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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27
THE VALUE OF CHARACTER.

Goodness is greatness. The best
people are the noblest people, God
counts quality. The light that shines
from thoroughly good life more than
eclipses the light from the sun. We
are not strong by what we do but by
what we are. The inner graces consti
tute the worth and beauty of the soul.
They are to the man what harmony is
to music-what form and color are to
art. The individual who has conquered
himself is more worthy of admiration
than he who, by the armies, has placed
nations under his feet. Even genius is
nothing beside goodness. True, this is
not the worlds estimate. The world
regards men by their wealth, their So
cial position, the number of their
friends, and by their influence upon
others. Those who live in palaces, dress
in broadcloth and satin, ride in luXur-
ious equipages, have culture, and re-
fnement, are possessed of distinguished
talent, attract by their wit, charm by
their eloquence, astonish by their learn
ing-these are the great of earth before
whom we bow down. But the judg-
ment Of the world is by no means al
ways the judgment of God. Only true
manhood counts with Him. Men may
have houses and lands and mental gifts
and reputation and pleasures, and all
that and yet men of whom Emerson
speaks when he says the hand can pass
through them.
The character is the essential thing
is suggested by the estimates which
men put upon it. Who are the men we
involuntarily place at the head of the
race? Is it those who have the most
wealth and reputation? No; it is those
whose characters are such that they
conquer where they stand. Open the
pages of literature and notice who are
the ideal characters. The great authors
are always Furnishing the bad and re-
warding the righteous. Dante is only
a sample of all when he places evil men
in perdition and good men in paradise.
How Shakespeare puts moral qualities
to the front! The same is true of Scott
and Thackeray, and Dickens and George
Elliot, and, indeed of all the worlds
great thinkers and writer's. Righteous
ness is the chiefest and noblest posses
sion.
See here, young people! Not all can
gain high position, or great wealth, or
social influence, or wide reputation.
But all-all may have that which is
better than position and wealth and
social influences and reputation-all
may possess pure heart and clean
life. An upright, unselfsh life spent
amid poverty and obscurity is larger
life than that lived by king or queen
who knows not Gods righteousness
Glen Mills Daily.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27
THE AGITATOR.

Many people confound the province
of the agitator with that of the tricky
politician, who has only the advance
ment of self-interest in mind and who
artfully cOnceals his real purpose by
cloaking it with some popular reform
a grand result ever in view. Ignorance,
prejudice or selfishness may cause viii
fication to be heaped upon him and
public opinion may form an unjust
verdict against him, but he is ever sim
cere and aggressive.
Although an arduOus task to over
come public prejudice, the agitator,
whose motives are based upon pure
principles and strict justice, is not dis
couraged by ridicule or abuse. He be-
lieves in the ultimate triumph of right
and is buoyed up by the same inspira-
ton that Influenced the early martyrs
of the Church.
The most sublime truths ever uttered
have always met the blind opposition
of the multitude. "Crucify Him..
"Crucify Him. was the cry that greet
ed our Savior in the judgment hall of
the Jews, and still greets every moral
reform advanced today. The agitator
lives in advance of his time. He is
the precursor of the coming reforma
ton, and stands as beaconlight show
ing men the way to a better life. Not
with honeyed words or Elusive prom
ises does he seek to bring the people to
his position, but armed with right, he
asks no compromise and hurls his de-
nunciatiOns in tones of thunder at
their enslavers.
Concession and compromise never
sphere is found in matters of expedi-
ency alone. Moral agitation is the es-
sential principle which forms and
moulds public opinion. 1t produces
thought along new lines and concen-
trates the public mind upon great
themes The agitator has province
distinctively his own. Courage, posi-
tiveness of conviction and purity of
motive are the qualities that belong to
him. Every agitator has been de-
nounced as fanatic. No man ever
yet presented a new idea which in
volved sweeping change in public
opinion, that did not at first meet with
opposition. Galileo was tortured for
expounding scientific truths. Savona.
rola suffered martyrdom for agitating
and exposing ecclesiastical corruption.
Wendell Phillips, whose life and tai
ents were devoted to the freeing of a
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27
HYPOCRITES.

