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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04
Why Should Write for the Mirror

First you should write for it because
it is your own paper and you have just
as good a right to contribute to its col
umns as anyone You should have a
personal interest in it's usefulness and
success. and endeavor in every way pos
sible to make it success, and benefit
to your fellow prisoners. Again. it will
be beneficial to yourself to contribute
to it's columns no matter how well in
formed you may be, or how much you
may need information. There are
many well-read men who possess abun-
dant information on many difficult and
important subjects, and yet they lack
the ability to express themselves intelll-
gently in writing 1t is not all of a
true education to fill ones mind with
knowledge; to be able to draw out that
knowledge and present it to the public,
either through the press or orally is as
much of a true education as it is to pos
ess the same. If you have never writ
ten for THE MIRROR, then you should
commence at once and feel that it is
privilege, and that you can soon make 1T
beneficial to yourself.
If you are beginner, l am sure the
editor will take you by the hand and
kindly lead you on-that he will correct
your errors, so that in short time. it
will be pleasure to you to assist him
with regular weekly contribution.
A. B. M.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04
Faults Of Culture.

Perhaps a humber of your many
readers will term it heresy, when 1 say
that there is no pursuit more selfish
than that of culture for its own sake.
Any competent observer cannot fail to
have noticed that the seeking of that
which is admirable in intellectual at
tainment and progress, simply for the
purpose of holding it in possession, a
petty power, has the same degrading
effect upon the soul that comes to the
miser who boards his gold. 1t is safe
to declare that all men and women who
pursue culture as an end, failing to de-
vote it to any purpose that involves
self-surrender, are mean, like the hoard
ing miser. So 1T happens, as men grow
more learned by study, more nicely ad-
justed and finished in their power, more
delicate and exact in their taste, they
lose sympathy with the world in COM
mon, and become fastidious, and cold;
warming only in the presence of those
who praise them or set value on their
possessions. | have often noticed, as
culture comes in, faith goes out, instead
of growing vigorous and far-reaching.
Is it the ignorant who have faith in
mankind, and must man surrender his
divinest possession when culture enters
in? He must, if culture is pursued as
and end in itself; but, if pursued to fur
ther the ends of benevolence, it strength
ems faith. Culture which ends in self,
is intidel; it makes a God of itself.
When culture is selfish, all sympathies
are clannish: such culture has no broad
aims except selfish ones. Whatever it
does is done for the few, it never con-
tributes to the many, it is too proud to
be useful, it refuses to come down to
the dusty ways of life to point the way
upward and help men bear their bur-
dens. The world might go to the dogs,
or the devil for all selfish culture would
do to prevent it. The noble work is
done by those who have faith in man
kind; by the humble, who have some
thing better than culture, or by those
who place culture under the law of love.
The florist can show us rose whose
| beauty has been won by culture, but
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04
FROM NEUTRAL GROUND.

One of our Contributors Voices his Sen
timents on the Purity of the Press.
Perhaps one who has no voice in poll
tics, should idly scan the doings of the
various political parties without COM
ment The temporary loss of citizen
ship does not, however, imply that one
must needs abandon all interest in
worldly affairs, or cease to form opinions
upon the questions of the day. Hence,
take the liberty of advancing my hum
BILE sentiments upon that subject: which
seems to me, to Se of the most vital
Importance. The question with which
l deal. is the unjust manner in which
official acts of our leading public men
are criticised. Petty party mud singing
is resorted to in order to prove and up
hold the alleged veracity and wisdom
of political measures, platform planks,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04
NV Letters,

There are few persons even outside of
prison walls, who do not appreciate the
receiving of letter; there is something
extremely fascinating about the very
prospect In returning to my cell from
the shops, am delighted to espy little
white-winged messenger of love lying
upon my cot, (already opened) awaiting
my perusal, or am sOrely disappointed
at its absence. In returning to my cell
after the labor of the day is done;
often try to pursuade myself that there
is not the slightest probability of my
receiving a letter at that time; thus as
it were, striving to deceive myself, that
1 might the more fully enjoy the pre-
cious token. What a great blessing it
is to have some loved one or friend who
do not forget nor forsake us in our hour
Of sorrow and trouble, and thus by
cheerful and loving messages.
"They scatter fragrant flowers
Upon thOrny path,
Bringing many pleasant hours
To a life een worse than DEATH
$ W.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04
A Modern Solomon.

