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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
THE MIRROR ANDDTs OMENs.

The Swedish girl who looks into her
glass by candlelight risks the loss Of
her lover. A universal superstition
which has found it's way even to our
own prosaic time and country forbids
bride to see herself in mirror after her
toilet is completed. In Warwickshire
and other parts of rural England it was
the custom to cover all the looking
glasses in house of death lest some
affrighted mortal should behold in one
the pale and shrouded corpse standing
by his side. Superstitions Of less
ghostly character cluster around the
mirror and are familiar to us all. TO
break one is everywhere an evil omen.
'Seven years trouble but no want" fol-
low fast upon such mishap in Y ork-
shire, while in Scotland the cracking of
a looking glass, like the falling of the
doomed mans picture from the wall, is
presage of approaching death. But
to subscribe for THE MIRROR is a sign
of good judgement. Toread it carefully
and to be guided by it's precepts anC
warnings, is sure sign of prosperity
happiness and contentment. Only
$1,OO per year.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The Moslem's says an exchange, be-
lieve in the existence of "seven great
hot hells'' bearing the names of johann
nam, Latha. Hutamah, Sa'ir, Saker,
Jehim and Kariah. The first is to be
the endless abode of the Dahriyah, a
sect which denies the creation; the Sec
ond for Manichees and Arabs, the third
for Brahman's, the fourth for the Jews,
the fifth for Christians and the sixth
for Magians. The seventh, the great
great hot, hot hell, % is to be reserved fol-
liars and hypocgites. Holy Moses. won't
the present is. congress have warm
time of it when they reach Kariah?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The Saltwater American proposes
Chaplain j. H. Albert of this institu
ton, as a candidate for legislative
honors at the coming election. While
we must concede that The American
shows most excellent judgement in it's
choice of candidate, yet we are 10th to
part with our worthy chaplain in any
such manner. However, if there is an
assemblage on earth which needs and
merits the watchful care of an honest,
fearless, conscientious, God and justice
loving man worse than we do, that as
semblage is undoubtedly the State
legislature, so we won't kick.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The talk about abolishing the British
house of lords has been looked upon in
this country as pure moOnshine; but it
seems that an organized effort in that
direction is being made in England.
At a great meeting in London, last
week delegates to the number of 1000
were present, representing all parts of
the Kingdom. Sir Wilfred Lawson
called the peers "the greatest set of
rascals on the face of the EARTH 1t is
evident that Sir Wilfred 'aint onto our
American house of lords.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

wrong when such man as Pullman
can amass a fortune near on to a hun
dred million dollars in few years.
There is something wrong when such
a man as Pullman, and many others,
can ignore our laws for taxation for
wears and then get protection from the
state militia at moments notice.
There is something wrong when few
men can control all the oil output in
the country and make the prices to suit
themselves. The same thing applies to
coal, sugar and many other articles.
These corporations defy laws and con-
troll lawmakers. AS soon as the work
ingman defies the law the militia and
the United States army are evoked TO
dispense and punish him, but who ever
heard of militia being called out to
punish a corporation or trust which
have trampled the laws for years at
time? The present strike may not
succeed but at the same time great
majority of the people are in sympathy
with the strikers and believe they have
a grievance and should have more rights
and protection under the law. There
must be some way by which these griev-
ances can be regulated and capital COM
PEELED to give proper remuneration
for labor. If no other way-compel
both sides to arbitrate. There is hardly
a railroad in the United States but
what the government has contributed
to build, and it should have some voice
in their control, especially when they
defy laws and 60 beyond all reason.
OF course the authorities will subdue
the strikers but the subsection will only
be temporary, as long as the cause
exists.
Our lawmakers must give labor and
laborers more attention and pay less at
tention to the seductive whisper and
fat pocketbooks of the rich and monop
olistic corporations. If not, we will
have series of just such times as we
have had for the last week. We are
Glad to see that some OF our natlOna
LEGISLATORS realize the seriousness OF
the times and already are taking the
initial step to right some of the serious
wrongs which prevail. Let the ricf
have proper protection but do not lie
them have a monopoly Of protection.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Go away from home to learn the
news. The following is clipped from
the London, england Chimes. Why
don't our friend Frank ThOrne, who is
now living in London, give those
bloomin' blasted Englishmen few
pointers: "Gen. Coxey, the gentleman
who ran for president in opposition to
Chauncy Depew, is leading a disconso-
late army of hoboes on to Washington.
Hobo is the pseudonyn used to desig-
nate the members of the Independent
Republican party. Gen. Coxey is a
native of Yuba Dam, capital OF the
state of Baltimore, and journalist of
some distinction, having edited the
Congressional Record, an influential
paper published in the Mormon inter
ests of Boston n. Y. His army has
captured the Delaware and LackaWan-
ma railroad, which will afford transpor-
tation through the Rock mountains tc
Fargo, where the troops will embark IN
gondolas and sail down the Susquehan
ma river to Washington. AS the pres
ident, Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt, is alb
sent in Kentucky on buffalo hunt, at
tended by the regulars as guard Of
honor, grave apprehensions are felt a
Washington as to the possible conse
quences of Coxey's invasion of tina
territory. If the Kickapoo Indians
should join him serious consequence
| NAV QnSnn
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
THE REAL CRIMINALS.