1t is Sickening to hear so much bare
faced hypocrisy about the working
mans wages. If the wOrkingmen were
not vastly in the majority not one
word would be heard about their
wages. This stuff about the working
mans breakfast table and the work
ingman's dinner pail and the working
mans wife and little ones is the thinly
yelled scheme of the disreputable poll
ticianS and the men who make a prac-
tice of grinding workingmen down to
the last cent, irrespective of whether
he gets his breakfast or not, or whether
his dinner pail is filled with coarse
black bread, without butter or meat,
or whether his wife and little ones 60
in rags and hunger and squalor as we'll.
They would see mans family on the
verge of starvation and would refuse
to raise his pay one cent. On the con-
trary, they would take every means
in their power to decrease the pittance
he already got. And to think of being
compelled TO listen DAY Dy day TO this
insulting twaddle that it is the work
ingman's wages that is troubling the
souls of our soulless corporations and
minds of our devil-may-care politi
clans. The workingmen owe it to
themselves to boldly, earnestly, and in
dignantly rebuke such studied insults
to their intelligence. The working
mans wages, indeed Little do the
great corporations care for the work
ingman's wages except to devise some
means of cutting them down under
some lying but plausible excuse. and
that excuse is varied from time to time
according to the agitation that is TAX
ing place in the minds of the public
Minneapolis Irish Standard.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27
SELF-CONQUEST.

The way to possess power without
is to have it within. The way to be
strong in sorties upon the foes outside
our walls, is to be sure of the death of
traitors within. "But it is hard to deny
and deny and still again deny ones
SELF" says querulous voice. Of
course it is! So is it harder to fight
than to bend supinely to the blow, so
is it harder to force our way against
torrent than to yield to its onrush and
perish, so is it more tOilsome to climb
a steep ascent than to glide down it a
corpse on the roaring crest of an
avalanche. Yet who that claims kin
ship to manhood would cease strug-
Cling in these physical directions, so
long as spark of life remained. The
feeble pen that is followed by so many
eyes, halts and hesitates here, and
questions whether this may not all be
too serious and too sermonic for a
newspaper column. The answer
comes: mo, for the press is called to
be power" And the negative is con-
firmed by growing sound that smites
the psychic ear, murmur that swells
into an infinite agony of vain regret; it
is the voice of all, of one, whose bright
est prospects have vanished, whose
power for good have been over
come by yielding to unholy ambition,
to the mere making of wealth, to the
killing of time, to the lowering of the
human standard till it became a par
ody and caricature of all that is dis
gusting in the animal. These are they
whose bodies conquered their souls and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27

back is mere barter. 1t is revengeful,
it is neither pious nor philosophical
and the wise receiver will have none
of it. But oftentimes it is merely the
refuge of the inexperienced. \ re-
ceiver who knows his business will no
more resort to it than All expert horse
man will hold onto the pommel of the
saddle The way to receive is to re-
ceive, not to retaliate. 10 receive tri-
fles from the rich and be charmed with
them is simple matter. TO receive
gifts of value from the poor and not
be impressed is finer art, but on no
account to be neglected. r. M.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27
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THE LAND OF PRETTY SOON.

THE LAND OF PRETTY SOON.
/ know land where the streets are paved
With the things we meant to achieve,
1t is walled with the money we meant to have
saved,
And the pleasures for which we grieve.
The kind words unSpOken, the promises broken,
And many coveted boon,
Are slowed away in that land somewhere
The land of pretty sOOn.
There are uncut jewels of possible fame
Lying about in the dust,
And many noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust
And. Oh! this place, while it seems so near.
Is further away than the moon:
Though our purpose is fair yet we never get
there
To the land of pretty sOon.''
The road that leads to that mystic land
Is strewn with ptiful wrecks,
And the ships that have sailed for its shining
strand
Bear skeletons on their decks.
1t is further at noon than it was at dawn,
And further at night than at noon;
Oh. let us beware of that land down there
The land of ''pretty soOn.''
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
Lack of Proof.