There is in Hungary areligious society
calling themselves Nazarenes. Some
time ago they appeared in body before
one of the county judges, whom they
informed that they were about to cru
city their leader, whom they claimed to
believe was the Messiah, and who in
accordance with their belief and doc
trine must be crucitied. The judge
pondered over the matter for a moment,
and then said: "My friends, will not
interfere with you in the discharge of
your religious obligations, if your
Messiah approves Of cruciixion, then
let him prepare to die; but if your
Messiah does not arise again on the
third day. and appear among us, will
have you all tried and hanged for mur-
der" After considering for brief time
the judges words, they concluded to let
their Messiah live. p. l..
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04
Sam Does It.

Texas. No. 2, in his article on Sam
Jones, in recent issue of THE MIRROR
says: 81 firmly believe that the man
has converted more sinners than any
man living" I have always believed
that man was only an instrument in the
hands of God, in the conversion of
sinner; and that the real work was
done by higher power. It may be,
however that Sam does his own con-
verting. A. A. w.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1894-01-04

at the cost of it's fragrance There may
be much to admire in selfish culture,
but like the rose, there is nothing to in
hale. We are obliged to 60 near'to see
that which should come to us on the
wings of the wind. BRIGHAM
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
I'm GEN ERAL

ALL hope for the safety of the whal
ing ship Falcon has been abandoned.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has consented to
christen the steamship ST Louis on
Nov. l..
THE Ameri an Type Founders Com
pany has turned out the old manage
ment and elected new board of direc-
tors.
Miss ANNA GOULD returned to New
York from Europe and the rumor that
she is to marry w. b. Harrim~n i, le-
vived.
BILL Cooks gang of out!aS-s raided
Watova AMI Tala, /. T., drove the
citizens off be streets and looted the
stores and pOstoffices.
MOBRAY. the socialist leader now in
England, is headed for the United
States, and, it is said, there is a gen.
eral exodus of anarchists and the ike
for America.
RECEIVER MCNEIL. of the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company, has
under conside alton pro ect for the
establi shment of steam hip line be-
tween Portland and the Orient.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
SOUTHERN.

The trial of the members of the mob
who lynched six negroes near Milling
ton, Tenn Aug 81, has begun.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic in southern
Illinois and Kentucky. Forty deaths
are reported during last week near
Caseyville, KY.
FIFTEEN masked men entered the
all at Fort tOckt n, Texas, few
days ago I'D kidnared Victor Ochoa
the Mexican revOlu ionary lea Ter. 1t
is presumed they have taken him
a ross the boundary and shot him. He
wa ar American citizen and could not
be extradited
JOSE MARIA HERRERA, a sheep
herder, discovered forty miles west of
Durango, Mex, cave in which he
found box filled with gold coins and
ornaments. the whole worth so, 90
1t is SUPP osed that the treasure As a
part of the ill-gO.ten gains OF the bril-
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
Seen While Life Ebbs.

SEVEN PEOPLE were smothered 10
death by smoke in IA tenement-houSe
fire at 2l6 West Thirty-second street,
New York Another woman jumped
from a third-story window and will
die. The fire came suddenly and cut
OFF all escape by the stairways. In the
excitement every body looked only to
his or her own SAFETY, a d rushed
down the fire escape. The following
peri-hed in the building: George
FREEDMAN, yeas: Levy Friedman
3 years; Annie ApTlebiatt, > years:
Lena Mitchell. II years; Margaret
Killian, 20 years: jacob killian, her
son, 20 years George Levy.
Mrs killian's grandson, % years.
Lena Fl iedman. mot C of the dead
chill rer, jumped fro tn, thi DIST ~
wind W. She was badly crush a ID
mangl ed and will die. Inc rouse Is q
five-story brick tenement, the ground
floor being Ot en- led by ocery and
the upper stO.ic; be- NO arranged with
front and Ioar apart nents. The e
were seven families in the house. The
only means Of e it f T. the people is by
means of a stairway, narrow and dark,
which runs directly up thr ugh the
center of the building Before tn
Wee thoroughly arOu Ell the flames
shot up through tic air shafts and
hallway licking the woodwork AMI
cutting OF the e clle Of the ten
ants. BY the time the iremen came
the inmates wnre in a stat OF hope
J - pani come of them made their
way to the ROOF and escaped to ad join-
ing house Others appeared at win
dows surroun led by fl, IN IS and crying
pite usly for aid. y great crowd gath
cred in the street below, unable to eX
tend any rel:ei to the ranic-stricken
victims Those impri oned persons
who did not lose their heads climbed
out on the fire esca~es, an some of
them reached the ground in this way.
The fire was extinguished soon after
the hose was turned on. and Tough
the work of re cue was prosecuted
with zeal from the instant the remen
arrive on the scene, they were too
late. The damage to the house will
DOT exceed 8 $50.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
HEAVY FIRE LOSSES.
PITTSBURG, AKRON AND ST.
LOUIS SUFFER.
Argentine Sh ken by a Fearful Earth
quake-E FL Mahdi Unfurls the Standard
of the Prophet-JAps i'm America Con-
tribute the Sinews of War.


