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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

RUDOLPH Lehmicke died at his resi-
dence, Wednesday, December II, passing
away without struggle, in the seventy
third wear of his age A familiar figure
has vanished from our streets, our court
house and our public gatherings; a
beloved personality has disappeared
from our social and home life and not
soon shall we look upon his like again.
Honorable in all the walks of life, de-
voted to his family and friends, sympa-
thetic with all and keenly responsive to
the subtler and sweeter cadences of
humanity, he has left void which we
shall vainly seek to fill in the annals OF
our city, in the councils of our Oldest
and most esteemed residents. Polished
and courtly in manners, genial and
affable, he kept the hearts he had won
to the last and he afforded another and
an added proof that man can be a
consistent Christian without cant and
without pretence. The bereaved widow
and children have this great consolation
in their sorrow, that the loved husband
and father died full of years and honors
and though he has left their immediate
presence he has not fOrsaken them, but
from the higher altitude of the Heavenly
life, still smiles down benignantly upon
them saltwater Messenger.
There is not within the range Of
human expression one word that coul(
be added to the above. In every
essential. he was a man. What {
glorious thing it is to the world that W.
have such men, such characters, the in
fluences of whose lives, endure for age
after their bodies have mouldered an(
have been forgotten. How much bette
the world would be, were there more o
them.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

IN McCmre's Magazine for January
Miss Beatrice Harraden, author of the
most swiftly and widely popular novel
written in recent years, "Ships that Pass
in the Night" will tell how she came to
write tina novel; when, and where, and
how she wrote it: how she got it
published; and how it won her friends
and correspondents ia every quarter OF
the globe and among all condition anC
classes of people; more dramatic anC
absorbing story than even the move
itself. There will also be a portrait Of
Miss Harraden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20
them.
Att ChriStan0Om is making ready

ALL ChristendOm is making ready
for it's greatest, it's bestowed holiday
Christmas. There is no cathedral shrine
so richly furnished that it cannot as
sumo greater richness in display, no
lowly chapel altar SO poor in its devotees
that it cannot take on certain splen-
dor in honor of Christ's birthday; and
throughout the known world this great
anniversary is everywhere and univers-
ally celebrated. We in our humble,
unassuming way, will strive to make
our own little chapel more festal in
appearance, and our hearts more fitting
to receive the spirit of the Redeemer
who comes to visit us.
In manner it is very fitting that we,
the Ishmaels. should be the most eager
in this holiday zeal. for the reason that
the necessity which called for the re-
demptiOn is in special manner attrlb-
utable to us alone 81 come not to
save the just, but sinners" The divine
plan which called for the sacrifice of the
Son of God had us and us alone in view,
when it decreed that only by such a
sacrifice could salvation come. The
criminal population of the world must
be ,t0ci7e princepes as sinners; if the
world at large be sinful, how much
more so those whom the world has con-
demned and rejected from it's compare
lively innocent fold. The deduction is
no doubt eternally to our discredit, but
that fact cannot alter it's eternal truth.
1t is clearly for our benefit then that
Christmas was first instituted.
To the outside world Christmastide
is a season Of rejoicing, of gladness of
renewals of friendship and of prodiga]
exhibition of good will and good cheer
but to our little community, apart from
the material favors the day brings us
the anniversary is very far from joyful
That never dying vision of contrasts
; invariably comes, and we naturally
think of other like celebrations, wheI
no ban was upon us; when we too
| hailed joyously each fellow man, an(
wished him heartily Merry Christmas
! sure of an echoing answer from his lips
; wish as sincere in his heart. How diff
ferently are we not circumstanced to
day. There are none among us Wh'
cannot look back on past however re
, mote, even though it lead our footstep
again into childhood, and recall tim
f when our hearts beat high in anticipa
ton of the holly-decked festivities; an
' the recollection must bring an unknown
2 and untold pain to the most sine allous
I ed heart. 1t might be better, who knows
1 if we could only look at the materia
Q blessings the day brings, and give thank
0 that the larder is more plenteously filled
4 that the animal cravings are more ger
0 erously supplied-but there is, ther
t must be, deep down in the heart o
Q every inmate here, an undying sorro'
r for the rights we have forfeited, a
y insatiate longing for their return.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

IN THE sermon delivered by our
chaplain on Thanksgiving day, and
printed in this issue, we would
particularly call the attention of our
fellow inmates to the quotation Of
Carlisle, Your history is your bible, if
you will only read it a right" and ask.
"do we ever look back upon our past
lives and read therein the causes of our
present position with view of correct
ing our failures, or are we content
with our surroundings; are we satisfied
with the past AS with nations, so
with men. In all history we find that
all the advance in morals, and progress
of every description, has been accomp-
lished by successive generations,
through their avoidance of the errors
of those that preceded them. If we
would enjoy the blessings of life, liberty
respect, and the priceless love of
those who bemOan our condition, we
must get right down to the history
of our past and ascertain where we
have been remiss; and as we approach
that day wherein the whole Christian
world rejoices, commemorative the
birth of Saviour, let us resolve tC
correct those errors and be happy in
the birth of new life. If we fail tC
swallow our medicine like men, and lei
the time now with us for reflection be
of service in entirely eradicating oul
evil desires, our shortcomings of every
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