A story Is told Of prominent American
lawyer who was fine speaker and wit,
but SO fond of metaphysical distinctions
that colleague one day read him lesson
never to be forgotten by any one who
knew him. He told the jury the following
story, the moral Of which was at once ap-
parent:
My friend -, said he, who is so sue
cessful in fine spun distinctions, was ones
employed to defend an old man for shoot
ing neighbours dog. The proof was olea1
that the defendant said he would shoot the
dog, that he brought out the gun in open
day and loaded 1t; that he took deliberate
aim at the dog, and that at the crack Of
the rife the dog fell dead with a bullet
hole through him.
But the lawyer oontended that this was
an instance of oircumstantiai evidence
merely, and that In such cases 1t was
well settled that If single link in the
chain was wanting the whole evidence
was worthless, and although there was
proof of the threat, the loading of the gun,
the firing and the death Of the dog, "yet, u,
said he, "what witness has testified that he
saw the bullet hit the r'-Youth's 8
Companion.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
POEMS OF THE DAYS.
THE VALUE OF FAITH.


1t amt Jest wise to be too pryin bout the
things we daily see,
An cur Gus people often find it's best to let
them be.
The man that comes to know too much, he ain It
the happy one,
An faith is worth the havin, sir, when all is
said an done.
The man who's at the theayter an trustin to
his eyes
Gets lots of fun an pleasure that an opry glass
denies,
For to his eyes there's beauty in the tinsel an
the paint,
But when he tries the opry glass, why, then,
you bet, there amt.
It's jest the same with other things; the water
in the brook
Is clear an most invitin If with only eyes you
look,
But when you get microscope you're like to
stop an think,
An, like as not, the sights you see will drive
you to strong drink.
An so it is in other ways, an repeat again
The man who knows the wherefor amt the
happiest of men.
It amt jest pryin, nosin round that real con-
tentmert brings,
An I'm dern glad myself to say on faith take
some things.
Chicago Post.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
a PORTRAIT.

She wore ruffled bonnet
AS white as flake Of snow,
And the curls on her broad, white forehead
Seemed waited to and fro.
] have seen rich gowns of velvet
And sheer white muslins, too,
But none have loved so dearly
AS her froclz of faded blue.
Hands quite hid beneath diamoudgs
Perhaps are fair to see,
But her slim, brown hand, unjeweled
Is fairer far to me.
stand quite near her at MONDAY,
At morn am by her side,
watch her form through the cleaning,
am near her at eventide.
And yet, and yet, she never
Will to me speak a word;
know her voice is of music,
Yet the sound have never heard
am almost wild when watch her,
With her old fashioned, stately mien;
She is sweeter than any maiden
That have ever seen.
She Is fairer than maid or matron,
With her snowy rosebud face,
And the brown hands linked together
Are full Of girlish grace.
Ahl I'll love her cen through her silence
For she really is not to blame;
She's the portrait of my grandmother,
In an old fashioned. gilded frame.
Valentine Hubert in New Orleans Picayune
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
A new SHIRT WAIST.
9sO-vAN0RIs SHIRT WAIST.
with Detachable Collars and Cuffs.

With Detachable Collars and Cuffs.
Sizes for 81, SO, ss and 40 Bust
Measure.
Our new pattern, the "Vanoris .
differs but slightly from those of last
season, the only marked change being
the full bishop sleeve with turned-oyer
cuff. There is shallow, pointed yoke
In the back, and in making up striped
materials pretty effect is given by out
ting this bias and having the stripes
meet in the centre. The collar and cuffs
are detachable, so that various ones may
be used with the same waist. Wash silk.
silk aannels. and great variety of cot
tons, linens and batistes are made up in
this simple fashion, because the garments
are so easily laundered.
A special illustration and full direc-
tions about the pattern will be found on
the envelope on which it is enclosed.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04

Men are not always willing to tell where
they got their experience. The prize taker
for frankness In this particular is doubt
less the man who worked for the con.
tractors on Maine railroad extension,
pumping water by hand into tank. He
did this work SO well that somebody COM
plimented him on his proficiency. st
think l ought to be able to pump by this
time, he said, struggling his shoulders,
with little look Of self conceit 81
worked at it six years in the state prison."
,-Lewiston Journal,
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
..fHE LAST STRAW.

These are the letters she sent me
Sad little speudthrift Of ink
Vowing her love to content me,
Fifty times over, on pink.
These are my foolish old letters
All that wrote her-returned,
Shackled in dainty silk fetters,
Captives condemned to he burned.
Pleas for forgiveness OF pity,
Questions and tender replies,
Missives inclined to be witty,
Dozens, and none of them wise.
Stayi Here's sensible billet.
All, tits her ultimate note:
"We have been long enough silly.
Please return all that wrote"
-Clevelander.
-
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
THE FAVORITE JACKET.
935-MEREDITH JACKET.

