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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

The eleven miles of railroad reaching
from Fairfield station to Mercur, Utah,
has an average grade Of 4 per cent, and
some half a dozen curves Of ~ degrees.
The air line distance between the ter
mini is A miles. The elevation of the
Mercur mill is s84 feet higher than
Fairview. Mr.. ]. B. Jacobs, the pro
moter and builder of this road, would
find very little difficulty in finding an
easier route into every camp in Owy-
hee While the Owyhee route would
be longer, we believe that road in
here would command traffic quite as
profitable as that at Mereur. The Mer-
cur road is already a profitable one.
Push an Owyhee road.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

Some one in New York has said that
the goldbugs would accept, as a com
promise on the financial question, a
proposition that the Government would
buy and coin sixteen ounces of silver
for every dollar in gold coined by the
Government This proposition may
be worthy of consideration If all the
gold produced in the United States
we're to be coined here and sixteen
ounces of silver for every ounce Of
gold it would absorb all the American
production of silver But this is all
bosh. No goldbug viii stay with such
a proposition.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25
UnequalIed Service.

Denver to Chicago via Kansas City is
given via the Union Pacific and Chicago
q Alton Railways.
Through Pullman Sleepers, Pullman
Dining Cars and free Reclining Chair
Cars leave Denver daily rhe Union
Pacific is the great through car line of
the west Ask your nearest ticket agent
for tickets via this line.
E. J.. LoMAx,
Gen. Pass and Tkt Agt-,
Omaha, Neb
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

Master Workman Sovereign, of the
Knights of Labor, says that a short
time since he heard very prominent
republican say that he would support
the party if it had only last years al
manac for platform and yellow dog
for a candidate; and democratic can
didate for the governorship of Arlzan-
sas said in a speech, a few days since,
that he would vote the democratic
ticket straight if Rothschilds wrote the
platform and the devil headed the
ticket. OF such as these are not the
kingdom of heaven.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

County conventions have been held
in many states by both political parties
and, so far, the Democrats have shown
more friendship for silver than the Re
publicans. This is waking the gold
bugs up on the "dying out" issue of
free coinage. There is fun ahead and
the "bar'ls" viii be opened in the doubt
full states to an extent never before
witnessed. The goldbugs are counting
on making their money win.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

The last performance of the hobo
army in Owyhee was breaking into the
Silver City post Office, last Monday
night. It was not financial success,
as the burglars got nothing for their
pains more than some cigars and candy.
A safe, which was too much for them,
held the stamps and money These
gentlemen emphasized the necessity Of
enforcing the vagrant laws now on our
statutes. There is ample means for
ridding our communities of the lot of
worthless and dishonest scamps who
infest it. Let the officers pull them in
and give them Jail sentence for vagran-
cy and the word will soon be passed
around among them that Owyhee vel
comes only decent people. The p. is,
tin-horns, hop fiends, loafers and
thieves are getting a shaking up in the
towns since an officer was
murdered in Pocatello, and if they are
allowed to stay here unmolested, they
viii drift here in crowds. Give them
hearty welcome in the Jail tanks.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

This issue rounds out the fifth vol
ume of this great moral paper. You
fellows, who have so far neglected to
put your names on the subscription
list will do well to neglect this duty no
longer. You others, who have not
shown a proper appreciation Of our en-
deavors to provide you with a good
local paper, by subscribing and then
neglecting to pay, will raise yourselves
IN our estimation by pungling up the
dollars you are behind. A few of you
who patted us on the back five years
ago and said swell, old fellow, 1 am
glad to see a paper started in this camp
and you may put me down for couple
of copies and send one of them to -,
and rely upon me to do all / can to
keep up a good paper" and have been
getting the papers ever since, but have
never put up a cent, will please take
notice that your encouragement" is
not so fully appreciated as it once was.
There are number of you and some
of you own property here which we
have taken every pains to advertise.
But the NUGGET can still boast of a
long list of most generous patrons and
they all have our sincerest thanks. tt
also has few enemies, all of whom,
with the exception of less than three,
it is an honor to call such.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

When the United States had not half
the financial strength that she now pos
sesses, and was overwhelmed with debt
growing out of a war by the simple act
of making it legal tender, raised to par
in a very few days s2O0O00oOO of green
backs that represented nothing at all
but the promise of the government to
pay, purely fiat money. And now the
advocates of the gold standard insist
that the value of silver cannot be raised
if remonetized. The history of the
past is the only criterion for the future
and the best plan is to try it and see.-
Albion Times.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

