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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03
THE HOLIDAYS.

The week inter vening between Christ
mas and New Years is the week of
gladness, JOY and fruitage.
The blessing which the year has
borne, the good it has wrought, finds
expression in Christmas gifts and New
Years presents, and the love which
proffers these, and the thankfulness
which accepts them, is more to be
valued than the gifts themselves.
Love is to the life Of the soul what
electricity is to the world of matter--an
unseen, all-pervading and almost al
mighty force. With it life blossoms
into beauty, and is fragrant with mystic
meanings and rich in noble uses. With
out it life is dead as a sapless trunk
cold as corpse.
But love cannot always run on its
sweet errands, daily duties, stern ne
cessities; the imperative demands Of
life, often confront it. Limited means
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03
MINNESOTA, JANUARY 3, 1895.

make it impossible to translate the
generous thought into equally munlfi-
cent actions. And so, the year stores
her warmth and light, her flavor and
lustrous beauty into, the ripening fruit
and drops it in autumn, mellow, sweet
and golden, into waiting hands; so love
gamers it's gifts until the Christmas
ushers in the week ofjoy and thankful
ness, and then proudly places them in
expectant hands and reads it's reward
in the light of eyes sparkling with
pleasure, or dimned with happiness
which forces tears. The holidays are
the harvest time of human love.
Now, too, we post our books hot
the ledgers alone, but the accounts
current of our lives-and see whether
we are drifting toward yawning CULTS
of sin, or rising with purer purpose
toward nobler life. OF course one day
is like another, and our division OF
time nearly an ARBITRARY one but yet in
the future, as in the past the advent
of the New Year will continue tC
symbolize the youth of the world, the
perennial JOY of creation, the immorta
spirit that, amid the ravages OF deatf
and decay and care and sorrow, still
pursues its course to its celestial destiny
KS. DENNECK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03
CHRISTMAS RECOLLECTIONS.

Our earliest recOllectiOnS of Christ
mas now appears to our vision, DIS the
rigging of a vessel, seen through the
fog. 1t appears like dark and irregu-
lar botch, but we know that it is full
rugged schooner with tall and slender
masts. covered with spotless white
canvas. We can remember being
brought into a room, filled with the
glare of, to us, numberless tiny lights
on a green tree, and we winked our
wondering sleepy eyes and wished we
could swallow more plum-pudding and
sweets.
Later came the time, when we were
told of Jesus, who came from heaven
and was born in manager, and that he
came for the purpose Of saving boys
who had persisted in being naughty,
and that he loved US and wanted us to
come to him iii his glorious heaven,
Then came the years when we were
sent to Sunday school, and the promise
of Christmas tree caused expectation
and excitement; and when the looked
for evening finally arrived, we were
escorted to church by friends and rela
tives. We heard beautiful hymns, and
wonderful speeches and tales of Jesus
Christ, and were loaded down with pop
corn, candy and presents.
Finally we became able to read tn
beautiful story for ourselves, and wer
glad to accept it, never expecting t.
be exposed to uncertainty and doubt a
to the veracity Of the authors or tn
truth of the story.
But a time came when we had lei
home and it's pleasant surrounding
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03

and YOU must bear it alone so far as
human help is concerned. Yet this
obligation to bear our own burdens IS
part of Gods loving provision for our
development. 1t is the exercise OF the
soul. No one could ever get strong
muscles by standing at a gymnasium
and letting a friend exercise for him;
only the muscles that are used become
hard. So the power of soul must be
strengthened by exercise, patience
must be learned in this way, and all
the christian graces, hope, JOY meek
ness, love must be developed. Even
Christ had to bear his burden alone IN
dark Gethsemane. His diciples asleep
while their Master prayed for strength.
But it belongs to the general system OF
providence to make use of Gods Great
ures for the accomplishment of his
purpose. Men are made to depend up
on their fellow men for many things.
! 1t would have been an easy thing tor
! God to detail some of the legions OF
angels which fill the heavenly mansions
for the support and help OF over
burdened humanity, and angel helpers
are oftentimes nearer than we think,
but for the most part men depend up
on their fellows for comfort and aid
There is a grand tie that binds men
together the world around. 1t is that
sympathy which feels for another s
grief, that soothes anOther's sorrows
that suffers with another's trouble
that sympathy which is expressed il
/, the words, "Bear ye one. another
/ burdens" Perhaps only those WIZ
!. have been in deep sorrow, and hav'
been comforted by sympathy know
r how great a boon it is, and how
! lightens the heaviness of grief AM
: STRENGTHENS the heart to reneWe'
e courage. 1t is a GOd-like grace thi
d grace of sympathy, and how few Their
). are that have it. A word or deed Q
n true sympathy will make remen
5. brance that will outlast sculpture
a marble, and that will never die in tn
grateful heart of the recipient. Symp;
n thy is not cheap gift. 1t is cost,
d for it comes from either experience
d the same sorrow, or the power
n. entering into others grief, that IL
If the time the one who bears the messag
N of sympathy enters within the shade
is IN which the sufferer stands.
m "THE EXILE"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03
HE WENT A FISHING.

