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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-02-23

Sudera," gronte Sartt. nWenn timmt
nadber Der Serr &ules2"
rSdben sic nur @ebulb, bic Num=
mer Dirb i9pn angefiinbigt ~fperbeur"
berubiste i'm Der StaGmeiiter uno
fiibrte ben Burden piebsr auf feinen
PlaB 5uriid. @s folgte nun Drummer
fir Drummer bes Programms unb
bic beiben 9uri4e faBsn itaunenO nit
offenen Mdulern bd.
rMtanbl, bDs lift nit lei Circus a
3umebi, bDs lit i9un a redte," iaste
Sartl gu Sirt i'm Some Der tnnerIten
lle6erSeugung unO er psraaB pDlig
b%arouf, baB er ia audi nodl auftreten
miihe.
Iuf einmdl ert1nte BON Ord1eiter
elm breifa4er SuI9 unb in bic Mitte
Der Reitbabn frat Der S:rr Director
in ieinem rptben 5rad unb 9eitbolen.
rSartl, pail auf, jebt timmt Der
Serr &uI.s," fliifterte Sirt.
rs glib i9un a9t," e%ntgegnete
Sartl.
~Gr ion lei femmen, sen rennen unb
umerIaf'n Iah' ibn nit 3eit, iea
tannit glab'n."
Der !S.rr Director ma9ts cine eles
gante Werbeugung ringsum unb Bee
gam:
.Wfeine bo9geebrteIte !SerrI9afz
ten! ltni.re Preisuusf9reibung fir
einen Hingtampf Inn bunbert &ronen
baben Stpei 8auern, trGftige S6bns
Der 8erge, seppbnt Der i9iperen ars
belt, Solge aeleiItet. Sic frozen BON
&raft unb @eIunbbeit unbS iinb ni9t
gu INTERCOLLEGIATE @egner." Gr trat
einise S9ritte suriid.
m@ine fur5e PauIe, meine bo9bers
ebrteiten SerrI9aften, unb Der 9inss
fampf beginnt."
Sn bieIem 4ugenblid Iprang Sartl,
bic Scope bate er fdon bel ben eritsn
8orten bes Directors %abgeporfen. in
bic Heitbabn.
nObo, ManbI." Ifrie er, .ba sibrs
feline pauie. 0aB y mir q pieber
bu9ipfitI9t, ipie Der puiiabl!"
Mit trdftisen Grmen ergriff er ben
Director, tpirb.lte einige Male nit
inn in Der Cuff berum unb f9miB
i'm mitten binein in ben Sanb. 9as
Bublitum to1te f6rmli9 fiber bieIe
@erpe9sluns. Die antpeIsnben StaG@
meiiter ipollten benz Director su 0ilfe
ellen.
ySatera." flu9te !Sartl. vbuufen@
peii' temmPs2 Sigt finn. raumet
mir auf!"
nit einem beIIen SaItbser fprang
nun aud Strt in bic Reitbabn unol
nun besunn elm S@meiBen, DaB ben
StalmeiItern nur 10 bic Sesen bonn
2eibe bingen. @noli9 mengte fi9 au3
bic Boli3ei in bic Sa9e uno nit bic
Ter Miibs sslang es, bic spei banDz
feIten Burden gu ii~berpdltigen. Inf
benz poliseiamte redtfertigte ii9 Sartl
70: IS, len lit ans'i9la9'n a'peit. baB
in Der Gircusfumebi a Raffersi iein
tbut unb Der 6err mit'n rotben Bod
nit bic spei 3ipfl bintn abb bat ia
e'fagt, Der ainstampf beginnt. llnS
ba bab' / bait ang'fangen. 8snn ct
nit Der Redte lit, foll er nit spn @ne
fangen aufforbern, Der Sreuateufelss
Sod"
G9t Sage bstamen bic 5tpsi5reunbe
3eit, na9subenten iiber bic &e9eln ei>
mes Ringtampfes. Oann aogen tie pie>
Der nit ben langen S4riten Der
8ergler ibrer Seimatb 81.
Limb fein iit's b0@t s'psit!"' pers'
ii9erte Sartl. +.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-02-23