Newspapers real newspapers are
published for the benefit Of the people,
and to tell what the people 40. No
friends are so well appreciated by a
genuine newspaper man as those who
give him items. 1t makes no difference
how small the items are or whether
they come by word Of mouth or tele-
phone or postal card they are always
welcome if they are only short and
fresh.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., on
April 10th celebrated the semi-centen-
nial Of its incorporation. That great
company now owns 5000 miles of road
and has capital of s129OOooo0 VIII
the Owyhee Railroad Company, fifty
years from now, be able to make such
a showing?
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

Last Sundays Salt Lake Tribune
contained very exhaustive write-up
of Camp. Floyd district with compre-
hensive map of the mines and an excel
lent view of the town of Mercur. The
issue contains twenty four pages. The
Tribune is always a good paper.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25
senator shoup's Address to Idaho
Republicans.

Senator Shoup is out in long letter
addressed to the Republicans Of Idaho
and published in the Statesman, de-
Tending his position in voting to take
up the Dingley tariff bill in the Senate
which the "Big -Four" Republicans sue
ceeded in holding up. The greater por-
ton of the letter is devoted to proving
the Senator's loyalty to the question of
free coinage Of silver. This no one
doubts. But we still believe that the
Senator made an honest mistake in be-
leiving that the DingIey bill, which he
advocates, was only a compromise
meas ure at best, would have relieved
the business depression now so preva-
alent, in any manner except to further
protect New England manufacturers
and thereby bring a little more Gus
toms revenue at the expense of western
consumers. That bill gave the greater
number of manufacturers nearly all
the protection they could reasonably
demand, while only the sop of small
tariff on wool was given to the western
producers. Moreover, it would have
been found bar rierto future tariff
legislation, because eastern manufact-
urers, having obtained nearly all the
protection they could reasonably hope
to get, would have been content to let
well enough alone and the considera-
ton of any future tariff bill would OBJ
tain only weak support from them.
Senator Shoup's remarks about the
urgency of supporting this bill because
of the necessity of providing revenue
to meet the present exigencies we
would admit to be correct if we could
see any fairness of benefitting one sec
ton of the country at the expense of
the balance, even for so urgent pur-
pose as raising a revenue to meet tbs
present urgent needs of the govern
ment. But with all the goldbug east
decrying the west and even the Presi-
dent slandering us in public address,
delivered before a great religious body, |
it is time for us to stand up and de-
mand some consideration, and if we
have no other means of securing a rec
ognition than by "holding up" our en-
emies, we are fully justifable in adopt
ing that means of securing recognition.
The Senator quite pertinently re-
marks that the only means Of prevent
ing a demand for an increased tariff on
lead was by taking up the bill in the
Senate for consideration, when amend
nents would have been offered for that
pur pose. But the Dingley bill, as a
whole, was such an abortion and sec
5ional tariff measure that no staunch
could give it his support
Without giving the same excuse made
Dy Senator Shoup that it was merely
4 temporary compromise measure.
The manner in which the entire west
S standing by Messrs. Carter, Dubois,
Teller, Mantle and Cannon for their
course in this matter demonstrates
hat they have the approval of the
yreat mass of their constituents, and
Emphasizes the necessity of Senator
Shoup's address to set himself right
70 one who knows Senator Shoup j
loubts his honesty or sincerity in striv- {
ng to serve the best interests of the /
tate and political party. But there
re occasions when too great loyalty |
o party measures is of doubtful merit (
- I
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

The son of G, P. Huntington, the rail
road king doesn't believe in recogniz-
ing the rights Of the Cubans. That sim
ply adds another proof of the correct
ness Of the law of heredity. The old
man don't believe in recognizing the
rights Of anpbody.-New York Mercury.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25
70 Visit DeLamar.
DR.. Darrin, the celebrase ted and Well
known Specialist, to visit this City
For One Week Only, May
10th to 10th.