Please water your mules before you
hitch them up and drive them to meet
ing, as dry mule, tied to fence close
agin the school-house, and ye-hawing
for a drink, is not conducive to placldl-
ty of thought and poetry of expression,
as it we're. The merciful man is as
merciful to the arid tonsils of his ami
mails, as he is to his own.
Bv locking out of the windows OF
this our somewhat small, but crowded
place of meeting, we can see where
man has nailed sign boards on posts
and trees to tell men where to go to
and how far it is to get there; can see
saloons where the drinketites OF men
are made more fervid by what they
cause to disappear down their threats,
can see great many conveniences for
men and few for women and children,
but we cannot see enough drinking
places for the beasts of burden, on
whom man lays yoke or harness and
compels them to pay toll.
Today, while your parson was wait
ing for the clans to assemble and spit
the tobacco guilds out of their mouths
|, he took stroll about the village to see
| how the old thing worked. And he grew
weary at what he saw. The graveyard
fence was fortunately so we'll opened
> that hogs and cattle could come ou
3 when tired of staying in there, ant
: this was something. AS he was going
/ he met slim, gaunt hog coming out
Y and heard the animal lament that tn
c sacred place was SO filled with weeds
q briars and dead rubbish generally, tina
9 he could find nothing to eat, therefore
!. was coming away to join the hogs out
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when we met strange scenes and faces,
found new acquaintance and friends
and possibly the memories OF our
childhood became dulled and indistinct.
I'VE noticed how little respect and de-
votion was rendered the anniversary OF
Christ's birth; and possibly fell in with
companions who never attended church
or offered Christianity thought, and
some who even gloried in their mock
ing and floating of things, that had
been. to us, so sacred. This naturally
aroused our Indignation or remOns-
trance, or at least our curiosity, and we
commenced to review our teachings
and investigate others; we reread the
lessons of our childhood and found
flaws and doubtful statements, but
were not wholly willing to renounce
faith without further researches and
fair trial; possibly we cherished secret
hope of finding something to substan-
tate mothers faith and our teachers
doctrine.
We read Voltaire, Paine, lngersoll
and ANYTHING else within our reach and
means, and of course we were shocked,
almost overwhelmed, and quite con-
WINGED we had been marching along
with an army designated as fanatics,
and were honestly ashamed we should
have been so deceived and car
ried away with a tale so fragrant
and impossible. But we did not feel
at ease; something within us kept re-
minding us of the subject which we
i undetermined to drop: passages, from
either side of the question would fire.
uuently recur to us, and strive as we
would. we could not forget our former
perplexities.
More out of spite than love, we tack
led the subject again, which would
have been unnecessary, had we had
spiritual adviser or confidential FRIEND
of mature intelligence and Christian
spirit; and we reread the most radical ut
terances most carefully. Accidentally
or providentially the thought occurred
to us, that most of our skeptics acknowl
edged the existence of a supreme power
and those who did not were simply de
stroying one doctrine without offering
any improvement or even suggesting
: another. We followed the scientist a
: he dissolved our body to plant, an
? the plant to germ, and our plant t
, a liquid, and the liquid to gas, an
limited that back Of it all might be sue
thing as Force, but here he stopped
and so did we, for this force could ne
be analysed nor explained away; and
st. this force was not God it must Orign
he ate with God. This struck us wit
he startling effect and thoughts crowde
,u- each other until we had to our oW
ILL satisfaction, sided with the most pro
Ter able solution, viz: That for almigh
tie God. who can remove and destroy CO.
ng tinents build and guide planets throue
The this vast, and to our fallible human i
hts tellect, unimaginable space, to Hi
our would it be possible also, to send
we His son, though born upon our humt
md earth by woman, in the person
Jesus Christ, to all mankind an etern
ere Saviour. SOLER
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03
HOW TO BEAR BURDENS.
Every Man Shall Bear his own Burdens


