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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
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Debs himself is depending on the fury
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
persOnified 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
To find that all the sages Sad,
Is in the book our mother read.
, R.F.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 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
convict until he dOns the prison garb.
A criminal can be- member Of society,
in fact often is one of it's shining lights;
a 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 peer by the
great social world which now considers
him an outcast, is question that
must be relegated to a very distant
future. His past is as yet all too neal
and overloaded, his present footing
all too precarious, to promise aught bu
sinister prophecy. The only clea
horizon he can certainly see forms tn
back ground of picture in who's
middle distance is grave-the con
vict's own. y. n. f..
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
FOR THE PRISON MIRROR
THE END OF THE WORLD.

6Hhe coming of the end of the
2IGWOrld is text from which
yIY many sermon has been preach
ed, and is one of very ancient date.
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. I have also heard my parents
speak of the same doctrine being pro-
mulgated when they were yet children,
vet 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-R Russian
war broke out in 1854, a monstrOus
comet made its 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 eye to be about one half mile
in length, again one of these mySteri-
Gus. luminous wanderers, made its 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
3 in the terrible vortex of human strife
, will be the rulers, tyrants, and monied
p men in general, and it is pretty gen
g orally understood that clean sweep is
l to be made no corrupt root or branch
i is to be left to propagate corruption
7. in the future, WISDOM.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
Vol. WILL l.
AFTER THE STORM.


l opened the door in the morning
On 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 hyacinth
Its rich and regal crown.
The half-blown roses trembled.
And wind-swept swayed about;
Then drOOped beneath the ralndrOpS
That crushed their sweetness out.
The violets hid their faces
All drenched and torn apart,
But through the dampness flOated
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.
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 fir ON 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 Oh
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 fOwe
Steals from heart that's broken.
IDA NEWELL AUSTIN.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09

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 intiict 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 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 de
will not set the matter right. Th'
better plan will be for each and ever!
one of us, to take up the battle OF lif'
manfully, each determined to do hi
share toward fastening the time whel
oppression, deceit, and all kindred evil
shall be obliterated from off the fac
of the earth. Then the millennium viii
be with us, and there will be no nee'
for any of us to take to the woods.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
Dixie. Washington.
FOR THE PRISON MIRROR.
WHAT IS A CONVICT?
Can he Ever Recover his Lost Social
Statusp

Status?
6Rhe commonly accepted defini
A|f.tion of the word convict, is a
ylY person doing legally imposed
and enforced penance for crime OF
which he has been convicted Whether
a convict can or cannot be a 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 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 vocabulary virtually washing it's
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 reclaiming 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 prison:
could not begin to contain them
Those scientists urge, probably, as
reason for their course that it is tn
only practicable method of establish
ing a 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 a country by count OF the cage
singers found therein, or to bas
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
MIRROR.
DISCONTENT.
Those who Look for Reverses Usually
Find What They Seek.

Those who Look for Reverses Usually
Find What They Seek.
"Oh! for a 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.
j, 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 go out in the woods some
where and climb a 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 a certain
date. Then he could have gone into
his lodge and from its gloom looked
forth with sour complacency upon the
world and its 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 good stout jack knife and gone
out into the woods somewhere anC
cut down a good large live oak tree
and then set diligently to work tt
5 hollow it out in approved style tt
make himself a lodge, my word for it
, that before he had got two feet int
5 the body of that tree he would no
{. only have become disgusted with tn
4 hermit racket, but he would also hav
g 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
j. YOU" There are plenty of people jus
S like him in the world today. Peopl
without energy enough to make
e battle for life, they sit supinely dow
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
FOR THE MIRROR.
TMPARTIAL TN ENFORCEMENT OF THE
LAW.

LAW.
A Simple Question of Duty on the Part of
U. S. Officials.
6The old adage that the law is no
alGrespectOr of persons is no doubt
yIY 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 l want to
call your attention to just one fact.
The indictment and subsequent arrest
of the leaders of the A. r. I. is based
upon section 244O of the United States
statutes, which reads as follows: 1t
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 $1,000
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 OF
the new navy had been furnished by a
certain company. In the course of in
vestigation it was clearly established
that these frauds had been perpetrateo
by the conspiracy of several persons
1t did not then appear that this haC
been done with the knowledge of any
responsible member of the company
but from subsequent indications an(
, Investigations nothing has been mor'
: clearly established than that it mus
, have been done with the knowledg
: and consent of some responsible mem
t bers of the company. Were any OF tn
t department superintendent discharg
3 ed? No, simply transferred to othe
4 departments. Any one who has ha
1 any experience in the manufacturin
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
PRISON MIRROR.
INDEPENDENCE.
Is Ever Sought for, but Never Found in
This Grand and Glorious World.

