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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

read of crime in the newspapers, and
we leave the problem of dealing with
it to legislatures, courts, the police, and
prison officials. We fail to realize that
we have any personal responsibility
in this matter. But the volume OF
crime in any given community is the
symbol and expression of the social
and moral condition of that commu-
nity. The criminal may be compared
to the metallic points through which
accumulated electricity discharges it.
self and restores the electric equlllb-
rum. The forces which make criml-
nails are found in the social and moral
atmosphere which environs them.
To purify this atmosphere is the
work, in part, of the church. Ii
it fails. or in so far as it fails, to do
this. the church itself cannot escape
partial responsibility for the prevalence
of crime. And the criminal stands to
the church in the same relation as any
other sinner. The church owes to him
precisely the same duty which it owes
to every man who has violated human
and divine law, and stands in need of
pardon and restoration. 1t is hoped
that this view of the question will be
presented, on Prison Sunday by Ameri-
can pastors to the people who attend
religious worship and receive religious
instruction from their lips. Even a
limited observance of the day cannot
fail to accomplish useful purpose, by
awakening thought, promoting discus
sion, and arousing healthy public sem
timent with reference to the impor-
lance of adopting the most effectual
methods for diminishing the volume of
crime in the United States.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
THE FAMILIES OF PRISONERS.
REV. FRANK RUSSELL of Cleveland. Ohio.

REV. FRANK RUSSELL or cleveland, OnlO.
1 found mother, once an educated,
proud and happy wife. When her
husband had gone to the penitentiary,
she came with her three children to a
neighborhood in my parish, and soon
gained the reputation of being queer.
She told me her sorrow, but not until
1 had disclosed my knowledge of it,
and showed her letters from friends
who had asked me to seek her out. I
asked her if some Of the ladies of the
church might call on her. She shud-
dered as she replied: "Oh, no, 1 don't
want to make any acquaintance; I
don't want any one to know about it"
After the ushers have taken their
seats at the evening service, 1 some
times see this woman slip into the
rear pew, and she is gone before the
benediction.
When the stain comes upon the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22
THE DISCHARGED CONVICT.
BY FANNIE FULLERTON in Minneapolis
Mirror

There seems to be a slight diversity
of opinion in the ACCESSIBILITY of treat
ing as friend or brother discharged
convict, and 1 gather from reading that
the strongest opinion is this: Give
them an opportunity to earn an honest
living. but let them associate with their
own class for we should not be ex-
pected to associate with condemned
prisoner.
What are prisoners? Are they not
men? What are men? Are they not
grown boys, and boys but the hope of
their mothers heart. They have sinned
and deemed no longer, in that state
of sinfulness, worthy of public recog-
milton.
The court has wisely considered their
crime and dealt out such punishment
as he considers the greatness of their
crime merits. 1t has been carried out
to the letter. When they have served
their penalty why are they not men
among men? When we pay for an ar
ticle it is ours. Why have they not
bought their rights to again enter life
with all the rights that they ever had?
They are not beasts. They are not
savages. They are men with hearts
and impulses, loves and sorrows. They
are the sons of some fond mother who,
through years of weary waiting and
prayer, may meet them now with all a
mothers hope, a mothers holy trust in
their intentions and ability to be the
men she believed them to be e'er temp
tation lured them off.
Choose not for example some man so
depraved that his expression, his very
atmosphere repulses you and you dare
not make him brother. He is not a
fair sample. IT'S not the prison bars
! that have made him what he is, nor is
it the committing of one crime. Re-
fuse their association as you would do
had he never won the stripes but let
the fact that he has honorably and law
fully paid the price of his crime COM
mand your sympathies, your aid, and
regard him as having right to honor
able citizenship.
An intelligent man, though he fell,
after years of confinement, does not
want to again travel over the road of
crime. Years of sacrifice have tended
to make him thoughtful. He realizes
probably more than you how great his
loss and he steps forth into Gods free
air with new purposes, new ambitions
and strong, perhaps tender, aspirations.
He feels that he can be the citizen he
should have been and resolves to bend
all efforts in that direction.
Let us not crush all that is holy and
God-given by turning aside our paths,
but extend our hand in the warm grasp
of fellowship, glad, truly glad, to have
him with us again land make him know
it, for truly we owe him this considera-
ton, and ofttimes he is more safe
companion than he who, never having
had the measure of his merited punish
ment dealt out to him, tolls on, burdened
by the weight of his sins.
Let us do as we would be done by.
We, too, or ours, might need the same
attention. Shall we crave it in vain ?
The step between right and wrong is
short, so easily taken, when temptation,
with her Turing tones, envelopes us in
her pleasing atmosphere.
Let us be true. Let us encourage
justice and when he has paid his debt
according to the judgment of our ap-
proved law, let US make OF him a.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
GLADSTONE ON BOOKS.

