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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

LESTER kETCHUM, who occupies a
unique position among the younger
American story-writers, contributes an
excellent tale to the San Francisco Ar-
9o1lout of August 10Th. 1t is entitled
"Running Out an Angel" and presents
highly amusing picture of life in a
busted mining-camp.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

The council of a Georgia town passed
the "curfew ordinance" with a clause
compelling married men to be home at
eight o'clock P. NJ. unless accompanied
by their wives. This is wise law: a
man will do no wrong when in the
company Of his wife-he cannot, he
is watched too closely,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

THE PRISON MIRROR entered upon
it's ninth volume with the last issue.
The MIRROR is always welcome guest
at this office and is one of our brightest
exchanges morally. It's editors and
their assistants are entitled to much
credit for their efforts in bringing up
and keeping it to such high Standard
-Renville Union.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

FORT Hamilton, n. Y, has sixteen
year-old boy hero who has saved seven
persons from drowning within the last
twelve months.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

A WEST VA. farmer fired a gun for
fun at some boys who were stealing
apples from his orchard, and as result
of his "fun' one of the boysis corpse.
If the authorities were to hang this
farmer-just for fun, of course-it
might put a stop to this "funny bust
ness that is causing so many deaths.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

The Buffalo Lake Nezrs is the latest
Minnesota paper that asks to be put on
our visiting list. Cheerfully granted,
Mr.. Varos: we shall expect you not later
than Saturday each week.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

DO YOU know that the average man
is liar?" is the way the st. Louis
Humortst puts it. Such ignorance is
deplorable. AU men are liars, Mr..
Htm0rist, and even in ancient times
this fact was so we'll established that
it is SO recorded in the Bible.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Mrs. PETER WHITE, who had charge
OF the Irish Village at the Worlds
Fair, has consented to read paper on
the progress of Irish industry for women
at the Cotton States and Interna-
tional Exposition. Lady Aberdeen has
also been invited to read paper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

THERE are 100000 silver dollars
stored in the Philadelphia mint. THE
MIRRORS treasure vault, with it's dozen
or more nail kegs filled with silver,
looks insignificant in comparison, but
we believe we can overcome the dis
crepancy by little more effort. Now
is the time to subscribe.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

The two Portland doctors who re-
Gently tried to make cadavers of each
other evidently forgot that they were
only licensed to kill their patients-not
each other.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

SOME men are so avariciOuS that
they will insure their lives heavily for
the poor satisfaction Of knowing that
they can make money even in death.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

THE following note from Hon. ID.
n. Morgan would indicate that THE
MIRROR is finding favor in high places.
'THE MIRROR:-Inclosed please find
one dollar for subscription to THE
MIRROR for one year. Please continue
sending paper to D. N. Morgan, office
u. 5. Treasurer, Washington, ID. c."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

THE shorthand that congressman
and state Legislators are most familiar
with, is four of one suit and one of an
opposite suit.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Poor Jno. L. Sullivan is fast sinking
into obscurity.' Even his record as
bar-room brawler has been beaten by
Gentleman" Jim.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

THE MIRROR is issued every Thursday at the
following rates:
One Year. S10O
Six MOEthS 50
Three Months .25
Address all communications
Editor, The MIRROR.
Saltwater, MINI.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

sometimes in leisure moments we
feel as If people were becoming more
honest and honorable and that there
was less OF avarice and greed in the
world, but this feeling has but short
lived existence, as it vanishes as soon
as business dealings are resumed. and
then we conclude that the average NOR
tai on this old ram-shackIe planet of
ours is sordid niggard of the soc et-tu-
EN- brand.-MorriS Sun.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22
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If Taylor's lawyers know when their
client is we'll off they will let him serve
his term. Five years is none too long
for such a thief as he. Had he been a
tramp and stole a horse there would
have been none to say his sentence was
too severe.-Minneapolis Times.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Should THE MIRROR fail to reach subscriber
each week, notice should be sent to this office,
when the matter will be attended to at once.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22
Literary Nofcs.