Sizes for "a, SO, 3s, and 40 Inches Bust
Measure.
Smooth-taced Meltons and Kerseys in
coaching drab. and great variety al
both rough and smooth cloths in black
and dark green or blue are used for thesa
convenient jackets. The back is fitted
with the usual seams, and the skirt flares
in full ripples, but fits easily, without
superfluous fullness, over the hips. The
seams may be spread aud stitched fiat or
strapped, and the seams Of the Mandolin
sleeve are finished to match those of the
coat. Large pearl buttons fasten the
front of the garment, and the edges are
simply finished with rows of stitching.
special illustration and full direction
about the pattern will be found on the
envelope in which it is enclosed
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
Too Busy to Vote.

"Land sakes! What are we comm tor
Says Goody- -Grump, "when women
Are all agog to go with men
In dirty seas a-swimminp
With women at the ballot box,
What sort O. kind o. show, now,
Will tn domestic virtues git,
I'd really like to know now9
ga woman's duty lies at home.
# she attended to it,
She'd never have no time to think
o. votin, less to do it.
Up to her ears in politics
No wonder at the tale you're
A-hearin now on ev'ry hand
That marriage is failure.
81 never had no time to fool
Away on no SIGH nonsense"
So Goody-Go goes grumbling on
Till genial Uncle John scents
A path to peace through getting her
To show her neighbor's nieces
The patchwork quilt in which she's put
Five thousand diff pieces.
Boston Globe.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
AN EASTER FROCK.
939-LASCA DRESS.
Sizes for 8 and 10 Years.

Sizes for and 10 Years.
Cashmere and challie and the soft nov
city wools which are frightened with
silk threads are the fayorite materials for
this dressy little gown. The plain mater.
ials are trimmed with bands of velvet,
ribbon, insertion and passementerie, but
the figured ones have no trimming, ex-
cept some finish for the yoke and bows of
ribbon. The preference for these little
gowns is to make them in one piece,
sewing the skirt to the waist band. A
fitted lining holds the fullness of the
waist in place. Our model is of cadet
blue cashmere trimmed with insertion
underlaid with dark ribbon. The girdle.
stock collar, and bows are of blue satin
ribbon.
A special illustration and full direc-
tlons about the pattern will be found on
the envelope in which it is enclosed.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
Knight and Dey.

Knight and Dey.
The dey of Algiers
And the Maltese knight
In bygone years
We're won't to fight.
But the dey of Algiers
(And not the knight)
Was dark. 1t appears.
And the knight was light
Now, they fought by day
And they fought by night
In the good old way
OF hitting at sight.
And whenever the dey
Was full of might
He would start away
And rout the knight.
But so, the knight,
When the stronger man,
Would push the fight,
While the black dey ran.
Thus knight chased dey
A d dey chased knight
In about the way
That day follows night.
New York Herala.
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
OUR PATTERN OFFER.
The Latest Demorest Patterns Can BE Obtained
Through This Department.

arrangements to
making
and will mail the paerna the
mailing
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The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04

you must rse the coupon printed
compai @ne
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
LAST SLAVE CARGO.
Story Of the Colony Of Native lEri-
cans Near Mobile.
CAPT. TIMOTHY MEAHER BROUGHT
THEM THERE ON A WAGON.

Bought 175 Negroes In Dahomey and
Brought Them Here in 1S5S-Bnt the
Expedition Failed at Last-The Sur
vivors,
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04

This Coupon good
this paper sent With therequiste
The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04

10 nO6 seem TO mlOglo much. Two
churches are located in the settlement.
The one is Methodist. frequented by
outsiders, and the other is Baptist mis-
sion chapel OF a city church. for the Afri
cans.
"In appearance there is not much to
distinguish these Africans from the other
colored persons in the vicinity. One
thing can be said in their favor, saw
no mulatto children among them. Their
morals are said to be better than those
of their race. debauched by centuries of
| slavery, though how much Of this may be
due to feelings at first entertained against
them as barparians is problem aticaI.
They are good workers, and their honesty
is vouohed for by Mr.. Meaher and Others
who employ or trade with them. They
support day school taught by young
colored woman from the oity, and during
a conversation with some of the original
ones relating to their locations in Afrioa
girl of eleven, who acted as interpreter
when their English failed, showed a
knowledge not only Of African geography
but of the United States as well, and
used good language in the translation
Her name written in my note book was
in clear, legible, well-formed letters.
I. Most of the colony were from Da-
honey, or. as they pronounce 1t, 'Dah-ho-
mah.' In conversing with each other
they use their native language, which ia
harsh and guttsral in sound, but still
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-22