Through the earnest request of many
in this vicinity, the celebrated DR.. Dar-
rim has been prevailed upon to visit
DeLamar, and will have his offices at
the aHotel DeLamar" for limited
time only, May 10th to 18th. Those
wishing to consult the doctor will find
it to their advantage to call on him
while here.
He comes to us laden with testimon-
iaIs, and the authenticated reports of
some of his cures seem nothing short
of miraculous. There are few ills to
which human flesh is heir, which can
not be relieved and permanently cured
by Dr. Darrin's Electro Magnetic treat
ment and cases that have resisted the
efforts of ordinary physicians have
yielded to his power.
These cases embrace almost every
kind Of disease and, as said before, no
man, woman nor child need despair of
relief and cure, while DR.. Darrin offers
his invaluable services.
Unlike other physicians who have be-
come eminent in their profession the
doctors charges are extremely moder-
ate and reasonable, according to cir
cumstances and ability topay. He will
not undertake any cases that he can
not cure or benefit. Consultation is
free, for should there be any cases that
are inourable, he will Immediately dis
cover them, thus saving his patients
any further expenditure of time and
money, which they might otherwise
squander.
For the benefit of those who are not
already acquainted with the doctors
mode of operating with electromagnetic
ism and whoma be seeking aid, though
distrustful, after many failures of
everybody and everything, DR.. Darrin
makes the extraordinary and most gen
erous offer to treat the first case of !
deafness, dyspepsia, rheuma-
tism and neuralgia free of charge on
the day Of his arrival in the city; and
lie dlSO 1udhSS d uDSId1 OASI W OiOdO
the worthy poor free, between the
hours of 10 and II a. m. daily, to prove
to the community at large, his ability
and skill
Dr. Darrin makes a speciality Of all
diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat,
deafness, bronchitis, la grippe
dyspepsia, constipation;
heart, liver and kidney diseases; and
permanently cures all diseases of the
yenito-urinary organs in either sex,
such as syphilis, blood taints, scrofula,
yleet, gonorrhea, structure, seminal
spermatorrhea, loss of man
lood, and loss of desire or sexual pow
II, in man or woman.
All peculiar female troubles, irregu-
ar menstruation, lucorrhea, displace-
nent, etc, are confidentially treated, as
veil as all acute, chronic, private and
lervous diseases of whatever nature, if
no cases if not curable. Con-
free.
Office hours is 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
lvenings, to 8. Sundays, 10 a. m. to 2
!. m. Charges for treatment low and
according to ability to pay.
Most cases can be treated at home
fter one visit to the doctors Office.
IL business relations with DIR. Darrin
re strictly confidential.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

Subscriptions taken at the Postoffice
Store for any Magazine or Newspaper
in the United States or Canada. You
can save cost of money order, postage
and trouble Of ordering by paying in
price of subscription only, to Frank
Crosson.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25
aMistah Johnsing /"

"Well, Mistah Primrose"
"Can youse elucidify to me, Mistah
Johnsing, what am de difference tween
barbah and de muddah OBJ twins?"
''Deed 1 can. t. Mistah Primrose"
"De barbah hab rasors to shave, don't
he Mistah Johnsing2"
"Uhp
"And de muddah she got shayers to
raise"
"G'way now. Don't boddah me wifi
yo' foolness."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

Frank Swisher wishes us to notify
his customers that during the month
OF April milk will be reduced to 40cents
per gallon SUNNI er price after May l
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-04-25

An enterprising London haberdashsr
is now advertising x ray proof under
wear,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

Prison reform should begin be-
fore the prison is reached. There
is no sense or justice in sending
men to the penitentiary on any
except serious charges. In every
prison in the country may be found
scores Of prisoners undergoing i'm
prisonment for offenses that are
more the result of misfortune than
crime, and who, if their offense
was overlooked with warning.
would have made useful citizens
instead of being lifelong objects
of suspicion which is the legacy
the prison bequeaths to the ex-
convict.
Crime must be punished, but
when it is punished wrongly, soci-
ETY. suffers more than the criminal.
Leaving out the moral side of the
question and viewing it as a plain
business proposition, it is far more
profitable to prevent crime than to
cure it. And every effort made to
save the first offender from the
penitentiary is an effort we'll di-
rocto1
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

garity of vice and the moral poison
of crime. Parents may view the
growing habits Of their boy with
the fatuous remark that he will
grow out of it." but, like the river
in it's course, a bad habit gathers
strength as it goes until it en-
braces in one, every tributary of
evil, every element of wrong and
every influence hurtful to his
future and character. The
years Of youth are the avenues to
manhood, the formative period of
life, the seedtime of character,
and their opportunities once neg
lected are never again to be pre-
sented, for the mill will never
grind again with the water that has
passed."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

In every person there resides a
latent energy that needs but the
inspiration Of a great occasion to
arouse it to action. Men and
women never realize the extent Of
their powers until the necessity Of
an emergency impels them to
gather together the full strength of
their abilities for an unusual effort.
Many people when confronted
with a difficulty will begin asking
themselves how somebody else
would overcome it, somebody
whom they have been in the habit
of looking upon as genius, but who
relies solely on his natural abilities
and who has the force of character
to push them to the utmost. The
way to succeed is in the attempt,
and when made and repeated sue
cess is but matter of time. True
success lies in originality. Those
who initiate are those who follow,
who know not their usefulness and
who waste their energy in
waiting for others to show them
tho x.,ox,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

PEACE of mind is the highest
form Of happiness this world can
give. Satisfaction with life, it's
hopes, promises and rewards is the
result of duty well performed.
The greater part of the worry and
trouble Of this world comes from
neglect and inattention. When we
take everything for granted, accept
everything as chance and view
everything resulting as a matter of
course opportunities will bring but
burdens, and burdens are the ene-
mics of peace.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
THE EX.CONVICT.