An ancient philosopher once said:
"If the laws of the country are so op-
pressive that people must need violate
them to obtain the necessities OF life, 1t
is not those who break the laws that
ought to be punished, but those who
made the laws
This is sound doctrine, and if put in
operation in our time would greatly as
tonish the world, says the Graceville
Enterprise. Very many OF the crimes
with which men are charged flow di-
rectly from bad, unjust and oppressive
legislation. 1t is undeniable that nearly
all the financial legislation Of congress
for the last 80 years has been in favor
of the rich against the poor. Bond
holders, corporations and money chan
gers have engaged the attention of our
statesmen to the utter neglect OF the
producing classes. The absorbers OF
wealth, and not the producers of it, have
ruled the country and ruled it with a
rod of iron. Matters have been growing
apparently been reached. The bounties
of nature were never more prOfuSe, and
yet millions of laboring people are out
of employment and millions of women
and innocent children are on the verge
of starvation.
The spectacle is presented OF large
bodies of men marching upon the cap
itol of the nation to protest against this
most unjust and disastrous policy of
the government, and these people are
met at their destination with charge
of vagrancy, charge that may be well
founded, but the first question to be
asked is, who made them Migrants
There is no reason in the nature OF
things why large share of the labor OF
this country should be unable to fine
employment. If these men are made
Migrants by the operation of our laws
then those who made the laws ough
first to be punished.
The financial legislation Of Thu
country has choked to death very larg'
share of it's Industries. The bond
holders, bankers, public creditors ant
over-pampered corporations have en-
forced their demands for restriction
of the currency until the amount il
circulation is wholly inadequate to tn
demands of business, and as cOnse
quence business has fallen off and me-
by thousands are thrown out of en-
ployment. The situation is serious an
demands for it's solution careful though
rather than hasty passion. The frs
inquiry should be: What has caused S
many Migrants, and if it comes frol
bad and unjust management Of publ
affairs, who should be held responsible
Not those who violate the laws, bl
those who made them, should SOM
times be punished.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The last legislature in Iowa passed a
law that does away with the professional
juror entirely and places upon every
citizen not exempt, the responsibility of
jury service. The name of every voter
subject to jury duty is placed in one
box and the panel drawn. The names
of all residents in the town or city in
which the court is held who are not on
the regular panel are placed in sepa-
rate box and from these the necessary
additional jurors are drawn, instead OF
permitting the court officers to pick uI
about the court room the professional
inrOrS
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Journalists laugh at Coxyism. The
laboring people sympathize, and in the
end it is the latter who will prevail.
We are not unfamiliar with similar
petitions in boots in London. Lazarus
showed his sores in Trafalgar Square
and the unemployed tramped their
shoes off their feet in 1861 demon
strating their desire for work. London
newspapers with one or two exceptions,
says w. T. Stead in the Review of
Reviews, scOffed and tlouted the agita-
tors. The metropolitan police broke
up the professions and cleared the
square amid the cheers of Dives and
his myrmidons. John Burns and Cum
ningham Graham were flung into
prison and for time there was peace,
the peace and the silence of the grave.
But in two short years London elected
it's first County Council, and John Burns
fresh from prison, became the most in.
fluential member of the governing body
The men at Trafalgar Square became
rulers of Spring Gardens. and the
greatest movement of our time in the
direction of municipal socialism is be-
ing conducted at this moment in the
name OF the London Council by the
representatives of the army Of discon
tent which bivOuacked at the base OF
Nelson's column only seven years ago
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

1t is said that the deputy marshals
employed in the Chicago railroad yards
have not been proof against temptation,
as witness the breaking of the seals Of
a large number of the loaded freight
cars massed on the tracks, and the
abstraction therefrom of large quanti-
ties of liquor and clothing, much of
which-the latter--has been recovered
from their camps.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
Ten thousand dollars seems larg'

Ten thousand dollars seems large
sum to expend on trousseau, but that
is what some recent brides have done,
according to "Flaneur's'' letter from
New York to the San Francisco ArgOn-
aut of July I'd. Just how it is employed
is explained at length, as is the gorgeous
apparel that cost prospective groom
five thousand dollars for his wedding
outfit.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING
WRONG.