Perhaps one of the most amusing and
absorbing diversions is the keeping of
family log book-not an egotistical
diary, but big open volume in which
the family doings are recorded-each
member Of the family taking, in turn
the duty Of setting down the DAYS
events, and each vying with the other
in making this family history as gay
and pleasant as possible, writes Eliza
beth Bisland in "When Living in The
Country, in the August Ladies' Home
Journal An endless series of interests
and amusements will arise from this
practice, and the book will gainininitely
IN attraction if it is illustrated. If
some one in the household is clever
with the pencil so much the better. but
occasionally the crude attempts of the
unskilled are quite as amusing as if
better done, and in anyevent one ALWAYS
has the illustrated papers and maya
zines to fall back upon. 1t will astonish
those who have never tried it to find
how completely and cleverly any story
can be illustrated by clipped pictures.
The whole picture need not be used:
horse, man, dog, a house or tree may
be taken out of some complete story
and made to fit in as appropriately to-
the text as if drawn specially for it.
Let the log-book lie close at hand,
with ink and pens always ready; box
OF clipped pictures, gum-bottle and
scissors always in place, and before
long the family history will be growing
into a delightful illustrated story.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

This paper will be forwarded to subscribers
until ordered discontinued and all arrears are
paid
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Entered at the Post Office at Saltwater Mimi,
as Second Glass Mail Matter
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

have been none to say his sentence was
too severe.-Minneapolis Times.
An editor who tries to please every.
body is fool and if he is afraid of
making enemies he is fraud. One
independent newspaper is of more
benefit to a community than a half
dozen cowardly timeserving, popular
ity-hunting monstrosities in the jour
nalistic profession.-Centralia Fire
side Guard.
Five of the sweetest words in the
English language begin with H: Heart,
Hope, Home, Happiness and Heaven.
Heart is a hope-place, and home is a
heart-place; and that man sadly mis-
taketh who would exchange the hap
piness of home for anything less than
heaven.-The Saturday Evening Post,
Philadelphia, Pa.
That Maine woman who attempted to
be sarcastic the other day has probably
killed the printer before this time.
She advertised in local paper that "if
the woman who stole her silk waist
would send her name along, she 1.-THE
advertiser) would send her the skirt
that belonged with the waist" And
that miserable, needless printer put an
CHI in skirt instead of a "k".-Lewis-
ton (Me.) Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-08-22

Every young man should understand
the Importance of making his services
valuable. Working practically to this
end, few men have ever known hunger
or become familiar with want. This
philosophy applies with equal force to
the farm, the store, the shop, the office,
the humblest and highest stations
to which wage-Workers are called. The
printer who has been faithful and
efficient is not now tramping the coun-
try. The clerk who is honest, helpful,
holds his job all through the hard times.
The farm hand who studies the interests
of his employer has no difficulty in
drawing pay the year around. The
day laborer who puts up solid ser
vice, whether he is watched or not, is
always in demand, no matter how num-
erous the idlers. And these men are
in the line of promotion. Few of the
earnest, determined, helpful spirits are
doomed to serve many years. On the
other hand, every one despises loafer.
There is no patience or sympathy for
the shirk. These chaps who sit on the
street corners from day to day looking
for snaps, soft jobs with big pay, and
declaring that the world owes them a
living, are not in demand as long as
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-09
EPlCUREAN BURGLARS.

