his speech was
strongly reprobated by the audience who would
not understand that pOlygamist can be a
Christian
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28
CURRENCY.

1t is said in Washington that the patches of APP
pointments to be acted on by the senate give the
anti-repealers excuse for delaying action on sill
yer by constant departures into executive ses-
sion.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

1t is banking on straight tips that
sends many man straight to his tip
ple.-Patck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

be determined if reports be true that France
has determined to enforce her demands against
Siam. The GdulOis, the officially inspired organ,
comes out fatty and declares that no foreign in
tervention will be any longer tolerated, and that
a powerful armament will be sent to insure COM
pliance.
The passing of Elliot COues, the well-knOwn
naturalist, through st. Paul, recalled attention to
his one-time connection with theOsophy. 1t is
no wonder the professor discovered the
fraudulent methods and humbug of theOSOphy.
The wonder is that so clever and intelligent
a man should so long have remained deluded by
the cunning fraud and folly that is the roper
tOire of theOsOphc charatan.
Gladstone is showing new phase of his versa
tile weathercock policy. Having ridden Home
Rule to the front in the political race for Office
and found the verdict in his favor to be by so
small majority of the judges. he is not willing
to try another heat. His hackers are to be dis
appOinte because he is afraid to do for fear
of dying. "Office, with honor if possible. but
office at any price - has been his lifelong motto.
The lease of the Wisconsin Central by the
NOTGutTu dCllC UtluS ny Vic COuItS
the question is: Has the N. P, abandoned all
ideas of a through route from Chicago to the Pa
ciic or is it now so controlled by parties who can
assure it's entrance to the City of Wind? How
will stock holders reap any benefit for all the
money sunk in Chicago terminal arrangements.
Railroad wrecking is too fine an art for common
minds to grasp.
TJn irro ell 40 ov,I txno IF
grit and push, Jack Haverly. has succumbed to
fate in the shape of brain failure. Madness is
the one exception to the rule while there is life
there is hope" of rising from a fall. We here
are only knocked down, we are not knocked out
Our dementia will be sufficiently cured, ere we
emerge, to grapple with life with vgor, clear
ness, and manhood. Let us thank God and take
frmer hitch to our good resolves in knowing
that there are worse plights than ours.
Virginia, as of DID, is again in the battle of right
against wrong. At Roanoke a mob attempted
to lynch a negro for robbery with Violence but
the Mayor, Trout called out the militia, Occu-
pied the Jail and drove off the attacking mob
with loss of nine killed and eighteen wounded,
Such man in these times of riot and blOOdshed
deserves the highest praise. Unfortunately, Mr..
Trout failed to stay by his good work and left
town. During his absence the mob carried out
their purpose and the loss of life failed to
vindicate the majesty of law.
more deliberate piece of barbarism does not
seem to have been perpetrated of late years in
any civilized country than the murder of the
| train robbers KOhler and GleitZ near st. Joseph,
Mo. The chief OF police, Brodie, testified before
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

The question of an European war will shortly
be determined if reports be true, that France
has determined to enforce her demands against
Siam. The Gd,tlOis the officially inspired organ,
comes out fatty and declares that no foreign in
terventon will be any longer tolerated, and that
powerful armament will be sent to insure COM
pliance.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-28

more deliberate piece of barbarsm does not
seem to have been perpetrated of late years in
any civilized country than the murder of the
train robbers KOhler and Gleitz near st. Joseph,
Mo. The chief OF police, BrOdie, testified before
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29
LIQUOR LEGISLATION. (

