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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

THE New Years number of the
In}Ond Pliutel has a beautiful cover
design. the third one OF the series
of six. In ':>ome English Humorists,
with which the number opens, Mr..
Wood Smith gives short sketches of the
leading caricaturists Of England with
reproductions of some of their best
drawings. The essay of G. F. Stewart,
entitled 'British Technical Schools. =
shows the splendid work accomplished
by these institutes. Mr.. r. Horace
Teall's third article on punctuation,
The Comma, is full of useful infor-
nation, and simplifies the rules for the
use oft The reprint from the Chicago
Recoyd on the Japanese government
printing office lnsetsukiOku reveals
the interesting fact that only 10000
characters are used by these people to
express their meaning, as the language
has no alphabet. The issue contains.
as usual. abundant information relat-
ing to the printers art. The finely eX-
ecuted full page plates are admirable,
The Eitfel Tower" being particularly
noteworthy. The Illustration. Farm
ing Ill the south, represents typical
southern scene of stout negress pIOw-
ing with yoke of oxen attached to an
fashioned pillow.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

IN THESE days of trusts. combines
and an ever increasing number of multi
milliOnaires, we hear good deal es-
pecially during political campaigns
denunciation of the rich and their
heartless oppression of their poorer
brother man. That more general dis
tribution of the worlds wealth would
be blessing to all mankind. no one
can gainsay, but if some of us poor
mOrtalS who never had to exceed a few
hundred dollars at one time should be-
come fabulously rich by turn Of for
tunes wheel. would we be philanthro-
pists. Or selfish rich men without d
thought for the veal or woe of others ::
1t is a wel-known fact that the slave
who has felt the lash on his back makes
the most eXactlng and cruel Overseer,
and it is also true. i'll the majority of
cases, that those who have felt the
stings of poverty have but little com
passion for others when they find them
selves above want SelhShness is found
alike in the hut and the palace. and as
long as seltishness prevails there will
be poverty iii the world and envy and
hatred of the rich.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

WITH the current number the South
Dakota Mail enters upon its seventh
year This issue contains well written
Christmas essays by the pupils of the
advanced grade which would be a credit
to boys of any school, and which is evil
dence that the management OF the
South Dakota Industrial School is do
ing grand educational work. The
MIRROR wishes the Mail and the School
continued success.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09
THE MIRROR is weekly paper published

THE MIRROR is weekly paper published
In the Minnesota state Prison. 1t was founded
iD 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are TO be d home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners: to acqUant
the public with the trne STATUS 0fthe prisoner:
to disSemnate pathological information and to aid
In dispeling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister 10 fallen mans Selfredemption.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue q surplus of funds. the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

The holiday number Of mr. rom-
ponion, monthly journal published
at the Cincinnati co. House of Refuge,
was splendid production, as was also
the illustrated Christmas Souvenir sup
plement presented by the children of
the Cincinnati House Of Refuge.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

:. Il. DAWSON, who killed his son-in-
law at Des Moines Iowa. and is now in
Jail awaiting trial for murder, spent
many years of his life in the effort to
discover the lost process of making
Damascus steel, and it is believed that
he has succeeded Tests Of his blades
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

have shown that they will stand the
tests Of old Damascus swords, namely,
be inserted into spiral scabbard and
drawn out as straight and sound as
for hardening copper by which he can
make razors of the finest edge from this
metal
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

An orrIMIsr will bore one to death
talking OF his successes. and pessi-
mist will give one the blues talking of
his failures. so it is best to avoid both
and seek the companiOnship of some
agreeable fellow who will listen While
you talk of yourself.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

SCIENTISTS say that in century's
time there will be no disease that is
not durable. Crime is held to be a
disease, and if the prediction Of these
men of science is fulfilled, century
hence will see prisons depepulated and
the convict labor problem solved by
doctors of medicine instead of bv
legislation.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

TIE st. Paul Satu,R0y Ereniuy
Ne>ns, in commenting on the arrest of
three newsboys On the charge of lar
ceny, says:
Here you have it, Pupils of the
great school of crime, the streets!
Without proper guidance in the path
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

THE Pope County JoutHol and the
Glenwood Nerrs have been consolidated
with the Hernld, with Messrs. Simonton
and Gordon as publishers.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

WITH the current issue the Albert
Lea Stond"fd enters upon its thirty
ninth year, What "a history, both State
and National, is comprised IN those
thirty eight volumes.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

AN exchange wants to know who
Will be the next president:' We know,
but we don't care to answer political
questions through the columns of THE
MIRROR
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

TIE Good Thunder He1uN is pub
hshed III town Of only iive-hundred
inhabitants. but the HeruI1's illustra-
ted thirty-two page New Years edition
would be credit to any city in the
STATE
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