-Sn Der @enagerie. BE,
fufer: ~Saaen Sic, Serr DIRECTOR,
1T Der elephant febr flus2"-9trets
tor: "@etpiB! sd babe ibm Ioqur BEL.
asbradt. in bieisn 8aiten bier elm
Gelbftiid bineinSuIegen.... 8onen sic
es 'r1al prpbirens 9eben Sic cine
Mart Der" Der iunqe Mann qtbt
benz Sireftor bas 9eEbftiid unb Der
elephant fiibrt bas beIagte &unfItiid
aus.-9efuder: n9as lit fpirtli9 Iebr
bibf6!.... SEPT fon er mir aber bas
9elb pteber aeben!n n9es
baure. mein Serr, bas babe i1 ibm
nod ni9t beibrinaen t6nnen!"
ntgeqengeto m H.
Dame su elmer 5relnbin: sid babe
es INNER aeiaqt, Serr Miibler 1T su
f6iihtern. Inn einen 4ntrag su mas
nen,"- nIber err bat Iif bod por
Rursem perbetratbst ."-nSSa, aber nit
tiner Witttpe."
- iitune. Better
6ur Sdustrau, bic tbm Elm ret9lihes
Mittuqsmubl 9e9eben): $50, e'fre,tt
bat Sie's. bah mir g GFen 10 gut
a'idmedt fat ? lee. SEPT mud'n g
aber audi mir a Sreuo' unb i9ent'n
q mir mas auf an S9ndps!"
-9emItbIi6. 2ebriunge(3um
keniter bes @irtbsbauIes bineinrus
fenb): ~Serr @irtb, Der Meiiter foI
beimfcmmen!...... Sinh g 70 gut unb
perfen g n 'naus!"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-02-23

-&ud Elm &iinftIer. Sin
StdtiIt, ipel4er germ in Elm bOberes
Td9 apanciren m09te, fubt an einem
tleinen Softbeoter engagement. .@as
fir Rolen baben Sic benin I9on qes
fptelt2" frdQte Der 9irettor. SD
babe" erpiOerte Der Mlinte, Ii3 itol3
in bic SrlTt nerfenb. ben 8allens
itein, th babe ben Sulius GGIur, i9
babe ben......" n0ie," ruff Der Siz
rector mtbtrautI6, nWa[lenitein, GGz
far bGtten sic aeipieIt?" rSatppbf,
Serr Sirettor.-als 9eide!"
-Matiti0s. o.: r.... 9laus
Ben sic. baB iid bisie S6riftItelerin
ie einen Namen MAIDEN tpirb9,-S.:
r@eipiB-penn ie beiretbet!+
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SaS seben poa sspet Seite,t.

Garlpte FAB emit, in tribe @ebans
pen perfunten, an feinem S9reibtiI9;
enblid nabm er Elm 8latt papier unb
fabte fetn Sinnen in elm paar 9erIen
%1ufammen:
Cui bono E?
5offnung2 Hur elm Reqenboaen,
Rinber folgen ibm burd1's @rds:
Nein, ni6t bier! No6 peiter, peiter!
4eins Der &leinen fanb nod mas.
limb bas 2eben? GiTesfld9e,
Shauenb lets. am ionnigen StranS
Trobes @leitsn; bod mir iinten -
ssimmer uni're Spur mar fanb.
limb Der Renide Gin tbSriat Sinh
nilr,
0us fid frdntt unb quGlt Ti6 ob,
8iel begebrt's, unb ni9ts berbient's
bod,
alnb fem gnb' - Elm enges 9rdb!
Seine 9attin fanb has 8latt; fe
fdnb audi cine Inttpprt. Die i6rieb
fte fia biuter bes @atten @orte.
4ntpprt.
3offnuns9 @lei6 Der fanften Saube
Sentt fie fid in unIsre 9ruit,
Sprtht bon 5rieben, ben ni9ts raube,
RuR' unb fel'ser 9immelsluit.
limb has 2eb,n? @Sttli6 Seuer,
Strebt's bura Staub' urb af6' ems
:, por,
Stttst unb flammt ftsts bDber, FREEZER,
4is i'm aetber iid's perlpr.
limb Der Wenf9a SuH' unb p.ra6te
Rtdt sds Wert aus @ottss !Sano!
Mds er gut unb peiIe ma6te,
6at Elm b66'res 9aterlanb!
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-02-23