WHAT pre- missed to be an ugly fire
broke out at Pittsburg, Pa. Monday
night in the wholesale millinery and
trimming goods establis hment of J. }.
Porter y Co., l liberty avenue. The
loss to the firm is total, estimated at
5000 0. and damage to the building,
which is owned 10y b. +. Jones,
will increa the loss by $780, 900.
When the alarm was turned in the
rerformance at the Academy of Music
next door was in full blast. \ panic
followed, but nothing serious resulted.
The Seventh Avenue Hotel is three
doc : above 20. ter & Co. 5 place,
and the que its we're inclined to
be panicky. The hotel people,
however, succeeded in quieting
their fears. At Akron, o.. IL large
brick grocery owned by George G.
Schaeaer and also occupied b. the
meat market of John Butte er burned
Monday morning. Mr.. Schaeffer and
his family escai e b, jumping from
the second story windows. Loss, 3d.
600: insurance, Sl2, 0G0.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
EASTERN.

TIE postoifice at Fearing Springs,
Pa. was looted by thieves. The Office
safe was blown open with dynamite
and S13.C00 in stamps and cash, and
money orders amounting to $453 st )len.
AT Buffalo. n. Y, John S. Johnson
smashed the worlds record for n mile
ever a straightway course WEDNESDAY.
He covered the distance in 20 %,
which is fourteen seconds a ,ter than
il was ever made before by a single
rider and six secon is faster than the
tandem record. Johnson time is one
tenth of a second faster than that Of
Salvador, 1:35t. which the world 5
record for running horse.
PAPERS We're fl ed in the Sc Rotary
of States office a Trenton, n. j.,
which indicate the 20 nation OF new
whisky trust. The papers comprise
the articles of incorporation of a con-
Germ TO lie known as the Great White
Spirit Co rpany. the total authorized
capital being limited by the charter
to S50.0G0,00J. The Ob ects for which
the company is formed are stated in
the articles Of incorporation to be to
make. buy. ana sell. and deal in spirits
and liquors of all kinds and sorts, and
TO buy sell. and deal in any and all
material Fl ON which spi its of anv
kind Il ay be made, and all material
ne essary and incidental 10 the bust
ness of distil ing, and in general to
carry on the business of dlstillerS in
all its branches, and any business In
cidental thereto: to purchase, refine,
sell. Ceal in. and manufacture mOlasse s
and sugar. of all kinds, and all prod
ucts OF the sugar cane. including the
acquisition by purchase, by manufact-
ure. or OtherWiSe, OF all II ate cialS.
supplies, machinery, and other articles
necessary or convenient for use In con
meet on with and in carrying on e
business herein described.
THE price of coal is not going down.
Recent dispatches from Philadelphia
Indicate the anthracite pool had been
broken up and that cut-throat war
was about to begin. But Thurs
day Chicago cCal dealers received
Geographic advices to advance the
price of anthracite in car-loai lots
from So to S5.2J The reasons for the
advance in the price of coal are many.
During the summer labor troubles and
the STRIFE among the # coal miners
many operators OF anthracite fields,
fancying~they fOresaw a short market,
mined sufficient hard coal to
glut the market in the late
summer and early autumn This kept
prices down. In the early portion of
the season lake rates on coal were as
low as - cents and rail rates fell from
81 to $3.59. Since then lake rates have
risen to 20 cents, and while rail rates
have not chang ed, an advance
to 81 is expected within the next few
days. Also, the cold weather is
beginning and examination of stocks
on hand shows Chicago dealers that
the supply is by no means as great as
it was thought to be. Further. small
dealers with outputs of million tons
have placed their product in advance
of that of the big dealers with outputs
of four millions. And these a,e the
reasons the coal men give for making
the public pay little more for winter
fuel.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
Caused bv a Lamp Explosion.