The Faribault County Register fin
ishes its eighth year with the current
issue, and from the satisfied tone of
Bro. Ireland's annual talk we should
Judge that the Register is receiving
generous support from the people of
Faribault county, and the paper is
worthy of it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

II DOES not require the least effort
whatever to gain a reputation for
honesty All that is necessary is to
refrain from being dishonest.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

The Christmas and New Years
double number of the louisville fkv.)
Genj WaS-a gem.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

The Alexandria Post Wears sent out
with the current number Happy New
Year greeting on calendar bearing a
very good picture Of Senator knute
Nelson.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

A sLICk fOrger victimiZes st. Paul and
Minneapolis banks for nearly $4,000.
He will find himself the victim later
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

The fortune told by cards is in
variably good fortune for the gambler
and III fortune for the 'sucker.'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09
Literary Notes

-............
Gwendolen Overton contributes one
of her excellent stories of army life to
the San Francisco 1rgonout of Janu-
airy 9Th. 1t is entitled "a Long Black
Glove and tells how "a married iiirt
used bit of manufactured evidence to
separate two lovers and yet was frns-
trated in the end.
There is but one collection of the
portraits of Lincoln that pretends to
be complete and that is the collection
made by the publishers of HcC1uye'S
.Hay0:i,te. They have been able to Sc
cure either originals or copies of every
photograph, daguerreotype. ambrotype,
drawing or painting of Lincoln. SO far
as known. in existence. There are in
this collection fifty photographs am
brotypes and daguerreotypes. The
best collection of Lincoln heretofore
published i'll any work contained ten
portraits. 1t is possible that the Hc-
|
increased. The entire series of por-
traits will appear in Uc(IHrtS -N0yt-
zine during the current year. With
the February number twenty of them
will have been printed. These por-
traits cover period of about twenty
years, are from originals taken in a
under great many different condi-
tiOnS. and are so varied. and present
Lincoln under SO many different as
poets. that the result of the whole col
lection is to make Lincoln vivid and
, real: SO that even those who never saw
him can form very accurate idea of
how the living man looked and acted
In January Lodies' Uomt Journn1
Rev. Charles II. Parkhurst. ID. d.. in all
article on "'The Memories of Our Child
I hood Homes. writes that "Remin-
iscence makes us little even when we
are old. and hel ps to keep us pure and
fresh with the springtime that was III
us a score or a generation of years ago
: \ boy can never become utterly bad
SO long as there remains with him a
memory of his father and mother in
the act and attitude of prayer. The
time may come with the hardening
and chilling process of the years when
he himself will cease to pray, but from
the canvas long ago painted there will
never fade the figures of those, now
asleep, whose heads were seen day 10y
day bent in humble, coniiding worship,
and who in inspired prlestlinesS laid
the morning sacrifice upon the family
altar: and the memory of fathers and
mothers prayer helps at any rate, to
keep alive in us our own possibilities of
prayer. "The most natural years of our
/ lives we live while we are children, and
! there is always rest and publication
in getting back into touch with them.
I When the burdens press little heav-
| ily. and the future is thick with I'M
certainties, the wish will sometimes
shape itself that we might be back
again among our free, fresh, childish
DAYS. We do not understand it very
well, but there is something gone that
we would dearly love to have back.
Those may seem to have been rather
unprOductive afternoons that we used
! to spend up in the garnet, listening, IN
the pauses of our merrymaking, to the
rain pattering on the roof, and we so
dry and sheltered underneath, but our
life means more even today because
of them and because of our memory
of them.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09
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Canada, it is said. will stay by Eng
land III the Venezuela controversy
while ireland will stand Pat.-St. Peter
Herald
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

Should TIE MIRROR fail to reach a subscriber
each week notice should be sent to this office.
and the matter will be attended to at once
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

THE Prison MIRROR, nice little
sheet of four pages, is regular visitor
at our office. 1t is published by the
inmates of the prison at Saltwater.
Mimi, and is model of Typographical
neatness and beauty. Commerce TEX.
Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

Entered at the Post Office at Saltwater. Mimi.
As secoRd-caSs mail matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

OF the 4o3 inmates of the State pen
itentiary, at saltwater, only one is a
female. and still woman is not allowed
to have the vote with which she would
wipe out the evil that sent three fourths
of those prisoners to their present
quarters. Sentinel.
sympathy, beautiful and pure, is apt
to be marred by it's being prompted
merely by a sense of duty, and thus its
true and natural spontaneity is yelled
1t is true that that the habit becomes
second nature to us and by habit we
may and do develop honorable and
charitable sympathy with all suffering,
but the truly sympathetic are so born,
and it is impossible for them to en-
ShrOud their true desires and actions
as it is ''tO soil sunbeam by touch.
1t is in the late youth and mature
years that. as a rule. we see it's most
splendid achievements. In childhood
it is apt to be in allegiance In the old
age of good people its beauty is en-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09
Chr Hltrrnr,

Edited and Published by the Inmates
of the Minnesota State Prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-09

GWendOlen OvertOn contributes one
Of her excellent stories of army life to
the San Francisco 1ryonout of Janu-
AIRY 9Th. 1t is entitled "a Long Black
Glove and tells how married liirt
used bit of manufactured evidence to
separate two lovers and yet was frus-
trated in the end.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24
PROHIBITION.

