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The mirror., 1895-09-19

This is free country, to be sure, but
there are signs of time coming when
every aw-abiding freeman will be ex-
pected to give up night prowling and
house himself safely within the bosom
of his family about the time that cur
few tolls the knell of parting day.
The first step in the direction of this
millennium was made not long ago by
certain progressive towns in the North
west, where minors are required by
ordinance to be at home, if not in bed,
by nine o'clock every night. Any
youngster caught abroad after that
hour without pass from parent or
guardian is severely dealt with by the
town beadle.
This harsh repression of juvenile
liberties is very piausibly justified by
the maxim which asserts as dogma
that "early to bed, early to rise, makes
man healthy, wealthy, and wise.'
Perish the thought that this ancient
saw is not quoted in all sincerity!
But there is just shade of suspicion
that in the towns aforesaid Young
America was becoming somewhat too
observant of the nocturnal diversions
of his elders and betters. Possibly a
pardOnable curiosity led him to peer
behind saloon screens, or to sample
soda water sold to respectable citizens
afflicted with an uncomfortable spasm
Of the left eyelid.
The city fathers OF Selma, Ala, in
enacting the nine o'clock ordinance
have purged themselves of any and all
such injurious suspicious. They make
the law apply to married men as we'll
as to minors. Hereafter any married
man caught out too long after dark
without a permit from his wife will be
run in. The ''lodge meeting and the
pressing business engagements are
no longer valid excuses for late hours
in Selma. Welcome as the new dispen-
sation will be to women with truant
husbands, it is not altogether without
its disadvantages. The tyranny of the
new woman is not tamely submitted to
in the South, and restive husband
who is compelled to come home with
the COWS is liable to become so frac-
tious before morning that any sensible
woman would wish him in Halifax.
But suppose the most docile husband
in all Selma rushes out at midnight
to fetch the doctor to his wife, who is
too i'll to write him pass, good a-going
and a-coming, what would the town
patrol of Selma be expected to do in
an emergency like that ?-St. Louis
(MO) Republic.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

A CHICAGO paper says that Judge
Payne created sensation by using the
following language in his Instructions
to the grand jury: ''The man who is
guilty shall be punished, whether he is
too poor to hire a lawyer or rich enough
to buy the bar Why should this Ian
guage which was simple interpreta-
tion of the law which was made for all
citizens alike-create sensation? If
an intimation that money could not
buy immunity from the law creates sur
prise, it must be tacit acknowledge
ment that Chicago courts are owned by
the rich
The mirror., 1895-09-19

WE KNOW that God doeth all things
we'll. that even the tinieSt insect known
to natural history has not been created
without purpose, but despite this fact
we at times find ourselves wondering
for what good purpose certain creatures
are brought into existence. We have
not in mind, in the present instance,
the snakes and other venomous reptiles
whose sting produces loathsome death,
but certain reptiles made in the image
of man whose mission in life seems to
be to poison our minds against our fel
lows; whose delight it is to thrust into
urhearts the eenvenOmed dart of malice,
hatred and envy.
The mirror., 1895-09-19
THE BEAUTIFUL ROCKIES.
They Contain the Grandest Scenery
and the Richest Gold Mines in
the known World.

For unknown wealth in fabuIOusly
rich mines of gold and silver and spark
ling precious gemstones, not to men
tion the lovely scenery, our Rocky
mountains excel any region on earth.
The Illustrated Weekly, of Denver,
Colorado, founded 189O illustrates the
choicest scenery each week and tells all
about the wonderful west. Also, true
stories of love and adventure. This.
big family paper, containing eight
large pages, fifty-six columns, will be
sent on trial three months (thirteen
weeks) for only IL two-cent stamps;
club of six for a dollar bill. Hand
some gold rings set with beautiful
Rocky mountain gems are given free
as premiums. Address as above and
mention THE MIRROR when you write..
The mirror., 1895-09-19
<doKFQ'Q8 2XleX'!6lSESsS
worst enemy.