Mr.. Gladstone in a letter on the sub
ject of book collections says:
Il have been a purchaser in my time
of about $4,000 books. A book collector
ought to possess six qualiications-an
appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge.
discrimination and perseverance. OF
these I have only the two first and the
last is restricted, as my visual power
seriously disables it. Speaking gener-
ally, I retired from the list of purchas-
ers and 1 am gradually transferring
the bulk of my library to an institution
in st. Daniels, Hawarden.
'The book longest in my possession
is Sacred Dramas presented to me by
the authoress, Hannah Moore, in
scribed, AS you have just come into
the world and 1 am just going out, al
low me-. 4"
It is an extremely interesting state
ment. but it would have been more in
teresting had he given a list of those
books which have most influenced his
long and eventful life. His own con-
tributions TO literature have been vari-
Gus. His first important work was
1.-THE State in its Relations with the
Church." which was made famous by
Macaulay's review of it. His latest
literary work is his edition of Bishop
Buffers works, which has reached a
sale of two thousand copies, a goodly
number for such a work, though Mr..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
RESULTS OF BAD MANAGEMENT.

Mr.. Lyman j. Gage. of Chicago, in a
recent interview remarked that INC
hinley's election cannot prevent results
OF bad management" That is a truth
there is no denying, but before McKin-
ley's election those who favored his
candidacy never tired of telling how
beneficial to the country his election
would be. All the business and other
troubles of the country were laid to
the agitation for free silver; that was
the bane, McKinley's election was the
antidote. The antidote has not proven
so powerful as the bane was said
TO be-
Certainly The election of Major Nc
kinley could not prevent the results
OF bad management; nor could the cleo
ton Of Mr.. Bryan or anyone else have
prevented them. All success in life
depends upon the personal efforts of
those who achieve it, and not upon
anybody's election. But Major Nc
hinley is the most distinguished ex-
ponent living of the theory that by
proper legislation all men can be made
TO achieve success, no matter what
their natural capacity or what energy
they put forth. This theory, the the
DRY of high tariff taxes, protection in
short, inculcates the idea that riches
and success in life can be obtained
without labor; that is, with a minimum
OF labor. To the unthinking it is a
natural conclusion that if tariff taxes
can do so much for them, put on but
enough of them and they can do every
thing. The consequence is that people
eventually rely upon the government
rather than upon themselves. When
this is done, strength of character is !
sapped; then let hard times come and |
the people want the government to |
relieve their distress, attributing it |
to some neglect of the government |
somewhere. If the government takes
upon itself the task of making the
people prosperous, they are justified in
that it fulfill its under
taking.
1t is said there will be an extra ses-
sion of congress. The purpose is to
enact tariff legislation, to say that
there will be prosperity. No matter
what may be done, any legislation that
may be enacted cannot relieve people
Of the necessity of careful manage
nent Of their affairs. if they desire to
avoid disaster and failure, any more
han the election of Major Mckinley
IAN prevent the results of bad manage
nent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

Gladstone is said to have been very
much disappointed with its smallness.
His own work in life, of ali kinds.
has been most serious, yet he is a
great reader of novels, and he rarely
falls to give the highest Communications
to all that are sent him and that he
reads. His commentators have been
great advertisements for various nov
els, but they have lost much of their
power. He praised Robert Elsmere'
beyond measure, while what he said
OF the hypochondriac musings of
female Russian writer was astonish-
ing.
Mr.. Gladstone says that during his
lifetime he has purchased some $1,000
DOCKS That is a great number, more
than any man could ever read unless
he should attain the years of a Me-
thuselah. De Quincy, who devoted his
life to the reading of books, said that
the greatest number of books any one
man could hope to get through ir
mans allotted time was $500, a tenth
OF the number Mr.. Gladstone has
bought. He has formed a very good
sized library while collecting books.
How delightful it would be to have him
make list of 1.-The Hundred Best
Books" from those he has purchased.
VIII he do it? He might if some biblio-
maniac should ask him to-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