PAUL Bourgeois new book, "Outre
Mer." is being much discussed in Paris,
where his pictures of the freedom en-
joyed by American women are read
with envy by their French cousins
The San Francisco Argonaut's Paris
correspondent, in her letter to the issue
of December 18th, describes the sensa
ton it has created and contrasts the
position of French and American
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20
WE are indebted to the Hatmeristen

WE are indebted to the H1tmeristen
for a number of catalogues, printed in
the scandinavian language; profusely
illustrated, and containing many
humorous jokes aud witicisms. They
are a Christmas gift from the publisher
of this bright and witty journal, pub
lished at Il f. Kinzie, Street, Chicago
and in behalf of the scandinavian in
mates we thank the publisher, Gus
Broberg, and wish him Merry Christ
mas
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20
AMERICAS BESETTING SIN

Every nation has it's besetting sin.
The national sin of the Uuited States
is injustice. Thoughtful Americans
have noticed this with pain, and OBJ
servant foreigners have commented
upon it, The Rev. Richard Clarke, an
English Jesuit, called attention to this
vice some years ago; Henry Watterson,
of the Louisville Courier Journal,
notices it in his lecture on "Money and
Morals;' even the rough old poet, Walt
Whitman, though deserving of scant
consideration on ethical questions,
could not help raising his voice against
this farreaching sin.
Every one who is not a Rip Van
Wrinkle sees appallingly numerous ex-
amples of injustice arise around him:
he sees the shocking spectacle of men
joining churches in order to have in
creased opportunities of robbing their
neighbors; he hears men boast that be-
cause the law of the land cannot reach
them, therefore they are not bound tc
pay their just debts. Yet have never
heard or read in the United States, {
sermon setting forth the glorious the
ology of Justice and Right: and the
American pulpit ignores the command
"Thou shalt not steal,'' as completed!
as if it did not belong to the Decalogue
The confessional reaches some cases O.
restitution; but the pulpit should pres
the multitude to be shrived-Rev. JOIN
Conway, in December DOnahOe'S.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20
THE MIRROR is weekly paper published

in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are to be home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners; to acqualnt
the public with the true STATUS ofthe prisoner;
to disseminate psychological information and to aid
in dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to a fallen mans selfredemptlon.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds. the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20
<.1oNl|GFQ|:Q!!R E2XeX'|6tSxs

If we see sorrow and distress, heart
aches and tears around us, is it posi-
BILE for us, in that knowledge, to be
happy? Our greatest happiness should
be to alleviate the misfortune of others.
st. Peter Journal.
The real anarchist is the person who
has no faith in honest or disinterested
kindness or anything but the almighty
dollar. This kind of anarchist it is that
always makes the other kind who stab
and hurl bombs.-Stillwater Journal.
Make note of this. The average
age of state cOnvictS in Kansas, when
the prohibitory law went into effect
was twenty-five years. After ten years
of prohibition the state prison report
shows the average age of convictS to
be thirty years, with failing off of
numbers of sixty per cent. Not a sim
ole license state east or west but the
number of convicts have increased
rather than diminished the last ten
years Northwestern Mail, MadinsOn,
Wis.
My observation has always been that
insurance companies never demand a
reform that does not benefit the com
munity. But you must let the com
munity, know it. Therefore you must
educate the people, and to educate the
people, you must make friend of the
press. Encourage the press. 1t wants
information. See that it gets it. There
never was great reform that was not
brought about chiefly by the aid of the
press; and surely here is reform that
will enlist it's every honest worker
C. E. CARROLL. In Underwater
Review.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

WE NOTE, and with pleasure too,
that many kind words are being said
of the South Dakota Mails Thanks
giving issue. Too much praise cannot
be extended Editor AinswOrth for any
issue of his bright, and newsy paper
but the Thanksgiving issue we failed
to see: how is this, Colonel?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

THE Hills Crescent edited by Frank
NJ. Bailey. at Hills, Mimi, is among
our exchanges this week. The Cries.
cent is neatly printed 8 page paper,
and is bright and neWsy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

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Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
HELEN COUGARS CAMPAIGN.
Compelled to Testify That She Was
Paid for Her Speeches.