The counterfeiter of money pays his
bogus stuff to the cOunterfeiter of
cloth or food, pays thief in his own
coin, but the former goes to prison,
and is popularly supposed to finally
fetch up in hades, while the latter goes
to church, to congress-, to heaven and
wears "all WOOL halos forever more!
This may be civilization but it is not
justice.-Farm, Stock and Home
Crime is surely a barometer of the
social conditions surrounding us. AS
poverty and oppression through cor
porate control and the hundreds of
other evils are forced upon the masses,
crimes become more numerous and
bold and the press, teeming with start
ling accounts of suicide and murder is
the dial upon which its progress may
be read. A prosperous, happy people
are not criminals. Criminals are the
result of bad social conditions and bad
laws. When in the highest places of
supposed justice in legislative and
state affairs, it is constantly found in
full sway, is it wonder the so-called
common herd" is influenced by like
spirit ?-WheatOn Footprints.
There are some men whose failure to
succeed in life is a problem to others
as we'll as to themselves. They are
industrious, prudent, and economical;
yet, after long life of striving, old
age finds them still poor. They
complain of ill-luck. They say that
fate is always against them. But
the fact is they miscarry because they
mistake mere activity for energy.
Confounding two things essentially
different, they have supposed that, if
they were always busy, they would be
certain to be advancing their fortunes.
They have forgotten that misdirected
labor is but waste of activity. The
person who would succeed is like a
marksman firing at target; if his
shots miss the mark, they are waste OF
powder. So in the great game of life,
what a man does must be made to
count, or might almost as we'll have
been left undone. (Pa.)
Saturday Eve. Post.
Therage for imitation in these days
takes various forms. One of it's most
useful applications is made when the
bicyclist pumps air into his rubber tire,
and the invention has also been applied
to carriage wheels. 1t helps to make
the road smoother. And now we are
told of an invention by which some
stimulating gas is pumped into man
or horse to make him more buoyant.
The invention is to be applied to
athletes, so that the bicyclist will have
to initiate himself as we'll as his wheel,
and the jockey his horse as we'll as his
sulkey. Undoubtedly there are some
things that will improve by aeration.
A balloon is not worth much unless it
is inflated. But the application of infla-
ton methods to currency, to politics,
to oratory, and to business, may lead
to disastrous results. The bubble may
look pretty while it is floating; but,
when it is burst, we may be surprised
that there is SO little of it left.-Boston
(Mass.) Christian Register.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

IT IS an encouraging sign of the
times to see the improvements being
made in the institution papers through
out the country. The publication of
newspapers in reformatories and state
prisons are now looked upon as an in
dispensable adjunct to the educational
features of the institutions. We are
glad to note in this connection, that
our little friend, the Pioneer, published
The mirror., 1895-09-19
What it Means.

THE great crowds from the North
and South, the East and the West who
have assembled this week at Louisville,
in Grand Army encampment, mean
something more than mere ordinary
reunion of the old soldiers Of the Union
army. The old camp fire stories have
been told over and over to each other,
and by each other thousand times in
the past, handshaking and the renew
ing of old friendships begun on the
battlefield and around the bivouac
fires, have become pleasantly familiar
in the past between those who marched
shoulder to shoulder, but the national
encampment at Louisville has more
distinctive national character than any
one that has ever before been held.
Old soldiers who have attended most
of them aver that at none heretofore
has there been such an outpouring of
the men to whose honor it is to have
constituted the great armies that put
down the rebellion. Not only is that
true, but at no national encampment
heretofore has there been such an at
tendance of the old soldiers of the Con-
federacy who now cheerfully unite
with us in the congratulation that the
Union was not eventually destroyed.
and that peace brought with it the
utter eXtirpatiOn Of human slavery on
every foot of the great national domain.
No such a spectacle was ever seen in
any other country and period of the
world, where the contending elements
in a great civil conflict could or did re-
unite in such a grand and patriotic
ceremonial as that Of the great Grand
Army encampment at Louisville in the
year 1895. Cruel and inhuman punish
ments, and harsh and ungenerous pro-
scriptions have always been dealt out
to defeated adversarieS in the civil
wars of other countries and nations,
but ours, influenced by great and
grand moral force, has been spared that
humiliating and ungenerous alter
native. Preparations are making for
grand series of dedicatory exercises
at Chickamauga in a week or so, that
will fifty and nobly supplement the
present great reunion on the soil Of
Southern battlefelds. When all is
over, the nation and the people will
have made another tremendous stride
toward the final restoration of all
things peaceful.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