viscount ranks higher than the old
| est son of an earl
Metz has a larger garrison than any
other town in Europe.
England has So per cent of the wealth
of the United Kingdom.
Birmingham, Ala, is shipping pig iron
to Birmingham England.
The salaries of the queens household
amounts to f131 260.
Drunkenness decreases nearly per
cent per annum in London
The lord high chancellor of Great
Britain gets $50. 900 per annum.
The wheat moth lays one egg and but
one in a single grain of wheat.
Spain has an army OF 1865, TAG men-l,OOO
FOR every day in the year.
In the wheat belt OF India the average
production per acre is 9.3 bushels.
The rent of wheat land in South Car
DINA is estimated at s2.46 an acre.
Only per cent of those engaged in
war are killed on the field of battle.
The labor of preparing an acre of wheat
land in North Dakota is s1.69.
The movement for amending or re-
vising city charters is spreading in Maine
The death rate of Cairo for the year is
as high as 80 per 1000 of the inhabitants.
English sportsmen predict a hard win
ter because so many wild fowls have
gone south.
in the trade of carrying onions from
Egypt to England.
The first temperance society in the
United States was organized in Saratoga,
n. Y, in 1908.
The Cuban republic is already printing
and using postage stamps for 2. 8, 10 and
% centavos.
The theatre for Young Girls, founded
last year in Paris by Nine. Marie Samary,
is proving an immense success
The building and equipping of the
Metropolitan Elevated railway cost So
81, 600.
The United States has had but four
presidents who were not lawyers, Wash
ington. William II. Harrison, Taylor and
Johnson
The largest annual pension is sos, CO.,
paid by Great Britain to the Duke of
Richmond. 1t is q perpetuity from the
time of Charles II.
The greatest moralist was Confuseius,
whose system. based solely upon duties
of man to man. now forms rule of con-
duct for over 400,0O0.000 of the human
race.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
a VIOLATION OF FRANCHISE
RIGHTS.

The Chicago city council passed an
ordinance reducing street car fares
from 5 cents to cents When it was
presented to the mayor he promptly
vetoed it. His action at first blush
would seem to have been in the inter-
est of powerful corporation and not
in that of the people. So far as is
known at this distance his only motive
was loyalty to the law He assigned
as the chief reason for his action that
the ordinance granting the street car
company a franchise permitted the
collecting of 5-cent fares; that it was
in the nature of contract and could
not be violated.
The position of the mayor, from the
legal point of view, is invulnerable.
Without a reservation of the power to
regulate fares, the council had no
jurisdiction whatever over them. The
attempt to reduce them was no less
than an attempt to confscate a portion
of the property of the company. A
very similar case occurred in New York
some u or Is years ago. The legisla-
ture passed an act reducing the fares
on the elevated railroads in New York
City and Mr.. Cleveland, who was the
governor of the state at the time.
promptly vetoed it. And his reasons
for doing so were that the act was a
violation of a solemn contract He was
very severely condemned for it at the
time but public sentiment in the EN-
pire state was not long in endorsing
his action. A popular demand for the
violation of the rights of contract, even
of a soulless corporation, cannot justify
the violation of those rights.
Where the wrong comes in in such
cases as this in Chicago, if there is
any wrong, is in the terms of the fran |
chise in the first instance. The time
to protect the public interests is before |
the franchise is granted and the mat |
ter passes from the control of those
granting it. If the grant of certain |
rights is absolute, no matter how dis
it may be to the public
interests in a pecuniary sense, they
should be respected by the authority
granting them. The maintaining in
violate of a contract right is of the
very highest interest to the public.
And where that right is more or less
to the public interest, it
becomes doubly necessary to guard
against unjustifiable action that is de-
handed by popular clamor.
The mayor of Chicago did an I'M
popular thing but he did a proper thing
f the sanctioning of the Accent fare
ordinance would have been a viola f;on
# a contract right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
THE ROWAN TREE.

Oh, Rowan tree, Oh. Rowan tree. thou'lt
aye be dear to me,
1ntwined thou art wi mony ties o. hame
and infancy;
Thy leaves were aye the first O. spring,
thy iow'rs the SINNERS pride;
There was nae sic a bonnie tree, in a
the country side.
o Rowan treel
How fair vert thou in simmer time, wi
a. thy clusters white,
How rich and gay thy autumn dress,
wi berries red and bright,
We sat aneath thy spreading shade, the
bairnies round thee ran;
They pu'd thy bonnie berries red, and
necklaces they strang.
% Rowan treeI
On thy fair stem were mony names,
which now nae mair | see;
But they're engraven on my heart, forgot
they ne'er can be;
My mother, OH / see her still, she smil'd
our sports to see;
WI little Jeanne on her lap, wi jamie
al her kneei
o Rowan treei
Oh! there arose my fathers prayer, in
holy evenings calm,
How sweet was then my mothers voice,
in the Martyrs Psalm:
Now a are game, we meet nae MAR
aneath the Rowan tree.
But hallowed thoughts around thee Irvine
O hame and infancy.
Lady Marine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

1t is many years since we read that
masterpiece of fiction, Hugo's Les
Miserables." Our morning contempor-
airy in its anxiety over the senatorial
situation recalls it and uses it for
illustration. II interests us chiefly be-
cause it says The Herald is said to be
acting the part of the mother superior
1t is the best position in a convent.
and the one which most people would
want were they retiring to a convent.
But who is acting the part of the good
bishop that gave Jean Vatican the sill
yer candlesticks? The giving of those
candlesticks to Jean was the turning
point of his whole life. Our con-
temporary has so wildly recalled the
story of jeans escape from Javert that
one can fancy, had things turned out
differently on November from what
they did, that it, like another Famine,
would have cropped its hair and parted
with its incisors to have succored its
own Cosette. Perhaps in the not dis
tant future our contemporary may
further illustrate the senatorial situa-
ton with another of Hugo's novels,
and choose for its purpose IL Homme
qui Ritz
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
his Imnrovised uncle.