BosTON, June By an unprecedented
ruling by Judge Pu tnam in the United
States Court Helen NJ. Cougar of Lafsy-
cite, Ind, has been compelled to file
answers to questions put to her by Con-
gresham Morse in the now famous libel
suit in which Mrs. Cougar asks S25 900
damages. Some of the answers are as fol-
lows: The defendant inquiries if Mrs.
Cougar received compensation for politi-
cal speeches. She answers, yves" In
Massachusetts during the past Presidential
campaign she received 5000 for fifteen
speeches. In 1890 she received $1,000 from
the Prohibition party for speaking once or
twieh day for month. She also made
other speeches in other States and received
some compensation. She admits she
stuDped the State of Indiana for Blaine
and Logan ia 1888, but only received $500
for such speeches outside the State. She
also Jumped Wisconsin, Illinoi and
Kansas for Blaine in 1884 and eeeived
pay.
The famous letter which she wrote Ida
Harper of Indiana, in which she said she
would teach the hyDocritical Republicans
lesson by carrying New York and In
diana for the Democrats, was brought up
and the plaintiff waived answer. Mrs.
Cougar denied ever having published the
letter in & paper called the New Era in
Springfield,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
WIFE AT A TOTAL FAILURE.
Farm ers in Western Kansas in Dire
Straits,

TOPEKA, Kans., June 3.-Reports from
the western part of Kansas are very dis
couraging and shows that the wheat in
that section is total failure. Tn ere was
very little wheat raised west of the center
OF the State, and unless the conditions i'm
mediately change there will be no corn
raised. In many counties there has not
been any rain for more than year, with
the exception of light showers. The peo-
pie of that section are not well prepared
to withstand another crop failure. Hun
dreds OF farmers are without means to buy
provisions to tide them over another year,
and the prospects of another failure will
force many to leave the country.
State Senator Wilcockson OF Logan
County said to-day that the people of that
region would have to leave and abandon
the prairies for stock ranches if the crops
failed again this year. The people have
held on with the hope that the climatic
conditions would change, but they will be
forced to leave before another cold winter
comes.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
A FRUITLESS SEARCH.
Another Attempt to Find the Willard
Party Results in Failure.

SAN DIEGO, June 3.-Three weeks ago
the report arrived from Campo, fifty miles
east of this city, that Nathan Willard and
a party of campers had probably died on
the desert The party consisted OF Mil
lard. his son Charley, man known as
Diamond George" and negro. name un-
known.
They left home April % to 60 prospect
ing, and intended 10 reach Mesquite Lake.
on the desert. They had a wagon. four
horses and sorrel saddle-horse, and took
provisions for ten days. Nothing being
heard from them and their horses being
found at spring at the edge of the desert
by officers of the Mexican boundary sur
vey a searching party left for the desert
three weeks ago. l.. Dukes Of Campo
learned from two Mexican prospectors
that they had found three dead bndies
below the Mexican line at Jacumba Wash,
but the bodies were not recognizable. The
searching party returned without finding
anything.
Then young Henry Willard. son OF
Nathan. struck out to fno his father and
brother. He returned to Campo Saturday
and reported having found the wagon,
dried and fallen apart, at Mesquite Lake,
but no sign of the party. Officers of the
survey whom he met reported seeing q
| sOrrel horse dragging rope near Indian
Wells, forty miles east of Campo. Fearful
of his own safety, Henry Willard FASTENED
to return, and he arrived worn out and
burned with the intense heat.
The Willard party is about given up fol
lost. The water holes on the desert ar,
dry. the season being dryer than for year,
past, and severe sandstorms are prevailing
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04

Its drawings unmolested by the police for
years, but they abandoned their old quar-
ters on jackson street when Esola and his
men commenced to smash things. The
sergeant with Infinite labor traced them
from place TO place and learned yesterday
afternoon that their drawing would be held
last night in an upper room at S14 Dupont.
AT 1880 O'Clock he passed the place with
his squad and observed two look0u in the
hallway leading TO the room. Without
giving them time to alarm their employers
he seized and cuffed them into the street
and ran upstairs.
He found the dealer seated at a table
covered with slips. tickets and money.
The Chinese cursed him, but he cOolly
gathered up the sack and the rest Of the
evidence and took it with the amazed and
Disguised dealers to the old City Prison.
The money secured amounted to 1856, of
which about one-half was in small silver
coins.
The conductor promptly secured his re-
lease on bail by depositing $3.50 with the
sergeant. His confederates secured bal
later il the evening and went home vow
ing vengeance on the head of E5ola and
his men.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04