They Tarried Too Long At Supper and q
'Bobby" Nipped Them.
The burglars who stayed to supper at
a house in Hampstead, England, after
clearing out the premises, were not so
very far out OF their reckoning of i'm
punity. They We're caught, indeed,
but by the police, and not BY the owner
of the premises, who had twice heard
them breaking into the house, and had
twice allowed himself to be satisfied
by search in the upper rooms. They
were at work in the basement, and
were naturally in no hurry to leave a
place guarded in that perfunctory way.
After securing their booty, they took a
fowl from the larder, cooked it over a
stove in the greenhouse and made a
hearty meal. This, with tumbler or
two of toddy and cigars, brought them
to the end of their nights work, and al
six o'clock they set out for home. But
q policeman saw them; that policeman
carried q whistle and stout heart; and
the rest need not be told.
The owner of the premises may be a
philosopher, but there is an alternative
to this supposition. 1t is in evidence
that on hearing a loud, rumbling
noise" he searched the upper part of
his house, and, finding nothing, went
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court, and where Fresh" candidates
from the up-country looked in amaze
ment upon the damask upholstery, the
splendid veneering of the presidents
desk, and the brilliant glitter of those
chandeliers, which were won't to trem-
bic and shake, under the tempests Of
college oratory.
The interviewer is fiatteringly gra-
cious, but interposes again: What
about old commandments? Was in
terest in them more general?" Without
doubt; why, all the ministers and the
deacons in the near towns put on clean
collars and their best toggery TO drive
in for commencement day. The old
railing about the green was q hitch
ing place for half its circuit. Old ladies
living along the out-of-town roads,
plotted for the return of their best
bombazines from the mantua makers,
for the commencement scrimmage.
The seniors coming back from that
,''lark- of six-weeks' vacation, which I
told you of-sunbrowned and chirrupy
-beamed with contagious joyous
ness; the aunts and cousins and sweet
hearts Of these last land of the new
come fresh flooded all the walks with
flashing cambrics and cheerinesA
Even before the great procession
headed by the sheriff of the county.
and with constables for marshals-had
meandered its way down from the
iLyceum doorstep to the front of
Center church. the galleries were
pscked-the windows all open, show
ing piles of muslin and huttering fans,
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college commoIfs,~ Next door to this re-
fectory lived that great master of the
Yale printing Offices, B. L. Hamlen.
Esq. From his morning and nightly
passings / came to know his attitudes
and movements as well as those OF the
weather vanc upon the belfry Of the
lyceum; thin, gaunt, Roman-nosed
man, with hair sparse and unkempt;
keen eyed, quick in movement; scud-
ding in wintry winds with camlet
cloak drawn tightly about his neither
limbs, and on fro~.y -1orninss bead
upon the tip Of his Roman nose. He
was well up in all the printing arts Of
that day; keenly intelligent, too; max
ing the most of printers large oppor-
tunities. WheL afterwards 1 almost be-
came denizen of his Office ION the sky
floor of the old building which Messrs-
Veitch have SO long made fragrant
with their floral trade) enjoyed long
discussions with him, upon every
Imaginable subject-he leaning on his
case, and I. enjoying for the nonce the
dignities of an editorial chair, and
looking out over the New Haven green,
cut thwart by the sheen of the Greek
state house. With me he was suavity
itself; but there were times when, as l
toiled up the narrow stairway, have
overheard him giving wordy wallop
to some careless apprentice, which
transcended all the bounds of ortho-
doxy.
NV interviewer smiled; but-drew
out his watch.
1 skipped incontinently to the ground
floor of the same range of buildings,
fronting the New Haven green; and
introduced the subject of the college
book store.
What haunt It was, to be surel
Edward Herrick was the senior Of the
firm for some years; but far too studi-
GUS and searching to permit of his Civ
ing fit attention to cross-counter traf-
ft; scholar, linguist, entomologist,
astronomer; needful to all needing help,
and finding his niche at last in the al
coves of the college library. The jun
ior bookseller in this rendezvous of all
properly disposed Yale men was Ben
Moves; never covetous Of titles. nor low
ing books overmuch; but bringing rare
energy and un3agging zeal to what
ever reused his sympathies. All New
Haven men Of the last generation knew
Ben Noyes, and his dark eyes, and
long hair, and sinewy make. He knew
no fatigues and no risks that he dared
not face. He had quick eye for ''Prima-
ries." and for lobbing-conjured men
into congress charters for
some-gained appointments for friends,
and saddled insurance, risks ;for others;
he wrought for many who turned their
backs on him, and died, chatting at the
Incidence which disease imposed.
Going westward from the wealthy
shelves of the college book store, re-
member nothing but q shambling
wooden building upon that corner