A legislature is restrained BY The con-
stitution beyond which it cannot 90 and
by the average sentiment of the people
beyond which it is Of little use to 90.
This is a fundamental fact which in
his letter published elsewhere Gen. Neal
Dow overlooks and which he is yery
prone to overlook. When Gen. Dow
proposes legislation he is under no re-
stTaint whatever.l 1t is not incumbent
upon him to inquire whether it trans
cends the constitution or whether it is
made in advance of public sentiment.
But when the legislature comes to con-
slider his proposition it is necessary for it
to regard both those things. The eff
fectiveness of a measure to accomplish
a particular end is all that Gen. Dow
considers, but the legislature is obliged
to ask, whether it will be effective and at
the same time within the limits of the
bounds set bythe constitution, whether
it will be practically as well as theoretic-
ally effective, that is whether public senti-
ment will sustain it, for no law No mat
ter how effective, it may be theoretically
can be effective in practice if it is far in
advance of the average public sentiment
A good deal of the difficulty which Gen.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

ing the bloody code Of England when
stealing to the value of a shilling was a
capital offence, there were always found
some victims. In cases of burglary, rob-
berry, houseburning, murder there are
always strong temptations; the hope of
obtaining large sums by a coup de man,
and escaping detection, there is violent
passion or revenge urging many persons
to crime regardless of consequences
There is nothing of this in The rum-sell-
ing crime. Detection here is always
sure and may easily be made swift.
There is no strong temptation, no passion
no revenge: it is a cool and deliberate
calculation of profit and loss, whether it
Will pay to risk a fine of a hundrd dollars
and few months in Jail in the hope of
realizing profits of eight cents on ten
cent drinks. If the man says yes he'll
try 1T, and actually does so and persists
IN 1T, then an increase in the fine and in
the term of seclusion can easily be made
until the necessary point of discourage
ment is reached. As an engineer adapts
his machinery to the weight of the iron
or stone which he Is to lift into its
place.
The problem to be solved is a very
simple Que. The grog-shop is run only
for the profit that is in it; for that and
nothing else; no anger, no hate, no re-
yenge in it. What then? Take all the
profit out of it; leave not even penny
behind and by sufficient terms of retire
ment from the world, add an element Of
encouragement to the trade of rumsell-
ing. Why should we pursue these men
50 persistently, with no let up? because
they infiict upon the nation more mis-
chief and upon society more misery,
Indebtedness and ruin than come from
all other crimes combined of whatever
name.
wish in these articles to show not
only what the reasons are which impel
US to wage war Of determination against
the grog shops, and the only possible
way in which our own purpose can be
accomplished but also to disclose what
obstacles lie at present in the way of
which very few people even of our
friends have any knowledge.l
NEAL Dow,
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29
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MAGAZINE NOTICES.

A subject of great and growing i'm
portance, that of Irrigation in the Arid
States, has the first place in the Popular
Science Monthly for June. The article
is by Charles Howard Shinn, who de-
scribes practical methods and their re-
suits, illustrating both with handsome
cuts. Herbert Spencer concludes in this
number his essay on The Inadequacy of
Natural Selection, which has attracted
much attention from thoughtful evolu-
tionists. The Ceremonial Use Iof To-
bacco. comprising the use of Tobacco as
incense and sacrifice and in the operation
ofseers and mediterranean is described
by John Hawkins. An Ethnologic Study
Of the Yuruks, a wandering people of
Turkey, is contributed by Aleide Z. M.
d'Andria. The features, dress. and
dwellings of this people are shown
in illustrations. Under the title
Modern Miracles, Prof. E. p.
Evans describes some of the aston
ishing feats of Arabian and Hindu ia
kris. An article describing The Pie
nomena of Death in Battle is contributed
by George L.. Kilmer. In The Revival of
Witchcraft, some of the later develop
ments of hypnotism are shown to be
based on fraud and delusion. The arti-
Gle is by DIR. Ernest Hart, who has ex-.
amined most of the famous hypnotic
subjects in Paris. Certain Adaptations
Of Seeds and Fruits, which serve to util-.
ize and resist unfavorable influences, are
described by j. w. Folsom. In why
Grow Old some hints toward preserving
early vigor are given. James Macdon-,
AIDS interesting account of East Central
African Customs is concluded in this
number. Frank Fl. Eaton describes The
Bay of Fundy Tides and Marshes, Sir
Archibald Geikie is the subject of the
usual Sketch and Portl ait.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