had that ma jority greatly reduced and the
Tories are trying 10 get control. 1t seems
10 me there is some sort of an understand
ing between the author of this book and
the party interested In overthrowing the
present Government"
lyman has been interviewed. and salG
the author of the revelations, P. j. lyman,
the Number One" Of the Irish Invinci-
bles. was seen at his house, 10 Kings
Bridge road, last evening.
"The fight is on now, and the wolves
who have been snarling at nv heels for
years will begin 10 snarl afresh," he said.
81 care nothing for them. Ny shoulders
are broad enough to stand whatever
may be put on them in the way
of abuse. There will be denials and
abuse almost without end. The British
newspapers have already begun their at
tack, see. But [ tell you." and here
Mr.. lyman raised his hand to heaven
and spoke slowly and deliberately
every word in my book is true
and in every event there describpd
with scarcely an exception. l have taken
part. My wife, and even my child rem,
who did not come to this country until
after l did, know of the facts of which
speak. 1t is time the revelations were
made, and was but just that l should
make them"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
PARIS SPORTS WERE THERE.
And They Were Enraged at the
Unexpected Finish.
POLICE PROTECTED THE VICTOR.
Disappointed RacegOers Wild Over
the |" In and Out" Perform
ances of the Colt.

PARIS, June 3-All the sporting world
of Paris went to Chantilly to-day to wit
ness the race for che Prix du Jockey Club
French Jockey Club for three-year-olds.
The money value was 13S,600 francs
(S27. 100. The distance was mile half.
The race was won by Gospodara, a
chestnut colt by Gamin out of Georgiana.
Tojours, bay colt by Rstreat out of
Totote, was second, and Styx, bay colt
by Trysten out of Symony third. The
post odds were 16 to l against Gospodara,
to l against TojOurs and TO l against
Styx.
There were twelve starters. Eglantier
was first away and made the run to the
rise followed by Geuvauie, TOjours. Lahire
and StyX in the order named. When the
rise was reached Styx was given his head
and he was soon in the lead. He showed
the way into the stretch, but GOspOdara
came up and took the lead, winning by
two lengths in front of Tojours, who In
turn was two lengths ahead OF StyX.
GoSpodara and his jockey were attacked
by mob when they were returning TO
the paddock. They were protected from
serious injury by the police. Loud i'm
precautions against the stables of Mr.. Cum
nington, the owner of the winner, were
heard on the turf and in the paddock.
Gospodara. although the fayorte for the
Grand Poule des Produits. fortnight
ago, ran until placed in that plaza and was
beaten by Geuvanie. His victory to-day
therefore induced the belief that he had
not been ridden fairly in the former race.
Mr.. Cunnington is an English trainer and
owner who has for a long time settled in
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
Seven Red Rockets Seen off Duxbury
Reef.

Keel
About 10 o'clock last night patrolmaG
OF the Life-Saving station on the ocean
beach saw seven red rockets going up
into the sky in the direction of Duxbury
station and told John HyslOp what he had
seen.
HyslOp dressed hastily and scanned the
horizon carefully with his powerful night
glasses, but failed to discern any light
along the shOreline beyond Point Bonita.
Before making this examination, however,
ne telephoDed to the Merchants Exchange
what the lifebOat man had told him. For
minute or two the wires were busy
nveying messages to Spreckels' dock and
to the tngboat cOmpany'S Office.
The Vigilant had a full head of steam
up and dashed away 10 search of vessel
IN distress, and shortly afterward the red
funnel Sea Queen went il pursuit of the
same prize.
Duxbury Reef is only few miles north
west OF Point Bonita. 1t is regarded by
mariners as most dangerous point, and
indeed has been the scene of great many
disasters. The story told by the beach
patrolman was startling one as the local
seamen have thorough knowledge of the
character of Duxbury Reef
So considerable uneasiness was felt at
the exchange and along the water front.
The return of the tugs with information
about the cause of the rockets was eagerly
watched by many, but the last seen of the
Vigilant and Sea Queen was by Watch
man Hyslop, who observed them moving
about south OF the reef in search of a
wrecked vessel
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
CHERoKEEs GET THEIR MONEY
And Now They Are Pressed by
Traders and Sharks.

MUsKoGEE, l. T., June 3.-The Chero-
KEGS nave received the first installment of
one-sixth Of their money and the big pay
ment of more than $4,000, 600 will begin
tomorrow at Tahlequah. More than
$4,000 Cherokees will draw S267 in cash
each. Great crowds of traders. fakirs and
sharks are fiocking to Tahlequah in the
hope of getting some of the money. 1t is
estimated that merchants have traded
more than a million of dollars on strip
claims and 1t is now a question how closely
they will collect.
There was chute built from the door
OF the capitol to the collectors quarters,
so that all parties would have to pass out
through the chute aud run the gauntlet of
collectors. but such complaint was ma de
by the people that the chute was torn
away. 1t is said that in some commun-
ties the eople are holding secret meetings
and co not intend TO pay but so per cent
on their Indebtedness 20 the retailers.