"Every man has the right to work or
quit work just as he pleases but no man
has right, natural or acquired, to pre-
vent any other man from working if
the other man wants to work.
1t is the business and duty of the gov
eminent to protect every man or cor
poration in their rights, and he who
opposes the government will do so at
his peril. The law must prevail and all
men must be made to obey it if we
have good government.
But there is something radically
wrong with the law which allows such
state of affairs as has existed for the
past few weeks says the LIE Mars
Iowa. Globe. "There is something
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

A Brewster, Neb., editor makes the
plaintive announcement that he is ready
to receive all sorts of farm produce in
payment of subscriptions. He adds:
If my subscribers propose to pay at
all, they had better hurry in with their
offerings before starve to DEATH
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Thomas Byrnes, superintendent of
the New York police department, says:
"After all, if we hunt vice and crime
back to their lairs we will be pretty
sure to find them in the gin-mill
Drunkenness is the prolific mother of
most of the evil dOings."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Samuel B. Arnold, who was sent to
Dry Tortugas for life for being impli-
Gated in the assassination of President
Lincoln, but was pardoned by President
Johnson, is keeping a butchers shop IN
Baltimore Md.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Editor Eaton, of the Buffalo Journal,
truly says: "Every young man who
earns ten cents a day more than he
spends, soon becomes a capitalist, but
if he spends ten cents day more than
he earns he soon becomes either a tramp
or convict"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published
in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited ana 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 OF the prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
in dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans self-redemptlon
The paper is entirely dependent on the puonc 1oI
its financial support If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds, the money would be
extended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The st. Paul Globe was sold at re-
ceivers sale, in Judge Flandraus office
Friday. The successful bidder was c..
S. Weaver who bid the plant in for the
KittSOn estate. for S65. 900.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The Prime Minister of Madagascar
has just been sentenced to penal servi-
tude for life for having talked politics
in an offensive way to Prince Rakoo-
mAna
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

The emotion accompanying every
generous act, said Herbert Spencer, adds
an atom to the fabric Of the ideal man.
AS no cruel thing can be done without
character being thrust a degree back to-
wards barbarism, so no kind thing can
be done without character being moved
a degree forward towards perfection.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Minneapolis was visited by disas-
trous ccnfagration last Thursday even
ing, destroying the new Central market
and other property, to the value of
over half million dollars.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

A wag says, Some men, who mar
ry and settle down, would have done
the world more good had they remained
single and settled up"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

An exchange says: ''The man who
carries a Pullman pass in his pocket
always kicks the hardest and talks the
loudest against the strike
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Some philantropists take more pride
in lifting man from the gutter than
in helping him across it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Charitable societies are to be organ
lied in France to aid cOnvicts whose
terms have expired.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
<.doNF E2X}SlX6Ii&xs:

A country which derives good part
Of it's revenue from tax on the vices
of it's people, is dangerously near the
point where it is willing to perpetuate
vice in the interests of the exchequer.
The Outlook.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

1 notice in a Fargo paper that a
Pinkerton detective was robbed in a
Fargo lodging house of $3.50, while he
was combing his hair in full dress
looking glass. A detective who is as
easily touched as that should keep his
money in his wife's clothes.-Walsh
Co.. Record
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

One of the brightest little publica-
lions in the entire west is the PRISON
MIRROR, edited and published by the
prisoners in the Minnesota peniten-
tiary at Saltwater. 1t is entirely diff
ferent in at least one respect from all
other papers. That is, the editors
never ask the railroads for transporta-
tion.--St. Joseph, (Mo.O Gazette.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26

Every person is an architect of them
selves and fortune. No one else knows
the inside working of your heart.
Then in the great future let self reli-
ance, faith, honesty and industry be in
scribed on the golden pages of your life.
Life is only short space at best. Then
make your mark high and on the right
side so as to reap a grand reward
Clarendon, (Ark.,) Times.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-17

pLyv1urm BOX Elder Cos Apu
~. lsBL-5piug has come ut lps0
ani tue farmer. ago uuty putting iu
their crops. There has been c1nHi iof'
able sickness rrre among Mc children
the laat TOW months aud ON Flin}
last, April B,h, Brother "a autv Glars,
70 This place, Loot little BON, Charles
Edward, agej year, o months anu
81 Gays, 90 Group; anu on tho next dny,
the 1th inst, a daughter sarah Anniv.
aged ! . ynara, % months and go iaya,ui
diphthprin cs0uG ami 0u the ION Inst.
auOiher son, John George, agrI Z years
8 months audi days, li Group.
Brother George Smith, u this place,
alec Loot little slu On the uth inst,
James samuel, Of pn1lmluia or diph.
iberia Group, aged Z years ana 2
months.
The hcteavtd parents have the sym
patty u the whole community 10
theii great los. You're,
JANIS HUuNEtT JW.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-17