God made whiskey and it is said ne
made nothing in vain. He made many
other dangerous and useful things, ana
rood and dangerous impulses in man.
He made man and put HIM in perfect
state in the garden Of Eden ana to'o
him: "Of every tree OF the garden
thou mayest freely eat. But OF inc
tree of the knowledge of good and evil
thou shalt not eat Of it; for in the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die" This was prohloitlop
with free agency, and man has ever
since been free agent and VIII ever
remain SO in spite of human laws De-
cause 1T is Gods law. The entire Chris-
tlan world is governed by the new
Testament. There is not single line
in it or in the utterances OF Christ IN
favor of prohibition, on the contrary
"The son of man came eatlng anu
drinking and they say. Behold, man
gluttonous and wine bibber, frlend
of publicans and sinners. BUT WISDOM
10 JusTIrIEp OF HER CHILDREN. The
ministers who are in this POLITICAL
contest won't deny, that neither the
New Testament or Christ taught pro-
bibition-we defy them on this point
on the contrary, wine was used freely
in the time of Christ. Timothy SAID,
Drink no longer water, but use little
wine for thine stomach's sake AND
THINE OFTEN INFIRMITlEs. !" Its TEN
pERATE use is everywhere enJolned.
Can thew improve on God or Christ?
Let them answer Is this moral or
political question? If it is moral one
why don't all the Christian churches
endorse and engage in it? Why not
advocate it from the pulpit? why
stump the county to enact Temporal.
law. to improve on divine law? The
birth of Christ was heralded by the
hosts of heaven itself by. GLORY to
God in highest, AND ON EARTH PEACE
GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN," Has prohi-
bition brought this boon to our county,
either to churches or people? was our
county not quiet and peaceful and So
Der as any in the State Stats les
show an average of 80 blind tigers to
every dry county il the state. winch
do you prefer, 80 dens of secret distill-
ers of liars, sneaks and dishonored
manhood, or the decent control ana
good morals you now have under h'gh
license?
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24

The Prohibitionist says it looks
mighty bad to see too old gray-headed
men like Judge Downs and DR.. Pass
more fighting for the saloon. How
does it look for a great Bishop and
Cod S ministers fighting tor blind tlg-
ers. the acknowledged and detested
generators of every conceivable secret
ipiuuity. A tiger is a man eater IN the
native iungles of India, hence this
name implies to our blind tigers. The
blind animal which Ii has been proven
is impossible to destroy must be more
ferocious and dangerous than the one
that bysseeing might become alright.
ed ~ we advocate the saloon as the
choice of evils and to prevent breeding
race sculks, sneaks and liars and IL
eensed open honorable control to dark
ness and irresponsible unbridled
liberty. Don't be uneasy about us we
have kept our gray hairs from reproach
so far and propose to continue tic do So.
We have sown no strife and started no
whirl-wind in our county. We will be
with YOU to the end of our days and
share your veal or woe. The Metho-
list agitators will soon be gone and
leave you to your fate.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24

800 of the So, 900 saloon license goes
into the school funi of Canton, and
Thea she comes back and gets her pro
rata of the general fund. Let the sa-
looms continue and work for law to
have all this money left 10 Madison
county for school purposes. Think Of
this poor men.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24

"Blessed are the peace makers, for
they shall be called the children OF
God" Whose children are the prohi
ministers?
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24

Not d single country in Europe or
the Orient has prohibition. Ask Blsh-
op Galloway. who has travelled all over
both, if this is not fact. Liquors are
either sold free or license easily obtain
ed. Ask him how much drunkenness
he saw under these liberal laws? In
toxicants have been made ever since
man has been upon the earth and will
continue to be, and man will drink in
defiance of law in all times and in all
countries. Why is it that boys who
come here from European countries are
not drunkards9 Why are tne saloon
men and their boys in Canton not
drnnkards? Not one of the boys have
ever been seen drunk and some never
tasted it in their lives. Why does law
lessness and murder exist in dry towns
in the State more than in Canton?
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-24

and all kinds OF work done in the latest
and best style of the art. With new type
and rates cheap as any first-class work
and materia! can be obtained anywhere.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-15