In the smaller towns the sewing ma
chine teacher is not so much a matter
of course as she is in New York, Chi
cago and other great centers, but she is
gaining foothold there too. A town
of moderate size offers much greater
opportunities to an enterprising sewing
machine teacher than the great over
crowded cities, where the teacher loses
track of her pupils as soon as she has
finished the course of lessons. In the
smaller place her customers will con-
tinue to live in one place and they will
become at least bowling acquaintance.
The office which employs her will also
be likely to deal in several different
machines instead Of handling only those
made by one company as does the city
office. An observing girl will soou dis
cover all the peculiarities of different
makes. She will learn how to take
PRESENTLY if she has proper enterprise
she will find out how many of the dress
makers and tailors shops of her town
are willing to make contract with her
to have their machines overhauled and
cleaned and repaired at regular inter-
walls. OF course she will keep list Of
her pupils and she will call occasionally
to see if their machines need repairs OF
cleaning. In this way she will probably
be able to work up a repairing and
cleaning route which will pay much
better than her original work Then,
too, if she will read the trade journals
she will be able to keep informed ON all
the new labor saving devices Of interest
to dressmakers and tailors and she may
add to her income by introducing them
into the shops of her town.
MARY +. j. KELLEY.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-22
II. &c Il.
Paints & Compounds
Roofing.
Pile Covering and
Building Papers,
For SALE BY
VIM. G. IRWIN & Co.,
LIMITED,
LIMITED,

Sole Agents for the Houdiion Island
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-22
j. &. ROTHWELL.

Have you a leaky gutter? If you
have. make it perfectly clean and dry,
apply a good coat of No. P. and b.
Paint over the leaky spots; then ia Ike a
piece of stout Manila paper, or piec e
of common cotton cloth, paint it well ui
both sides; lay it over the first coat, CIV
ing the whole final coat, and there
will Re no more leak there. Or il the
whole gutter is bad. make it clean and
dry, and apply paste of P. & B. Paint
and Portland Cement.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-22
HoNoLv LII, July Goth, 1885,

HoNoLT LII, July goth, 1895.
MEssas. w. G. IRWIN & Co., LTD.
GENTLEMEN:-In reply to your in
quiry as to how the Ideal Roof Paint
you sold me lasted would say that
painted the roof of my house II months
ago with your Red Ideal Roof Paint
and find il is as fresh and bright in ap
pearance today as when first applied
looking as well as others lately painted
with other paints. l am more thar
satisfied
i g. ROTHWEII
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-22
{. D. HALL \ SON, LID.

N NOTWITHSTANDING Ullo ldCU
that we are receiving new
goods by nearly every steamer
and vessel arriving from the
States and from England, we
do sometimes get out of certain
lines of goods that are much
needed. We want our inqulr-
ing friends to know that we
have just received probably
the finest assortment of
Dog Collars and PadlOcks
ever offered here. In one lot
we had over SIXTY DOZEN, of all
sizes and kinds. We can fit
the largest watch dog or the
smallest japanese pug.
Those friends who have
asked so many times for Razor
Strops will be glad to know
that we have just received a
new supply of the celebrated
Reppenhagen Razor StrOps.
We have several other kinds,
all good. Our assortment OF
Razors is full, having just re-
ceived new lot.
We receive fresh
Ammunition
every month, and can supply
all kinds needed. Rifles, Shot
Guns and Revolvers always on
hand.
That new lot Of
- Score Books
has just arrived.
Also a fresh lot of
Cottage Paints,
Enamel Paints, Varnishes, Oils
and Brushes of all kinds.
We have sold thousands O
feet of
Rubber Garden Hose
lately and expect soon another
large lot running from ! inch
to II inches. Also steam hose
The demand for
Galvanized Water Pipe
is constant and we keep OF
hand all sizes from J inch to
inches and sell it cheap.
If there is anything in oul
line that you want, just cal
for it, if you cannot see it. You
will always find US at