Of course the request which the Rev.
Joseph Cook and several other Boston
c1ergymen sent to the President in re-
gard to the Worlds Fair was meant
simply as strong expression Of their
opposition to the opening of the fair on
Sunday. They were, perfectly we'll
aware of course that the President had
no authority to call out the United States
troops to keep the gates shut. Before
the President can call out troops to in
terfere in affairs within a state call
must come from the governor or legisla-
ture OF thabstate. Afavorable response to
Mr.. Cook request would have rendered
the President liable to impeachment and
removal from office.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

The foreign exhibitors at the Worlds
Fair want the awards determined by a
jury as at Paris; but the American
commissioners want the business en-
trusted to one man. The difference of
opinion on this point has become SO Sc
rious that sixteen nations have with
drawn and will institute a competition
among themselves to be determined by
the jury system. The jury system at
the first glance strikes one as preferable,
but there may be some outs about it not
generally understood. 1t is unfortun-
ate that the dispute has arisen, for the
fair had perplexities enough already to
contend with. aa
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29


Dow has experienced in getting such
temperance legislation ON to the statute
book as he desires is attributable, not as
he appears to think, to opposition to
temperance and prohibition, but to the
fact that such legislation is either in VIOLA
ton of the constitution or far in advance
of the average public sentiment. The
real cause for surprise is that so many
OF the measures suggested by Gen.
Dow and the extreme Prohibitionists
have become laws. If Gen. Dow would
give the same attention to the measures
that have been passed that he does
to those that have been refused passage
we think his arraignment of our legisla-
lures would be much less severe. There
is no department of the criminal law in
which the powers of the state have been
stretched to such an extentsas the liquor
law. The presumption of law that
man accused of crime is innocent until
proved guilty has very nearly been re-
versed in liquor prosecutions. In
all other criminal prosecutions, with the
exception Of murder in the first degree,
great latitude is given the judges in fix
ing the sentence; but in liquor prosecu-
tons discretion has been taken saway
from them almost entirely. Sowith the
prosecuting officer. Something is trusted
to his honesty and discretion in all other
crimes, but in the matter Of liquor prose-
cutions he is bound by infexible rules,
all of them devised for the purpose Of
making it more difficult for the rum sell
or to escape punishment. Furthermore
the legislature has undertaken to enhance
the value of testimony, by practically de-
claring that IL certain evidence is submit
ted to the jury and is not contradicted
it shall be regardedias conclusive and
verdict returned accordingly. The legis-
latnre has not gone as far SO Gen. Dow
would like to have it, but it has gone as
far as the average public sentiment will
sustain it, and that is as far as it is wise
to 90
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

The insurance commissioner of Massa-
6.-usetts states that nearly $4,000, 900
went into the pockets of the promoters
OF endowment orders in Massachusetts
up to the time they were all wound up.
Part of it was in payment of expenses
and part was a ''steal. = the commissioner
says. The country which contains so
many persons with liking for chance
financial schems has reason to congratu-
late itself that the end came as soon as it
did.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

The Borden case was postponed several
months awaiting the recovery of Attorn-
ey General Pillsbury, and now, it is an
nounced that he will not appear in the
case. The questions will naturally arise
if the case can be tried now without the
attorney general, why could it not
have been tried several months ago
without him; and was it necessary to
keep a woman shut up in prison all this
time? "a
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29
THE PRESS.
MONDAY, MAY 90.