MARIA BARBERI, poor Italian
woman in New York, killed the brute
who robbed her of her virtue, and was
promptly sentenced to be electrocuted.
A society lady killed boy for stealing
fruit, and her act was considered justi-
fable. We have the finest variety of
laws in the world, but only the rich can
afford the higher grades.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

ROBERT INGERSOLL'S ideas of a
future state may not correspond with
those of orthodox Christians, but when
he speaks of things pertaining to this
world we must concede that his logic
is clear and convincing. Read what
he says of the evils brought about by
the use of intoxicants, and you will say
that, strong and vivid as his word
painting is, it contains not word of
eXaggeration. Then, when you have
read it, ask yourself if he is not fool
who drinks the accursed stuff:
II am aware that there is prejudice
against any man who manufactures
liquor. | believe that from the time it
issues from the coiled and poisonous
worm in the distillery until it empties
into the jaws of death, dishonor and
crime, that it demoraliZes everybody
that touches it from it's source to where
it ends. do not believe that anybody
can contemplate the object without
being prejudiced against the liquor
crime. All we have to do, gentlemen,
is to think of the wreck on either bank
of the stream of death, of the suicides,
of the insanity, of the ignorance, of the
destitution, of the little children tug
ing at the faded and withered breasts
of weeping and despairing mothers, of
the wives asking for bread, of the men
of genius it has wrecked. the men
struggling with imaginary serpents,
produced by this devilish thing, and
when you think of the jails, of the aims
houses, of the asylums, of the prisons
of the scaffold, upon either bank, I dc
not wonder that every thoughtful man
is prejudiced against this damned stuff
called alcohol. Intemperance cuts
down youth in it's vigor, manhood in
it's strength, old age in its weakness
It breaks the fathers heart, bereaves
the doting mother, erases conjugal love
blots out flial attachment, blighti
parental hope, brings down mourning
The mirror., 1895-09-19
THEMERROR is weekly paper published

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man.
aged by them. Its objects are to be a home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS Ofthe prisoner;
todisseminate pathological information and to aid
in diSpelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans self-redemption.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds, the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

WE SUPPOSED the Bible was only
used to tight the hosts of Satan, but a
Texas preacher used one as a weapon
of warfare against deacon who was
making off with the proceeds of the
contribution box and broke his leg in
two places
The mirror., 1895-09-19

ST. PAUL has captured the national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic for 1896. st. Paul can have
anything it wants-eXcept a larger
population than Minneapolis.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

WE HAVE received a report of the
International Prison Congress at Paris,
issued by the Howard Association,
which contains much interesting matter
on pathological questions.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

ARKANSAS has an original liar who
boasts that he has a hound that will
catch his tail in his teeth and roll down
hill faster than any other hound in
the pack can run.
The mirror., 1895-09-19
Literary Notes.

Ingenious and clever is the story of
"The Countess's Ear Rings in the San
Francisco Aagon0ut of September 18th.
1t describes a remarkable diamond
robbery in Paris during the Second
empire, and leads up to surprising
climax
The axis of character is moral, not
mental, writes the Rev. Charles H.
Parkhurst, ID. d., in an article on Com
pulsion in Child Training in the Sep
tember Ladies Home Journal When
it is matter of child training, there
fore, the first question is not on
intellectual brightness but on develop
ment of moral intensity. This ground
was canvassed in my paper of month
ago. 1 did not at that time disparage
the ordinary means and methods of
mental discipline; but the quality of
the soil will condition the character of
the products that issue from it, and
the sure placing of the foundation stone
will determine both the sOlidity and
the permanency of all the architecture
imposed upon it. The ultimate worth
of man is the keennesS and vigor of
his moral intentions. 1t is at this
point then that disciplinary effort has
first to be laid out. Hence my insist
ence upon obedience. There is moth
ing that generates moral fibre like
cordially doing as weare told. Children
used to obey their parents. There is
as much family government at present
as there used to be, only now it has
changed hands. 1t is far more impor-
tant to train child's will than it is to
train his mind. He may alter his mind
as he grows older, but he will not
probably alter his will. Adult anarchy
is nursery lawlessness come to the full
corn in the ear
The mirror., 1895-09-19