Plymouth is Growing. Deaths.
PLYMoUTH, Box Elder county, Utah,
April 10, 1874,
Editor Dcserst ACpG
Our people are very busy putting in
crop; the outlook for flll grain be very
bad again this spring, tho cause being
that n crust forms before the grain ge,s
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-17
Hoods Cures


Hoods Pillsruaa1lEor uIt. ul.auwaH
Jauudlcg Indigestion. s.tE Headache. POO.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-17
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-17

VIZ have a prOui Of this todAy--R
proof that there In something wrong IN
our political constitution. This new
movement, this move on Washington,
Will strengthen the Peoples party, anu
II IL 10 be- hoped viii have some good
results In the publication VI our pUiiti.
cal Institutions.
Your, etc,
DEiuCHIEus,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-09
BURNS is FAsTIDI0Us.
London Labor Leader Has "A Decided
Aversion to Ch1cagO's Dirty
Streets.

| Chicago, Dec. S.-John Burns, M. p.
! the London labor leader, who left fol-
Denver last night, spent the afternoon
and evening in driving about Chicago
and visiting various points of interest
about the city. After speaking praise
of the art institute, he delivered him
self of a few caustic comments on the
dirty streets over which ne had driven
in these words:
But the streets-they are execrable.
There is nothing on the face of the
earth to compare with the streets of
Chicago. 1t seems to be a city of more
downs than ups. The lowest, poorest,
dirtiest streets in London are paved as
we'll as the very best streets in the west
end of Chicago. There seems to be
need of an organized head. You can
judge the character Of the official of a
city by what they produce"
OF political action by the trade unions
in England, he said:
"Our trades unions and trade union
councils are non-political, speaking in
the American sense. l represent L.
100000 bona fide workingmen. My own
union has 5000 members. There is an
element outside the union that have
political views and are partisans, but
not so strong as here. The congress
votes for a certain thing that it is be-
lieved will result in the most good. 1t
has never been and never will be an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-09

THE bundle of bloody clothes was
probably thrown on the closet floor
and left there for the time being, until
taken away by Ericsson the following
morning"
Detective John Hoy, who arrested
Ericsson, stated that he had positive
proof that Ericsson left Minneapolis the
morning after the murder with a neat
~ wrapped bundle containing the
bloody clothes. He stated that he took
a train for a point in Iowa, where the
clothes were washed. Whether the DO
lice have the clothes in their possession,
could not be learned last night, but it
Is rumoredl that they have. The motive
IN having the clothes washed and
brought back to thescity, it is claimed,
was to ev7ade suspicion, the owner wish
ing 70 continue to wear them.
Officials who visited the flats were
armed with search warrant and they
first proceeded to search the old gentle
mans apartments on the top of the
building. Harry and Adry slept on the
ground Aoor, Harry in a front bed
room and his brother in a room in the
rear facing on Thirteenth street In a
table drawer Detective Howard found
two revolvers belonging to Harry. One
was a double-barrel. Of the deringer
pattern, and the other 81 3S-calibre
Colts. Six boxes of cartridges were al
so confiscated. Harry's clothes were
carefully examined, but nothing start
ling was discovered.
From Lady Friends.
Several notes from lady friends IN
vited him to meet them at certain
places for social time" were found
neatly tied together in the bottom of
the trunk. The officers confiscated
satchel containing a lot of clothes be
longing to the engineer, and it is
thought that the clothes worn by the
murderer of Catherine Cling were
among the contents of the satchel.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-09

New Orleans, La, Dec. S.-The win
ter meeting opened under brilliant aus
pices this afternoon. The attendance
was at least 1000, and the sport of an
excellent character. Montre was the
only winning favorite and the ring was
in high feather. In the dead heat the
purse was divided.
First. race, tnree-quarters of a mile
Fdetropole won, Amelia May second,
Bessie Nichols, third. Time--1:14%.
Second race, seven furongs-sIlss
Clarke swon, Miss Gallop second,
Alethia Allen third. Time :2914.
Third race five furlongs Montre
won. Prince second. Lu Prewitt third.
Time 02H.
Fourth race, one Melody won,
Clementine second, Walhatchie third.
Times 1%.
Fifth race, one and a sixteenth miles
-Pearline and Contest ran dead heat,
Hot Spur third. Time :49.
Sixth race, three-quarters of a mile
Darwin Wedgewood won, Moloch sec
ond, Luke Parks third. Time-1:151s.