As Mr.. Henry Watterson wrote the
tariff plank of the Democratic national
platform he ought to know better than
any one else what it means, though it
was SO plainly expressed that there is
little room for doubt on the partaof any
body. Mr.. Watterson says itmeans free
trade pure and simple.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29

Brown Box Coat. fancy lined,
Gray Embroidered, fancy lined, >
Tan Embroidered, fancy lined,
Colbert Cloth, box coat, fancy lined,
Tan Kersey, silk lined,
Brown Imported Kersey, pearl buttons, !
Black Clay Diagonal, fancy lining and buttons,
Tan Kersey, fancy lined,
Black Kersey, butterfly cape, fancy lined,
Tan Kersey, triple capes, special,
Light Tan, lined, perfect fitting,
Tan Kersey, butterfly cape, trimmed,
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-29
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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-21
ITS %

The pension purging does not progress
like it should. 1t begins to look as though
the democratic platform, Ike all others,
are made TO get IN the train with, and
then you must not stand upon them.
The GLOBE is lot tiendish in its desire to
have justice done, but it does look as
though the democratic party had made a
proposition to purge the roll. 1t de-
manded such in lis platform and its ora
tors talked for it. But half a year has
gone and nothing has happened except:
A few suspensions.
A hundred or so stricken from the lists.
Well, if that is all the burgers are 10
find, the republican party has peer SIAN
dered.
But the truth is that half of those who
draw pensions are not entitled to them.
They have gotten on the rolls by cunning,
by perjury and by bare-faced falsehood.
Sleek pension attorneys, some few now
in Jail, sleeker examiners and d~isreputa-
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-21
II MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.

Hot weather, warm weather, or any
other kind of weather, DR. KINGsBURY
of the Wilmington Messenger writes his
interesting page. We make bold to say
that no other writer in the state does the
good, honest, hard work that KINGsBURY
does. He has an original style of writ
ing and original style of arranging what
he writes. His religious editorials for
Sunday will knock out in the first round
most any parson who breaches, and it
seems to us that if the church going PEG,
pie would lay off during hot weather and
read what DR.. KINGsBURY writes on
Sunday there would be much less per-
spiration among the natives.
THE GLOBE has often expressed its
appreciation Of DIR K~INGsBURY'S work,
yet the more We read of it the more we
like the man,
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-21
THE WORST EVIL.

The merchants who have had the bitter
experience, tell us that the credit system
in this town has cost thousands of dol
lars, and where it did not break the mer-
chant, the honest man. who would pay
for what he got, paid for what his dis
honest neighbor also got.
A Durham merchant, who failed a
short time ago, said that he had some
seven thousand dollars on his books and
could not get a cent of it. There should
be no sympathy for such a man. He had
no business to trust, yet he explained to
US that if he had not trusted he could
have sold no goods to anyone. Then, if
that is true, he should have left the town
or engaged in other business. In fact, it
would have been better than to have
beaten his creditors and gone out after
years of work with nothing to show for
it but ruined credit.
The Durham merchants must do some
credit business, but it strikes the average
man that he would rather pay cash for
what he gets, and get the benefit of cash
deals. Even If it is bat a small per cent
which is lost, the merchant would rather
have the cash-and cash always secures
bargains at both ends There are too
many dead beats in the town, and the
merchants want to get rid Of them.
Wouldn't a straight cash business be a
hummer? And wouldn't there be ours.
ing if the thing were tried? So we must
worry along-and all who can should in
these times go whack up. 1t will make
things run smoother all alone The line.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-21

BILE claimants hare really looted the gov
eminent, and there seems 40 hope for it.
Those who deserve pensions should re-
ceive them, bat the whole business should
be suspended, if the sneaks and thieves,
doubtless in The majority, are to continue
in their wholesale raids upon the people.
The fellows who went TO war went
voluntarily for fourteen dollars and the
bounty. Some were drafted, yet they
were paid. There was nothing in the
contract about pensions. They took the
chances of war. They escaped alive, and
then turned in TO rob the government
they professed their loyalty had saved.
It's all buncombe, and the bummers
and dead beats should be stricken from
the rolls forever. The suepending act is
a~pOlogizing for crime