@intbeiGung. Cha (3u
i1rsr SSrsunoin): Run, 9nnd, Sbr
bdbt ia iebt Elm announcement. Mie
aefdnt es Dir bsnn i'm Sbsatsr?"-
Sddfii9: % febr! SD gebs in bic
tldiitiden Stiide, Papa fiebt am iiebs
fen luitias Opsrsttsn, unb Nama gebt
n's-uRpahenbe!~
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1894-02-23
Ctcigerun0.

gomptoriit Meisr ertpirtte cine @ss
DaItsauf6eferung fein Gbef sa6lt
inn am Griten fein SaIair aus. iebo9
obne 3ulage. Gr mill fdon an fein
G9reibpult Suriidtebren, als ibn Der
Gbef 5uriidruft mgeinabe bate ib
aud pergeiien. -. bier baben
The mirror., 1894-08-09

world is we'll aware that no subordi-
nate officials would assume any such
responsibility. Is it not pertinent to
inquire why such clearly established
conspiracy as this was not proceeded
against by the highest legal officer OF
the government? What did the pen
atty, considerable as it was, amount to
for such large corporation? If ever
there was clearly established conspi-
racy to defraud the United States, then
the armor plate fraud is and was one;
and the danger to and destruction of
life in case of war, would be incalcul-
able, and as clear are also the duties OF
the United States attorneys. Yet up to
the present there is no indication that
it will be performed. OBSERVER.
The mirror., 1894-08-09
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Six Months 80 cents.

Debs himself is depending on the fury
engendered by hard times to subvert
the constitution, overthrow rivals, and
foist himself into Infamous power.
In the name of liberty, are those who
pursue happiness and bread, in the
manner accor ded them by God, called
scabs. and mObbed and murdered.
Every stratum of society is dependent,
the one on the other. Though today
all over the land men are trying to
show capital that they are independent
of it, they will learn that they are as
much dependent on capital, as capital
is on them; they will appreciate latter
the battle that they have injured them
selves by chasing their phantom free
dom by as much as they have dam
aged capital. Go away back into the
dim mystic past, and behold labor
personifed in Cain at war with the
cattle king and capita list, Abel. Be
cause he was dissatisfied with his own
lot, he slew his brother, and he is still
dissatisfied, still aiming to pull down
and overthrow the capitalist cap
ital is not mere gold, silver, or hard or
soft money, but is anything that will
produce or call for money.
All these present or kindred troubles
arise from that chimerical hydra, in
dependence. after which the in man,
leads him to chase; but he never has
caught it, never will catch it, and the
more he purSues it the more will he
become immeshed in the tolls of his
own weaving. Can the history of the
world tell of one, however great, who
was Independently free? Never a
man who sought to set himself on
that unattainable pinnacle that has
not been topped from it, as straw be-
fore the hurricanes breath, by the
divine voice he would be independent
of. He who seeks least for things mum
dane, comes nearest to being free and
independent of his fellows. The high
er the aim, the higher the success
sought for in life, the greater the de-
pendence on those who surround us.
The naked, ignorant Polynesian is per-
haps, the greatest enjOyer Of animal
liberty of all creation. Yet who but
animal would grOvel to such life
, The only liberty attainable to man, is
, the liberty of the soul, and even that
spark of divine fire yearns for love,
for fellowship, for dependence. Where
are we to gain this knowledge OF this
liberty? Let me conclude in the words
} of Whittier.
We search the world for truth;
We Gull the good the beautiful,
From graveStOnes and from written scrolls
From all old flower fields of the soul.
And, weary seekers of the best,
, We come back laden from our quest
l To find that all the Sages said,
Is in the book our mother read.
=. r. F.
The mirror., 1894-08-09