Sixteen persons ten men, three
women, and three chilli en-were
burned to d ath i'm the West Street
} ote at Seattle, Wash. early Satur-
morning. The killed, with names
SO far known, are. f. Boil man, ".
Nc ley, Agnes Nixon c. Wilson,
- Anderson, Andrew OF. erson. Mrs.
CttcrsOn and her mOther, Mrs. Huff
nan and little son and daughter four
men. one woma1, AMI one child, I'M
identified ecognitiOn impossible.
The West Strt ct Hotel occupied the
upper floor of a twO-story corrugated
iron building that covered a quartz Of
block of ground at Columbia and
Wet streets. one block from the
Northern Pacific Depot, an near The
business center of the city. The bald
ing was me g shell Ct W Cd CO.. cred
with iron Thee were several exits
Ia tho street, bu: they wer nIrroe.
The nails were narrow and the TO ms
small ~ hOlesale business he. : oc-
cur iel the ground oor. The hotel,
lei ~ rear the railroad depot and a
cheap but equitable house. was much
patronized by country people.
The file was undoubtedly caused by
the explosion OF a amp Il the kitchen
in the re IL of the house. The propri-
etors son was aroused by the noise Of
the explosion about | O'clock but be-
fore he could investigate the flames
spread all through the h-use The
corrugated iron sheeting kept the
flames hidden until nearly tn whole
interior was furnace. The thin par
tit'ons were of r sinOus pine, covered
with cheese cloth. and bur Icd furi-
l.
seen burning in the windows by eople
in the streets that an alarm was turned
in. When the frem N ar ived the
ire did not present an alarming as
pcct The people at the windows were
re -cued with ladders and boa-ds. some
escaping with hardly any clothing.
>hccNtng Dlscover!e. by the E,rem-n.
The fir men discovered co pse after
corpse. until, at / o'clock. they had
60 nted fifteen. Sub uently another
was di covered. Most # the bod g
we e left where they lay until day light
in the hope the prop ietor might iden-
tify them by locating the rooms on the
register, for all except two were
charred beyond possibility o. recogni-
ii n. The bodies were taken to the
IN yrgue in boxes or canvas sacks. The
arrangem Its of the halls o the hotel
made such la yrinth that in the day
time g unfamiliar with the place
would have had diflicultyin finding his
way about without several attem IS,
ana as the halls were filled with smoke
there WIS little chance for any of them
to make their way out befoie suffO-
eating. S me of the lOigerS were
asleep and were overta en- in bed,
W lille others rushe into the halls and
were sutfOcatel and burned
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
pand Ben.to Nariz. who operated In
that section about thirty years ago.
WA SHINGTON.

A DECREASE of S14, 2S1 ,595, OF which
SO, coo, coo is in the item of pensions,
is shown by Secretary Smiths esti-
mates for the next fiscal year.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has held that
whisky in customs bonded ware
house canuot be Ielea ed on rayment
of duties and deposited in distillery
warehouse, the eby extending the
bonded period eight years.
THE Wa Department has referred
to the Attorney General for decision
the rogue t o. the Interior Depart
ment for II oops for use as a posse COM
itatus in Indian Territory. TIE de-
partment holds it would be illegal to
use troops to cha train robbers. and
there is no evidence the Indians have
suffered.
A CRANK, one of not. called on DR..
Joseph Bryant. - West Both street,
New York, where President Cleveland
was stopping, and demanded to see the
President. The II an is Richard RCeder,
of IA West , tn street. He i tie
same crank who, some years ago.
wrote to Emperor William of Ger
many challengil g him to a duel Roe
der vent up to Dr. Bryant's house
about nine o'clock. He rang the door
bell violently, and when the butler
responded. demanded to see Mr.. Cleye-
land. The butler told him quietly but
firmly that the President could not be
seen. ROeder was finally argued into
going away. That President Cleve-
land is not surrounded by a throng of
private detectives is shown by the
episode of the morning. None Of them
was on hand at the time of Crank Roe
der's arrival
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
SHORN OF ITS TERROR.
Ftench Claim that Diphtheria Is to 10
Cured hy incubation Hereafter