THE Cotton States and International
Exposition will open more advanced
than the worlds fair did, and a very
large proportion of the exhibits will be
in place. Within a week after the
opening the whole thing will be prac-
tically complete.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

THE State Industrial Prison, at
Hutchinson, Kansas, which will be con-
Quoted on the Elmira, n. Y, Reforma-
tory plan, has been formally opened
the first prisoners admitted being thirty
cOnvicts transferred from the State
Penitentiary.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

JUDGE KILGORE, in charging the jury
at Chickasha, 1. T., held that inter.
married citizens are not eligible to jury
duty in the federal courts. Not being
Indians they have no voice or vote in
Indian affairs, and they are puzzled to
know their status.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

THE Faribault Co. Register comes
out this week enlarged to seven
column quarto, and printed from new
type. Success seems to be coming Bro
Irelands way.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

at the Pontiac, ILL.,, State Reformatory,
has been enlarged to five-column
folio and greatly improved in other
respects
The mirror., 1895-09-19

THE MIRROR is issued every Thursday at the
following rates.
One Year S1.OO
Six MOrthS 80
Three Months .25
To inmates of penal institutions 90 cts. per year.
Address all communications,
Editor THE MIRROR.
saltwater, MINI.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

THE bedding in the lookup at Lake
Madison caught fire from stump of a
cigar and Claude Cole, prisoner, was
fatally burned. Whisky.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

IT Is said that Holmes intends to
write book. Why delay the hanging
any longer?
The mirror., 1895-09-19

LORD DUNRAvEN goes home in a fit
of sulks, and says he will not play in
our pond any more.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

THE man who said, eve want 10
kings" probably held aces.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

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., 1895-09-19

This paper will be forwarded to subscribers
until ordered discontinued and all arrears are
paid.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

The PRISON MIRROR is very neatly
printed and Interestingly edited paper
The mirror., 1895-09-19

Entered at the Post Office at Saltwater. Minn.,
as Second Glass Mail Matter.
The mirror., 1895-09-19

Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-25
YESTERDAYS FIRE.
Christian Gertzs House Consumed
Through Carelessness.

At II 80 pm. yesterday the fire
department was called to the vicin-
ity of Kawaiahao church by an
alarm turned in. Arriving on the
scene, thick clouds of smoke were
seen issuing from the upper story
windows of Christian Gertz's house.
There was considerable delay in
getting a good supply of water
consequently the fire gained con-
siderable headway owing to the
stiff breeze that was blowing.
Nearly all the household effects
were saved. Mr.. Gertz carried no
insurance and lost about $4,000.
4 The origin Of the FIRE was as fol-
lows: Gertz's little daughter went
into the attic with a lighted
match which she accidentally
dropped into some loose cotton
on the floor. This took fire
Immediately. The child becoming
frightened ran for the window and
called for help. Persons living in
the vicinity came TO her assist
ance and she was rescued from her
perilous position in a somewhat
Frustrated condition. Before any
thing could be done the attic and
the upper floor were in flames,
which soon spread to the lower
floor, consuming all the wood
work.
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-25

Many Punahou students will re-
turn to their homes on the other
islands during the week.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-25
Gable from Vancouver to Australia
Across flaming Island.
STRETCH or THOUSANDS or MILES.
EDgland's Object in Trying to Get Pos
session of the Hawaiian Group Made
Plain.-Importance OF Hawaii a
Station.-Fnemies OF the Gable