Tid-Bits This story is told by Ger
man army officer:
It is strictly against the rules of the
military academy for a cadet to enter any
OF the beer gardens in Berlin unaccom-
panied by 8 relative. A friend of mine,
however, hoping to be undetected. ven-
tured one night unattended. A gentle
man came and sat at a small table near
him and began chatting pleasantly, when
suddenly one of the chiefs of the academy
passed them.
Sir. = whispered the lad, will you be
my uncle?'
Certainly said the gentleman, smil-
ing.
Next morning at parade the unfortun-
ate youth, who had hoped to escape, was
called by name from the ranks Trem-
bling. he obeyed the call and came for
ward.
You were in the beer garden last
night?" gruffiy said the captain.
Yes. sir; but / was with my uncle.
Your uncle happened to be the crown
prince, who wrote this morning to ask
me to let you off punishment. Never let
it happen again
The crown prince of this incident was
the late Emperor Frederick.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
Botanical wonder.

The common 9urs1ane is one of the
wonders of botany. as far as seeds are
concerned, at least. A single seed of
this plant will produce about 20 seed
pods in season. The average number
OF seeds in each of these. by actual
count, is 5000, making 100000 in all.
AS far as we have been able to
learn, there is no instance of similar
fruitfulness in any plant found grow
ing in this country. A single plant of
either the jamestown week ('.jimson')
the butter weed, the rag weed and some
OF the vervins produce an enormous
number of seeds, but it is doubtful if
any one of them produce one-fourth as
many in a year as the purslane does
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

Drew the Line at Men.

Philadelphia Times: Some women have
great ideas of the rights of their hus-
bands. And then. again. some don't
There was one woman, however, who was
on the Walnut street car line, who is
among the first class, and she thinks
of everything going. And there is also
now n patron of the line who does not
agree with her.
A few days ago a pretty young WON
an was seated in a well-filIed car. when
a man and a woman entered. 1t was APP
parent at a glance that they were hus-
band and wife. Every seat in the car
was taken and several men were hang
ing to the straps. The woman being of
middle age, the young girl glanced up at
her. then quickly arose and said:
Madam. take my seat"
Without glance toward her or look
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
DUTY OF GOOD CITIZENS.

An eastern subscriber writes The
! Herald as follows;
1 do not like your attitude toward
the incoming administration. No mat
ter how hard we may have worked
for the success of the defeated party,
| the election is over and we feel it a
duty of all good citizens to lend all the
| support they possibly can to the in
coming administration to make it a
success, and not to harrass OF hamper
! 1t by any adverse influence. / feel that
the prosperity of the country and the
! general good of the people demand the
loyal support of all citizens TO the party
Ia power, no matter what their poll
tics.
The election is over; of that there is
no doubt, and being over, it would be
foolish for anyone to act or talk as
though it were not over. The people
desire a cessation of political strife,
and that the incoming administration
Shall be given a fair chance to put in
practice the theories upon which it was
elected. We agree with that view. We
viii say further that there should be
no filibustering in the next congress
merely for the sake of presenting legis-
lation when no positive good can come
of it; filibustering for the sake of fill
clustering and to hamper and harrass
the administration should be con-
demned.
We cannot agree with the gentleman
from whom we have quoted that it is
the duty of all good citizens to lend
all the support they possibly can to the
incoming administration to make it a
success" if by it he means that Dem
ocrats should lend their active support
TO such measures as the administra-
ton may favor. believing they will
bring success, if support of those meas
ures calls for surrender of ones DO
litical principles. 1t would be unrea-
sonable to expect Republicans to go
that far to make a Democratic admin
lstration a success; it is equally unreal
sonable to expect Democrats to go that
length
The gentleman says he feels that the |
prosperity of the country and the gem
eral good of the people demand the |
loyal support of all citizens to the
party in power, no matter what their
politics. Every one wishes prosperity. |
" III loyal support TO the party that |
will soon be in power bring it? If it
will, all good citizens will cheerfully
give it. Are not good citizens who
do not belong to the party that will
soon be in power doing all that can
consistently be required of them when
they put no obstacles in the way of
the new administration? We think
they are
Continued agitation, at the present
time, of the questions which were the
issues of the campaign is in no wise
desirable; surrender of convictions or
The right of just criticism when occa-
sion shall require is in no sense re-
guired.