F:ench Claim that Diphtheria Is to 10
Cured hy Inoculation Hereafter.
The new treatment by. moe lation
for diphtheria and GROUP, a practiced
In France, is the sub ect of special
report to the State Department by
United Sta o5 Consul c. W. Chancel or.
at Havre. The Consul give, in detail
q history of the development of the
treatment by DR.. fasteur and his as
sistant, DR. ROux, who have been ex-
perimenting with 1t for five years, keep
ing it secret until they had satisfied
themselves of its efficiency and
had subjected the animal the horse
best adapted TO transform diphtheritic
poison into an an'i-toxine. A trial of
the new treatment a one of the largest
children's he .Ditals Of Paris resulted
In educing the death rate from diph-
liberia from u. 20 per cent to LIB per
cent. In addition it is state that chill.
drcn ,ccinated with the serum were
protected from the di e ise even while
living In clos @ contact with diphtheritic
patients. AS the Pasteur Institute
cannot meet the great demand for the
serum movements are on foot in differ
ent localities to establish auxiliary
stations. In slight C Sc enc in ection
OF the serum is sufficient.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
NEWS NUGGETS.

THE prohibition az inst the landing
OF American cattle and American
dres ed meat, announced by decree of
the Hamburg Senate on Saturday last.
has been extended to every port of
Germany.
EXPREMIER MERCER died at Mon
treal Tue day morning. MERCER was
in sem respects one of the abest men
Cansda has produced for many day.
He wa, born in 1910 in the village Of
Iterville, Province OF Quebec.
a GUN fred by Philip Raymond, of
West Newton, Ma s., for the purpose
of kill ~ muskrat which had been
robbing his new house, expo ed AM
killed Mrs. Raymond. A 9-year-od
son, standing at her side, was also
fatally injured by flying fragments of
the gum barrel
HENRY FREDERICK 5 ,HATZEL, q
Brooklyn banker is about to bring
suit fO.' property in Texas amounting
to nearly two hundred and seventy
squa miles and worth at least 3d.
600 000 He claim, the property a,
h ir of an uncle who servet with Sam
Houston in the revolt against Mexico.
FIRE at Kansas City destroyed the
store AMI stock of the Green Gro G "
Company. The store was four story
building at santa Fe an It. Louis
avenues, and was built in 1885 at cost
of $4,000. 1t was insured for s 500.
The stock was worth $4,000 and was
insured for 5000. James Green was
the sCle owner of the bull ling and
stick.
The International Bureau # the
Univer al Pos:a Uniol at Berne, Swift
zerland, has officially announced that
the postal administ alton of Salvador
gives circu ion in its mails to pack
ages containing live bees. Conse-
quently ackages ntaig ing live b es
wi be admitted as samples" t. the
mails hereafter dispa ched from this
country to the republic o Salvador,
provided they are properly packed.
WARDEN ALLEN Cffers so for the
capture of Convict Frank Steadman,
who escaped from Joliet prison.
SAN DIEGO, Cal. has experienced
light earthquake shocks for the last
week. A spring of water obIiterated
by the earthquake two yea ago has
again sprung into G i tence.
WHILEJ. w. Thompson. Town Mar
shall Of York, Ala, was attempting to
prevent quarrel between $. A. Cam
eron and +. +. Allison, a revolver was
accident ally discharged. d he re-
ceived bullet in hi, reart.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02
FOREIGN,

The American Line steamship Paris,
Just arrived at Southampton. ran down
and sunk an unknown ship.
LATER { is, atches from the Yalu
River show that in the battle fought
between the Chinese aid Japanese
800 Chinese troops of all arms were
utterly routed.
NATHAN STRAUSS. who at one time
signalized willingne IS to be Tamma-
ny's candidate for Mayor of New York
City, has given up the contest ami
sailed for Bremen, Germany
AT Brest one of the boilers of the
French cruiser Arethu,e exploded
while the vessel was lying in harbor.
Six of the crew were instantly killed
and twenty more were more or less
seriously il. .ured.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI has
han3ed his resignation t. the Emperor.
Count zu Eulenb.rg. President of the
Ministerial Council, has also re-
signed Dr.. Mi ;uel, Prussian RI
nance Minister, has been appointed
President of The Council, and
Prince Won HOhenlOhe-Shil
Governor of AlSace Orraine. has
been offered the chancellor,hip Be-
fore offering the CHARACTERISTIC to
Prince HOhenlohe. Emperor Will
lam consulted with the ENJOYS
from Bavaria, Wurtembe g, Saxony,
and Eaden. 1t is reported that
Prince Hohenlohe declined the Office
owing to his age. The Emperor has
SUNNI ned General Waldersee, the
political soldier who was conspicuous
in the final intrigues against Bismarck
The general inference is that he in
tends to make him Caprivi's successor