There are undoubtedly ocular bur
dens in life which we musts.,hear- alone,
and which, although sympathy and
love may Tighten, no one can remove.
AS we come into the world alone and
must go from it alone, so we must bear
these burdens alone. There is certain
loneliness in most lives which no COM
partnership can satisfy. 1t is like the
individual in the crowd, pushed and
hurried along by the surging masses,
vet all the time thinking his own
thoughts, moved by his own feelings,
one among many, alone though in
multitude.
Sickness may say to one Gle there on
YOUR bed face to face with God and
bear this burden of suffering and
thought" That is solitary burden.
A skilful physician may relieve our
suffering; kind friends may brighten
the dragging hours; but after all it is
our own burden of pain, and not even
our most loving friends can bear it for
us. If pain could be vicariously borne
surely but few in this world would
have to bear their own burdens; for
mothers heart could prompt her to
bear suffering for her child; the hus-
band for the wife, and the wife for the
husband; friend for friend would
shoulder the load of suffering, and
there would be certain joy in pain;
knowing, that by bearing it, one was
saved a dearly loved one that would
make privilege instead of burden.
But suffering has no favored ones;
5 each must bear it's load for himself
. the long nights and tedious hours are
f ours alone to bear and not another
| burden.
No mortal sympathy can lift the
burden which death places upon heart
We are all so differently constituted
j. our individuality is so strong, that M
f one can enter into the loneliness which
such a separation involves. No on
s knows all the loved and lost one was t.
-
W your life; and only the all-sympathizins
h Saviour can enter into the full depth
IS Of desolation. Your loss may be
70 much more than appears on the sui
face. 1t may be the end of years
1t hope and love which were shattere
n by the stroke of death. The life ma
l. have heen 80 inter-dependent upO
IS your own that you cannot forget tn
ic emptiness which reigns where ono
h. lives were interblent and united. Syn
k, pathy can bring balm and healing an
if one can enter into the loneliness
It's the rare intuition which sympathet
e. nature possesses then the burde
Of grows lighter, but no hand can reno
ms it altogether. 1t is your own burde
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-01-03
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oNErRAMP's WATCH NIGHT
(BY ISAAC A. POOL.)