HE II Y d 4 O.
graphic Office of
the navy is keep
ing an eye just
now upon t h e
project entertain
ed by the British
governme n t 70 T
laying a subma-
rine cable from
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-10-05

o Renaissance. Those affairs were all
paid for by the money OF the people,
and considerable extravaganza was In.
dulged In by everybody. Tho time
came, however, when the facts became
apparent to the general public, and the
result was carcfulness and honesty IN
the expenditure Of public funds. For
many years after the civil war there
was a great degree Of lavishness in the
management of public funds. Tho
long-continued war not only brought
poverty to the masses, but 1t brought
wealth to the classes. That has been
the history Of every country that has
engaged in war. The government Is
to-day economically administered, not
only in the executive, but also in tho
Legislative branch. There are no longer
kings Of the lobby, VIGOROUSLY swag-
geriug about the capitol displaying
their wealth and influencing" legisla-
ton which will further enrich them.
A new generation has grown up since
the civil war, and they have chosen
new representatives In both houses OF
congress- Moreover, the moral tone OF
the country has been wonderfully cle-
waited, and the effect Is seen here mere
noticeab!y than anywhere else in the
land. SmTn d. Fry.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-10-05
THE NEGRO piSFRANCHlsED
Tho Son Of Ham Practically Disqualified
from Voting In south carolina.

Tho Son Of Ham Practically Disqualified
from Voting In south carolina.
COLUMBIA, \. c., Oct. 1.-The report
of the suffrage committee OF the con-
stitutional convention was made last
night It provides for the registration
of qualified voters. The qualifications
OF electors given in the following Sec
ton are regarded us practically dis
qualifying the majority OF the negroes
IN srecunt of the educational anu
property requi BENEFITS: -.
The person applying for registration must lie
able TO read and write any section In this con-
st!.utlon or must show that he owns ana pays
ta.cs on 100 worth OF property in this state:
provided that ut the first registration unaer
this constitution and IN 10 January |, 1879. all
male persons OF voting age who can read q
alausl In the Constitution orundcrstand ana
explain 1t when read TO them by the registra-
tlon officer shall be eligible 10 register and be-
come electors.
A separate record OF every illtterate person
thus registered sworn TO b. the registration
officer shall be lied, one copy with the clerk OF
the court anl one In the ONCE OF the secretary
Of state on or before January I. ls9s. and such
person shall remain during his lifetime quail
lied elector, unless convicted OF some dlsqual-
flying crime. The certificate OF the clerk or
the secretary OF state shall be sunlsient evil
dence to establish the right OF said class OF
citizens TO register md the franchise.
The constitutional convention after
hard fight by vote OF So to 40,
adopted a section of the constitution
forbidding the granting of divorces for
any cause whatever and not allowing
recognition of divorces granted in
other states
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-10-05
MAUD STEioEL FOUND.

Tho Missing st. Joseph, Mo-, Girl Discov-
cred In Chicago-Father Wagner Ar
rested.
ChItAao, Oct. a-Maude Steidel, sup
posed to have been abducted from st.
Joseph, Mo-, by Father Dominick
Wagner, OF St Mary's church in that
city, was found in Chicago Monday
by Detectives Wcisse and Mahoney.
She was taken to the Harrison
street annex and Adolph Elandt,
q brother-in.law OF the priest,
was arrested charged, with completely
in tho abduction. The girl was traced
by detectives by means OF shipment
OF furniture the priest is said to have
made to this city under IN assumed
name.
The Chicago police and Alex. Pod.
want, the uncle OF Maud Steidel, no
longer have any doubts as to the guilt
OF Father Wagner. The girl herself
admitted that It was arranged for her
TO live with him In furnished rooms
which were to have been fitted
up with the priests own household
effects, shipped here for that purpose.
A telegram from St Joseph, Mo-,
says Father Dominick Wagner the
priest suspected Of having abducted
Maude Steidel from the home OF her
mother In this city, was arrested by the
police on telegram sent from Chicago
by Alexander Podvant, uncle OF the
1irl