where now the august pile of the 'New
Haven house" invites the rich and the
wayfarer; but beyond, and against that
portion of the old campus, where the
old South" threw its afternoon shadow,
there stood q squat, three-story build
ing, pierced by narrow stairway in
its center, which led to many upper
mysteries-among them that long
vaulted chamber where Linonia held
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{ Then came again-as the sun turned
its sky journey and smote hotly from
the west-a new booming of the music,
a ivelier fluttering of the fans, and a
new threshing of such old truisms as
Truth Is mighty, and will PREVAIL"
The dignitaries wax hot and weary,
and are more than ready for the final
benediction which followsupon the dis
tribution Of the honors, ad primum
gradum. Then last burst of irregular
music swells again; the fans cease their
futter; the crowd eddies into slow,
murmurous currents that flow down the
aisles and out into the breezy air of an
August afternoon.
Excuse me, said the interviewer
tpencn in HANDY. but did you say who
were the quarter back" in your class
team?
did not. liz MARVEL
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passage OF cGnaI, yTearly cOnJrIDuJ-
Ing to the health Of the city by substi-
tuting sheet of pure and wholesome
water for an offensive and dangerous
nuisance"
And myself remember-in the days
when freshman crudities of observa-
ton were not as yet worn off-gaz.ng
admiringly, from the old timber
bridge which crossed the canal at
Chapel street, upon q gayly equipped
barge, with splendid accommodations
for six passengers"-drawn by two
horses, with ribbons Haunting from
their headgear, and setting off, with
the music of a bugle, toward the upper
wilds of Pennington and Northamp-
ton.
No, I do not think that even the
echoing bugle notes beguiled many OF
us to voyaging upon the canal AS q
rule we pre1e1.ed the powerful steam
er, New York-Capt. Stone, COM
mander."
There were many stage coaches, too,
plying to the interior, and along the
shore; these having their rendezvous
for the most part at an old coach tav-
ern, with Lombardy poplar near it)
which once stood where the post Office
building now shadows great breadth
of pavement and of car tracks. Twas
known too-and told to incredulous up
country iolk-that at this coach center,
twenty-five people had been booked"
in single day, for New York!
Ny own.entree to the town, as fresh
man, was from another quarter; four
of us fromtthe old school at Ellington,
who werrsto be bunchad to1ether unon
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while the whole interior air Of the
temple was heavy with the incense Of
pinks, fennel. new prunella shoes and
late summer flowers.
Orations. dissertations. sacred mu-
sic" doomed in the pent air, where fans
were all a-futter. Possibly some
dramatic fragment like ''Salathiei, By
John Brockleby," varied the monotone
In black. In the sacred music think
there may have been q faint flute
note: Of violins. ! am not SO sure; but
the bass-viol was. ! think, wrested
from the grip OF Satan at an earlier
period than It's smaller and saucier sis
ter. There was an iI.erlude a. noon,
and breaking Of cold meats-at which
allthe hungIy douiuies Of near towns
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ressing suavfties into his speeoh-whose
home with its great gardens border
ing the canal, we had already caught
glimpse of, and whose Sundsy-night
alliterative and alluring irvocations,
for years thereafter, seemed TO open
the sunset gates of each recurring Sun
day upon shining courts above"
No. even in those days, when sew.
enty-fve made good class number, il
was NOT easy to End lodging in the col
lege proper; it has sometime been mat
ter OF regret with me. that 1 could not
put South Middle" in the schedule Of
my youthful opportunities: but I had
coy quarters, down College street, be-
yord Crown, in a house which-with
some modern addenda-stil beams its
old welcome from the upstair front
broad as the dav. There / chummed
with a noble hearted fellow and friend
tJabob Perkins, who in the ffties came
to great honor and great success. in his
native state of Ohio-as he richly de-
served TO do-and died thirty-five years
since in Cuba, with his harvest of hon.
ors only half garnered. For the three
succeeding years of the college l held
my eyrie in little chamber--nov |
think profaned to Photographic uses
upon the corner of High and Chapel
streets: giving view in those DAYS upon
the works of Jealous little cabinet
maker, who piled his trade. apd set his
newly vanished tables to dry. Jus.
where the front porch of the Art school
now invites the curious stranger. A
snug bureau OF this workman's
make has been my nightly conf
panion for fifty years In the
rear Of these shops. on what is
now the college inciosure-perhaps
covered by wing of the new library
l saw at every incoming. in those far
days, file OF black-habited ;heolocs 90
into their daily repast in the eating
hall, where boarding rates were less
ca.ly than u the larger ones Of the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-09
MORTON LOVES TREES
Probably Inherited His fnfasusssss fpss
ME scotch AnesseoeA