CLOSING years and my existence
Blend as in a passing dream.
Till nv heart, with firm persistence,
Makes each like the other seem.
Fate has turned the dial backward.
While read the record past.
When the life was all too pleasant,
All too bright and fair to last.
Childhood was New Year morning;
Youth the blooming days of spring,
ManhOOd'S summer. sorrow scOrnlng'
Taught my joyful lips to sing
Glowing season! Filled with rapture
Wealth and friends on ev'ry hand;
Each desire its wish could capture
Nor in need of counsel stat 4.
Bright eyes glistened when spoke;
Dreaming not this cruel ordeal
Would be added to my yoke.
Rut the autumn cold and dismal
Shed them all like falling leaves,
Down to cavernS dark, abySmal
Fell the host of gathered sheaves.
Science lit the lamp of reason,
Glowing with celestial fire,
But the spiteful called it treason;
All they knew was lowdeSlre.
Wintry blasts and failing pulses.
Barely hold the fleeing breath.
Making glad the swift approaches
OF the truest friendship -death.
have told the brefest story
Sorrows never bring good cheer
But'twoltd he song OF glory
Could finish with the year.
Child of love and child of honor!
First to bear my fathers name;
Bearing there thy mothers features
Impress of my face the same
You at rest and out of sorrow. -, :
Know to measure out the truth;
While the living only borrow
Woe, from waywardneSs and youth.
All the laws of God are broken;
Christian precepts plead in vain;
Nature. love, and duty. spoken,
Insults bring to age and pain!
You were taken" for a purpose
Only bOundlesS wisdom knows,
While lie abroad, to perish.
In the biting winter SHOWS!
ASK of him this only favor
Slow the Flying moments" pass
Take my last few sands remaining
Out of Times deceiving glass!
Spirit messengers who greet you.
Earthly SemblanceS will know;
They will recognize the ''heart beats"
Hid beneath this mask of woe.
Hark! A voice is calling, Father!
Father on the mighty throne!
Leave not longer my poor father
In that under world alOne!"
In Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. 20. 1894
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-02
Planting Trees.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Ambassador Eustis' New Year reception
in Paris yesterday was attended by most
members of the American colony and many
diplomatists. Among those present were
Thomas b. Ferguson, United States minis
ter to Sweden. Jules Oppert, member Of the
institute; Mrs. Sears, daughter of ex-Min-
lister Coolidge; Gen. Moves and his nieces
The six inmates Of the city Jail at Pitts
burg, Kan, escaped Monday night by dig
ging through the wall of the corridor.
They went to Litchficld, four miles away,
and spent the night carousing. Five hired
carriage and returned yesterday morning.
They demanded admittance to the Jail to
complete their sentences. They treated the
matter as a joke.
Seven hundred Slav laborers struck at the
Edgar Thompson Steel works Of the Carne-
gle Steel Company, at Braddock, Pa, last
night on account of a reduction in wages.
The populist leaders Of the state, about
fifty In number, met in conference at
Greensburg, Pa, yesterday afternoon.
resolution was adopted suggesting to
Congress the establishment Of a board of
charities, with cabinet official at it's head,
with national powers adequate for the
prompt relief that calamities such as the
country has lately been subjected to re-
Quire. Coxey's idea of good roads and
bonds was Endorsed, as was Gov. Tillman's
plan Of dealing with the liquor traffic.
A dispatch from Pekin says that Liu Kun
vi, the viceroy of LANG Kiang, who has
been appointed as the head of the Chinese
armies, is preparing to start for the front
to assume supreme command Of the troops
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-02
The Installation Exercises Of Lincoln
Post This Evening.
WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS AUXILIARY
Something About the Standard
Bearers for 1895. o..
THE LARGEST MEMBERSHIP

Lincoln Post, No. 3, G. A. r., and the
Wo1nan's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the
post, will hold joint public installation
this evening at Grand Army Hall. Assist
ant Mastering Officer ]. NJ. Cults will in
stall the following named officers of the
post, to serve for the ensuing year: Com
mander, B. F. Chase; senior vice COM
mander, Aretas M. Legg; junior vice COM
mander, John Bresnahan; surgeon, A. f..
Johnson; chaplain, Benjamin Swallow;
quartermaster ]. L. Thornton; adjutant,
Ben M. Van Keuren; officer of the day, $.
A. Campbell; officer of the guard, w. L.
Kelly; sergeant major, Joseph Maddren;
quartern1aster sergeant, W. T. Cathcart.
Commander Nathan Bickford and staff,
Mrs. Indiana Cowling department presl-
dent of the Woman's Relief Corps, and
staff. and Major o. l.. Suess. department
commander of the Sons of Veterans, and
staff have been invited to be present.
The commander, B. F. Chase, was porn
in Niagara county, N Y, August u, 1876
He enlisted September r. 1863, at seven
teen years Of age, in company u, thlrty-
first Illinois infantry, having twice before
been rejected on account OF being TOO
young He was wounded through the
body at the battle of Salkehatchie swamps
and was mustered out at the close of the
war; He Joined Lincoln Post in 1877, filled
the chairs of junior vice commander and
senior vice commander in 1880 and 81; was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-02
To Revise Cuban Tariffs.

The queen regent of Spain has signed a
decree appointing a commission to revise
the Cuban and Porto Rican tariffs. The
commission is composed Of members rep
resenting all the political parties in Cuba
and a number of Spanish colonial mer-
chants trading with Cuba and officials Of
the ministry of the colonies. Her majesty
has also decreed the appointment of a
commission empowered to prevent evasion
of the payment OF taxes ON taxable prop
erty and industries in Cuba.
The first business at the reopening Of
the cortes will be the discussion of the
projected Cuban reforms, including the
formation of an administrative chamber
to sit in Havana. This chamber is to be
made up Of members elected by Cubans
on an enlarged franchise, members NOM
mated by the government and local off,
Gals. such as mayors and bishops The
chamber will have no legislative power ex-
cept with the sanction Of the cortes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-02