statistics of our deciduOuS shade trees
on a count of our public parks. A
man who commits murder is a GRIM
inal, whether the law cOnvicts and
Furnishes him or not; but he is not a
convict until he dons the prison garb.
A criminal can be- a member of society,
in fact often is one of it's shining lights;
convict cannot. Society doubly bars
it's door against any character once
smirched with the prison taint, though
it easily condones the vilest of crimes
committed by its patrons, so long as
these latter evade the clutches of the
law. There is very little hope for the
criminal, as such, unless or until he
becomes a convict; for his reformation
would necessitate reforming society,
and this all scientists agree in pronounc-
ing an impossible undertaking. The
convict can be reformed, and is act
ually undergoing the metamorphosis
today in all our leading penal institu-
tions. Whether or not the reformed
convict can ever recover his lost status
and be recognized as a peer by the
great social world which now considers
him an outcast, is question that
must be relegated to very distant
future. His past is as yet all too neal
and overloaded, his present footing
all too precarious, to promise aught but
sinister prophecy. The only cleal
horizon he can certainly see forms thu
background of picture in whose
middle distance is grave-the con
vict's own. y. n. T..
The mirror., 1894-08-09
and bemoan the sad fate that has

and bemoan the sad fate that has
placed them in the position of depend
ents. The lenses through which they
view the world are colored with the
deepest blue, and all they see is tinted
with that melancholy shade. They
constantly look for reverses, and OF
course find them. To them, there is
no such thing as human justice, they
are prone to suspicion of their fellow
men, and lacking all the good qualities
that go to make up the great body of
humanity, they think that all the rest
of mankind are as deficient as them
selves. If such people only inflicted
their megrims on themselves, or would
form colony and infiict them upon
each other, the balance of the world
might at least bear their existence
with equanimity, but no, they are
constantly forcing themselves and
their grievances on others and claim
ing sympathy when in fact they only
merit contempt. If they would only
learn to take the world as God has
made it, and not strive to undo His
work and set up model of their own,
then they would not want to flee into
the wilderness looking for a hollow
log the first time anything went wrong
Oppression and deceit have existed
from the beginning, and will continue
until the dawning of the millennium
and all the whining that we can dc
will not set the matter right. The
better plan will be for each and every
one of us, to take up the battle of life
manfully, each determined to do hi:
share toward fastening the time whe1
oppression, deceit, and all kindred evils
shall be obliterated from off the fac'
of the earth. Then the millennium will
be with us, and there will be no nee(
for any of us to take to the woods.
The mirror., 1894-08-09
MIRROR.
IMPARTIAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE
LAW.
A Simple Question of Duty on the Part of
U. S. officials.

A Simple Question of Duty on the Part of
U. s. officials.
6Rhe old adage that the law is no
A|hrespector of persons is no doubt
yS still true; but most certainly the
same cannot be said of the enforce
ment of that law. Without in any
way, shape, form or manner comment
ing on the topic of the day 1 want to
call your attention to just one fact.
The indictment and subsequent arrest
of the leaders of the A. r. {. is based
upon section 244O of the United States
statutes, which reads as follows: Ii
two or more persons either to commit
any offence against the United States,
or to defraud the United States in any
manner or for any purpose, or one or
more of such parties do any acts to ef-
feet the object of the conspiracy; all
parties to such conspiracy shall be liza
BILE to penalty of not less than 81 600
or not more than $4,000 and to impris-
onment not more than two years or
both. Any one who has at all reflected
on the matter cannot but agree with
the statement that the officials have
simply performed their duty, that is
the local United States officials OF
Chicago. But can the same be said of
the officials at the capitol; that they
also enforce the law impartially?
Several months ago it was discovered
that imperfect and even totally useless
armor plates for some of the ships o1
the new navy had been furnished by
certain company. In the course OF in
vestigation it was clearly established
that these frauds had been perpetrate(
by the conspiracy of several persons
1t did not then appear that this hat
been done with the knowledge of an,
responsible member Of the company
but from subsequent indications AM
investigations nothing has been NOR
clearly established than that it mus
have been done with the knowledg
and consent of some responsible mem
bers of the company. Were any OF tn
department superintendent dischars
ed? No, simply transferred to othe
departments. Any one who has ha
any experience in the manufacturin
The mirror., 1894-08-09
FOR THE PRISON MIRROR.
THE END OF THE WORLD.