The term "ex-convict'' implies a
past career Of infamy. It is a GER
tiicate of disgrace that the prison
forces upon the discharged pris-
oner. It is branded on his name
and character beyond the posi-
bility Of removal, and any measure
taken to aid him in earning an
honest living must take into &C
count the conscious sense of hu-
initiation he feels when employ
ment is offered him by those cog
infant of his past His position
in society, even when a sincere de-
sire for thorough reform is shown,
must, Judging from present stand
ards of social ethics, be one of sus-
picion. Society scorns him, relig-
ion distrusts him and the law
watches him. If successful in any
walk of life, some envious bastard
will always arise to trumpet to the
world the ignominy that weighs
him down. It is rooted in human
nature to mistrust the pariah. The
Il am better than thou that rules
the pride or cOnceit Of men will
always assert it's venom, and to
eradicate it, is to change human
nature in it's entirety.
Many well-meaning people, phil
anthropically inclined and actu-
ated by the loftiest motives, favor
the establishment of ''homes for
eX-convicts, and in some states
such ''homes" have actually been
started. But more nonsensical
piece of tomfoolery could hard
ly be devised. The man who
would be so prideless, so lost to
every sense Of manhood and
decency as to enter such a retreat
is unworthy of sympathy or a |
moments care. People who adj
vocate such a method of reforma-
ton have little knowledge of a
prisoners real feelings. They for
get that he has his ambitions,
hopes and pride of manhood the
same as his free brother, and if he
is not wholly sunk in depravity
can but view such tender of as
sistance as but little short of
yelled insult.
The ex-convict's future must de-
pend upon his own exertions.
What help he receives from out
siders must Of necessity be NOM
NAL. The prejudice against him
is too strong to admit Of 9 fair
show in the competitive strife for
for what would be sim
pie irregularity with others is
criminal with him. The duty of
he church to the ex-convict is to
educate a sentiment that will view
lis past with more charity and {
orotherly regard when reform is I
evident. But the avoidence of
'ormer habits is the ex-convict's ]
;urest bulwark against return to
prison. I
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
n 0 TIC E..

THOSE receiving copies of THE MIR
ROR who are not subscribers will
please consider them as sample cop
les. IT, after reading them, you should
conclude that The MIRROR is
worthy of your patronage, send one
dollar to this office and we will enter
your name on our books for a
years subscription.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

APROM1sE made is honorpledged,
and to break it is to weaken the
entire structure of character. Con-
fidence between man and man rests
on the belief that promises will be
fulfilled. The surest way to es-
tablish good name, gain respect
and show love Of principle and
honor is to faithfully keep every
promise made, even though en-
barrassment and loss may result.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
procession

The Sherburne affair has been a
rich opportunity for many morbid
writer's on crime. Scores of ex-
changes have reached our desk
teeming with lurid accounts of the
trinity of murders and suicide of
one Of the robbers, dressed up to
suit the most morbid lover of SEN
sationalism. Not satisfied with
pandering to the vitiated tastes of
crime-mongers, many of them in
dulge in lengthy write-ups, sugges-
tive of how the crime could be
committed with safety. This has
the worst possible effect on weakly
constituted minds susceptible to
criminal suggestion. After this
grand display of criminality, it
would be nothing surprising if the
state should be startled by imita-
tors Of the Kellihan brothers fol-
lowing in their footsteps.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
THE MIRROR is weekly paper published

THE MERRO IS a weekly paper puDIlShed
10 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 of the prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
In dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans Self-redemptiOn
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
Its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue surplus of funds, the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

The man who cringes to those
in authority, who debases his man.
hood in fattering them and who
sacrifices his honest opinion by a
servile acceptance Of their hypo-
critical sophistry, has no place in a
free country, no place among free
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

IF there were no going out on a
Saturday night and having good
time" the poor pawnbroker would
have to go out of business for lack
of patronage.