| of cur ease of exit, on direct short line,
| that western men have backed and car
| ried through every increasing appropria-
| ton for Mobiles harbor. Each and ev-
| cry one of these has been noted and
| gushed over in the very paper that now
| unsays it's own printed truths, and Is
| ready to slap It's useful friends in the
| face to curry valueless favor from its
| political bosses in the east!
1t is to the incoming freights-due sole
ly to these improvements which have
made possible the fruit trade-that the
south must look for increased inter
change, which alone can render her in
dependent and self-existent And for all
such increase she must Individually look
to the west, not to the east.
1t Is to our western trade that Bir
mingham and the mineral belt must look
for that increase of coal trade and of
manufactured output, which will follow
our advance to a great port as surely as
dawn follows night.
Nor is there the remotest connection
between political pact of the south
with the west and that natural alliance
which l baptized as such in the Register
thirty years ago, and which no single
southern paper has heretofore been silly
and short-sighted enough to aSsail. And,
should the new Register ever emerge
from the chrysalis of the partisan into
live journalism, 1t may get eyes to see
that trade and 1.-The trade of politics" are
distinct and separate things. 1t may
learn that with the commercial and bus
mess east the south has no quarrel and
no issue any more than it has commune
ty of interest; that we need and seek the
casts capital and aid, wherever these
are practicable to introduce for any and
all purposes-save the one of buying our
principles. But the crude editor will then
have learned that that very capital in
vested by the east in the south is ever
eager for increased western trade to d.
rectly enhance it's usufruct.
But that the east is now, or can ever
become, the natural commercial ally or
trade suzerain of the south is ageograph-
ic absurdity that any school girl may
learn from her atlas.
That the section of concentrated CAPT.
tai and focus Of exchange, with her own
numerous ports full of not overfull ships
and her every effort bent on securing
set up as the natural ally of a trade that
must deplete those very ports, is a falsi-
ty too silly to refIte. And the very pen
that writes it today only a few weeks
ago wrote a glib showing that this very
cut rate-made to injure the southern
coal trade out of Mobile-was the cause
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroads
lapse into a receivership.
But having pricked this bubble of acid
gas-generated in political bile, but tend
ing to vitiate more healthy political at
mosphere-I need waste no more ink up
on it, The man who chances TO read the
apsurdity will read its animus and its
antidote between it's lines. Respectfully,
T. C. DeLEON.
Mobile, July II, 1896.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-15
FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
Bessemer Lodge No. 1909, l. o. 0. F., VIII
Run an Excursion to Tuscaloosa.

Bessemer Lodge No. 100. Independent
Order Odd Fellows, will run an excur-
sion from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa
Thursday, July 80, for the benefit of wild
ows and orphans. The object being such
a worthy one, it is safe to make the as
sertion that a large crowd will avail
themselves of the double opportunity of
aiding worthy cause and seeing the
majestic state Institutions, magnificent
typical southern mansions and noble
oaks for which the Druid City is so ia
nous.
At Tuscaloosa there will be a game of
baseball between a Bessemer and Tuska-
loosa team, which win be quite interest
ing.
All the state Institutions will throw
open their doors to the visitors on the oc-
casion, the dummy line to the lake will
run regular cars for the benefit of those
DESTROYS to go there, and a jolly good
time is in store for all.
The committee of arrangements are
Messrs. Jake Rosenbaum, T. Radcliffe
and ]. A. McClusky.
The State Herald acknowledges re-
ceipt of an invitation from the commit
tee to accompany the excursion.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-15

all. 1t is backed in its power by human
nature, suavity and imitation These
factors will give us the nature of his
reasoning it is deductive, logical with
always strong illustration in it. 1t gives
keen insight into human nature and
marks him as a lawyer of extraordinary
ability. The higher mind is dominated
by hope and sublimity. These give
roundness to the capacity of the orator
and make him champion of any cause
his intellect may espouse. 1t must be
here said that minds of this peculiar
build are always found in the fight for
the common people, espousing their
cause, fighting for their rights, and OPP
posing with all their might any and all
Entertainments upon them. Mr. Bryan
has a fund of humor that is of great
Importance to him and gives to every
thing he does. oratorically, a touch of
human sympathy. He needs an especial
cause and giant undertaking to exert
the greater powers Of his mind. This is
found in the present contrast of gold
and silver 1t will be indeed strange if,
with head development such as his,
we do not have ere the campaign is over
orations that for eloquence and force
have never been surpassed and seldom
equaled.
HE has especially a strong domestic
nature. His is one of those characters
that the love of wife and children has
cheered on to success. Thus he owes
much to his wife for his present position
among men. There is no mistaking the
fact that the two greatest and most per-
tinent periods of a mans life are when
he chooses his profession and when he
marries. Let him fail in the right selec-
ton Of either and his life is blighted, for
his intellect is dwarfed. Mr.. Bryan has
been very fortunate in both these selec-
lions, and hence his great success"
Mr. Fealy's address is Ais Chalifoux
building, city.
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