61he coming of the end of the
A|G.wOrld is text from which
ylS many sermon has been preach
ed, and is one of very ancient date. l
we'll remember the doctrine of sect
known as MilleriteS who were preach
ing the coming of the end of the world
when was boy forty-tive years ago.
This sect declared the immediate ap-
proach of the last great day, and ex-
horted all to prepare for final judg-
ment. l have also heard my parents
speak of the same doctrine being pro-
mulgated when they were yet children,
yet the end is not here.
Signs and wonders have not ceased to appear.
And the end of the world may be drawing near.
Before the Anglo Franco Russian
war broke out in 1854, a monstrous
comet made it's appearance over east
ern Europe. Before the rebellion in
this country which began in 1861, a
huge comet appeared over North
America, this frey monster showed a
brilliant tail which appeared to the
naked eve to be about one half mile
in length, again one of these mysteri-
Gus, luminous wanderers, made it's ap-
pearance over Europe just before the
breaking out of the FrancO-German
war, while now again another has ap-
peared in this northern hemisphere,
and who can tell what the present
agitation which is stirring up the peo-
pie in this country at the present time
is to end in.
There can be but little doubt that
the present movement means the
end to many. While the metaphysical
appearance of the country will readily
suggest to all thoughtful persons, that
the people of this country are standing
on the brink of terrible volcano
which is soon to open up and swallow
a large portion of the population OF
the land. Those who will be engulfed
in the terrible vortex of human strife
will be the rulers, tyrants, and monied
men in general, and it is pretty gen
orally understood that a clean sweep is
to be made, no corrupt root or branch
is to be left to propagate corruption
in the future. WISDOM.
The mirror., 1894-08-09
Vol. VIII.-NO. l.
<>sPoEFRKcM
STPSyz7a@9SSSS~ SS~
AFTER THE STORM.

IOpened the door in the morning
On a sweeping mist of showers;
The air was filled with fragrance
From the crushed and dropping MOVERS.
All night the rain had fallen;
1t had beaten the pansies down.,
And torn from the stately hyaclnth
Its rich and regal crown.
The half-blown roses trembled,
And wind-Swept swayed about;
Then dropped beneath the ralndrOps
That crushed their sweetness out.
The violets hid their faces
All drenched and torn apart,
But through the dampneSS fiOated
The fragrance from their heart.
The peach blooms scattered wildly
In fragments rudely torn,
Had yielded up their scented breath
To the spirit OF the storm.
stood and caught the incense
OF those flowers so fair and frall,
That like some tender mortal frame,
Sank meath the first hard gale.
1 thought of lives whose morning
Was full of hope and trust,
But in the first wild storm they broke
And mingled with the dust.
But from their lives an influence
Still lives to gladden. ours;
And sheds fragrance strangely sweet,
Like those poor bleeding flowers.
And then thought of others
All crushed and beaten low,
Earth's joys wrecked, their hopes denied.
A heritage of woe.
But from those stOrm-tOSSed souls steal on
A sweetness heaven-bOrn,
OF which the world could not have shared
Had not those hearts been torn.
Methinks sweet charity is born
From sad grief unspoken.
And like the breath of StOrm-cruShed hOWe
Steals from heart that's broken.
IDA NEWELL AUSTIN.
Dixie WASHINGTON.
The mirror., 1894-08-09
FOR THE PRISON MIRROR.
Discomfort.
Those who Look for Reverses Usually
Find What They Seek.