6Ihe dictionary defines independ-
AIGence as freedom from control.
ylS It is not then valuelesS and
word to frail mortality. In
fact, does it not with its kindred, liber-
ty and freedom make up trinity rep
resenting different aspects of the one
delusion? Who is there of the children
of men who has had freedom, liberty,
independence, call it what you will; is
there such in all the vastnesS OF matter?
What is there free from the control Of
nature; which the philosophers tell us
is impassibly subservient to immutable
laws? Even the Great Creator OF all
things, He who fills uncognizable space
with worlds as easily as child casts
dust into the air, has His obligations
to all His animated creatures.
Some there are, who claim there is
no controller, or if there be, that he
has no obligations to fulfill. But these
are worshippers of the idol, l refute
their theory by every day fact. They
do not believe in God, or for arguments
sake, the personal and omniscient con-
trolling power, because there is no
means of knowing of his existence by
actual sensual demonstration. But
what do they really know by the abso-
lutte process of personal examination
and self conviction? Has Ingersol
calculated for himself the weight and
distance of the sun? Has he ever fig
ured out the correctness of the GregOr-
ian calender, or measured with line
the girdle of this, our fair earth? Yet
he takes the generally accepted views
on these subjects as knowledge, which
after all is simple, all wool belief and
dependence on another mans truth and
accuracy.
Even Ingersol admits that Jesus OF
Nazereth was the most truthful anC
perfect of men upon all questions OF
morality, denying his word only as re
} CARDS his proclamation Of Supreme
Being and of his Sonship to the Father
Yet, had he caught Dana or Proctor O.
Huxley lying about the earths strata
the realms of space, or the evolution o
2 animated nature from the protoplasm
5 would he not have repudiated them OF
f all other points? No! not even the i'm
{ mortal "Bob" who would sell his owl
y divine birthright of Immortality for al
adulatory mess of pottage, is free fror
i control. The very crisis of today read
S us lesson more potent and penetra1
f ing than the voices of all the silver
a tongued orators from Moses down
l. could convey. At this very hour tn
voice of the great Creator is declarin
d to this nation and people that they al
5. not free, that there is not one anon
d our seventy millions who is indepen(
v ent, that the shrill voiced bird ma
Y, shrek liberty, fraternity, equality, a
d over the land but that he is re-iteratin
q lying fable. Even as l write the'
st words furious rabble of striker
re socialists, anarchists, and that scu
a. which only dares show itself when tt
,e social cauldron seetheS, are in Chicag
g depending on one another to overcon
er law and order, and the governor
I'd Illinois is depending on the nation
10 arms to enforce his vanished authOrit
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09

A Simple Question of Duty on the Part of
u. S. Officials.
The Portland daily press., 1894-12-06
BREAKING AND ENTERING.
A Farm House and Barn at Cumberland
Raided.

Mr.. Alvin A. Lane, the well known nooe
and shoe dealer OF this city, owns farm ~
Cumberland, and, until lately, the 1ai n
house and farm property have been IN TIE
charge of a man named Charles Mulrheau.
Some time ago Mr.. Lane discharged Mulr-
head.Satu1day night last, in company WIN d
man name1 Nicholas VI. Barlow, he.went ont
o the house. broke in and made themselves
very much at home. When they left they
took nine hens with them, feather ped
pillows and blankets and broke into the
barn and stole eight bdshles of oats.
Sunday night Barlow. WHO evidently
wasn't satisfied with his share in the
burglary of the night previous, went out to
the house accompanied by a man named
Charles Ivers and stole harness that was
worth only little while ago SOS, but N.Y.
Lane had bought it for Sl8.
officers Morse and Harmon got onto the
burglary and succeeded in arresting ali
three of the mon. They also located ana
recovered all the property except the hens,
and these they expected to secure during
last night. as they had located them also. 1t
was q good job on the part of the officers
and will please the owners of property In
the farming districts.
The Portland daily press., 1894-12-06
NINETY YEARS.
Mrs Amy W. Addition, Oldest Member of
Congress Square Church, Celebrates Her
Birthday Today.