ing Kearney's division at .he battle of
Chantilly when that officer was killed.
With Gen. Mcclellan commanding, they
participated in the battles of South Noun
tain and Antietam. In the latter battle,
while supporting Gen. Mansfeld's corps,
they fought in front of the famous corn
field and 200 were killed and wounded out
of 40 carried into action, of whom
was Mr. Bresnahan, who received a wound
in the thigh. go
He rejoined his regiment in time to per-
ticipate in the battle of Chancellorsvi vile,
Va, May 10. 1863, where he received three
wounds, one of which resulted in the am
putation of his right arm near the shoulder
JOINT. He was discharged from Lincoln
Hospital March 8, 1864, previous to which
he had been appointed Waterman at the
Capitol by Senator Lane of Indiana. He
remained there until he was appointed
messenger in the Interior Department in
September, 1854. Since thef, he has passed
through all the grades to that Of fourth
class clerk in the pension office, which he
now holds.
DR.. Albert E. johnson, the surgeon. en-
listed at Harrisburg, Pa, June l, 1851, in
company D, fifth Pennsylvania reserves.
and was ourded and left on the field for
dead at the battle of Charles City cross
roads, in the seven days fight on the PEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-02
The Golden Cross.

The reception by the ladies of National
Commandery last evening was largely at
tended by members and friends of the or
der. The ladies receiving were Mrs. Belle
NJ. Carter, Mrs. Annie L. Allen Mrs. E. NJ.
Hazen, Mrs. E. v. Lewis, Mrs. Lille A
Edelen, Mrs. F. NJ. Myers, Mrs. n. CulIey,
and Misses Annie Pcsey, Lizzie Howison, ].
Guthridge, Lulu Allen, Lulu Weaver, An
ME Beach, Minnie Lewis, NJ. Mockabee, NJ
Bailey, Nj. HowiSon, {. Callahan, n. Gala
han. Lulu Davis, Ada Lee and d. kessler.
They were assisted by Mrs. Inazella Jones,
Mrs. Matte L. johnson and Miss Adelaide
Payne of Goodwin Commandery, Miss Clara
r. A. Nelson and Miss Florence Lugenbeel
of Mount Vernon, Mrs Anna A. Harvey
and Mrs. Mary l.. Rowser and Mrs. Will
li2mS of Columbia, Misses Lauretta and
Johannah Henrick of Meridian, Mrs Nc
Carthy, Miss Lillian Yates and Miss Edith
Ashford of Potomac The ladies were busy
from , to pm, wien an informal musical
entertainment was given embracing songs
by Stephen Howison, DR.. Charles Allen
Mr.. Brumhall and others. recitations by
the latter and instrumental music by the
Montrose Mandolin Club. There has been
no more enjoyable occasion in the history
of the order. The arrangements We're per-
feet, and no doubt these receptions will be
frequent hereafter.
Mount Vernon Commandery meets this
evening at National Commandery Hall for
the first time.
Capital Commandery has elected the fol-
lowing officers: Noble commander. F. L.
Worley; vice noble commander, Miss Lii
liam j. Burrough; worthy preiate J. b.
Diver; keeper OF records, Frank Z. New
ton; financial keeper of records, Mrs. NJ NJ
Holton; treasurer. Mrs. Martha j. Pea
body; worthy herald, Hoyt A. Holton: war
der inner gate. Miss Willie NJ Kilgore:
warder outer gate, Mr.. Macafee; past noble
commander, DIR. II. l.. Sinner; grand rem
resentative, Sam. n. Hilton; alternate. Mrs.
Mary +. Peabody.
Trinity Commandery has elected the fol-
lowing officers: Noble commander Miss Su-
san a. Langley; vice noble commander,
Mrs. Ida NJ. Harvey; worthy prelate, Dr.
G. w. N. Gusts; keeper of records, e. l..
Phillips; financial keeper of records f. r..
Sparks: treasurer, Sacket Duryee; worthy
herald. F. c. Denham; warder inner gate
Mrs. Nj. l. Gibson; warder outer gate, f. c.
Graves; past noble commander, Jas F.
Harvey; trustees. e. ]. Pattee w. L. Glib
son and DIR. G. w. N. Gusts; grand repre-
sentative, e ]. Pattee; alternate, Miss ST.
san A. Langley.