Find What They Seek.
"Oh! for lodge in some vast wilderness.
Some bOundleSS cOntiguity of shade,
Where rumOrs of oppression and deceit.
OF unsuccessful and successful war
Might never reach me more"
= have often wondered what sort of
crank it was that wrote the above.
y, Evidently he was disgruntled about
something, had dyspepsia maybe, or
perhaps his best girl had gone back on
him, small blame to her if she had, for
it's dollars to brass buttons, that he
hadn't energy enough to let go of a
hot stove lid without help. Be that as
it may, he was surely disgusted with
the world. Perhaps the world had set
the example and had first become
thoroughly disgusted with him. The
chances are, that as the world would
not accept him and his ideas, on faith,
and not having enough of the true
yankee principle of "git up and git or
patience enough to last him till Sun
day morning, he concluded that the
best thing for him to do was to throw
up the sponge, and quit the measly
world, and 60 out in the woods some
where and climb tree, or build a
lodge, but no, hold up, he wanted one
already built and fitted up. After all
it didn't seem as though he wanted
much to make him happy. All he
wanted was lodge, wilderness, and
plenty of that twelve dozen darkness
such as fell upon Egypt at certain
date. Then he could have gone into
his lodge and from its gloom looked
forth with sour complacency upon the
world and it's doings with no further
fear of meeting with or hearing any
thing revolving to his over sensitive
nature. If while he was in this frame
of mind he had taken an axe, an augur
and a good stout jack knife and gone
out into the woods somewhere anC
cut down good large live oak tree
and then set diligently to work tt
hollow it out in approved style tt
make himself lodge, my word for it
that before he had got two feet int
the body of that tree he would no
only have become disgusted with tn
hermit racket, but he would also hav'
, learned a valuable lesson, to wit
"That it is much easier to fit yourself t.
: your surroundings, than it is to at
: tempt to make the surroundings fl
YOU" There are plenty of people jus
5 like him in the world today. Peopl
without energy enough to make
e battle for life, they sit supinely dow
The mirror., 1894-08-09

6Hhe commonly accepted defini-
A|GstiOn of the word convict, is
ylY person doing legally imposed
and enforced penance for a crime OF
which he has been convicted. Whether
a convict can or cannot be gentleman,
depends largely on the point of view
from which one considers the appar-
emily contradictory terms. In the alb
stract, no gentleman would do any
thing that could place him in the
position of legally enforced penitence,
yet it is a stubbornly obtrusive fact
that gentlemen, SO considered by the
world at large, ever have placed and
are still continuing to place themselves
in just such a predicament. Religion
vouchsafes no position to the term in
it's cabulary-virtually washing its
sanctitied hands of the sinner as soon
as the law claims him as its penitent
True, the church was established for
the express purpose of retaining sim
ners. but she can easily fill her editiceS
with peccant mortals who never saw
nor feared a prison. Christ, in all
probability, would have made no dis
tinction between the sinner who goes
free. and his brother who wears chains;
or, if He favored either, it would with
out doubt be the one who is making an
atonement, even though compulsory,
for law transgressed. Latter-day
penologist are inclined to make the
terms convict and criminal synOny-
NOUS, basing all criminal statistics up.
on penitentiary reports, and arguing
that crime is increasing, or the reverse
according as the number of convicts
grows greater or less. All convicts
may be criminals, but all criminals are
certainly not convicts-our prisons
could not begin to contain them
Those scientists urge, probably, as
reason for their course that it is th'
only practicable method of establish
inga count, and that it would be ridicu
lous to essay any other enumeration
none the less would it look superlat
lively foolish to number the song bird
of country by count OF the cage'
singers found therein, or to bas