Probably Inherited His fnfarusssss fp~o
Me scotch AnesstaeA Z
One Of The most erupha&Ssd traits q
the nature Of Mr.. Morton. seoetAry q
agriculture, n his low for sreeA Alov,
ton possesses for trees almoss thai syms
pathetic interest hs has for hnmsl
being, and bssrays an Of 6at stznts1i
ton for . forest which belongs ussA
the Dr1idA Indeed. Morton mieAA
have made Ia his love for E!se oak -
nous brother Of that Dim, fAy~o4 t~si
light priesthood Of tbs woods, II be hA4
only lived in Druid dayH nvuh Ss0ss
l.ary MortJn who. In isT2. became o.
sugges.or and author Of AtDr d.y1
setting . tree-planting ezarsra4 vhssS
has been followed far and w.6a - q
standing army OF 9 million tres bsss
witness. They might al have dscAysd.
or been esssn by . worny tAA.h -
aoorns, save FOR Morton and his Abus
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YALE CAMPUs II 1889.

the agony seats OF examination, came,
bouncing and see-sawing together,
over the thorough-braces Of Hart
ford coach-down through Berlin and
Meriden, and Wallingford. past plains
of sand. past lines of poplars, through
Whitneyville gun-works, and thence
by long, straight stretch past woods
and fields and silences Save our
own bubbling talk) to the northern
end Of Temple street-amazing even
then for its beauty of overarching elms
and to the proper beginning of the
town.
Yes, we stopped at the Tontine;
and kept our courage up by strolling
next day, together. to the chapel-in
whsEe galleries the officers of the sin
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-09

dsy. WhDe the most obtnr.s> sndosD
ocrstio n Americans. f-<<vt>ry korsao
had aioY.>d . ocat u srra A'ot9SrS
a. Srr1s Of herzI6ic sCrt, .his oooS ~
ATS L. the plc;usc II . -tdesps~s1ia0
oax In fall green ls.t. AID br1esth IA,
for MOTTO. - written
Plant tres
And do you kno~.- sad 5eeretazA
Morton. when spesxag 81 tSss cat a
srros .bs Other csy 20 . rerDss<s IL 20
Washing.on Star, Il ~ss nos . fss:is
s:-sek Will. sozr,eytag Ia scotland
lss. sammy. WIEN I taArss1 tAss de
e-nA. - The Scotch hose % Anwsoo
WA = tree. begaa % ~oa6sy r. sk.eo
a.. ~ a5-sra,aoa sR . tree yss nd
inLs-Ssesl fr0ss ssyne fnrer.~,ovfnR a.
oes:o. IS 10 i.sed aEd dad IA scotland
csats-sss ago
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Mecos:s, Mich, had baby show a
few days ago, and with the wisdom o.
the serpent the manager secured as
juages two travelling men who had
nere= made the town before and neves
expected 20 60 the-e agzip-
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back 10 bed. Another loud runbling
noise induced him 70 extend his search
10 some Of the lower flights with the
same result. a third would. no doubt,
have taken him 10 the basement. bu;
BIZ this time his guests were taking
their little biz Of supper. and they
were under DO necessity OF further dis
turbing the repose Of the family. The
whole incident shows touching conf
dence On both sides that raises our re-
spect for human nature. A little more.
ard such thieves would have been cspa-
bic % consulting such victim il their
choice Of his spoons
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what was called class day and COM
menoement q observed) was wholly
wiped out by the new authorities; yet
what q glorious festal time for those
who had finished their courses-uncon-
nitioned-was that six weeks Of tri-
nmphant idleness and dignity, To have
the freedom of those august courts of
learning (the Atheneum and Lyceum)
ard no tingling horror Of the college
bell! The sophomores regarded US
tsenaors) with new admiration, and
freshmen were transfixed with awe, as
sve strobe past them on the campus
Then came, too, the victorious forays,
In companies of two to five, to Morris
cove or Savin rock whose single, great
khambing hostelry then fanl1ed the
cliff, or to Guilford point, astonishing
the villagers on the way, and winning
the smiles of those alert young women
who already scented commencement"
In the air.
The privileges of that last, long vaca-
ton gave US also the freedom OF the
great Tontine tavern, which then de-
nominated with its vast hulk the