Today Mrs. Amy W. Addition. one of the
smartest of the aged women of Portland.
will celebrate her ninetieth birthday at No.
Vernon court. Mrs. Addition is the Oldest
member Of Congress square church, MEN,
Der of the Martha Washington society CT the
Coed Samaritans, and of the Ladies Sewing
Union. She was present at the fair and sale
of that Union yesterday. She is an active
and beloved member of all these societies.
and very regular attendant of the church
services.
Mrs. Addition was before her marriage
Miss Amy ". Kinds. and lived in Livermore
and Pennington. where were the homes OF
her family. She is an aunt of Mr.. Aurells
S. Kinds, the we'll known manufacturer OF
this city. Mrs. Addition came to Portland
forty years ago. and has lived here since.
She was burned out in the great fire, OF
which she is fond of recounting incidents.
Her memory has not failed at all. and one
of her greatest delights is to recount the
events of her childhood.
Today Mrs. Addition will receive her
friends, who always come in goodly num-
beIs to greet her.
The Portland daily press., 1894-12-06

Prof W. H. Chapman, of this city, one of
the foremost cleo tricians of the day, VIII
deliver, four lectures ON Electricity" in
Y. M. C. A. hall. At each lecture the
speaker will demonstrate by many brilliant
experiments. and will use terms that can
be understood by all. The subject of the
first lecture, this evening at 5 O'Clock will
be 1.-The Analogy of Electric Currents to
Hydraulics"
This lecture will explain the laws of flow
of electric currents, and the principles OF
their measurements. Measurements will be
made of the three electical quantities,
amperes. volts and ohms. by instruments
extemporized for the occasion. in such q
manner that all working details may be
clearly seen. The other lectures will occur
on December goth, 1884, and January 4th
and 18th, 1896.
Each member of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association will be entitled to adj
mission with one lady friend, each evening,
absolutely free.
The Portland daily press., 1894-12-06
Sudden Death.

CAPTAIN James Weber, an old shipmaster
aged ~ years, has been boarding at Mrs.
Ellen Hamilton's for some time past. and of
late has been great sufferer from heart
disease. Tuesday night he slept better than
usual, and in the morning, yesterday, told
Mrs. Hamilton he thought he would take
little walk. He went out through the back
door, was gone few moments, returned,
and took seat in the chair in the sitting
room. Mrs. Hamilton heard him gasp, went
into the room and found him sitting back in
the chair dead, with one hand on the ann
of the chair. Captain Weber does not leave
any family. He formerly sailed vessels be-
tween New York and foreign and coostwise
ports.
The Portland daily press., 1894-12-06
PERSONAL.

Fred Plaisted, the oarsman, has moved
his family to his cottage on Long Island,
where they will pass the winter.
Rev. DIR. C. Bolles of New York will
give course of lectures in January for
the benefit Of the free kindergarten.
Hon. jill. Cutler of Bangor is at the
Falmouth.
Lieutenant Governor Mansur of Yer
mont was in the city yesterday morn
ing. He was here on business, and re-
NAMED only brief time. Mr.. Mans ur
is a one-armed veteran of tn g Grand Ar
my.
Miss Mary S. McCobb of Portland will
give Shakespearian reading in Cor
nam Dece,n Der 3.
Messrs. Haggett and Grimmer returned
from their long bicycle ride Tuesday.
They visited New York, Washington and
Philadelphia, sand report having had a
very pleasant time.
CAPTAIN Townsend, of the steamer
Phantom, is confined to the house by
illness. Captain E. H. Lam bert is in
charge.
II is announced that Frank W. Robin
son, ESQ, is candidate. for the position
of judge of the Municipal Court, to sue
coed Judge Gould, whose term will ex-
pire in March.
Captain George S. Wilson of this city,
will go to New York today or tomorrow
to take command of large steel ship,
TO sail for China. Bis last ship was the
Daniel l. Tenney, of Boston.
MIR. George F. Thomson, of the Allan
line, arrived yesterday.